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Post by DrSmith » Mon Feb 22, 2016 10:14 pm

MS makes me laugh, hard. I recently did my first upgrade of a laptop to Win10. It's not for anything WMC, just a plain-ole-laptop. Today I received a nice Windows 10 email from MS, full of marketing hooey and feature pics. But this 2nd paragraph made me laugh:

If you’ve opted out of receiving email, you’ll only get one more in this series.

On what planet does "unsubscribe" mean I will intentionally receive ONE MORE? I actually like MS, and their marketing has never bothered me, but c'mon.

I tried Cortana and quickly became disenchanted. I asked it "How many processes are running on this computer?" expecting it to open up task manager for me. Or at least tell me how to launch task manager. It just "googled" my query to bing. I guess it's not ready for prime time.

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Post by Crash2009 » Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:26 pm

Try this one.. Power Shell

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Post by DrSmith » Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:52 pm

Hey, neat! I think that's the first time in 25 years of Windows use that I am able to resize an MS command window horizontally.

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Post by Crash2009 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:06 am

C'mon over and help us get extenders working in Win10.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread ... ost1206416

The WMC software is in Post #1

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Post by DrSmith » Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:08 pm

Thanks for the invite Crash2009. Looks like you guys and Graznok are doing some really cool stuff keeping WMC alive in Win10. But every day I get a little more suspicious of the "free" Windows 10. It looks like the real cost of free (as always) will be advertising. And, in the usual MS GUI style there will be 5 different check boxes and 2 registry settings that we have to tweak to turn off the ads.

http://consumerist.com/2016/02/24/windo ... en-savers/

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