I frequently use the tools in Microsoft's OWN sysinternals toolset for performing various operations on my network, and every time I usually have to hit the notification that pops up and "allow" the program before defender squirrels it away to it's vault of the damned never to be seen again. However!!! sysinternals is a walk in the park compared to "NirSoft" NirSoft (https://www.nirsoft.net/) make some absolutely amazing tools, tools that should be in every I.T. engineers bag of tricks when dealing with those folks that forget their passwords and/or routinely screw things up on their windows system, windows defender treats just about every single program in the tool set as malicious. Not only that, but once over it would list all the offending programs in one go, until folks started clicking on "Allow all", so it now lists every one singly and in such rapid succession that you just do not get time to click on the alert, hoist to admin, select "allow" and save, before that entry is "automatically processed" and your moved on to the next alert. It appears also that "Allowing" a file now only stays in place for a limited length of time, so after a while the allowance is lifted and you start the dance all over again. In order for Windows to not destroy my tools collection, I've now started keeping it all on a Linux based SMB share where EVERYTHING is set to read only. Defender goes absolutely nut's when I open that folder now.

When I binged it all a few years back some seemed to be missing.

I'm a bit late to this party.... I have learned to export my install config (VS Installer > More > Export Configuration) and export settings (VS IDE > Tools > Import and Export Settings). Especially important when working with the Preview editions. When it is time to do a major update, I tend to Repair, then apply the update. If there are any issues, I can uninstall and use the exported configuration to quickly reinstall, then Import the settings back into the IDE after updating. Flushing an install tends to have less issues after the update. Re-installing things like ReSharper and other extensions, not that I use many, doesn't take long to do. Graeme "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee

I really wish my toolchains weren't crusty. I'd love to be dabbling in bleeding edge C++ but I also have to be careful where I spend my time. I only have so many years left, so until my toolchains support the newer standards, I'm at C++17. :(( To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

but, take out the wordle's and CCC's, and Oi's, and detailed technical daily blogs ... what is left ? :confused: :omg: «The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Now if I can only get my broken Visual Studio Installer to work. The only option I seem to have is to uninstall VS2022 and re-install it. :( Latest Article: Create a Digital Ocean Droplet for .NET Core Web API with a real SSL Certificate on a Domain

Here is one more, about English as a language: Linguistic humor[^]

Clearly a containerized program! :-\

Looks more like pet. So clean. "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

This is the new government approved outfit for grocery shopping with the latest death wish disease.

Might find this interesting: Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before - YouTube[^] >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

What about the [albatross](https://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5859435#xx5859435xx)? :-\ :-\ :-\

I know what you mean. :cool: "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 actually thought she was super annoying. :^)

A perfectly balanced system has bottlenecks everywhere.

On Win NT 4.0, the NIC could support a huge number of IPs. At least 16. The GUI could not handle that many so we would directly edit the registry to add additional IPs. We may have had to reboot after, but it always worked and sounds easier than your procedure.

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Boston MA does this as well. It may not be the stupidest idea for traffic policy, but it's certainly a contender for the title. Here's a visual -- speed limit is 55, most traffic is doing 65, my exit is coming up, and an idiot is riding the shoulder doing 85 and he flies across the exit lane. If I hadn't seen him in my right side mirror, it would have been really ugly.

So if you get caught committing a crime in Finland, they give you the skills to do a better job next time? :doh: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.