3729

I wonder if it had to do with Age of Empires Definitive Edition. It’s been bitching about connecting to Xbox Live and refuses to operate even in single player until it does. Maybe that was the back door program to get all these Windows Store apps to install. There were at least 10 in the (what used to be) Start Menu.

3730

Stusser, I was using Shutup 10 to disable some Win 10 settings and I’m a little unsure about what I’m disabling. I checked the quick help and here’s what I think I figured out. Green showing on button means setting is disabled, red means enabled. To the right yes means it’s recommended to disable the setting, limited means it’s up to you if you want to disable (generally disable if you aren’t using the function) and no means you shouldn’t disable.

Am I understanding this correctly? Thanks

3731

If the switch is active and green, that means the setting is enabled. So if the switch is green on “Telemetry Disabled”, that means that the telemetry is indeed disabled. The right column is whether they recommend enabling the setting. So the right of “Telemetry Disabled” is a green checkmark, that means they recommend activating that setting and thus turning off telemetry.

It’s confusing as hell to explain in text but I found it very clear in the app myself.

3732

Thanks, that’s what I thought, short version green disables, red enables settings. Check mark and yes on right means disable, limited means maybe and ‘! No’ means don’t disable. I thought I got it right, but I’m used to green meaning on and red meaning off which is the opposite of how Shutup 10 works.

3733

Green disables in that yes it disables telemetry. But really the switch “sets active” whatever that setting may be. It just so happens that most of the settings disable various crapware so you get a confusing double negative.

3734

March’s updates killed VMware virtual NICs for our Server 2008 R2 servers in testing so we had to work around that.

3735

Think I read about the NIC issue in The Register a while back.
was looking for it when I found this:


Which is… pretty awesome that after so many years of this being an issue we still have browsers that do not let you disable it… But IE has an option to do so, which at least is a + for IE… :)

I think this was the article about the NICs going rogue.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/03/microsoft_windows_meltdown_patch_saga/
Which links to a KB article on it here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4099950/nic-settings-are-replaced-or-static-ip-address-settings-are-lost-after

The one day I used Win10 at home I ran into the stuttering issue which apparently has been unfixed for 6 months… I guess as long as Telemetry works, everything else can foad.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/windows_10_creators_update_driver_flaws/

3736

I just had my server guys test yesterday with this month’s patches and they seemed to get a working workaround for the virtual NICs to work.

3737

I received the “joyous” update and now my start menu has a whole bunch of “new” stuff I’ll never touch in a million years.

3738

Are you on the preview ring? The spring update has been delayed a couple weeks.

3739

Wish me luck. Manually installing it on purpose.

3740

Everything seems to have made it through w/o problems this time. Where Fall Update hosed me last time, I went and disable everything in startup except Windows Defender before installing the upgrade.

Surprised to see HomeGroups gone.

3741

Honestly, I didn’t remember if I opted back out or not. I suppose this answers the question, lol.

3742

Good luck :)

Did that last Saturday, Sunday I was back on W8.1. Thinking about trying Server 2016 as desktop OS next.

W10 is like a 5 star meal made by the best michelin chefs, then covered in manure - sure the lowlevel system stuff is great - the rest, not so much.

3743

For first time out of last 2 service-pack level updates, things went off without a hitch for me.

To do it, I did the Win10MediaTool + randomCAB file from the internet with a slash local switch or something at the commandline then ran the tool to make a new Win10 ISO with build 1803. After, I extracted its contents and ran setup.exe. Took an hour.

[quote]Thanks, Martin. As an update to your method, Deskmodder now provides an easy way to run the official Windows 10 Media Creation Tool with a custom “products.cab” to upgrade to build 1803 (or create bootable media):

  1. Download the custom “products.cab”: http://abbodi1406.square7.ch/ESD/products.cab
  2. Download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
  3. Place “MediaCreationTool.exe” and “products.cab” in the same directory
  4. From command prompt, run: MediacreationTool.exe /selfhost
    Include the full path to “MediaCreationTool.exe” if CMD is not run from the same directory.
  5. The Media Creation Tool runs as normal, but is redirected to the new Spring Creators Update links on the Windows Update servers.[/quote]
3744

Shit. This month’s updates breaking virtual NICs randomly is still happening with some servers.

3745

Luckily haven’t been hit at work yet, still, nice to see their “outsourcing of QA to users” is paying off with quality patches the past few years.

3746

I miss Windows Phone too. Live tiles on a phone vs desktop are actually really great! The virtual keyboard is also much nicer than Android’s (Nougat).

3747

I just had my start menu (and other UWP apps, but I don’t care about them other than the calculator) break again. Didn’t change anything, it just stopped working. All the various stuff one does to fix this, wsreset, sfc, dism, rebooting, using powershell scripts to try to rebuild, praying to Satan, nothing worked. Just like last time I downloaded Win10 again using the tool, reinstalled it on top of itself, and it’s fixed again. For now. I have no doubt it’ll break again.

Fucking piece of shit software.

3748

I’ve learned to uninstall those Stardock + shell enhancement/replacement apps before major Service Packs/Feature Updates but surprisingly Stardock’s Fences Pro and Start10 still worked for me.