Comments by "Jovet" (@jovetj) on "Ask Leo!" channel.

  1.  @unnamedchannel1237  Paranoid much?
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  2. "the cloud"
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  3. OneDrive is really easy to use and avoid problems with: Don't use it. Ever.
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  4. Bing will never be a better search engine (than it is). Microsoft is just as evil, if not more, than Google.
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  5.  @The_Penguin_City  The exact meaning of "{042D8A51-5878-4000-9C10-C04AFF122A1F}" is a 128-bit number. The point isn't what the value of that number actually is, but that number represents something unique subset of the system.
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  6. Your first mistake was using Windows 10. Your second mistake was using Windows 11.
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  7.  @lassikinnunen  Junctions are junctions. Symbolic links are symbolic links.
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  8.  @marstedt  There probably isn't. Removing "My Documents" and "Libararies" would be like deleting the Registry. You can't... Windows just expects those things to be there. "Why would you ever want to get rid of those???" You can probably break them by borking their CLSIDs, but that will likely create more problems than it solves.
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  9. If I remember correctly, Creative made "total uninstallers" available on their website for just such situations. Lame that it wouldn't come with the software for the hardware, but it still was available.
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  10. Telling Windows where to find your files "by default" is not the point the video is making.
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  11. FastCopy > Robocopy
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  12.  @crinolynneendymion8755  No, Microsoft KNOWS that many computer users are completely illiterate. To milk the most money out of their "customers" they have to cater to the lowest-common demonstrator. This is why everything is soft and easy and pretty. e.g. "Fisher Price" XP and on...
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  13.  @bobnolin9155  Not all change is good. Not all horses are a wise gift to bring into your home.
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  14.  @The_Penguin_City  “that number represents something unique subset of the system.”
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  15. I believe that you don't actually understand The Registry. It's a mythical thing to most people, it seems. Like a Unicorn that most people have never actually experienced.
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  16. It's not YOUR computer, after all. It's Macrosloth Microsoft's.
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  17. Asinine.
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  18. Because they do. If you use Windows 8 or later, they own it. It's not yours.
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  19.  @loupasternak  You haven't had a problem because most "Registry problems" are minor at best, and as stated in the video, it's not the Registry itself that is the problem. It's "garbage in, garbage out" that is the problem.
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  20.  @loupasternak  You're preaching to the choir.
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  21. "But the cloud is soooo much better!" 🙄🙄🙄
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  22. 3:57 Microsoft "crossed a line" many years ago. It's the mentality prevalent in the big computing companies: "we know best for you, the wants of users don't matter [and we're going to milk you for all the money you're worth]"
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  23. Like what?
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  24. That is not solving the problem outlined in the video.
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  25. It hasn't been "your computer" for many years. Anyone that allows automatic (and especially mandatory) "updates" has no idea what code is being put on their computer.
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  26. In-OS advertising should be absolutely rejected by and outrage the entire computing industry. It's the biggest middle-finger to computer users in a long time. What will be next? Audio ads in the middle phone calls??
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  27. THE Registry.
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  28. It is documented. Not all of it is well documented, but some of Windows's internal data Registry structures don't matter to user programs.
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  29. Not all of us can kiss Windows goodbye because not all of the useful software has Linux versions.
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  30.  @JanPBtest  The power supply in your computer is a terrible idea: it's a single point of failure!
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  31.  @JanPBtest  You say different, I say not. There are many different possible designs of power supplies. I've seen them fail many more times than "the Registry"
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  32. Well that only took 25 years. Way to go Microsoft.
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  33. You have no idea what you're talking about. "Registry problems" discussed in this video have little to do with applications remembering their settings. They have to do with applications extending or changing windows or its shell (Explorer) and those extensions being improperly setup (in the registry) or ending-up missing entirely. It doesn't matter how nice or expensive your car is: if you don't know how to drive it properly, you will wreck it.
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  34. The Windows 10 Virus™is terrible. Why would you want the Windows 11 Virus™???
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  35. I wish everyone would have this attitude. Microsoft is evil and needs to go out of business.
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  36. *avoid cloud features I DID NOT CHOOSE OR SETUP in general
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  37. How about this? Your car is only as good as your mechanic.
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  38. Good video!
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  39. Cannot into... ? Your "4 kB" statement is also wrong.
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  40.  @deniskhafizov6827  That number is approximate, but that's a lot closer than the 4 KB you stated earlier. (It can vary by file, based on how many other NTFS file attributes the file also has stored.) If the Master File Table (MFT) is corrupted, your entire drive is toast anyways, so worrying about tiny files is the least of your problems. But it's actually a very efficient manner of storing such data. It SAVES disk data clusters that can be used for other files. It also saves unnecessary writes, which means less wear on the drive (not more). Now, I've been using NT-based operating systems for over 25 years, and I've never had a corrupted NTFS MFT. Your "problem" is a non-problem.
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  41. It kinda already does that, at least between 32-bit and 64-bit applications on 64-bit Windows.
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  42. None of that is a problem if you have any semblance of what you're doing.
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  43.  @xpusostomos  You mean like incremental partition backups? Those are pretty common.
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  44.  @xpusostomos  That depends upon your backup solution. Not too difficult if your backup solution provides for selective restore. Why are you making a mountain out of a mole hill? You seem to be trying to complain about a problem that isn't.
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  45. I disagree.
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  46.  @PurpleSanz  The AppData folder is not the Desktop folder. One of those would have an obvious impact on shell performance, the other would not.
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  47.  @PurpleSanz  What you're saying is making very little sense to me. One 10 gigabyte file or 10,000 kilobyte files: which situation is more-difficult to enumerate, and would take longer? Maybe you should be asking better questions, such as "why is something reading every file in my user profile on startup?" because that should not be normal Windows behavior. Could be easy to blame One Drive for that, but...
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  48.  @PurpleSanz  I currently have 166225 files totaling 100 GB in my user profile. But I also haven't restarted in a month.
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  49.  @PurpleSanz  Or I just don't have trashy useless services running on my machine.
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  50. Bingo!
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