4698

Have you tried the SFC and DISM commands? They are used to check and fix issues with Windows install and image files.

4699

I did try “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth” and that didn’t fix it.

4700

Microsoft winding down another feature that never went anywhere:

4701

More random crap I immediately turned off, like Cortana and the “people buttons”.

MS has only added one truly useful feature to Windows 10 since its launch, the clipboard history. I use that constantly.

Actually I shouldn’t say that, WSL and the Windows Sandbox are pretty cool too. I just don’t need WSL as I have a Linux box, and Sandbox isn’t something you need every day.

4702

Clipboard history is fantastic.

Terminal isn’t a Windows feature per se, but it’s also a big daily QoL improvement for me.

4703

The new Windows terminal is a valid improvement, true dat. I don’t use it often as (thank Jebus) I’m not a windows sysadmin.

4704

Wait, they finally did that? Why did nobody tell me?. Does it sync across devices?

4705

Supposedly yes it does, although I don’t have that stuff turned on. You get to it via winkey+V. So. Damn. Useful.

4706

Well I just turned that on, very useful. Weird it’s showing up in a different monitor and I can’t move it, but whatever.

4707

That’s odd, it shows up wherever my text cursor is located.

4708

Well, that was not fun.

Upon first cold boot of my machine tonight after this month’s Windows 10 Cumulative Update (I did an “update and shut down” this morning) I got a very scary number of minutes (at least 3) where all I had was a black screen and a flashing taskbar. I could hear disc activity but I couldn’t actually do anything with the PC, and FINALLY a usable desktop came up. WTF. Any ideas on what to check? sfc /scannow I suppose, first.

4709

I didn’t have a flashing screen, but my work laptop went non-interactive for several minutes on boot as well. I attributed it at the time to new executables being scanned by whatever variety of security agents are currently active on the machine, but hey maybe it was an MS thing, sure.

4710

Granted mine is a 10-year old desktop, but I get that about half the time after semi-annual upgrades and bigger CUs if I try to use the machine immediately after. If I just let the update happen overnight I’ve never see it. Just Windows doing Windows near as I can tell.

4711

I had this issue after an update a few weeks back, and it continued to happen on EVERY reboot. I believe the fix in my case was to install (re-install? Can’t remember if I already had latest) the latest nvidia drivers, with the clean install option.

4712

Hmm, now that you mention it, I had just installed new nvidia drivers a couple of days before.

Thanks also to @inactive_user and @Calelari for the replies. I posted on another forum and got a couple of “Windows being Windows” replies there, so it appears to be “working as (poorly) designed.”

That was my first experience of it though. Black screen, apart from the taskbar, which kept flashing.

4713

I feel so dumb not realizing this was a thing. I use Terminal and WSL all the time, so those are great to have, but this is going to be just as useful day-to-day…

4714

Happy to have improved your computing!

4715

Yeah, same here! Thanks for the heads up on the clipboard history! That’ll be really useful. When was this implemented?

4716

October 2018 “service pack” level update

4717

I use Ditto at work for that stuff. How does the MS implementation compare?