“The Finnish are very blunt. He asked his teacher for help with his maths assignment. When he failed to answer a question, his teacher fixed him with a flat stare and asked him “Are you stupid?” … if I could fix the lead Windows developer with the same flat stare, I would ask the same question.”
Category: Windows
Captain’s Blog, 211102.1 – A Leap Through Windows Unknown
“Apparently after you have installed Windows 11 you have a whopping 10 days to downgrade. Beyond that you need to do a clean install of Windows 10.”
Captain’s Blog, 210417.1 – Will MS Ever Get Windows Update Right?
“The installation of 20H2 on my machine would get to the 61% mark then stop. It wouldn’t fail; it would just not proceed beyond that point.
Why?…”
Captain’s Blog, 180902.1 – Disappearing Space on Your SSD Drive, and Hidden Files
“…anything in C:\Windows\Temp should be counted in the 107 gigabytes above, right? Because it’s IN one of the folders that I queried, right?
Right??
No. Windows is lying to you. Unless you go to C:\Windows\Temp, double click on it and explicitly grant yourself permission to it then Windows will hide not only the contents of the folder but also the file count and size of the files therein.”
Captain’s Blog, 180716.1; The Horror Of Windows 10 Update 1803 Continues
As you may know, I am partial to the occasional game on Steam and one in particular. However after Windows Update 1803, I was unable to do anything with that on my notebook. When launching any application from Steam I would get a large white box with audio but no video. This morning I tried… Continue reading Captain’s Blog, 180716.1; The Horror Of Windows 10 Update 1803 Continues
Captain’s Blog, 180625.1 – Yet Another Sucking Experience From Windows Update (Windows 10 1803)
03:30 this morning, I see a message advising me to update Windows 10 on my home desktop. One option is “Update and shutdown”. “Sure, why not? I’m off to work anyway.” 17:30 this evening. I get home and turn on the computer. “Updating your PC, your PC will reboot multiple times, do not turn off… Continue reading Captain’s Blog, 180625.1 – Yet Another Sucking Experience From Windows Update (Windows 10 1803)