Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
Microsoft doesn’t let you do this because their shitty Chromium-based browser is a “vital component of the operating system”, but with some brute force, Edge will be no more. And it actually works – this ain’t clickbait!
It’s the holidays and I wake up one morning to find a client in distress because their laptop won’t boot up into Windows 10. While I explain to them that I’m not doing repairs on the holidays, I agree to check it out.
Just an update to say yes, I’m still here and that I’m currently working on a tool that helps defend your Windows 10-based device against the horrid mess that is Windows 11. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that eventually Windows 10 will be obsoleted as with any other operating system over time but from…
I had to rescue a Windows 10 laptop that somehow got stuck into a hibernation loop, where it would hibernate and instead of it resuming normally from disk, it would resume and then go back into hibernation mode. Windows 7 or 8.1 doesn’t suffer from this, so it’s a Windows 10 quirk. The Windows 10…