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Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net)
Freshly Exhumed writes: Microsoft has told The Inquirer that it is aware of a bug which has been causing users' default programs to switch to the bundled Microsoft options. After deleting the update, a user discovered the next day that Windows had reinstalled it and reset the default settings again. InfoWorld gives some real world scenarios: "If you have Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer, you'd better check to make sure Microsoft didn't hijack it last week and set Edge as your new default. The same goes for any PDF viewer: A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs. Do you use IrfanView, ACDSee, Photoshop Express, or Photoshop Elements? The default photo app may have been reset to -- you guessed it -- the Windows Photos app. Music? Video? Microsoft may have swooped down and changed you over to Microsoft Party apps, all in the course of last week's forced cumulative update KB3135173."
It seems that accidentally is another English word that is reversing its meaning.
So sorry, it won't happen again until next update.
And this actually surprises people?
Never attribute to malice etc etc, but this isn't the first time Microsoft has pulled this sort of crap, and the fact that they still haven't put safeguards in place to prevent these "bugs" is telling.
I usually hate class action lawsuits, but as a Win10 user I'm getting sick of this crap. Between the spying, excuse me, "telemetry", the reboots in the middle of the night with the laptop closed, to resetting all my app associations, it's just a fucking joke. I don't believe for a second the app associate reset is a "bug", or a "glitch". It's something Microsoft is trying to sneak past us hoping that, if they do it enough times, we'll give up and use their app instead of the one we want.
Don't tell me to run Linux. I do run Linux. I also need my laptop for things Linux won't run.
Just by "mistake" - what are those individuals doing it smoking over there, the "I am the Allmighty" weed?
Between this, the user experience spyware, the WinSXS nightmare, and the general vulnerability of the operating system overall, our company is moving all computers away from Windows. MS keeps shooting themselves in the foot. The schadenfreude is delicious. Unfortunately, UPS and FedEx shipping software still require Windows. But we keep them isolated and on Win7 (hopefully for as long as possible).
Anybody else doing likewise? I'd love to hear of a large company moving away from MS products.
People think that Microsoft is a software company. That's not correct. Microsoft is an ABUSE company that uses software as a method of delivering ABUSE.
My opinion, shared by many, many people.
Its funny how often this seems to happen
This is as it should be. You seriously think google can make a better browser than the company that invented web browsing?
Pick one from this selection of images: http://photobucket.com/images/...
I've been on the mailing list about this since it was first mentioned about a week ago. MS definitely doesn't want this happening and it shouldn't have happened this round.
Windows 10 updates have been doing this since it was released to the general public in July 2015, why is it only just making headlines now?
I've had to switch off shared updates several times.
I was prompted to select Microsoft Edge earlier this week and selected Google Chrome instead. Not sure if that was the forced update or gamma radiation.
I thought that this must be some kind of terrible bug, but the truth was much worse!
I have to reset my default mail client to Eudora (yes, I know. I'm an old guy.) after every Microsoft update to Win 7. My Firefox browser default seems unaffected.
Microsoft is just letting people know about them.
Microsoft is simply apping apps that app other apps, which is what modern app appers know is the right thing to do!
Apps!
Fuck letting a bunch of lawyers get rich off this. Its time for another Antitrust case. This is flat abuse of monopoly status on the platform. Its time to break Microsoft into at least 3 companies if not more.
You would only use microsoft products.
There's an even more evil bug going around in the Windows 10 fever pit right now, the sudden loss of Start menu functionality. One day you boot up and although there's still a Stafrt button, it no longer brings up its menu, and any program icons you pinned to the Taskbar are gone. As with so many other bugs in a new Windows version, a search reveals that a lot of people are getting this and there is a plethora of suggested workarounds, but none of them will work. You have to reinstall Windows.
With Windows 10 users living in the in the nightmare world of the Panopticon, I'll bet dimes to dollars Microsoft knows exactly how many people are not using Microsoft's own programs to open their software. Some manager somewhere saw the numbers weren't good enough to ensure her bonuses, so MS pushes out an update to reset the preferences which users have clearly chosen. I bet it works, too, after 3 months the numbers are will still be above where they were before the update. Evil like this has the unfortunate tendency to work.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
And next week's new "feature". This is how the new Microsoft rolls out unpopular policy and feature changes.
This happened (happens) all the time. Not new to Windows 10. Happened with Windows 8 updates. Windows 7 updates. Vista updates. Windows XP updates... I think you should be seeing the trend now. They make this mistake from time to time. Every time it happens, the same story comes out Then they either apologize or say it was done for security reasons. So, please, just ignore this non-story and move along.
