Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Tue, 3/18/2025 9:31 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:55:15 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
>

Many years ago, a software engineer named Fred Brooks predicted that
some systems could get so complex that they would exceed a
manageable threshold of complexity, where every attempt to fix a bug
would just create new ones.
>
Microsoft passed this point a long time ago.

>
Further evidence
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/this-months-windows-updates-are-removing-the-copilot-app-accidentally/>:
now a Dimdows update deletes your Copilot app and taskbar icon, and
the only workaround is to put it all back again yourself:

 
  "deletes your Copilot app" "from *SOME* Windows 11 PCs"
 
  Perhaps another case of thousands in billions, like your previous FUD?
 
  Anyway, the Copilot app did not get deleted from my system. Sorry
about that. (There never was a Taskbar icon, so a tad hard to delete
that.)
 
  Let's hear from others, who - unlike you - actually have/use this
stuff.
 

    Microsoft says it is "working on a resolution to address the
    issue" but that users who want to get Copilot back can reinstall
    the app from the Microsoft Store and repin it to the taskbar, the
    same process you use to install Copilot on PCs where it has been
    removed.
>
This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth
nothing.

 
  Well, it seems to keep *you* quite busy.
 

All I got, was this lousy T-shirt.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/FFZzjH9B/do-the-hokey-pokey.gif

On several OS installs here, this pops right up on the screen,
claiming it is installing itself or something. I clicked the "X"
but evidence is, I wasn't fast enough. Now I have to do
the hokey-pokey. That's what it's all about.

If you're wondering when that one came in, you can see the
muddy footprints on the floor, here.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/y6QB1g6s/Reliability-Monitor-Office-Hub-Incoming.gif

*******

The CoPilot icon on the Task bar, second from left ?
Naw, that's still there. On all the OSes I've looked at recently.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/vZXCzC1M/Co-Pilot-App.gif

This is the thing running in the picture. That gives the package name
if you need it for some reason.

   "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Copilot_1.25014.121.0_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\CopilotNative.exe"

  Paul







   Paul