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ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com)
"Despite Microsoft's assurances, Windows 10 1803 isn't ready for prime time," writes ComputerWorld's Woody Leonhard, adding "Microsoft's patches in June took on some unexpected twists..."
Win10 1803 was declared fully fit for business, a pronouncement that was followed weeks later by fixes for a few glaring, acknowledged bugs -- and stony silence for other known problems. We're continuing the two-big-cumulative-updates-a-month pace for all supported versions of Windows 10. The second cumulative update frequently fixes bugs introduced by the first cumulative update. Microsoft may think that Win10 (1803) is ready for widespread deployment, but there are a few folks who would take issue with that stance...
Tuesday, Microsoft finally released a fix for two big bugs that have dogged Win10 1803 since its inception... In practice, life isn't so simple. WSUS (the Windows Update Server software) isn't "seeing" KB 4284848, as of late Wednesday afternoon -- which may be a good thing. Along with the second cumulative update this month, there are additional releases to fix the Servicing Stack, and a new "Compatibility update" that, per the documentation, is designed to make it easier to upgrade Win10 1803 Enterprise to Win10 1803 Enterprise (not a typo)...
One problem that has been acknowledged -- but only by a Microsoft Agent on an Answers Forum post -- says that installing 1803 can clobber your peer-to-peer network. That certainly matches my experience.
Woody concludes, "If you think Win10 1803 is ready for prime time, you're welcome to give it a try."
Tuesday, Microsoft finally released a fix for two big bugs that have dogged Win10 1803 since its inception... In practice, life isn't so simple. WSUS (the Windows Update Server software) isn't "seeing" KB 4284848, as of late Wednesday afternoon -- which may be a good thing. Along with the second cumulative update this month, there are additional releases to fix the Servicing Stack, and a new "Compatibility update" that, per the documentation, is designed to make it easier to upgrade Win10 1803 Enterprise to Win10 1803 Enterprise (not a typo)...
One problem that has been acknowledged -- but only by a Microsoft Agent on an Answers Forum post -- says that installing 1803 can clobber your peer-to-peer network. That certainly matches my experience.
Woody concludes, "If you think Win10 1803 is ready for prime time, you're welcome to give it a try."
No version of Windows was ever ready for prime time..
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
the fact that I deleted windows 10 and went back to windows 7 should be enough to say what I think about windows 10 "be ready to use"...
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
Beta testers of the world be forewarned.
Maybe Microsoft is not a software company. Maybe Microsoft is primarily interested in being abusive.
For the trash can. Switch to linux or macOS instead.
See subject & instead went to Kubuntu 18.04 (KDE Plasma ROCKS & so does FreePascal + Lazarus IDE 1.8.2 which is ALL I really need). When my Win7 64-bit install media finally "bit it" & 2 disks (Raptor HDD & Intel SSD) blew out after ~4++ yrs.? I gave it a go (glad I did).
* Very pleased & EXTREMELY impressed w/ how nice Linux really is now - that mythical/legendary "year of the Linux desktop"? NOT "outta the question" now imo...
(Yes, it's THAT good!)
Per the old Virginia Slims cig ads? "You've come a LONG ways, baby..." (sure has).
APK
P.S.=> ... & I'm out to help make it BETTER w/ the FUTURE (or did DOS beat out Windows + why does X/Wayland & KDE/Gnome/xfce exist w/ apps on them (that's for those of you who surfed here using Lynx (lol)) via the tools I note above & https://apple.slashdot.org/com... & I have an ODD FEELING that the BEST WORK I'm ever going to do in FREEWARE over time (hobby of mine I've done pretty ok on thru the decades) is going to be BETTER (it is already per that link) than it EVER WAS in Windows... apk
Ready for prime time or not, I'm sure it's going to show up real soon on my system in another ambush upgrade.
(Hint to MS: I set the computer to "Hibernate" because I was expecting to come back and pick up where I left off *quickly*. I specifically did not want to come back to find "Windows is finishing updates. Do not turn off your PC" for 45 minutes instead, followed by having to recover all of the open files that got trashed.)
Is anyone surprised? No version of Windows has EVER been "ready for prime time." It has always been amateurish and slapped together with duck tape, and always will be, like every piece of software Microsoft has ever made.
