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Ofecks posted:Apparently I know someone who's related to a Microsoft executive. What message(s) would you like me to pass along? call them a pervert for spying on their users
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Last Chance posted:oh, but that's silly, there must be a number of reasons a battery can fail other than just age? Of course. That's why I wrote "tend to" in my explanation of that previous poster's joke.
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Dec 14, 2019 20:46
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Rehire the goddamn test division, please.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Rehire the goddamn test division, please.
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Dec 15, 2019 00:30
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It'll be easier to convince games companies to release Linux (well, Steam Linux) games than MS rehiring QA drones.
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It's either that, or chop out the datamining and telemetry, and let power users slowly get lazy enough to not turn off all the reporting functions on every computer they come in contact with. Microsoft's greed has so poisoned the idea of sending any data back to Microsoft at all, that I'm sure that any crash dumps that they do get, when they get them, are useless minidumps instead of full fat dumps. And speaking of greed, whose loving idea was it to shove Candy Crush down my goddamn throat every time I do a fresh install of Windows? So again, Microsoft can either rehire the test division, and repopulate it with all of the hardware and people that used to be in it, or keep limping along with poo poo feedback and angry users.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:It's either that, or chop out the datamining and telemetry, and let power users slowly get lazy enough to not turn off all the reporting functions on every computer they come in contact with. The thing with poo poo feedback from IT-illiterate people is that it becomes "the feedback" and then they plan and develop against it. This creates: "based on THE FEEDBACK" people love having candy crush pre-installed! Its usual business school style brain failures wherein the failures give themselves bonuses and everyone else just has to survive it.
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maybe people do love having candy crush installed though! just like famous productivity softwares Minesweeper and Hearts
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baka kaba posted:maybe people do love having candy crush installed though! just like famous productivity softwares Minesweeper and Hearts Humanity weeps as Candy Crush Saga comes preinstalled with Windows 10 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/humanity-weeps-as-candy-crush-saga-comes-pre-installed-with-windows-10/  We know how this played out now: quote:There's no word on whether you'll be able to opt out of the automatic install, although it's likely King will want to get as many people as possible hooked on Candy Crush given its recent financial struggles. Earlier today, the company's shares fell as much as 14 percent in after-hours trading after it issued a profit warning.
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The fact that windows 10 comes with ads and data collection (that can be turned off) is annoying, but personally as long as MS is continuing to give me infinite activations of win10 for free I can't be too mad about it. The busted updates and parts of the OS that mysteriously stop working however are not ok. A busted product is still busted even if it's free. FRINGE posted:We know how this played out now: It played out by being a complete wet fart because the only thing "pre-installed" is a link icon. It takes zero disk space and "uninstalls" in 2 seconds. I am super critical of microsoft's failures ITT but even I think the people who are still crying about Candy Crush are weird babies about it.
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Y'all should run this script: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater -Download the .zip file on the main page of the github and extract the .zip file to your desired location -Once extracted, open PowerShell (or PowerShell ISE) as an Administrator -Enable PowerShell execution Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force -On the prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the files: e.g. - cd c:\temp -Next, to run either script, enter in the following: e.g. - .\Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1 Thing is after running this, Windows 10 is FAR more responsive. There is no weird lag accessing stuff. Just run the script and reboot and check the difference yourself. It's something else.
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Klyith posted:It played out by being a complete wet fart because the only thing "pre-installed" is a link icon. It takes zero disk space and "uninstalls" in 2 seconds. I am super critical of microsoft's failures ITT but even I think the people who are still crying about Candy Crush are weird babies about it. There's plenty to criticise about Windows 10, but the outrage from people going "how do I uninstall the app store, I will NEVER be making use of it!"  and losing their poo poo over Windows of all things having some cheap, crappy game included has some serious old man energy, like the slightest dusting of words associated with the smartphone era would cause them to recoil like it would make them break out in a rash.Edit: I will fully admit that they put way too many crappy apps in the default install, but that link above is a great example of someone going "what's this 'Xbox' nonsense? 'Sound recorder', who needs that? PURGE IT NOW!" Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 17:15
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Considering changing my system font to Arial or Helvetica because I have been using OS X exclusively for the last 10 years and hate Verdana. Is this a horrible idea? Who cares? What does SH/SC think?
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Dec 15, 2019 19:52
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meta² posted:Considering changing my system font to Arial or Helvetica because I have been using OS X exclusively for the last 10 years and hate Verdana. How would you even do that?
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redeyes posted:How would you even do that? Here is a guide I found using regedit https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/change-default-font-windows-10
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Klyith posted:It played out by being a complete wet fart because the only thing "pre-installed" is a link icon. It takes zero disk space and "uninstalls" in 2 seconds. I am super critical of microsoft's failures ITT but even I think the people who are still crying about Candy Crush are weird babies about it. It should have never happened. There is no reason to use the owners start menu for purchased software as an enforced marketing platform. The long-list start menu is already cluttered enough without unasked for additions.
