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DerekT-P wrote: links I click on in response to Search (as in searching from the taskbar)
That's not something I use. I type names to reach applications, but that's it.
If I can't remember where I keep my sh<nobr>it, it's time for me to give it up.
Software Zen: delete this;
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that's one of the things I hate about Win10. You used to go to Control Panel to control things. Now that's being phased out and who knows how to get to a screen to turn on Bluetooth, or check Update History?? Tell me the name of the app that turns on Bluetooth... All I can do is search "bluetooth" and that generally gives me a link to the correct settings page; but not always! Sometimes it turns out to be a weblink that it opens in Edge. 
I use ClassicShell to give me an XP-style start menu where I can organise stuff the way I want it, but I don't even know how - or if - I can create a shortcut to the bluetooth settings (for example). (I can pin the "tile" but I don't want tiles; I just want a shortcut that I can put where I want)
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I have some luck with the windows updates also, just the one where you get a BSOD when printing on a kyocera I had.
But my file associations where not touched by the updates until now, I have firefox as standard and it remains so after updates.
So, you are not that lucky after all with updates 
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"Oh, but our native apps are so much better!" whine them.
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Edge is better though, that's why I highly recommend it to friends, family and total strangers alike. 
Edit: Chrome eats all the RAM
Edge does not and has better privacy and security features
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Another problem seems to have gone away now but for a year or so, every Windows update re-arranged my icons.
Okay so, yes, I'm a bad person for having too many icons on my screen but, if I group them together by similar function, I can actually find what I want quickly without trying to remember what something is called and where I stored it (e.g. spreadsheets that I might open 1 or more times a week).
Also find that Google Backup & Sync can be a bit sulky after updates and require an extra re-start to all the ones the update asks for. That can be scary e.g yesterday when 2 hours work I did away from home wasn't there on the home PC - but magically re-appeared once it had had a little rest (and well after the icon had finished indicating a sync.)
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Well said.
The bit that thoroughly convinced me was the; Quote: ....goat-buggering hands off!
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Check your PDFs. It seems like every few months, after an update, my file associations for PDF documents gets changed to Edge.
At the same time, my associations for MS Office are messed up, so I get messages stating Word or Excel is not the default application for their file types. I fix that ... and it gets unfixed later.
Animosity between Office & Windows & Edge teams?
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This happens with my .PDF's as well. Adobe Reader has a pretty slick fix for it though.BryanFazekas wrote: Animosity between Office & Windows & Edge teams?
Oh no, say it isn't so! Mommy and Daddy are fighting again!
(you'll notice I didn't indicate which team was a mother---)
Software Zen: delete this;
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hasn't happened to me. But I have had to fix my users machines on a very regular schedule. Wrote a powershell script to fix it for them. Put on their desktop. They click and viola it is back.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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They keep doing the same with PDF's, we use Adobe Creative Cloud and have fully licenced Adobe DC Pro and Edge keeps taking it over!
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Never had this issue. It does bother me that there's not a chance to defer updates anymore.
Doesn't allow for what seems like common events like shutting down on the plane, in a hurry for whatever reason, etc etc.
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agolddog wrote: Doesn't allow for what seems like common events like shutting down on the plane, in a hurry for whatever reason, etc
Yes. When they first added the deferral 'feature' it wouldn't allow less than 12 hours of inactive time per day. It really pisses me off when they reboot during a backup, or worse while I'm actually using the machine, with no warning.
Software Zen: delete this;
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They know it and they don't care. Mint (or your favorite **ix) won't give you that problem, but they all will give you some other problems - which I find less annoying. My next computer installation will not be Windows, despite the fact that I've been using Windows since the 3.0 days.
We have p7zip-desktop already. All we need now is a Notepad++ port, and Windows will become some kind of dormant VM somewhere far and deep inside a dusty and rusty cabinet.
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I gave in and started using Edge. Not much difference for me.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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You are so lucky. Because I have a Ryzen 7 for reasons I went and installed an older copy of windows 10 i had lying around.
It turns out, that particular build hates Ryzen 7's so much it will BSOD within a couple of minutes, with a WDT.
Apparently it's a known issue.
Well, I sure as heck didn't know until my shiny new machine was absolutely puking itself.
I haven't had a Windows experience that bad since ... maybe XP? And that was a hardware problem.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I will grant my @home computing needs are very vanilla. I don't play games (other than Solitaire), so I'm not subject to the vagaries of high-end graphics adapter drivers. I don't use my machine as a media server or anything like that, so my networking is simple.
More pointedly with these types of discussions, my personality is not one that requires I "mark my territory" on my computer by customizing it out the wazoo. I'm sure you recognize what I'm talking about. It's a world-ending tragedy and a flagrant conspiracy against humanity when Microsoft doesn't let you arrange the icons your desktop on 3.176 pixel boundaries in a hexagonal matrix like you prefer.
The people who scream the loudest about Windows Update problems always seem to be the ones who configure their machines either < -3σ or > 3σ from the norm for that make/model.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My machine was factory though. My only sin was using an old ISO because the ISO that shipped with my machine wasn't working with the product key on the back of it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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One of my many roles as the DSJB (Departmental Shit-Job Boy) is that I create the images used to load Windows on the industrial PC's in our products. All images are (obviously) not the same. I'm guessing that your old ISO was missing some critical piece of processor-specific stuff. At one time Windows had a HAL (hardware abstraction layer), part of the kernel, that tended to be customized for new processors. Since that time they've switched to a micro-kernel approach to things, but I imagine the need for processor-specific bits still exists. For future reference, it's conceivable that AMD has downloadable kernel bits that can be applied during a WinPE (Windows Pre-Installation Environment) session.honey the codewitch wrote: the ISO that shipped with my machine wasn't working with the product key
That is no surprise at all. Microsoft goes through activation schemes like other people go through toilet paper. It is incredibly easy to create a perfect Windows install image that will absolutely refuse to install with the product key hard-coded into the image. The end solution for us was to switch to deferred activation which in essence lets you use the machine unhindered until the first time it connects to the Internet. Since ours are never connected to the Internet, problem solved.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes! I feel better now, someone else has the same experience. I now have one of these macro thingies on my desktop which goes through the process of setting .html back to Chrome and .pdf back to Acrobat. As soon as I did that, of course, it stopped being hijacked. But I am ready.
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I need to automate it, but it doesn't happen quite often enough for me to do so. Plus, I enjoy the occasional loud and obscenity-laden rant.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If silkworms have a race, does it end in a tie?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sheet, you just can't weave it alone can you! Is there any thread of hope or are we all loomed?
"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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I think knot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If you consider the problem and mull berry hard on it, all will be revealed.
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