Actual Americans? No, it's the certified brain dead SJW's (like you) that support impeachment.
When you push out the revisions twice a year, somethings will always go wrong for some devices. Given the vast differences in devices and installed software. This ideal of cranking out releases every six months just isn't going to result in a stable platform no matter what Microsoft does. Besides even PC makers are dropping support early for releases officially. Even though Microsoft will gladly install it on your PC no matter what.
Windows used to be great when it had actual versions and you could install it and forget it for years. Now, with rolling releases, you're playing a roulette with your data and applications every six months. Luckily 7 and 8.1 are still supported and once they Microsoft abandons them, I will update the PCs I'm responsible for to Windows 10 LTSB Enterprise - the last remaining sensible Windows ... distribution. Yes, nowadays we have actual Windows distributions.
Buggiest P.O.S. operating system I've ever used.
I think I see where you're going here. Basically you're predicting that 2019 will be the year of Windows 10 (1803) on the Desktop? :)
that show the Windows loading screen and then a blank screen after this upgrade. We have Dell's highest level of support, and they don't even have a solution other than to reformat and reinstall Windows. It's not just not ready for prime time. It's simply not ready.
Sure, it is very annoying. The thing is, you learn to deal with it. My Windows 10 does not install updates until I allow it to. You can work around the problems. Going back to Windows 7 is not the answer. Windows 7 was great, but people still bitched about it for a couple years after it came out claiming they'd never quit using Windows XP. In my job I have to work with Windows, LINUX, and macOS. I don't bitch about any of them because that won't solve anything. I just learn how to deal with the stupid crap that each OS throws at me. Open tickets with the company that makes the OS when you find an issue. Either they'll fix it or they won't. If they don't, find your own workaround and get on with your life. I won't install 1803 until I feel its stable. If you're still pissed off, give yourself a hug... it might help.
Windows 10 as a whole isn't ready for prime time. It's a huge leap backwards in usability with more eye candy than a strip club.
It's almost as if the developers who wrote this steaming pile have no idea what they're doing.
I'd bet that having one-os-to-rule-them-all and OS as a Service are the ideas to which Microsoft execs are waxing their carrots to every day. Unfortunately, this model doesn't work for operating systems which are not like any other software.
I expect my OS to be an embodiment of stability and security. Software that I can trust won't go down even if every other process in the system decided to go tits up. Most of all, however, I expect to be in full control of it. It shouldn't make the faintest ping (fart) unless I ask it to.
Windows is the complete opposite. It runs a ton of of things without your permission, spies on you, reconfigures your system to its liking whenever it so pleases (hello system services) and dictates when and if at all you can shut it down.
This is an absolute lack of respect for your will and time. I do not understand how can anyone hope to build a stable business on Windows.
Release versions of Windows 10 that you can pernemently disable updates and telemetry. I would support legal action if necessary. Same goes with other apps and oses that do the same.
The sooner Microsoft bricks the globe's computers the sooner they can die formally.
What a piece of shit legacy monolith. Good riddance.
The Accounting department has some reference file created way back and since 1803 they are untouchable. You cannot save them anymore excel just quits on you.
Do not forget about the new Keyboard driver introduction that randomly enable or disable the num lock .
Windows 10 is simply a dreadful interface. The single worst interface I have ever seen on any computing device ever.
It's not fit for purpose... never mind prime time.
Windows 95 had a better GUI than 10.
I use it every day with no issues. I don't like the design of some things but overall the OS has been very stable.
Not running Windows!
HEAD! EXPLODES!
Yup, me too (since Slackware 1.02 in 1994 - weak in hardware/software but was a baby only), then 1999 Redhat (better but still weak on BOTH fronts noted (better in hardware range though)) & Kubuntu in 2010 (was CLOSE but stlll "no cigar" yet) - not now though imo (purely arbitrary personal as is your opinion).
Sounds as IF you know more though having "stuck it out" vs. being like me & leaving/coming back etc. for decades.
ON USING Kubuntu/KDE:
It's been REALLY good to me (stable vs. how it collapsed on me in 2010, a bad patch made it "shit the bed" then & that's what drove me from it then truth be told).
