WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@izzion said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
He wants the start bar to be vertically aligned down the left hand side of the monitor.
Good job W11 knows better
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Not what I'm talking about. I've already "fixed" the taskbar with left alignment. What w11 prevents is moving the entire thing to the left.
Now I'm confused. What "entire thing"?
Like this:
Windows 11's new Taskbar doesn't let you do that; there's no "Taskbar location on screen" setting. It was nice putting the Taskbar on the short edge of the screen.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It was nice putting the Taskbar on the short edge of the screen.
Microsoft knows better than you what you need
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Edit: oh, it gets better. It's not there for "man", but it's there for "man ".
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When your search is even worse than NodeBB's.
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@Zecc There is no fuzzy here.
If you don't type it exactly,
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Event Viewer is telling me that Windows Update is failing with some 0x error number.
Searching with the error number, I find instructions on Microsoft's support forum.
I follow the instructions (run the Windows Update troubleshooter)
When I click OK, the message always comes back.
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Microsoft is scanning your computer for "outdated" versions of Office. (if you installed KB5021751).
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@Gern_Blaanston's TFA said:
The update will silently run once to collect the data and no files are left on the user's systems once the scan is completed.
For some reason I feel uneasy about that
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the message
Was this before or after you did their go-to of
sfc /scannow
?
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@TimeBandit JScript is broken?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston's TFA said:
The update will silently run once to collect the data and no files are left on the user's systems once the scan is completed.
For some reason I feel uneasy about that
I'm still using Office 2003 so it looks like I'm safe (i.e., it's so old that they don't even check for it).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Was this before or after you did their go-to of
sfc /scannow
?Thanks for the help, I guess
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I guess
Shit be broke, son!
I forget if there's still a way to "insert the Windows Setup installation media" so it can find those missing files.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I forget if there's still a way to "insert the Windows Setup installation media" so it can find those missing files.
Ah, there is....not!!!
You can try the DISM side which does let you specify the source, so that's nice.
How hilarious that their example of "how to replace a file" is literally
jscript.dll
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STatus: Not really a Win10 issue, but it's happening to me there so here goes.
My company has fully guzzled the MS365 Kool Aid and so we're supposed to use One
NoteDrive now for backups instead of whatever it was that we had before. Shit sucks.I do all my dev work inside a 100GB VM, so whenever I do a backup, it's practically guaranteed that I need to back all those files up. Half the time, One
NoteDrive tells me that it can't back that shit up because of "high network traffic" or some shit.Then, I got a message about my space filling up. So now I have to manually go in and delete tons of old 4GB versions of my VM disk images.
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@boomzilla I do all my backups with Excel.
Wait, what?!
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@boomzilla an app for taking notes doesn't sound like something you'd use to do backups with. Rather, it sounds like using McAfee for video editing.
I'm not sure if your company is with wooden table processes or if MS just has a retarded product portfolio, but something's got to be wrong there.
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@topspin err....sorry...OneDrive.
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@boomzilla Did you not get your morning coffee yet?
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@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla I do all my backups with Excel.
Wait, what?!I hear Excel is good for XLOOKUP, MATCH and DATE
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I do all my dev work inside a 100GB VM, so whenever I do a backup
Why the shit is your dev VM being backed up? Are you operating your VMs from your My Documents folder or someshit?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Why the shit is your dev VM being backed up?
Because I don't seem to be able to do backups from inside of it. Also, much easier to just let it get backed up this way. Why wouldn't I back it up?
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Why wouldn't I back it up?
The same reason you shouldn't need to back up
node_modules
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Why wouldn't I back it up?
The same reason you shouldn't need to back up
node_modules
I don't get it. I mean...yeah, the end result is that I back those up, too, but that's not the point of backing stuff up. But if I didn't back up the stuff I'm working on, what would I back up? The logical conclusion of what you're saying is that nothing is worth backing up on someone's workstation.
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the point of backing stuff up.
is protecting that which is important and cannot be replaced or recreated with ease.
I would accept backing up your local source control state and project configurations if you literally had no other backup of your source (which would be ) but 91% of everything else that would be covered elsewise in a disk image should be irrelevant for the purposes of data protection and recovery.
