So I know that holding control while moving in Explorer makes it more responsive, and I think I just figured out why. When a sighted user moves the mouse in Explorer to navigate the list, it never actually highlights the item until they single click on one (seen by looking at the status bar). So it just occurred to me that pressing down arrow really fast would be like a user trying to single click files really really fast with the mouse. The equivalent to the normal mouse functionality of navigating, for us, is to actually use control+arrow keys which doesn't update the highlight, which is also more responsive.
So the Bop It Extreme I have has some slight issues so I ended up getting a score of 149. It still did the normal fail sequence, not the one that has the pull command sound and the other music jingle. I think I just indirectly figured out that that one may happen at 150, as that would put you 100 away from beating it. I could be wrong, but being that it seems to happen at 170, and possibly less, and I think I saw it at 150 something, I think it could be that it does this at 150. #games
I was looking at the text-only forecast for my area through the National Weather Service, and there was an image at the top, and VoiceOver said, "Domino, piano." Now I'm just picturing the people in charge of that weather report just playing dominos and a nice grand piano during their break time.
I'm also kind of feeling like Windows 11 24H2 will be a hot mess because it got pushed to the Release Preview channel today, without going through the beta channel first. Seriously, why?
My personal feeling is that unless you need one of the new features in 24H2, such as Sudo, or other new features I wouldn't move to it until 2025/2026.
Let's do another typing prediction game. On your phone, start the sentence with the following and see if the predictive can get the rest. Over the course of a year, I... go! #games#phoneTyping#predictions
@BTyson i’m reading James Patterson. There’s a new women’s murder club book coming out on the sixth, so I always reread a bunch of my favorites leading up to that. It’s gotten to be an annual thing.
Hi @JenMsft I just wanted to let you know that in Flight Hub, clicking on the entry for build 26100 is loading the page for build 26090 instead. Are you also able to reproduce this? Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks. #Windows#Windows11
If this registry value does what I think it will, this computer is set to find a good time to restart for updates, normally it tries for 7 days, and then gives up, but apparently, I've now set it to try for 16777215 days, or about 45964 years, before it will give up. Welcome to me being bored at 2:00 AM.
In today's random searching through the registry, I found some info on power settings that I had no idea what they did. There's a setting hidden under sleep settings to allow programs to prevent the system from being able to go to sleep. The default is to always allow programs to prevent the machine from sleeping. I have to test it yet, but so far, my thinking is that if programs have logic in them to keep the system awake, this is the setting that controls whether that can actually happen. Windows Update can do this, for example, if updates haven't been installed for a long time, and I don't like that. So I've tried disabling this, in the hopes that it will prevent that from happening.
Here is what the description of this setting reads, about 8 levels deep in the registry: Avoid waking from hiberate via the legacy RTC wake alarm. Also defer hibernate in the presence of an immanent wake alarm.
If you want more control over Windows not automatically downloading updates, including from Windows Update and the Store, you can meter your connection. You can do this in the properties for the network you're using. The easiest way there is to right click the network you're on in the network connections icon on the taskbar, and selecting properties.
@TheQuinbox I'm planning to post it to the blog. I'm gonna get the first post ready and posted, then work on this one. The post talking about this will have the link to the file, but also will manually outline the steps for those who like to see exactly what changes are being made to their system so they can do it on their own to be able to see the change they're making.
@evilcookies98 I was more saying that generally, if this is actually the final base build of 24H2, that's not going to be good, since it would get to users not in the Insider program. Fortunately though, I really don't think this is going to end up being the final one. This happened back in 2018 with Windows 10 1803, where 17133 was initially going to be the final build, but some additional bugs were discovered that they wanted to fix, so they made another new build with the fixes, which is why we instead got 17134.