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Also this is the lounge.
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WTE has Excel got to do with Programming?
Yeah I know there is VBA slapped on the back end, but his prob was nothing more than a moan about the SQL to Excel lack of communication.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I was once booted for asking what reporting software loungers like. 
I did not report them but just gave some advice. 
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This is not a programming question. It is a guru question.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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So it should be asked in the Guru forum - This is the lounge. What on Earth could give ANYBODY the idea that this is where to find gurus of ANY sort? 
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Look straight into my eyes, breathe slowly, look into my eyes, listen to my voice, take a profound breathe, close you eyes while you concentrate on my voice, you feel sleepy, ...
Now, you may call me guru.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Tyr copying a cell, and then paste it's value to another cell.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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And am annoyed.
Even before looking at any features.
Why would the update need to reboot TWICE??
An be careful with the prompts on the final reboot. They try to re-enable all the 'send to Microsoft...' options.
And they try to get you to log in with a web account, rather than a local account - again.
Pops up a logon screen that says - "please enter your email address to logon"
Wasn't obvious to me how to logon to a normal local account - but a couple of bashes on the escape key got me back to the normal logon.
Frustrating.
New colours in Metro are even worse - the orange is just awful.
Microsoft - what are you doing??
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NeverJustHere wrote: Microsoft - what are you doing??
You think they know? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I can guess at what they are trying to do - which is to leverage their dominance in desktop and laptop space into tablet and phone space - except in doing so, they have completely trashed the reason they are dominant in the desktop and laptop space.
They should have learned from their IE experience - a dominant product will yield to a superior product.
And right now I'd rather use Mint Linux that Windows 8.
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NeverJustHere wrote: the orange is just awful.
Well, saying this on CP is a bit rude... 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Fair point - and one that I hadn't considered.
But comparing them side-by-side (oh, wait I can't do that because Metro is full screen...)
no, Windows is definitely significantly more, and excessively too, orange on Metro.
CodeProject, as orange as it is, is subtle and understated in comparison.
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OK, ok, I put the tar and the feathers back in their cabinet.
Seriously now, I think you can change the colors, can't you ?
And the whole subscribing stuff has been going on for ages, and has to do with the cloud. I bet you an sync a lot of things with mobile devices if you subscribe... but I hate it. I even refused to install some applications that look great because I did not freaking want to have yet another account.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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My biggest annoyance with 8.1 is that it insists on branding my desktop image with the version and build number. PLUS the text "Safe start has not been configured correctly" (translation from Swedish, so the actual English text might differ) - WITHOUT giving me the option to configure the flucking Safe start OR tell me how to do it! 
And Google is not helpful in removing the branding either. Doesn't seem like anybody but me cares about the text obscuring the picture of my cats!!! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Johnny J. wrote: branding my desktop image with the version and build number
Ah, this is made that way so you can access the information more easily when calling the hotline 
Johnny J. wrote: Google is not helpful in removing the branding either.
Have you tried spitting on the screen and rubbing it with your fist ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Have you tried spitting on the screen and rubbing it with your fist ?
Can't do that. I'm saving it if I should happen to come across an MS support technician IRL. 
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Rage wrote: Have you tried spitting on the screen and rubbing it with your fist ?
Or spitting on your fist and using it on the screen?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is a software problem, don't blame the hardware !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Not really, but thank you for trying.
The first link seems to be how to get INTO safe startup mode, not how to "configure it" - whatever the hell MS means by that... Please understand that I have NO IDEA whatsoever about what setting I am supposed to configure to get the bloody text to disappear!
The second link, I had found before, but it doesn't seem to apply in my scenario. First of all, it's a hack that assumes that you have a static desktop image (and I have a rotating one), and second of all: There are no such files as transcoded wallpapers and cached files in my windows 8.1 folders.
The tip is written for windows 8 consumer preview, so I can only assume that it has been changed, either in the official windows 8 release or somewhere in the windows 8.1 development cycle. 
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Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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There may be a registry setting then that enables it then.
I may just have to look into it further then.
I guess I don't understand what you mean by Configure.
You either start a system in safe mode or you don't.
You don't normally need safemode unless you are troubleshooting something.
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Johnny J. wrote: My biggest annoyance with 8.1 is that it insists on branding my desktop image with the version and build number.
Weird, I don't have that on mine...did you update via the Store or the ISO from MSDN?
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ISO from MSDN
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Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Hi,
There is no watermark in the Retail build.
If your watermark looks like this[^] then you have test signing enabled. You can remove the watermark by simply enabling driver signing with 'bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING off'
If your watermark looks like this[^] then you can get rid of it by changing the 'PaintDesktopVersion' registry key located at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ to '0'
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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None of the tips worked for me. I've still got the flucking watermark...
But thanks for trying
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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