General Computer Thread

[John Clark]

I tried again with my DT this morning and that went in smoothly (with avast). It did complain about homegroup, but I never used that anyway.

One difference between my laptop and desktop (and my dads laptop too actually) is that so far, only my laptop has aked about setting up Windows Hello.

Of course, the downside on all was going through the privacy settings again

 

[Santaman]

Spycro$oft of course hopes you give up at going through those privacy settings...

 

[John Clark]

Spycro$oft of course hopes you give up at going through those privacy settings...

Oh certainly
The main reason I've stuck with MS as much as I have is because I tend to play blu on my computers a lot. (I know vlc may, theoretically, play them but it's not worked for me so far). There are other technical ways around that, but they're a bit long winded to do on the fly.

 

[Santaman]

I am not judging.

Just showing my annoyance towards M$, I've used their OS's and software a lot in the past, my gaming rig is still on Windows 8.1 but Win 10 I hope to avoid.. I guess it is a matter of principle.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Windows hello on laptops probably because the OS can see you have a camera, and Windows Hello as you know uses your face as a sign in option.

Camera what camera, there's a nice piece of black electrical tape on my laptop where the camera once was. On my old HP I cut the actual wires going to the camera.

 

[Random_Spock]

I did the same with my camera. A nice piece of duct tape is over it. I only take it off when I want to take pics (not of myself though, but of any gifts I get on my birthday or during the holidays).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Random conspiracy theory.... Cameras were put into laptops and phones to soften the people up to the idea of being constantly surveilled.

 

[John Clark]

Random conspiracy theory.... Cameras were put into laptops and phones to soften the people up to the idea of being constantly surveilled.

Couldn't disagree

THe only time I untape it is for the odd skype session.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Couldn't disagree

THe only time I untape it is for the odd skype session.

I've only skyped once and couldn't see the attraction. Talking on the phone is good enough so voice calls are fine. I guess that's why video phones never really took off even though we've had the technology since the 60s.

 

[John Clark]

I've only skyped once and couldn't see the attraction. Talking on the phone is good enough so voice calls are fine. I guess that's why video phones never really took off even though we've had the technology since the 60s.

I only tend to use it for long overseas calls certain times during the year and for that, picture is nice

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I only tend to use it for long overseas calls certain times during the year and for that, picture is nice

Same only for xmas.....

But isn't it funny how videophones never took off? It was the same basic idea as Skype only a dedicated phone that could do video or voice calls, and we have had the technology to do it since the mid 60s.

BTW the laptop was upgraded to 1803 but I had to do it the long way. Had to download the windows upgrade assistant and it worked first time via that.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK I am not sure if I broke something or if Windows is just broken.

I created a USB of Windows 10 1803 using their media creation tool.

That all went fine. I was going to do a clean install of Windows on my laptop.

Installation went fine. Interesting thing, and I don't know if anyone else has had this happen is that Cortana started talking during the installation. Everythng still went through fine.

Got Windows installed got my favourite programs like Irfanview and Openoffice installed but here comes the problem.

I put shortcuts to those on the start menu tiles but when I rebooted they had vanished. So I put them back and again they kept vanishing every time I put them back on the start screen. They are fine as desktop and taskbar shortcuts they just won't stay on the start screen.

So anyone have this happen? It's frustrating me.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I hadn't noticed that effect but then I never use the start menu tiles - I use desktop and taskbar icons. I could do with losing the start menu tiles altogether as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I hadn't noticed that effect but then I never use the start menu tiles - I use desktop and taskbar icons. I could do with losing the start menu tiles altogether as far as I'm concerned.

Same here. I always click icons on either the desktop or taskbar. But it did retain the icons before I did this so why it's not doing it now is what is bugging me. I'm happy to leave it altogether and just do what I've always done, but yeah.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Not sure this fix from MS will still work:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...art-menu/5d8abf5b-f73b-45f1-9d80-b988cd6da49a

Might be worth checking their forum first.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Not sure this fix from MS will still work:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...art-menu/5d8abf5b-f73b-45f1-9d80-b988cd6da49a

Might be worth checking their forum first.

I had a look at that earlier, and seems it's not an uncommon issue with variations of what I have going on. Only since 1803

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

MS have corrupted some registry entries perhaps. They're unlikely to acknowledge any blame.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

MS have corrupted some registry entries perhaps. They're unlikely to acknowledge any blame.

The issue never appears if you upgrade to 1803 from inside Windows itself. Only after a clean install.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The issue never appears if you upgrade to 1803 from inside Windows itself. Only after a clean install.

That is weird.

 

[Random_Spock]

The issue never appears if you upgrade to 1803 from inside Windows itself. Only after a clean install.

That sucks. Guess Microsoft really screwed thing up this time.

https://en.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8fxog1/windows_10_april_update_1803_megathread/?sort=new

Been looking at this thread every so often, and wow. They've really caused a mess.