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.

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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.

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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.