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    From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 23 12:07:45 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    Bizarre thing. Working remotely on a friend's PC, I wanted to give the thing a "service". Weeded system files (took ages on a slow machine). Filesystem check. DISM to scan the componenent store in preparation for an SFC /Scannow

    Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.

    Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested maxmimising the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.

    It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).

    How weird is that?


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    Phil, London

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 23 11:41:44 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    On 23/09/2024 in message <MPG.415b5c5a33f969d9989aeb@news.eternal-september.org> Philip Herlihy
    wrote:

    Bizarre thing. Working remotely on a friend's PC, I wanted to give the
    thing a
    "service". Weeded system files (took ages on a slow machine). Filesystem >check. DISM to scan the componenent store in preparation for an SFC
    /Scannow

    Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.

    Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested
    maxmimising
    the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.

    It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).

    How weird is that?

    Probably took 25 Microsoft programmers six months to come up with that
    feature :-)

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    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Did you know on the Canary Islands there is not one canary?
    And on the Virgin Islands same thing, not one canary.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Philip Herlihy on Mon Sep 23 19:09:39 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    Philip Herlihy wrote:

    Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.

    Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested maxmimising the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.

    It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).

    How weird is that?
    Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
    side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?

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  • From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 24 12:13:15 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    In article <lldp72FleppU5@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns wrote...

    Philip Herlihy wrote:

    Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.

    Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested maxmimising
    the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.

    It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).

    How weird is that?
    Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
    side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?

    Do we know it would do that? But a click is momentary, and as soon as the mouse button was lifted it should surely restart, if paused at all.

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    Phil, London

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Philip Herlihy on Tue Sep 24 13:31:39 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    Philip Herlihy wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote...

    Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
    side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?

    Do we know it would do that? But a click is momentary, and as soon as the mouse button was lifted it should surely restart, if paused at all.

    The new multi-tab command window seems to have changed behaviour, you
    used to be able to leave selection in a state where the title read
    "select blah" and I/O was blocked until yu hit enter ... not any longer.

    <https://i.sstatic.net/B6MCF.jpg>

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  • From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 12:05:40 2024
    XPost: uk.comp.homebuilt

    In article <llfppdF60vU2@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns wrote...

    Philip Herlihy wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote...

    Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
    side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?

    Do we know it would do that? But a click is momentary, and as soon as the mouse button was lifted it should surely restart, if paused at all.

    The new multi-tab command window seems to have changed behaviour, you
    used to be able to leave selection in a state where the title read
    "select blah" and I/O was blocked until yu hit enter ... not any longer.

    <https://i.sstatic.net/B6MCF.jpg>

    That's interesting to know. I wasn't using the multi-tab version. I've (still...) never got my head around PowerShell, so my start menu (right-click) offers an admin/vanilla Command Prompt window, so that's what I used (admin).

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    Phil, London

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