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I agree fully. To me, the worst part about that is my laptop (which runs W10) will start itself when the lid is closed and try to update. That really angers me because it is a gaming laptop with a pretty good GPU in it and it relies heavily on cooling through the keyboard slots. With the lid closed that doesn't happen and it get really hot. I came home after work one day to find it powered on with the lid closed. The keys were too hot to touch and I was livid. I would like to know who is stupid enough to think that is a good idea. If were in charge at microsoft I would have been kicking behinds the next day.
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Would Classic Shell[^] or Start8/Start10[^] help? I installed Start8 at work when I was forced to move to Win8 a couple of years back, which returned Win7's productivity back to my desktop.
/ravi
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I don't have admin permissions to install anything. This is a DoD system.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Windows 10 is fine, just takes some getting used to. I have no more complaints now about it then I did windows 7, etc.
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Win10 ain't getting installed at my house.
I still play the winXP versions of Solitaire and minesweeper because I don't like the visual changes they made to them in Vista/Win7...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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and this is why the community loves you John. Please don't ever change. 
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That makes two of us. I am now writing on a Win 10 box that we're using to test compatibility (many customers have strict security and safety rules that disallow OS older than a set number of years) with our 32 bit driver-heavy application.
I am not liking it either, from the nagging notification center to the feature blocked even for administrators (try to kill Windows Defender... I managed to do it but it required a drill, a hammer and a few drops of acid). Many times the UI stops working properly - not showing the Settings panel (which is different from Control Panel and ye gods know why, or possibly even they are baffled).
At home I discarded it because it gives a lot of troubles with many games, even recent ones, and since it's mainly a gaming platform it really puts me off. I managed to find an equilibrium with Win7 and an game from 1993 onwards, using a OS which pisses on its feet with 2010 games is definetely not a good proposition.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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5 modules waiting on a single, binary, object.
One module at a time can get the object.
However any module might have to cancel it's wait request and exit.
There isnt a mechanism to do this. If the module that is exiting calls a release on the object, to signal it, it isnt guaranteed at all that it is THAT modules wait that will be satisfied.
So ignore the fancy Windows synchronisation mechanisms and just use a global flag. Since each module has its own function queue and processing thread, a function can just check the state of the flag, and if it is inuse, requeue itself after a little sleep. When that module needs to exit, the function sees this new state and just doesnt requeue itself.
I really like drivers having their own function queues. Not only do functions run synchronously (so no issues with shared access to data within each module), they all run at low priority, so can wait, and touch paged out data and code, but also as here, a function can endlessly requeue itself until some state is reached, and without risk of locking up the PnP manager.
modified 15-Mar-18 7:02am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: it isnt guaranteed at all that it is THAT modules wait that will be satisfied
No, it is guaranteed that one of them will be satisfied. Personally I prefer not to wait on a flag. I like to wait on an object (event in other lingos) with a timeout in a loop. Or I could also WaitOnMultipleObjects(...) one: the application object, two: the "stop-waiting-object".
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The object can be an event, mutex, or semaphore (as well as various other odds and ends) in the call to KeWaitxxxxx(), which can be called a 'flag'. It is just a term anyway, but you get my drift.
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I see. By flag, I thought you meant a bool variable that you were polling : |
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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No, I was using a binary semaphore.
Its a bit of a mess really, KeWaitForSingleObject increments a semaphore count, or aquires a mutex, which has to be released with a cal to KeReleasexxx.
For an event or a file handle/thread handle, you dont need to release anything after KeWaitxxxxxx.
Thats why I just binned it all and used a queued function that polls a global flag. Much simpler.
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Sorry for being late -crazy day and it's only an hour in...
Thoughts without the first letter of the month a day for a killing (4, 2, 5)
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Ides of March
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Solution for those of us who marvel daily in other's ability to perform this action.
Please. Where are my manners?
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Uh... are you asking for an explanation?
"Thoughts" = ideas
"without the first letter" - the "first letter" is "a", so take the "a" out of "ideas", and you're left with "ides"
"of" = of
"the month" = March
"a day for a killing" = the answer, the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar was killed.
[edit] - I should perhaps have capitalised "First Letter", but still....
modified 15-Mar-18 9:35am.
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Knowing what day it was, I did get the Ides part and March in the "of the month" part. It was the of I couldn't where it came from. I see it was in the plain text now.
Thank you.
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Hi All,
Just applied some of the hive mind to a real world problem, that was bugging a guy (to do with his home PC) pointed him toward Acronis True Image, that seems to answer all his problems. Someone else suggested Norton Ghost but...
(Cheers Griff!)
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Hurrah, another one assimilated into the hive 
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glennPattonWork wrote: (Cheers Griff!)
You're welcome!
But I don't remember recommending Acronis ... AOMEI on the other hand ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Right, I seem to remember Acronis in a disuccion between You and someone (I think our favorite right wing Merkin was involoved Mr Simmons) I'll pass on the details...
Just got a reply on internal chat a very happy service desk employee...
modified 15-Mar-18 5:33am.
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I use Acronis
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ah, that explains it! Cheers 
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Clonezilla here, 4 letter word beginning with F: Free
Has some limitations.
User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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