SOMETIMES?
I get this periodic "lag" around 2x a day (attributing it to either auto-update checks, some "telemetry" UBUNTU does (it does but I opted out of it via new MINIMAL install Kubuntu has that I like (I add things as I need later instead)) - SO, that said, can YOU shed some light on WHAT THAT MAY BE? It may be DNSCrypt I use (systemlog shows it unable to start & I think systemd is trying to KICK IT ON again) OR ext4 journalling filesystem idiosyncracies (like cache flush).... I dunno.
ON DEVELOPMENT under Kubuntu/KDE:
I almost went Qt on the program I put up a link to of mine I ported but DECIDED on GTK3 but a recompile & retargetting wouldn't be much difficulty IF needed - so far, it's not AFAIK!
QUESTION/IMPORTANT: Does it MATTER or ADVERSELY AFFECT ANYTHING if I do 1 or the other (Qt vs. GTK) & how so...?
APK
P.S.=> THANKS MUCH FOR FEEDBACK (especially when you've been @ THAT side of things longer than I on Linux (new to development in it but I had an EASY port from Delphi to FreePascal ObjectPascal though))... apk
Idiot AC. Forty two percent support impeachment; but then 47% say they will not support anyone who votes for impeachment. So more people will punish politicians who support impeachment as compared to people who support impeachment. Not a winning hand - but you go ahead and run on that!
For over a year, GeForce Experience crashes if it’s not the first application I loaded. But now VirtualBox doesn’t work and new installation keeps failing. So double win for me. Less work and more play. SMH
GeForce Experience updates.
Kaspersky anti virus works.
Windows 10 is ready.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I wasn't talking to you and I don't recall asking for your input. Therefore, you are actually stalking me, and your posts aren't welcome.
You advertisers FEAR my hosts program blocking ads that infect/track/slow us & you try CENSORSHIP hiding my posts downmodbombing 'em (I run you DRY of 'em in the end every single time)!!
* You'll ALWAYS fail vs. me & you know it - give up - you have NO POWER over me (you know - the thing "your kind" CRAVES because you've always been powerless whimps, lol)
(HOWEVER - I quite CLEARLY have POWER over you - FEAR, proven by you STALKING ME constantly via your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts proving you DO indeed, FEAR me...)
MORE PROOF that "your kind" FEARS my program AND me:
You VAINLY tried to "downmod hide" THIS post last time I posted it https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
(No matter - I nullify your MULTIPLE SOCKPUPPET farmed "downmodpoint" EFFETE useless 'weapon' EASILY since I have UNLIMITED posting ability vs. most AC posters - you LOSE again as ALWAYS as I run you DRY of your "downmodpoints" inevitably by REPOSTING... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> THANK YOU Jesus for keeping WEEZILS like him on the low end of the food chain since God HELP us if "your kind" (the 'not-men' UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" JEALOUS "Lil' Jowies" (lol) in LIFE) ever DO get power - you're the WRONG KIND to have it - as you ABUSE it since you've NEVER had it or responsibility that COMES w/ it & you never will & you KNOW it (vainly seeking it online & there you FAIL too & I'm the PROOF thereof))... apk
I wasn't the only one, but after a recent large update, no one at work had a functioning windows calculator - it was gone from the start menu, and running calc.exe resulted in nothing. I thought our IT department had f-'d up, but no, I saw the same complaints online. How do you break calculator??
If anyone is wondering the fix is some sort of powershell command to remove the "windows feature" of calculator, then re-add it from the Windows Store. Obviously only works for those with admin rights to their machine...
But yeah. What next, break paint and notepad??
Sic - Wikipedia
"I am because of you" or "humanity" is what I found in Swahili which does explain what I've always called Linux: A socio-technological phenomenon that proves folks the world over CAN work together & produce something cool + useful that works...
* "I am, because you are"
APK
P.S.=> Thus, today's NOT a wasted day - I learned a NEW THING & thanks to you (ya bullshitter, lol)... apk
More than any other OS, I would say Windows 10 has a buggy and half-finished feel to it. The way it puts 'unidentified' SID's all through the registry - and Microsoft says you can ignore the numerous errors in the system logs.. or the way it always seems to decide to interrupt your work and install gigabytes of updates - and keep extra gigabytes of 'backups' in the windows.old folder..
