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"So long, and thanks for all the fish" was rather good, too.
Will Rogers never met me.
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It happens. Even with a tight timeline, time to go do something else for a little while.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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When that happens to me, I borrow from the "Pomodoro Timer" method.
You need to get some(any) kind of timer, set it for some small time like 25 minutes where you promise yourself you'll try to focus on an important step. I think 25 mins is suggested 'cause it doesn't sound too long, it's doable.
When the timer goes off - you permit yourself to stray ( go for a walk, practice music and juggling etc. ) for about 5-10 minutes. Your mind deserves some fun off the leash.
Repeat the cycle.
I find it gets me back into the mode where I can get in the zone again where the "work" is actually "fun".
Totally stray out of the "Pomodoro" rules when I am out of the funk.
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It wasn't a motivation issue. It was a focus issue. I could not get my brain to engage with the code. I was totally ready to work and I just couldn't. The code may as well have been French. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have been where you are.
I find a disconnect while my right-brain can suggest to my left-brain what I need to do usually works.
Of course, if the deadline is not looming, the urgency is not there and the inspiration will not be forthcoming . .
You have always come through before - this time will be no different. Trust the magic in you - it will show you the way . .
A few are great.
I am small.
Together we are the Universe.
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Message Closed
modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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The cause usually is pure laziness and lack of imagination on the part of the UI designers/developers. Popping up a dialogue box followed by another, and so on, is easy and quick (and so often horrible for the user). But job done, move on.....
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I call it a dog's breakfast, but I am sure no self respecting dog will touch it. 
First installing it froze at 69% for almost half an hour. Then (after a restart) the computer froze at "You are 0% there." After waiting for about another 30 minutes, I forced the power off and restarted the machine. Upon the restart, it immediately resumed counting up to 100% quite fast.
After another restart, I thought it best to run a sfc scan and sure enough it reported that it found and repaired some corrupt files. Now the machine seems to be working OK.
This update robbed me of more than an hour out of my day! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: This update robbed me of more than an hour out of my day!
and the best is yet to come...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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And to think, they want to us blindly install updates immediately now. Trust the corporations without question. Big tech knows best. We're just plebes.
As a side-ish note, even VS Code is getting odd. I swear every other day I open it up there's a new update it's bugging me to install. Fortunately, it doesn't crash or anything, but here I thought I was supposed to use it to actually do some work.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: thought I was supposed to use it to actually do some work.
Work? I thought you were a manager. 
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I went back to doing contract work. One of the things I love about the business side is being able to make an impact, rather than having a boss "above" you that's too afraid to be honest with the business. But, it also consists of a bunch of useless meetings that waste people's time with folks that have no earthly idea about tech and are usually in it for the wrong reasons. I intrinsically lack respect for people who only wish to tell others what to do rather than do actual work themselves. I mean, there is value in the business side of course, but most of it is fluff and garbage.
Ok, I'll stop ranting now. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree 100%. I worked for too many bosses for whom I had very little respect.
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So did I, on the other hand, I did manage to be respected by them.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"I swear every other day I open it up there's a new update it's bugging me to install."
Looks like you don't have a Linux box.
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Peter Adam wrote: Looks like you don't have a Linux box.
Frequent updates are actually worse in Linux because every day you log in, everything is updating daily. Even with distros such as Debian.
Jeremy Falcon
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My very latest Win11 and VS update left me with a '.NET' error and my VS-generated VB.NET app refuses to run! Starting the VB.NET app in Debug-mode in VS generates the same error message.
What's going on here?
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Didn't take so much for me. Was over in max 10 minutes.
Note: Is it geography dependent? I live in India.
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switch to linux lol....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: switch to linux lol....
Yeah, 'cuz Linux never gets borked updates, no matter what odd combination of packages you might have, all coming from a bunch of devs that have nothing to do with each other.
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I've had way more issues with Windows than I've had with Linux. The first couple years of Windows 10 was fairly bad for me. I've got 10+ machines running Windows and there'd be 2 or three that couldn't do the latest feature updates. Tried all the 'fixes' I could find on the web to no avail. Had to do a fresh install on the affected machines. And it wasn't always the same machines that would get borked on the next feature update. This went on for about 2 years.
With my Linux updates, I've had one issue in the last 3 years. My email client (Thunderbird) wouldn't run after an update. Did a little research on the web and figured it was related to AppArmor preventing it from executing. Told AppArmor to ignore Thunderbird and then Thunderbird worked normally.
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Cool story bro.
Thing is, everybody has a different one. I'm glad it's working out for you.
For me, if I were to just call it as I see it, my observations could be summarized as "different OS, different problems". And that's the only point I was trying to get across.
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Cp-Coder wrote: This update robbed me of more than an hour out of my day!
I usually leave those updates for the end of the day.
Unfortunately with a very wide hardware base no company could ever hope to test all combinations. Add into that the potential for existing problems with that hardware and it becomes an unsurmountable problem.
The alternatives are no updates or to just wing it and see what happens. The latter is that for many systems it will work.
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Things were a lot better when MS had their internal testing lab. now the updates are released after dogfooding on their own VM's, not actual hardware. Things have been really bad for patches ever since.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: now the updates are released after dogfooding on their own VM's, not actual hardware.
That's been my argument as well...maybe their updates are well-tested on VMs, but virtualized hardware (and their well-known drivers) is NOT representative what most people are actually using, and then encounter problems that MS hasn't seen doesn't bother trying to seek out.
For a multi-trillion dollar company, they can do better.
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