I’m left-handed as well but find this post baffling.
Why would you need a left-handed mouse? It a pretty simple device which can easily be used by either hand. In fact, I use it with my right hand which frees up my dominant left hand for other tasks such as typing, writing notes, using the phone, etc…
Secondly, you can go into your user setting and disable your password, if you bloody well want.
I’ve been doing IT support for almost 20 years so I’ve had many left-handed customers. Some change the mouse buttons so that the right/left button functions are reversed (it’s in the mouse Control Panel applet) and some are used to clicking with the middle finger primary, index finger secondary so they leave it at default. It seems to come down to personal preference.
I’m sure some of my customers are like you and use their non-dominant hand for the mouse but I’ve never had anyone say so. I suspect most lefties find it trivial to just move the mouse to the left of the keyboard; generally a wired mouse will let you do so unless you’re totally anal about wrapping up cables and of course a wireless mouse really makes it easy.
It’s only a real problem with asymmetrical mice. Then you need a different mouse completely. I’ve never known an organization to standardize on those though for this very reason.
What the ever-loving fuck?
My laptop came without a password. But when I wanted to view a saved website password in Chrome, Chrome asked me for my Windows password; and (unless I missed some workaround) wouldn’t show passwords until I set a non-null Windows password.
So… women agree to be sexually assaulted? A software update is the same thing as rape?
Imma give you a minute to rephrase/retract that mess.
Well, it’s been a minute.
Reported.
My comment was both hyperbolic and poorly phrased.
Sorry for giving offense.
Now you see how your notions of “oh, dear me, I stubbed my toe. I was raped by the sidewalk.”
Don’t actually mean shit and how we all see you as a troll, except for the mods, are right. You fucking shit of a troll.
Are you claiming I’ve used the rape metaphor before? Cite?
Yes, that’s true but that’s a Google Chrome issue not Microsoft.
There was an episode of Cheers where Cliff was so enamored of a potato that looked like Richard Nixon, he put it on a Ken doll and made a little press conference to show to everybody at the bar. Norm went up to him and said “Cliff, remember when you asked me to tell you when you going over the edge? Cliff, you knocked the head off a doll and put a potato in its place. I think this counts.”
So sept, you just compared waiting for updates to being raped. I think this counts as you going over the edge.
I’m one step closer to the edge! My app’s about to break!
Edge.
That’s bad advice. That button can result in you getting the full 4 GB upgrade (which, frankly, shouldn’t exist at all) instead of just an update. The basic guide is to never be a “seeker.”
Again, you can simply use a program that blocks the update service from even working. Do that when you need to avoid an update. No, you shouldn’t have to use a third party tool, but you can do it.
You really just seem to be here to shit on anyone who has any problems with Microsoft dictating how updates work, and don’t actually know much about it. If you don’t have knowledge, why speak?
Why the fuck would you assume that I would mean “find Windows Update, run it, install all the latest updates.” When there is like, a button, that says “install and shutdown”?
Why speak? Indeed.
Holy fuck, you little annoying sanctimonious turd. You’re the one who doesn’t know much about it.
You admit yourself that you don’t even use Windows 10, then you suggest some third party that was the first thing that popped up on a Google search and the provide a link to a “ask some internet guy” site. So… if you don’t have the knowledge, why do YOU speak?
Look, I don’t love how Microsoft pushes out its updates, and I’m sure The Librarian is not a proponent either, but it is a necessary evil.
If you don’t like it there are several ways to control it before exposing your system to third party software such as turning automatic updates off, disabling windows update service, setting up a metered connection, setting a windows update scheduled task, etc…
Your “basic guide” is also fucking wrong, you should be checking for updates for your hardware periodically especially for your BIOS, chipsets, video drivers, etc… Sure you can delay operating system updates but to ignore them indefinitely is moronic.
Seriously? No updates, ever?
You do realize that you just entirely blew away any relevance about what you say in this thread, don’t you? Not updating is colossally stupid, and you probably just managed to get extremely lucky that nobody found any of your myriad security holes.
But I’m with that left-handed guy upthread otherwise; Windows 10 has a habit of monkeying with default settings on updates and making you go through serious hoops to get things back the way they were… and to no useful end.
For example, I happen to like a little image viewing program called IrfanView to look at jpgs and other image files, instead of the Windows default photo viewer.
Anytime they update Photos, or I update IrfanView, the default file associations get set to Photos, and I have to go through a series of hoops to reset it to IrfanView- the usual right-click and set association stuff doesn’t work. And why? There’s no compelling reason to make me use their cruddy utility- they don’t get more money from me using it, and it’s not more stable, etc…
Just this week I had to setup a computer with Windows 10 1607, because it needs to run software that bugs out on anything later. The software’s publisher claims it works on anything *after *1607, up to 1803, but the user experience is different. Anyway, not my project, I’m just helping get the computer going, and they are under strict instructions that it is not to go online after April, when enterprise support for 1607 ends.
Anyway, I needed to set something to keep they system on 1607. From the update page I clicked “Advanced options” and then something like “pause feature updates”. On later versions of Windows 10 you can pause feature updates for a set number of days, up to a year.
You’ll still get security updates, and I’m sure lots of annoying things like resetting the ads in the start menu, but preventing major updates is baked right in, and easy to handle.
I’ve had two more of these error-restarts since I posted the above. Not only does each waste several minutes, but I lose things (e.g. xterm command histories or Notepad scrawlings) whose loss is inconvenient.
But I’m sure that buried in the maze of useless new features is some link to an ad of pigs dancing on Microsoft’s behalf. Thank you so very very big, Microsoft!
If you don’t want to download anything fancy like Notepad+ with crash recovery, Stickies is better for notes to yourself.