Nobody at Microsoft ever got fired for erring on the side of hemorrhagic fever.
The mere contemplation of insufficient virulence, however, causes Microsoft employees to suffer a nervous, liquid fly incident.
They can't help it. It's simply in their DNA.
(For all the budding screen-writers out there, that clip is an expo-dump done right.)
I've already had a Win10 automatic update reset all my file associations to the Microsoft apps before. How does this keep happening?
usually after installing windows i go to services management tool and disable the update services. it is the only way to prevent win 10 to update itself. and ofc i use a linux router between windows and the RealWolrd.
Thank for the update. I just checked and my Ubuntu system does not seem to be affected by this.
I only have two machines at home I run Windows on. One is my mothers and one is my desktop. The gaming laptop I had I wiped and put Linux Mint 17.3 on it after setting the bios from that new UFIE garbage to legacy mode. Linux went right on, picked up the Nvidia card, and Steam dropped on with over half my games Linux ports running all nice and snug. I just have to get tired of a game or two that doesn't have Linux ports and my desktop is going next at this rate.
Windows 10 upgrade only resets the defaults if you go with the "recommended settings" option. If you select "customize" then it prompts you whether to update your default programs or keep the existing.
If you take Microsoft's "recommended settings"; is it any surprise that they set you up on Edge for your browser, the new windows 10 photo viewer, etc, and a few other application defaults?
It's nuts. There is a REAL problem with Microsofts telemetry situation; but too many of you get side tracked by every little irrelevant detail; and then run around like chicken little foaming at the mouth; and it takes all your credibility away.
- "Oh no! Windows 10 has waaay too much telemetry ... "
o "Oh, that sounds a little disturbing, tell me more?"
- "Oh no! Windows 10 sets your default browser to edge if you select 'recommend settings'.
- "Oh no! Windows 10 tries to connect to the internet so that it can update the icon that says whether or not you are connected to the internet!"
- "Oh no! Windows 10 connects to the internet a thousand times in the first 24 hours"
o "er...I see you left Windows update service turned on!"
- "OMG Micro$$$oft evil! Bing sounds stupid. They made it easier to get to device manager and control panels... by changing somehting. EVIL!!"
o "Yeah, I've forgotten why I was listening to you."
Are you sure it hasn't just opened the new file as a second tab and switched to it, or something along those lines? FWIW, I've never seen the behaviour you described with Adobe Reader. In fact, I don't really get the Adobe bashing on this one, because Reader has consistently been better than all the half-baked in-browser alternatives that keep popping up, which apparently struggle with such complex viewing operations as showing two pages side by side or rotating a landscape figure page in an otherwise portrait document so you can read it. Reader isn't perfect, but it's still way better than any of the in-browser viewers I've seen, and has significant advantages over some of the free-standing alternatives like Sumatra too.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
First off, the proper term is GNU/Linux; you're not just being advised to run only the Linux kernel. If the people advising you know what they're talking about, they should be advising you to run a completely free OS -- a free kernel (such as GNU Linux-libre) and free software on top of that. The more free software you can get on your system, the more you can put yourself in control of your computing. And this terminology difference is also apropos because this issue comes down to the very issue being raised in that term "GNU/Linux", namely software freedom -- the developers of the GNU system want to share in the credit so as to remind people to demand software freedom.
A class-action suit won't help Microsoft Windows users if those users accepted terms to allow the proprietor to do this to your computers.
But the heart of the issue remains: it's your computer, you should be allowed to run the software you want with it, and make sure that that software does only what you want. So what you want is software freedom. Not user subjugation to someone else's authority unvetted by you on a level that's as detailed or as abstract as you wish. You can't have that kind of control with nonfree, user subjugating, proprietary software no matter who the proprietor is. No amount of believing otherwise, adding more nonfree software, or changing configuration parameters on nonfree software (such as setting registry values this way or that way) will give you software freedom.
Digital Citizen
I swear, every week I have to redo all my default apps on Win10. They just get reset all the time and is quite annoying by now.
But they sure are fucking up every inch of the roll out making it much more unattractive than it should be. Someone should remind them that patience is a virtue.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior.
live in a closed environment?
That's really not fair. This is nothing like the house that Gates built. Microsoft of the 1990s and early 2000s went to extraordinary lengths to ensure stability and backward compatibility on the Windows platform, far beyond what most in the industry have ever done before or since. They did start to shift their stance on that a few years ago, with for example less effort to support other people's software and devices/drivers that relied on undocumented features, but that should never really have been their responsibility in the first place so personally I don't hold that against them.
