In which I accidentally Windows 10
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so manufacturers won't make it
Nor should they. People can barely operate an e-bike properly in public. We don't need to make these gene-pool mistakes into missiles.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
gene-pool mistakes into missiles.
Why not? It would be fun!
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if you want a different logon screen wallpaper, you can change that too
Okay... lemme see...
you can choose to disable the login screen background and see a single, flat-color background ... This requires a quick registry tweak
You can easily change the color of the login screen. ... To choose any color you want, you’ll need to use the old, hidden Control Panel interface ...
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,Advanced,@Advanced
Microsoft doesn’t yet provide an official registry hack or group policy setting for changing the login screen background on Windows 10. However, enterprising Windows tweakers have discovered that the image is part of the Windows.UI.Logon.pri file. Change the image stored inside the PRI file and Windows will use a different background image of your choice.
Warning: This approach uses third-party tools to modify a Windows system file. Continue at your own risk.
:facepunch:
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My VAIO laptop with custom hacked display drivers to enable "stamina mode" switch and a thousand other things, that I barely got working on 8.1 is certainly not getting updated.
Serves you right for buying from Sony.
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If Microsoft would let me theme Windows into something less "modern", without resorting to ugly hacks, the likelihood of me updating would become much higher.
Please end this flat design nonsense.
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You can easily change the color of the login screen. ... To choose any color you want, you’ll need to use the old, hidden Control Panel interface ...
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,Advanced,@Advanced</blockquote>
Wait, what? How does that help you change the color? Doesn't this apply only to the currently logged-on user? Huh....
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Wait, what? How does that help you change the color?
Once you've disabled the login screen background image with the registry hack, the flat background color for that screen is the "Accent" color you've selected in your theme.
Doesn't this apply only to the currently logged-on user?
Yes? I guess. Hell if I know. Probably whoever was the last user who logged in.
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you can choose to disable the login screen background and see a single, flat-color background ... This requires a quick registry tweak
You can easily change the color of the login screen. ... To choose any color you want, you’ll need to use the old, hidden Control Panel interface ...
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,Advanced,@Advanced
@anotherusername said:Microsoft doesn’t yet provide an official registry hack or group policy setting for changing the login screen background on Windows 10. However, enterprising Windows tweakers have discovered that the image is part of the Windows.UI.Logon.pri file. Change the image stored inside the PRI file and Windows will use a different background image of your choice.
Fuck that crappy Linux OpenSource shit where you need to use the CLI just to change the wallpaper.
Oh wait...
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Nor should they. People can barely operate an e-bike properly in public. We don't need to make these gene-pool mistakes into missiles.
Spoken like the kind of backwards-thinking neo-Luddite[1] that's holding back evolution in action!
[1] whuh?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Nor should they. People can barely operate an e-bike properly in public.
Dude, go read the driving antipatterns thread. People can't operate regular bikes properly in public.
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Even in private they're struggling!
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Serves you right for buying from Sony.
350eur for i5, 8GB ram, SSD. 2 years ago.
That's why.
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@blakeyrat said:
Serves you right for buying from Sony.
350eur for i5, 8GB ram, SSD. 2 years ago.
That's why.
So you bought a cheap-ass computer and are now surprised it's ass, is what I'm reading.
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So you bought a cheap ass-computer and are now surprised it's ass, is what I'm reading.
Huh. Moving the hyphen is fun.
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I don't mind if it uses my HDD, as long as it doesn't come complaining to me afterwards that I have low disk space
Sigh...
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The culprit was
hiberfil.sys
, if anyone cares.
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Heh, it's lovely when Windows creates a 64 GB hibernation file. Not sure if it's worth it...
At least it wasn't File History backing up things it's not supposed to (in quadruplicate).
Filed under: Downloads is explicitly excluded several times in multiple ways, yet somehow it keeps getting backed up!
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I might be a bit premature, but I think I have done for GWX without installing any 3rd Party software and stuff.
In short: I cannot delete or remove GWX (it will only reinstall itself) also I am not authorised because it belongs to trustedinstaller. I could not even rename the executable but I could rename the folder (it is now called fuckyouGWX).
I have not seen it in over a week. My view is that whatever is in the Registry that is trying to run it and cannot find it; when it "complains" to the OS and requests a reinstall the OS says "sorry, according to my records it is already installed and working. Whatever your problem is, it is PEBRAR".
I sometimes think (due to the resetting of various things like searchIndexer behaviour) updates for anything other than Windows X deliberately make things "worse" so as to "encourage" the upgrade.
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You know what makes GWX go away? Installing Windows 10.
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Or Ubuntu
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@powerlord said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Unfortunately, Windows will periodically unhide this update to try to trick you into installing it again.
GODDAMN FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.
Yes, it just did that to me again. So now I have to uninstall it again and hide it again.
I fucking went to the trouble to tell it NOT to install that update and I don't ever want to see it again, and still it tries to trick me into installing it.
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@anotherusername said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
I don't ever want to see it again
Just join the borg and get it over with.
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@FrostCat said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Just join the borg and get it over with.
Trust us, the cookies will be the last thing you think about...
