Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
Totally not a click-bait title, I promise. We’ll be looking at the truth behind the Windows 10 End of Support message that Microsoft’s been popping up on computers in a desperate bid to get you to upgrade to Windows 11. I’ve been looking at numerous articles on the internet and also watching some YouTubers talk…
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…