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Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk

From	Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk
Date	2025-03-29 09:07 -0400
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On 3/29/2025 1:32 AM, micky wrote:
 > I also wanted you all to know that my biggest complaint about win11 has
 > disappeared, that the Taskbar could be only one row high.

   I've posted this at least once previously:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\

Create DWORD value TaskbarSi (I know, huh? I asked the same thing.
Why didn't they name the value TSe? :)

Set to 0, 1, 0r 2. I had a sloppy taskbar, with icons that seem to be
showing at 16 pix but with
another 50% empty space. Setting the Reg value to 0 fixed it.
Explorer Patcher gave me back Quick Launch, but I think the Registry
setting is needed for sizing. If you now have a sizing arrow then one
of the shell extensions you installed, possibly EP, must have done that.

So, congratulations on spending only $600 to get something almost
as good as what you had. :) Once I remove what I don't want, I don't
see any notable difference between 10 and 11, aside from Win11's
broken taskbar, which requires special attention to fix.

 > Meanwhile, it's tried several times to install version 24H2, and it
 > can't because Explorer Patcher is installed.

   I've found that MS have become quite aggressive about disapproving
of tweaks. They haven't said anything that I know of, but I've found
that tweaking tends to break updates. There are too many variables
to track it, but in my admittedly limited experience, systems with
little or no tweaking have run updates and activations without a hitch.
Systems with tweaking fail to successfully do either and updates will
break things before they fail to install.

    Microsoft are forcing a choice: "Either you let us control
everything and spy on you, or you're on your own." This seems to
be the dual curse of "agile programming" and SaaS. Software is shipped
with minimal testing, updates are done with minimal planning, but updates
are a constant dripfeed, so today's screw-up can be fixed in tomorrow's
patch. It's a system designed to acclimate people to not thinking
of software as something they buy, own a license to, and install locally.
They might still buy it, and it still installs locally, but it's now defined
as a service. (The other day on Slashdot someone was complaining
about their new Bosch washer that refuses certain functions until
the "owner" opens a Bosch account with a cellphone app! This is
only going to get worse until some Supreme Court case establishes
basic consumer rights that we used to taake for granted, such as
"When you buy a widget, that widget is yours to do with as you
please and DMCA claims cannot override that."

   So my rule of thumb now is to install, activate, run any updates,
then batten down the hatches, locking out MS spyware and updates
permanently. I do the same with other dripfeed boondoggles, like
Firefox and Thunderbird, only updating occasionally and only after
a version has been tested by early adopters on dripfeed. (The posts
in these groups are enough to make me hold off.)

    People gasp at such reckless behavior, but few of these
updates are relevant to a reasonably cautious person who doesn't use
dangerous crap like MS Office or Remote Desktop. (The latest patch
pile fixes Remote Desktop and MS Access, as well as patching an
attack that requires opening a file or clicking a link in an email. But
that latter is only a "privilege escalation" vulnerability. Another attack
requires physical access to a computer. It's nice that MS fix these
things, but most of them are mainly relevant on corporate workstations
where people are running MS Office in lackey mode, with no rights, and
"privilege escalation" is a threat to the company. The rest are
generally not an issue for people who exercise reasonable caution.
(Don't enable remote execution software or services, don't allow
javascript in office or email programs, limit javascript in the browser,
and don't open unexpected files, especially from unknown people.
I assume the worst, even from friends, unless they actually tell me
in the email that they've attached a file.)

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/march-2025-patch-tuesday/53162/

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MS Shadow Copy service    thread has replies from me. === Windhowk  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-29 01:32 -0400
  Re: MS Shadow Copy service    thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2025-03-29 13:50 +0100
    Re: MS Shadow Copy service    thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-29 16:09 -0400
  Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-29 09:07 -0400
    Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-29 16:08 -0400
      Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-29 19:38 -0400
        Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-29 21:42 -0400
          Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-29 22:57 -0400
            Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-30 09:20 -0400
              Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-30 10:39 -0400
          Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-30 02:08 -0400
            Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-30 07:43 -0400
              Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-30 10:11 -0400
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-30 13:18 -0400
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-30 13:44 -0400
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-30 18:38 -0400
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-03-31 08:29 +0100
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-31 08:23 +0000
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-31 04:46 -0400
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-03-31 10:08 +0100
                Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-31 21:15 +1100
            Re: MS Shadow Copy service thread has replies from me. === Windhowk micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-30 09:28 -0400
  Re: MS Shadow Copy service    thread has replies from me. === Windhowk  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-29 11:10 -0400

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