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But if I didn't back up the stuff I'm working on, what would I back up? The logical conclusion of what you're saying is that nothing is worth backing up on someone's workstation.
your intermediate checkins should inherently be backed up be virtue of being checked in, and that's acceptable (see above) if for some reason your work is otherwise not being backed up.
The logical conclusion you arrived at does not follow what I said, really. I implied that you should not be backing up unnecessary data, which by nature of being a disk image would include operating system files, program files, temporary and cache files, and other data which is redundant and otherwise should not need protection. Which is partly why OneDrive is throwing fits at you constantly making changes to a gigantic archive file (generating multiple copies of said archive) and wasting bandwidth.
If I was going to be implementing such a system in a VM, I would have project source on a secondary VMDK and mount that into the VM alongside the primary disk so that all the not-important crap (OS, IDE, swap, etc) would be on the primary disk (as expected) and only a much smaller portion of actually relevant data would be on the secondary drive, which would be backed up. This of course IIF I really couldn't do without this local data.
I do pity that your environment sounds pretty fragile though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the point of backing stuff up.
is protecting that which is important and cannot be replaced or recreated with ease.
Yes, exactly.
I would accept backing up your local source control state and project configurations if you literally had no other backup of your source (which would be ) but 91% of everything else that would be covered elsewise in a disk image should be irrelevant for the purposes of data protection and recovery.
So I should back it up, but it's a to back it up?
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But if I didn't back up the stuff I'm working on, what would I back up? The logical conclusion of what you're saying is that nothing is worth backing up on someone's workstation.
your intermediate checkins should inherently be backed up be virtue of being checked in, and that's acceptable (see above) if for some reason your work is otherwise not being backed up.
Yes, everything I check in gets backed up on that system by our system admins. Not everything gets stored in version control, though. I have lots of SQL files for stuff I do to analyze, test, etc. Spreadsheets that I've used for various purposes, etc.
The logical conclusion you arrived at does not follow what I said, really. I implied that you should not be backing up unnecessary data, which by nature of being a disk image would include operating system files, program files, temporary and cache files, and other data which is redundant and otherwise should not need protection. Which is partly why OneDrive is throwing fits at you constantly making changes to a gigantic archive file (generating multiple copies of said archive) and wasting bandwidth.
Yeah, that's part of the for sure but there's not a lot I can do about that. Fuck "wasting bandwidth." That shit's cheap.
If I was going to be implementing such a system in a VM, I would have project source on a secondary VMDK and mount that into the VM alongside the primary disk so that all the not-important crap (OS, IDE, swap, etc) would be on the primary disk (as expected) and only a much smaller portion of actually relevant data would be on the secondary drive, which would be backed up. This of course IIF I really couldn't do without this local data.
Sounds like work.
I do pity that your environment sounds pretty fragile though.
Yes, the OneDrive shit is a real PITA.
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Yes, the OneDrive shit is a real PITA.
IMO they should buy Steam and use their craptastic binary-diff patching mechanism.
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@Applied-Mediocrity eh,
XLOOKUP
is only 1/9th necessary.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla I do all my backups with Excel.
Wait, what?!I hear Excel is good for XLOOKUP, MATCH and DATE
Tinder thread is .
()
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Because I don't seem to be able to do backups from inside of it.
Microsoft loves Linux. At least, that's what they keep saying.
I'm still waiting for their OneDrive clientOn the other hand, someone with more resources than Microsoft already built a solution.
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@TimeBandit why the would you use OneDrive on Linux, or even build a client for them, for free?!?
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@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit why the would you use OneDrive on Linux
To backup my work machine. My employer pays for it. Might as well use Microsoft's drive space
Now, I only need to install and configure it
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
STatus: Not really a Win10 issue, but it's happening to me there so here goes.
My company has fully guzzled the MS365 Kool Aid and so we're supposed to use One
NoteDrive now for backups instead of whatever it was that we had before. Shit sucks.I do all my dev work inside a 100GB VM, so whenever I do a backup, it's practically guaranteed that I need to back all those files up. Half the time, One
NoteDrive tells me that it can't back that shit up because of "high network traffic" or some shit.Then, I got a message about my space filling up. So now I have to manually go in and delete tons of old 4GB versions of my VM disk images.
