[dayglored]

The Inquirer rips Windows Update a new one.

And for those wondering, "DYKE" is British for "DIKE", sort of like they spell "TYRE" for "TIRE".

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Update does it again... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Dalberg-Acton]

Windows 10 users must be masochists.

[bigbob]

I got a little utility called “Everything” that indexes the whole drive and works very nicely.

But keep plugging those dykes, M$...

[BenLurkin]

Normal people are getting very tyred of dikes.

[Dr. Sivana]

I HATE the way Microsoft is forcing One Drive and Microsoft accounts on everybody. This forced integration creates new problems and security risks.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

My current version of Windows 10 seems to already have that problem. In trying to recreate the list of Recent files it takes longer and longer. I believe this is because some of the files in Recent are no longer located where they once were. This causes File Explorer to hang as it waits a minute or so for each missing file to somehow magically appear.

I had to clear out all my Recent files in order to get File Explorer to stop being dodgy.

I noticed similar locking after our Sys Admins moved some major network shares around and File Explorer hung trying to locate the missing/renamed shares.

I'm sure there's some sort of timeout value I could potentially alter in the ocean referred to as the Registry, but I don't have time to look for something that my company may have locked down through policy.

[kanawa]

I’ve never had so much trouble with my computer. Lots of crashes.
I think it is not only Windows update that is funky
but Chrome updates have issues as well.

I’ve been taking screenshots of the error messages
in order to take them to someone versed in Windows and Chrome.

[kiryandil]

Check out Astrogrep.

Heard about it on a forum for professional novel writers. Apparently, they have hundreds and thousands of iterations of the same files, and need to find certain words or phrases without the overhead of MS indexing.

A Windows File Searching Utility (grep)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/astrogrep/files/

I've used it a few times, and it smokes.

[daniel1212]

l - File Explorer searches are broken in the 1909 build.

Link adds not details to the assertion. I just updated to ver. 1909 (Run winver to see) and so far all is fine, thank God.

[Revel]

Windows 98 file search worked far better than Windows 10 ever did.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Windows 10 also borks Virtualization systems such as Oracle’s VirtualBox.

Such systems use Hardware Virtualization, which is built-in to most modern CPUs. I think for Intel, it’s VM-x and for AMD it’s AMD-v. I might be wrong with the acronyms.

Microsoft replaces the built-in capability with its own crappy “Hyper-v,” which immediatly disables VirtualBox and others. (I think VMWare is also a casualty, not sure.)

[BBB333]

We have ONE Windows 10 computer.

Thats it.

Several W 7 laptop machines as well.

Three Macs (all running W 7 or 8.1 via Parallels).

I spend 99% of my troubleshooting time on that damn W10 laptop.

[Ignatz]

“With no disrespect to the Insider Community(Microsoft’s name for its beta testing team)...”

That’s odd; I thought the name for the Microsoft beta testing team was “everyday users”.