Dammit, I just saw that the "Desktop" entry had reappeared in Explorer under This PC.
All through the history of the Win 10 pre-release, we've seen Microsoft feel free to reset changes we've made.
Okay, maybe you might half expect them to undo a registry tweak, but I've even actually tried to protect registry keys with ACLs that would allow only me to alter them, and no dice - the Windows Update process and especially the In-Place Upgrade process just throw whatever settings Microsoft wants.
Anyone beside me think the practice of overriding our choices is seriously evil of them?
I'd bet Real Money that the November In-Place Upgrade will not only reset a bunch of preferences, but also reinstall all the Apps I've de-provisioned. Cortana will rise from the dead.
"Tweaks" need to become "Re-Tweaker" applications.
-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.
They have turned Update from something good, into something evil. My solution is to remove all updates since August, and then shut it off on all machines except where you test Win10. I will continue to do this until I have reason not to.
Dammit, I just saw that the "Desktop" entry had reappeared in Explorer under This PC.
All through the history of the Win 10 pre-release, we've seen Microsoft feel free to reset changes we've made.
Okay, maybe you might half expect them to undo a registry tweak, but I've even actually tried to protect registry keys with ACLs that would allow only me to alter them, and no dice - the Windows Update process and especially the In-Place Upgrade process just throw whatever settings Microsoft wants.
Anyone beside me think the practice of overriding our choices is seriously evil of them?
I'd bet Real Money that the November In-Place Upgrade will not only reset a bunch of preferences, but also reinstall all the Apps I've de-provisioned. Cortana will rise from the dead.
"Tweaks" need to become "Re-Tweaker" applications.
-Noel
Don't mention it to freeman he will say you are stupid for not expecting it to happen. or that you agreed to it by being an insider and that is how it should be lol i had that argument with him about resetting my file associations.
"In the latest raft of MS updates, the "optional" Windows 10 option on this Windows 7 PC was pre-ticked. Can that be right? If I hadn't noticed it would have caused havoc here."
I posted about this in a couple of 'hate' threads on the Insider forum. included the screen shot, just to shove it up MS's ass a bit harder.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Oct 20, 2015 18:59:38 GMT -6
"But it's an intuitive and trusted place"
oh ya sure it is,
for those of us who know that it exists
for the 90+% user base who leave everything automatic and accept default selections during OOBE would have an easier time finding out about and joining the illuminate than finding out about optional updates and other basic options in winders
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
Dammit, I just saw that the "Desktop" entry had reappeared in Explorer under This PC.
All through the history of the Win 10 pre-release, we've seen Microsoft feel free to reset changes we've made.
Okay, maybe you might half expect them to undo a registry tweak, but I've even actually tried to protect registry keys with ACLs that would allow only me to alter them, and no dice - the Windows Update process and especially the In-Place Upgrade process just throw whatever settings Microsoft wants.
Anyone beside me think the practice of overriding our choices is seriously evil of them?
I'd bet Real Money that the November In-Place Upgrade will not only reset a bunch of preferences, but also reinstall all the Apps I've de-provisioned. Cortana will rise from the dead.
"Tweaks" need to become "Re-Tweaker" applications.
<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