Patch Lady – a bit of transparancy for 1809

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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history Holy cow, we have a bit of transparency.  We have a new section in the upda
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Still a bit of a mess. I tried doing a clean install of 1809 on a older Haswell desktop. Never got past the setup menu’s as Cortana said we just need to get a few more things done and that was it. Froze up requiring a forced shut down. How nice of Microsoft not to leave a ISO of 1803 on their site. Or at least not one I could find.

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My experience with Microsoft’s depreciated software is that all support is removed: downloads, links, and documentation. Make sure you have offline installers and the documentation you need if you plan to make a long-term commitment to any software packages.

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just use the Windows ISO Downloader tool to get the 1803 (April 2018 Update) ISO download, jescott418. gosh!

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Look. Up in the sky. It’s a bird… it’s a plane… no, it’s….

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while it’s nice that MS listed some known issues for 1809, they need to do the same for older releases of Windows 10 (like the 1803, 1709, 1703 versions, etc.)

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Wait, what?  They don’t plan on issuing a fix for the drive mounting problem before 2019?

Come onnnnnn.

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Drive mapping has been obsoleted for a very long time.
It was obvious that it was coming in one of the new releases and I am sure Susan understands this very well.
Unfortunately there are too many users and most of the large corporations who have not adjusted since the days of the Home Directory and H:\ drive.
Most administrators don’t even understand the difference between Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music as in Vista/2008 and later vs My Documents, My Pictures, My Video, My Music as in Windows 2000/XP and their server equivalent. Microsoft maintains the confusion by faking the name of the directories and presenting them as folders in their legacy name using desktop.ini.
The reason we all have this problem now is that Microsoft keeps too much backwards compatibility in the products, instead of just moving on.
New OS, new hardware, new concepts etc.

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Sounds like you haven’t worked in small-business for a while.  Shared drives mounted as a drive letter are still extremely common in that space, and make sense to a lot of people.

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… actually it appears to be one of the few ways to make Sharepoint Online do what people want – as in appear as a network share without syncing everything to local disk.

Yes, it’s in many ways less than optimal and even has dependencies on IE when you do that, unfortunately. Still, no local disk space usage and much less of a file version / sync race hazard, as well as ability to open file directly instead of manual download/edit/upload (which seems to be too complicated for many end users).

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From http://www.tweakguides.com/
Site Update
15 November 2018
My position on Windows 10, elaborated here, has deteriorated to the point where I simply cannot trust my OS to maintain the integrity of my system. Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that they either cannot, or will not, listen to users and change their sloppy and deceptive ways. I’m planning on building a new system in early 2019, so I will take that opportunity to transition to Linux as my primary desktop OS. If I’m successful, I will try to compile a simple guide so that it may help others who are tired of Microsoft’s continued incompetence to more easily do the same thing

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If you do that guide, it would make a great post at the Woody’s Linux forum Linux for Windows wonks. Thanks!

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Its sad that it’s come to the point where something as pitiful as this is heralded as a great thing.

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That may be intentional irony in the blog article. But I’m still working on my literature merit badge.

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