Onedrive is definitely the wrong tool here. I wonder if your IT people are as idiotic as ours and assume that because forcing the Excel slingers into using one drive like git for binary they think it will work everywhere.
They downgrade dev VMs every now and then. When we complain they say it's a standard that every employee enjoys. We have to send pictures of 10 minute mvn builds that take two on build machines before management get into gear.
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@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
We have to send pictures of 10 minute mvn builds that take two on build machines before management get into gear.
There's a reason I only connect to VPN when absolutely required. (We need to
sudo
to do a number of things - like run the system (yes, there's reasons). Sudoing when VPNd takes about 2 minutes instead of 1 sec.)
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@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
They downgrade dev VMs every now and then. When we complain they say it's a standard that every employee enjoys. We have to send pictures of 10 minute mvn builds that take two on build machines before management get into gear.
Your hardware going out of warranty is no reason for replacement. It still works.
We're not replacing that broken hardware. It's out of warranty.That said, the only thing we're ever tight on hardware for is large-scale load tests, and that's because our old QA department 1) did those in the first place and 2) did them on hardware rather than VMs. Developers also get higher specced laptops than non-dev (mostly double ram).
Sure, some here would say I work for the devil. But there's upsides.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
If I was going to be implementing such a system in a VM, I would have project source on a secondary VMDK and mount that into the VM alongside the primary disk so that all the not-important crap (OS, IDE, swap, etc) would be on the primary disk (as expected) and only a much smaller portion of actually relevant data would be on the secondary drive, which would be backed up. This of course IIF I really couldn't do without this local data.
( also @boomzilla ) Similarly, I use a mounted "drive" in the VM that's just a folder on the actual machine. It gets backed up like everything else in my dev folders. Thankfully, not through OneNote or OneDrive.
In a more corporatey environment we used mounted drives on file servers with built-in versioning. Never lose a Powerpoint presentation ever again!
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Thankfully, not through OneNote or OneDrive.
Yeah. OneDrive is not a backup, fuck whatever Microsoft says! It is a glorified sync tool coerced into being a bug tracker!
Er, what are we talking about again,
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
tool coerced into being a bug tracker!
Er, what are we talking about again,
Discourse
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
tool coerced into being a bug tracker!
Er, what are we talking about again,
Discourse
I'm rather surprised they never made it into a source control system.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
If I was going to be implementing such a system in a VM, I would have project source on a secondary VMDK and mount that into the VM alongside the primary disk so that all the not-important crap (OS, IDE, swap, etc) would be on the primary disk (as expected) and only a much smaller portion of actually relevant data would be on the secondary drive, which would be backed up. This of course IIF I really couldn't do without this local data.
( also @boomzilla ) Similarly, I use a mounted "drive" in the VM that's just a folder on the actual machine. It gets backed up like everything else in my dev folders. Thankfully, not through OneNote or OneDrive.
That would suck. No need to get NTFS on me like that.
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
If I was going to be implementing such a system in a VM, I would have project source on a secondary VMDK and mount that into the VM alongside the primary disk so that all the not-important crap (OS, IDE, swap, etc) would be on the primary disk (as expected) and only a much smaller portion of actually relevant data would be on the secondary drive, which would be backed up. This of course IIF I really couldn't do without this local data.
( also @boomzilla ) Similarly, I use a mounted "drive" in the VM that's just a folder on the actual machine. It gets backed up like everything else in my dev folders. Thankfully, not through OneNote or OneDrive.
That would suck. No need to get NTFS on me like that.
You could use EXT2. I'm sure the NT4 drivers someone made will work perfectly fiiinnne!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Yes, the OneDrive shit is a real PITA.
IMO they should buy Steam and use their craptastic binary-diff patching mechanism.
Uh, yeah, once Gabe Newell dies, sure. Or, before, but the money on that is made by filming whatever amount of contact occurs.
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Embed says in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It appears that something went wrong in Microsoft's labs, resulting in Windows 11