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Please don't deprecate VBScript
Hello, I am new to the forum. I came here for one specific reason. I found out that Microsoft is deprecating VBScript and I have some points to make regarding this decision and I think they are pretty compelling. Firstly, I am a software engineer today and I have VBScript to thank for that. If it wasn't for VBScript, I would not have gotten interested in programming. It provides an easy way for new programmers to experiment with notepad or another simple text editor to create almost anything (as long as it's simple enough). See, a lot of people don't realize that VBScript is far more than just a scripting engine for utilitarian usage. When coupled with HTA files, it becomes something that can even make true games and apps. A lot of IT professionals don't know this, but you can create pretty advanced GUIs with it using HTA. You can think of it kind of like a web canvas that works in IE. It's a lot like electron is today. With electron, you build desktop apps using JS; that's exactly what HTA is coupled with VBScript. It's much more powerful than a lot of people give it credit for. You can make nice apps and games without downloading any kind of IDE. It provides a simple learning environment that teaches about programming (or allows for true app development using HTA). It's useful in a corporate sense for making custom interfaces for kiosks or otherwise. You can make installers or configuration interfaces. (Sort of like your own control panel applets.) Useful for IT professionals that want to have custom configuration software for their specific needs, but don't know how to program in much more advanced languages. A ton of old batch files rely on it in order to function. Once it's removed, these batch files will no longer work and there would be no easy way to get them working again. Honestly, I believe batch files are ugly, but so many people (especially IT professionals) need them. If we're going to leave batch files in place, then we should also leave VBScript alone. Honestly, I think batch files should be the first thing to go in the future - totally not VBScript. Cause batch files are a big problem and almost everything they do can be done in PowerShell. The problem is that isn't true for VBScript. VBScript needs to exist because it can do things that both batch files AND PowerShell can't. It's tiny in size. I don't see how removing it really gains any space at all. If it is an issue, then please just remove the wscript.exe and cscript.exe components, but leave vbscript.dll and mshta.exe. Maybe it's not about size, but rather encouraging the use of PowerShell instead because of increased security. I understand that. In that case, removing wscript.exe and cscript.exe, but not mshta.exe or vbscript.dll ensures that people won't be able to use VBScript for utilitarian purposes anymore (because that's what that thing is for - running scripts that perform system functions on windows). Whereas mshta.exe is just a GUI type framework for VBScript with limited system functions (because it's running in a web browser after all). It's secure, cause unlike wscript, it runs in a headless browser window. Of course, maybe not perfectly secure, but good enough for what it does. It's extensible - using COM. I was actually able to make my own GUI engine for it using VB6. I called it wshshell.exe. You could include that in your script and then build GUIs without using the mshta.exe. This provided actual native windows GUIs without any sort of browser component. Anyway, that's my point. There are so many worse things in windows that could be removed, but removing VBScript makes no sense and is very problematic for a lot of IT people. If VBScript needs to go and Microsoft decides to do it anyway, then I'd like to pose this: Note to MS - We need a programming/scripting language that's built into windows. It should have an entry in the start menu. It should be tailored towards beginners or IT professionals. It should have powerful access to the Windows API and the ability to create GUIs easily in code (without the need for any fancy IDE). Maybe it could have a scintilla based coding environment, but nothing too big. It needs to be kept small if it's going to ship with every copy of Windows. You want it to be a very simple language; even easier to learn than Python. I think using something like lua would be ideal. It's very very small (less than 1MB) and is certainly powerful enough. You would need to include libraries to interface with the Windows API cause lua currently doesn't have enough of that, but it would still be very small. A scintilla based coding environment is also very small. I checked and scintilla's DLL is only 1.7 MB. Especially if you make the included programming language such that it's very Windows centric. This would be a very clever way to capture new programmers into the Windows ecosystem. See, the problem for Microsoft is that most programmers have moved over to open source operating systems and languages like Python. This is a major problem for Microsoft. If you want to get new programmers interested in coding on the Windows platform, then something like this HAS to be done. I honestly wish I wash in charge of Microsoft because I know I could fix your trajectory. If VBScript has to be done away with, then this idea is necessary. This is not written by any AI. It's all 100% handwritten by me. You can see this matters a lot to me.
