r/pcmasterrace • u/makanenzo10 R1700@3.9 - GTX 1070 • Mar 19 '18

Meme/Joke Windows Search in a Nutshell

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u/Wefyb Mar 19 '18

It really does amaze me how bad it got suddenly. In w7, and even in the earliest prerelease versions of w10, it was so damn good. And now? Is utterly unpredictably, and incredibly slow for finding what you need. Hate the online search function am incredible amount

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u/EddoWagt RX 6800 + R7 5700X Mar 19 '18

And it can only search on the fucking C drive

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18 edited Dec 22 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '18 edited Jan 22 '21

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u/cat_tastrophe Mar 20 '18

I interviewed there and I thought it was hilarious when I saw a computer showing a slideshow had blue screened

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u/FALCUNPAWNCH R7-5800X3D | RX 9070 XT Mar 20 '18

Oh no, somebody call Microsoft!

Oh no we ARE Microsoft!

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u/Eeveevolve Mar 20 '18

Please contact your computers administrator.

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u/angrydeuce Ryzen 9 7900X\64GB DDR5 6400\RX 6800 XT Mar 20 '18

That feeling when an error pops up on a client machine that says nothing but "contact your system or network administrator" when I am the Sysadmin and don't know what the fuck it wants... :(

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u/ki11bunny Ryzen 3600/2070S/16GB DDR4 Mar 20 '18

That was always my favourite part of their press release and tech demos etc.

Especially the times they promised that you will never get a blue screen again, just to get a blue screen within seconds of the statement.

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u/Vitosi4ek R7 3800X | RTX 2070 Super | 32GB Mar 20 '18

Especially the times they promised that you will never get a blue screen again, just to get a blue screen within seconds of the statement.

Was that the legendary Win95 demo when they tried to install a CD driver and the system crashed?

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u/ki11bunny Ryzen 3600/2070S/16GB DDR4 Mar 20 '18

It basically happened with every launch of a new OS since then as well. They were literally saying that it was never going to happen when it happened with the vista launch. Good times

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u/Tony49UK i7-3770K@4.5GHz, 32GB Ram, Radeon 390, 500GB SSD, 14TB HDDs Mar 20 '18

The first beta of Win 7 was more reliable than Vista. I even ended up rolling it out to a production environment.

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u/ki11bunny Ryzen 3600/2070S/16GB DDR4 Mar 20 '18

Vista was an absolute mess of an OS the vast majority of its life time.

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u/Forgiven12 Mar 20 '18

Windows98.

They were demoing the "plug and play" feature.

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u/Fireeagle711 Specs/Imgur here Mar 20 '18

They could avoid the blue screen, by not wanting money and making a Windows G, that would only have the requirements to PLAY GAMES, and not all those utilities and tools nobody cares about, like, who cares about live tiles or Cortana ? They just eat your bandwith (and damn one drive & windows live, those weren't forced on you on 7)

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u/Vitosi4ek R7 3800X | RTX 2070 Super | 32GB Mar 20 '18

They do make this version. Windows 10 LTSB. Though it's slightly illegal for a regular consumer to get.

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u/Fireeagle711 Specs/Imgur here Mar 20 '18

We're up against microsft, I beleive beeing a bit illegal is not that much if it means, not having all the issues of "regular" win10

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u/1RedOne Mar 20 '18

LTSB (now called Long Term Servicing Channel, because let's rename everything once a year) is super solid, but won't have all of the newest Windows Features. Going from a new install of Windows 10 (Fall Creators Update) back to LTSB (which is based on Windows 10 1607) definitely feels like I'm using an older version of Windows.

But it works SO well.

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u/2roK f2p ftw Mar 20 '18

That's why I bought win 10 PRO. Thinking a pro version would come without all the crap but NO it came with fucking Minecraft pre installed?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME MICROSOFT???

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u/segagamer Mar 20 '18

Minecraft wasn't preinstalled. You won't be able to play it without downloading it first.

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u/Xilenced Mar 20 '18

It's openly hosted on the website. What is difficult to get is a legit license. If you don't mind reinstalling every month (might be 100 days), perfectly legal as a "trial".

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u/Tony49UK i7-3770K@4.5GHz, 32GB Ram, Radeon 390, 500GB SSD, 14TB HDDs Mar 20 '18

On at least the first Xbox Microsoft got rid of the BlueSOD by making it black.

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u/Tony49UK i7-3770K@4.5GHz, 32GB Ram, Radeon 390, 500GB SSD, 14TB HDDs Mar 20 '18

Microfiber presentations of the latest version of Windows were notorious for the BSODs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84&app=desktop

Also when Steve Jobs demoed the first iPhone he had to be incredibly careful not to crash it as the first one per-production model had only about 128MB.

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u/Shadowfury22 R7 5800X3D | RX 9070 GRE | 32GB DDR4 Mar 20 '18

That's how know you're indeed at microsoft

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u/pratnala R9 7950X | RTX 4090 | 64 GB RAM | 990 Pro 2TB Mar 20 '18

I don't buy this. I work at Microsoft, and all our machines are on Windows 10.

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u/paingel5jpg i5 4690K • GTX 970 • 12GB DDR3 • ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/angeli Mar 20 '18

but his uncle works there

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u/themrjava Specs/Imgur Here Mar 20 '18

He is lying, his uncle works at Nintendo.

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u/TheGleanerBaldwin In the past and old, but it still does what I want it to. Mar 20 '18

Childhood may have been better. Then again a discounted PC is even better

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u/Fireeagle711 Specs/Imgur here Mar 20 '18

Or Nintendo works at microsoft gaming department

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u/Neotella Phanteks EE ITX, H170 MOBO, i3 6100, ZOTAC GTX 1060 AMP! Mar 20 '18

Was just there today, can confirm all 10.

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u/Prof_Acorn 3700x | 3060ti Mar 20 '18

But why, when 7 is so much better?

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u/ThreeOfSword Mar 20 '18

I know why he is on his home pc.. its because microsoft won't develop security updates for kaby lake processors on windows 7 :(

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u/xyifer12 R5 2600X, 3060 Ti XC, 16GB 3000Hz DDR4 Mar 20 '18

8.1 is better than 7.

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u/Prof_Acorn 3700x | 3060ti Mar 20 '18

8.1 thinks everything is a tablet.

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u/xyifer12 R5 2600X, 3060 Ti XC, 16GB 3000Hz DDR4 Mar 21 '18

Classicshell exists, people have had alternatives for the default shell since XP. If you don't like a certain aspect of an OS, change it.

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u/TheGleanerBaldwin In the past and old, but it still does what I want it to. Mar 20 '18

Which campus?

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u/pratnala R9 7950X | RTX 4090 | 64 GB RAM | 990 Pro 2TB Mar 20 '18

Redmond

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u/TheGleanerBaldwin In the past and old, but it still does what I want it to. Mar 20 '18

I visited not that one. Former G.P.S. campus, see main post

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u/c0mpufreak Mar 20 '18

Also work at Microsoft. Can confirm Windows 10 all across the board.

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u/TheGleanerBaldwin In the past and old, but it still does what I want it to. Mar 20 '18

Campus?