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Well, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. Rough count, I've worked with 30+ different windows machines over the last few decades. I have never seen the problem yo

by ctrl-j 10y ago

Well, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. Rough count, I've worked with 30+ different windows machines over the last few decades. I have never seen the problem you are describing. I'm not saying you're not having it, I'm just saying it's not necessarily a common event. Maybe you live/work somewhere with a lot of EM interference?

floopidydoopidy 10y ago
Yes his anecdotal evidence is countering parents anecdotal evidence. It's a worthless chain of comments, really.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
No, not just my machines either. Work machines across the country out in the field have issues with Windows forgetting hardware[0] (network, wifi, bluetooth). I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them. [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines.
- ctrl-j 10y ago
  > I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them. I can recall a lot of issues that I've had with windows. I can tell you with certainty that I've never had a device go missing from the device manager. I've had printers have trouble being discovered after they are unplugged. I've had driver updates cause hardware to stop working. I've even had windows updates completely mess up my windows installation. But I've never had the issue you are describing. > [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines. You're saying you have a greater than 1% occurrence rate per year? Google doesn't show the issue in the first three pages for me with the query "Windows forgets network hardware." Have you opened a Microsoft support ticket? I mean, if you're losing device drivers every week, that's man hours your burning! I would want to get that fixed ASAP!
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Well, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. Rough count, I've worked with 30+ different windows machines over the last few decades. I have never seen the problem yo

by ctrl-j 10y ago

floopidydoopidy 10y ago
Yes his anecdotal evidence is countering parents anecdotal evidence. It's a worthless chain of comments, really.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
No, not just my machines either. Work machines across the country out in the field have issues with Windows forgetting hardware[0] (network, wifi, bluetooth). I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them. [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines.
- ctrl-j 10y ago
  > I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them. I can recall a lot of issues that I've had with windows. I can tell you with certainty that I've never had a device go missing from the device manager. I've had printers have trouble being discovered after they are unplugged. I've had driver updates cause hardware to stop working. I've even had windows updates completely mess up my windows installation. But I've never had the issue you are describing. > [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines. You're saying you have a greater than 1% occurrence rate per year? Google doesn't show the issue in the first three pages for me with the query "Windows forgets network hardware." Have you opened a Microsoft support ticket? I mean, if you're losing device drivers every week, that's man hours your burning! I would want to get that fixed ASAP!
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