My Wifi Adapter had Suddenly Disappeared
I have Windows 11 on a Dell Inspiron laptop. All of a sudden my Wifi adapter is gone. It was working fine last night and when I woke it up this morning, no Wifi adapter available, only Bluetooth. I have been using a Qualcomm adapter for years without any problems. I have searched Device Manager and no wireless adapters there, it's listed in the program list in Control Panel. I had uninstalled and reinstalled it, no change. Any suggestions/comments on how to get it back will be much appreciated. Thank you.Constant "Boot device not found" and "ran into a problem and needs to restart"
I have a 2017 HP Spectre laptop running Windows 10 Pro. Up until now it has been functioning near perfectly despite its age, and it's the only computer I want to use for the rest of my life if at all possible. I treat it like glass. Nothing has ever gone wrong with it that I can remember (except needing the battery replaced about a year ago, and occasional charging issues since then). Well, this past month or so, it's started giving me a "Boot device not found" black screen and/or the "ran into a problem and needs to restart" blue screen when I turn it on, whether it was hibernated or fully shut off. I tried to troubleshoot, but I'm not nearly tech-y enough to follow any of the suggestions I found, and I'm scared of messing something up. The message(s) would appear sporadically at first, but now it's literally EVERY TIME I turn it on. Restarting always clears the problem and then I can use my computer like normal, but it's been days since I was able to turn it on without needing an immediate restart. It probably wouldn't be smart to just leave it on or in sleep mode all the time, but I also don't know how good it is to let it crash every single time I start using it. And also this means I can't leave any files open, ever. I need to be able to put things aside overnight without worrying about losing them. I haven't noticed any other issues with my computer, either related or unrelated, but I am very worried about what happens if this persists or escalates somehow. What should I do? (Lmk if more info is needed. I haven't gotten a shot of the error code on the blue screen because it always flashes away too quickly to read, but I can try to catch it next time if that helps?)
Windows 11 is no longer activated after a BIOS update and cannot be reactivated
After a BIOS update, my Windows 11 Pro is no longer activated, and I can't reactivate it using the troubleshooter either, as the license apparently can no longer be found in my Microsoft account. Unfortunately, I can’t remember whether I activated Windows with a product key or via a Windows 7 Pro upgrade. Is there a way to reactivate my Windows 11 without having to buy a new copy of Windows 11? It was activated before the BIOS update. No Hardware Change.
Request for missing critical feature: RWBG subpixel layout support for text rendering / ClearType
Hello! Monitors with WOLED panels mostly with RWBG (but also other non-RGB too) subpixel layout are rapidly becoming widespread as they became affordable lately. Mobile OS's have already proven that producing perfect-to-the-eye, artifact-free text rendering / antialiasing on various OLED panels is a totally solved problem already. Current Windows ClearType / text rendering solutions however still fail at this with very unacceptable results. (This is common knowledge all over the internet, I won't post various technical evidence here but you can just look it up easily) Partial 3rd party solutions exist, but are mostly only a band-aid and never produce 100% coverage for all productivity scenarios and never come without side-effects. Thus we now need the official, system deep integrated solution for this. When can you ship this in a critical update with in-advance schedule?Request for missing critical feature: RWBG subpixel layout support for text rendering / ClearType
Hello! Monitors with WOLED panels mostly with RWBG (but also other non-RGB too) subpixel layout are rapidly becoming widespread as they became affordable lately. Mobile OS's have already proven that producing perfect-to-the-eye, artifact-free text rendering / antialiasing on various OLED panels is a totally solved problem already. Current Windows ClearType / text rendering solutions however still fail at this with very unacceptable results. (This is common knowledge all over the internet, I won't post various technical evidence here but you can just look it up easily) Partial 3rd party solutions exist, but are mostly only a band-aid and never produce 100% coverage for all productivity scenarios and never come without side-effects. Thus we now need the official, system deep integrated solution for this. When can you ship this in a critical update with in-advance schedule?
2026年に安全に youtube mp3 ダウンロード するおすすめの方法は？
大学の講義をYouTubeで視聴しているのですが、通勤中やオフラインでも聞きたいので、音声だけを保存したいと思っています。そこで youtube mp3 ダウンロード の良い方法を探しています。 いくつかオンラインサイトを試しましたが、広告が多かったり、安全性が少し心配でした。2026年現在、WindowsやMacで安全に youtube mp3 ダウンロード できるおすすめの方法やツールはありますか？できれば高音質で保存できる方法が知りたいです。コマンドラインツール（yt-dlpなど）や安全なデスクトップソフト、または信頼できるサイトがあれば教えていただけると助かります。よろしくお願いします！How to completely reinstall windows 11 from usb for downgrade
Windows 11 25H2 but i don't like it. Some recent updates the system feels slower and some of my apps are not working properly. Because of this, I want to completely reinstall windows 11 from usb and possibly downgrading to an earlier version. The problem is that I'm not very familiar with the correct steps for doing a full reinstall from a USB drive. I know that I probably need to create a Windows 11 bootable USB first, then boot the computer from it and reinstall the system, but I’m not sure how the downgrade part works or if there are any special settings I should change in BIOS/UEFI. Has anyone here completely reinstalled Windows 11 from USB for downgrade to an older version or build?
Can Windows 11 directly use PNG images with transparent channels as wallpapers?
When attempting to set a company logo and text (.png format, containing an alpha channel) directly as the desktop wallpaper, I found that Windows 11 automatically fills the transparent parts with a certain background color and cannot preserve the transparency effect. Although there are third-party software solutions available online that can achieve this functionality, I would prefer a built-in system solution.Does the Phone Link app in Windows 11 now allow opening apps without unlocking the phone?
A few years ago, Microsoft removed the ability to open apps without unlocking the phone in the "Phone Link" feature. Yesterday, I discovered that this feature has become effective again after enabling a specific setting (opening apps without unlocking). Six months ago, this setting option was still missing. I would like to confirm whether this is a newly reintroduced feature or one enabled by default, as well as the specific location and function of the related setting.How can I download or make Windows 10 bootable USB for reinstall?
