Impolite programs
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Sounds like the intro to a great movie, perhaps. :thumbsup:
Alas it won't ever beat "The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
Take off and reboot it from space - it's the only way to be sure.
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Kill its process and all its descendants. Purge the sacred land that is my CPU with the blood of the offender.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
You'd go Keyser Söze on it?
cheers Chris Maunder
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
This program can't close at the moment".
I love it when you allow Windows update to close processes and restart computer and Windows update is frozen because it is waiting on Windows Update to close. Windows Update, you had me at...updating... X| X| X|
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You'd go Keyser Söze on it?
cheers Chris Maunder
I'd get medieval on its... Mule? Donkey? :D
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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You'd go Keyser Söze on it?
cheers Chris Maunder
Keyser Söze[^] (for the uncivilized riff-raff, including myself)
Software Zen:
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
My favorite example of this is Visual Studio, when it crashes while exiting. It will catch the crash, and restart itself :rolleyes: .
Software Zen:
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
My only experience with this type of thing occurs when I'm drinking Red White & Blue. I suppose that's reason enough, you'd say to yourself; "guy's multitasking at the bar and his browser won't be graceful and the congeners are getting to his brain". But I have to say, WHEN this occurs NOW, I always think back to that time when it occured THEN. And if I had it to do all over again, I'd simply grab the nearest chud by the neck of his Tee and smash him one in the gob. Then see what happens.
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
I'm running Windows AI. When I try to run a program I really didn't mean to run, Clippy says "It seems you really didn't mean to run <application name>, so I'm going to ignore your request." I :love: AI. /ravi
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
Ok so you are talking about VS2015 - I sit there patiently waiting for the bloody thing to finish, mainly because if I corrupt my primary work tool by jumping on it I'm going to feel like a right idiot as I spend 3 hours reinstalling it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
It's doubtful you'll have time to investigate properly what it's doing, but if you haven't knowingly given the program the right to access the Internet, pull the cable/slam your firewall down, to see how it reacts. If it's something like acrobat, which shouldn't be performing any background operations anyway, kill the process tree. ElseIf it's something that has to move files around, it might be waiting for a response from windows' delayed write processes, so I'd give it a few seconds.
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder
When I saw the title I was thinking about sth else entirely: the windows bluescreen messages telling me that I shouldn't shut down my PC by simply switching it off. I always found that offending, and more offending every time it happened again! Of course I never did that to start with! Assuming the user is an idiot really isn't the best way to apologize for an unstable system! :mad: Then again, as a software develeoper, whenever I get an error report, my first assumption is that the user is an idiot ;P But at least I don't tell it to their face :rose: As for your actual question, I'll check task manager to find out if it is anything that deserves to live. (i. e. sth I initiated, or sth that tries to preserve sth I did) If not ... :thumbsdown:
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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When I saw the title I was thinking about sth else entirely: the windows bluescreen messages telling me that I shouldn't shut down my PC by simply switching it off. I always found that offending, and more offending every time it happened again! Of course I never did that to start with! Assuming the user is an idiot really isn't the best way to apologize for an unstable system! :mad: Then again, as a software develeoper, whenever I get an error report, my first assumption is that the user is an idiot ;P But at least I don't tell it to their face :rose: As for your actual question, I'll check task manager to find out if it is anything that deserves to live. (i. e. sth I initiated, or sth that tries to preserve sth I did) If not ... :thumbsdown:
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
Check to see if there is any disk access going on. If not, KILL KILL KILL. As for Windows update. I know a young lady who got fed up after waiting two hours for her PC to shut down. She pulled the plug and trashed the hard drive. I guess the warning is there fir folk like that.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Check to see if there is any disk access going on. If not, KILL KILL KILL. As for Windows update. I know a young lady who got fed up after waiting two hours for her PC to shut down. She pulled the plug and trashed the hard drive. I guess the warning is there fir folk like that.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
Windows update is another matter altogether. :sigh: I've disabled automatic Windows update a long time ago, exactly because it's programmed so badly that it sometimes won't let me shut down or restart my PC when I want it. Instead it chooses the least opportune moments: when I'm about to leave to catch a train; when I'm on commute, with crappy internet connection and almost out of power; when I have unsaved data that I can't save because the update will run in the foreground and blocks everything else, and then restarts without giving me a chance to save it (happened to me with Windows 8 at least twice); when I'm playing a realtime game; or, simply, when I have more important stuff to do than waiting for an update to finish! That's one of the main reasons I'm still running W7: it lets me delay updates as long as I want to, and won't override my WU settings automagically without telling or asking me (as Windows 8 likes to do). MS likes to think that 'free' is a great offer for Windows 10, but it isn't for me. I did not spend so much money on hardware to give MS control over my box and then, possibly, trash it. I want an OS that gives me control over my hardware, and the best one for that purpose is still W7. An OS that takes away control from me is like a virus masquerading as an antivirus program: it pretends to be helpful but isn't; it takes away control from the user in disregard of his preferences; and it performs actions that may trash the system without offering the user an option to stop it.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Windows update is another matter altogether. :sigh: I've disabled automatic Windows update a long time ago, exactly because it's programmed so badly that it sometimes won't let me shut down or restart my PC when I want it. Instead it chooses the least opportune moments: when I'm about to leave to catch a train; when I'm on commute, with crappy internet connection and almost out of power; when I have unsaved data that I can't save because the update will run in the foreground and blocks everything else, and then restarts without giving me a chance to save it (happened to me with Windows 8 at least twice); when I'm playing a realtime game; or, simply, when I have more important stuff to do than waiting for an update to finish! That's one of the main reasons I'm still running W7: it lets me delay updates as long as I want to, and won't override my WU settings automagically without telling or asking me (as Windows 8 likes to do). MS likes to think that 'free' is a great offer for Windows 10, but it isn't for me. I did not spend so much money on hardware to give MS control over my box and then, possibly, trash it. I want an OS that gives me control over my hardware, and the best one for that purpose is still W7. An OS that takes away control from me is like a virus masquerading as an antivirus program: it pretends to be helpful but isn't; it takes away control from the user in disregard of his preferences; and it performs actions that may trash the system without offering the user an option to stop it.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
Yes it's funny how those updates always seem to choose the worst possible moment. Linux has a similar annoyance when it announces a download of, say, 250MB and then proceeds to download a couple of Gigs. I bit the bullet and went for Windows 10, despite my fears. I haven't regretted it yet. The only things I dislike are the half hearted start menu (replaced with Classic Shell) and the way Edge insists that all downloads go to the downloads folder. I still have a drive with Windows 7 that I keep handy but I haven't been tempted to use it yet.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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What do you do when you try and end a program you don't actually want to run and it says to you "Currently performing some background processing. This program can't close at the moment". (OK, maybe this is rhetorical)
cheers Chris Maunder