• Labna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    WHAT !!?? You have a button to copy the error message, this feature is asked since Windows XP, they took their time.

    • leds@feddit.dkEnglish
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      6 个月前

      It has always been possible to press CTRL+C when error dialog is active, that should copy the text of entire dialog including error message

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Useless feature. Searching for any error will lead you to Microsoft’s support forums, where a so-called MVP told someone with the same problem as you to run sfc /scannow then closed the thread as resolved.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 个月前

        that, or what’s been happening more recently is it links to an article on the official Microsoft support page but it’s been archived because they’re moving to some new site, and there is no link to the new site’s content that supercedes the dead link

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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    6 个月前

    I still have record of my reaction when I learned Windows Media Player had paid DLC on Windows 10. I made a video about it.

    I literally can not fucking wait for them to start charging microtransactions for items under the “accessories” menu, like games, or tools like the calculator and notepad. M$ has been the best advertiser for Linux this past decade, and they’re only getting better at advertising it, I know that’s coming at some point.

    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      6 个月前

      microsoft offers the os for free*

      *free if you dont value your time, its so much harder to install than linux

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Windows users. Mmm! How did it get this far, hm?

    Well. See you on the other side then :D

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    If you build makethe Win11 ISO using Rufus instead of Microsoft’s own Media Creation Tool, you have options to prevent this bullshit from happening.

    I’ve been using Win11 with an offline account for years, and everything works as it should, even the MS Store. I never have to deal with Microsoft Account bullshit ever.

    • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 个月前

      I mean, if you’re going that far you might as well start considering just leaving Microsoft’s bullshit OS entirely

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    I feel gratuitously attacked.

    I have my own server running in the cloud to get my wallpapers.

    Ok I think I’m the problem lol

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 个月前

    I was in a chatroom and joked about them adding “AI” to notepad. Someone in the room was like “wtf did they seriously?!” and I said “oh no, I don’t use Windows 11 but there’s no way lawl”

    Someone else sent a screenshot of their fucking AI in notepad

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Yeah, Microsoft does some wild shit. Nothing they do surprises me at this point. I still remember how when the WWW was starting to get really big, some MS engineers decided to turn their web browser into the Windows file manager.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 个月前

        You could open the file manager, enter a URL instead of a local path, and suddenly it’s a web browser. I just thought it was a neat trick back then. It’s only in retrospect that I realise how dumb it is.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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          6 个月前

          Oddly enough, the reverse isn’t bad. It makes sense to use a webbrowser to open HTML files, even if those are saved on your harddrive.

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 个月前

          Tbh, imo its a good user feature to have. Makes accessing the internet less big and less of a hurdle for people to learn to use the net. Something that welcome/needed then.

          However, from a technical standpoint its utter hell to maintain, keep safe/secure and was at that point a nono haha

          ( i say at that point, because now webviews are bloody everywhere )

      • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        6 个月前

        You need Microsoft store to access the terminal now?

        Maybe try windows+r -> cmd, or right click the start menu -> terminal

        If that doesn’t work go install windows 10 or Linux or go buy a mac 😅

        • Blemgo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 个月前

          I mean, the Terminal is basically just a mixture of the classic Command Prompt and the new Power shell, just packaged as a Microsoft Store app. So you can just use Powershell instead for most cases.

          Still, screw the Microsoft Store App environment. It makes updating programs just that much more difficult than it needs to be.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    I googled the code and it’s funnier.

    First search result is xbox live instead of the microsoft link.

    And then it’s just comments going “I have the problem too.” The popular SOLUTION is to uninstall the alienware command center.

    BUT before you that, error message box seems to not close? So you have to open up in task manager and terminate anything with “AWCC” in its name.

    Then you can finally uninstall the alienware command center, through the windows settings…

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Windows Clock doesn’t have analog mode any more. Nor does it show seconds. And sometimes it just doesn’t show time because it needs to update some garbage, or the app needs to be updated, or…

    Long story short, I had to make a clock of my own.

      • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        6 个月前

        I’m just trying to learn Godot and explore its potential for the multimedia stuff I previously did in Processing.

        Yeah, for a lot of stuff like that Godot is probably overkill, but on the other hand, Godot stuff can be built into self-contained packages while Processing, well, needs JRE and all that, so not optimal in all cases.

        • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 个月前

          No, no, Godot for an analog clock widget is still worse.

          Both are terrible options, but one is definitely ill suited.

      • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        6 个月前

        Oh wow. I re-checked and there’s no way to make the Clock app to show the seconds, so it’s as useless as I imagined. But yes, there is apparently a setting in time and date settings to show the seconds on the clock in the task bar. …And the setting is buried under a fold. With the caveat that it will increase power usage. How does displaying seconds increas power usage fssgsgfffsshhhgg

        This question is often asked, but I ask it again: why is Windows?

        • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 个月前

          Well. Doing everything costs energy.

          If you only display hours and minutes, you only need to redraw the clock every minute. If you display the seconds, you have to redraw every second.

          And redrawing is not just changing some pixels. The Os scheduler has to wake up the process, put another to sleep. And all of that costs power.

          Yes, the clock in the taskbar probably uses less power in an hour than watching a YouTube video will consume in a second.

          But it is still a 60x increase in power usage.

          This warning is actually a good thing. It means whoever implemented the seconds in the taskbar clock actually has the right mindset for developing an operating system. You don’t use a JavaScript framework to develop the start menu because “all the juniors come from JavaScript boot camps so it’s cheap to hire” you want someone that knows that the OS’ job is to provide a strong base layer that uses little resources so great things can be built on top of it.

          Of all the things you could complain about windows, you chose to do it about the actually good ones, when you could go instead for the “30% vibe coded” codebase with a JavaScript UI that can’t even implement a “power off” button.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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      6 个月前

      I have to manually update the clock like half the time windows updates. Also you can’t open the date and time from every monitor like you can on Windows 10.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 个月前

      I got a new phone, and when I opened the clock for the first time, Android wanted me to accept terms and conditions, privacy policy, and enable some permissions. Nonsense.

      Installed a FOSS clock from F-droid.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 个月前

    the suggestion that you should maybe write down an eight digit hex string “in case you need it” is just adding insult to injury. i guess anything less than a 32bit space for error codes would be insufficient