I swear the biggest problem is people not holding Microsoft accountable enough. Microsoft should be getting their asses sued off by everyone and their mother. Whether it's 'software as a service' or not, they should not be able to override user preferences with impunity - or shut down industrial or medical systems because they miscalculated on an update. It's one thing if they install updates automatically - it's a totally different thing if someone disables those updates and Microsoft overrides it and returns all user settings back to their default every update. Or, if Microsoft just decides they're entitled to all of your screenshots, keystrokes, and contacts list.
Besides the bugs, the GUI is inconsistent and has shitty performance. It feels like you're opening a web page browser window when you navigate any of the new style of menu. There are at least 3 different distinct styles of menus and certain settings are in some or all of them. For example, there are mouse settings in the old style control panel and the new settings menu - and they aren't even the same settings - so you have to go to both.
It cannot get the resolution perspective correct in any manner.. And, if you set it the way you want, it might be returned to shit after a reboot - or you plug in a different monitor - or you remote desktop from a 4k monitor on a tablet that THEY designed. The fonts are hard to read no matter what - unless you have an old shitty low resolution monitor. Also, updates cause you to lose settings.. like you cannot make fonts bold in the menus after the latest Windows update.
Windows 10 forgets and re-arranges user settings. Did you move the 'documents' folder? Windows 10 might just decide to delete wherever you moved it to and move them back. If you use OneDrive, plan on re-installing at least once a month.
The snipping tool is a big flaming piece of shit. If you capture a screenshot and then click 'new' screenshot, your existing screenshot right in front of you disappears.. So you can't just have multiple screenshots sitting on your screen at the same time - unless you take the time to save each one. Fuck that. Nothing should ever delete your existing work just because you clicked 'new.' Instead, it should open in a NEW window and keep your existing one.
The way they install updates as if they are entitled to controlling you is unacceptable. Everything about it is the opposite of common sense. For example, updates typically install when you want to turn off your laptop and take it home - nope.. sorry.. you gotta fucking wait. Don't turn off your computer or we'll break it. Have a laptop you use only once or twice a week? It'll decide to waste your battery doing a bunch of bullshit rather than just let you get your work done. I know it's not supposed to interrupt you in the middle of anything - but I have had it interrupt me in the middle of playing a PC game against friends. WHAT THE FUCK.
I use it since I have to support it (secondary to Mac OSX). It pisses me off every day. No one on the Windows 10 team should feel proud of the shit they help create. It's taking computing in the wrong direction. It's making computing less reliable. The philosophy of Windows 10 is shit. The fundamental design is shit. The people that work on it are shitty people. The people that stick up for it are ineffective people who have never experienced software that was designed well.
The really sad thing is that almost all of it could be fixed by doing the following:
1. Allow the user to have control over his or her computer again
2. Allow the user to HAVE CONTROL OVER HIS OR HER COMPUTER AGAIN
3. FUCKING ALLOW THE USER TO BE IN CONTROL
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* Best part = Linux 64-bit model's faster/more efficient (2x the work in 1/2 the time)
APK
P.S.=> See subject: You don't speak for everyone & were speaking of me you that stalks me... apk
I see you left out the bit where to avoid being fucked over by M$, crappy updates, and privacy invasion, you have to pay $7 per month for the rest of your life and absolutely 100% guaranteed to rise far faster than the inflation rate, protection and extortion fee, stop paying and they kill your box. Ahh windows anal probe 10 delivering exactly what everyone warned M$ would deliver, renting access to your own computer. Refuse to pay and the shit version of windows is all they will sell you, still demand that you pay for it. What a piece of shit company, ESAD M$ (that would be eat yourself M$).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
See subject: Yet again stalking me OFF TOPIC yet again - save your wannabe "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /." bs & NPD "HOWL of INJURED "ne'er-do-wells"" crap too - you've got DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR that make you somehow, in your deluded mind, you're qualified to JUDGE anyone, you jackass.
