Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Microsoft...oh dear...

Microsoft...oh dear...

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
question
38 Posts 22 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • L Lost User

    If you're a MFC programmer try a google search for CString and scroll down (NSFW).

    OriginalGriffO Offline
    OriginalGriffO Offline
    OriginalGriff
    wrote on last edited by
    #16

    Dare I try CLstCtrl? :~

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

    "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

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • L Lost User

      "Settings" is third from the bottom on the Desktop menu. Click on the logo at bottom left, you can't miss it. Unless your mate is running the Welsh Ffenestri version. ;)

      C Offline
      C Offline
      CPallini
      wrote on last edited by
      #17

      :laugh: :thumbsup:

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • K Kenneth Haugland

        Searching for items has never been Windows or Microsoft's strong site, just look at Bing. I remembered the first time I used that, and Search up MSDN, the first link was to a site with pictures of naked girls. :)

        J Offline
        J Offline
        Jorgen Andersson
        wrote on last edited by
        #18

        But is that a fail?

        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • L Lost User

          If you're a MFC programmer try a google search for CString and scroll down (NSFW).

          S Offline
          S Offline
          Simon_Whale
          wrote on last edited by
          #19

          luckly I have safe search turned on :) at work

          Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • K Kenneth Haugland

            Searching for items has never been Windows or Microsoft's strong site, just look at Bing. I remembered the first time I used that, and Search up MSDN, the first link was to a site with pictures of naked girls. :)

            L Offline
            L Offline
            Lost User
            wrote on last edited by
            #20

            Kenneth Haugland wrote:

            Search up MSDN, the first link was to a site with pictures of naked girls.

            So why are you complaining? :confused:

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • K Kenneth Haugland

              Searching for items has never been Windows or Microsoft's strong site, just look at Bing. I remembered the first time I used that, and Search up MSDN, the first link was to a site with pictures of naked girls. :)

              R Offline
              R Offline
              Ron Anders
              wrote on last edited by
              #21

              There are naked girls!? Where? no.... don't show me

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • L Lost User

                Ask John McAfee: Warning - NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg[^]

                G Offline
                G Offline
                glennPattonWork3
                wrote on last edited by
                #22

                Boss showed us that, while shaking his head! :laugh:

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                  M Offline
                  M Offline
                  Mike Hankey
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #23

                  Add is pretty close to asinine maybe that would have worked?

                  New version: WinHeist Version
                  When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                    S Offline
                    S Offline
                    Slacker007
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #24

                    Just go to the control panel. If windows 10 "settings" page is like windows 8, it is worthless. I always go to the control panel. i.e. adding printers can be a pain in windows 8 from the page for adding printers, therefor - control panel. don't know if that helps you at all....

                    D 1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                      D Offline
                      D Offline
                      dandy72
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #25

                      I hasn't been called "Add/Remove Programs" since the XP days if I'm not mistaken. From Vista forward, it's called "Programs and features". When I hit Start and start typing "prog", it appears as the second entry (the first one being "Default Programs"). Then again, this whole mess is dynamic. When I start typing "uni", I don't get "App or remove programs" at all. If I type "unin", then I get "App and features", which is the Metro-fied uninstaller (which I had forgotten all about - yuck). Nobody can convince me that searching beats a well-organized menu. I have systems (fast systems) on which I can type the whole name of the shortcut, and I still have to wait a number of seconds after that for it to get displayed before I can click on it.

                      M 1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • S Slacker007

                        Just go to the control panel. If windows 10 "settings" page is like windows 8, it is worthless. I always go to the control panel. i.e. adding printers can be a pain in windows 8 from the page for adding printers, therefor - control panel. don't know if that helps you at all....

                        D Offline
                        D Offline
                        dandy72
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #26

                        At this point they should just call it the Out of Control Panel.

                        S 1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • D dandy72

                          At this point they should just call it the Out of Control Panel.

                          S Offline
                          S Offline
                          Slacker007
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #27

                          dandy72 wrote:

                          call it the Out of Control Panel.

                          that too. :)

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                            K Offline
                            K Offline
                            Kiriander
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #28

                            I've been reaching this panel for years now using command-line fu. Press Win+R, type appwiz.cpl, hit Enter. Viola!

