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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years ago

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Decrapify cookie consent dialogs with the Consent-O-Matic

Remember when they sneered at Geocities pages for being unusable eyesores? It's true, those old sites had some, uh, idiosyncratic design choices, but at least they reflected a real person's exuberant ideas about what looked and worked well. Today's web is an unusable eyesore by design.

Start with those fucking “sign up for our newsletter” interruptors. Email is the last federated protocol standing, so everyone who publishes is desperate to get you to sign up to their newsletter, which nominally bypasses Big Tech’s chokepoint on communications between creators and audiences. Worst part: they’re wrong, email’s also been captured:

https://doctorow.medium.com/dead-letters-73924aa19f9d

Then there’s the designer’s bizarre and sadistic conceit that “black type on a white background” is ugly and “causes eye-strain.” This has led to an epidemic of illegible grey-on-white type that I literally can’t read, thanks to a (very common) low-contrast vision disability:

https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure-black-for-text-or-backgrounds/

Often grey-on-white type sins are compounded with minuscule font sizing. You can correct this by increasing the font size from teeny-weeny-eyestrain-o-rama to something reasonable, but when you do, all the static elements on the page size up with the text, so the useless header and footer bars filled with social media buttons and vanity branding expand to fill the whole screen.

This, in turn, is made a billion times worse by the absurd decision to hide scrollbars (shades of Douglas Adams’ description of airports where they “expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not”).

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3205828-it-can-hardly-be-a-coincidence-that-no-language-on

Scrolling a window (without using RSI-inflaming trackpad gestures) is now the world’s shittiest, most widely played video-game, a hand-eye coordination challenge requiring sub-pixel accuracy and split-second timing to catch the scroll-bar handle in the brief, flashing instant where blips into existence:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1516136202235043841

One of the scariest things about the precarity of Firefox is the prospect of losing some of the customizations and stock features I rely on to decrapify the web — stuff I use so often that I sometimes forget that it’s not how everyone uses the web:

https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-mozilla-2022/

[Image ID: Two side-by-side screenshots comparing the default layout of a wired.com article ('The intoxicating pleasure of conspiratorial thinking' by Virginia Heffernan) with the same article in Firefox's Reader Mode.]

For example, there’s Firefox’s Reader Mode: a hotkey that strips out all the layout and renders the text of an article as a narrow, readable column in whatever your default font is. I reach for ctrl-alt-r so instinctively that often the publisher’s default layout doesn’t register for me.

Reader Mode (usually) bypasses interruptors and static elements, but Firefox isn’t capable of deploying Reader Mode on every site. The Activate Reader View plugin can sometimes fix this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/activate-reader-view/

But when it can’t there’s my favorite, indispensable Javascript bookmarklet: Kill Sticky, which hunts through the DOM of the page you’ve got loaded and nukes any element that is tagged as “sticky” — which generally banishes any permanent top/bottom/side-bars with a single click:

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

A recent addition to my arsenal is Cookie Remover. Click it once and it deletes all cookies associated with the page you’ve currently loaded. This resets the counter on every soft paywall, including the ones that block you from using Private Browsing. Click this once, then reload, and you’re back in business:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-remover/

Today, I added another plug-in to my decrapification rotation: Consent-O-Matic, created by researchers at Denmark’s Aarhus University. Consent-O-Matic identifies about 50 of the most commonly deployed GDPR tracking opt-out dialog boxes and automatically opts you out of all tracking, invisibly and instantaneously:

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

We shouldn’t need Consent-O-Matic, but we do. The point of the GDPR was to make tracking users painful for internet companies, by forcing them to break down all the different data they wanted to gather and the uses they wanted to put it to into a series of simple, yes/no consent requests. The idea was to create boardroom discussions where one person said, “OK, let’s collect this invasive piece of data” and someone else could say, “Fine, but that will require us to display eight additional dialog boxes so we’ll lose 95% of users if we do.”

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/26/ico-ico/#market-structuring

What’s more, the GDPR said that if you just bypassed all those dialog boxes (say, by flipping to Reader Mode), the publisher had to assume you didn’t want to be tracked.

But that’s not how it’s worked. A series of structural weaknesses in European federalism and the text of the GDPR itself have served to encrapify the web to a previously unheard-of degree, subjecting users to endless cookie consent forms that are designed to trick you into opting into surveillance.

Part of this is an enforcement problem. The EU Commission we have today isn’t the Commission that created the GDPR, and there’s a pervasive belief that the current Commission decided that enforcing their predecessors’ policies wasn’t a priority. This issue is very hot today, as the Commission considers landmark rules like the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), whose enforcement will be at the whim of their successors.

The failures of EU-wide enforcement is compounded by the very nature of European federalism, which gives member states broad latitude to interpret and enforce EU regulations. This is most obviously manifested in EU member states’ tax policies, with rogue nations like Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Ireland vying for supreme onshore-offshore tax haven status.

Not surprisingly, countries whose tax-codes have been hijacked by multinational corporations and their enablers in government are likewise subject to having their other regulations captured by the companies that fly their flags of convenience.

America’s biggest Big Tech giants all pretend to be headquartered in Ireland (which, in turn, allows them to pretend that their profits are hovering in a state of untaxable grace far above the Irish Sea). These same companies ensured that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner’s Office is starved of cash and resources. Big Tech argues that their Irish domicile means that anyone who wants to complain about their frequent and enthusiastic practice of wiping their asses with the text of the GDPR has to take it up with the starveling regulators of Ireland.

That may change. Max Schrems — whose advocacy gave rise to the GDPR in the first place — has dragged the tech giants in front of German regulators, who are decidedly more energetic than their Irish counterparts:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#noyb

The new EU tech competition laws — the DMA and DSA — aim to fix this, shoring up enforcement in a way that should end these “consent” popups. They also seek to plug the GDPR’s “legitimate purpose” loophole, which lets tech companies spy on you and sell your data without your consent, provided they claim that this is for a “legitimate purpose.”

But in the meantime, GDPR consent dialogs remain a hot mess, which is where Consent-O-Matic comes in. Consent-O-Matic automates away the tedious work of locating all the different switches you have to click before you truly opt out of consent-based tracking. This practice of requiring you to seek out multiple UI elements is often termed a “Dark Pattern”:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3313831.3376321

But while “Dark Pattern” has some utility as a term-of-art, I think that it’s best reserved for truly sneaky tactics. Most of what we call “Dark Patterns” fits comfortably in under the term “fraud.” For example, if “Opt Out of All” doesn’t opt out of all, unless you find and toggle another “I Really Mean It” box, that’s not a fiendish trick, it’s just a scam.

Whether you call this “fraud” or a “Dark Pattern,” Consent-O-Matic has historic precedent that suggests that it could really make a difference. I’m thinking here of the original browser wars, where Netscape and Internet Explorer (and others like Opera) fought for dominance on the early web.

That early web had its own crapification: the ubiquitous pop-up ad. Merely opening a page could spawn dozens of pop-ups, some of them invisible 1px-by-1px dots, others that would run away from your cursor across the screen if you tried to close them, and they’d all be tracking you and auto-playing 8-bit music.

The pop-up ad was killed by the pop-up blocker. When browsers like Mozilla and Opera started blocking pop-ups by default, users switched to them in droves. That meant that an ever-smaller proportion of web users could even see a pop-up, which meant that advertisers stopped demanding pop-ups. Publishers — who knew their readers hated pop-ups but were beholden to advertisers to keep the lights on — were finally able to convince advertisers that pop-ups were a bad idea. Why pay for ads that no one will see?

Pop-up blockers are an early example of Adversarial Interoperability, AKA Competitive Compatibility (comcom for short). That’s the practice of improving an existing product or service by making an add-on or plug in that changes how it behaves to make it more responsive to its users’ interests, without permission from the original manufacturer:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

It’s been more than 20 years since the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) tried to get tech companies to voluntarily recognize and honor their users’ privacy choices. It failed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

Do Not Track, another attempt to do the same, did not fare much better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

But you know what actually worked? Tracker-blockers and ad-blockers, “the largest consumer boycott in history”:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

Making it impossible to track users is of great assistance to efforts to make it illegal to track users. Tools like Consent-O-Matic change the “security economics” of crapification, by turning the consent theater of illegal cookie popups into actual, GDPR-enforceable demands by users not to be tracked:

https://doctorow.medium.com/automation-is-magic-f4c1401d1f0d

Decrapifying the web is a long, slow process. It’s not just using interoperability to restore pluralism to the web, ending the era of “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four”:

https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040

It’s also using a mix of technology and regulation to fight back against deliberate crapification. Between Consent-O-Rama, Reader Mode, Kill Sticky and Cookie Remover, it’s possible to decrapify much of your daily browsing and substantially improve your life.

[Image ID: A GDPR consent dialog with a rubber stamp in the center depicting a snarling man flipping the bird.]

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railmath13-blog · 6 years ago

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10 Tips to Increase Windows 10 Effectiveness

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amanridley-blog · 6 years ago

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10 Hints to Develop Windows 10 Functionality

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owlespresso · 7 years ago

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Coffee is not for All Closers

“Mirio,” You say in the most deadpan voice you can possibly muster. The blond looks up to you, eyebrows raised in an exaggeratedly curious expression. “Are you trying to vaporize your coffee cup by glaring at it?” It’s ten in the morning, but it’s still too early for any of this shit. Plus, it’s also Saturday. You have no intention of getting frazzled on a day off, either.

Mirio had rung you up at about seven AM to ask you to hang out, dragging you from blissful slumber. After cursing him out and sleeping for a few more hours, you managed to text him back.

There wasn’t anything for you to do in the apartment but study or take care of paperwork for the agency. So you agreed. Meeting and befriending Mirio when he first entered the world of pro heroism is one of your proudest accomplishments. Not that you think of him like a possession! But you’re just grateful that he’s here. The way he gets excited when he catches sight of you makes melt.

“No! Do I really look that intense?” He inquires.

“Yes,” And it’s the truth. You’ve never seen the guy this concentrated, before. His eyebrows are furrowed and his lip curled downwards, the pure epitome of either focus or frustration. “I’ve never seen you even drink coffee before, are you feeling alright?” He’s more of an energy drink guy, or even hot cocoa when it came to hot beverages.

“Me? Perfectly fine!” He assures you with a wide grin, “I like coffee, now,” You don’t even need to say anything to get your befuddlement across. You look at him like he’s suddenly grown an extra eye in the middle of his forehead, “What? Is that so surprising? Coffee is an adult beverage! I’m an adult! It fits!” As if to punctuate his… adult-ness, he takes a large swig of the drink and immediately swallows. The bitterness of the pure, black coffee, coupled with the devastating heat causes him to splutter, looking like he’s just been punched in the gut like All Might himself.

“A-Are you alright?” You reach for his shoulder, unsure of what to do. “Do you need an ambulance? An epi pen?” Did he really not know that coffee was supposed to be sipped in small amounts!? What the hell? Fortunately, he recovered in mere moments, smile once again in place.

“I’m perfectly fine! No need to worry!” He assures you. That only makes you worry more. You don’t need to see anymore to know that he’s not himself. Has someone with a shapeshifting quirk replaced him? Was he dying? No, definitely not!

“Alright, but are you sure?” You ask again, real slow. “You seem… mentally off. Like, I can see that you think you’re okay, but I’m not sure that you actually are… Do you want to put some cream and sugar in that coffee?”

“No, no,” Mirio pouts and waves you off. “If I’m tough enough to become the number 5 hero, then I’m tough enough to drink this… liquid toxin!” What does toughness have to do with anything? Was he trying to prove something? To you? Prove his toughness to you? The sentence sounds utterly alien to you. Why would he have to prove anything to you? No way, no way. As much as you’d like to deny it, you can’t deny that it’s possible. But if he wanted to prove his toughness, wouldn’t that mean he wanted to impress you? That wouldn’t be so bad—considering you like the guy romantically. But what if you were wrong? What if you messed up this friendship? What if things got awkward and he stopped texting you and calling you and hanging out?

But you still can’t go without knowing!

Unfortunately, by the time you open your mouth, he’s continued walking down the street, humming a cheerful tune, leaving you to scurry after him. Damn this guy and his long legs!

“Are you trying to… prove something to me, Mirio?” You inquire, keeping your voice was neutral as possible. Keep it cool, you remind yourself, keep it subtle. He remains quiet for a few moments, and that silence proves that yes, he is definitely trying to impress you.

“...No.” He answers, sounding dejected.

“That definitely means ‘yes’,” You reply flatly, suddenly frankly too mystified and bewildered to even feel any form of embarrassment. “...Did you get black coffee just to impress me?” He mutters something, sounding almost pained. Mirio isn’t a shit liar by any means, but he can’t get away with deceiving you and he probably knows it. “What was that?”

“You said I was immature a few days ago!” He blusters. “When we were out with Hadou and Tamaki—remember?”

Oh. Oh. Yes, you actually do remember teasing him. You had gone to Starbucks with him and the other two pros when it happened. After seeing him order some sort of fruity lemonade instead of actual coffee, you had made a quick remark about how you wouldn’t expect the number five hero to have such such a sweet tooth. In hindsight, maybe you should have considered that he valued your opinion. You had been teasing, but maybe you hadn’t been clear enough?

“I didn’t think you’d take it personally!” You blink, frankly stunned. You really couldn’t blame yourself. He always seemed so confident around you! Always opening the door for you or pulling out chairs—though maybe that had also been a sign of his attraction… You suddenly found yourself remembering every interaction with him that you could, picking out way too many phrases and gestures that could definitely count as flirting. There were signs you hadn’t missed, but had brushed off as a sign of your overactive imagination. Suddenly, you feel more oblivious than ever, face growing hot. “You care about my opinion that much?”

“Of course I do!” He huffs, fixing you with an intent gaze. It freezes you in place, leaving him to turn around to face you, coffee cup clenched tight in his hand. “I like you a lot!”

Oh. Oh. OH.

“Oh,” You say, numbly. It takes a few good moments for you to Ctrl Alt Delete your brain, before you can actually realize that yes, he returns your feelings and that yes, this isn’t a dream. This isn’t some ridiculous fantasy that your brain has conjured up. This is real. The way he’s looking at you is real and the words he’s just said are definitely real, “I mean, I definitely feel the same!” You blurt out, before he can mistake your silence for rejection. “I’m just surprised, is all! I’m sorry that I made you doubt yourself.”

One of his hands reaches out and snags your own without preamble.

“It’s fine! I should have told you, earlier,” Suddenly, the tension is gone from his demeanor and he’s tugging you down the street like a labrador on its first walk. There’s a new bounce in his step. Thank god he’s such a positive person, because a few moments ago, you felt like you kicked a puppy. “Better late than never, right?” You struggle to keep up with him, to which he slows down, giving you a sheepish smile. But his fingers lace with yours and it makes something incredibly warm and gentle just swell within you. It’s quite difficult to remember what you were going to say when the literal incarnation of the sun is staring down at you, adoration obvious on his face.

“I mean, yes, but—where are we going!?”

#mirio #mirio togata #bnha #mha #my her academia #boku no hero academia

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loadscript696 · 4 years ago

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Nordvpn Mac Not Connecting

I just downloaded the Nord VPN app from the App store (designed to set up an IKEv2 connection), but when I open it and try to connect, the following dialog box keeps popping up and it keeps coming back no matter what I enter into it:

Apr 21, 2020 Fixes for NordVPN Not Connecting Connect to Another Server You can try connecting NordVPN to a few different servers. If it cannot connect to any, use this app on a different device like your phone. With NordVPN smart DNS, you can easily connect Apple TV to websites and servers using the server in a different location. On top of that, using a NordVPN DNS proxy for Apple TV will not cause you to have connectivity issues and low speeds.

If you're using the OpenVPN or NordVPN platform for accessing the Internet securely, you may have noticed that the Office 365 product (Outlook, Word, Excel, One Note, etc.) have reported that they do not have an internet connection ('NO INTERNET CONNECTION'). Launch NordVPN and connect to any server of your choice, preferably one that can unblock the streaming content you want to access on your Apple TV. Then, connect your Apple TV to this virtual hotspot network and to share NordVPN’s connection with the Apple TV. Set up NordVPN on Apple.

As a result, the IKEv2 NordVPN app from the App store will not connect. I managed to download and begin using the OpenVPN version of the Nord app, but I would like to know what the problem is with the IKEv2 version of the app. I'm running El Capitan on a 2015 Macbook Pro. Anyone else had this sort of problem?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015)

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Fixing NordVPN connection issue might arise as a result of different reasons. We all know that NordVPN is one of the leading VPNs in the industry. So the tendency of having issues with connecting to the server is common and sometimes high. Though, if you have been battling with how to fix NordVPN connection problems, you landed yourself on the right place to get the right info.

NordVPN is a highly rated VPN provider for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS platforms. Connecting to that VPN server is usually straightforward enough, but some NordVPN users might still need to fix connectivity issues.

NordVPN not connecting can be due to conflicting software, corrupted adapters, misconfigured network configurations and more besides.

How to Fix NordVPN Connection Problems

Depending on your devices, here is the list of steps you need to take if you are having difficulties in connecting to the server.

iOS Fix

The process is simplicity itself, you don’t need any specialist here. Is what you can do in a few minutes on your own. Here are the steps:

Step 1 > Delete the NordVPN app, in the actual sense you are to uninstall the app from your device.

Step 2 > Restart the device

Step 3 > Reinstall the app, please download from NordVPN offical website.

Step 4 > Enjoy

You see, these steps are simple and easy to follow, on the iOS devices you had fix NordVPN connection problems.

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Fix NordVPN Connection Problems on MacOS

If you have any issues connecting to the internet with NordVPN on any Mac OS device, then try the following:

> You need to install the OpenVPN app version directly from the official website

> Do uninstall the IKE version before installing the new one

> Try using the obfuscated servers or the TCP protocol

Most times, the Canadian servers will work better than all the others. As for this, you need to team up with NordVPN support team to take up from you.

Fix NordVPN Connecting Issues on Linux Fix

In order to avoid any sort of issues when running NordVPN from a Linux device, just follow the next steps:

Step 1 > First of all, open the terminal by pressing (Ctrl+Alt+T)

F1a8. Step 2 > Install the OpenVPN client by entering “sudo apt-get install openvpn”. If you are asked for a password, insert the one you used when setting up your account

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Step 3 > Go to the OpenVPN directory with this command “cd/etc/openvpn”

Step 4 > Now download the OpenVPN configuration files with the command “sudo wget https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip”

Step 5 > Extract the “config.zip” with the command “sudo unzip ovpn.zip”

Step 6 > Enter the directory where the server configurations are placed

Step 7 > If you want a full list of the server coverage, input the following command “Is -al”

Step 8 > Just choose the server that you want to connect to

Step 9 > Start OpenVPN with the command “sudo openvpn (file name)”, where the file name is the chosen configuration

Step 10 > You will be asked for credentials, so insert those when necessary

Step 11 > You are now fully connected to NordVPN. If you want to disconnect, just boot up the terminal and press Ctrl+C.

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Fix NordVPN Connection Problems on Windows 7

Before we move to some basic tips on how to fix NordVPN connection issues on Windows 7. Let quickly look at what we gathered from NordVPN official website.

> Log out of your account and log back in. After that, initiate a new connection and see if there is any change

> You should try connecting to the same network with a different device. This will help locate the source of the problem. Either it has something to do with the network or it’s the device malfunctioning.

> Try switching from TCP to UDP, changing the protocols to check if it changes anything

> Uninstall the application, reboot your device, and try installing it again. Try connecting to the network again.

> It could be that one of the servers is out of order so try connecting to other servers as well to see if it’s a local or a general issue

> For PC users, try disabling your firewall or antivirus. Many times, it’s the underlying protective protocols of these apps that interfere with the VPN network.

With regard to Windows 7 users being unable to connect to NordVPN, Reddit contains a few fixes that are likely to help.

1 > Try changing your account password and then log back in. Apparently, this is all that needs to be done in order to get over this stuttering with the connectivity. Or it could be that you changed your password frequently and the system is glitching, failing to recognize your identity. Again, just log out and sign back in. Ideally, it should solve everything.

2 > Some users have said that the IPv6 protocol was at fault. With it enabled, it was incredibly hard to connect to any server, let alone surf the internet or stream media. However, while this worked for some people, many more complained that it was actually no difference whatsoever when they turned off IPv6.

3 > In this case, try reinstalling the application and follow the instructions on the NordVPN website:

Step 1 > After downloading the installation package, open it

Step 2 > Click install on the first screen

Step 3 > The installation progress will begin, once finished, the application will automatically start

Step 4 > Provide your login details and click on the Login button

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Step 5 > The main screen will appear. You can see the server list and the map, navigate through the settings and access the server search feature on the top of the application.

Step 6 > On the bottom, you can find the Quick Connect button. This will find the optimal server for you using certain parameters and calculations.

Step 7 > To connect to a certain server in a specific country, click on the country pin on the map. After a successful connection, the app can be found in the system tray area at the bottom right corner of the screen.

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25+ Jokes That Will Make All Microsoft Windows Users Laugh, Then Cry

Whether you're a Mac OS or Windows user (c'mon, nobody is actually running Linux), you've probably heard at least one Windows joke. Since its initial release 32 years ago, Windows has had quite a few bugs and updates, all of which caught the users at the worst possible time. Completing a homework assignment that's due in an hour? Displaying an ad on a screen on the street? Too bad, the operating system will restart. Now. And the announcements it makes usually don't help, either. Phrases like "this won't take long" or "something happened" raise more questions than they provide answers. Bored Panda has compiled a list of painfully funny Microsoft Windows jokes, highlighting why Bill Gates needs to take a closer look at it. Scroll down to enjoy the entries and upvote your favorites.

#1 Chair.exe Has Stopped Working

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#5 Convinced Tech-Illiterate Friend To Upgrade To Windows 10. Told Him It Was Fool-Proof. When He Asked How He'd Fix It If Something Went Wrong, I Said "Nothing Is Going To Happen". He Sent Me This

#6 Being Honest With Microsoft

#7 I Feel Like Windows Mistakenly Did Something Horrible To My Files, And Then Managed To Fix Them While In A Panic

#8 My Daughter Was Excited For Her First Computer Homework, But Then She Had Her First Experience With Windows Update Instead

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#10 Windows Being Windows

#12 Apparently My Computer At Work Wasn't Having It Today

#13 Ctrl + Alt + Del

#14 Today I Found Out Where The Windows Logo Came From

#15 Biggest Lie In The History Of The World

#16 I Just Wanted Some Water...

#17 Those F**king Updates

#18 Blue Screen Of Death On The Mall

#19 Clippy! Is That You, Old Friend?

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#22 Pretty Much Guaranteed To Crash

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#24 Microsoft At It's Finest

#25 Delete Windows?

#26 Wandows Is Now Working Ngrmadly

#27 Nearly Gave Me A Heart Attack Upon First Glance

#28 Loudest Sounds Ever

#29 Ahhhh Yes

#30 Oh No, Someone Forgot To Turn The Cool Sign On

#32 Windows Throughout The Years

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#34 When Windows XP Froze So Youâ€™d Drag The Window Around

#35 When You're Home For Christmas And It's Time For Your Parents' Annual Computer Maintenance

#36 Nice Try Microsoft

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#38 Windows Firewalls

#39 Searching For 'Firef' Shows 'Ie' As Best Match In Windows

#40 Update And Restart

#42 It's Treason, Then

#43 Ok Microsoft

#44 Guess Who Has Homework Due At Midnight. It's Currently 10:30 And Has Been Updating For 10 Mins

#45 Windows Is Great

#46 I'm At Chuckie Cheese With The Kids And My Race Car Literally Crashed

#47 After Rebooting Required By A Windows Update. It's Like My Computer Pranked Me

#48 You're Planning To Restart My Tablet When, Microsoft?

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#50 Skype Is Officially Bloatware, Uninstalled It Yesterday Only To Have It Come Back In Full Force Today

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Fluent, display, and Registry Editor improvements

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Fluent, display, and Registry Editor improvements

Microsoft today released a new preview for PCs with improvements to Edge, Skype, Diagnostic Data Viewer, video, typing insights, font, security, Task Manager, accessibility, container, and mixed reality. This build is from the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update the company plans to release later this year.

Windows 10 is being developed as a service, meaning it receives new features on a regular basis. Microsoft has released five major updates so far: November Update, Anniversary Update, Creators Update, Fall Creators Update, and April 2018 Update.

Edge has received richer learning tools in Reading View, including additional themes, the ability to change the color for parts of speech, and a line focus option to improve focus while reading an article by highlighting sets of one, three, or five lines. There’s also a new consent box for saving Autofill data (password and payment icons, improved messaging, and highlighting of options) and PDF toolbar improvements (just hover your cursor at the top to see the tools).

Microsoft’s Fluent Design has received a depth aspect in the form of shadows “to help improve user focus.” Many of the default modern popup type controls will now have shadows.

Display Settings now has a new Windows HD Color page for devices that can show high dynamic range (HDR) content, including photos, videos, games, and apps. The page reports your system’s HD Color capabilities and allows HD Color features to be configured on capable systems.

The Registry Editor now shows a dropdown as you type to help complete the next part of the path. You can also now hit Ctrl + Backspace to delete the last “word” (Ctrl + Delete will delete the next word).

This desktop build also includes the following general bug fixes and improvements:

Fixed the issue that had regressed the time it takes to remotely deploy and debug a UWP application to a local virtual machine or an emulator.

Fixed an issue that could result in any surface that used reveal (including Start tiles and Settings categories) going totally white.

Fixed an issue resulting in some Insiders seeing a 0x80080005 error when upgrading to recent flights.

Fixed an issue where the “You are getting an update” dialog displayed unexpected extra characters.

Fixed an issue where aborting a shutdown would break input in UWP apps until rebooting.

Fixed an issue in recent flights where attempting to pin Settings categories to Start would either crash Settings or do nothing.

Fixed an issue resulting in Ethernet and Wi-Fi Settings unexpectedly missing content in the last flight.

Fixed a high hitting Settings crash impacting pages with Get Help content, including Touchpad Settings, Accounts Settings, and Family and Other Users Settings pages.

Fixed an issue that could result in Sign-In Settings being blank sometimes.

Fixed an issue where advanced keyboard settings might unexpectedly show “some settings are hidden by your org”.

Fixed an issue where creating a system image from backup and restore in control panel would fail on x86 machines.

Turned off the acrylic background in Task View – for now the design will return to how it shipped in the previous release, with acrylic cards instead. Thanks everyone who tried it out.

Fixed an issue where after using voice to ask Cortana certain questions you may not be able to ask her a second question with voice.

Fixed an issue that could result in explorer.exe crashing if certain apps were minimized when switching to tablet mode.

Updated the Remove access icon On the Share tab in File Explorer to be more modern and made some tweaks to the Advanced security icon.

Fixed an issue that could result in the console forgetting the cursor color on upgrade and it getting set to 0x000000 (black). The fix will prevent future users from hitting this issue, but if you’ve already been impacted by this bug, you’ll need to manually fix the setting in the registry. To do this, open regedit.exe and delete the ‘CursorColor’ entry in ‘Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console’ and any sub-keys, and re-launch your console window.

Addressed an issue where the audio driver would hang for many Bluetooth speakers and headsets which support the Hands-Free profile.

Fixed an issue resulting in the Microsoft Edge favorites pane scrolling sideways instead of up and down on mouse wheel in recent flights.

Fixed a few issues highly impacting Microsoft Edge reliability in the last few flights.

Fixed an issue resulting in Internet Explorer losing all settings and becoming unpinned from the taskbar with each of the last few flights.

Fixed an issue resulting in ethernet not working for some Insiders using Broadcom ethernet drivers on older hardware in the last flight.

Fixed an issue where remoting into a PC running the previous flight could result in just seeing a black window.

Fixed an issue that could result in certain games hanging when typing into the chat window.

Fixed an issue from the last flight where text predictions and shapewriting candidates wouldn’t appear in the touch keyboard’s candidate list until backspace is pressed while typing.

Fixed an issue where when Narrator started you would be presented with a dialog that informed the user of the change to Narrator’s keyboard layout and the dialog might not take focus or speak after Narrator has started.

Fixed an issue where when you changed Narrator’s default Narrator key to just caps lock the Insert key would continue to function until the caps lock key was used as the Narrator key or if the user restarts Narrator.

Fixed an issue where if your System > Display > Scaling and layout is not set to 100%, some text might appear smaller after reverting “Make text bigger” value back to 0%.

Fixed an issue where Windows Mixed Reality might get stuck after going to sleep and display a persistent error message in Mixed Reality Portal or a “Wake up” button that doesn’t work.

Today’s update bumps the Windows 10 build number for the RS5 branch from 17704 (made available to testers on June 27) to build 17711.

This build has 18 known issues:

You may see some unexpectedly light colors in File Explorer and the Common File Dialog when in dark mode and/or dark on dark text.

In certain cases on PCs with multiple monitors, all the windows may appear shifted “up” and the mouse responds to the wrong location. The workaround is use Ctrl + Alt + Del to bring up the task screen and then hit cancel. Repeat as necessary.

When you upgrade to this build you’ll find that the taskbar flyouts (network, volume, etc) no longer have an acrylic background.

Some users will not be able to enable/disable HDR display support.

Applications that use ICC color profiles may encounter errors such as Access Denied. This includes the Color Management control panel, and color profile switching on certain Surface devices.

When you use the Ease of Access Make Text bigger setting, you might see text clipping issues, or find that text is not increasing in size everywhere.

You may find your secondary displays don’t render correctly. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and then cancel and that should resolve it.

If you install any of the recent builds from the Fast ring and switch to the Slow ring – optional content such as enabling developer mode will fail. You will have to remain in the Fast ring to add/install/enable optional content. This is because optional content will only install on builds approved for specific rings.

Narrator speech may fade when waking from sleep mode.

When the Narrator Quickstart launches, Scan Mode may not reliably be on by default. To verify that Scan Mode is on, press Caps Lock + Space.

When using Scan mode you may experience multiple stops for a single control. An example of this is if you have an image that is also a link.

If the Narrator key is set to just Insert and you attempt to send a Narrator command from a braille display then these commands will not function. As long as the Caps Lock key is a part of the Narrator key mapping then braille functionality will work as designed.

There is a known issue in automatic dialog reading where the title of the dialog is being spoken more than once.

The state of a Narrator command such as toggling Scan Mode on and off, volume up and down, voice speed, changing verbosity and context verbosity commands may not be announced when executed.

The framerate counter chart sometimes doesn’t show up correctly over known games.

The CPU chart shows an incorrect percentage of usage in the top left corner.

Charts in the performance panel don’t update immediately when clicking through tabs.

The user’s gamerpic doesn’t display correctly, even after signing in.

As always, don’t install this on your production machine.

Source :Venturebeat

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Column and row headings missing in Excel

If the column letters and row numbers are missing, go to View and click on “Headings”.

Sometimes the row and column headings are gone. So there is not written A, B, C and so on above the columns. And 1, 2, 3… is missing to identify the rows.

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Switch column headings from numbers to letters within the Excel options.

Excel provides the function to switch from column letters (=default) to numbers. In some cases it makes sense to use numbers instead of letters:

Working with VBA macros.

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You can’t see the worksheet names on the bottom of the Excel window? All sheet tabs are gone?

You can easily restore them:

Go to File and click on Options.

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Scroll down until the group “Display options for this workbook:…”. Set the tick for “Show sheet tabs”.

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Images, charts or other objects missing in Excel?

Images, charts, drawings etc. missing? Click “For objects, show all” within the Excel options.

You had images, charts or other objects (e.g. drawing) in your Excel workbook, but now they are gone? There are basically two possibilities:

You’ve (accidentally) deleted them?

They are just not being displayed.

There is a hidden setting in Excel with says “For objects, show:”. Here you can select if you want to show all such objects. Objects are in general everything which is not inside cells. So everything from images, drawings, charts, drop-down lists, etc.

You can easily reactivate them. But it’s a little bit hidden:

Go to File and click on Options.

On the left side click on “Advanced”.

Scroll down to the “Display options for this workbook:”. The last bullet point says “For objects, show:”. Set the tick at “All”.

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You want to add a charts, image or drawing to your Excel workbook, but the buttons are greyed out like in the screenshot below?

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Objects are hidden within the Excel settings. In that case follow the steps below:

There is a setting in Excel with says “For objects, show:”. Here you can select if you want to show all objects, including images, charts, drop-down lists and so on. Objects are in general everything which is not inside cells.

Go to File and click on Options.

On the left side click on “Advanced”.

Scroll down to the “Display options for this workbook:”. The last bullet point says “For objects, show:”. Set the tick at “All”.

Now the buttons shouldn’t be greyed out any longer.

Why I can’t choose rows and columns to repeat on print outs in Excel?

Set the rows and columns to repeat by clicking on “Print Titles” within the “Page Layout” ribbon.

If your worksheet spreads over more than one printed page, you can define rows and columns to repeat. That way, the header row or column will be printed on each page. Large tables are much easier to read.

The problem: Often the fields for defining the rows and columns to repeat are greyed out. This occurs, when you just press Ctrl + p and go through the print preview.

Instead, you have to go through the “Page Layout” ribbon and set the print range there.

Click on “Print Titles” within the “Page Setup” section on the “Page Layout” ribbon.

Select the rows or column you want to be repeated.

Confirm by clicking on “OK”.

For more information about printing Excel sheets please refer to our large print guide.

Why are values not updating or calculating in Excel?

Keep calm and press F9 – green

Your Excel results are obviously wrong? Maybe you’ve just changed something but the results are still the same, Excel is not updating the results?

In such case it’s probable, that your workbook is set to manual calculation. That way, Excel recalculates your workbook only when you ask it to. You got the following options:

Press F9 on the keyboard. That way, all changed formulas and their depending cells will be recalculated.

In some rare cases, pressing F9 doesn’t solve the problem. Try pressing Ctrl + Alt + F9 on the keyboard. That way, all formulas – no matter if they changed or not – will be recalculated.

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Have you selected several worksheets at the same time? In such case, you can’t add groupings. You can only do it sheet by sheet.

Are you inside an Excel cell? If yes, you have to leave the cell first in order to add groupings.

The worksheet is protected? In that case you’d usually receive an error message.

I can’t scroll in Excel. Why?

You can’t scroll up and down or side wards?

Supposing you’ve checked your hardware (and confirmed that your mouse works correctly…), please check the following things:

Are there frozen panes? E.g. the first row or column? If yes, try to unfreeze them. Therefore, go to View and click on Freeze Panes and again on Freeze Panes. Can you scroll now? The reason: Maybe the frozen section is larger than the screen. Please refer to this article for more information about freezing panes.

Are there any (hidden) other windows open? For example a sort window, but shown somewhere else (e.g. on another screen)?

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