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How Stupid Can Win 10 Get?

smartcooky said:
Thanks mongrel, but neither of those work. There is no "open with" option the menu when you right click an .exe or .bat file

Its still brings up a dialog box that requires me to click through before the .exe file or .bat file will run. That means I can't schedule a .bat file to run unattended. I have to be there to click "yes". Its a royal pain. On previous versions of windows there used to be a check box that said something like "Remember this choice for this file type"
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For that, you need the Application Compatibility Toolkit

Instructions

If this seems like overkill... well, it is, but: Microsoft. :con2:
 
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plague311 said:
You could always use a different operating system. I have virtual machines of almost every operating system I can find, and I really don't understand the big deal. Every operating system I've ever used has had some massive flaw that I despise.
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I always kept a diverse collection of OSes around -- partly for safety through redundancy and partly just to shake things up when I got bored -- but I'm seriously considering deleting my Windows instances now that 10 is here and it sucks so hard. I can hardly summon the interest to boot it every month for updates, so what's the point of keeping it?

For the record, I once got annoyed enough with Apple to delete OS X from all my Macs, but I relented after about a year and put it back on. If I deleted Windows this way, I think that there'd be no reasonable path to putting it back on without buying a new license, which is not bloody likely.
 
eerok said:
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For the record, I once got annoyed enough with Apple to delete OS X from all my Macs, but I relented after about a year and put it back on. If I deleted Windows this way, I think that there'd be no reasonable path to putting it back on without buying a new license, which is not bloody likely.
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I haven't used a Mac in about three years so I can't speak to the latest few iterations... but OS X was (is ?) a godsend on the Mac. (I love cats but think the Big Cat naming scheme is stupid... I couldn't name the latest half dozen I'm sure. At least Android is keeping it's silliness alphabetical.)

I've owned nine or ten Macs, used them almost exclusively from '84 through '08, and can say X was brilliant.
Version after version, it got better in features and function, tighter, and faster (:eek:) with a lighter touch on system hardware..

Choosing Mac over Win (and vice versa) is a personal (and sometimes business driven) choice and I couldn't go back to the Mac now myself, but for what it was and what it did... OS X was an ever improving advance for the Macintosh.
(Did they bloat it to death recently?)

Win 10 on the other hand. :rolleyes:
 
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Jim_MDP said:
but for what it was and what it did... OS X was an ever improving advance for the Macintosh.
(Did they bloat it to death recently?)
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Sierra is slower than Linux, but I wouldn't call it too bloated. What annoyed me most about Apple was their walled garden and the awkwardness of using a file system other than HFS+, but in the end I solved this with an NFS server.

There's some nice software for OS X -- Ulysses is a great markdown writing environment, for example (I prefer it to Scrivener) -- but I don't really need OS X except for an occasional change.

Jim_MDP said:
Win 10 on the other hand. :rolleyes:
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Windows 10 is painfully slow, controlled not by you but a metacorp, and with Windows 8 they removed NFS support except for Enterprise. When I boot a computer to do something, I don't want to have to wait entire minutes for it to kludge through its agenda. Yeah, what's not to hate?
 
eerok said:
Windows 10 is painfully slow, controlled not by you but a metacorp, and with Windows 8 they removed NFS support except for Enterprise. When I boot a computer to do something, I don't want to have to wait entire minutes for it to kludge through its agenda. Yeah, what's not to hate?
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Huh? I just tried a cold boot and it took me 37 seconds to start up, open Chrome and get to this forum.
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Huh? I just tried a cold boot and it took me 37 seconds to start up, open Chrome and get to this forum.
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I have to turn off Fast Boot in order to access the Windows partition from my main OS, which is Linux. So what I"m seeing is the actual time it takes Windows to boot from metal, and what you're seeing is Windows booting from a saved state.

Since all my other OSes boot from metal, I think I'm making a fair comparison.

ETA: Though to be even more fair, since I don't boot Windows very often, maybe it does extra checking; certainly there'll be updates that I can't control.
 
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eerok said:
I have to turn off Fast Boot in order to access the Windows partition from my main OS, which is Linux. So what I"m seeing is the actual time it takes Windows to boot from metal, and what you're seeing is Windows booting from a saved state.

Since all my other OSes boot from metal, I think I'm making a fair comparison.

ETA: Though to be even more fair, since I don't boot Windows very often, maybe it does extra checking; certainly there'll be updates that I can't control.
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I just turned off Fast Boot and my time went up to 44 seconds so not much of a difference. It may of course also depend on how many peripherals you have connected to your pc.
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
I just turned off Fast Boot and my time went up to 44 seconds so not much of a difference. It may of course also depend on how many peripherals you have connected to your pc.
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I wouldn't be upset if Windows was fully functional at 44 seconds, but that's simply not my experience. Like I said, this may have to do with not booting it for a long time, forcing lots of system checks. One big factor is probably that I no longer have control over updates. I'm also not using an SSD on that machine (it's semi-retired as a spare, though it's an i7 with 16G RAM), which would make some difference, but not all that I'm seeing.

For whatever reason, I didn't mind Windows 7 so much. I used it seldom, but I did use it. However, I might want to delete Windows 10; certainly I won't put it on my current main machine or any future machine that I build.
 
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MS pushed out some updates last night, and my laptop computer booted up in tablet mode. It took me about as long to remember how to turn that **** off as it did to get rid of windows 8.0 back in the day. God, I hate tablet mode. Why would anybody want tablet mode on a desktop computer or a laptop without a touch screen?
 
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