Windows Update removed my Home Group
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@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
my computer doesn't burst into flame, and no puppy get killed.
Also, my computer never reboot without my consent.No driver support for those features on Linux?
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@loopback0 There's experimental support for killing a Jack Russel.
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@gribnit There's also a killer filesystem
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@timebandit I don't see any data-loss bugs documented there, although the article does go OT about the developer a bit. Are you sure that's the right link?
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@timebandit I still don't see any data-loss bug here.
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@gribnit Yeah, no data-loss, even his wife's dead body was recovered
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@hungrier Those are some big characters. Still not seeing a data-loss bug here, unless maybe it was easy to shoot yourself in the foot over unicode / not.
"Killer Filesystem" my eye.
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@onyx said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@loopback0 I said "easier", not "impossible".
The "HEY, YOU SHOULD UPDATE!" screen popping up all the fucking time and blocking input makes it hard to use the computer if it's not updated. So of course people will give up.
I've disabled that.
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@dkf said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@onyx said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
The "HEY, YOU SHOULD UPDATE!" screen popping up all the fucking time and blocking input makes it hard to use the computer if it's not updated. So of course people will give up.
That's the one which treats pressing any key that you might possibly be using during playing a game as permission to begin installation immediately, yes?
No. Focus Assist is a wonderful thing.
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@ben_lubar And of course you fucking use it for DF.
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@ben_lubar And of course you fucking use it for DF.
The alternative is real humans needing to compile and upload builds manually.
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@ben_lubar said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@ben_lubar And of course you fucking use it for DF.
The alternative is real humans needing to compile and upload builds manually.
Make the dwarves do it.
Filed under: Violation of the UDDR
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@hardwaregeek said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@ben_lubar said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@ben_lubar And of course you fucking use it for DF.
The alternative is real humans needing to compile and upload builds manually.
Make the dwarves do it.
Filed under: Violation of the UDDR
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@hardwaregeek said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
UDDR
And now I'm wondering if this hole thing isn't a massive violation of dwarf privacy ...
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@lorne-kates said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
the "Windows Update" service will enable itself from time to time even if you set it to "Disabled"
Time to code a service that will periodically disable Windows Update service
TaskBlocker
I also use it to autokill Windows10UpdateHelper.exe or whatever the fuck that piece of shit is called.
How exactly do you configure it to block Windows Update? I only see an option to block processes, not services.
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@gąska kill
svchost
, duh
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@pie_flavor for some reason, it doesn't feel like a good idea.
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@cheong When it was removed, I remember seeing a warning about that during the update. And I don't even use it. (Well, I think I did create/join one, but all my shares are to a NAS or WindowsHomeServer (now decommissioned))
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@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong When it was removed, I remember seeing a warning about that during the update. And I don't even use it. (Well, I think I did create/join one, but all my shares are to a NAS or WindowsHomeServer (now decommissioned))
I don't know even if it exists.
Usually I boot up my PC when I get up from the bed, then go to brush my teeth and wash my face. When I come back to my seat, the PC is ready to use.
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@cheong Sounds like you don't have an SSD.
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@cheong Sounds like you don't have an SSD.
Non-SSDs still exist? a bit but not entirely /s
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong Sounds like you don't have an SSD.
I have SSD and boot time usually takes under 10 seconds, but that's my "init sequence".
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@apoy2k said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong Sounds like you don't have an SSD.
Non-SSDs still exist? a bit but not entirely /s
Normal configuration is SSD for boot and magnetic disk for storing large files that you don't use often, as well as backup (so you find most NAS uses large magnetic disk drives)
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@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong Sounds like you don't have an SSD.
I have SSD and boot time usually takes under 10 seconds, but that's my "init sequence".
In other words, the computer boots quickly. @cheong doesn't!
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@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
(so you find most NAS uses large magnetic disk drives)
Mine has 2 4TB spinners. RAIDed using Synology's software.
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@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
In other words, the computer boots quickly. @cheong doesn't!
I'm booting from a floppy drive
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@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
In other words, the computer boots quickly. @cheong doesn't!
I'm booting from a floppy drive
Same here. Speaking of which, said cup is empty and requires another reformatting.
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@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
I have SSD and boot time usually takes under 10 seconds, but that's my "init sequence".
In other words, the computer boots quickly. @cheong doesn't!
Things are slow before consumption of coffee, and that's like the 6th step. :P
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@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@dcon said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
In other words, the computer boots quickly. @cheong doesn't!
I'm booting from a floppy drive
Same here. Speaking of which, said cup is empty and requires another reformatting.
I suggest a coffee partition of about 75% and a vodka partition of about 25%.
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@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Things are slow before consumption of coffee, and that's like the 6th step.
