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I googled the code and it’s funnier.
First search result is xbox live instead of the microsoft link.
And then the correct link is just comments going “I have the problem too.” The popular SOLUTION is to uninstall the alienware command center.
BUT before you that, error message box seems to not close? So you have to open up in task manager and terminate anything with “AWCC” in its name.
Then you can finally uninstall the alienware command center, through the windows settings…
WHAT !!?? You have a button to copy the error message, this feature is asked since Windows XP, they took their time.
Useless feature. Searching for any error will lead you to Microsoft’s support forums, where a so-called MVP told someone with the same problem as you to run
sfc /scannowthen closed the thread as resolved.that, or what’s been happening more recently is it links to an article on the official Microsoft support page but it’s been archived because they’re moving to some new site, and there is no link to the new site’s content that supercedes the dead link
It has always been possible to press CTRL+C when error dialog is active, that should copy the text of entire dialog including error message
Nani the fuck??
Why didn’t it say so anywhere and why couldn’t you select text in the dialog?
And they say terminal is complicated because you have to learn the options and usage.
Because fuck you that’s why (/s)
I was in a chatroom and joked about them adding “AI” to notepad. Someone in the room was like “wtf did they seriously?!” and I said “oh no, I don’t use Windows 11 but there’s no way lawl”
Someone else sent a screenshot of their fucking AI in notepad
They added AI to Paint, too.
What does it do there? Ai content aware fill like in photoshop?
Yes. Also, selecting an object in an image, or using a prompt to edit your drawing.
Oh eeeuw. That aint paint boys haha
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Yeah, Microsoft does some wild shit. Nothing they do surprises me at this point. I still remember how when the WWW was starting to get really big, some MS engineers decided to turn their web browser into the Windows file manager.
You could open the file manager, enter a URL instead of a local path, and suddenly it’s a web browser. I just thought it was a neat trick back then. It’s only in retrospect that I realise how dumb it is.
Oddly enough, the reverse isn’t bad. It makes sense to use a webbrowser to open HTML files, even if those are saved on your harddrive.
Tbh, imo its a good user feature to have. Makes accessing the internet less big and less of a hurdle for people to learn to use the net. Something that welcome/needed then.
However, from a technical standpoint its utter hell to maintain, keep safe/secure and was at that point a nono haha
( i say at that point, because now webviews are bloody everywhere )
You can use the ai to write a notepad without ai
Windows Clock doesn’t have analog mode any more. Nor does it show seconds. And sometimes it just doesn’t show time because it needs to update some garbage, or the app needs to be updated, or…
Long story short, I had to make a clock of my own.
Nice touch with the radio pips!
I got a new phone, and when I opened the clock for the first time, Android wanted me to accept terms and conditions, privacy policy, and enable some permissions. Nonsense.
Installed a FOSS clock from F-droid.
I have to manually update the clock like half the time windows updates. Also you can’t open the date and time from every monitor like you can on Windows 10.
i love godot but it seems like such overkill for a clock lol
I’m just trying to learn Godot and explore its potential for the multimedia stuff I previously did in Processing.
Yeah, for a lot of stuff like that Godot is probably overkill, but on the other hand, Godot stuff can be built into self-contained packages while Processing, well, needs JRE and all that, so not optimal in all cases.
I will take it over react native.
No, no, Godot for an analog clock widget is still worse.
Both are terrible options, but one is definitely ill suited.
It does show seconds though. It’s in the settings.
Oh wow. I re-checked and there’s no way to make the Clock app to show the seconds, so it’s as useless as I imagined. But yes, there is apparently a setting in time and date settings to show the seconds on the clock in the task bar. …And the setting is buried under a fold. With the caveat that it will increase power usage. How does displaying seconds increas power usage fssgsgfffsshhhgg
This question is often asked, but I ask it again: why is Windows?
Well. Doing everything costs energy.
If you only display hours and minutes, you only need to redraw the clock every minute. If you display the seconds, you have to redraw every second.
And redrawing is not just changing some pixels. The Os scheduler has to wake up the process, put another to sleep. And all of that costs power.
Yes, the clock in the taskbar probably uses less power in an hour than watching a YouTube video will consume in a second.
But it is still a 60x increase in power usage.
This warning is actually a good thing. It means whoever implemented the seconds in the taskbar clock actually has the right mindset for developing an operating system. You don’t use a JavaScript framework to develop the start menu because “all the juniors come from JavaScript boot camps so it’s cheap to hire” you want someone that knows that the OS’ job is to provide a strong base layer that uses little resources so great things can be built on top of it.
Of all the things you could complain about windows, you chose to do it about the actually good ones, when you could go instead for the “30% vibe coded” codebase with a JavaScript UI that can’t even implement a “power off” button.
Your blog post about this is a fun read. Thanks!
From “My PC” to “This PC”.
Boutta rip the P out of PC soon. “Our computer”
“My virtual cores”
“My session”
The only windows machine I currently use is my work machine.
It belongs to my employer so renaming “My PC” is accurate
I feel gratuitously attacked.
I have my own server running in the cloud to get my wallpapers.
Ok I think I’m the problem lol
I’d love more problems like you in this world
I use a Gnome extension to get daily wallpapers (from Bing, lol), then curate them to my liking.
