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I've ranted a bit before about Microsoft's pathetic excuse for an operating system. Window's only achievement is through marketing and "it's good enough." My customers do not and will not tolerate their machines crashing for inexplicable reasons... my assessment of Windows 10 on a good day is marginal, on an average day pathetic, and on a bad day - criminal. I'm being generous. For 25 years I've put up with "it must be a driver" bullchips, and as a professional by now MS should have fixed their exposure to this issue - practice safe drivers. Anyway, I rant and I want peace on earth and free healthcare for all....
Google "BSOD diagnosis" and you will get a pant load of sites that are nothing more than shills for "magic" s/w that does absolutely nothing. The next major category is anything beginning with "answers.microsoft... " I actually can hope that most of the posts are AI driven, but I'm not sure.
So for those of you who get into the muck to solve or at least accurately identify Windows 10 system issues - what are your preferred sites? What sites eat raw bits and crap ammo when they are done? tomshardware can have some traction from time to time.... crap, I feel an article forming.
Charlie Gilley
There is nothing "free" in life. If you believe this, you believe in theft.
modified 20-Aug-19 23:56pm.
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Funny you mention that, I haven't seen a BSOD in.. ho.. I can't remember...
I wonder how people get them those days! 
Apart from Hardware fault, that is...
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was gonna say that.
although i think my windows install is hosed (but only a little bit). thanks VS2017.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Time to go VS2019! 
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I have that installed too but i've only ever opened it by accident
My sticking point is whenever i install a prerelease from microsoft, eventually the updates start hosing my install, whereas if i wait for a release version, the updates tend to work better.
i've had the problem with previous devstudio releases at least. and with windows.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Mmmm... I think I know what you mean...
At any rate I was pleasantly surprised when they said the .NET Core 3 rc2 installer (or rc3? or some other number!) and forward will uninstall previous (pre-release) versions, when installed.
And I checked it, it was true! 
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cool. glad to hear that.
you should check out Pck when you get the chance.
Pck: Code Roundup and Quick Start Guide[^]
It should be able to handle your dice parsing. No code in the grammars though. Because reasons (lots of them)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Cool, gotta have a look soon! 
Congratulation, look ever more sophisticated!
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I'd like to bounce some code-in-the-grammar ideas off of you at some point. I have an idea that may allow for associated code without it having to be in the grammar, using attributes and a "codebehind" class but i'd like a 2nd opinion. Just whenever.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Oh.. ok I will look at it Saturday most like... I am often knacked those days at night! :/ Having a bad food and allergy run at the moment... 
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sorry to hear that's still giving you trouble.
take your time. i don't want to rush you into anything.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Exactly.
Unless dealing with faulty hardware or bad drivers, it's literally been years I've seen a BSOD that the OS could be blamed for. Dare I say, these days I don't see Windows outright crashing/freezing any more frequently than some Linux distributions...
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+1 to the no BSOD club here. I haven't had any at all in Win10, and I code in VS2019 Pro (Knocking on some serious wood here). 2 years ago, I did have a workstation class motherboard die on me. Likely was around then was the last time I've seen a BSOD in Win7. Drivers can cause this as well. But I tend to buy quality hardware that seldom suffer those issues.
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Two of my users regularly still get BSODs.
I do know exactly why though for these two machines.
Whenever M$ update their handling of graphic devices, the vendor provided drivers for the graphic devices on these two (out of 20 odd physical machines) shut down and bang BSOD.
Of course, what we see on the screen gives absolutely no clue that this is the reason, just learnt the hard way.
Management asked me if we could invoice M$ for the several hundred hours of research I had to do to find the issue and document it sufficiently that someone else can recover these machines if I am not on-site. I suggested that this would only cause amusement in the the house of small soft things.
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Good finding man! 
This is so tricky.. :/
That's one of the reason I like mainstream hardware ... i.e. Intel (apparently AMD might be a good bet now) and NVidia...
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charlieg wrote: My customers do not and will not tolerate their machines crashing for inexplicable reasons
Kopy better codz?
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I didn't much like Win 10 when it came out: compared to Win 7 it was ugly, dull, and schizophrenic.
And yes, it still is all of those things.
But ... it doesn't crash on me, or anyone I support - no BSOD, no nothing. Some apps do, from time to time but that's not the OS's fault.
In all, it works. And when it runs on hardware that is designed to support it (like the Surface) it runs very well indeed. considering the number of different hardware combinations it has to work with, it's a small miracle that it ever manages to boot up, much less actually run!
Sorry - but in my experience, it's pretty reliable these days. Even if updates can be a PITA.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have seen it twice, once on my own Laptop, once on my colleague's. Both times Windows 10 somehow did its magic and voila no more BSOD. No looking up how to fix BSOD.
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Mine doesn't crash. I've got an app that does (and it is because of driver issues), but the OS itself works fine. It even updated from 1803 to 1903 without a hiccup, and speedily, too.
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The only issue I faced on my latest machine was the mouse would do this weird stuttering and hang up for a second, appeared t happen randomly. I don't know how many sites and pages I looked at trying to get to the bottom of it. I even though for a while it was certain areas on the mouse pad and the optic sensor etc. etc.
In the end, I removed the Logitech Unify USB dongle and paired the mouse (Logitech MX Master 2S) via bluetooth instead and the problem appears to have now gone away.
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Just for info: I had a similar problem with a unify dongle - so much so that the keyboard would freeze too. Moving to a bluetooth mouse fixed the problem.
Having done a lot of reading and then experimenting, it turns out that the dongle's communication can be disrupted by WiFi signals and other Rf emissions. I relocated the dongle from the PC under the desk to a USB 3 hub that sits nearer to the keyboard and mouse than any other device that uses radio etc, and now it works fine.
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Cheers, I'll keep that in mind if I go back to the unify dongle for any reason.
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Once upon a time, support.microsoft.com was a technical support site worth it's weight in gold (it really worked, just input the error message and you got the right answer 99% of the time).
Then microsoft decided that everything had to be powered by Bing...
So now it's completely dysfunctional, and aimed at users instead of tech support.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Once upon a time, support.microsoft.com was a technical support site worth it's weight in gold
What does a technical support site weight anyway?
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Spot on. 
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