WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit Why don't they bring back Active Desktop while at it?
That would be admitting that this "big news" feature was implementable in 3 days by an intern 22 years ago.
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
:everyone:: How do we download <insert favorite browser> then?
MS actually did solve this in the past:
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
We all know he's going to do it anyways...
We all know he's gonna try, but it will fail in some spectacular and unexpected way
FileUnder: my machines are all custom hacks of hardware & software
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I have managed to semi-crash my start menu. It will only open if I press the Windows key on the keyboard, clicking the button with my mouse does nothing. It can only start Microsoft Store apps, and no other programs. I have no idea is going on tbh...
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I have managed to semi-crash my start menu. It will only open if I press the Windows key on the keyboard, clicking the button with my mouse does nothing. It can only start Microsoft Store apps, and no other programs. I have no idea is going on tbh...
Accidentally activated S Mode?
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@Rhywden I can start any program any other way (like desktop shortcut). Just the start menu ignores my clicks on any non-Store app.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I have managed to semi-crash my start menu. It will only open if I press the Windows key on the keyboard, clicking the button with my mouse does nothing. It can only start Microsoft Store apps, and no other programs. I have no idea is going on tbh...
Windows Update is slowly shutting down functionality? ("Reboot you fucker!")
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@dcon Needing to occasionally reboot is standard Windows even before Windows Update gets involved.
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@Atazhaia Time to kill
StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
again...
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia Time to kill
StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
again...This must be where the phrase "Every Windows 10 install is a different experience" comes from
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TwelveBaud said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia Time to kill
StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
again...This must be where the phrase "Every Windows 10 install is a different experience" comes from
Should have been
StartMenuExperienceProviderFactoryHost.exe
.
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Windows Update is slowly shutting down functionality? ("Reboot you fucker!")
I did. Same issue after reboot. Mentioning it on work Discord and there was another with similar issue.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Same issue after reboot.
Windows: if you're having an issue even after reboot, you have a Real issue
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Same issue after reboot.
Windows: if you're having an issue even after reboot,
you have a Real issuereboot again
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
you have a Real issue
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@dkf No, that would be a Real (buffering...) issue
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@dkf: it's not nice to post a picture that triggers PTSD for many of us.
Filed under: my file associaaatiooooons
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@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
you have a Real issue
Just be glad that one died faster than Flash.
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@topspin Except RealPlayer actually isn't dead yet. You can still get an updated version for Windows 10.
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@Atazhaia Best together with WinZip and Nero Burning ROM!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia Best together with WinZip and Nero Burning ROM!
At least WinZip’s nag screen with the jumping buttons was a fun crackme.
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OK, so here's an interesting Windows 10 issue.
I use Edge as a browser. I have for a few years, and it's never really given me problems.
So I decided to cut down on the amount of times per day I look at the news.
Part of this is changing my web browser to not show a news feed from Microsoft's aggregator on startup. So I went in the settings and changed my home page to my employer's website. There's an option to set it between the "The New Tab Page," whatever that is, and an arbitrary site, so I set that radio button as well.
So then I closed my browser and reopened it, and it still loaded to the News Aggregator.
As it turns out, the Home Page doesn't mean "this is the page that loads when you start the browser" and there's a different setting somewhere else that controls the first page that loads when you start the browser.
Am I TRWTF? When did we change what "the homepage" means?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
When did we change what "the homepage" means?
When Microsoft decided that your choice of homepage was an obstacle to their desire to increase the page views of their News Aggregator.
Remember: Windows 10 is an advertising platform
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Am I TRWTF?
Well, you use Edge as your browser...
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Who's ready for the next eyesore? 🎉
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the News Aggregator.
? I've never heard of this.
Then again, I told it to not show bullshit when I was forced through the welcome wizard...
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
As it turns out, the Home Page doesn't mean "this is the page that loads when you start the browser" and there's a different setting somewhere else that controls the first page that loads when you start the browser.
Yes, it's the same in Chrome. The home page is the page that's loaded when you click the (now normally hidden) home button next to the navigation buttons.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Who's ready for the next eyesore? 🎉
"Wayne Pollock" commented over there:
Why don't Microsoft just give Google a buzz and ask if they can use Google Workspace and the GCP. Then everything would work, scale and be secure.
I have no idea what that means, but I'm pretty sure it's some kind of brainworm.
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@topspin In a discussion about UI, someone mentions Google positively. What kind of crappy mirror universe are we in today?
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@hungrier next they suggest we switch email over to Lotus.
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
In a discussion
about UIabout misfortunes of Vendor A, someone mentionsGoogletheir current personal favorite Vendor B positively.What kind of crappy mirror universe are we in today?Film at 11.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
OK, so here's an interesting Windows 10 issue.
