My Valentine Gift from Microsoft
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
Mark Salsbery wrote:
And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there).
It may seem small, but that's one of the things that just pisses me off to no end. I have exactly three icons down in that quick launch bar. I don't want any more than that. IE is not one of them. (I use Firefox. And it appears you do too. ;P) And for that to show up after what seems like every update just irritates me beyond belief.
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Mark Salsbery wrote:
And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there).
It may seem small, but that's one of the things that just pisses me off to no end. I have exactly three icons down in that quick launch bar. I don't want any more than that. IE is not one of them. (I use Firefox. And it appears you do too. ;P) And for that to show up after what seems like every update just irritates me beyond belief.
Yeah - I don't get too worked up about it anymore, but really - I'd like to be asked first if I want even an icon installed somewhere :) Cheers, Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
Nothing says love like an extra explorer icon.
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Nothing says love like an extra explorer icon.
Chris Austin wrote:
Nothing says love like an extra explorer icon.
How about an explorer icon with a heart? :rolleyes:
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Yeah - I don't get too worked up about it anymore, but really - I'd like to be asked first if I want even an icon installed somewhere :) Cheers, Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
My personal favorite: Every stinkin' Windows Update resets my 'preferred' e-mail client to Outlook. And I don't even have Outlook installed.
Software Zen:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
Mark, I had the same thing happen last Saturday morning. My display settings were completely hosed and everytime I tried to set to a resolution larger than 800x600, it would succeed, but I had to mouse around to each edge in order to see anything to the right or left or top or bottom. It took me awhile to find that setting to turn off. :)
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Mark, I had the same thing happen last Saturday morning. My display settings were completely hosed and everytime I tried to set to a resolution larger than 800x600, it would succeed, but I had to mouse around to each edge in order to see anything to the right or left or top or bottom. It took me awhile to find that setting to turn off. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Donate to help Conquer Cancer[^]
Ouch! Thankfully, I only had to monkey around with the display settings - enable the "second" monitor (which was the primary LOL) and swap the monitors (in the settings)...why the hell it moved monitor 2 to the left side and disabled it....i dunno :)
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
Microsoft's in love with me too! My Vista test partition decided to install 6 updates at shutdown: it never started again. It just hangs on a black screen when it initializes the drivers (in Safe Mode the last line printed is "Loading crcdisk.sys", it does not generate the ntbtlog file to get a hint about what fails, and the automatic repair from the dvd fails). Since I won't need it for a while though, I'll reinstall it once SP1 comes out, to revive some interest...
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Microsoft's in love with me too! My Vista test partition decided to install 6 updates at shutdown: it never started again. It just hangs on a black screen when it initializes the drivers (in Safe Mode the last line printed is "Loading crcdisk.sys", it does not generate the ntbtlog file to get a hint about what fails, and the automatic repair from the dvd fails). Since I won't need it for a while though, I'll reinstall it once SP1 comes out, to revive some interest...
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Wow! You got way more love than me! Good luck with that ;P Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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I'd like to thank Microsoft for my wonderful gift this morning.... As happens every other month or so, the major pack of security updates installed itself when I booted this morning. Fine. Needs to reboot....cool - I need to drink more coffee anyway. Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF. And I have a spankin new internet explorer icon in my quick launch bar (erm...I already had one there). Thanks Microsoft! I love you too. Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
Mark Salsbery wrote:
Updates finish installing - I finally get to log on - my multi-monitor display settings are all reversed, one monitor is disabled (but not the primary/#1)...WTF.
MY XP (dell) laptop has randomly fubared with the dual monitor config on un/redock for over 2 years now.
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