However, this "update any time we feel like it and break whatever" attitude is relatively recent and seems to be squarely on Nadella and his senior management team, who can't get the boot fast enough as far as I'm concerned. Microsoft of 2016 is actively customer-hostile in numerous ways, and as both a private individual and a business person I want the old MS back so I can get on with using computers to help me do interesting and useful things instead of fighting with them.
I was in a meeting just this past week with a bunch of other local consultants and freelancers, and at lunch time this subject happened to come up because someone had been looking for a new PC and checking out the latest status with Windows 10. It turned out that nearly half the people in the room -- and these were all clued-up people when it comes to IT, who would not make decisions about infrastructure or security policy lightly -- no longer install any Windows updates on their Win7/8 machines by default now, even security updates unless a specific threat was identified. Literally no-one there was installing more than security updates as standard policy any more. Also literally no-one was using Windows 10, nor had worked with any customer or client who was using Windows 10 outside of evaluation/lab settings yet. The general sentiment seemed to be that a lot of places are deferring major purchasing decisions until at least the dust has settled, or in a few cases actively switching to alternatives (almost invariably Linux on the server side and Apple for laptops).
For an organisation that famously had "Developers, developers, developers!" as its battle cry under previous management, that is a potentially catastrophic shift in attitude from a group that would almost certainly have favoured a Microsoft platform for a wide range of projects just a few years ago.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Since beyond all the other problems people have had with it I've hit a bug where Edge doesn't work at all. (I know I know, I should consider it an improvement.)
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
You know, if I wanted this kind of bullshit, I'd just get a Mac. At least with Linux I don't have to deal with this automatic-update-that-b0rks-your-system bullshit.
One wonders if Microsoft feels the agreements/penalties they were boinked with by the authorities are no longer anything to be concerned about.
That or Windows is now designed and built by chimps (and that's being uncharitable to those of the chimp persuasion).
Thank you once again Microsoft,
Sincerely,
Tim Cook
Below, my own text file of procedures which I use to denature both upgraded and new installations of Win10 on the machines I deal with. It's pretty drastic, but it's been working well, and the miserable goddamned Apps seem to not come back, or at least not all at once, which allows me to periodically check on: C:\Windows\SystemApps\, C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Local\Packages, C:\Program Files\WindowsApps, C:\Users\All Users\Package Cache for any .cabs or whatever that may have insinuated itself back into the system and kill them in their sleep, too.
/set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy (via superCMD)
What follows is my own deal, and I'm not hear to discuss the minutia of what program I should use Ninite for or any of the rest of that OCD bullshit. Use whatever the hell you want to. You're an adult. I am too. Go away and leave me alone with that kind of crap, ok?
What follows is also a bit short-hand-y and since this is Slashdot, I presume you can figure it out, and I'm not here to hold you by the hand, either. See above re: You're an adult.
Ok, on with the show.
Well, maybe not. Slashdot tells me I have too few characters per line. Lovely. Just fucking lovely. Ok I shall reformat. Any groups of multiple dashes can be presumed to be double line breaks, ok?
Stardock Start10 ---------- Revo existing AV program ----------Reset folder view options including "date created" ---------- Taskbar properties ---------- Classic Personalize ---------- Screensaver & power settings ---------- Copy Win10 folder to desktop ---------- Defender to do not send ---------- Desktop icons include & view small icons ----------Computer, properties, advanced settings, best performance (Leave drop shadows, smooth screen fonts, view thumbnails ---------- systeminfo verify 10586 ---------- Windows Update ---------- DWS_Lite as administrator, enable professional mode - delete one drive - delete all metro apps - smash everything except defender (mind the checkbox)
Reboot
bcdedit
psexec w10privacy.exe (via superCMD inside Win10 directory)(be patient, it'll come)
Reboot
ToggleTweaker.bat
Reboot
Install Unlocker
C:\Windows\SystemApps\Cortana\SearchUI.exe kill with Unlocker
Reboot
OOShutUpWindows10 as administrator
Verify Defender still alive, if not:
\\\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender
DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiSpyware needs to be set with a Value of 0
DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiVirus needs to be set with a Value of 0
\\\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiSpyware needs to be set with a Value of 0
C:\Windows\SystemApps\ Unlocker killkillkill one at a time, starting with Cortana, which takes the longest
Reboot
Settings, throw all switches to privacy settings and check to see which Apps may have survived while you're doing it
Initiate Ninite Chrome, Firefox, 7zip, TeamViewer, CDburnerXP, VLC, All Runtimes, Irfan, qBittorrent, Google Earth
Revo full decrappification - TaskManager killings if machine sluggish
Manual Directory Pass for shitty programs leftovers search and destroy: Unlocker C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Local\Packages for special destructive attention to apps, Unlocker C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (sometimes takes forever), Unlocker C:\Users\All Users\Package Cache
Finish/adjust/trim TT&V all ninite installations
Clean Start Menu
Sysinternals autoruns.exe killkillkill right-click, go to image, Unlocker, destroy: C:\Program Files (x86 & x64)\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL all WinMail shit
Reboot
File associations TT&V full WhiteDoom pass for tweaks & trim
Java Suppress Sponsor Offers
Network/Printers
Printers/Peripherals
Go surfing to try to wash all the slime off of you.
