Oh Microsoft - it would be funny if not so pathetic
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
You also have to ask yourself who installs a new OS without a good solid disk image backup before starting? :-D
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Maybe you can try one of these alternatives: free-audio-editing-software[^]
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You also have to ask yourself who installs a new OS without a good solid disk image backup before starting? :-D
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
You might have a point - EXCEPT - you neglect to realize that with Windows 10, Microsoft been aggressively doing crap to users' machines without approval. I cite my previous rants on the previous set of idiots that deciding to forcibly reboot users' machines to update them. I suppose I can go in and edit the registry to turn off some behavior, but most users? My wife came down one morning to find Windows 11 installed on her machine. AUTOMATICALLY. Nah, going to stick with my "Microsoft developers are DICKS" characterization.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Oh they're not idiots, this is on purpose. The 10 days is only to cover their butts if anyone calls them on the 11 without consent policy. They can say well, they had 10 days to revert. Now why they wanted us on 10 so badly and now 11 should give us pause. This was composed on windows 7.
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You might have a point - EXCEPT - you neglect to realize that with Windows 10, Microsoft been aggressively doing crap to users' machines without approval. I cite my previous rants on the previous set of idiots that deciding to forcibly reboot users' machines to update them. I suppose I can go in and edit the registry to turn off some behavior, but most users? My wife came down one morning to find Windows 11 installed on her machine. AUTOMATICALLY. Nah, going to stick with my "Microsoft developers are DICKS" characterization.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
charlieg wrote:
Nah, going to stick with my "Microsoft developers are DICKS" characterization.
You mean, some project manager requested/approved this. The devs just do what they're told (and I'll imagine some have protested and warned about exactly your scenario). Let's place attribution where it belongs. We're all devs here, and we know how these things work.
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Pinging here to talk about Audacity, I was using Audacity on Windows 10, and I am using it on Windows 11 as well. Works like a charm. As an IT guy, if the software doesn't work on Windows 11: have you tried turning it off and on, again? ;-)
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Pinging here to talk about Audacity, I was using Audacity on Windows 10, and I am using it on Windows 11 as well. Works like a charm. As an IT guy, if the software doesn't work on Windows 11: have you tried turning it off and on, again? ;-)
The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~
I just checked (I don't need Audacity often) and it's working on Win 11 for me as well - and that's V2.2.2, which is copyright 1999-2018, so probably 4 years out of date ...
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Pinging here to talk about Audacity, I was using Audacity on Windows 10, and I am using it on Windows 11 as well. Works like a charm. As an IT guy, if the software doesn't work on Windows 11: have you tried turning it off and on, again? ;-)
The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~
Update: the version I was running was the x86 version 2.2.2, so I installed the later 3.2.1 64 bit version. It works fine as well.
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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charlieg wrote:
Nah, going to stick with my "Microsoft developers are DICKS" characterization.
You mean, some project manager requested/approved this. The devs just do what they're told (and I'll imagine some have protested and warned about exactly your scenario). Let's place attribution where it belongs. We're all devs here, and we know how these things work.
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Update: the version I was running was the x86 version 2.2.2, so I installed the later 3.2.1 64 bit version. It works fine as well.
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Update: the version I was running was the x86 version 2.2.2, so I installed the later 3.2.1 64 bit version. It works fine as well.
"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 AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Agreed, same for me. Due to a "very interesting" legal step by Audacity's parent company with version 3 onwards, I have to (often) use both versions, and they both work fine on Windows 11. :-)
The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Audacity works fine on Windows 11 for me. What problem(s) is she having?
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Okay, I can do that. What ever program manager decided this is a DICK. :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
charlieg wrote:
What elephanting retard came up with the idea of...
You could preface a lot things with that phrase these days.
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Windows 10 has been deleting the reversion path after 30 days since the very beginning. This isn't new.
It's still criminal in my book. Why don't they just scan for all zip files with backup in their names? Ridiculous.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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So, months ago Microsoft decided to update my wife's laptop with Windows 11. All seemed to be well until she decided to try Audacity (Free, open source, cross-platform audio software). Won't work - really weird error messages, etc. Works fine on Windows 10 (of course). So, being the IT guy in the house, I told her to just go back to Windows 10. Elephant! Did you know that Windows 11 DELETES it's reversion path after a period of time? 10 days in fact? What elephanting retard came up with the idea of deleting a user's backup without telling them? I swear, you have to wonder what group of idiots came up with that one.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Just to close out the Audacity portion of the discussion, it appears the issue is the microphone and not the software (SWMBO did further research, and it's a common gripe). I have some additional research to do.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
