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This would be a whole lot easier if there was a GUI wrapped around it. It's easy to believe that there isn't one, however. Each major build of Windows changes the options available, and there are a lot of them.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Each major build of Windows changes the options available, and there are a lot of them.
Be happy, MS have promised this is the ultimate windows and there won't be more. At least your problem with diversity is solved 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: This would be a whole lot easier if there was a GUI wrapped around it
Yes, if it were done right. However, have you ever used IIS InetMgr in on Windows 2008 and beyond?
To change things in the interface there are times (to edit the applicationHost.config) that you are seriously 10 popup windows deep.
For that we used the command-line provided tool AppCmd which is quite cryptic but better than 10 popup windows. 
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Last time I had to work with the command line was to maintain a Linux server.
It was wonderful what it was possible to do in a single line.
Anyway, I prefer not using it, but given the kind of work I do I almost never use it.
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raddevus wrote: another dev says
Devs say that?
Surely not the self-respecting kind.
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Similar with passwords, and the year that Linux will finally become mainstream on the desktop.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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dandy72 wrote: Surely not the self-respecting kind.
That's why I was confused. 
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What's a command line?
The CTO of my last company also refused to use an IDE. Granted, he used Sublime for text editing, but everything he did was command line. His refusal to use an IDE was one of the reasons I left. The others were his ADHD, his arrogance, his stupidity, and his inability to meet his own deadlines to vague promises of functionality. I'm surprised I didn't come out of that experience hating Python.
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Ah, yes, the two camps. All console or all GUI.
Maybe a bit of the Golden Hammer philosophy from both sides.
However, I'm not saying "only console". I'm just saying there are still some things you have to have command line for.
Let's be balanced here, devs.
Oh, wait, devs are not the best at balance are we?
With our language and technology wars.
modified 25-Aug-17 13:33pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Granted, he used Sublime for text editing
That's a big deal for a command line extremist. I would have figured vim or something similar.
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You'll have to excuse me for this one: I was trying to make a butter pun, but the margarine for error was too great.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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But are... my puns any butter?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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According to my dairy, you've posted more than I have!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just be more careful when you whey the ingredients
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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I agrease with the larder of the two concepts.
Is is true that if one seats themselves in front of greasy food and ingest it, you saturate fat?
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You just keep churning them out.
modified 25-Aug-17 13:36pm.
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Methinks he's smiling and saying cheese all this while.
/ravi
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You really slipped up with this one!
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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And, thus, we continue to sCREAM...
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I didn't have to dig deep to strike oleo in that one.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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So, I installed the latest version (16273) of the evaluation copy of the Creator's Update (Fall Edition) of Windows 10 (I get short of breath saying all that  ) two days ago.
This morning my machine seemed to start as usual, but as soon as I entered my pin, the screen went black and stayed black, with only the cursor showing. Restarting made no difference. I had to re-image my system's drive with an image I took yesterday of the same 16273 build. That worked, but the first time it started successfully, a window popped up from Microsoft, saying something like: "Please tell us what happened when your machine restarted unexpectedly." So I wrote MS a brief report and sent it off.
Some friendly advice: Don't mess with pre-release evaluation versions of Windows unless you have the ability to recover your machine quickly from a recent image. But we are all regularly taking images of our system's drives .... right?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 25-Aug-17 9:29am.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Don't mess with pre-release evaluation versions of Windows unless you have the ability to recover your machine quickly from a recent image on any machine you care about.
FTFY.
I'll happily run any Insider build in a VM (and I've been doing so since the Insider program started), but there's no way I'm going to let any of these on any physical machine I actually use for anything useful.
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Naah! VMs are a pain to set up. It's easier to re-image.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Naah! VMs are a pain to set up. It's easier to re-image.
You must be using definitions of "pain" and "easier" I'm not familiar with. Restarting from a clean state isn't any different with a VM than a physical machine, and rolling back a checkpoint is about 2 clicks away, and takes seconds for the actual operation to complete. Doing a full system backup consists of copying a single VHD file, or a single folder if you want to be lazy about it.
It took me a long time to figure out exactly what VMs were really good for about a decade ago, but after I've seen the light, I've never gone back. I have about 60 VMs here at home, split among 2 hosts (cheap, off-the-shelf, consumer-grade hardware), running just about every version of Windows and a bunch of Linux distributions to tinker with. It's a lot easier to learn new stuff when you're not afraid that breaking anything will have any consequence.
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