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@AlexMedia said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Look on the bright side, at least the button didn't say: upgrade to Windows Vista
Welcome to the brave new world of Windows 10. Sit back, and enjoy the ride!
Vista is beter than Windows 10. Seriously.
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@anotherusername said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@powerlord said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Unfortunately, Windows will periodically unhide this update to try to trick you into installing it again.
GODDAMN FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.
Yes, it just did that to me again. So now I have to uninstall it again and hide it again.
I fucking went to the trouble to tell it NOT to install that update and I don't ever want to see it again, and still it tries to trick me into installing it.
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@anotherusername I have Windows update set to not automatically install updates. It installed THIS FUCKING UPDATE anyway!
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personally i just don't get what all the hate about windows 10 is.... is this another moving of the cheese issue?
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@accalia I can sum up 99% of all Windows hate ever. It's one of two things:
- The OS always gets the blame because it's an easy target, even when ten seconds will prove its innocence
- People hate change because raisins
- All these items are 1
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4. there's a shitton of bugs and annoyances.
5. fuck breaking things that (most of the time) work fine.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@accalia I can sum up 99% of all Windows hate ever. It's one of two things:
- The OS always gets the blame because it's an easy target, even when ten seconds will prove its innocence
- People hate change because raisins
- All these items are 1
Have you ever seen The Cable Guy? Imagine Windows 10 is The Cable Guy, minus any redeeming features.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
- People hate change because raisins
No, people hate random, frivolous changes that are made because raisins.
It didn't used to be that way. It used to be that you looked forward to new things, because you knew they would (usually) be better.
Sadly, that is no longer the case. Today, it's change just for the sake of making something different, with no regard for whether you're actually making it better. And not giving two fucks if you actually make things worse.
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@El_Heffe OK, so 'change you don't like' now means 'change made randomly'?
Microsoft aren't stupid. They're not going to waste time and money on making changes because someone made a snap decision while having a shit. It'll have gone through the normal processes that determine whether the changes are a good idea or not, and only if they pass do they get done.
Or are we going to pretend that a multinational company operates the same way as a hobbyist?
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
The OS always gets the blame because it's an easy target,
Well it is Windows hate.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@El_Heffe OK, so 'change you don't like' now means 'change made randomly'?
Microsoft aren't stupid. They're not going to waste time and money on making changes because someone made a snap decision while having a shit. It'll have gone through the normal processes that determine whether the changes are a good idea or not, and only if they pass do they get done.
Or are we going to pretend that a multinational company operates the same way as a hobbyist?
New Coke.
Or maybe you think Coca Cola is just a bunch of hobbyists.
Lots of really bad ideas get approved even when there are many layers to the approval process.
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@El_Heffe said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Lots of really bad ideas get approved even when there are many layers to the approval process.
True, but like I said, they are not random changes
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@RaceProUK Not from Microsoft's point of view - but from the user's point of view they are.
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@loopback0 I prefer the term 'unexpected' ;)
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@RaceProUK Tom-ay-toe, pot-ah-toe.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@El_Heffe said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Lots of really bad ideas get approved even when there are many layers to the approval process.
True, but like I said, they are not random changes
Random may not have been the correct word, although to the end user it certainly seems random and pointless.
Unnecessary may be a better word.
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@El_Heffe hey I have a suggestion. Maybe it's not that "people used to get excited about changes", maybe you've just grown old and codger-y.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Microsoft aren't stupid. They're not going to waste time and money on making changes because someone made a snap decision while having a shit. It'll have gone through the normal processes that determine whether the changes are a good idea or not, and only if they pass do they get done.
And yet they still managed to release "flat design." I'm open to what the real problem is here, but there's no way you can convince me that something isn't very wrong.
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@boomzilla And there are several posts on this very forum where I am critical of Microsoft's decision to push the
MetroModern UI onto desktop
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@boomzilla And there are several posts on this very forum where I am critical of Microsoft's decision to push the
MetroModern UI onto desktop3 post higher you said :
@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
Microsoft aren't stupid. They're not going to waste time and money on making changes because someone made a snap decision while having a shit. It'll have gone through the normal processes that determine whether the changes are a good idea or not, and only if they pass do they get done.
You see, bad ideas can still go through the normal process and get approved as a good idea. But it's still a bad idea.
So yeah, even a multi-billion dollar corporation like Microsoft can make huge mistakes.
And tricking / forcing Windows 10 on people is BAD, regardless of the quality of the OS.
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@TimeBandit Did I say anything different? And this time, answer with the sort of logic that real people use.
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@RaceProUK said in In which I accidentally Windows 10:
@TimeBandit Did I say anything different? And this time, answer with the sort of logic that real people use.
So, not the same logic as you then ?
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My favorite recent
randomunnecessary Windows 10 change is putting the new notifications button where the clock's been since Windows 95. It sure is important that the place that stores up popup balloons we've all been safely ignoring overrides 20 years of muscle memory.If nothing changes between now and when this gets out of the Fast ring I'll probably just turn the button off, but in my testing VM I leave everything on to know
what we're in for somedaywhat cool changes are coming! :(
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@TimeBandit She said the changes aren't random, not that they aren't bad. Also it's about the changes in Win10, not the upgrade nags.
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