Is it fascism yet?
Last time i booted windows 10 it let my partitions as they were *knocks wood* even while it updated.
Time before too.
Time before. it did not. It updated and let itself and rest of my system in an unbootable state. To my frustion. To add more to that it also removed any non-NTFS partition. Mind: this was a 3-month old windows 10 installation, legal key bla bla upgraded from 7 to 10, and seemed work fine.
Before i was keen to keep my windows boot at least updated, in case i needed it.
Nowadays i am more worried booting it at all. I seems like a gamble, and a 'did i backup any important' reality check (no i didn't). I avoid it, as a plague, as evil bits, lurking around on my hard drive waiting to catch me into another catastrophe.
Don't boot. Don't use. Don't play WoW.
I'm happy to report my computer isn't affected by this bug!
MSFT stock keeps going up in the face of all these bugs and privacy violations.
Those guys are behind the curve and will soon be scrambling to make sure everything is up to date.
It's the same situation we had with every major revision of Windows in the past. Hordes of people insisting on keeping their outdated, but working and mission critical, systems up and running. Hordes of people slowly finding that they're having to pass on using the most up to date tools for their jobs because they decided to stick with end of life platforms. Hordes of people getting increasingly frustrated as their old infrastructure begins to fail and they're stubbornly insisting they keep on the old and 'working' while it falls apart.
I understand. I didn't want to let go of Windows 2000, what benefit did Windows XP give me beyond a pretty face? But you know, I was wrong then, and they're wrong now. Let's hope they wise up and start taking the steps to migrate successfully instead of waiting until the infrastructure is 15 years old and crumbling at the slightest touch. Those XP guys who come into my repair shop are a sorry bunch, y'know. But the Vista guys are too, and recently the 7 guys are looking pretty down themselves. It will be far too soon that 8 is on the chopping block, but we'll have the same problems with the same people who don't want to ride the curve and prefer to prop up failing systems with bubblegum and toothpicks.
It's just the same old story. It's not Nadella's Microsoft, it's start working on your migration plans and get ready because this happens every five years and it's not going to stop. It comes with the territory. Keep your tools maintained and replaced them as needed, don't hold onto that rusty hatchet that's going to crumble when it hits the wood, that you've already duct taped together. Be better than that at what you're doing.
I have come to a conclusion. Windows is not a good quality operating system.
...wish I had made the switch a lot sooner. F#&k you and your 'telemetry'.
The thing is, the earliest these guys are really going to be in trouble is Win7 EOL, and that's not for almost 4 more years. Win8 is even later.
Until that time, Microsoft have committed to supporting these platforms, which means if there really are essential security fixes then they ought to be provided. Even if they aren't, most of the customers and clients these guys work with have sensible defence in depth arrangements and don't rely primarily on OS updates for security anyway.
As for compatibility, Win7 is still the most popular OS on the planet and Win10 adoption in business seems almost non-existent so far. No-one in that group was even slightly concerned about any software or hardware they rely on stopping working in the near future. If anything, there was more concern about whether essential software and hardware might stop working in the future with Win10 than whether it would continue to be supported on Win7 or Win8.
Obviously everyone was also wondering how long current platforms would really remain viable for, particularly for Win7 machines, but the consensus was that Microsoft would almost certainly have made significant changes and could well be under new management by the time any real pressure was mounting. No-one expected OS-as-a-service to become standard practice in business environments, whatever Microsoft might like to happen. A few did think it might become established with home users unless a significant competitor appears, and there were some comparisons made with Apple's mobile devices and the iOS upgrade treadmill as a possible indicator of how much consumer markets will tolerate things changing/breaking in ways they don't like.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Lucky everyone is using non windows on their hand held computers.
