Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by java-man on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:15PM (#21923669)

Literally today it opened a PDF file with Edge for me. And, of course, file association page does not have a searh box to help find .txt among hundreds of useless and unassigned extensions.

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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:03PM (#21924722)

See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation.

"A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps getting reset to the default, which is Microsoft Edge. [..]"

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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by java-man on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:37PM (#21924949)

This is not a case of Program X messing with registry. This is the user explicitly setting Program X to be the default application.

I guess there is no way (given the current registry design) to differentiate between the user modifying the registry and a program modifying the registry.

Again, coming back to the original message - the case scenario is not that some program is changing the preferences. It the user changing the setting, and Win10 silently discarding the user input (after a reboot or some automated update).

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