Wow... how did Windows get to be so bad? I mean, it used to be a pretty decent operating system.
Specifically, when did they start turning app launch commands into web searches?
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Like seriously... I’m trying to open fucking notepad, not search on bing!
And the options to turn that horrible behavior off and buried deep deep in some poorly-documented regedit nightmare. Who thought this would ever be a good user experience??
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And then I try to reboot and test my registry hacks, and Windows launches into some automatic update process (WITHOUT ASKING ME FIRST) and now my computer has been a very loud and hot paperweight for the last 10 minutes.
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AND THEN
when my computer finally becomes usable again, Windows is all like: USE THIS NEW BROWSER INSTEAD OF THE ONE YOU ALREADY LIKE ISNT IT GREAT LETS SET IT UP FOR YOU RIGHT NOW!!!!1
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Hard Nope.
But theres no option to abort or exit the setup process. So I have to forcibly terminate the process using Task Manager!!
I’ve never seen such an actively user-hostile UX before in my life!
Ok, I’m done now. Sorry for the rant.
But sometimes screaming into the void is cathartic. 
@cuchaz do not worry; I have had ALL those problems just because I needed to write an EPROM with the GQ-4X (the software only works in Windows).
I'd still be using Windows 7 for all this if I could
@yakkoj I know, right? Happy to have a comrade in this misery.
I miss the old Windows XP days. Life was a lot simpler back then.
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@cuchaz When they stop hand-holding and switch to openly hand-cuffing.
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I wouldn’t even be using Windows at all, except I have to write software for other people that do. But damn, every time I need to boot Windows again to write/test some new piece of software, some bullshit like this happens.
Every. Single. Time.
How do other people put up with this?