I use Edge as a browser. I have for a few years, and it's never really given me problems.
So I decided to cut down on the amount of times per day I look at the news.
Part of this is changing my web browser to not show a news feed from Microsoft's aggregator on startup. [...]
Not to worry, Microsoft is bringing it to your task bar:
With Windows 10 21H2 Build 21286, Microsoft is bringing a new feature called “News and Interests” to the taskbar, which means that you can soon start reading news headlines in a matter of clicks.
The “News and Interests” feature is built on top of Windows Search and Cortana, and it is supposed to deliver content personalized for each user.
This feed can be accessed when you hover over the weather icon on the taskbar and it would be enabled by default in Windows 10. Also, the news feed cannot be removed or disabled completely because it’s built into the Windows Shell and it has roots in Windows Search/Cortana.
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@JBert's linked article said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Also, the news feed cannot be removed or disabled completely because it’s built into the Windows Shell and it has roots in Windows Search/Cortana.
See! Microsoft are bringing back Active Desktop!
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Your files are should be where you left them
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Am I TRWTF? When did we change what "the homepage" means?
Ask Google. Edge is Chrome now, remember.
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Teams was telling me I needed to update with a nice warning at the top of the window, including a link to download it.
Clicked it, and once the download was done, I started the installer.When it was done, the Teams window was brought back to the foreground, with the update message still there
Long story short, I had to completely quit Teams then run the installer again to have it actually update
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Teams was telling me I needed to update with a nice warning at the top of the window, including a link to download it.
Clicked it, and once the download was done, I started the installer.When it was done, the Teams window was brought back to the foreground, with the update message still there
Long story short, I had to completely quit Teams then run the installer again to have it actually update
Still better than Slack
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My son left his school laptop unplugged last night so it shut down. When he turned it on today it told him that it was setting things up and reset all of his customizations (wallpaper, colors, etc) and...his documents were not where he left them. They are all gone now.
Sweet. On hold with the IT service desk now.
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@boomzilla "School laptop" as in school issued laptop?
One made for quick self-re-imaging, because IT support won't be able to keep up with the little ones borking them?
Want to bet they skimped out on a BIOS battery, and the self-re-imaging is triggered by an UEFI flag?
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@acrow school issued. We're waiting for Tier 2 to call us back.
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Do you expect their response not to be "you did backup your documents, right?"?
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
My son left his school laptop unplugged last night so it shut down. When he turned it on today it told him that it was setting things up and reset all of his customizations (wallpaper, colors, etc) and...his documents were not where he left them. They are all gone now.
Sweet. On hold with the IT service desk now.
"Timmy, why didn't you turn in your homework?"
"But Miss,the dogWindows ate it!"Classic.
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Got an email back. Basically he's SOL, which I figured. They said he has to log into the school's network at least once every two weeks to prevent that from happening. I sent back a much politer email than I wanted to asking that means. He's attending school every day with it.
Fuckers.
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Got an email back. Basically he's SOL, which I figured. They said he has to log into the school's network at least once every two weeks to prevent that from happening. I sent back a much politer email than I wanted to asking that means. He's attending school every day with it.
Fuckers.
Oh, the wifi network for that school doesn't work for reasons. You'll just have to go to a different school once every two weeks
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@sloosecannon that might even work if students were allowed on campus.
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@boomzilla If you do manage to get on, just remember that the local admin password is a five-letter dictionary word, all in lowercase, and the domain admin password is six lowercase letters next to each other on the keyboard.
... What, you were expecting a trolleybus? I'm not joking; that's what it was when I was a student, and though they said they changed it...
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
that's what it was when I was a student
Security is greatly improved now. The password used are 7 and 8 characters
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Got an email back. Basically he's SOL, which I figured. They said he has to log into the school's network at least once every two weeks to prevent that from happening. I sent back a much politer email than I wanted to asking that means. He's attending school every day with it.
Fuckers.
Yeah, we had a similar thing with our previous vendor where all our laptops had to do a wired connection to our network every 30 days or the custom bootloader they insisted on installing would barf.
Good thing I managed to convince my colleagues to migrate to someone else - while our current vendor may also have faults in what they're promising about future features, at least their current offering is not openly user hostile.
And while our school PCs all reset to the vendor image upon logout, at least we're providing a Nextcloud instance (with mapped network drives) so you can save your files in a spot where we practically guarantee that they're not gone. We also have a VPN for off-campus use.
And we make it pretty clear to everyone that
Desktop
is not a good place to save stuff.
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@Rhywden said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
And we make it pretty clear to everyone that
Desktop
is not a good place to save stuff.How many of them save stuff there anyway?