Post by Bayer A.User on Oct 26, 2015 6:29:02 GMT -6
The "ColaKid" is actually two separate people posting,always has been. Father/son -often contradicting each other's views. Love/Hate 10,For/Against MS. etc.
Lefty had been busy lately, assembling his new snow plow, winterizing his house and shed, selling computer parts on eBay, plowing snow, and keeping up with the messages on the Insider and Win10 Epic Fail forums. He hadn’t had time for a month or so to drop over to the Windows 10 forum and try to help out until today. Reading and responding to messages from mostly rookie users, and towards the end of the twenty two pages of messages from just today, he stumbled across this one.
Windows 10 is Satan, May it Rot In **** MogulInc started on December 3, 2015 Now that I have your attention, perhaps someone can explain what pimple-faced moron at Microsoft believed it prudent to take a perfectly configured, tweaked operating environment and erase in its entirety 12 years of details, settings, and program installations crafted through 2 or 3 hard drives and at least three OS upgrades. If I didn't know better, I would conclude Microsoft doesn't give a rats butt about the piece of **** named Windows10 and the havoc it is wreaking on the traditional PC market. There I was, happily running WIN7, 64 on a higher end Core2 processor. Slowly but steadily, I was harassed into the Win10 upgrade by incessant, unending pop ups that I could not get rid of. Again, and again, and again. I did not want to do it, but I needed the damned pop ups to stop. I succumbed to the Fascist Microsoft marketing team. My first impression was that nothing worked. Did not matter what program. It wouldn't run. Add to that no email for a month because Windows refused to believe I was who I said I was. Then, I learned I was wholly unauthorized to ever again save file to my local hard drives in my system. I probably should not mention too the simple fact that each and every keystroke, web visit, email, note, password, financial record ... all are recorded and shared with the big MS US Government server in the cloud (which is probably located physically in NV). Let's just say Win10 did not make a good first impression. Finally, roughly a month after making the biggest damned mistake of my PC life some pimply faced jerk in a cube decides I am worthy and authorizes me to access my own damned email from my email ap. Things start working and I am happy albeit for a brief period. Sort of. I can no longer write to any physical drive connected to my system. I also discover that customized configuration settings mysteriously reset themselves every time I look away from my PC, making it clear the MS Reichstag insists I use Win10 ONLY as the way the pimple faced little **** in the cube says I can. Period. And, of course, my information is still flowing out of my keyboard and into that great MS US Government server in the cloud (located in NV). Life is a utopia. Then one day, quite out of the blue, I log in to find an update has completely wiped my desktop, program settings, installed programs ... essentially my entire history and identity from the computer. And once again, of course, I no longer have access to email let alone an email ap. Can't be trusted with email. The pimply faced little **** in the corner cube has changed his mind. 48 hours later, as mysteriously as everything disappears, the system returns to normal. No explanation. No "sorry we F'd up your system" note. Nothing. Another few weeks go by. No local write access. Oh, I can write to any network drive, say the one in the MS US Government drive in Utah, but not to a local drive. But email works. Google Chrome, something I switched to because Edge and IE suck donkey dick, works. Then again one morning ... BLAM. Microsoft shoots me in the head the second time. No settings. No desktop. No installed programs. Oh, it's me alright, Good 'ol Mogulinc. Just without any of the 10 years’ worth of local identity or account information. And I still cannot write to a local drive. And ... no email. Gone. Kiss that app off. Bye-bye! Problem is, it appears my stuff is not coming back this time. No email. No programs. No nothing. It has been days. So I do a system restore. Absolutely no change. None. As amazing as that sounds, it is true. No change to the system even though it says it was restored to a date BEFORE the wipe. So what is a guy to do? Your idea of help, Microsoft? Useless. Your FAQ's? Have nothing to do any situation involving a person with a brain evolved beyond that of a blood worm. Your technical support? Yeah. Right. Got a good chuckle from the "Go solve **** on your own" approach Microsoft brings to the table. Just give us you money, right? Oops ... I forgot. It was FREE! FREE I tell you. What should I expect. Until I remember being almost pop-upped to death before the upgrade. Or until I recall that this FREE **** overwrote an operating system costing several hundred dollars and software costing in the thousands. Until I remember that the FREE Win10 has rendered useless a box costing several grand at the time it was built. Until I remember that half of my software no longer runs on the wonderful FREE platform. Yup. FREE **** is great, isn't it Microsoft? I simply cannot express the depth of hatred and loathing I hold toward Microsoft and the Windows10 platform at the moment. It is beyond words for a rational mind. You pricks literally have made 10 years of computing identity simply go away. Why? So you can pretend my PC is a stinking phone? A phone? Really? Your Mom must be so damned proud. PS ...If anyone, I mean anyone has even a remote clue as to how to recover the 10 years of vanished local persona, please comment. With that in mind, I hold no serious expectation. I am convinced at this juncture that no one, absolutely no one understands this Titanic dung heap of an OS.
