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Got off that boat 4 years ago... Never looked back.
(except when using client's hardware)
Christian Lavigne
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I suggest you fix the problem by accidentally spilling the coffee on the keyboard. You will then buy a new laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed~ 
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So, it's microsoft's fault that you use a flaky old laptop with a bad keyboard and never reboot or update your software? Those bas+ards!
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Why SHOULD I "update" my software? It work(ed) well with the hardware and I paid for it in full. My needs have not changed. Sure, make new versions available with additional features or "trendy" UI changes. If your system is vulnerable to attack, let me know there are non-breaking fixes available. Don't force changes - especially ones that require new hardware - on me. And in this instance, don't create software that arbitrarily changes its behaviour in an undocumented way even without an explicit update having been applied. Is that really so unreasonable??
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It isn't even clear to me that you are experiencing a software problem, but rather a cheap old flaky laptop pushed past its expected lifetime problem. You acknowledge that your hardware is failing, but blame the software.
The very first version of Windows you ran probably needed periodically to be rebooted. It's magical thinking to believe that this is no longer the case.
Try reinstalling Windows and the newest drivers for your geriatric laptop. Betcha your "software" problem clears right up. You have standing to complain if you fix your hardware and reinstall the software (to fix possible hard drive problems) and Windows is still borken.
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If it's not clear to you, then maybe re-read what I wrote.
There are reasons that I won't go into here (too boring) why a couple of keys are unreliable. No idea why you make the assumption it was cheap, nor that it's "geriatric" as you say.
The first version of Windows I ran was Win 3.11 and no, it didn't need periodic rebooting. I and my colleagues regularly left the machines running without reboot for weeks on end. And when we did do a shutdown/restart, we could be confident that the system that was running when we shut it down would be the same system that booted back up. There is NO underlying intrinsic reason why a computer system should periodically need restarting.
Likewise, if your "solution" is to reinstall Windows then that is not, and should never be, an acceptable resolution for a software "glitch". I am reluctant to reboot simply because past experience has proven to me that at that point Windows will often run "silent" updates, many of which have in the past broken Windows, or applications (including Microsoft's own) or 3rd-party drivers.
What IS a possibility is that somewhere there is some system setting that controls whether pressing any key displays the password field. It's news to me that "swiping up" would do so (as others have noted in this thread), and indeed on my machine it doesn't. If there is such a setting it's deeply buried in Microsoft's confusing, duplicated and inconsistent set of dialogs for system management.
Your mileage may vary, and if your system is reliable and works as you wish, good for you.
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I agree that reinstalling windows to fix a software problem in windows is both unacceptable and most likely futile. However, to fix a hardware problem, like a flaky hard drive, or a computer that is left running and sometimes stops because it runs down its battery, or to fix a software problem caused by a third-party vendor (Dell comes immediately to mind) it is a far more reasonable solution.
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DerekT-P wrote: why a couple of keys are unreliable
Why not just use an external keyboard?
DerekT-P wrote: The first version of Windows I ran was Win 3.11 and no, it didn't need periodic rebooting.
But of course it did crash. One of the versions then would crash every single time there was a network glitch. And updating it was not just a matter of downloading a software patch.
DerekT-P wrote: There is NO underlying intrinsic reason why a computer system should periodically need restarting
Quite common on larger enterprise (complex) systems in the past that companies often instituted policies where servers were periodically rebooted. This was to stave of resource starvation issues. That was often, but not always, due to memory leaks. Leaking file/sockets was another problem. This was so common that companies often did it without seeing a problem in the first place.
These days all Cloud providers explicitly document that users should expect periodic outages on cloud systems. Users should plan and develop explicitly for that. This is due to hardware failures but also include optional and even required updates (from the cloud provider) to the environment.
DerekT-P wrote: me that at that point Windows will often run "silent" updates, many of which have in the past broken Windows,
But have also fixed known security vulnerabilities. Certainly in corporate environments this is reason enough to require this on employee computers despite possible problems.
There is a feature in Windows 10 that should turn that off. Although I believe I have seen one suggestion that it might not always work.
Despite that I know that in corporate environments it is possible to exclude all updates. Then they are rolled out across the company at periodic intervals. This allows for a testing phase and also precludes that a release causes problems because the company release schedule always lags the general release.
Such updates can also fix problems that show up due to incompatibilities between hardware, OS and applications which might show up over time.
DerekT-P wrote: Your mileage may vary,
Not updating ever might work but should also include not updating existing software nor installing new software.
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jschell wrote: Why not just use an external keyboard?
bit tricky when it's on your lap ('laptop') and you have a coffee in one hand π
I do have a replacement keyboard ready to install, but on this Dell that's major surgery and I'm waiting for a weekend with nothing else on ... Could be months away!
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I want a Windows that satisfies MY preferences and needs! To h**l with other users and requests - listen to me, Microsoft!
Maybe the solution is to switch to Linux. That is a place where everyone can have everything his (or her) way. Any developer has the moral right to make a user interface exactly the way (S)HE pleases. Make yet another (Too) Simple Something Protocol. Maybe even making ones own Linux distro!
With Linux, you can roll your own, ignoring all other requests and needs. That is a Developer's Heaven!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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No, I don't especially care how you unlock the lock screen. What irks me is that having worked one way on this machine for several years, at some arbitrary point, without explanation or instruction or explicit "update", Windows suddenly changes its behaviour.
Imagine you got in your car one day and, having turned the ignition switch and depressed the clutch, the engine refused to start - unlike every other time you had ever started your car. After much experimentation (there being NO instruction provided) you found you had to do that at the same time as turning the heating to full and indicating left.
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Edit: I found a temporary workaround by setting lib_ldf_mode = off in the platformio.ini for the project
Latest Windows update nuked everyone's PlatformIO software.
Now whenever you go to build a project and it scans for dependencies it takes a really long time, making builds untenable.
I know it's Microsoft's fault because it didn't happen until the update. I know it's Microsoft's fault because it happens on WSL and Windows but not on real Linux. Finally, I know it's Microsoft's fault because many people are reporting the same problem.
What the hell is wrong with people? When people write bad software it offends me. Doubly so when they impose that bad software on my machine, which they didn't pay for. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 30-May-24 10:18am.
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WSL leaks horribly, running docker with WSL means I have to end the service every couple of days as it eats CPU to the point of eventually making the laptop almost inoperable.
βThat which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.β
β Christopher Hitchens
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Nom, nom, nom.
These are good chips, what flavor are they?
Memory.
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here, have a hug.
There is a strong argument to be made for small deployable tactical nukes to be shipped, armed to Redmond.
Now, I need to remember where I was in my project because MS just rebooted my machines.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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