Windows also throws my grub in a woodchipper >:(
Getting ready to go back to Linux, just waiting to get some other stuff out of the way. Taskbar autohide on my Win10 box stopped working this morning. Minor annoyance, I looked it up and found a simple fix - restart the Windows Explorer process. Okay, did that, autohide started working. Bur srsly, the taskbar is almost 30 years old, low-level shit like this SHOULD JUST WORK. Now 12 hours later I just noticed it’s not working again. What the Actual Fuck, guys? Unbelievable.
And for some reason the file Explorer and the Desktop/Taskbar are connected and you can end up with just a black Screen
chkdsk /scan
If any errors found, stop and /f them
Then:
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Finally:
sfc /scannow
Is that command line stuff? Hard pass for Windows users.
Edit: I guess the Windows users didn’t like that joke
yes, it is. those are pretty much the definitive windows commands to try to fix random stuff like this too, if they fail then it’s reinstall time lmao
Does removing old drivers would affect compatibility for older hardware?
Have you seen old 80’s-90’s style C driver code? Lines of code is an even more terrible metric for this than it usually is.
I think the fact that any old code is being removed at all is a good thing. The point of the post (at least from my perspective) is that deleting old code is something necessary for prolonged support of a codebase and it’s not something Microsoft is or maybe even ever will prioritize.
SO.MANY.DEAD.CODES.
