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#3375605 22-May-2025 13:49

cddt:

Behodar:

I presume you're talking about HEIF, which is an open standard and not created by Apple. Microsoft offers an "extension": https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pmmsr1cgpwg

With an average rating of 1.6 out of a possible 5 stars, I can't imagine it's a good solution...

if you read the viewers, it says that this should be install by default so gave 1 star (and is now with fresh install of windows 11 with the latest version) or talk about codec which is the video version and more of pain as MS is charging for their hevc codec but in a admin command prompt, running "winget install CodecGuide.K-LiteCodecPack.Full" sort all my codec issues for video and what I do on any new PC

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#3375877 23-May-2025 08:56

cddt: With an average rating of 1.6 out of a possible 5 stars, I can't imagine it's a good solution...

Admittedly, that's with only 33 ratings at the time of writing. The companion to that is the HEVC Video Extensions which will cost you money.

You might also be interested in the Web Media Extensions to fully support all the other, non-natively supported file formats.

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#3375927 23-May-2025 13:02

I'm astounded that Microsoft has managed to break Notepad, of all things. All I'm trying to do is close an unsaved file! It tells me it's not saved, I click "Don't save"... and it just stays open. Fortunately it closed on the third attempt, but I'm not sure what madness inspired me to try it three times in the first place.

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#3375989 23-May-2025 13:48

Antivirus software or clipboard managers sometimes hook into save dialogs and might delay or interrupt normal flow.

Also the Microsoft Store version of Notepad is supposed to have some GUI weirdness.

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#3375991 23-May-2025 13:58

The thing that gets me is how, with all the hardware speed advances like modern CPUs and RAM and SSD drives, Windows manages to be slower than ever. What the hell can it be updating that takes 20 minutes!

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#3375992 23-May-2025 14:01

Rikkitic:

The thing that gets me is how, with all the hardware speed advances like modern CPUs and RAM and SSD drives, Windows manages to be slower than ever. What the hell can it be updating that takes 20 minutes!

Windows has so much legacy code, supporting so much old crap, and trying to be everything at once (home? business?) that it can only get bigger and bigger.

Add to this all the AI crap they are putting in there, and it can probably seriously kill the most powerful CPUs available these days.

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#3375999 23-May-2025 14:27

Rikkitic
Ai knows best all those transistors in your device need to be working not lazing about.

AI now writes 30% of Microsoft’s code, CEO Satya Nadella says
https://techstartups.com/2025/04/30/ai-now-writes-30-of-microsofts-code-ceo-satya-nadella-says/

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#3376000 23-May-2025 14:28

Behodar:

I'm astounded that Microsoft has managed to break Notepad, of all things. All I'm trying to do is close an unsaved file! It tells me it's not saved, I click "Don't save"... and it just stays open. Fortunately it closed on the third attempt, but I'm not sure what madness inspired me to try it three times in the first place.

A friend just told me how to get "normal" Notepad back again.

Settings/Apps/Advanced app settings/App execution aliases/Notepad > Off.

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#3376007 23-May-2025 15:08

Rikkitic:

The thing that gets me is how, with all the hardware speed advances like modern CPUs and RAM and SSD drives, Windows manages to be slower than ever. What the hell can it be updating that takes 20 minutes!

CPUs have only got faster for code that uses newer features. Sequential stuff like IO to hardware using legacy file systems is slow, will always be slow and could only be made significantly faster by blowing it all away and starting fresh. Apple like to do that and leave people with old software screwed over. Microsoft like to keep legacy stuff working forever because somewhere there is someone with their business running on some old crap code that has workaround for windows 98 behavior that still needs to operate.

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#3376232 23-May-2025 19:17

Behodar: I'm astounded that Microsoft has managed to break Notepad, of all things. All I'm trying to do is close an unsaved file! It tells me it's not saved, I click "Don't save"... and it just stays open. Fortunately it closed on the third attempt, but I'm not sure what madness inspired me to try it three times in the first place.

Did you recently install any windows update 'previews'?

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#3376233 23-May-2025 19:18

Not to my knowledge. It's a work computer but I can't imagine that they have previews enabled.

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#3377334 27-May-2025 19:02

The numbnuts game of bullrush with a rugby ball that's a current fad.

Can we please start adding exceptions to ACC payouts? Hospital cover included? Loss of any unemployment benefit cover, too. Participation in this should be the first such activity.

You wanna be stupid, you can pay the stupid tax.

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#3377335 27-May-2025 19:09

richms:

Rikkitic:

The thing that gets me is how, with all the hardware speed advances like modern CPUs and RAM and SSD drives, Windows manages to be slower than ever. What the hell can it be updating that takes 20 minutes!

Microsoft like to keep legacy stuff working forever because somewhere there is someone with their business running on some old crap code that has workaround for windows 98 behavior that still needs to operate.

NTLM, IE, Media Center, TLS, SMB called. They would like an interview.

... this, however:

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#3377545 28-May-2025 10:34

MadEngineer:

The numbnuts game of bullrush with a rugby ball that's a current fad.

Can we please start adding exceptions to ACC payouts? Hospital cover included? Loss of any unemployment benefit cover, too. Participation in this should be the first such activity.

You wanna be stupid, you can pay the stupid tax.

And unfortunately a 19 year old died over the weekend in Palmerston North playing this in their backyard with mates. A tragedy that could've been prevented.

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#3377582 28-May-2025 11:20

Probably just tragedy wack a mole. There'll always be something.

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