@Projammer, I did that more than a year ago, and every time this happens I confirm that the option is still not selected in Settings. It never is. Never selected, that is.
I also edited the registry, which is the other suggestion for preventing this. If those options had worked, I wouldn’t be feeling so much rage now.
Our IT support was more than a little astonished to learn that I’d already tried all the solutions he knew about, and one he didn’t (the registry edit).
And I’m getting bloody tired of at least once a month having to put my default printer back to what I fucking well told Windows I wanted it be AND having to reset the profile for it, too.
I’ve never been allergic to bee stings but I got stung by a hornet 10 days ago and I still have a rash. Damn thing few into my shirt and got me next to the belly button. The rash is almost the size of a dollar bill.
One last suggestion then. Many settings on Windows have multiple hooks in the background that have a single checkbox as the user interface. Try turning it on and exiting the setting screen before going back in and turning it off again. Yep. A variant of the old ‘turn it off and back on’ fix.
Thanks. I’ve had one previously that expired 20 years ago with never having been needed. I have promised the wife and spawnlings that I’ll get another one for their peace of mind.
We used to depend on our cats to protect us from mice and kangaroo rats. We have inside only cats to patrol the house and well-fed strays and ferals to guard the outbuildings.
About this time last year, a mouse broke into the catio and VeryBadCat not only caught it, she brought the unharmed but terrified mouse inside and let it go in our bedroom to play with. We started fussing, so VBC caught the mouse again and took it back out into the catio where it escaped.
Now we have snap traps in the outbuildings and crawlspaces where the cats can’t go and a water source on the other side of the yard from the buildings because rodents mostly invade houses for water out here.
@Projammer I don’t have any food allergies, thank goodness, but after having successfully taken penicillin as needed, and not needing it for years, last year at age 62 I had an icky allergic reaction to it.
After so long, having to answer the drug allergy question “yes” instead of “no” causes a lot of crossing out.
I live trap mice too. It’s about that time of year here as well … though this year the first unwanted thing that’s trying to find a winter home is those huge flying cockroaches. I fucking hate those things and any that attempt to get in the house are dancing with death.
I had mousies in the previous house, a post-war era house located near lots of woodland that undoubtedly had developed entrances for field mice to get in. I’d typically get one every once in a while with those marvelously effective traditional Victor traps.
When I moved into the current house, a new construction, I was happy to have left the mouse problem behind me. And then I noticed mysterious flecks of black stuff in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. A quick perusal of teh Internets revealed it to be unquestionably mouse droppings.
So once again the Victor traps came out. The interesting thing is that I caught either two or three in total (don’t remember except it was more than one) and then never saw any trace of any mousie ever again. It’s been nearly ten years. The rather oddly disturbing conclusion is that these were traveling mousies, and had been moved from the old place in one or two of the moving boxes.
Do not feel bad for the guy who bought the old place. He paid a premium for the fact that it had been nicely renovated, and then promptly razed it to the ground and built a McMansion. If he ended up with mousies, it was a problem of his own creation.
Oh hell yes, I am dealing with this all the time at work for my users. They should just call that setting, “I don’t give a shit, let Windows fuck up my default printer.”
And if it weren’t enough that Windows keeps fucking with my default printer, Gmail on my work computer has display issues. The middle panel is infinitely long on the right and I’ve yet to find a solution.
No, it is not a zoom issue. It’s set to 100%, but I’ve had it as small as 30% trying to find that damned right panel and the settings icon and it hasn’t worked.
Only my work computer, though. My home computer, the page for the exact same Gmail account is just fine and resizes with the window as it’s supposed to. I can’t even open any of my other Gmail accounts on the work computer, though, because I can’t see the avatar that lets you open another account. Grrr.
We have wimpy little Praying Mantis out this way, so when I saw one hanging out on a hummingbird feeder I wasn’t worried because it was way too small to eat a hummer. I was wrong to not worry, because even though the insect was too small to eat the hummer, it was still big enough and fast enough to kill one, as well as strong enough to keep hold of it for a minute or so.
It ruined my day and I feel horrible guilty about it because it would have taken nothing to shoo the mantis off.
This is a pre-rant. As I may or may not have mentioned elsewhere, I recently upgraded my AT&T Fiber internet access to 1000, only to find out that my computer is so old that the highest internet speed it can handle is about 160. (I did verify that the gateway is getting about 996.) So I bit the bullet and ordered a new computer, which is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I’ve been busily making sure that everything is backed up, copying my Firefox and Thunderbird files so I don’t have to manually reset my preferences and bookmarks, etc. But I just know I’m going to forget something, or lose something in the setup and restore.
It would have needed really fast film, it happened in the blink of an eye. I did get a pic of the mantis holding the body, but my cell phone doesn’t take the best pics.
