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

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:07:19 -0400, Newyana2
<newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>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\

I must have missed it.  Thanks for posting again. 
>
>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.

Sizing arrow?   What is that? 

BTW I'm not crazy about having 5 different tweakers, Explorer Patcher,
Ultimate Windows Tweaker, Aerotweaker, Windhawk, and well, NOT
7-tweaker. .... Maybe there are only 4, but even 4 means it's hard to
remember where something got set.  Like with Windows, I guess settings
all over the place. 

>So, congratulations on spending only $600 to get something almost
>as good as what you had. :)

Thank you.  But now the new one is better.  It is faster,  the screen is
white not cream-colored, and the wireless receiver broke last month on
the old one (Good think I already had a USB wireless rcvr.)   I thought
the colors were screwed up on the old one but the people in the Firefox
group fixed that.    Still I probably would have been better off waiting
a couple more years to buy a new one. 
>
>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

I've heard that. 

>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.

The guy from Explorer Patcher says explicitly that it has to be
uninstalled to install 24H2, and then it can be installed again

>    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.

Wasn't there a plan to charge yearly for Windows?  Is that still in the
works?  

>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

Wow.  

>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

Is Remote Desktop MS's version of TeamViewer.  Is TeamViwer also
dangerous (not counting the person you let in on purpose)?  

>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
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