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                              That's what I did - but it's the search results that are ... um ... a touch inconsistent... :laugh:

                              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                              M Offline
                              M Offline
                              Mike Winiberg
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #29

                              Try finding all the SQL related stuff when you have SQL Express installed: typing "SQL" finds the SQL Server Management Studio, but not the SQL Serve Configuration Manager. However, once you've opened SSCM, then typing SQL finds it. There is something seriously wierd about the start menu search. It behaves similarly strangely if you search for windows update too...

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • D dandy72

                                I hasn't been called "Add/Remove Programs" since the XP days if I'm not mistaken. From Vista forward, it's called "Programs and features". When I hit Start and start typing "prog", it appears as the second entry (the first one being "Default Programs"). Then again, this whole mess is dynamic. When I start typing "uni", I don't get "App or remove programs" at all. If I type "unin", then I get "App and features", which is the Metro-fied uninstaller (which I had forgotten all about - yuck). Nobody can convince me that searching beats a well-organized menu. I have systems (fast systems) on which I can type the whole name of the shortcut, and I still have to wait a number of seconds after that for it to get displayed before I can click on it.

                                M Offline
                                M Offline
                                mtiede
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #30

                                Or you can just type "add remove" in the start menu or Cortana.

                                D 1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                                  J Offline
                                  J Offline
                                  JoeSox
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #31

                                  Yes. Windows 10 seems like it has a mind of its own. For some reason windows explorer will always be on top, so when I open new instances of windows explorer they go behind what I DON'T want to see. :doh: But yes Kaspersky 15 blew up when I upgraded my older i5 laptop and luckily I had a 16 license as they say its Win10 compliant.

                                  Later, JoeSox CPMCv1.0 - Last.fm - MyFriendfeed - CPForAndroid++

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  0
                                  • K Kenneth Haugland

                                    Searching for items has never been Windows or Microsoft's strong site, just look at Bing. I remembered the first time I used that, and Search up MSDN, the first link was to a site with pictures of naked girls. :)

                                    L Offline
                                    L Offline
                                    Lilith C
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #32

                                    We've found that searches in Microsoft Outlook are often incomplete where you'd think that looking for a word in the subject should be simple to do.

                                    I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    0
                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      Trying to remove McAfee from a friends lappy after upgrading, resetting, and upgrading again to win 10. And it should be easy, according to McAfee site (hah! Heard that before!) Just go to "Add and Remove Programs" in "Settings" and take it out. So...Windows 10. "Windows button", "Settings" - don't see it, so I'll search, using the Settings search box... Search "add" - "No results for add" Search "Add" - "No results for Add" Search "uni" (as the beginning of "uninstall") - and the first result is "Add or remove programs"... :doh: So...it's a search that only finds things if you look for completely different text? That's a bit surreal, even for MS!

                                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                                      M Offline
                                      M Offline
                                      Mike Marynowski
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #33

                                      Weird...it works for me. "Settings" in start menu search works (Settings [Trusted Windows Store App] comes up). Search "Add Remove" in start menu brings up "Add or Remove Programs" Search "add" inside settings (where it says "Search settings") shows "Add or remove programs" in the list. That said, Windows has a mind of its own often times, I have no doubt it wasn't working for you. Perhaps it was still indexing all the apps and such on the system? I know at the beginning after I installed Windows I saw it say that results might be incomplete until indexing is done somewhere.

                                      OriginalGriffO 1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • M Mike Marynowski

                                        Weird...it works for me. "Settings" in start menu search works (Settings [Trusted Windows Store App] comes up). Search "Add Remove" in start menu brings up "Add or Remove Programs" Search "add" inside settings (where it says "Search settings") shows "Add or remove programs" in the list. That said, Windows has a mind of its own often times, I have no doubt it wasn't working for you. Perhaps it was still indexing all the apps and such on the system? I know at the beginning after I installed Windows I saw it say that results might be incomplete until indexing is done somewhere.

                                        OriginalGriffO Offline
                                        OriginalGriffO Offline
                                        OriginalGriff
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #34

                                        It does - but that isn't what I tried. Go into the "Settings" app, and use the search box there...it only finds "add or remove programs" if the search string contains none of the letters in the text... :laugh:

                                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                                        "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

                                        M 1 Reply Last reply
                                        0
                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          It does - but that isn't what I tried. Go into the "Settings" app, and use the search box there...it only finds "add or remove programs" if the search string contains none of the letters in the text... :laugh:

                                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                                          M Offline
                                          M Offline
                                          Mike Marynowski
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #35

                                          The third search I listed in my reply is inside the Settings app. It brings up "add or remove programs" if I type in any of those words.

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          0
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • World
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups