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Re:Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by... by jrockway on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:54PM (#20422783)

There was one update that turned Cortana back on. I think it was the major feature update before the "Creators Update". It was the one where everyone (or at least me) thought they got hacked like in a movie. My computer was randomly turned off. I turned it back on and instead of the login screen, it just was a glowing "All your files are exactly where you left them..."

Took me like 5 minutes of not being able to use my computer to get through, only to find that I wasn't hacked... but that was something Microsoft hired and paid employees to do.

With that in mind, they haven't done anything like that since. Hopefully people are super mad about it.

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Re:Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by... by sandworm101 on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:48PM (#20424823)

>> Hopefully people are super mad about it.

Unusual windows activity, random rebooting associated with "updates", is a force of nature. People are beyond anger. They just accept it as part of the natural world. Linux guys like me are the angry man standing on the corner saying that the world doesn't need to be this way, that we can choose not to live like this. But if you believe that something is natural and unavoidable, eventually that guy in the corner looks genuinely crazy.

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