Now granted, had this user done a complete backup before attempting the upgrade, he wouldn’t have had these problems. Having then experienced significant problems, the user could have just given up on the Windows 10 experiment and restored his computer back to what is was before MS destroyed it. Few regular computer users however, know how to fully backup or restore all programs and data to their computers. Sure Lefty had been doing daily image backups to an external drive, or network attached storage (NAS) for many years on his computers, but he was a geek, and like most of the Insiders the exception, not the rule.
On the other hand, this was now an OS that had been on the market for more than four months, with numerous updates, and in its supposed finished form. This would lead some of the uninitiated, not tuned into the media reporting, to believe that it was a product that worked. After all this user was not an Insider who signed up for beta testing, he was a just typical computer user. He did not know that the restore function built into Windows 10 didn’t work reliably for more than a year now. Besides this OS was free, and MS did everything it could to get you to accept this download, short of putting a gun to your head.
In the old days when you had to go to a retail store to get a Windows cd or dvd to install, you likely ran into someone who you could ask questions of or who would guide you. But not now. Now it was downloaded to your computer without your consent or knowledge, and your acceptance of an “update” simply started the OS install process. Because it was treated as a downloadable update and not a full OS install, people didn’t look at it correctly.
For years, decades actually, Lefty had tried to teach people about the difference between operating system level software and application level software. How the application software, like word processors and spreadsheet programs, just used the computer code to talk to the operating system, but the operating system talked directly to the hardware and as such was a much more complicated and error prone thing. Lefty felt that end users, unless experienced, typically should not be involved with installing operating systems.
But Microsoft was trying a huge experiment here, trying to deliver an new OS installation like an OS update. Lefty thought that this made them overconfident, as they could release an update to fix problems which normally would have had to been solved first. In the olden days, they used to call them “Showstopper” bugs, but now they released the software anyway and would try to fix it later with updates. MS also decided to try this experiment without any significant help desk or online support people. Those they had available, simply read from prewritten scripts over the phone, or copied and pasted canned generic solutions into messages on support forums. This gamble built on top of the previously discussed elimination of most of the MS testing department, and replacement by Insiders proved to be a bridge too far.
Lefty did not respond to this message and the user, evident in his tone and the forum’s automatic filtering of his words, he already knew what he would have to do. He would need to spend many days of painstaking work to put his computer system back to where it once was, with no help from Microsoft. Looking at the senders forum profile indicated he had just joined the day before and so had not known of the pain and suffering of thousands of others there. Having Lefty tell him this would not make either of them feel any better. In this business for more than twenty five years now, Lefty had already been where this user was now, and had the scars to prove it.
"With Microsoft actively trying to thwart his moves."
Imagine, for example, a time when Microsoft simply no longer facilitates re-activation of older Windows licenses. Imagine that extending to their allowing the continued activation.
With the Microsoft we know now, we might even expect to hear "Continuing to use an older version of Windows is a threat to the online community, so for security reasons we can no longer support your continuing to run it."
COUNT ON IT.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Everything is shiny and surrounded by light Endless rows of halos Like stars in the night Sidewalks paved with diamonds Up on hallelujah boulevard
He saw it on the T.V. And it looked so clean Like some enchanted island Like he stepping into a dream Now he's hell bent for glory To get to hallelujah boulevard
And a soapbox preacher with His busload of faith Fueled by his religion Gonna charge through the gate And he won't slow down till he gets to hallelujah boulevard
We don't need a miracle We don't need nothing but ourselves
A boy walks the streets when He should be in school Gold chains around his neck But no golden rule He says he'll do what he has to do To get to hallelujah boulevard
And a homeless junkie knows he's home at last Knows he'll never have to watch Another rich, white man pass And he can see those lights a 'shining Up on hallelujah boulevard
Is that a sword in your side or just a thorn? Do we tear ourselves apart Just to know we're torn So we can grow forlorn?
Are we climbing a mountain That's not even there? Building a rocket ship that runs On hopes and prayers? Trying to leave this world behind In search of hallelujah boulevard?
We don't need a miracle We don't need a miracle We don't need a miracle We don't need nothing but ourselves
Post by Heir to the website! on Nov 13, 2016 17:09:53 GMT -6
He ask you all to please light a candle too!!! Also he said that apples may have the occasional worm but, there's not enough Windex in the world to clean WINDOWS 10!
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6