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Tobe honest - with a week experience of W10, updates seem to me the smallest problem...
Let us talk about large fonts first...
Or the hide-and-seek re-design...
Or the Office licence wiped out...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Let us talk about large fonts first...
I'm not aware of any "large font" problem. That's a user choice.
I have a 4K display, and refuse to rescale the UI "because I have the pixels to spare". No, I want to run it at its native resolution, otherwise I'm just wasting screen real-estate (using up to twice as many pixels to render the same amount of data). Across 40", the text is actually smaller than it is on the 27" 1080p monitor I have sitting next to it.
Or are you talking about something else altogether?
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I have weak eyes and with those high resolution monitors the normal font size is way too small... So I use 125%...
And if you Google for Windows 10 DPI you will see what I have here...
One of the fascinating things, that if I create a brand new WinForm application (using latest VS2019) it looks perfect in the designer (assuming I have configured VS compatibility mode correctly) but blurred when running... So I either have to set the exe's compatibility or change the form's properties in VS...
An other one is that IIS manager seems to be immune to any configuration I threw at it...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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So how is this font sizing thing not a problem with previous versions of Windows?
As far as I can tell, you had some options in 7, but it's only in recent versions that MS has made significantly more efforts to present additional options.
Bottom line...what I'm trying to say is that by default, 10's fonts aren't any larger or smaller than previous versions, but at least 10 presents plenty of options to do anything about it.
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100%, 150%, and 200% work on W10
125% exists as an option but is broken, a similar effect can be reached by taking off your glasses (if you need them) or looking through fog. It used to work on 7 (maybe?) and 8 (definitely), and that old way of "actually working" can be resurrected with some weird 3rd party program that applies a registry setting at boot (Windows really likes to un-apply the setting).
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Microsoft introduced (with W8) a new method to work with DPI - they call it High DPI. It targets high resolution monitors and became the default method in W10...
So older software - and that includes software from Microsoft - will display blurred fonts (fonts only not any other graphics) when picking larger font size... And now you have to tell to Windows about each and every software not to use the new method, but fall back to the original...
As one use W10 for work only I have no gain from this High DPI method - which should be spectacular fro games and video - but I can't turn it off only software-by-software...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Well...all I can say is that I'm not using any custom resizing or fiddle with per-app settings, and use each of my monitors' native resolution...and everything looks fine on all of them. Although I do keep hearing about some of the things you mention. If I had to guess, I'd say it all starts to surface once you start customizing things.
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Aww, man, all these problems are so yesterday! 
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For some reason, the last one that got pushed at work turned off my numlock on start. It's confusing, and mildly infuriating.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Warning: Another Windows Update rant.
I've had a Windows Server 2019 VM refuse to install updates for quite a while now. Since today's patch Tuesday, figured I'd try to dig a little more into it since I'm going to be looking at that machine again sooner or later.
MS has made it clear for a while now that, with Cumulative Updates, you can take a brand new OS install, and immediately bring everything up to date just by installing the latest available Cumulative Update. Since this particular VM refuses to install the latest CU for Server 2019 (KB4522355, which came out October 24th) directly from my WSUS server, I figured I'd download the offline installer, and run that locally (more often than not this solves this type of problem).
Nope, "this update is not applicable to your computer". Tried many things, no change.
On a hunch, I tracked down the CU prior to that one--from October 8th (KB4519338). That one didn't complain, and is now in the process of being installed (as I'm writing this).
If these CUs are truly "cumulative", why does the newer one insist it's not applicable...? Windows Update itself insisted I needed it...
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dandy72 wrote: Windows Server 2019
Does anyone else find it to be a pita to get pestered by the annoying system modal 'Updates are Available' screen where the only option is to 'View Available Updates'! Where is my 'Ignore Again' option? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yes...
I'm sure there's a policy somewhere that dictates that behavior...but as with all policies...the trick part is finding it...
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Is your iPad making you tired? There's a nap for that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Tired? Need a nap? I have a pad for that!
(Might make an ad for a mattress shop...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Procrastination: there's a nap for that.
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I tend to put off procrastination.
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A few of the others android responding to that, although it could have been just be a sleep of the tongue.
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Kindle we tablet that idea for a while?
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Quote: One hand washes another.
and
Quote: One crow does not peck out another's eyes.
In most cases both apply. That's why I usually combine them: Quote: One crow washes another
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I guess it could be worse:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and
A good beginning makes a good ending Would become
A bird in the hand makes a good ending
Or perhaps
Children should be seen and not heard and
A good man is hard to find Would become
Children should be hard to find
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Spare the rod, spoil the broth.
Which is possibly better than: Too many cooks[^] spoil the child.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Good grief but that's an annoying video!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Bear with it...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: A bird in the hand makes a good ending
I heard that Disney is still looking for people who are able to write something that resembles a movie script. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Why would they suddenly start now?
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