Do you have a degree in psychiatry & are you licensed for it? Have you performed a formal examination of myself to make your "snap prognosis" or "diagnosis" scumbag? No.
You're libeling me (goldwater).
* Sounds like you've been STALKING me for a LONG time & are NOT telling it how it really is (as usual, with SUCH "integrity" (not) you display NOT STANDING BEHIND YOUR BS WORDS identifying yourself too - Such "courage" (not)).
THREATS? Do you have ANY IDEA what kind I've gotten?? THREATS to KILL me (try it & it'll be the LAST thing the moron who does ever does), calling me a PEDO (I am not) etc. - et al!
(Everyone's SEEN what "your kind", the 'not-men' slinking WEEZILS do my way so do you REALLY think you're "fooling anyone" but yourself? Please, lol...).
Face facts: Nothing YOU CAN DO can stop ME from doing as I please - accept that. You're powerless vs. me (especially your 'downmod bombings' I nullify w/ ease & run you DRY of your "downmodpoints" you SOCKPUPPET farm here (& don't even TRY tell me it doesn't go on-> Zontar The Mindless = TrollingForHostsFiles https://slashdot.org/comments.... SPECIFICALLY to harass me with... ))
APK
P.S.=> I must've REALLY "busted you up" @ SOME POINT that you WASTE SO MUCH TIME (in your wasted life) that you STALK me so much (I take heart in that as it shows itself & that I really "got to you" when you SHOULD blame yourself - I don't start shit, but I finish it (especially SHIT like you, inevitably))... apk
I agree with you.
But most of what you said could also be said of any Microsoft operating system after Windows XP, especially the atrocious Windows 7.
See subject: Since you won't tell me your REAL name (or your FAKE one you use on /. yet STALK me as AC 'brave guy' w/ NO integrity not standing behind your words identifying yourself OR using your registered account you ADMIT having here (fake name, & probably SEVERAL SOCKPUPPET ACCOUNTS you use)) how CAN I report you? Are you stupid?? Obviously you are - As you STALK me by unidentifiable anonymous posts!
I was told to record WHEN you do by them.
This happened LONG ago & I've done recording of each occurence (since DICE owned /. in fact + I spoke to their personnel about it too).
Your opinion comes from a cowardly little bastard in yourself stalking me & hiding from me - that's fact, not just opinion.
WHAT THREAT HAVE I MADE & TO WHOM? Some FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE of a "so-called 'life'" that's WASTED LIKE YOURS IS by you STALKING ME by ANONYMOUS posts? CLUE: They do NOT qualify as PEOPLE dummy - & I never do so UNLESS THREATENED or STALKED CONSTANTLY (as you do me) 1st.
* Make me laugh more, loser... who are you trying to fool? Yourself?? You're doing a good job there but you don't fool myself OR anyone else.
APK
P.S.=> I do have CONTROL over MY behavior & I'll continue doing what I do, no change & I CONTROL YOU - FEAR - you fear posting using your FAKE NAME online even, lol, & instead STALK ME by anonymous - such "integrity" (not) & "bravery" (especially not that) & willingness to "stand behind your words" (you don't & hide from me) - grow up, loser - HOW BADLY did I floor you in some tech debate that your PSYCHO ASS is still "butthurt" over it, eh? It's obvious that's the case... apk
More than any other OS, I would say Windows 10 has a buggy and half-finished feel to it.
Clearly you're too young to remember Windows ME. Not that this invalidates your points at all, just saying Microsoft has certainly done worse.
I'm curious as to what advice has Microsoft ever implemented from their technical preview program for Windows 10? Or was that just a show to try to get admins to buy in?
The last update to Windows 10 irrevocably broke my computer. I was about to roll back to the previous version when I saw a link to Microsoft Support. Was with them for an extended time, and there's no solution to my memory management BSOD except to do what I was about to do and roll it back to the previous version.
Soooo... the computer is frozen in time, no more updates, with the cure appearing to be a new computer, or at least a new motherboard using different hardware that hopefully doesn't have the same characteristics that cause my current one to crash.
Considering Linux, but still want to be able to use the same software, including the games, that I'm currently using. Finding different ways that all have the same bottom line, that this or that sort of program, such as games, don't work well because of one thing or another. Games don't work because this VM has limited video emulation, or so forth.
