NanoraptorWindows does update.
Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.
Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.
Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.
I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD!
gets the spray bottle
Amber :neodog_box:@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social id say most of the work comes down to figuring out if you have to slap the fingers away with a registry edit, a group policy, a batch/powershell script ran by group policy or intune. I could just pretend and tell you to use the Windows Administrative Templates but the annoying part is that
1) the windows update team and admx are separate teams
2) due to point 1 this means that often admin templates are behind
3) active directory STILL DOES NOT LET YOU SET VERSION SPECIFIC POLICIES YOU CANT JUST HAVE WINDOWS 10 AND 11 ADMX THE 11 ADMX HAS TO BE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE
4) there's a 50/50 chance that while the admx template gives you control over gamebar it might not give you access to turning off that specific behavior and you might have to do it through mdm or hack it
Nanoraptor@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social Usually the behaviour, a single issue like this isn't too hard to fix. For this non-windows user it's Settings-search for game bar - turn off.
For now. And for this problem - but the next random weird thing it does will need that again. If Windows started showing fullscreen ads for backup services every time I plugged in a USB drive in the future IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME!.
We're a small shop - no dedicated admin folk :). