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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

ConisioAdmin.exe (Solidworks PDM)

EaseUS Disk Copy.exe (EaseUS Disk Copy Application)

ep_dwm.exe (ExplorerPatcher) Included since 22H2

iCloudServices.exe (iCloud files shared in Explorer via WhatsApp) from 23H2

RadeonSoftware.exe (AMD GPU perf settings) from23H2

StartAllBackCfg.exe (StartAllBack) Included since 22H2

Multi-mon + Copilot (Microsoft)

MergeSdb (Microsoft)

Intel IntcOED.sys (Intel)

Intel IntcAudioBus.sys (Intel) (%WinDir%\System32\drivers\IntcAudioBus.sys)

Realtek 8192su Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter (Realtek) (%WinDir%\System32\drivers\RTL8192su.sys)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I love that Microsoft has Microsoft developed applications on its update/upgrade block list.

It's a good reminder that companies arent as cohesive as most people think especially when they are as large as Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I remember having to reverse engineer an API owned by my own company because our team was too far removed from theirs. The whole situation was crazy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Maaaan, I can't even get communication with my shipping department about whether or not they shipped it trashed film rolls that are on hold.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're blocking the fucking GPU SOFTWARE? WHAT THE FUUCK?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What, the generic Windows driver wasn't good enough...?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I can't access this site, because it says I have to diseable my adblocker, my adblocker is off on this site, but I don't feel like deactivating the other protections. Suspicious if a page requires you to enter naked. in Make use of the same thing happens, with the same reasons for not trusting.

Site test

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just disable Javascript; it will load fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's diseabled, it's a page problem, not mine. The page is a open security door, because of a bad webmaster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Consider another sneaky method, accessing a freshly archived version of a webpage. Any archival portal would do the job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, for example searching other sites with the same article, using the reader mode in the search results of Andisearch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That works, but if you do not have an alternative when it is not the case of tabloid articles, you can use the archive.org / archive.is / ghostarchive.org method. And there are many extensions that allow opening current webpages directly from there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I know, for every shady page I know also shady tricks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ExplorerPatcher wouldn't be necessary if they actually stopped removing basic features from Explorer that have existed for over a decade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm still on Win 10. What does ExplorerPatcher do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

For me personally, I like having my taskbar at the top of the screen. MS removed the ability to change the position of the taskbar in W11. It does a lot more than that, potentially giving you an almost XP like experience if that's what you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is any of those free, small and not invasive so I can install it just to prevent an update to Winshit 11?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The iCloud thing is free. I think it adds a system tray application but I don’t think it does anything if you don’t log in with an Apple account.

The Realtek Wireless driver should also do nothing if you don’t have the device.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The enshitification of Windows compared to macOS has really accelerated a lot recently it seems. I work with both daily and it is weird and irritating how much extra crap keeps getting hurled willy-nilly into Windows updates this last year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mean it's been happening for the last 5-10 years. Did you notice Windows is free now? You know what that means.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Those are some interesting choices of apps. Considering some of those sound like professional tools (SOLIDWORKS pdm) or basic drivers/tools (Radeon software, Intel drivers), they may be about to drive more people away from their OS.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You mean the opposite. Booting up your work PC and finding out you can't do your job because Windows decide to update and break all your software is quite rage-inducing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Considering all the Bloatware that Microsoft has been pumping out lately (don’t get me started or Outlook), this may be a good excuse to get a Radeon Graphics Card.

If I can be guaranteed that installing this software will prevent having to deal with CoPilot, I would jump on that straight away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Bad news, I have an AMD card and still got the copilot button. It's probably a very specific version of the software that is an issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

For what it's worth, other Start menu replacements like Start11 and Open Shell's menu aren't on the list. This might genuinely be a compatibility-related blocker given that iCloud, EaseUS and certain drivers are also on the list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Two more Linux converts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Next wave of new Linux users incoming

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

soon, hopefully. i actually noticed that people tend to react much less surprised to a computer running linux nowadays, which seems like a good sign to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Linux: WE NEVER BREAK USER SPACE! Windows: Oops... The only thing we break is userspace.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Microsoft, probably: "StartAllBack? Nope, ya little twit, you will use our start menu AND YOU WILL LIKE IT! No installing any of that crap on ~~your~~ our computer!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

An operating system should never call home what apps the user has or what the user is doing. That's an extreme invasion of privacy.

Why do people still use this? Everyone should immediately take a Linux course and stop being suckers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think it calls home about that. It just looks if there are any „incompatible“ applications installed and blocks the update if it finds any. I guess the goal is to not break anything.

But sure, you can spin it into a “fuck Microsoft” narrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It may be just a usability measure then.

But fuck microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I left them over ten years ago, so..... :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey, microcrap, just start over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Do you pinky promise?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

That's illegal.

Edit: It's illegal to lock features of a desktop OS to specific software.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As you can read in line 35,863 of the Terms of Service you agreed to:

Fuck you you fucking piece of shit. We own you, all of your data, your computer, and your first born child. Just fucking try and sue us. Were worth a trillion fucking dollars, what are you worth? $150,000 of student loan debt for that degree you don't even use? When we say jump you jump. When we say uninstall the software, you uninstall that fucking software. Capiche?

  • Microsoft^©^ Windows^®^ Terms of Service
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No but it absolutely should be, because people wouldn't allow a person standing in their living room, writing down everything they do on their computers. But since it's not visible to the user when it happens, they don't care. But it's actually disgusting behavior, we just got used to not being able to stop it.

Why should we contribute to these companies getting rich from selling our private data??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s not illegal to make shitty software

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Believe it or not, straight to jail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which law does it break?