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So this piece of crap anti-virus AVG (or its updater) spammed PendingFileRenameOperations with thousands of entries on my work computer, many of them look like duplicates. I somehow ended up with two exported text files of the said registry setting with slightly different content. One is the current state of the entry and the other is the previous. I remember making backup of the content the last time (actually in May) and it apparently changed until current date. I notice both have some unique entries that are still to be taken care of, not just at the end. There was no reboot since february. So Registry Commander has the most convenient UI for this particular case, I'd just like to merge the two files content and just let Windows do its thing on reboot. Not concerned about anti-virus as much, I could probably just completely purge it via alternative means, rendering its entries in PendingFileRenameOperations irrevelant. It's just that it would be preferable to let the stuff in between that's not related to anti-virus being taken care of, so I figured it'd be the easiest to just paste content of both files in, one after another. But Registry Commander has the problem handling that giant multi-string, which consists of about 15000 entries. Can't paste or type anything new, I can use backspace key on existing entries, but that's about it. O&O RegEditor, which also has suitable editing window, just crashes opening PendingFileRenameOperations setting. I wouldn't have started poking around in registry, but that stupid anti-virus started occasionally showing popup that its GUI is having a bad day (literally). I really hate anti-viruses and other such software, all they ever did was get in my way.

There's apparently a whole bunch of videos that can't be watched via Invidious, even if the browser supports everything. I get either The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported or the infinite spinning circle.

While I clearly remember having problems with front jack in terms of having to mess manually with headphone connector to get the sound, that doesn't seem to be problem now. Not sure what to make of that and certain details from back then aren't clear enough. I clearly remember interference caused by nearby USB ports activity though, still a thing. Anyway, I wonder what's the deal with that setting. If both back and front jacks are used, sound will be sent to the device plugged to the front jack. That's with EnableDynamicDevices=0. But isn't that supposed to be standard behavior with default setting as well? Also, are you supposed to see two separate entries in Control Panel->Sound->Playback tab under any circumstance with default driver, one for headphones (front jack) and one for speakers (back jack)? It's all crammed into one here.

Who knew you can get stuck in the situation without sound with default audio driver. I unplugged headphones from the back jack because I needed them somewhere else. When I plugged them back, they were no longer detected! Or the system just pretended the back jack doesn't exist. They were still detected on the front jack, but this one broke in the early years so no sound comes out if it. Rebooting by itself didn't help. What helped was turning off EnableDynamicDevices setting in the registry in the sub-key GlobalSettings under the key representing the sound card (see here).

I haven't noticed. Most differences are under the hood. Live previews actually worked at some point with v1.

Polymer v2 has those previews.

Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006? Don’t you ever update drivers?

I tried reverting to default folder view control on Win10 1809, it doesn't have the spacing issue with original shellstyle.dll, so this must have been fixed way before Win10 1903.

MS regularly breaks things left and right with updates, so why bother when things more or less work as expected?

It just sends mouse wheel event (WM_MOUSEWHEEL message) to the window under the mouse instead of focus window - the one with keyboard focus. Note that UI elements such as buttons, text boxes, dropdown lists etc. are all windows and if certain element doesn't process the event, it goes to its parent. In IfranView for example, if you position the mouse cursor over the zoom box and rotate the wheel, it'll zoom in/zoom out the image you're viewing. Normally, you would have to click the box to give it keyboard focus to make the zoom box react to the mouse wheel. Another part of UI that responds to rotating mouse wheel will only trigger the zoom function if CTRL is held at the time. Why are mouse wheel messages delivered to the focus window instead of the window under the mouse?

Right, I wrote the post assuming one knows what goes on in the background. Registry Commander handles multi-string values correctly. I found another two editors that handle those values correctly: O&O RegEditor and Advanced Regedit. The latter doesn't show 64-bit specific parts of registry and is non-Unicode application, so some parts of registry are inaccessible on 64-bit Windows and there might be trouble reading/setting certain values. Its editing window for REG_MULTI_SZ values is more interesting though, it allows to easily reorder strings.

Paged pool is the total amount of kernel memory that may be swapped out when needed, so Process Hacker does show the actual amount of data that's in the page file. You get the same numbers (rounded) if you type the following into PowerShell: Get-CimInstance Win32_PageFileUsage | Select-Object Name,CurrentUsage,PeakUsage,AllocatedBaseSize Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool mentions the biggest consumer of the paged pool is registry. I did actually notice that with longer uptimes searching through registry using Windows' Registry Editor becomes impossible as it takes forever to find anything.

