Dammit Windows
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
As one of my coworkers likes to say when a bug like this occurs in our stuff, "Neat!"
Software Zen:
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As one of my coworkers likes to say when a bug like this occurs in our stuff, "Neat!"
Software Zen:
delete this;Mysterious, unpredictable, emergent behavior.
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
Had a weird one yesterday but more likely to be Google Drive than Win. An Excel file which I use almost every day, and nobody else uses, reverted back to a version from last January, losing around 200 lines of data. This wasn't an accidental deletion from the end of the file as a second tab contains data that pertains to the most recent entries on the original tab and these are manual entries not automated and they too were reverted to January. Fortunately, Drive keeps 30 days of copies so I got back the previous day's version. So despite keeping copies that had last-used dates of this week, the file in question claimed it was last edited in January.
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
Sounds like a Windows Explorer hang. This happens quite often on my wife's W10 machine; use Ctrl-Alt-Del and select Task Manager; then kill + restart Windows Explorer. YMWPV (will probably)
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
When an app is too busy to respond to its foreground thread, you'll typically see the window content blank out, but you can still do things like resize it and grab the title bar to drag it around and such (since this is the responsibility of Windows, and not the app)...but it sounds like you had the opposite situation, the app was fine while Windows itself decided to take a dump. Very unusual. You're good. :-)
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I just had to perform a hard boot on my Win11 box as the system decided that I couldn't interact with any window title bar or the task bar. Key shortcuts like Alt+F4 also didn't do anything. I could interact with the contents of any window, but not with the title bar. So Minecraft was still playable, and I could browse the internet with Firefox (though tab switching was weird).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
You are much too kind in your language. My language with Windows has gotten to the profanity point! Yesterday morning, I sat down at my desk already to try out a new thought. BUT....Windows 10 had decided to to an upgrade overnight, which I didn't know about, and I had a black screen. Diagnosis steps: 1) Was the monitor plugged in? Yes. 2) Was the monitor turned on? Yes. 3) Was the computer plugged in? Yes 4) Was the computer turned on? Yes 5) Was the monitor cable solidly attached on both ends? Yes. 6) Did the monitor work on another computer? Yes. 7) Could this computer drive another monitor? No. 8) Could I get another cup of coffee? Yes. 9) Could the keyboard effect any changes? No. 10) Power down the computer? Yes. 11) Power up the computer? No. 12) Unplug computer, wait 15 seconds, power up? Yes. 13) Was monitor working during POST? Yes. 14) Did Windows 10 boot? Not for a while????? 15) Magic wait appears--"Updating, do not power off or disconnect your computer"--PROFANITY 16) Rebooting...Do not....Rebooting. Good! 17) Can I log in remotely? No. 18) Can I log in locally? Yes. 19) Why can't I log in remotely? Is Windows Firewall on? YES, turned on for public. More PROFANITY!!! 20) What FW setting changed? Application software blocked! Now I need to go to Confession! 21) Unblocking application software fix problem. Yes. 22) Forgot what I set out to do in the first place. 23) Had a cup of coffee, went home! Almost 3 hours, one very good idea, and lots of motivation lost to Windows 10 installing upgrades overnight AND changing settings. Bill Gates OWES me $5000 for lost time.
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Sounds like a Windows Explorer hang. This happens quite often on my wife's W10 machine; use Ctrl-Alt-Del and select Task Manager; then kill + restart Windows Explorer. YMWPV (will probably)
Telegraph marker posts ... nothing to do with IT Phasmid email discussion group ... also nothing to do with IT Beekeeping and honey site ... still nothing to do with IT
Task manager was completely useless as well, as I couldn't use any of the menu options, and explorer didn't appear in the process lists (even though I was using an explorer window to look through some folders). All of the SYSTEM processes were also missing from the list.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