Fuckin’ windows store apps… giant unpatchable buggy mess…
When did Right Click -> Set as Wallpaper -> Desktop involve writing code?
Yes, older versions of Linux may have had that setting buried in a config file somewhere, which required editing in a text editor. And that sort of UI was shit, is shit and will always be shit. But, if we’re going to bring up old versions of an OS, let’s talk about Windows Me.To change my lock screen background I still have to go into like /usr/sddm (or some such dir, I don’t remember which specifically and it’s not booted rn).
For some reason the setting in FedoraKDE for “lock screen background” will change the “lock screen background,” but only after I’ve logged in and then re-locked, on boot it still showed the Fedora default. But I wanted it on boot, too, as it’s a single user laptop anyway. To do that you have to place the file in iirc sddm’s config dir.
At least with linux though I can design my own Plymouth theme and change my splash screen, try that on windows (idk if you can or not but I’m gonna assume no since I’ve never seen anyone do it.)
You can still do it that way anyway, if you want to. Many (many =/= the majority of) Linux users want their system to work exactly like that, and set it up such that there’s no other way. And that’s the beauty: Choice!
That’s the funny thing. To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on linux, you have to go back in time some few years.
To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on windows… you just need to update to the last version.
No you don’t. OP just chose a bad example.
It’s not been that long since I last used Linux, but when I did, I had to type a command in the terminal to change screen brightness (kubuntu)
… You can just change it from the bottom right tray? I run KDE Neon now, but used to run kubuntu. That’s just a standard feature of KDE, and I think gnome too. I didn’t even know there was a way to do it via terminal.
Was the command [Fn]+[F6]?
If only it were that simple.
To be honest, I’d have no idea how to change screen brightness in Windows at all.
I either do it with function keys on the keyboard (on a laptop), or the monitor itself (on a desktop).It’s in screen settings. But you can also use the keyboard keys and it works.
Well, it’s also worked in Plasma on every PC I used so far.
So this isn’t a case of “You need the console for everything in Linux” but rather “Something doesn’t work on your system”.
Which can happen on any OS.
Me using niri
…
I still have record of my reaction when I learned Windows Media Player had paid DLC on Windows 10. I made a video about it.
I literally can not fucking wait for them to start charging microtransactions for items under the “accessories” menu, like games, or tools like the calculator and notepad. M$ has been the best advertiser for Linux this past decade, and they’re only getting better at advertising it, I know that’s coming at some point.
Buy ten “Undo’s” for just
$4.99$2.99!Just imagine separating bored office staff the world over from Solitaire, behind even a modest 99c paywall and a moderate barrier to entry like “having to install a third-party solitaire application” if they wanted it for free.
People would be calling for Nadella to be hung like Mussolini within weeks. It’s gonna be a good fun shitshow, mark my words.
There is already a subscription for no ads in solitaire IIRC…
There are ads in Windows Solitaire now? Good lord. Goes to show how long it’s been since I’ve used Windows.
if you want free operating system, try using linux instead of using pirated microslop
microsoft offers the os for free*
*free if you dont value your time, its so much harder to install than linux
Notepad++
Seriously. If you’re not using N++, you’re notepadding wrong.
I never use notepad, it wasn’t really good in the past and it looks like it hasn’t got any better
Notepad++ is a seperate program.
That’s right. I use it daily, great tool. It’s one of the first things I install after a clean windows install. Just avoid notepad, as I said.
It’s Notepad with postfix notation.
I change my wallpaper pretty much exactly the same way I used to do it in Windows though (except KDE gives me more options for slideshows, etc)?
the suggestion that you should maybe write down an eight digit hex string “in case you need it” is just adding insult to injury. i guess anything less than a 32bit space for error codes would be insufficient
I love to shit on Microsoft as much as the next lemming, but this error message is way out of context. This was a bug in the January quality update (quality lol), and has been addressed.
Windows doesn’t require you to sign into the MS store to use notepad or paint.
Source: end user compute engineer who had to deal with this shit.
Okay but why was there functionality in place for this to break in the first place? Notepad shouldn’t need the store involved at all and why are they pushing our bugs like this that should be caught in testing.
My guess? Because they fired a shitload of engineers and are having the remaining ones pick up the slack with AI vibe coding. They are pushing slop to prod and breaking shit left and right because they need to prove that destroying the world with AI data centers is worth it.
Spoiler altert: it’s not. Having well trained and talented engineers wite the code works better.
Oh good that’s much better, at first I thought they were requiring notepad to be online, but they’re just ruining the OS and world with vibe coded slop? Well that’s fine!
Because enterprise is Microslop’s real customer, and the consumer is the QA now.
Windows 11: now in Early Access! Full release expected after Windows 12 has been in early access for 12-24 months.
Oh, I know. The point was that the comment I responded to isn’t a valid excuse.
I’m not saying it’s a valid excuse, and I’m certainly not jumping to defend Microsoft. All I’m saying is the screenshot/post is misleading.
It happened to me while trying to use the shipping tool, an hour before a presentation.
Fortunately I was able to record the screen and extract a frame as a still.
“quality update”
