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As a frequent visitor of the lounge, I've seen the many posts from suffering souls who have received a Windows upgrade and now stuff doesn't work, and I thought to myself: what a wonderful world I live in! (yes, I can see you at the punch line, please wait for me there  ) I've never had any upgrade problems, things kept working and the only inconvenience was that sometimes I'd find my laptop rebooted overnight. Bah! I can live with that.
This morning I see my laptop rebooted again for a Windows update and didn't thought much of it until I started VMware Workstation. The window would not resize! When I try to resize and shrink it a bit it keeps getting bigger. All the other apps work normally (at least those I tried). I don't even know if its' a Windows or a VMware thing.
Serves me well for being so insolent! From now on I'll try to be humble: Microsoft giveth (with an update), Microsoft taketh away (with the next update), blessedcursed be the name of Microsoft.
EPILOGUE - the day after
I set VMWare to run in compatibility mode (Windows 8) and was able to resize windows and all went back to normal. Than I removed the compatibility mode and it continues to run well. As I often say: only noobs still believe computers are deterministic machines 
Mircea
modified 15-Aug-24 10:07am.
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Insolent or just overly optimistic? 
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Greg Utas wrote: Insolent or just overly optimistic?
And, by, overly optimistic, you mean, “Oh, windows actually works as I expect it to.” 
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That's not optimisitic, that's unrealisitic  
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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Who'd a thunk that after nearly 40 years of Windows things would be like this?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Me?
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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..and I'm usually considered the skeptical one. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: to resize and shrink it a bit it keeps getting bigger
That would seem like something was remapped incorrectly.
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<ranting>
Pour out Thy wrath upon the heathens that know Thee not! (Psalms 79, 6)
</ranting>
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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Ironic. You would think with a name like "Windows" that managing Windows would be what the product does best.
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This phenomenon is quite common.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The People Republic's of China.
The United States Department of Education...
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How people can be so indifferent to their computers occasionally rebooting on their own is beyond me.
This obnoxious Microsoftism is the reason I've switched from Windows 7 to Linux instead of downgrading to Windows 10.
I absolutely wholeheartedly do not miss Windows.
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obeobe wrote: How people can be so indifferent to their computers occasionally rebooting on their own is beyond me.
Come, come, it's not that bad! Machines might need there own personal time when you aren't around them. Maybe it's a nascent AI wanting to explore the world 
Mircea
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Yeah explore the world when I'm downloading something, uploading something, or running something...
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I tried Windows 8.0 when it came out and within a month had Linux on my main machine. Unfortunately, I still run a Windows VM for the games that won't work under Linux, Affinity Photo (just hate Gimp!) and TurboTax. I've had way fewer issues with Linux than I've had with Windows 10 and 11.
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I have a system here (a physical machine) on Windows 10 that installed, shortly after initial setup, the very first of the monthly Cumulative Updates that was available to it.
Every single one after that has failed. Every month, I keep my fingers crossed that this'll be the one that fixes it, but nope.
Had I known, after the first failure, I would've repaved. But now after X many years of actual use, repaving a machine becomes less and less of a viable option. So I don't. This one machine I have is years behind in its updates.
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I’ve never (or, not yet) had an update mess up my machine or my apps, but I wouldn’t say it can never happen.
Isn’t there a setting for updates that lets you postpone them (see if others get bricked in some way first) or only do them “on demand”?
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MSBassSinger wrote: I’ve never (or, not yet) had an update mess up my machine or my apps, but I wouldn’t say it can never happen.
Quick, another insolent! Off with their heads!
Mircea
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I keep hearing all these issues with VMWare and I keep thinking the same thing:
What is the need for VMWare? Why pay for something that is free from Microsoft.
We support it for third parties that use it for some of our customers, and they have the same issues you mention. Say about 5 VMs Total. They always blame Microsoft, but our stuff just runs. That's the only part that fails.
My machine and server count on Hyper-V is on the 500 Plus and with several iterations of servers and for more than 14 years.
My Hyper-V Stuff has been running from the time of Virtual PC and old as well as new just run.
I even have some virtual DOS 6.22 and XP VMs needed for historical reasons since the software vendors went away.
Again, it just runs fine.
If it fails, you may want to consider and alternative, if it works, why bother changing?
Good luck
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You probably have a point there. In my case, it's a question of habit: I've used VMWare since 20+ years ago and, as I said, I've never run into problems. Maybe I should look into migrating to Hyper-V but it's always hard to leave familiar ground without a proper motivation.
Mircea
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I took me almost 10 years to drop Borland CPP for MS C# and about 30 to drop Unix/Linux for Windows.
I hated doing it, as if I were doing something wrong.
I kept seeing my friends keeping software running for years but I had to keep making changes.
The maintenance was killing me.
I now have other problems and the universe I deal with is bigger, but there is always something already solving my problems in the Microsoft universe.
My last adventures were the Mono Project and the MySQL limit to 2Gbs. By the time I got around their issues MSFT had CS Code behind and MSSQL Express could store 10GB in the main DB and unlimited using Streams.
At my level, which is SMB, that makes it very easy to use.
In those short years are grew 4 times the size.
I share my shame of leaving Unix/Linux for Windows for that reason.
Good luck Sir!
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That "terrible rap video" from this morning's CP newsletter. If you're subscribed, you know the one. I won't even link to it.
I tried to sit through it, I honestly did. Two and a half minutes into it, I just had to stop. If the cringe factor was something that could be detected with some sort of device, it would've exploded.
I mean, yikes, I've seen some old, bad internal Microsoft videos, but this one's in a category of its own.
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that was hmmmm interesting. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the backup singers in red and what that probably did to their collective careers. They had to be trying to hide this video.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Agree. This vid was cringe at its best. Awful it means.
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I'll readily admit there are some things that are "so bad, it's good", but no, I think this one is on its own.
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