If you move the consumption of coffee to the first step, other step's speed should improve
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@timebandit This is even faster:
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@mott555 There's a reason my previous girlfriend was a nurse
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@mott555 Gonna get an embolism that way, don't see any bubble-trap.
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@gribnit I asked about that when I was in for surgery last year and my IV had lots of bubbles in it. I was told it's no problem if it's a drip IV going into a vein. Air in a forced injection or to an artery is bad, though.
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@mott555 I've heard that and I almost believe it. Assuming you're not dead, credence is added. But coffee would be put into an artery, not a vein.
(realizes is wrong) Huh actually, for that injection site a vein is closer to the brain than any nearby artery. The real problem is that the injection should be in the neck.
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@gribnit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
The real problem is that the injection should be in the neck.
Make sure to hit the spine and get the coffee into your CSF, and that'll hit your brain real quick!
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@mott555 Why else would they call it the caffeinospinal fluid?
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@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
but I don't suffer Windows10.
Then you are not an idiot.
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
#TheLinuxLife
You're just an insufferable ball-gargling douche.
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@gąska said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
How exactly do you configure it to block Windows Update? I only see an option to block processes, not services.
- Disable Windows Update
- Block the process that launches Windows Update
I'm not at my home computer, so don't have the exact specifics. But the process that pops up that annoying "YO JOE WE UPDATE NOW K?" screen (which downloads the updates and starts rebooting) is something like Windows10UpgradeAssistant.exe. Block that process.
For even more fun, there's a folder on your computer-- something like c:\windowsUpdateStorage or something like that. It's where that task tries to download updates to.
Make that folder ReadOnly and take away all permissions from it.
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@mott555 said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit This is even faster:
Is it plugged in?
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@loopback0 said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Do you even have the option of not installing an update?
It's a feature release not a normal update. I had to tell it to do so rather than it just doing it itself.
I have group policy force the update setting to "never automatically install updates". Windows 10 interprets that to "mostly never automatically install updates. Except if it's 'really important'." guess what the "Feature Release" update is marked as?
I had mostly forgotten about the "Windows will force a reboot" problem for a while, but was quickly reminded.
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@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Yeah, well, lots of people get notifications that Windows is going to reboot and fuck all their shit up. I don't.
I don't either
It's OK, I fixed the problem.
Only moment Robo momentarily. I scheduled "maintenance" task will re-enable it for you soon enough.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Yeah, well, lots of people get notifications that Windows is going to reboot and fuck all their shit up. I don't.
I don't either
It's OK, I fixed the problem.
Only moment Robo momentarily. I scheduled "maintenance" task will re-enable it for you soon enough.
Laugh as yep.
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@pie_flavor said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@tsaukpaetra said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@timebandit said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Yeah, well, lots of people get notifications that Windows is going to reboot and fuck all their shit up. I don't.
I don't either
It's OK, I fixed the problem.
Only moment Robo momentarily. I scheduled "maintenance" task will re-enable it for you soon enough.
Laugh as yep.
I think there's more corruption than usual...
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@tsaukpaetra said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
I think there's more corruption than usual...
Blame it on Trump, it's the trendy thing to do.
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So, today my brother (who also running Win10 updated to 1803) want to share me a photo, and he cannot access my computer.
I've checked all the standard things like "ensure file and printer sharing is enabled on the adapter", "server service is running", etc. Yet when I try to share the folder, entered my brother's email address, and click "save", it says "Your folder can't be shared"
All the information found on the internet either not working, or involves re-enabling SMBv1 (and this advice is from a MVP!!!) Seriously Microsoft, you take away HomeGroup just want us to enable a unsafe feature? Can't you just make sure the "alternative" works with minimal setting change before removing something?
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@Gąska said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@parody said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@loopback0 said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@polygeekery said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
Do you even have the option of not installing an update?
It's a feature release not a normal update. I had to tell it to do so rather than it just doing it itself.
Not for me. I installed it as normal update last night.
Feature updates will install with the other updates if you don't have a known hardware conflict
I have a known hardware conflict. Busted GPU. Always hangs up mid-update. Had it happen like 30 times already. Tried every method I could to prevent it. Revoking the SYSTEM user permission to access certain C:\Windows subdirectories worked for like two months, but it's updating again now. Thankfully it's summer break and I don't actually need that laptop until September.
Did you try replacing things so you have working hardware???
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Stupid question of the day: What exactly is the purpose of Home Group supposed to be?
I've been setting up and accessing shared folders on my computers for years without ever using Home Group. I know that it is a thing, but I literally have no idea what it is supposed to do or why it exists.
And apparently neither does anyone else, since Microsoft removed it in the latest release.