This is the raspy breath of a long gone OS.
And this is why you cant make people have a windows phone it is way more important that the kids PC.
I didn't want to let go of Windows 2000, what benefit did Windows XP give me beyond a pretty face?
Windows XP was actually a huge jump, considering that it brought NT to the masses and was horribly broken until at least service pack 1.
Hordes of people slowly finding that they're having to pass on using the most up to date tools for their jobs because they decided to stick with end of life platforms.
Very few tools have a reason to depend on the newest Windows version and many reasons to support at least one older major version. Even now the market for Windows 10 only software is only 34 % ( according to steam ) or 15 % ( according to various web statistics ) of the total Windows market and requiring it only because it is the new and shiny version will really impact the profit for the next few years.
Hordes of people getting increasingly frustrated as their old infrastructure begins to fail and they're stubbornly insisting they keep on the old and 'working' while it falls apart.
I work with EOL platforms, a lack of internet connectivity of the installations means no security issues for me. The amount of work I avoid by not immediately jumping on the current fad is huge, I successfully avoided ME, Vista, 8 and with some luck there will be a sane alternative to Windows 10 before I have to upgrade.
In fairness, usually it's management that won't pay for the software licenses to upgrade, or won't prioritize and pay for the development time to use new package versions, or won't pay for new hardware until the old stuff is at death's door. Mostly, the IT and Ops people know how important it is to stay on top of the curve. It's obstructionist MBA types who cause the problems.
Imagine all the people...
These days I really don't understand all the whine about Windows 10? You could have used Windows 7 until 2020? You could buy a Mac, a Chromebook, install Linux, just so many options to complain about Windows 10. I have no doubt Microsoft is counting on certain paybacks for providing Windows 10 free as a upgrade.
I have no doubt that Windows 10 will always be free upgrade. Because who in their right mind would buy it? Me, I'm done with Windows except for a little gaming.
People complain about Ballmer but frankly even Ballmer would not have done this crap. The PC user has been sold out with Windows 8 and continues with Windows 10. So beit, and if you don't like it. At least you can move on.
Since that update (KB3135173), I keep getting told that PDF is reset to Edge, JPG is reset to Photos, and MP3 is reset to Groove Music, but nothing actually happens to my file preferences. Windows 10 just keeps announcing that it made the changes, on a daily, or slightly less often, basis. It doesn't seem to be associated with any task in the Task Scheduler, either. I checked the logs at the time of the message. It just keeps telling me that "an app caused a problem" so it's resetting my preferences in those three file types. All three announcements come at the same time.
But nothing actually happens other than the announcement.
I'm running in a Limited User Account. Could that have anything to do with it? Why wouldn't the OS be able to make the changes? I'm glad it can't seem to do what it's threatening to do, but it's weird.
I feel just like a beta tester. Windows 10 is flaky.
I work with municipal utility companies and so far nobody I know of has upgraded to Windows 10. Stability and security are their major concerns. One IT guy told me that he had enough headaches to deal with already and didn't need another one. Can't say that I blame him.
Will Windows 10 ever get out of beta?
Probably not since they've proven that they can force people onto a half-assed UI and bug-filled OS without having to be professional about it.
Is that you working for MS? :P
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
You said, 'You obviously have no idea what the word "spyware" means.'
You obviously haven't been reading the many, many, many stories. Here are links to just 7 of the stories about insecurity and links to 2 stories about bad management:
Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)
Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)
Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)
Windows 10, Microsoft hiding what it is doing: Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches. Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way. (Aug 21, 2015)
Windows 10, Microsoft takes even more control: Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do -- here's how to opt out (July 31, 2015) But, of course, Microsoft can change the spyware to avoid blocking.
Microsoft can't be trusted: How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? (June 17, 2013)
Microsoft releases EXTREMELY buggy software: Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert (December 9, 2015) It is likely that there are many bugs Microsoft hasn't yet found.
Badly managed companies don't produce good products:
Microsoft has extremely bad management: The January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Microsoft did away with bugs by renaming them "features."
Now it's on the opposite tack, and is calling features it deliberately put into the software, "bugs."
Microsoft. What a giant, steaming bowl of rancid, fetid shit! I wonder how long before the last moron who has been using Microsoft's garbageware wakes up and decides to get a REAL operating system, or office suite, or better, usually free replacement for whatever other garbage unsecure, buggy, irritating shit Microsoft produces and calls "software," his computer came with.
