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#3177121 2-Jan-2024 14:54

Gurezaemon:
geoffwnz: Gravity. Particularly when applied rapidly. Or at least, the sudden stop after a sudden attack of gravity while snowboarding.
Turns out ice plus catching a heel edge hurts a lot.

Usually on the last run of the day, where you've thought, "I'm getting tired, but I'll be all right..."

For me it was a front edge combined with ice = broken rib.

Certainly became the last run of the day, though I was only heading back for lunch initially.
Variable conditions meant some trails were crisp, some were softening, and that one green return trail that was shiny ice...

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#3177128 2-Jan-2024 15:32

Gurezaemon:

kingdragonfly:
Gurezaemon: How slow Windows can become when you accidentally copy-paste 10,450 html files onto the desktop.

You can up-arrow key or F3 to edit the command line, and replace dir with del

dir %UserProfile%\Desktop\*.html /b /p

del %UserProfile%\Desktop\*.html

Oooh. Nice trick. How did I never realize I could filter things like that...?

When I had my issue, even Ctrl Alt Del wouldn't work, let alone getting the Task Manager, but these dir and del tricks are bound to be helpful in the future.

Wait, you didn't know about wildcard (? and *) in the command line?

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#3177133 2-Jan-2024 15:59

freitasm:

Wait, you didn't know about wildcard (? and *) in the command line?

😊 C:\> del *.*

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#3177154 2-Jan-2024 17:13

Gurezaemon: When I had my issue, even Ctrl Alt Del wouldn't work, let alone getting the Task Manager, but these dir and del tricks are bound to be helpful in the future.

About "del *.*" or "del .", Microsoft will warn "Are you sure (Y/N)?" unless you use "/q" which specifies quiet mode. There are worst commands, but this is not a tutorial on how to screw up someone's PC.

If Ctrl Alt Del doesn't work, you might want to check if it ever works, when the computer is idle.

If a menu pops up, with task manager pops up, you're all good, and hit cancel, or press the "esc" key.

If you have a gaming keyboard, you may see if there's a key that has a joystick on it. This will disable certain keys so you don't accidently jump out of a game. Note usually this won't interfere with Ctrl Alt Del, but worth checking.

Also see if your keyboard has an key with "FN" (typical in compact or laptop keyboard)

See this link for more info on FN key. Note that hitting "FN" and "CapsLock" together may trigger a "FN lock", which can be confusing.

Try a "four finger salute" and hold down FN+Ctrl+Alt+Del and the same time.
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Note: Make sure you saved all work before experimenting. Send me a private message if you need advice on backing up.

Since you're computer froze in the middle of a large file copy, it's a good idea to do a CHKDSK to prevent future problems.

See this link from EaseUS, a reliable company that who make "Partition Magic".

After Chkdsk, the link mentions two "serious" Microsoft tools which are ... more intensive ... for lack of a better phrase. If you get this far, definitely have a good backup.

SFC - System File Checker
DISM - Deployment Image Servicing and Management

Here's a link that offer similar advice but adds updating keyboard driver. Updating drivers is almost always safe, and again the more dramatic fix SFC.

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#3177156 2-Jan-2024 17:21

See this link from EaseUS, a reliable company that who make "Partition Magic".

Citation needed :)

Partition Magic was made by PowerQuest, although eventually Symantec snapped it up. Wikipedia says it's been discontinued.

EaseUS makes "Partition Master", which appears to be a completely different product (that I've never heard of).

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#3177157 2-Jan-2024 17:33

I have used EaseUS for 15 years for various things from resizing partitions on servers to backup and restore.

They are trustworthy.

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#3177210 2-Jan-2024 22:12

Gurezaemon:
geoffwnz: Gravity. Particularly when applied rapidly. Or at least, the sudden stop after a sudden attack of gravity while snowboarding.
Turns out ice plus catching a heel edge hurts a lot.

Usually on the last run of the day, where you've thought, "I'm getting tired, but I'll be all right..."

For me it was a front edge combined with ice = broken rib.

Possibly my only superstition : never say "last run". If thinking last run say "second to last run" to avoid bad luck.