So... the bottom line appears to be that, for being able to continue with the same familiar software as always, then every last OS on the planet sucks doggie dicks. There is no solution.
So... the cheapest thing to do that also doesn't involve 100's of hours of learning a new OS and simply trading one set of problems for another is to keep on with my frozen-in-time computer until it no longer works in a modern environment, or explodes from the stress like a 155 mm artillery shell and kills me outright. Love computers, love to hate computers, sometimes wish they'd never have been invented, but not really.
Upgrading the computer to avoid being hosed by the updated OS is going to be expensive. This computer cost me about $4K to build. Next one will probably be store-bought, since I can get the equivalent for about the same money, and have an additional level of support besides going directly to Microsoft to find out there's no solution to the problem. And if I get it from a company and it does BSOD from this latest update, I can send it back to said company. Since I built this one, there's nobody to send it back to.
But... overall... computers are wonderful and computers suck all at the same time. Kinda makes you want to be stranded on that S. Pacific island... no computer, no need for a computer...
"...installing 1803 can clobber your peer-to-peer network."
Which is the complete opposite of what happened. The local network didn't work until 1803.
In that case, something must be very, very wrong with my configuration.
Windows networking has never worked properly for me, especially when meticulously following directions on configuring things.
Nothing baseless in what I say. Why not use a REGISTERED 'luser' account u admit u have vs. STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous?
* You won't because you KNOW you're stalking me & caught red-handed.
(Don't even TRY feed me any bullshit otherwise - you're not to be believed in ANYTHING you say).
APK
P.S.=> Quit STALKING me... apk
Yes, someone still has a copy of MS Bob, don't be ashamed, it was the most stable version of Windows ever after all. Perhaps that's because Bob hardly did anything. Bringing up Bob is my revenge on the latest Windows 10 update. Yep, all network settings were grenade, so I fixed those. On two machines, after fixing the network settings, after a reboot Windows came up with a safe mode style display 640x480, it never said it was in safe mode and the network stuff still worked. I removed the update and things went back to normal. So, I ask why would any safe mode require 640x480 for safe mode? Displays of that low resolution went away when Leisure Suit Larry got shot in the head! I still miss my 640x480 amber monochrome Torch monitor, it was a good monitor up until the day it lived up to its name TORCH... set off the smoke detector and torched itself internally to the point the plastic housing melted! After that it was 40 pounds of crap, kinda like the old windows they keep building on... bad foundation.
Life is in a state of dynamic equilibrium, it both blows and sucks
Unfortuantly APK is not functional nor well.
His software should not be trusted as it provides a false sense of security.
Why not use a REGISTERED 'luser' account u admit u have vs. STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts you're doing?
APK
P.S.=> Was a pleasure making you out a TOTAL FOOL here too wannabe "jailhouse lawyer" https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... ... apk
Says UNIDENTIFIABLE ac stalker JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" who can't show he's done better vs. /. registered peers saying https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... yet vainly TRYING to put my ware down?
* Vs. your notware/hotair windbag BLOWHARD vaporware too??
(Please - RoTfLmAo!)
APK
P.S.=> Hosts work vs. a plethora of online threats & speed you up 2 ways vs. slowing you doing MORE for LESS (good engineering is less complex as that leads to exploit) for FREE, natively in faster kernelmode operation vs. slower usermode layered on "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC full of security issues, resource hogging, sold out to not work in full by default, inefficient redundant junk vs. hosts superiority on all fronts & more noted... apk
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad on Wednesday April 20, 2016
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 (2922505) on Tuesday March 03, 2015
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:59AM (#47613163)
* See subject!
APK
P.S.=> Learn to read... apk
The snipping tool is a big flaming piece of shit.
I'll take it over "print screen."
The way they install updates as if they are entitled to controlling you is unacceptable.
Most non-technical users have proven themselves incapable of maintaining their own systems, so automatic updates are a response to the "Windows gets viruses" schtick. Granted, they could do it better, but I haven't hard a problem telling my machine "put off these updates until later" and my game doesn't get interrupted.
