Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
It's not really deleted, the fix is to uninstall the update and your desktop is restored but can you imagine what's going through someone's mind when they see that?


Sadly the fix seems to vary and sometimes, allegedly at least, there is no fix ... it's really lost.

I haven't had that either, fingers crossed, but I have a couple of friends who have.

On the whole, I agree with you. I also don't advocate 'clever' tweaks preferring plain vanilla, other than that I almost always turn off all of Windows own 'bling'. I don't have the patience to wait for fancy sliding menus, smooth opening windows and the like, and I detest spurious beeps, boops and jingles _especially_ though a PA or monitors.

I use a PCB CAD package as part of my semi-retired day job and it sometimes seems like every week there's some new Win10 update that's broken something else in it ... things that have worked fine for years. There are workarounds, but some are just a nuisance. Win7 didn't do that. Win2k didn't do that.

Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
No free lunch in this world, all we can do is be informed and deal with it.


Indeed.

“Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Gordon.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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