My computer is currently running Windows 10, but it has become very slow and unstable lately. I am planning to reinstall the system from scratch to fix these issues. However, I'm not very familiar with the correct process for downloading the Windows 10 installation files and making Windows 10 bootable USB drive. I tried searching online but found many different tools and guides, which made it a bit confusing. I'm not sure which method is the safest and easiest yo download windows 10 bootable usb. Could someone explain the best way to download the official Windows 10 ISO and create a bootable USB drive for reinstalling Windows 10? Also, what size USB drive is required, and will this process erase all data on the USB?Storage Space for Windows Updates
Windows informs me that although the external USB drive has the capacity, I have insufficient space on my internal C: drive to initiate installing updates. 'Settings-System-Storage' shows 17.4 of 56.4GBs being used are for 'Installed Apps'. Opening 'Installed Apps' in 'Settings' identifies 55 apps and the storage space for most of them. These total under 2GB, which is a lot less than the 17.4 identified in 'Storage'. The apps for which storage space is not shown include Fotor Photo Editor and MS Edge (which I use) together with several MS 365 and OneNote apps (which I do not wish to use). Are these likely to be taking up the missing 15.4GB, or, are there other 'hidden' apps taking up the storage space that I would like to use for updates. If either of these are the case, how can I identify them and their storage capacity?
Copy and Paste not working with Omnissa Horizon client. Darn it Nearby Share!
I work pretty heavily in a virtual machine that I connect to through Omnissa's Horizon client. I very often need to copy and paste from my host machine into the virtual machine. Today, I turn on my laptop and notice that copy and paste no longer works this way. Also, I've got this annoying tile that comes up at the top of my monitor that says "Drag and drop to share..." blah blah blah. A little bit of searching and I find several posts from other people like me, who have had this Nearby Share garbage randomly enabled on their system. So I figure out how to turn it off... System > Nearby Share > toggle Drag Tray off. Great, except I still can't copy and paste into Horizon client anymore. Copy/Paste works well every other way except, even through RDP, but NOT in Horizon client now. Only change on my system has been this random feature turning itself on. How does one go about fixing this? Anyone else out there experiencing a similar problem?
Windows 10 Freezing After Latest Security Update
After the most recent Windows 10 security update, my computer started experiencing constant freezing issues. Before this update, the system was working normally without any performance problems. The freezing happens during simple tasks, such as typing text, copying and pasting, or opening applications like Word and Chrome. When it occurs, the system becomes completely unresponsive for several seconds. Sometimes the entire interface freezes, and I have to wait for the system to respond again. This behavior started immediately after the latest security update was installed. It feels as if the system is constantly struggling to process basic actions, which makes normal use of the computer very difficult. Because of these freezes, even basic tasks such as writing documents or browsing the internet have become frustrating and unreliable. I suspect the issue may be related to the recent security update, since the problem did not exist before it was installed. I would like to know if other users are experiencing the same issue after the latest Windows 10 security update, or if there are any known solutions or fixes available.Problems with Belarusian localization for Windows 11
I tried changing the interface language to Belarusian back in Windows 10, but the interface wasn't fully translated and was half Russian and half Belarusian. I installed Windows 11 and immediately changed the language to Belarusian, but the system became half English and half Belarusian. I contacted support, and they insisted on reinstalling Windows according to the instructions, assuring me that the translation was fine and that it was my problem. After that, nothing changed, and the language also became half English and half Belarusian. I asked my friends to install the Belarusian language, and they did so, and they had the same problem as me, exactly the same. But when I decided to change the language to Ukrainian to see if the same thing would happen, everything returned to normal, and the system became fully translated. The problem still exists. Finally, even in the comments for the Belarusian localization, people write that their system is also not fully translated. Please fix the localization issue. I see that the localization is updated in the Microsoft Store and the time of the last update is indicated, but nothing changes. Maybe there is some mistake?コンピューターでm4aをmp3に変換する最良の方法は何ですか？
スマートフォンで録音した音声ファイルがすべてM4A形式で保存されています。パソコンでは再生できますが、車のオーディオや一部のデバイスではMP3のほうが互換性が高いので、まとめてMP3に変換したいと考えています。そこで、効率的に m4a mp3 変換 を一括で行う方法を探しています。 録音ファイルはかなり多く、1つずつ変換するのは時間がかかるため、WindowsまたはMacで使える安全な方法が知りたいです。できればフリーソフトやコマンドラインツールでも構いません。大量の音声ファイルをまとめて m4a mp3 変換 できるおすすめの方法やツールがあれば教えてください。Windows 11 Pro upgrade from Windows 10 without losing data?
I have an old PC running Windows 10 Home. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 11 Pro on this device? It comes with Intel i7 6500 CPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1 TB HDD. I downloaded the Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft and run the setup.exe. The problem is that I can't finish the upgrade as it Windows 11 Setup says: This processor isn't supported for this version of Windows. I am looking advices for windows 11 pro upgrade from windows 10. I hope keep all apps and personal files.
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