Fuck you, Windows.

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Nuri complaining about Windows?  AGAIN? 

YES.

I hate updating Windows. I finally did it today because I had some red dot in my task bar and I have to do it eventually. If I don't, it always updates at the worst time. Usually around 12/1am when I'm trying to shut my computer off to go to sleep.

The update today took forever. I browse the Internet, watch YouTube, sometimes play an old game, and write in Wordpad. Why are you taking forever? What the fuck are you doing that's taking this long?

They
fucking
got
rid
of
Wordpad.
 

Apparently, it had already happened because I found older threads and posts about it.

I've been using Wordpad to write for over twenty years. It's super fucking tiny and simple. They had NO fucking reason to get rid of Wordpad other than rustling their jimmies over the fact that the people using Wordpad aren't using Word. Fuck Word.

Listen, I just wanna write stories and Notepad's way too simple. I don't give a shit about two hundred different fucking options to indent or make fancy paragraphs or embed tables or whatever the fuck people do in Word. I have to use Word for my job to draft letters and I pull my hair out at it each and every time because it's a literal piece of shit that forces weird formatting, spacing, and numbering on every other thing I make in it.

If I personally need something that goes beyond Wordpad, I'll use LibreOffice Writer or whatever other free thing is out there that isn't Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

Microsoft, go fuck yourselves.

So I went and got Wordpad back.

Also, while I was at it, I expunged that awful snipping tool that Lenovo (probably Windows, too) forced upon me. Sure it borks my PrtSc key but fuck that shit. No one asked you to give your dumb tool priority on the PrtSc key.

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"Recently Added: Microsoft Teams"?  The filthy wankers added Teams to my laptop in their update? Ex-squeeze me? I don't use Teams. Fuck off.

U N I N S T A L L.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I have to use Teams/OneDrive at work. I absolutely hate it.

I attached my copy of Wordpad. Unzip it in a permanent spot on your harddrive and create a shortcut to it.

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Awwww, thank you! I already got it back through win7games but now I have a download on my board in case I need it on another machine.

It's gross how Windows Update is adding and removing programs from my machine. Update is supposed to be "updates": security fixes and whatnot. I bought this laptop, Windows. It's mine. I'm not "renting" it from you like your shitty office suite. If I want to add or remove programs, I'll do it myself. It's just gross, man. It's gross. It's like how Merla's Samsung phone keeps forcing games to download on it. Stop abusing your update privileges.

And now that you bring it up: I hate OneDrive. I get why I'm forced to use it because my job requires document retention so the company needs to have a backup of my local files. But I still fucking hate it. I made the mistake of trying to move and organize files and the cloud or whatever was having a fucking seizure. It couldn't keep up with the volume I was trying to move so left file names and old folders lying around all over the place even though most of the contents were moved.

My work laptop died recently. Like last month or something. And ever since I got the replacement, the cloud gets momentarily confused. Like it forgets it's me on a new laptop. Weirdly enough, it muddles my Outlook settings. I have compact view with my old mail at the top and new mail at the bottom but it'll reverse the order randomly and then change my view settings. It's frickin' weird. It didn't happen until I got the replacement laptop.

Ah... and don't get me started on Copilot.  Copilot needs to take a one-way trip down the Mariana Trench.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

My benevolent corporate overlords (which I say without spite, I do quite like my company) foisted OneDrive on us on our last compulsory laptop upgrade. I get it, it backs everything up so if I have a massive computer disaster (theft, force majeure, damage, etc.) I can get a new one and recover practically everything. Rah rah, go team, blah blah blah.

Cool idea, except our host facility IT filters EVERYTHING and would not allow synchronization until we got approval from their comparatively tyrannical corporate overlords to open the network to our traffic. Which took months of leaving machines logged in to veeerrrrry slooooooowlyyyyy upload everything during off-hours and hope nothing major came up during regular work time.

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Oh, gawd, the way programs want to default saving to OneDrive instead of saving to the local machine. Save it locally and then back it up, dammit. The entire MS Office Suite on my work computer just defaults to saving on teh clowd each and everything time. It's so annoying.

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In the latest "fuck Windows" saga, a video made it into my algorithm about how Windows is trying to finish off local accounts. Windows, I'm not connecting some internet profile to the admin on my computer. It's fucking disgusting. They want to turn everything into a cell phone, even a computer. I don't know what's gonna happen whenever I buy a new computer.

Also, they are cutting off Windows 10 way too early.  What a bunch of shitters.

Meanwhile, I got sick of Windows 11's version of Paint and ran back to the win7games website and snagged the old version. I tried gimp and whatever else a long time ago but Paint resolves most of my use cases. However, since I got this computer, the version of Paint on here does not respond correctly to the Esc key. A lot of times, I'll copy something--usually an image--then go to Paint to quickly paste and resize. It's muscle memory. I've been doing this shit forever: Ctrl + C.  The Ctrl + V. Then Esc to deselect and then I do stuff to the image. But Esc on my current machine undoes the paste. Fuck you.

I tried looking up a way to fix it and couldn't find anything useful after looking for a few minutes. I go back to the Paint program and notice it does have additional features like fucking Copilot. Also, sometimes it brings up a sub-menu in that version of Paint when I paste. I just know those extra stupid features were messing up the Esc's use and sure enough, they were! Installed "Classic Paint", which is just old Paint, and it works fine now. Fuck you, Windows.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I can't say that I've used Paint since Windows 3.1. I use Paint.net for minor graphics work (mainly church bulletins). Despite being leagues ahead of Paint, it's very lightweight, contains probably 85% of what I would use The GIMP, Paint Shop Pro or even Photoshop for, and is free. And IIRC it can be installed as a standalone app, which means everything runs from a folder. The only hangup is that it requires dotNET 3.5 or something, but you should have that already on a standard Windows installation.

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You know, I forgot Paint.net was a thing.

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And that's where I come in!