Why, Microsoft? Why?
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From Windows 10 November update: FAQ[^]... 1. "Windows 10 is a service" - I think you should install an OS first to run a service... 2. "If it’s been less than 31 days since you upgraded to Windows 10, you won’t get the November update right away; this will allow you to go back to your previous version of Windows" - obviously there is no going-back after this update. Don't even dream about 7...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
My PC is currently running Win 7 to d download the Win 10 ISO ... and it's sooooooooo pretty ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Put all your password into passwordsafe (or a similar product) let it live in dropbox (or a similar service) synch it to your portable bits. Why do people who a religious about backups not do this to passowrds! :(
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
I have my own password manager, which is backed up every which way I can think of - but it only runs on Windows because I haven't got round to learning Android yet...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My PC is currently running Win 7 to d download the Win 10 ISO ... and it's sooooooooo pretty ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
After playing with Windows 10 preview went to update my base-VM for Windows 7 to block the 10 update for every new copy I create...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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After playing with Windows 10 preview went to update my base-VM for Windows 7 to block the 10 update for every new copy I create...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
It's not that bad - if you think of it as Win 8 SP2. But then being "better than Win 8" isn't exactly much of a milestone. It works, normally. And provided you don't want to do anything complicated (like tell it what to actually do) the it's OK, if ugly. But as soon as anything goes wrong it turns back into Win8.0 with DOS 2 error messages and "ease of use". :sigh: Trouble is that I support a few people, and if I don't run it then I can't check what they are saying and have to drive over to see them and work it out there.
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 -
It's not that bad - if you think of it as Win 8 SP2. But then being "better than Win 8" isn't exactly much of a milestone. It works, normally. And provided you don't want to do anything complicated (like tell it what to actually do) the it's OK, if ugly. But as soon as anything goes wrong it turns back into Win8.0 with DOS 2 error messages and "ease of use". :sigh: Trouble is that I support a few people, and if I don't run it then I can't check what they are saying and have to drive over to see them and work it out there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I always thought, that we are lucky to be a larger company and to be able to set to our customer, which OS to use and which not...A great help...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Windows10 updated yesterday - and was a PITA about it. Finally completed, I turned off for the night and relaxed. This morning though... :mad: No network. None whatsoever. My adapter doesn't even switch into gigabit mode... And win 10 is refusing to admit any connection exists, or to add a new one. Why do you do this Microsoft? Why do you make me hate windows10? And why is the new settings app so completely useless? Two hours, the reboots, and it *might* be ready to admit that my Ethernet network actually exists - not actually connect to it, no. But existence is a start...
Maybe something in this thread will help?: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web/windows-sockets-registry-entries-for-network/3afc7f70-213a-4ef5-9a78-b196a867354e?auth=1[^]
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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Maybe something in this thread will help?: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web/windows-sockets-registry-entries-for-network/3afc7f70-213a-4ef5-9a78-b196a867354e?auth=1[^]
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
:laugh: I found that about 06:30 this morning! Win 10 IS currently installing from ISO onto a third 1TB HDD... Then I can look at adding Chrome, SQL, VS, ... And my apps and data. Then yet another backup... :D
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Maybe something in this thread will help?: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web/windows-sockets-registry-entries-for-network/3afc7f70-213a-4ef5-9a78-b196a867354e?auth=1[^]
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
And if it does help, that means, that Microsoft was able to reintroduce a bug from early preview version - great job!
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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:laugh: I found that about 06:30 this morning! Win 10 IS currently installing from ISO onto a third 1TB HDD... Then I can look at adding Chrome, SQL, VS, ... And my apps and data. Then yet another backup... :D
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
perfect O/S
You missed it there :-)...Microsoft clearly states, that Windows 10 is a service - no OS anymore. If you want OS you should look elsewhere... :-)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
Windows 10 is a service
There is another usage of the word 'service' (as a verb, not a noun), but I'm not sure it is KSS.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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It's not that bad - if you think of it as Win 8 SP2. But then being "better than Win 8" isn't exactly much of a milestone. It works, normally. And provided you don't want to do anything complicated (like tell it what to actually do) the it's OK, if ugly. But as soon as anything goes wrong it turns back into Win8.0 with DOS 2 error messages and "ease of use". :sigh: Trouble is that I support a few people, and if I don't run it then I can't check what they are saying and have to drive over to see them and work it out there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I'm in that position as well...sooner or later one of my guys is going to either cave in and install it or get it on a new laptop, so I had to know my way around it anyway. I installed 'Destroy Windows Spying'...it's a composition of things like firewall rules and redirects in the HOSTS file to thwart Windows spying. One of the things it has is to turn off Windows Updates completely by Policy instead of just 'let me decide later'...so far, it's been working really well. I don't automatically install anybody's updates anymore...they've permanently broken my trust in their good will and intentions.
