{"id":4373,"date":"2016-12-03T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2016-12-03T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:19:36","slug":"yet-another-windows-10-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Windows 10 Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4372\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-image-4372 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Drive &quot;A&quot; with floppy disk\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC07295.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drive &#8220;A&#8221; with floppy disk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft seems to have a team of software engineers who have forgotten the legacy systems of the past. I have a powerful quad-core desk computer that has been performing well for many years. It has progressed through several Windows OS upgrades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 10<\/strong> has been the worst of all editions. Always something not working correctly or having to be turned off as an undesired \u201cfeature\u201d. Every new update changes my preference for Adobe Reader back to the \u201cdefault\u201d Windows Edge. This is driving me nuts!<\/p>\n<p>This time it is the 2.5 inch floppy \u201cA\u201d drive. The OS keeps trying to access the empty drive periodically. The drive light will come on and the head grunts and grinds as it is searching for something on a disk that is not present.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought it was a hard drive failure noise until I noticed the \u201cA\u201d drive access light comes on with the noise.<\/p>\n<p>I have gone into the BIOS and removed drive \u201cA\u201d from the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place boot disk path and removed all drives except \u201cC\u201d from the boot path. This was never required in past operation.<\/p>\n<p>The only way I have found to absolutely stop the access attempts has been to insert a blank disk into the drive for it to &#8220;discover&#8221; and stop looking. This is a lapse in professional programming to assume that floppy drives no longer exist. An empty drive should be flagged and ignored until a disk has been inserted. A typical naive programmer oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft now pushes out \u201cbad\u201d software updates with evidently the plan to later \u201cupdate\u201d their mistakes as users find them and complain.<\/p>\n<p>What a lousy plan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft seems to have a team of software engineers who have forgotten the legacy systems of the past. I have a powerful quad-core desk computer that has been performing well for many years. It has progressed through several Windows OS upgrades. Windows 10 has been the worst of all editions. Always something not working correctly or having to be turned off as an undesired \u201cfeature\u201d. Every new update changes my preference for Adobe Reader back&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,96],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer","tag-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}