Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!
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@LB_ said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Changing motherboards seems to be the primary issue with Windows licenses currently.
well it's annoying to do i've always found calling for manual activation and telling the IVR system you are reinstalling due to mechanical failure/upgrade will result in it giving you an activation code.
it'd be nice to be able to skip that step though.
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@accalia automatic IVR navigation system? I could build that!
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@NeighborhoodButcher Thankyou for sharing this.
I was seriously tempted to upgrade my 8.1 Pro to 10 - because the "Pro" bit is important and expensive. But I don't, and never have liked "upgrades" because I am not convinced of how "clean" it is. Also, because I often perform a clean reinstall to safely remove the buildup of crud, and because I occasionally rebuild the hardware. The question of "what if I want to reinstall" seems to be lacking a definitive answer. Now I know.
Note: I am talking about my personal PC, but I do have access to a laptop (technically it is mine) that was 7 Home that I reused an old 7 Ultimate I had to upgrade it - immediately after a fresh install. That was immediately upgraded to 10 Pro. This was a special case because it was not being used and continues to not be used for anything serious, nor is it likely to be.
I think I'll wait for 10 until such time I need a completely new PC.
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@accalia said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
telling the IVR system you are reinstalling due to mechanical failure/upgrade
I've never had to do that--just say that 0 computers are currently using this license.
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@loose said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
I am not convinced of how "clean" it is.
FWIW I have had trouble-free upgrades on a Dell desktop, two Dell laptops, and two homebrew desktops.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@accalia said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
telling the IVR system you are reinstalling due to mechanical failure/upgrade
I've never had to do that--just say that 0 computers are currently using this license.
that also always works.
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@NeighborhoodButcher said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
So I have Windows 10, upgraded from 8.
idiot
@NeighborhoodButcher said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Everything works fine.
liar
@NeighborhoodButcher said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Windows 10 starts, all fine, and then decides to deactivate itself.
... basically get told to fuck offTold you so.
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I upgraded to Win10 from Win7. No issues so far beyond driver issues but that's my fault for running Win10 on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro for which 'official' drivers don't exist (earliest Apple is supporting is Early 2012 range for Boot Camp / Win10), and had to fend for myself on the keyboard driver front if I wanted the magical Fn key to work.
So far anyway...
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@Arantor Try this, Windows 10 "everything works fine" people:
Right click an image and choose Properties, then Details. Click the "remove personal information" link. Hit Ok.
Works in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Fails in Windows 10. Always has, since day one. Been broken over a year now.
I mean I'm probably Microsoft's number one booster on this forum, but their quality is going into the shitter, too.
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@blakeyrat Ah, the old 'open in COM Surrogate' deal.
Thank you for telling me about a bug in a feature I never knew existed before today.
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@Arantor Whether or not you use the feature doesn't change the fact that it's a feature that shipped with the product, and yet does not and has never worked.
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@blakeyrat Agreed, however this doesn't change my general stance - everything so far has seemed to work just fine. The one exception so far - no doubt there will be others - is a feature I never knew about, don't care about and it doesn't materially affect my view or use of Win10. In any case, the feature is not entirely broken, only partially - you can tell it to remove partial information and that works.
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@Arantor said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
I upgraded to Win10 from Win7.
Idiot.
(The list grows)
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@Lorne-Kates I'm a double idiot, I did it intentionally. While ill.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Works in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Fails in Windows 10. Always has, since day one. Been broken over a year now.
Isn't progress wonderful ?
I mean I'm probably Microsoft's number one booster on this forum, but their quality is going into the shitter, too.
That's because they are going all open-sourcy now. Proof
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@TimeBandit said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That's because they are going all open-sourcy now.
I agree; I've been saying that for the last year.
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@TimeBandit said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That's because they are going all open-sourcy now. Proof
So... Self evident that when things are Open Source, everyone wants everyone else to fix their problems?
Shirley, if the "Remove personal information" function was Open Source, someone would have noticed it's broken and fixed it by now?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@TimeBandit said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That's because they are going all open-sourcy now.
I agree; I've been saying that for the last year.
Sorry, forgot the
I was pretty much quoting you.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Shirley, if the "Remove personal information" function was Open Source, someone would have noticed it's broken and fixed it by now?
Hell, @blakeyrat could fix it and share it with the world, on Github for extra community points
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@Lorne-Kates said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
idiot
You're just jealous your poutine-(under)powered computer can't handle 10.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Works in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Fails in Windows 10. Always has, since day one. Been broken over a year now.
That never worked for me in 7 or 8.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That never worked for me in 7 or 8.
Really? Did it have that same error?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That never worked for me in 7 or 8.
Really? Did it have that same error?
No error, but it never has any "properties" it can remove, except ones it's already showing as blank. So.... success?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Really? Did it have that same error?