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Windows10 updated yesterday - and was a PITA about it. Finally completed, I turned off for the night and relaxed. This morning though... :mad: No network. None whatsoever. My adapter doesn't even switch into gigabit mode... And win 10 is refusing to admit any connection exists, or to add a new one. Why do you do this Microsoft? Why do you make me hate windows10? And why is the new settings app so completely useless? Two hours, the reboots, and it *might* be ready to admit that my Ethernet network actually exists - not actually connect to it, no. But existence is a start...
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Put all your password into passwordsafe (or a similar product) let it live in dropbox (or a similar service) synch it to your portable bits. Why do people who a religious about backups not do this to passowrds! :(
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Most of us just use "password" for the password for all accounts, soooooo - who needs a password backup? ;P
Charlie Gilley 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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Windows10 updated yesterday - and was a PITA about it. Finally completed, I turned off for the night and relaxed. This morning though... :mad: No network. None whatsoever. My adapter doesn't even switch into gigabit mode... And win 10 is refusing to admit any connection exists, or to add a new one. Why do you do this Microsoft? Why do you make me hate windows10? And why is the new settings app so completely useless? Two hours, the reboots, and it *might* be ready to admit that my Ethernet network actually exists - not actually connect to it, no. But existence is a start...
I installed Windows 10 the week it came out and had similar troubles with my laptop. The installation completely destroyed the entire network stack; no Internet no network connectivity. The fix was to rollback. Rolling back was very easy. The problem was that I have Cisco VPN software installed and after doing research, found that everyone else is having the same problem. To have a clean installation, users must first uninstall Cisco VPN software and then install Windows 10.
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Windows10 updated yesterday - and was a PITA about it. Finally completed, I turned off for the night and relaxed. This morning though... :mad: No network. None whatsoever. My adapter doesn't even switch into gigabit mode... And win 10 is refusing to admit any connection exists, or to add a new one. Why do you do this Microsoft? Why do you make me hate windows10? And why is the new settings app so completely useless? Two hours, the reboots, and it *might* be ready to admit that my Ethernet network actually exists - not actually connect to it, no. But existence is a start...
Interesting. I'm updated just fine and it works better than ever. Sorry for your troubles. Wish I could help.:~ :-O
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell 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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Most of us just use "password" for the password for all accounts, soooooo - who needs a password backup? ;P
Charlie Gilley 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
I like to make it difficult, I use a capital p!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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OK - it's not hardware. I've changed HDD to a spare I used for test restores before the Win10 "upgrade" and it boots Win7 with full networking(I may have mentioned that I like backups before?). So it's the latest MS Win10 update that has b*gg*r*d my system. And gawd, but I'd forgotten just how pretty Win7 was, how "together", how seamless. But...Windows 10 it must be, I guess. So I'll download the latest Win10 ISO on this, and reinstall for a clean setup on a third HDD. Maybe that'll "just work"...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
how "together", how seamless
It's interesting, isn't it? I get what they tried to do, but they do need to bring things back completely under a single paradigm. And this does *not* mean bringing them all under a dumbed-down paradigm. The number of times I have to hunt down the network property dialog to fix things that the lame-as Network settings page just can't handle drives me nuts.
cheers Chris Maunder
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OriginalGriff wrote:
how "together", how seamless
It's interesting, isn't it? I get what they tried to do, but they do need to bring things back completely under a single paradigm. And this does *not* mean bringing them all under a dumbed-down paradigm. The number of times I have to hunt down the network property dialog to fix things that the lame-as Network settings page just can't handle drives me nuts.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
It's interesting, isn't it?
I do tend to agree with you about the settings screens being terrible - but it's just a matter of using them more to get used to them I think (aside from the obvious missing functionality, of course!) I am stuck with Windows 7 at work and I must admit, I find the UI very outdated in general and don't find it a pleasant experience to use anymore, but I do like feeling like a power-user still: able to actually control my own windows experience. Dumbed-down would great if it could just sort everything out without me thinking about it. Windows X.13?
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From Windows 10 November update: FAQ[^]... 1. "Windows 10 is a service" - I think you should install an OS first to run a service... 2. "If it’s been less than 31 days since you upgraded to Windows 10, you won’t get the November update right away; this will allow you to go back to your previous version of Windows" - obviously there is no going-back after this update. Don't even dream about 7...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
I am sooooo glad I made a full system backup before allowing Windows 10 to do its wicked work. Having suffered the loss of my favourite applications because Win 10 spits them out and having suffered maxed out SSDs while updates are being installed while I am trying to get some work done, I blew Windows 10 away and reinstalled Windows 7 from the backup. I'm happy.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I like to make it difficult, I use a capital p!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
