Why does Microsoft do that?

Joan M

you have three options: 1. OCR. (I know it will take time and so, but if you have to do it several times it can help). :sigh: 2. Copy it by hand. X| 3. Call our outlaw programmer and just hope he will come fully loaded with weapons... :cool:

Sander Rossel

Did you forget to enable the "copyable links" option during the W10 installation? It's under Options -> More Options -> Advanced -> Super Advanced -> Esoteric -> Occult -> Copyable links. Once you enable it you get a terms of use window that basically tells you your undying soul belongs to Santa Satan Satya once you agree. There is no other way to enable this option, so you can either re-install your computer and hope they haven't removed the option with one of the 666 updates or live with links that aren't copyable :sigh:

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OriginalGriff

No, as soon as I get to the "Occult" settings page Kaspersky Antimagic kicks up and kills it. Apparently you can bypass it using ouija board, but the Win10 drivers are useless!

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Lost User

The problem at hand is described in the first sentence: "Xamarin Forms".

Duncan Edwards Jones

I thought CTRL+C on any message box copied the text to the clipboard ?

Mark_Wallace

Message boxes used to copy in their entirety if you just highlighted them and hit Ctrl+C. Doesn't that work, any more? [edit] "highlighted them" is misleading. Replace with "gave them focus".

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Mark_Wallace

I went through all that, but the problem was that it also makes all message boxes full-screen.

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Sander Rossel

Are you sure you disabled the "Full screen message boxes" option? It's right there next to the "Reliable estimated times" option :rolleyes:

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Super Lloyd

It seemed like a good idea at the time! ;P Plus, now, you have to get board approval and quality assurance testing and regression test pass for any user experience changes! :omg: :laugh:

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ledtech3

I still try it on most things that are not copy pasteable

Basildane

Yeah, and while we are at it, why does microsoft trap your back button on their website, so when you click "back", it just goes to a page called "continue" and puts you right back on the same page again. This has been going on for at least a decade. Another one, get an error in Windows and a box pops up saying "click here for more information on this problem". You click it and get a microsoft page saying "no information available". This has been going on for at least 15 years. And then you are stuck in the "continue" loop. It's like they are punishing you for using their products. ONLY MICROSOFT DOES THIS. They hate people. They must really hate people. There is no way this could be going on for over a decade unless it was deliberate.

maze3

Mark_Wallace wrote:

highlighted them and hit Ctrl+C

what, that's for when base type is textbox. those message boxes are of base type: text. so you need to do ctrl+shift+C. but Xamarin? oh that might be the legacy text type, so ctrl+alt+c should do it?

Herbie Mountjoy

Hah! At least you can use your PC. I spent an embarrassing 2 hours this morning at a site demonstration waiting for an unstoppable Windows upgrade to complete. The (lost) client was not impressed. Neither was my boss and neither was I. We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.

ngoj

You are a lazy ass, that's all. The title "Why does Microsoft do that?" made me to click the link... and what a mistake, nothing really about microsoft in your article. Go troll elsewhere.