I may switch to linux full time in the event that I get a new PC since it looks like it’s starting to become better supported (that and I really want a steam deck). I legit have done some poweruser type shit before when I used the registry editor to disable copilot, so it would be right up my alley. if only that tumor of a feature weren’t hard coded into win11
Oh man, I remember the days, probably getting close to 20 years ago now, when I also had programs installing themselves into my computer that I didn’t authorize myself. I thank the efforts of the Linux inventors, engineers, and the community, for making my life better ever since the switch.
The Snip tool is moving!
Windows asked me what app I wanted to open a .jpeg with last week… Just fucking pick one, it’s a jpeg.
windows also occasionally has stokes like media player thinking for a solid 5s and deciding it’s unable that file format (mp3), but then you close it and try again and a miracle! it opens
Funny you say that. I never touch media player because vlc exists but on my work pc I tried to play a video file someone sent me from their iPhone and it defaulted to media player which promptly demanded I pay 4$ for a codec. I just closed it and opened the video in vlc instead. I could understand not including codecs for some weird formats but it was a fucking iPhone video.
Yup and iPhones use a patented codec (HEVC) by default. No care for compatibility.
Yeah I don’t care about the reason. They’re making more money than God. They can figure it out.
You got it
opens WordPad
Wordpad has been depreciated. Please purchase Microsoft wordpad365™
Big-micro soft-brain move.
It’s prob not even the first time they did it.
If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to “find a solution online”. I have never seen that shit work in my life
Windows troubleshooter has never fixed a single problem for me.
It can reset a network adapter but that the only time I’ve seen it do anything useful
Yeah but its usually faster just to reboot the machine instead of letting it dick around with itself.
Now with SSDs it is but back in the day it took approximately 3 businesses days for my gaming rig to boot up.
It’s been surprisingly decent for audio issues for me. Often the scan for audio devices kickstarts some devices back into the land of the living.
yeah, it seems to only work for those https://old.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/hakc3t/in_25_years_of_life_this_is_the_first_time_i_have/ it wont let me post a screenshot.
Never since after Win 7 fir me.
Yeah in XP that troubleshooter actually helped me with figuring out things like “dude you did not connect the device you’re trying to find” or “yes there is no internet connecting due to this setting being wrong”.
And then in some OS Version it suddenly completely useless.
Initially, with Win 7, it felt even better than XP, as it applied the fixes itself and also showed a log of the fixes it made. Wonder why MS thought it would be a good idea to go in the opposite direction.
Look what they get in return? I totally off of it, now.
I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.
you have to dig around in legacy settings
Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the ‘modern’ control panels that barely work at all.
What’s paint 3D?
MS Paint.
Now in 3D.
I kinda liked the app. A while ago I had access to a machine with base image containing paint 3d. I used to play with it sometimes when I’m boared and connected to that computer. Needless to say I didn’t do any 3d works in it though.
Edit: I didn’t provision it so don’t know if that was intentional or came with windows installation by default. These were some throwaway test machines so nobody cared.
Microsoft paint but with 3d stuff.
I learned how to edit text pixel by pixel in paint 3d.
I had been skipping out on classes and while I was technically still passing my grades weren’t high enough for something my family was doing so I just made a few minor edits. I don’t even remember what it was for. Probably a ski trip or something.
They never found out lol.
I used my pixel level editing skills to get a few friends outta some things or into some things.
I’m one of the few people who liked paint 3d I guess.
Unleash the power of You with Paint 3D.
Paint3d was actually cool.
Out of all the shit Microsoft does, Paint3D is actually ok. I remember it having a cool 3d pen tool.
Til it’s discontinued. I think I opened that program exactly once
I think when I got Win10 (?) on my then-new laptop it automatically assigned all kinds of file formats to open in Paint3D, so I opened it once, realized “this is not paint” and closed it never to be opened again.
I forgot it existed, because I stopped using the windows start menu after whatever Win 10 did to it. Been using Launchy or just adding it on my desktop.
Right click the file, go to settings and change the default program for the file. That’s a one time change.
Unless it’s the default browser, then you might have to do it every time Windows updates
It just doesn’t need to be done in the first place though
Clearly it does, but it shouldn’t.
Installed Windows 8.1. Ran some core updates. Updated drivers. Cleaned and debloated it a bit (it didn’t have much). For some reason Windows Update installed Microsoft Edge version 84 and jumpscared me to make it the default browser.
they really wanted me to be an edge user no matter if it was outdated
I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.
(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)
Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they weren’t.
I wish I could share your optimism, but we’re so deep in the M$ ecosystem they’ve got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we’ve got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.
Fucking Windows Store AppxPackages… they dont update right if you’re using multiple users (like say, an admin account from tech support that signed in ONCE and never signed in again) and get computers dinged for vulnerabilities.
Use wingetui or ninite or chocolatery it works fine with the admin account
I just download the packages from https://store.rg-adguard.net/ now.
I prefer flatpak honestly
That’s a hell of an act, what do you call it?
Microsoft!
