"CRASHES, the bad: programs can still lock Windows, so if the program screws up, you may have to do a hard reset. Such is life with computers."
I believe you mean "That's life with Windows." I can't remember the last time my computer crashed.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.I'm a lifetime Windows user and I haven't had a PC crash in a long time. In every case I can remember of a full-up bluescreen, graphics drivers were the issue, and that can happen to anyone.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah, I've had some crashes caused by bad drivers, but it's probably been years since I've had a proper bluescreen error out of nowhere.
From my understanding a big part of why is that Windows doesn't run nearly as much in the kernel as it used to, and OS crashes are usually caused by errors in the kernel. Less stuff being run at that level means there are fewer variables and therefore fewer potential causes of errors.
People who deal with lots of crashes on Windows are likely from either extreme end of the technical spectrum. Either they install a bunch of sketchy software/viruses because they don't know any better...or they are tech savvy enough to be intentionally tinkering around with the core of the OS and implementing advanced/experimental software.
The big one was 2018
, which isn't super recent but also isn't that far back architecturally. There was also a 2020 update where it moved people's files into another folder
and this year one where it broke dual-boot systems
(even though they said it wouldn't, oops), and this one where a security patch is causing installation errors
.
Windows Update has... problems.
Edited by RainehDaze on Sep 9th 2024 at 11:46:22 AM
Thanks for this TairaMai
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I actually switched to 11 after my mobo/cpu update. Moved the start button to the left too. The startup seems faster too and deleted a lot of bloat.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1fbaly2/exactly_10_years_ago_today_iphone_owners_got_a/
Ah the memories of the "free" U2 album Songs of Innocence
I didn't mind it, but the album has only 1 or 2 tracks that are very good. The rest is So Okay, It's Average from the band that brought us 80's rebel college rock.
But for those not tech savy or those who didn't like U2, it was "digital herpes" as one commenter called it.
Itunes would keep reinstalling it and random functions would serve up the tunes every time they'd turn on their iPhone.
More at the Reddit thread for those curious to see what the fuss was about.
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
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Ookamikun - I posted awhile back about hubs and docks for my Windows 11 upgrade:
- I did purchase this hub from Belkin the 11 port USB-C hub
. Yes, eleven ports - HDMI, Displayport, Ethernet, SD mico and SD standard readers, USB/USB-C, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a VGA port in case a wild CRT appears. Connection Nirvana....
- Of course, as soon as I met Cyber-Budda in the road, Windows 11 killed him. The dock I ordered comes with 2(!) SD slots (mini and standard). Windows 11 assigned drive letters D: and E: to those drives, breaking the links I had to D: drive I've imported from my old machine. Back then, D: was my media and archive drive. So I had to go into Windows 11 to force the external 3TB drive to be D: as opposed to H:. Windows 11 may default drive letters depending on what types of media you plug into it. This was confirmed when I added an old media card reader. It has 3 slots (2 for both sizes of SD and one for Sony Memory Stick). Windows gave it three drive letters.
What the heck are you and Windows playing at‽ D: is for your optical disk drive.
Ukrainian Red CrossA + B are reserved for Floppy Disk drives, C for the OS partition, everything D and beyond should be assigned in order as they come.
You can manually re-assign a drive letter by right clicking your Start icon, select "disk management" and then right click the drive you want to change and select "change/assign drive letter".
If you have a hard path pointing to a drive that no longer exists you can create a "fake" drive by mounting a folder. You would have to open a powershell or cmd and enter the command:
- reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices" /v "<Drive Letter>:" /t REG_SZ /d "\??\<PATH>" /f
So, Macs can’t forget wi-fi connections without an administrator login. That is an impressive level of bad design.
My musician pageHonestly wondering if that sorta thing's gonna change in the future, now… "Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
The problem is that there's too much old code that depends on drive letters being in a specific order within the Windows OS. There's simply no point in trying to change it.
It's not like the typical user is going to run out of drive letters. Heck, I'd be hard-pressed to do it as a power user. Network shares don't even have to be mounted as drives in the modern Windows filesystem; you can refer to them as their canonical paths. Example: \\share \ myfiles. (without spaces, because TV Tropes markup doesn't like backslashes)
I'd imagine that the internal filesystem code doesn't use drive letters either; that's a translation for the convenience of users and applications that can't function without them.
Edited by Fighteer on Sep 11th 2024 at 10:43:15 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"My college had to change its entire database and website because the original one was programed in COBOL and the only programmer that knew how to program and manage a COBOL based database.
Once she retired, they had to rush the new platform, it was clusterfuck but I found funny how many essential information and systems are being held together by one or two people who know a programing language that left the market for decades.
Inter arma enim silent legesHonestly, I'd say it is the gargantuan costs and downtime associated with migrating from one standard to another.
The security is an added bonus, but given how we have seen major data leaks and critical information stored in simple .txt files, I really don't think it is due to opsec and more due to the sheer inertia related with operating the same database or OS for so long.
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