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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 22nd 18, 04:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 61
Views: 4,240
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
What is this strange new Windows file-system beast (C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng.dll)?

Paul wrote:

That was a good catch on the Linux-side theory.

Hi Paul,

You caused all this trouble! :) [Please note the smiley!]

Actually, you made the best catch, which...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 22nd 18, 04:08 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 61
Views: 4,240
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
What is this strange new Windows file-system beast (C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng.dll)?

Paul wrote:

Microsoft appears to have added an additional nuisance
defense mechanism, against Linux edits.

Hi Paul,
I thank you very much for getting to the bottom of...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 22nd 18, 04:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

Since the urge of all programs is to pollute your start menu, how and why
does my Microsoft tiled start menu NOT get polluted every time I install
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 22nd 18, 04:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

I didn't even know you can do that! :)

On KDE versions with Plasma.

Oh, KDE. Plasma.

My main exposure to KDE was as a desktop replacement to Unity on Ubuntu.
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 21st 18, 05:01 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 19
Views: 675
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Microsoft to force Windows 10 users to use its Edge web browser

Paul wrote:

Rename just one stinkin file, and... no more updates :-)

rename wuaueng.dll wuaueng.dll.bak

# Example of how to rename, here.

...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 21st 18, 02:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 19
Views: 675
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Microsoft to force Windows 10 users to use its Edge web browser

CRNG wrote:

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Interesting. Very interesting. Thanks!

I have to run but here's a screenshot after initially starting up the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 21st 18, 02:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 19
Views: 675
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Microsoft to force Windows 10 users to use its Edge web browser

Keith Nuttle wrote:

It runs in my mind that if the original Windows 10 pro the updates could
be shut off, or disabled for a period. It is possible that over the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 21st 18, 01:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 19
Views: 675
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Microsoft to force Windows 10 users to use its Edge web browser

CRNG wrote:

My preference is to turn off updates.

How?

I had Windows 10 Pro updates (accidentally, on purpose, I don't remember
how I did it) turned off for more than...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 20th 18, 02:58 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Peter Jason wrote:

I noticed that when I log out (ctrl-alt-del) and log in straight away
I get full fuctionallity of the TaskBar & LHS notification panel. But
my custom...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 20th 18, 02:38 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

You cannot put a Group tile within another Group tile.

Drat. That's a killer limitation that you can't put a "group tile" into
another group tile.

You cannot put...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 19th 18, 10:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

Q1:
You only get both menus showing when the start menu is not set to start
full screen. Turn it off in settings.

Ah. Thanks. I see. Worked like a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 19th 18, 09:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

"Jonathan N. Little" wrote:

Well why don't you just put tiles within tiles?

Thanks for that suggestion, which is fair enough that hierarchy can be
"created" using the concept...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 19th 18, 06:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 72
Views: 4,716
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Do you have an iOS device? How to get it to xfer screenshots to Windows 10 easily without that iTunes abomination?

ultred ragnusen wrote:

Do you have an iOS device connected to Windows such that you can easily
transfer files over WiFi or USB without adding /anything/ to Windows (like
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 19th 18, 02:53 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

I cannot fathom out whether you are trying too make things complicated
or looking for problems that don't exist. :-)

I appreciate your candor, mick, where I just...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 09:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 72
Views: 4,716
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Do you have an iOS device? How to get it to xfer screenshots to Windows 10 easily without that iTunes abomination?

Paul wrote:

Someone could "port" what was done for Linux, to Windows,
but... will they ? Will they charge money for it ?

Hi Paul,
Thanks for your help as seamless file...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 05:57 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 72
Views: 4,716
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Do you have an iOS device? How to get it to xfer screenshots to Windows 10 easily without that iTunes abomination?

Paul wrote:

The Linux code is Open Source.
You have some layers that complete the protocol stack.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for helping out with advice because I'm pretty much...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 10:47 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Andy Burns wrote:

Thanks Andy for that suggestion of "showing more tiles".
I don't think that button does /anything/ useful

It makes each group wide enough to fit 8...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 09:24 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Andy Burns wrote:

right click empty space in task bar, taskbar settings, start, show more
tiles on start

i.e. not more groups, just more tiles, but giving you more...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 09:14 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Uultred ragnusen wrote:

So now I'm working on making some of the groups hierarchical.

Wow. I just accidentally ran across this, which allows us to re-create the
well-honed...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 08:34 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Uultred ragnusen wrote:

And yet, I'll bet you will be hard pressed to find a single screenshot of a
Windows 10 tiled menu with a realistic set of more than 5 groups.

OK....
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 08:31 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Ragnusen Ultred wrote:

Is there a trick to get it to have a dozen groups?

What's just sadistically crazy is that the descriptions for creating new
groups seem devilishly...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 08:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

mick wrote:

Make the tiles smaller, right click on a tile.
OR
Make the start menu full screen size, Settings/Personalisation

That was all done long ago, where the goal is...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 08:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Peter Jason wrote:

Mine works intermittently.

You're not kidding!

It's as capricious as all hell to try to create a dozen groups!

The best I can do, so far, after thirty or...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 07:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 36
Views: 957
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Trying to make the Win10 start menu work - can it do more than 5 groups?

Ralph Fox wrote:

To create another group, drag a tile and hold it between two groups
(one group above, the other below) until a bigger gap opens up between
the groups and...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum March 18th 18, 06:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 72
Views: 4,716
Posted By Uultred ragnusen
Do you have an iOS device? How to get it to xfer screenshots to Windows 10 easily without that iTunes abomination?

ultred ragnusen wrote:

Do you have an iOS device connected to Windows such that you can easily
transfer files over WiFi or USB without adding /anything/ to Windows (like
...
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