DBC Task Manager - has some loose edges over the real thing, eg. you can't disable startup entries, it doesn't display information about virtualization availability and that you're running the OS on the virtual machine in case you do. Actual Multiple Monitors has all those features (paid software with 30 days trial period, 24.95 USD). For scrolling inactive windows alone, KatMouse and WizMouse first come to mind (both free).

Perhaps this blog post explains it better.

...without having to drop to binary editing mode to do it. Windows' own Registry Editor removes empty strings. Same story with RegCool and Registry Workshop. Is there a tool out there that would preserve whatever I type in the editing field when working with REG_MULTI_SZ values?

It gets rid of some extra spacing they added in the file view back then I think. I didn't have the problem with that since I set QTTabBar to use old view control. Or you can use Folder Options X. MS couldn't leave it alone neither, they broke its biggest feature at some point - the ability to arrange files and folders in any order you like, it's not remembered anymore.

Aero is a design language. What Windows 10 still runs is a compositing window manager, which they called Desktop Window Manager. DWM of 7/Vista implements glass effect, but it's not as configurable as Big Muscle's implementation. The file containing graphical resources and some other parameters is still called aero.msstyles, even though look and feel of Aero is gone.

Two fields appear when you click Link, URL and Link text. URL is where it actually goes when you click it (the semicolon slipped there in your case), the link text is how you see it written on the screen. This field contained the correct URL, so it appeared normally on the screen, hiding the typo. If it was left empty, content of URL field would be used instead, so you'd see the semicolon right away.

http://media.kaspersky.com/utilities/CorporateUtilities/rootsupd.zip PS: leave the link text blank if you don't intend to put the title or whatever else in there that's not the actual link.

So a reboot back then also helped with another minor issue that occurred; the network status icon didn't always update to reflect the actual internet connectivity status. Another thing worth mentioning, there is significant difference between Task Manager's Paged pool and Process Hacker's Usage column as shown if you open Tools->Pagefiles. The value in Process Hacker is much lower (right now it's 250 MB vs 58,8 MB). Maybe Task Manager takes some variable into account that Process Hacker doesn't. Any ideas? I wasn't observing the Paged pool in the past, but pagefile usage as shown in Process Hacker stays much lower with regular usage than it did with Windows 7 and 8.1. The difference is some hundred megabytes. And it shows when running things that need more memory. Windows 10 doesn't seem to have the urge to immediately page out whatever data hasn't been accessed in a while.

Seems unlikely, there are reports of the same problem dating back to 2006.

It's possible to install Windows on the same partition where the current install and data is if the data is moved out of the way to avoid potential issues (out of the way - out of Windows' directory hierarchy), eg. place it in C:\Stuff and delete everything else from the partition from recovery environment - boot install DVD->Repair computer->use Command prompt and following commands: dir /A D:\ - list folder files and on partition lettered D (you have to find the right one since C:\ probably won't point to the right one) rd /S /Q D:\folderName - delete folder and its content del /A /F D:\fileName - delete individual file Or using robocopy (you need an empty folder first): md X:\empty robocopy X:\empty D:\ /MIR /XD D:\Stuff /R:0 /NFL /NDL /NJS /NJH /NP /LOG:X:\robocopy.log This gets rid of everything with minimal log output except D:\Stuff and probably System Volume Information folder, which I've no idea how to get rid of entirely using Windows. Last time I've done this, I cheated and deleted it from Linux because takeown and icacls couldn't help. If separate boot partition exists, format it to clean up. At least that's how I purge Windows while preserving data without having to migrate it off partition.

Does it have to be per-user? You can set Windows Firewall to block outbound connections by default. It works globally. Just in case exceptions are needed on the per-user basis, it might not be the way to go, but should be fine otherwise. The rules for allowed programs might need some tuning. A lot of Microsoft stuff is already defined. I bet updates are also on the list, but I'd have to try and see. Obviously, admin will have to do this. Home edition offers access to the advanced firewall configuration the same way Pro does. I can confirm you can prevent the Store from accessing the internet by disabling its rule in the firewall while it's set to block outbound connections.

Nothing actually. CosmoDreamy just made a remark about Microsoft, that they should take a look at the Windows version that was current in the year 2004, so Windows XP, and take it as an example when working on Windows 10, in terms of quality and such. 2004 is indeed the latest stable Windows 10's version number, but looking at the number itself, you can quickly make a connection to the year 2004.

If I remember correctly, Win10 1809 was re-released as V2. "v2" was in the name of the ISO, otherwise, it was just a regular release with the then current updates slipstreamed.