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Despise the revolving ball, how to change?
Hi All,
The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T |
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T wrote:
Hi All, The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T Because you've been calling the machine names, Cortana heard that, and inserted "wait states". She knows who you are, Mr.Todd. Now, exactly what kind of a response would you like instead ? Dead silence with no progress indicator at all ? If you think you're going to "accelerate" some process as if by magic, think again. If the architecture is lethargic, it will remain lethargic. If the operation is disk limited, buy an SSD. Some of the responses are controlled by timer settings in the Registry. But "striking the OS deaf and dumb", there doesn't seem to be much point to that, as you're still going to be annoyed in the end (long long wait, no feedback). When Win10 takes a snooze here, I head out to the kitchen. Then I cannot see the antics. And I remain very calm. Paul |
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On 12/11/2015 02:44 PM, Paul wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T Because you've been calling the machine names, Cortana heard that, and inserted "wait states". She knows who you are, Mr.Todd. That why when Cortana ask me who I was, I said, "Paul". It then preceded to call you a name in French. I think it had something to do with, oh, it is too rude to repeat. And I am "reasonably" certain your mother is not related to a, well I'd better stop here. It was just a machine responding to being called obnoxious. Machines don't have feelings do they? Now, exactly what kind of a response would you like instead ? Dead silence with no progress indicator at all ? I would settle for an "Hour Glass" If you think you're going to "accelerate" some process as if by magic, think again. If the architecture is lethargic, it will remain lethargic. If the operation is disk limited, buy an SSD. Some of the responses are controlled by timer settings in the Registry. But "striking the OS deaf and dumb", there doesn't seem to be much point to that, as you're still going to be annoyed in the end (long long wait, no feedback). When Win10 takes a snooze here, I head out to the kitchen. Then I cannot see the antics. And I remain very calm. Paul There is an optical illusion with revolving balls that causes the colors to change depending on how you look at it. The obnoxious balls M$ uses something similar. Both make me a bit headachy and nauseous, I think is is the same thing as car sickness. -T Won't it be interesting if we find Cortana is really a call center in India with a bunch of underpaid M$ employees running Google search for you (bing being to inaccurate). :-) |
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Despise the revolving ball, how to change?
T wrote:
Won't it be interesting if we find Cortana is really a call center in India with a bunch of underpaid M$ employees running Google search for you (bing being to inaccurate). :-) The Microsoft back end seems to be cobbled together via acquisitions from small companies. There are actually other companies, not listed in the Wiki article on Cortana. Technology The natural language processing capabilities of Cortana are derived from Tellme Networks (bought by Microsoft in 2007) and are coupled with a Semantic search database called Satoru. Computing power for Cortana is provided by Microsoft's extensive cloud computing resources that also power Microsoft Azure. So no sign of a Watson back end, yet. I think it would be fun if your desktop could play Jeopardy and get the answers before the participants could. Paul |
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On 12/11/2015 06:02 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:58:00 -0800, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, T wrote: On 12/11/2015 02:44 PM, Paul wrote: T wrote: Hi All, The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T Because you've been calling the machine names, Cortana heard that, and inserted "wait states". She knows who you are, Mr.Todd. That why when Cortana ask me who I was, I said, "Paul". It then preceded to call you a name in French. I think it had something to do with, oh, it is too rude to repeat. And I am "reasonably" certain your mother is not related to a, well I'd better stop here. It was just a machine responding to being called obnoxious. Machines don't have feelings do they? Now, exactly what kind of a response would you like instead ? Dead silence with no progress indicator at all ? I would settle for an "Hour Glass" Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers (tab) Choose "Windows Standard." It looks like they did away with the windows standard "regular" size, so you may have to put up with larger pointers, but that will present you with an unanimated hourglass. I'm pretty sure you can find a pointer set on-line that will please you and set up your own custom cursor set. They probably have the Windows Standard cursors available somewhere. Then you can save that set, and use it whenever you like. Everything but the obnoxious revolving ball. Thank you any way! |