1803 must have been released so customers could beta test it, because it sure wasnâ(TM)t ready for general release. I had 8 laptops in my shop that were bricked by 1803. Microsoft's âoefixâ is a clean install. When I asked the tech how Iâ(TM)m supposed to explain to the customer that a Microsoft update broke their computer, but theyâ(TM)re going to have to pay me to fix it. (In 4 cases the customer paid, the other 4 they werenâ(TM)t worth putting that much money into and the customer went to Wally World to buy a new one.) The tech said that theyâ(TM)d fix it for free if the customer had another computer and a flash drive. Uh huh, Iâ(TM)m sure that someone with a heavy accent telling someone who can barely turn on their computer how to fix it over the phone will really work. I truly wish that Linux would move past the propeller head stage and make it easy for regular people to use it and get productive work done. Mint is almost there, but itâ(TM)s still not as easy as Windoze is.
I don't know about that. Windows ME had some stability issues, but it at least respected my settings. I could turn something off or change a default and it stayed that way. Windows Update only ran when I told it to. Windows wouldn't change a driver because it thought it knew better. Applications didn't randomly disappear. The UI was much better too - responsive, consistent, and easy to get around once you knew the basics (granted, Windows ME didn't try anything radical in the UI department - it was basically the same familiar 98SE/2000 UI).
The big difference is with Windows ME, it was still my computer and I had control over it. With Windows 10 I may have bought the hardware, but it's Microsoft's computer and Windows will do what it wants and there's fuck all I can do about it short of wiping and installing another OS.
Windows used to be great when it had actual versions and you could install it and forget it for years.
eh? install windows and forget about it for years? how? when you put the pc back in the box and store it on the attic? when the pc is disconnected from any network (would not even qualify in this case)? if there ever was an OS that required constant hand holding it would be windows, my god. if you use windows, it requires attention.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
then things might work better and we could trust microsoft.
Dear "Dr. Quack" the "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /.": Why should I take advice from a crackpot w/ delusions of grandeur in you? Your evals didn't fix you.
APK
P.S.=> Go away now JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" who STALKS ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts, "shoo" - you've been dismissed... apk
No, you do & take your dyslexia meds + put on your glasses. Everyone sees what people said here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... as to what people think of my software there, JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" (lol) that STALKS ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts...
* See subject & 1st line above!
APK
P.S.=> You WISH you were me (Proven by all the times you've also IMPERSONATED me & kept it up today here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & here too https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... + here also https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... in another article thread... apk
"Nothing should ever delete your existing work just because you clicked 'new.' Instead, it should open in a NEW window and keep your existing one."
That depends on the type of application. If it is a SDI (single document interface) application (eg. Wordpad), then choosing "New" should clear the existing document (asking first ofc).
You're doing something very wrong if you need to attend to your Windows installation(s) all the time.
I've got a few friends of mine whose Windows (7) installations have been churning along completely unattended for over seven years now - no issues whatsoever.
You just ask them not to install anything they absolutely don't need and to keep an eye on their AV. That's it.
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I run my Win 7 box 24/7 and haven't seen so much as a single crash in a decade. Reboots are once every 2-3 weeks on average.
Are you feeling a tad frustrated with Windows 10?
I'll give you a developer's point of view. I'm working on developing a device driver for Windows 10, and you have no idea of just how mind-blowingly bad some of the kernel and developer tools are. A typical error message can read: "An error has occurred." That's it. No error code, no location, no pointer to logging, and no hint of what the error was. You're now on your own to debug the Microsoft kernel, which is something nobody outside of Microsoft should be doing, but I assure you, everyone ends up doing because: WTF. To blindly trust the Microsoft documentation is to be led into out-dated specifications that WILL bluescreen you. Not fun.
Oh well. Back to work.
> "If you think Win10 1803 is ready for prime time, you're welcome to give it a try."
Meh. I never had any reason to doubt it wasn't going to be, and so I've upgraded every one of my Win10 machines to it shortly after it became available. Except for one that's already had problems with 1709, all machines were upgraded in-place pretty much flawlessly.
YMMV of course, but I don't see it as any better, or worse, than any previous update.