Posts by mcato

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Is it any different than using Edge/Firefox/etc to open GMail and having Google admonish you (in a pop-over) that you should really use Chrome instead? They all do it.

Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle

I followed MS's instructions https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf which worked for a system I had created from MS Win10 media. Tedious but worked, and all with MS command line tools.

HOWEVER, another system had extra partitions added by the PC mfr, which prevented the simple decrease the main partition by 250MB and increase the recovery partition by 250MB procedure. In this case I had to use GPARTED to decrease the size of the main partition and move it and all intervening partitions to the right to make room to increase the size of the recovery partition by 250MB. The main partition being large, it took several (unattended) hours.

The point being, MS could only provide a reasonable solution if it knew all of the various PC mfr's partition schema, and was willing to make the end user lose the use of the computer for hours as part of the update process. (How many users would get impatient and restart the system during the partition move?)

And yes, they should have made the recovery partition larger to begin with, but small SSDs (I ran across some 32 and 64GB ones in cheap systems, didn't leave enough room for monthly updates) and push-back from PC mfrs probably quashed that idea.