One of those nights, any help?

[SvennoJ]

Myriads of problems?

Recent frustrations involve home schooling mostly:
- Copying files from iPhone to my laptop fails so often it's a good thing phones and gaming laptops are so expensive or they would have been smashed with a hammer long ago. Half the time the directory doesn't show up or simply empty. When it finally shows, halfway through copying I always get device not connected or other random errors. It takes at least 2 usually more tries to get stuff from the iPhone on my laptop. It even managed to get win10 to display a blue screen of death (empty blue, unresponsive)
- Email (Outlook). Opening school work attachments always generates errors. Click on an attached docx attachment "440 Login Timeout", click download, same thing. Open in new tab usually works but also generates you don't have permission errors. Click on a PDF attachment "Something went wrong generating a preview". These do work when downloading first.
- Sending completed work back, night mare. It's usually too big so my wife can't send it from her phone (hence the copying to my laptop) and OneDrive only works from my laptop. Uploading it directly to BrightSpace on my kids laptop always fails (hence taking pictures with the iPhone and jumping through hoops)

Everything you do nowadays requires a new account for awful recaptcha bullshit. That GeForce Experience installed but would not work without creating an account. ReCaptcha failed over and over until it locked me out telling me my computer was possibly sending random input, F you. Finally I managed to get GeForce experience to let me in by linking my google account. (And then uninstalled it as it wasn't what I needed anyway)

The sceen off after x minutes doesn't work anymore at all. At first I had the problem narrowed down to unplugging any charging controllers so the screen (and later) laptop would go to sleep again. (Any attached controllers keep waking it up) However since some automatic update it now doesn't turn off anymore without anything attached. MS keeps sending me updates on the 'problem' thread which so far is only people complaining about the same problem which has been going on since the start of win 10. MS hates the environment!

Trying to get windows to install unimportant stuff on my D: (storage) drive instead of my limited SSD (system) drive is another nightmare. I had to resort to using symbolic links to trick windows to stop putting certain crap on my SSD.

Minecraft put me off using mods ever again. Too many versions to keep track off, different tools, conflicts etc. I was spending 5x as much time trying to get mods to load than my kids were playing with them.

I don't know what's going on with the photo viewer. From the desktop it still works, yet from Total Commander I now get error executing program.


Not to say console gaming is peachy. I couldn't update ark with 80GB free on the ps4 pro. (The game is 46GB I think). Finally when deleting enough to have over 100GB free it did the update. And after saving too many video clips it won't start games anymore until you delete them. (Says insufficient disk space to start application while there's plenty) But at least it crashes far less often and updates simply work after the download starts.