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Lol. It happened after an update sometime last week.
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Johnny J. wrote: 1) I have been FORCED to log into OneDrive AND it wants to upload all the contents of My Documents folder to same. First of all, I don't WANT all my documents in the cloud! Second, I use Dropbox for the stuff I DO want there, and I'm perfectly happy with that!
Yeah. Installed the update yesterday and they prompted me to login. But I was in no way FORCED to do so. I could easily just close that window.
What annoyed me was that I shut it down with "Shutdown and install updates" and needed the PC an hour later again. It booted up to "installing updates now. Please do not turn off your computer" and it's sweet time (including a few automatic reboots) to finally show that login screen. Is it finished then? No, there comes an annoying full screen about "Hey, I'm updated now".. Of course you couldn't have installed the updates before actually shutting down... they need to get installed when you urgently need it booting up 
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Nicholas Marty wrote:
Yeah. Installed the update yesterday and they prompted me to login. But I was in no way FORCED to do so.
Really? I tried to close it down and it just popped up again... Maybe I should have tried harder... 
My system has installed several more updates today, requiring several reboots which took quite some time all of them.
And I had to manually search for and install Media Feature Pack[^], reinstall Java and edit the Firefox config just to be able to see videos on Instagram and other similar sites! Took me some time just to figure out how to solve it 
This is the worst F-Up of my system Microsoft has EVER seen fit to release. I hope it'll take a long time before they do something similar again! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I haven't used it for more than like 15 minutes after the updates. So I might get nagged again.. I also didn't try to watch any videos so far. 
Only thing I noticed at first glance, was that the changed start menu which seems to be a big UI mess.
I'm glad that I don't have Java installed. So that's one thing they can't mess up on my machine 
But it looks like I might still be in for a surprise. I think after the last big update in fall '15 I had to reinstall everything (all the Windows Universal Apps wouldn't work (even "calc.exe" - btw whoever chose to "redesign" that app should get fired) and told me to reinstall from the Windows Store. Problem was: The Windows Store App wasn't working either and told me to reinstall from the Windows Store. So after trying to mess around with it for a bit I just scratched it...)
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Nicholas Marty wrote: I'm glad that I don't have Java installed.
Are you sure you haven't???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I am. Unless the Anniversary Update installed it... Why would I need it?
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Well, apparently I need it to view videos on quite a large amount of web pages (Instagram included - but strangely enough not Farcebook).
My point is that it might have been installed unbeknownst to you to cover some functionality that you didn't know requires java?!?!? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I don't have a lot of software installed on my machine at home. I really can't imagine that a website like Instagram requires Java (and I don't bother to find out). I regard any website trying to run Java as malicious. :P
As for my reasons to keep my OS free of Java:
I've once botched my OS by trying to uninstall an old JRE version. Since then I try to make sure to not install anything related to Java ever again. As far as I remember, I didn't need it once in the last 5+ years.
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Johnny J. wrote: it took FOREVER to start up!
Doesn't that mean it's still going?
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Forced to serve, he followed closely. (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Whats the solution...?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Two minutes to go ... someone might still post it ... please? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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List of Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2016 | Inverse[^]
There's some quality research in there this year!
Dressing rats in polyester pant suits to see if it affects their sex life? Check!
Pretending you are a goat? Check!
Collecting dead flies? Check!
Now, anyone know how you get these research programmes funded? Because I've got a couple of ideas regarding QA...
[edit]"Ig" Nobel, Mr android, not "If"...  [/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 23-Sep-16 3:30am.
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Collecting polyester pants from dead goats on QA?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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No putting QA and rats in a pair of polyester pants, might stimulate some thinking.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Wouldn't that be cruel (to the rats)?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I often think that the Ig Nobel brigade deserve their own award for daftness.
Yes, some of the research listed is seriously stupid but things on there like finding that people scratching whilst looking in the mirror ease itches on the other side of their body are clearly interesting and valuable.
Knowing whether horse-flies like light or dark may not solve the ultimate question of live, the universe and everything but it does add something, however trivial, to the sum of human knowledge.
I can't help thinking that if the Ig Nobel committee spent time actually investigating stuff rather than getting all smug and sarcy about the efforts of others, the world might be a marginally better place.
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PeejayAdams wrote: people scratching whilst looking in the mirror ease itches on the other side of their body
Does that only work left-to-right or does it also work front-to-back?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I did try to find out but I put my neck out in the process.
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On Netflix!
![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Must
not
binge
watch!
Marc
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Dammit. My hopes were up, for a second. It's not on Netflix UK.
This space for rent
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We got localised in Singapore recently, I was so infuriated I cancelled Netflix. I now wait a few days and download instead.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Never done it and I don't know the legal implications, but wouldn't it be easier to VPN to your country?
Something like TunnelBear...
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Netflix has proclaimed war upon VPN users. If they find out they ban your account. So you can't really use a VPN service provider... Of course that isn't because they wanted to (they are losing paying customers that way), but because they were forced to do so by the content providers who still want to cling on to territorial licensing.
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