Sometimes Windows (10) gives you a good surprise!
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I was remoted to a Windows 10 PC and needed to install some updates. I did that and agreed when it wanted to reboot. I forgot that I was in the middle of copying a large file from another workstation to the remote PC. The PC rebooted, went through the "Installing updates" and "Configuring Windows features" phases and came back up. The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
Phil
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I was remoted to a Windows 10 PC and needed to install some updates. I did that and agreed when it wanted to reboot. I forgot that I was in the middle of copying a large file from another workstation to the remote PC. The PC rebooted, went through the "Installing updates" and "Configuring Windows features" phases and came back up. The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
An even nicer surprise would be, on its next update, to update you to Windows 7.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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An even nicer surprise would be, on its next update, to update you to Windows 7.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I was remoted to a Windows 10 PC and needed to install some updates. I did that and agreed when it wanted to reboot. I forgot that I was in the middle of copying a large file from another workstation to the remote PC. The PC rebooted, went through the "Installing updates" and "Configuring Windows features" phases and came back up. The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
Phil J Pearson wrote:
The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
...or so it said. How confident are you it actually did the right thing? I'd be doing a binary compare, or doing hashes on both ends. Even if it did...it's definitely not the sort of thing I'd ever intentionally let happen.
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That would, in fact, be an upgrade as far as I am concerned. :thumbsup:
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
I don't actually understand this, and I'm not trying to be obtuse. What is it about Win10 that makes Win7 so much better (apart from Aero. I do miss that!)
cheers Chris Maunder
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I don't actually understand this, and I'm not trying to be obtuse. What is it about Win10 that makes Win7 so much better (apart from Aero. I do miss that!)
cheers Chris Maunder
0. The user interface is far superior in W7 in my opinion. Everything about W10's UI is a large step backwards as far as I am concerned. There is not one single thing about it that is an improvement. 1. When I close the lid on my laptop W7 does not turn it on, attempt to update it, and then leave it on with the lid closed. Maybe that's not a problem with a normal laptop but mine has a GPU in it that I use for games and CUDA programming and it can get VERY hot. Doing this is %&$%&@ STUPID!!! yet they have done nothing to stop it. 2. W7 does not come with dozens of useless apps (for me) that are loaded at startup and are impossible to uninstall or to stop from running. Cortana is one example, Skype is another, and there are several more. 3. W7 has a much more coherent user interface for configuration settings. I have lost count of how many times I have made a change on one W10 computer and then I can't find that option on a different computer. ... I could go on but I will stop there.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I don't actually understand this, and I'm not trying to be obtuse. What is it about Win10 that makes Win7 so much better (apart from Aero. I do miss that!)
cheers Chris Maunder
Are you new here? The same folks hating on Windows 10, hated Windows 7 a few years back. :doh:
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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0. The user interface is far superior in W7 in my opinion. Everything about W10's UI is a large step backwards as far as I am concerned. There is not one single thing about it that is an improvement. 1. When I close the lid on my laptop W7 does not turn it on, attempt to update it, and then leave it on with the lid closed. Maybe that's not a problem with a normal laptop but mine has a GPU in it that I use for games and CUDA programming and it can get VERY hot. Doing this is %&$%&@ STUPID!!! yet they have done nothing to stop it. 2. W7 does not come with dozens of useless apps (for me) that are loaded at startup and are impossible to uninstall or to stop from running. Cortana is one example, Skype is another, and there are several more. 3. W7 has a much more coherent user interface for configuration settings. I have lost count of how many times I have made a change on one W10 computer and then I can't find that option on a different computer. ... I could go on but I will stop there.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
speaking of useless apps it's embarrassing helping people setup w10 laptops for business use and having to explain that ms have decided the xbox gaming stuff can't be removed. also weird of ms all these "linuxy" apps coming through, if someone want's linux are they going to be tempted by some half baked simulations on w10? (or is it ms realizing many pissed of w7 users are going to linux so some stupid attempt to get them to stay on winduds) ms has lost their way, and once the cloud fad dies down they'll have nothing.
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I don't actually understand this, and I'm not trying to be obtuse. What is it about Win10 that makes Win7 so much better (apart from Aero. I do miss that!)
cheers Chris Maunder
Aero and Update Control. I roll my eyes every time I open 10's Settings program and see their new 'Aero' implementation - the active window goes transparent and all the rest become solid! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Someone in the Aero team implemented the obvious - the window you are using should be solid, or at least less transparent then the rest. Duh.
