4556

I am curious what kind of things you are doing to your windows machine to cause this? Its not something I have come across in years.

4557

Ditto. Win 10 is pretty damn stable, but it has the achilles heel as all flavors of Windows. It’s dependent on the device drivers and hardware stability which is in the hands of the manufacturer. Windows 10 is the first Windows I’ve never had a serious problem with that wasn’t obviously due to ailing hardware, crappy drivers, or really inadvisable user behavior (aka “I installed 5 AV programs and 4 firewalls for 20x security!”).

4558

I have similar sentiments but refuse to explicitly state them. For the same reason that, when standing guard duty on the walls of the fort in the Old West, you never utter the words “its awfully quiet”.

4559

Lol, I should just back everything up right now!

A few months ago, my old desktops motherboard went blamo. 10 years old, and I already got a new machine, but it still makes me sad. I should try to salvage what I can from it.

4560

Can you add/change the RAM in your laptop?

4561

I am amused. My gen-yoo-ein Microsoft Surface Pro says its not ready for Windows 10, version 2004. Shitty 2-year-old Dell boxes in my office have already taken the update.

4562

There’s most likely a known issue with your configuration they want to fix before they push it out to your system. You can always force the upgrade by using Media Creation or the Update Assistant.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

4563

I get the builds early and was blocked for over a month by old versions of BattleEye, for example.

4564

People are vociferiously complaining about MS not pushing 2004 to their machines, and they’re often the same ones who complained about bugs with previous updates. Sometimes ya just can’t win!

4565

Every time Windows Update tries to run (or I try to run it) on my Windows 10 machine, it fails and says that my machine can’t run Windows 10. Which it is already running. Yay. This has been going on for at least a year.

4566

sfcscannow

4567

Apologies, was asleep in a different timezone, so took some time to see this! =)

My machine is set up like this:

  1. 3 SSD with “Mac OSX High Sierra”, “Windows 10 Dev”, “Windows 10 Gaming”
  2. I set up the Dev drive with typical dev tools, Java, Intellij, Visual Studio, Tomcat, SQL Server, Android studio being the primary tools
  3. The Gaming Dev have the GoG galaxy, Steam installed

I can still boot with the Game and Mac drives, it’s the Dev drive that stopped booting. I just had a bout of gaming and was booting the Dev drive when it happened. The OS just refused to start. It will take me a day just to get all the tools setup again.

I wanted to move to Windows because of the behaviour of Apple towards their customers. Additionally Apple under Tim Cook had stopped innovating and the things I see them do is just building higher walls in the garden. I was willing to overlook that, but now I’m unwilling to spends so much more just for the OS.

I have a series of MacBook Pros over the last decade, my current MacBook pro is a 2014 model that is still going strong, they used to make very decent stuff, IMO. But I just can’t afford their Mac Pros (and it gets worse every year), and have to build a Hackintosh.

Anyway, I really wanted to give Win 10 a shot. But my experiment had set me back a couple of days of work if I wanted to restore it. Given as it is, my work flow had already been disrupted because I had switched to a Win10 workflow because of the devices I was working on (rfid scanners and receipt printers). Just plain sucks to have a crash out of the blue.

4568

Oh, I’m not complaining. I’m just amused that Microsoft’s operating system apparently has an issue with Microsoft’s hardware. It’s mostly used for work, so the most exotic things on it is Citrix Receiver and Cisco’s mobility client.

I, too, am often amused when I find that someone complaining loudly about how shit Microsoft is, tuns out to be someone who routinely lobotomizes the system with various utilities that dig into the undocumented internals of the system.

4569

So one of the new features of 2004 is hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. It’s part of WDDM 2.7, which was also introduced in 2004. It allows the GPU to manage its own RAM directly. It works regardless of API, so it really is a free performance boost.

The only thing is it has to be introduced in the GPU driver, and for some reason Intel, Nvidia and AMD still aren’t ready with their new drivers.

4570

Gotten more stuff working after 1903 killed .net.

Installed .NET 5.0 beta which doesn’t require hoops to be jumped through to install on Win1.0. That might have allowed the Windows Storefront app to work again (or there was something else I did at the same time that I have forgotten), and I was able to “update” the base apps that came with win… .

Several apps still failed, like windows photo, paint 3d, calculator, etc…

Looking into the event viewer under the ‘extras’ a.k.a. applications & services logs, there are some logs that contain extra info:

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Here I could for example see:

Failed with 2147942402 to retrieve the trust state of the package Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.27810.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe folder.

The last message is kinda interesting, when checking the WinApps folder, I noticed that several of the folders mentioned were missing.

Copying them from another Win10 installation I have, I could now get Kali Linux and Photo3D to work.
However, Caltulator still fails with this message:

Activation for Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App failed. Error code: Unknown HResult Error code: 0x80040904. Activation phase: COM App activation

So — Getting closer, and still haven’t been forced to do a full reinstall.

Didn’t really bother troubleshooting this further after the initial ‘hacking in .NET’ as that solved the immediate issue of windows update, troubleshooters and powershell not loading.

I guess the key takeaway is that the “basic” 4 event logs do not give you the full information to troubleshoot appx problems, and you have to look into the list of 100s to find some event logs that might contain the necessary information, and not all of them are ‘enabled’ for logging either.

I think the problem I have currently with some of the apps is problems with Microsoft.UI.XAML and some VCLibs so guess I’ll have a stab at those.

Think I found a way to find some of the stuff that is missing althought I doubt I’ll be “fixing” advertising.

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@Woolen_Horde WDDM 2.7 sounds interesting if it has an actual real world performance increase? Wonder if toms or anyone have done tests already.
Knowing MS though I think I’ll wait a few months before going for 2004. Still haven’t been offered 1909 either so might as well wait until the guinea pigs have had all the files deleted and system crashes necessary to make it a stable MS post-win7 product.

4571

Got Calculator working by setting permissions on the folders anew.

Using ‘icacls’ command to first COPY the permissions from a folder I knew that was working, such as ‘Microsoft.WebpImageExtension_1.0.31251.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe’ which was a feature I installed from the Windows Store.

icacls Microsoft.WebpImageExtension_1.0.31251.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe /save d:\tempacl.acl

This gave me a text file I could edit that looks like

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I then added the name of all the folders I had copied to WindowsApps folder (All the missing stuff) and added the permissions line below.
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Then I could go into a command prompt (administrative) and run:

icacls “c:\Program Files\WindowsApps” /restore d:\tempacl.ACL

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Good times.

4572

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4573

:applause:

4574

Jesus, Windows really want you to use Edge. Also, fuck you MS for not respecting the “Show suggestions” setting.

4575

The latest Chromium version of Edge is really good. I love the Collections feature, and since it can load Chrome extensions I finally ditched the old Google browser.

Now I go to a Google site and see how much they really want me to use Chrome! ;)