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meta² posted:Considering changing my system font to Arial or Helvetica because I have been using OS X exclusively for the last 10 years and hate Verdana. The default font hasn't been verdana since like XP, it's Segoe UI. As much as helvatica gets worshiped by font nerds, it's really not the best screen font IMO. Use it if that makes things more comfortable for you, and if you have a real version that's got the right hinting for modern screens. meta² posted:Here is a guide I found using regedit The one thing to be aware of is that since they removed the ability to change system fonts the normal way every previous windows did, some elements of the UI are a lot worse at adapting to a font that's 15 pixels tall instead of 14. Also I was messing around with the font registry stuff a few months ago in an attempt to hide the piles of international fonts (and remove comic sans), and that was a good candidate for why I started to get error 0x800f0982 in windows updates.
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redeyes posted:How would you even do that? Winaero Tweaker
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Does anyone have an idea how to track DNS resolution requests by application? Something is trying to resolve browser.pipe.aria.microsoft.com, which CNAMEs to pipe.skype.com, and there's no Skype here. That piece of crap app does like 15 requests a minute. I tried to track it with Wireshark, trying to get an idea by looking at the contents of the requests, but they're encrypted.
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Sounds like you want a software firewall. I’ve seen the name Glasswire thrown around in this context but never used it myself.
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From what I can find out, all DNS queries are routed through the DNS Client service in Windows. But apparently there's no built-in observability, which is loving stupid.
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Klyith posted:The default font hasn't been verdana since like XP, it's Segoe UI. Interesting. I am going to try and play with it for a bit. I feel like thanks to 4K and modern screen resolutions you don’t need your fonts to work so hard with pixel hinting, etc. I think I am going to play with that WinAero software so that I don’t have to get too weird with RegEdit. Thanks for the information.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Does anyone have an idea how to track DNS resolution requests by application? Something is trying to resolve browser.pipe.aria.microsoft.com, which CNAMEs to pipe.skype.com, and there's no Skype here. That piece of crap app does like 15 requests a minute. Sharepoint? (Possibly OneDrive? Are you running Office365 apps?) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/SPO-site-makes-a-call-to-browser-pipe-aria-microsoft-com/td-p/829128 Highly voted as malicious (for what little thats worth) https://www.threatcrowd.org/domain.php?domain=browser.pipe.aria.microsoft.com And youre not alone in trying to sort out the horde or calls going out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856418 This privacy blacklist (Ive never used) has it blacklisted https://www.getblackbird.net/blacklist/hosts/
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FRINGE posted:Sharepoint? (Possibly OneDrive? Are you running Office365 apps?) I just rebooted my machine with the DNS Client service force-disabled so that I can attempt to track things with Process Monitor, which worked fine but always pointed to the DNS Client service, but it's not doing it anymore. For now, anyway. --edit: Blue is blocked requests. You can tell when I rebooted. 
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Yet another time that my display colour profile just stopped working. And nothing that I can think of works to fix it. How to professionals deal with this crap? I guess they just use Mac but wtf MS. Mainly posting this to be able to look up my past posts because I have a solution there that I can't seem to memorize.
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Just back from fixing an older laptop with an NVidia chip. A Windows feature update removed the old 3xx series graphics driver, tried to install the newest 4xx one, which doesn't support the Geforce 410M in that thing, failed and just left it at that with the basic video driver. 
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Combat Pretzel posted:Does anyone have an idea how to track DNS resolution requests by application? https://medium.com/@soji256/how-to-get-a-log-of-dns-queries-with-sysmon-330c62712c05
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Dec 17, 2019 23:39
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Neat, thanks for this. For some reason it doesn't show up nearly as gently caress DNS queries than Pi Hole is actually seeing. Seems to be partly OneDrive after all.
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baka kaba posted:maybe people do love having candy crush installed though! just like famous productivity softwares Minesweeper and Hearts
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Our image at work has no unwanted games and is able to uninstall apps from the Settings menu as you'd expect, so go and tell your IT department to fix their lovely image.
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Dec 19, 2019 16:16
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It's pretty trivial to remove that stuff, all you need to do is run remove-appxprovisionedpackage commands for them on the offline image or before profile creation.
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Ghostlight posted:It's pretty trivial to remove that stuff, all you need to do is run remove-appxprovisionedpackage commands for them on the offline image or before profile creation. It took me forever to get that down where the capture didn't gently caress up and crash due to sysprep errors. Frustrating as all hell.
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Ghostlight posted:It's pretty trivial to remove that stuff, all you need to do is run remove-appxprovisionedpackage commands for them on the offline image or before profile creation. My point before was that this is pretty outside of most peoples comfort zone, and there is no reason for a purchased OS to force this garbage on you, unless you made the devils bargain on purpose with an OEMs image.
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It shouldn't be outside of the comfort zone of anyone preparing images.
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Ghostlight posted:It shouldn't be outside of the comfort zone of anyone preparing images. edit - but sysprep/oobe is sometimes more of a bitch than necessary to begin with, and fighting twitter and candy crush on top of it is obnoxious.
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Did Microsoft disable the boot hotkey for entering safe mode? I'm trying to help with someone's laptop, but it gets unresponsive as soon as windows loads.
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Rinkles posted:Did Microsoft disable the boot hotkey for entering safe mode? That's been gone for a while, but it will boot into safe mode after a few unsuccessful boots. Here are steps on how to force safe mode: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode
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