I haven't tried it in a few years. I think it actually didn't give me an error, it just failed to remove the information. I don't remember it mentioning a COM surrogate, so it might've just said "unable to remove information." I remember I had to send the picture to a friend and ask him to remove it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
No error, but it never has any "properties" it can remove
Nah, go into your cellphone's camera, turn on embedding geolocation data, and take a pic and upload it to your PC. It'll have your lat/long, the camera model, and some other info. IIRC that's how @blakeyrat got doxxed last year or whenever it was. (That's also how Adam Savage from Mythbusters got doxxed--he took a picture of his car from the front door of his house and uploaded it to Twitter or FB, and it had the GPS coords for his house.)
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
take a pic
Ah. I almost never take pics, and those I do are usually screenshots of the pic (because that's the simplest way to get around file upload limits).
Then again, who uses Windows as their go-to picture management software that that's the ONLY thing that can be used to remove EXIF data?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Then again, who uses Windows as their go-to picture management software that that's the ONLY thing that can be used to remove EXIF data?
Approximately everyone who doesn't know of a better way, duh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Then again, who uses Windows as their go-to picture management software that that's the ONLY thing that can be used to remove EXIF data?
That's not the point.
If the feature exists, it ought to work. That's true regardless of whether you think the feature should exist.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Then again, who uses Windows as their go-to picture management software that that's the ONLY thing that can be used to remove EXIF data?
Approximately everyone who doesn't know of a better way, duh.
So.... @blakeyrat? Do you have any suggestions for a better one?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
If the feature exists, it ought to work
Like how Windows Update works?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
So.... @blakeyrat? Do you have any suggestions for a better one?
I have zero suggestions. I've actually been using GIMP to do it because I don't need to do it often, Paint.NET doesn't seem to have an option for it, and I keep GIMP installed on the off chance I feel like making an animated GIF.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
I have zero suggestions
?
Seems like it's even portable.
Heck, if someone's tricky enough, they might even be able to register the actual COM surrogate thing that's missing (I'm fairly confident it's the same thing that happened with the Windows Photo Viewer being "removed") and you'll have your functionality back.
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@Tsaukpaetra Looks like shit.
It should just be a drag&drop icon, you drag the image icons to it, it does its thing and saves the EXIF-stripped images in their place.
This is the kind of tool where really no UI is the best UI. Maybe a progress bar if the number of images selected warrants it.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
poutine-(under)powered
How dare you attack poutine.
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@bb36e said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
How dare you attack poutine.
How do you know I wasn't accusing him of not using enough poutine?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Looks like shit.
It should just be a drag&drop icon, you drag the image icons to it, it does its thing and saves the EXIF-stripped images in their place.
This is the kind of tool where really no UI is the best UI. Maybe a progress bar if the number of images selected warrants it.NFC. Just the first google result, and I'm not endorsing it or anything.
Point is, this is a solved problem and apparently a well-accepted methodology: If it doesn't work, find something that does.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Point is, this is a solved problem and apparently a well-accepted methodology:
I NEVER SAID OTHERWISE.
THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THAT FACT THAT IF WINDOWS INCLUDES THE FEATURE, THE FEATURE OUGHT TO WORK. WHICH WAS MY ORIGINAL POINT.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
IF
WINDOWSANY SOFTWARE INCLUDES THE FEATURE, THE FEATURE OUGHT TO WORK.You'll notice OUGHT TO and DOES very rarely match up. Why is this something you feel the need to point out?
We don't live in this mysterious fantasy world where everything Just Works as it says on the tin. In fact, it's so massively difficult to get a perfectly functional Works-On-ALL-Machines {anything} that people have had to invent the term gasp BUGS!
The fact that you're on a site (and actively participate on the discussion forums for said site) that specifically crowns itself as a daily source of "perversions" should indicate you understand and acknowledge this simple truth, yet for some reason you're ranting that "boy, things aren't what they should be!"
No. Duh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Why is this something you feel the need to point out?
Because I'm disgusted at software developers who simply do not give a fuck.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Why is this something you feel the need to point out?
Because I'm disgusted at software developers who simply do not give a fuck.
I'm not sure that's the reason why the feature was missed. Seems like you're projecting your feelings here.
It's OK. Let it all out, the bad corporations won't realize you're hating them.
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@Tsaukpaetra Why did you engage me in this conversation if you just wanted to shut it down?
Fuck off and don't waste my time.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
don't waste my time.
Isn't that the whole point of this entire forum?
Or do you believe that blogging actually improves the
worldanything in some way?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
this conversation
Which conversation? The one from the topic OP where Windows deactivated itself because board raisins, or the one where you went off about some little-known "feature" of Windows that unexpectedly broke under the devs' noses?
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Because I'm disgusted at software developers who simply do not give a fuck.
Write something better and call out the competition for sucking.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
Because I'm disgusted at software developers who simply do not give a fuck.
Write something better and call out the competition for sucking.
That sounds like work.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That sounds like work.
Someone with the capacity to fix a problem, who doesn't, is part of the problem.
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@FrostCat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
That sounds like work.
Someone with the capacity to fix a problem, who doesn't, is part of the problem.
Now you're getting it! The world is chock full of problems.
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@FrostCat I don't have the capacity. I can't afford to work for free.
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@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 license, or hold your boards!:
I don't have the capacity. I can't afford to work for free.
You could do it instead of streaming video games.
Just think, you'd get to be insufferably smug.