WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
How come Unicode is up to version 12.0 and still doesn't have a way to flip an arbitrary character around X or Y axis?
I'm led to believe () that ZWJ + or is supposed to specify a direction, but has limited support.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
How come Unicode is up to version 12.0 and still doesn't have a way to flip an arbitrary character around X or Y axis?
It wouldn't be needed if the font engine recognised what to do with the two emoji when they're combined into one with a ZWJ. But that's almost certainly going to founder in this case on either po-faced management or
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It decided to shuffle the drive letters around.
is drive letters
Yeah, why be limited to 26 drives when you could use drive emoji and have many more.
Case insensitive drive letters. Why on earth should c:/stuff point to the same folder as C:/stuff? It's ridiculous
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
So, which emoji would be appropriate for a drive filled with pr0n stash? Asking for a friend, of course...
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FWP: there's is no mustache unicode point.
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@levicki
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
no problem with Start Menu whatsoever.
Installing and using Launchy will have this effect as well.
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Another real is needing to use IE in 2019.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Another real is needing to use IE
in 2019.FTFY
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Another real is needing to use IE in 2019.
The number of websites which work properly in IE, but not other browsers, is mind boggling.
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@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
The number of websites which work properly in IE, but not other browsers, is mind boggling.
I would have thought that that would be rather less than you might think, on the grounds that the CEO wants things to work with his iPhone.
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Welcome back to Photo's!
We have a great new feature for face recognition. So convenient!
By enabling this setting, you recognise that you have received permission from all people that appear in your photos and videos.
[Accept] [Deny]I know it's similar to what WhatsApp does with your phone number connection - but I'm still curious how this can be legal. I mean, if the vendor should reasonably know that 99% of all consents given are fake...
Edit: Ok, let's click 'deny'
Disabling this setting will remove face recognitions in your photos. The photos themselves remain.
Are you sure you want to disable this setting?
[Accept] [Deny]Now what?
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I have to use one corporate website that only works on IE, and I also have to use a Microsoft website that only works in Edge (all other browsers get caught up in infinite redirect loops). The corporate site has probably been around since the early Middle Ages so that makes sense, but for Microsoft to mis-design a fairly new site so badly that it only works in Edge, especially when Edge is about to become Chrome, just boggles my mind.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Another real is needing to use IE in 2019.
It is used only to download and install some ClickOnce deployed internal bullshit app, otherwise nobody really uses it.
Since when did ClickOnce require IE?
(It doesn't, btw)
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Well, this is new. I was going to update my tablet to 1903 tonight and (after a couple rounds of update/reboot) got this:
Learn more goes to a list of things blocking 1903 on various machines. Looks like mine is the "can't adjust brightness" bug.
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@Parody mine:
Sorry for Polish, but I'm Polish. I'll try to translate the best I can:
You're up to date
Last checked: yesterday, 20:47[Check for updates]
The currently installed Windows version will have the technical support end soon. (Note - I'm still on 1803.) We recommend updating now to the newest Windows 10 version in order to get newest features and security enhancements.
Feature update to Windows 10, version 1903
A new Windows version with new features and enhanced security is available. When everything is ready for update, select option "Download and install now".
So I have the update available, but it won't install on its own. Looks like Microsoft has given up on forced feature updates. But don't take my word for it; maybe it's just temporary.
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@Gąska Yeah, you never know. Might want to install it when you don't mind losing some computer time.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska Yeah, you never know. Might want to install it when you don't mind losing some computer
time.FTFY
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A couple days ago my home computer bugged me about scheduling an update, so I told it to go ahead and do it in the middle of the night. I thought it would be the 1903 update, but the next day after it had restarted, it was still on 1809. Work computer is also on 1809.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Might want to install it when you
don't mind losing some computer timewant to shoot some aliens.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Learn more goes to a list of things blocking 1903 on various machines.
Good. Hopefully this will prevent it from trying to auto-update my 32 GB Win10 tablet again. The last major Windows update nearly bricked it because it filled up the disk, refused to use the SD card for additional temp storage, and wanted me to use a USB flash drive which is ridiculous because it only has one USB port which I needed to use for power because the update takes so long that the battery didn't last long enough. Every time I started it up, it would try and fail to do updates. That was a mess.
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@mott555 Throw out this broken tablet already!
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
A couple days ago my home computer bugged me about scheduling an update, so I told it to go ahead and do it in the middle of the night. I thought it would be the 1903 update, but the next day after it had restarted, it was still on 1809. Work computer is also on 1809.
I have automatic updates disabled via Group Policy. I decided to roll the dice and click on the Update button, and Windows updated from 1809-17763.503 to 1809-17763.557
Which is fine with me. I prefer small incremental updates.
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@mott555 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
auto-update my 32 GB Win10 tablet again.
