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Gotcha.
It sounds like the system was able to get in touch with WU and is aware an update is available. But when it tells you so (which can be hours/days after the fact), and you tell it to go ahead and fetch it, there happens to be a connectivity problem at that time.
Frankly I'd rather have that than Windows detecting an update, and download it without first getting my approval.
And least with WSUS, you get the update list, and the server sits on it and will wait indefinitely for you to approve/reject whatever you want. Only when you've approved of an update will the system download it.
Then all your clients connecting to your WSUS server will see the updates when the server has them locally. Then maintaining the connection between your server and its clients is something that remains in your control.
And that's the key to everything - remaining in control.
Back when MS was pushing Windows 7 users hard to upgrade to 8 (which I didn't want), or 8 -> 10, the KB article that triggered the full-screen upgrade nag was well-known, so I blocked it from my WSUS server. I've never seen those nag screens on any of my machines.
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No. But I can't explain without giving away clues. Maybe tomorrow I can...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It is a proper noun, but that use derives from the original meaning.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just repaired my installation of VS 2022, and still it won't show any third-party controls in the designer toolbox.
Do you think I should try uninstalling VS completely and reinstalling?
Has anyone any experience with this issue?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Well my installation just hung....
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Sounds familiar; I might have come across something similar years ago. If I recall, it must've been happening regularly enough that MS had added a command-line arg to VS to (somehow) re-scan for items that should be in the toolbox and try to rebuild it. I have no idea what it might be however, or whether it's still there.
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u may have to run those tp installer if needed to bring them back... or u need to add those back by registering them with vs
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers β progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Do people in other parts of the globe, especially in UK,
have a clue what the phrase means?
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Probably not, unless they are conversant in the American dialect of English.
(AIUI, it's a reference to the grumpy old men that would chase annoying kids away from their property. The implication is that these old men hate anything that is new.)
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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I don't know about hating anything new, more like being territorial and needing to find things to complain about.
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not really. When you finally get all of the kids out of the house and you can have a nice lawn... not sure that's territorial.
Now, about the time this happens to me (I'm getting close), the elephanting moles move in and start shredding my yard...
I know this is a gopher, but it's where I'm at: Carl vs the Gopher Part 3 - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
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Get rid of the grubs and the moles will go elsewhere to find them. I recommend milky spore, but you could try less natural things.
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I tried that one year. The neighbors on either side of me are chasing the dang things from yard to yard. You've reminded me to put the die grubs die stuff down soon. I live in northern Georgia, and we're already getting into spring. It happens every year - I miss the two months when I'm supposed to be doing this stuff .
The real issue is the rat terrier mix that my daughter left me. That dog can dig like a back hoe. Gets on whiff of a mole or vole and my zoysia is savaged.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Several years ago there was a discussion about, and I don't remember the actual title but it was an automatous, heat seeking intruder eliminator...I believe JSOP had something to do with it.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million canβt buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com
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If I'm not mistaken, somehow that's what lead to the "lawn wolf" discussion...
Speaking of JSOP, it's been many months I've read anything from him on here. Did he finally retire (and give up at the same time all communications with CP)?
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dandy72 wrote: If I'm not mistaken, somehow that's what lead to the "lawn wolf" discussion...
I think you're right.
dandy72 wrote: Speaking of JSOP, it's been many months I've read anything from him on here. Did he finally retire (and give up at the same time all communications with CP)?
Don't know, sometimes people just get busy.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million canβt buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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"Eliminator"?
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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