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Now, I hope I'm not the only one here who experienced it as well... A couple of weeks ago my Win 10 taskbar buttons became completely unresponsive: nither "Start" nor the "Search" button showed anything on screen, but the change desktop worked fine and left click showed the alternative menu as always.
The trouble began after a day installing / uninstalling stuff. The only way to "fix" it, after following the usual suggested ones, was to restore a System Restore Point, effing off a couple of useful programs I installed and some executables I had in my Documents folder.
My Windows 10 does not have either Cortana nor Windows Store or apps support (it's the LTSB version) so it's not one of them. To rest more easily I installed ClassicShell, so that the Start menu manager is something different from the standard but I'm not entirely sure it will prevent the problem forever.
Well, that's it, just ranting and seeking if someone had the problem before and found what triggered it (I was deep in the middle of urgent vital work so I didn't have time to put on my spleunking gear and explore the system's innards).
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Last week I had the unfortunate experience to find a problem (windows installer failing to find a resource(s) after allowing the April update. Like you, I had urgent work to do, so I figured I would just use System Restore to put it back to the way it was before the update and deal with it later.
Not sure if I made a mistake as I could have sworn the date for the restore point was the day of the update, but I started noticing right away that something was very wrong. After a couple of applications refused to start, I checked my Programs and Features and was shocked to find on a half-dozen programs listed there.  Weird that 90% of my programs (including VS6/2008/2010, SSMS) work just fine (well almost) without showing up in that list. Even the 3 versions of SQL Server are all working fine. (again almost...jobs using the agent have started failing, but I can work around that for now)
I've got a new box ready to take over if I keep finding stuff that doesn't work. Unfortunately the new box has a crappy sound card (no 5.1) so I'll either need to swap that out or just go get a new one...actually thinking about an external one this time.
But no, I've not had any issues with the task bar at all. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I hammered shut both Windows Update and Windows Defender (the latter really need to be hammered via registry or it will pop up again) so it's not an update... which on the LTSB are still rare.
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I had something like that once, quite a while ago, after updating my graphics driver. But it didn't persist beyond a reboot.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As an aside to @Codesavage message on google store TOS,
"ms buys github" ... what happens when ms decides:
- items on github violate their TOS, or
- usage of something from github could lead the user into violating ms TOS, or even
- if something on github promotes/advantages a competitors product over a ms product.
(allowing the last could be considered violation of responsibility to their shareholders)
sure, yes, ms have said they will play nice and are supposedly 'pro open, pro linux and others' - but that is nearly always only if:
it's running in a ms-windows [limited] [linux] environment (posb not native capable), or, even if it makes they underlying os irrelevant open source products become heavily reliant on underlying ms products / infrastructure - need ms proprietary dev tools and/or for release/deploy proprietary ms libs (IOW not ever native).
so, is ms really 'open source' friendly? or are they just leading developers into an 'open source' world that ms can one day easily shut down and charge money to turn it back on?
looking deeper into the way they are infiltrating open source it's nearly always to [deceptively] inject ms widgets and reliance on ms into everything that comes out.
heck, will even git itself remain accessible to open source git tools, or are they going to 'extend' proprietize that too?
"ms buys github" - I really hope people jump, but more likely laziness will prevail.
... and who knows what's next? buy CP and SO to 'even further support the community' [roll it into msdn and] monetize that too?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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As we did in the old times. Either we use Sourceforge or we host it ourselves.
Besides, Git as a tool sucks.
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Lopatir wrote: are they just leading developers into an 'open source' world that ms can one day easily shut down and charge money to turn it back on?
As github has always been a closed environment (i.e., it was funded by VC who had all the power), that could have happened at any time. I don't really see Microsoft taking a dump in the sandbox at any time.
This space for rent
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Marc Clifton wrote: Host your own!
The great thing about github is the code review features, and CI hooks (autotests etc). We are 30 devs in my company, for us it is a lot more than a just a repo.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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MS is just fine with providing free and open-source material at the individual level as long as they can monetize it at the corporate level. That's been the business model for many, many years, and is exactly the business model that GitHub follows as well.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Lopatir wrote: so, is ms really 'open source' friendly? or are they just leading developers into an 'open source' world that ms can one day easily shut down and charge money to turn it back on?
..you do realize they give away lots of stuff to developers? There's a community-edition IDE that works quite well, with free documentation on MSDN.
Yes, MS is open source friendly; at least, compared to the old MS where open source was viewed as an STD.
Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) | Open Source Initiative[^]
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hey! Guys I need your help!
Last week my app was deleted from Play Store, the claim was that it violates spam policy with repetetive content. I tried to get in touch with console, but they said that the app is banned from store again with claim of repetitive content. They did not explain where in my app the policy was violated, leaving me wondering, what just happened and what was wrong with my app. Can you guys please could maybe explain what could be wrong with the app, so that maybe hypothetically I could understand the ban.
This actually left me wondered that basically Google can do anything without any explanation, just say that the policy have been violated and point- ban from the store.
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You need to look at what your app is actually doing. It's unlikely that people here can guess why it is being rejected.
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Oh sorry! It was bitcoin trading simulator for beginner investors, It was like school where people can learn to trade with real time trading simulator with no risk. It was basically an app that was based on our online platform-
Bitcoin trading game
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Strange, when they have a problem with an app they usually explain quite well and provide links to their policy documents. Are you sure you didn't see those?
Repetitive content is a fancy word for spam.
Edit: An and if you have multiple apps on the store, make sure they are not the same content under a different app name. That is a violation.
Edit: I forgot, I heard about rare extreme cases they take down apps with excessive keyword spamming in the app description. You may review your app texts in the app store developer console.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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They just reffered to their spam policy without any specific explanation, but the thing was that we were only one on the app store that provided something like this. Plus we send a second letter that we would like to hear detailed explanation, what was wrong but they just said that they already explained everything.
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Codesavage wrote: This actually left me wondered that basically Google can do anything without any explanation, just say that the policy have been violated and point- ban from the store.
It's their platform. Why are you not wondering the same over your own applications? What God-given right do users have with their apps, or are they depending on your good mood?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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LOL...
:s/Google Play/Apple Store
I'd rather be phishing!
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You unmitigated cad!
Bounder!
Gibface hedge-creeper, malmsey nosed vazey!
VI!
I thought I'd forgotten that execrable heap of junk, but no - you had to drag it back!.
Still at least it wasn't
:%s/Google Play/Apple Store/
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 5-Jun-18 10:38am.
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sorry, my hands are not big enough to conjure the emacs search replace key strokes.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Actually "sed" uses the same format.
And vi is better than EMACS. :q!
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EDT has a similar substitute command, but I rarely use line mode.
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I just found this in a comment to a question:
Quote: ...because the code you show is absurd.
I know abstract classes, but have not yet heard officially of absurd classes, but I have seen many of them. Will we now need a new class modifier?
public absurd class Foo
{
public absurd void DoSomethingAbsurd();
}What will be the impact in terms of inheritance? Must absurd methods be overridden? Or may they not be overriden at all?
Edit: Will there be such a thing as purely absurd classes, where every method and property is declared as absurd?
Will the absurdity level someone mentioned below be the inheritance depth of absurd base classes?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 5-Jun-18 7:06am.
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Surely the method should return something absurd as well? It'd be absurd if it didn't. We'll need a new data type too! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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