You can't spell, "FUCK MICROSOFT!" without fucking "Microsoft".
You're missing the point entirely.
Intentionally.
Microsoft accidentally my default programs. This IS bad.
Usenet called. It wants its multipart MIME encoded JPEGs back. (CompuServe would have called, but there was a mixup in the patent department.)
Trump because Bush wasn't retarded enough
Windows 10 is an absolute disgrace. It sticks two fingers up at it's users, has no respect for them or their privacy. It's every bit as bad as having the Stasi come to live in your house.
If you're using it you're a moron.
Microsoft deserve to die as a result of this.
Every time some program forces Safari to load on Mac OS X (which is often big OS updates displaying a "tour" of new features) it pops up this requester on quitting that tries to get me to agree to make Safari the default web browser.
Of course there's no "No thank you, and never ask me again" button and it's very easy to accidentally hit "OK" expecting it to be confirming you want to quit.
needs to get fucked and thats the price you pay for being a idiot, now go back to your desk and do some work for the 0.0001 masters!
Reads article
Smiles
Boots into Mint on MSI GS70, all drivers/devices working perfectly
Runs STEAM, various steam games, a few pieces of custom software, WoT, WoW[arships], flawlessly without WINE
Uses open office when needed
8.1 was ok. I got used to it. Had it on various touch screen systems. Went back to 7Pro on my GS70, just long enough to finish converting a few things. Going to delete my win7 install in the next few weeks, and be strictly Mint.
... and pointing out how it made the users' Windows experience more consistent. Yeah, that sounds about right.
And this is no bug, it is completely intentional. Microsoift finds th e customer to be inconvenient, and always wrong.
Have at me shills
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Resetting your default apps is annoying. Having your OS claim you need to activate it when your computer didn't come with a CD key is worse.
Had to spend a while on tech support to get them to activate my wife's system as Windows 10 just decided to ignore the already activated Windows 8 when it auto-upgraded.
No update service running in Windows?
No getting updates on your phone apps?
Never connect your game systems to the internet?
Block all ads in all browsers?
Block all update servers and app stores?
You have NO PROBLEMS!!!!!!
Your apps will work in 10 years just like they work today!
Your PC will not slow down from updates!
None of your device setup will have changed!
Hey Sheeple, I've been doing this since the 1990's and we have NO PROBLEMS on any of our devices or systems.
Look... I ain't a 3 year-old... and so is 100% of the rest of professionals....
Resetting the default app associations is a deliberate thing, NOT A BUG. MS has done so many stupid things in the recent past, they haven't made up for much of it and is already doing more stupid things.
I want Apple and other companies to step into the game and take over the market share from MS so that they will realize "messing with their customer is asking for trouble".
Are you kidding? Or do you just not remember sayings like, "DOS isn't done 'til [Lotus] 1-2-3 won't run"?
Then there was the time Microsoft changed the semantics of fprintf() away from ANSI-standard (which it had previously supported!), thereby breaking a host of competitors' products. A year or two later, they changed back, thereby breaking a host of competitors' products again. Good that Microsoft chose to once again follow ANSI standards; bad that they never bothered to tell competitors about these things. Then there was convincing Netscape to rely on certain Windows APIs for Netscape Navigator - and pulling the rug out from under their feet right around release time. I suspect "more mature" Slashdot readers can elaborate on these or other situations in which Microsoft did not work scrupulously to maintain backwards compatibility.
I remember a lot of those things, because I was there.
You seem to be cherry picking a few cases that support your position, while ignoring all the resources Microsoft did put into maintaining backward compatibility from one OS version to the next, even for applications that were using undocumented features they should not have been.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Uninstall every Windows Spyware component and replace all of their main executable files with locked folders with all update privileges removed even for Administrator.
If any update then tries to re-install the blocked files the re-install will fail.
Just locking the file is not enough.
You need to go into the access privileges dialogs and remove ALL update privileges even for Administrator.
Once you do so the file is un-deletable and un-replacable.
Block every network address used by the Windows 10 spyware using the Firewall and the Windows Hosts file.
Also block the connections on your network router.
Again, one method of blocking is not enough.
Treat Windows 10 as if the OS itself is Malware.
I've run into the same issue, and it has outright blocked my ability to assign InfranView as my default photo viewer - it completely removed it from the list of applications to choose from, and even uninstalling and reinstalling InfranView doesn't remedy the situation. I think I might have to manually assign filetype associations to bypass this idiocy.
@Mindless Drivel: 100% of Twitter posts ever Tweeted.