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I lay this at the feet of the horribly incompetent embedded leadership; the ones who had a lock on the embedded space in 2006 and then stopped work for five years. We're now going on four years with Embedded Compact 2013.
(Of all the departments I've dealt with at Microsoft, the embedded ones were the worse. Once reported a problem and they lost their sh*t. For a moment, I thought I was dealing with the idiots at Wind River.)
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I've updated to the Windows 10 Creators Update. I received this error for every file unzipped while unzipping a fairly large code archive. It's solution? To reset the defaults away from Chrome and "safely" back to Edge. Result? The unzip took 10 times longer than it should have and Explorer constantly restarted.
Seriously Microsoft: you've dipped down to seriously desperate measures to get people to switch to Edge.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And why? What's the BFD if we use this browser or that to access this and that? I don't get it. Can't be just bragging rights.
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Chris,
Chris Maunder wrote: Seriously Microsoft: you've dipped down to seriously desperate measures to get people to switch to Edge.
That's a terrible accusation. Just want to point out that this is caused by old third-party software such as Winzip that attempt to directly modify registry keys for file association and other user preferences.
The Windows 10 operating system now maintains a checksum/hash of the 'Default App' user preference registry key values. When a direct registry change is detected we validate the checksum. If the checksum fails then the user defaults are restored. If the third-party application repeats the registry change... you may get into an infinite loop of user preference restoration.
Pass the word around... software developers should no longer directly modify these registry keys. Users may use the 'Set Program Access and Computer Defaults' to modify file types and associations.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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So how should it be done?
Please don't tell me "the user has to do it manually" because that's the same thing as "file associations no longer exist in W10 Creators Update".
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Quote: Just want to point out that this is caused by old third-party software such as Winzip
Echo that! Every friggin time I run WinZip a bunch of file associations get reset and I have to manually change them to my preference - over and over!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So how hard is it to remember the settings I specifically set and then reset any changes to my settings.
Microsoft have actively chosen to reset changes to their preferences.
If Microsoft wanted to protect us against default app changes they would simply block apps from changing prefs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Good point.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This is caused by crappy third party software, not Microsoft.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No, the response is caused by Microsoft, not crappy third party software.
Allow me to have a setting to simply disallow apps from changing app preferences without going through the settings page. Don't just say "someone tried to do something without telling you so we'll reset your prefs away from those prefs you've specifically set".
It's the "Don't worry your pretty head about it: we'll just set it to Edge" that pisses me off.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The response by Microsoft is required because of poorly written apps that don't use the proper APIs.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Well I see below, that is a "Feature" not a bug 
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Allan Holdsworth[^] One of my fav guitarists, saw him a couple of times, mind blowing stuff. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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/ravi
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I found some trick on the internet for recovering the wifi password and found a trick using CMD. I thought it wouldn't work. But damn! it works! you could recover the password by just typing few commands,
command 1:
netsh wlan show profiles
This will give you the list of profiles, I mean the wifi devices which you have previously connected on your computer.
then
netsh wlan show profiles <your profile name> key=clear
netsh wlan show profiles DLINK-12 key=clear
you could recover your password. eg. Key-Content : YOur Password will be displayed here
so somebody knows how to delete this password? 
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Do a reset. There's a Reset button on the router. Hold it down until it power cycles.
Then, the User Name is usually 'Admin' and the password will usually be blank or 'password'/'password1'
Be sure to change it once you're in.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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VISWESWARAN1998 wrote: so somebody knows how to delete this password?
Not unless you want to remove the network profile altogether.
On Windows 10:
Settings, Network and Internet, Wi-Fi, Manage known networks, select the network profile, then Forget.
After "forgetting" the profile, the 'netsh wlan show profiles' will simply show the profile doesn't exist...so you therefore can't display the key anymore.
Of course, if someone's already logged into your system to enter those commands, you probably have bigger issues.
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It doesn't work for me.
But then, my desktop is wired, not wireless...
The WookieTab shows the password, which is poor design from a security POV: it should be hashed not encrypted. But that's the WiFi spec for you - this has been known about for years. How to view WIFI's password or forget this network in Windows 8.1 - Super User[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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For those of you that do side work... where do you go to find your gigs? Any particular sites you use?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Any particular sites you use?
The QA forum here. People are always asking for someone to do all their work. The pay is pretty lousy though. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kevin Marois wrote: where do you go to find your gigs?
Short answer: from people that I know. Never have gotten side work from any "contract" website, they're all pretty bad, IMHO.
Long answer:
Clients that resurface or people that I've worked with in the past that change jobs and end up asking me to do some contract work.
Otherwise, there's an occasional hit (less frequently nowadays) from someone that's read and article of mine.
I once got what ended up being a long term gig (but overall only a couple hours a week) simply by going to a pot luck and chatting with someone about software architecture, discovering we had very similar views (now THAT was a unique situation!)
However, that gig led to a relationship with another company where I ended up building a website for, which was sweet because I built the site from scratch in C# (et al) rather than trying to maintain/understand someone else's Ruby code.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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What Marc said. Doubly so for avoiding the gig sites. I'd suggest poking around various user groups and tech meetings.
A few years back, I attended a Microsoft day event for their embedded products. It was a presentation of what new stuff they were rolling out (conveniently neglecting to mention that they were about to throw us into the river with no paddle or boat, but I digress...). Anyway, over lunch, a few of us were sitting around the table, and one gentleman turned out to be a mid-level manager for a local VAR in the Atlanta area. They had numerous opportunities to deploy custom kiosk solutions across the area, but they could not find anyone to do the code. I still regret not being able to follow up on that opportunity.
Remember that some of this is marketing. Using acquaintances helps the marketing, but getting out there cannot be replaced.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It always comes down to networking, I hated it when that meant hardware, now that it refers to social stuff I loathe it even more. If you are going to get work for yourself (as apposed to contract or employment) you are going to have to get out there and hustle.
Friends, relatives, acquaintances and especially business colleagues and contacts are all potential sources. You need to work them, make sure they all know what you do and that you are interested in custom work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Typically it's word-of-mouth via friends and former coworkers. I don't have an especial need for the money, so I let the work come to me.
Software Zen: delete this;
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