Posts made by StrongBad

@dbeato said in Windows 10 Odd Desktop Behavior - No Links Working, No Settings:

@strongbad said in Windows 10 Odd Desktop Behavior - No Links Working, No Settings:

The situation is that I am working on a users desktop, Windows 10. She asked me to look at it because it had been off for a few days and when she powered it on and started using it, when she was in Outlook should could not get it to open or follow any hyperlinks. I looked at it and sure enough, if you click a link from Outlook nothing happens. But you can copy it, paste it into Chrome, and it works fine.

I tried going into settings to see how things were and discovered that while I can open the Start Menu, the Settings button doesn't do anything. It shows that I click it, but the Settings never open.

Tried opening Settings from the CLI, it does not open, either.

Virus is the first guess, of course, but wondering if there are other good possibilities. Working on it is exceptionally hard because it is remote and some key things don't seem to work or respond.

Install Windows and Application Updates, then reboot and if issue continue check for profile corruption.

How, I can't open the settings.

I tried from the command line, too:

wuauclt.exe /updatenow 'wuauclt.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The situation is that I am working on a users desktop, Windows 10. She asked me to look at it because it had been off for a few days and when she powered it on and started using it, when she was in Outlook should could not get it to open or follow any hyperlinks. I looked at it and sure enough, if you click a link from Outlook nothing happens. But you can copy it, paste it into Chrome, and it works fine.

I tried going into settings to see how things were and discovered that while I can open the Start Menu, the Settings button doesn't do anything. It shows that I click it, but the Settings never open.

Tried opening Settings from the CLI, it does not open, either.

Virus is the first guess, of course, but wondering if there are other good possibilities. Working on it is exceptionally hard because it is remote and some key things don't seem to work or respond.

That's great that LibreOffice worked out!

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally home.

Welcome home.

Have you checked the logs to see what Snap activity there has been? Any idea when these first appeared?

Would be more interesting, I think, to see things like post count and other kinds of activity.

Hey @JokkeM nice to have you with us.

New KVM units are starting to move away from Java, but many datacenters still have older machines. It's not the kind of tech that you update very often.

Instantaneous Storage Evacuation Event

@minion-queen said in Syncing Google and Ical:

Oh and the top 3 hits on google don't work so don't provide me with that either

Well maybe ML is the top hit so.... oh wait.

Greetings to the newbies far and wide. Nice to see so many new faces.

@CrazyLefty @port16 @wkismet @Ned-Wright @EricSmith @barefoot40jk

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sneezes are hurting people, then maybe we need to look at writing laws that bans sneezes.

oh please no, I have terrible allergies and would not afford the fines

fines? I think jail time would be appropriate.

I would never make it, I'm a major Weenie

I was a prison guard for six years. Trust me you will be fine.

Rule number 1 in life... Never trust somebody who says "trust me."

And you can trust me on that.

@ccwtech said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@romo said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@ccwtech said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@dbeato Yes, but they move the clock back 10 minutes, clock in, and then they move it back to the real time.

The backend should be the one setting the time when saving to the db. Why accept the time from the clients if it could easily be modified like this.

Yes, the program is supposed to pull the server time but is not doing that for some reason. I am working on that angle as well.

Probably triggers NTP from time to time and they hit it in between the cycles.

ZFS has a lot of similar stuff built in, I don't think that they want to do it two ways. It's not often that people want the extra reflinks functionality.

What kind of tasks are you thinking that the L1 would handle?

@coliver said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/att-claims-that-paid-prioritization-wont-create-slow-lanes/#p3

AT&T describes a fast lane... Assures public that it's totally not a fast lane.

Sad face.

That's great. I hope that UBNT can utilize this to upgrade the systems.

Wow that is a lot of files. That's going to take forever.

You need to run this from a PC, not from the server? Is this a SAN then, not a NAS?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting ready to drive to Weedsport.

Why are you going to Weedsport?

Going to have lunch with @dominica's parents.

Have fun.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller It was 10 to 15" when I was waking up this morning, and up to 1' 6" for specific areas of upstate.

That's what she said.