[AccessD] Solution Seeks Problem

[James Button]

Re weirdness -  Yes That's what U get with MICROSOFT windows 

I have found that when Microsoft apply substantial updates to the system, it may
take a fair while ( OJ a few days) before the reportedly Installed  updates get
integrated into the software on the system - or the software gets integrated
into the new Windows files,

As in 1909 - Install completed and 3rd reboot within the hour  resetting the
software that 1909 had disabled - such as the multimedia 0 extra codecs, re
restricting indexing etc. Paragon backup re activation ...

Incremental backup was about 20GB  

Then - after 3 days of abysmal responsiveness with many "svchost.exe" tasks
running - sometimes around 100 of them, the incremental backup was another 14GB
-
And those are ontop of the basics that were a normal part of my daily
activities.

During that bulk SVCHOST.exe processing many apps were giving unexpected results
-
I suspect because parts were integrated into the new file versions etc. and
others were not.

OH! and having had 2004 installed - Media player is an "Optional" facility and
may need to be "ADDED" to the active facilities, and the codecs reacquired from
Microsoft, when you can get a download and install to complete without the MS
Account server appearing to drop the recognition that you are a Microsoft
Account holder and thus allowed to get the codecs etc.
Oh! - and for your added security, you may find that USB connected devices are
now automatically checked to see if anything can be autoplayed/Autorun rather
than your previous settings of show the content of the device.

Thank you Microsoft for your concern and help in maintaining the security of
your OS as you set it to run on my PC 

Rant over => back to trying to upload the backup set of 4GB files  to the
Onedrive store.

Oh - and IE seems to not only upload slightly faster, but also seems to succeed
mostly , and report problems if it fails - while EDGE sessions just disappear.


JimB


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From: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of rocky smolin
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 8:29 PM
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Subject: [AccessD] Solution Seeks Problem

The other day my desktop went wonky on me.  The distance between the icons
both vertically and horizontally increased.  I didn’t do anything to cause
this (that I know of), but it’s Windows, so you don’t have to do anything.
Just use it and random things will go wrong without any effort on your part.
(To be fair Windows 10 has been their most solid OS, IMO
But I digress
)

 

Google, being my friend, found the answer – not to the cause, but how to
fix. It’s an edit of the registry:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER à Control Panel à Desktop à WindowMetrics

 

There you can modify IconSpacing (the value for horizontal spacing) and
IconVerticalSpacing

 

The legal values go from -480 to -2730 with the (absolute) larger number
giving more space between the icons.

 

The default value is -1125 but for some unknown reason, something changed
them both to -1700 something.

 

Changed them back and everything spaced out correctly on the desktop.

 

In my search for a solution I noted a couple of references to windows
updates causing this.  So perhaps
 

 

Anyway, I thought I would post in case someone else runs into the same
snafu.

 

Best,

 

Rocky Smolin

Beach Access Software

 

 

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