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On 12/11/2015 6:35 PM, T wrote:
On 12/11/2015 06:02 PM, Zaghadka wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:58:00 -0800, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, T wrote: On 12/11/2015 02:44 PM, Paul wrote: T wrote: Hi All, The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T Because you've been calling the machine names, Cortana heard that, and inserted "wait states". She knows who you are, Mr.Todd. That why when Cortana ask me who I was, I said, "Paul". It then preceded to call you a name in French. I think it had something to do with, oh, it is too rude to repeat. And I am "reasonably" certain your mother is not related to a, well I'd better stop here. It was just a machine responding to being called obnoxious. Machines don't have feelings do they? Now, exactly what kind of a response would you like instead ? Dead silence with no progress indicator at all ? I would settle for an "Hour Glass" Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers (tab) Choose "Windows Standard." It looks like they did away with the windows standard "regular" size, so you may have to put up with larger pointers, but that will present you with an unanimated hourglass. I'm pretty sure you can find a pointer set on-line that will please you and set up your own custom cursor set. They probably have the Windows Standard cursors available somewhere. Then you can save that set, and use it whenever you like. Everything but the obnoxious revolving ball. Thank you any way! It's not the ball...it's your attitude. Think of it as hypnotic and soothing. Or maybe an opportunity to take a 20 second nap. Most of life's little annoyances just fade away if you will just let them. I have a friend in another state who just upgraded from xp to win7. He calls me every day to bitch about some trivial change in the system UI and expects me to "make it right" for him. I'll tell you the same thing I tell him... If the revolving ball is the worst thing you have to bitch about, you live a truly charmed life. There are almost 7 Billion people on Earth who would love to trade problems with you. :-) Now, if you want to bitch about what's happening behind that revolving ball, like unwanted upgrades at inopportune times, I'll help you bitch. |
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On 12/11/2015 08:41 PM, mike wrote:
On 12/11/2015 6:35 PM, T wrote: On 12/11/2015 06:02 PM, Zaghadka wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:58:00 -0800, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, T wrote: On 12/11/2015 02:44 PM, Paul wrote: T wrote: Hi All, The revolving ball "please wait" drives me nuts. Is the a way to configure something less obnoxious? Many thanks, -T Because you've been calling the machine names, Cortana heard that, and inserted "wait states". She knows who you are, Mr.Todd. That why when Cortana ask me who I was, I said, "Paul". It then preceded to call you a name in French. I think it had something to do with, oh, it is too rude to repeat. And I am "reasonably" certain your mother is not related to a, well I'd better stop here. It was just a machine responding to being called obnoxious. Machines don't have feelings do they? Now, exactly what kind of a response would you like instead ? Dead silence with no progress indicator at all ? I would settle for an "Hour Glass" Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers (tab) Choose "Windows Standard." It looks like they did away with the windows standard "regular" size, so you may have to put up with larger pointers, but that will present you with an unanimated hourglass. I'm pretty sure you can find a pointer set on-line that will please you and set up your own custom cursor set. They probably have the Windows Standard cursors available somewhere. Then you can save that set, and use it whenever you like. Everything but the obnoxious revolving ball. Thank you any way! It's not the ball...it's your attitude. WHAT ?!?!?! :-) Think of it as hypnotic and soothing. Or maybe an opportunity to take a 20 second nap. Most of life's little annoyances just fade away if you will just let them. I have a friend in another state who just upgraded from xp to win7. He calls me every day to bitch about some trivial change in the system UI and expects me to "make it right" for him. I'll tell you the same thing I tell him... If the revolving ball is the worst thing you have to bitch about, you live a truly charmed life. There are almost 7 Billion people on Earth who would love to trade problems with you. :-) Now, if you want to bitch about what's happening behind that revolving ball, like unwanted upgrades at inopportune times, I'll help you bitch. The obnoxious ball actually makes me slightly nauseous and give me a bit of a headache, probably because of its similarity to the above mentioned optical illusion. |
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