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#3177313 3-Jan-2024 10:51

freitasm:

Gurezaemon:

Oooh. Nice trick. How did I never realize I could filter things like that...?

When I had my issue, even Ctrl Alt Del wouldn't work, let alone getting the Task Manager, but these dir and del tricks are bound to be helpful in the future.

Wait, you didn't know about wildcard (? and *) in the command line?

I'm quite comfortable with that sort of regex, rather it was a blind spot of combining a dir or a del command with a folder path AND a *.html or similar.

Previously, I'd navigate to the folder in the command line, and then issue the commands, but this way mentioned above reduces the steps needed.

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#3177317 3-Jan-2024 11:04

kingdragonfly: About "del *.*" or "del .", Microsoft will warn "Are you sure (Y/N)?" unless you use "/q" which specifies quiet mode. There are worst commands, but this is not a tutorial on how to screw up someone's PC.

If Ctrl Alt Del doesn't work, you might want to check if it ever works, when the computer is idle.

If a menu pops up, with task manager pops up, you're all good, and hit cancel, or press the "esc" key.

Ctrl Alt Del works fine generally. On this occasion, it wasn't so much that it didn't work, rather that each mouse movement or keyboard input took 30-60 seconds to register on the screen, and I was in a hurry. Ctrl Alt Del did bring up Task Manager, but it was unusable for the same reason.

kingdragonfly: Note: Make sure you saved all work before experimenting. Send me a private message if you need advice on backing up.

See this link from EaseUS, a reliable company that who make "Partition Magic".

Thanks for the suggestions. I've been imaging my C: drive using Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, and Clonezilla over the years (and bvckup for data drives), and I was prepared to revert to a recent Clonezilla image if I absolutely had to, but luckily safe mode + command prompt saved the day.

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#3177379 3-Jan-2024 18:06

That our oven has failed in the "let's go flat out" mode!

Burnt pizza anyone?

Thermostat has no affect!

B*gger!

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#3177388 3-Jan-2024 19:07

msukiwi:

That our oven has failed in the "let's go flat out" mode!

Burnt pizza anyone?

Thermostat has no affect!

B*gger!

Be happy it wasn’t Xmas day while cooking. Ours blew on New Year’s Day and our electrician is back on the 8th.

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#3177392 3-Jan-2024 19:09

When I purchased my home it had a very fancy induction stovetop and a built-in oven.

I needed to consult both user manuals, just to figure out how to turn either on.

The induction stovetop is mostly featureless glass panel, with flaky and unobvious touch controls. It only communicate via a few scattered single LED's or 1 character codes, and beeping. When powered on, it has a padlock function enabled by default, and is unresponsive till you press the padlock "button" (usually takes two or three attempts) and get a beep.

One the other hand, the oven has hidden controls, and an LED text display. Every function requires an "press 'OK' after you insert the food" even when there's no need (no timer, no preheat). If you insert food, and don't hit OK. it'll just stay off, not heating.

And in some beautiful planned obsolesce, the tiny but critical "ok" chrome painted plastic button broke at almost exactly 5 years plus 1 day, and require you to pull out the oven to get to the back, and a $600 replacement motherboard that's no longer available. (I looked worldwide)

Anyone have a good used 1950's oven and range top?

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#3177396 3-Jan-2024 19:31

Same with washing machines. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned mechanical programme dial. Modern touchscreen crap adds nothing but more points of failure.

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#3177398 3-Jan-2024 19:40

Rikkitic:
Same with washing machines. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned mechanical programme dial. Modern touchscreen crap adds nothing but more points of failure.

I'll take a modern auto sensing water efficient front loading washing machine that is a fraction less reliable over my mother's agitator and roller every day of the week, twice on Sundays.

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#3177452 3-Jan-2024 21:25

networkn:

I'll take a modern auto sensing water efficient front loading washing machine that is a fraction less reliable over my mother's agitator and roller every day of the week, twice on Sundays.

To each their own. My old Miele was the best in every sense washing machine ever made. No chip nonsense, just a fully programable rotary dial that worked perfectly and never failed. I wish I could have brought it with me from Europe. Anyone too dumb or lazy to turn the dial has got other bigger problems.

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