I'm wondering how it will react to my 8gb compute stick. Probably just pop up the "update helper" every day complaining that it can't install itself...
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
And AFAIK in Chrome it never worked.
works great for me? ClickOnce is just downloading and running an executable, it's not like, rocket science.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
And AFAIK in Chrome it never worked.
works great for me? ClickOnce is just downloading and running an executable, it's not like, rocket science.
In Internet Explorer, the "downloading and running" part happens without prompting though.
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Something is wrong with my account!!!! Oh noes!
What is wrong? And why should I go to "Shared experience" settings to "fix" it?
Okay... Oh, it just wanted me to re-login to my online account. Such problem! Much appropriate!
I don't get why it's in Shared experiences though...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I don't get why it's in Shared experiences though...
Well, it did cause you to post to share your Windows 10 experience, didn't it?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I don't get why it's in Shared experiences though...
Well, it did cause you to post to share your Windows 10 experience, didn't it?
Oh no!!!!
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I decided to roll the dice and click on the Update button, and Windows updated from 1809-17763.503 to 1809-17763.557
Roll the dice again, latest build revision is now .592 and it fixes a shitload of things you didn't know were broken.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
sometimes you get an error regarding not running from the same security zone
Never seen that happen, ever. Plus you also get the option to download setup.exe, which works every time.
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@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I decided to roll the dice and click on the Update button, and Windows updated from 1809-17763.503 to 1809-17763.557
Roll the dice again, latest build revision is now .592 and it fixes a shitload of things you didn't know were broken.
Your sanity is right where you left it.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I decided to roll the dice and click on the Update button, and Windows updated from 1809-17763.503 to 1809-17763.557
Roll the dice again, latest build revision is now .592 and it fixes a shitload of things you didn't know were broken.
Your sanity is right where you left it.
And where might that be? I've been looking all over, but I can't find it.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I decided to roll the dice and click on the Update button, and Windows updated from 1809-17763.503 to 1809-17763.557
Roll the dice again, latest build revision is now .592 and it fixes a shitload of things you didn't know were broken.
Your sanity is right where you left it.
And where might that be? I've been looking all over, but I can't find it.
3rd grade, I'm guessing.
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Losing your sanity is like losing your glasses: to find it back, you need to have it in the first place, so...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
"What Microsoft confirms it did was quietly switch off Registry backups in Windows 10 eight months ago"
“Starting in Windows 10, version 1803, Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry to the RegBack folder. "
TIL: April 2018 was 8 months ago.
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@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
TIL: April 2018 was 8 months ago.
For reporters? That's close enough...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Came up with a full screen as so I'm not reading that shit
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So why has Microsoft done this? In the company’s own words: “to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows”. And how big is a registry backup? Typically 50-100MB.
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@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry to the RegBack folder.
I didn't know it did that anyway
If you have to use the legacy backup behavior, you can re-enable it by configuring the following registry entry
Hah.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry to the RegBack folder.
I didn't know it did that anyway
Neither did I. And even if I did, I wouldn't have counted on it to operate in any sort of sane and dependable manner.
If you have to use the legacy backup behavior, you can re-enable it by configuring the following registry entry
Hah.
Brought to you by Microsoft's Irony Department.
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
So why has Microsoft done this? In the company’s own words: “to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows”. And how big is a registry backup? Typically 50-100MB.
And people were criticizing me!
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It's basically training users to reinstall when corrupted so they can shovel you back their crapware and ads you dutifully removed and blocked.
yep that's totally the reason, right there. You got it...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
So why has Microsoft done this? In the company’s own words: “to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows”.
Microsoft thought the disk footprint was too large, and immediately thought of the registry backup as a major culprit? Decided to disable the feature, leaving people without backups and without telling them? Giving the impression that backup-files exist by generating them, but zero-sized? Didn't bother to properly disable the feature by refactoring the function?
That's five errors in one line of thought. Impressive.
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Also, as a point of interest:
And how big is a registry backup? Typically 50-100MB.
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@TimeBandit That article is a bunch of crap. It makes it sound like there's a big "backup" button that lies to you.
It was a background feature literally no one knew about. And it was entirely redundant with restore points.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
And it was entirely redundant with restore points.
With backups, redundancy isn't a problem - it's a feature.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
By booting from WinPE and restoring just the registry backup you can get rid of
asome malware by removing its startup hooks.Because malware is only able to start using registry entries.
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
can't disable (and to my knowledge doesn't mess with) registry backup.
Because some malware doesn't know about a backup doesn't mean it's protected.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
What I said obviously does not apply to viruses.
I didn't say literally anything about viruses. Where did you get that idea?
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
You know, malware which installs itself somewhere hidden (in plain sight)
Your small view of what malware is is amusing. Please continue telling me how it works.
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
do you even read before replying?
Do you?