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Are you new here? The same folks hating on Windows 10, hated Windows 7 a few years back. :doh:
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
There are different levels of hate just like there are supposedly different levels of hell. For example: Windows 7 was annoying because you had to configure it the way you wanted. Windows 10 is annoying because you cannot configure it the way you wanted. A big difference.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are you new here? The same folks hating on Windows 10, hated Windows 7 a few years back. :doh:
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
Not at all - I liked 2000, XP and 7 I hated Vista, and don't get me started on Win8 or 10. The only reason I switched to Linux on all my boxes is because it won't be long before they stop pushing updates for win7, and I refuse to install anything newer from MS.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
There are different levels of hate just like there are supposedly different levels of hell. For example: Windows 7 was annoying because you had to configure it the way you wanted. Windows 10 is annoying because you cannot configure it the way you wanted. A big difference.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not at all - I liked 2000, XP and 7 I hated Vista, and don't get me started on Win8 or 10. The only reason I switched to Linux on all my boxes is because it won't be long before they stop pushing updates for win7, and I refuse to install anything newer from MS.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013#realJSOP wrote:
The only reason I switched to Linux on all my boxes is because it won't be long before they stop pushing updates for win7, and I refuse to install anything newer from MS.
You're preaching to the choir. The wife has a MacBook Pro, I have a Chromebook and my NAS / media server runs a Linux kernel. Not a single Windows PC in my house...
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Aero and Update Control. I roll my eyes every time I open 10's Settings program and see their new 'Aero' implementation - the active window goes transparent and all the rest become solid! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Someone in the Aero team implemented the obvious - the window you are using should be solid, or at least less transparent then the rest. Duh.
That's the overriding feeling I get from using W10 - DUH. Followed closely by, "what were they thinking?" and then, "was anyone actually thinking there?" Seriously, was anyone thinking when they decided it was a good idea to turn on a laptop, attempt to update it, and then leave it on when it's lid is CLOSED? For flying elephants' sake, I don't think so. That is a decision devoid of logical thought.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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#realJSOP wrote:
The only reason I switched to Linux on all my boxes is because it won't be long before they stop pushing updates for win7, and I refuse to install anything newer from MS.
You're preaching to the choir. The wife has a MacBook Pro, I have a Chromebook and my NAS / media server runs a Linux kernel. Not a single Windows PC in my house...
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
Ditto, but I do run a Win7 VM on two boxes so I can dev on them.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I was remoted to a Windows 10 PC and needed to install some updates. I did that and agreed when it wanted to reboot. I forgot that I was in the middle of copying a large file from another workstation to the remote PC. The PC rebooted, went through the "Installing updates" and "Configuring Windows features" phases and came back up. The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
The only pleasant surprise I ever got from winio was when I was getting ready to rant about the option to configure what shows and dosn't show in the system tray being removed. It turns out that you can just drag and drop the icons, now, which is an actual improvement. But it also turns out that that was a windows 8 feature.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's the overriding feeling I get from using W10 - DUH. Followed closely by, "what were they thinking?" and then, "was anyone actually thinking there?" Seriously, was anyone thinking when they decided it was a good idea to turn on a laptop, attempt to update it, and then leave it on when it's lid is CLOSED? For flying elephants' sake, I don't think so. That is a decision devoid of logical thought.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
I've got my computer in my bedroom. I just put it to sleep. About three minutes after I do so, and go to bed, the screen comes on bright as it tries to update. If I leave it alone, it usually stays on for a minute. Fn annoying! And then, when it does update, it never closes open programs correctly. Super Fn annoying!!!
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Phil J Pearson wrote:
The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
...or so it said. How confident are you it actually did the right thing? I'd be doing a binary compare, or doing hashes on both ends. Even if it did...it's definitely not the sort of thing I'd ever intentionally let happen.
Oh, don't worry. It won't work for much longer. It's because of the delayed write feature, which buffers the data that's being copied -- which, in turn, allows it to be "hibernated" in the pagefile. But that's useful technology, so they're removing it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Phil J Pearson wrote:
The file copy soldiered on through all of that and completed successfully!
...or so it said. How confident are you it actually did the right thing? I'd be doing a binary compare, or doing hashes on both ends. Even if it did...it's definitely not the sort of thing I'd ever intentionally let happen.
I am absolutely confident. I posted that the copy completed successfully only when I knew that it had completed successfully.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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I don't actually understand this, and I'm not trying to be obtuse. What is it about Win10 that makes Win7 so much better (apart from Aero. I do miss that!)
cheers Chris Maunder
Window 10 Updates, updates drivers of your pc, sometimes messing everything up. You can't choose what you want to update You can't choose when to update There is a lot some things you can't avoid Even when it might be a bad idea to do something, I would like to have the possibility to do it. ...
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
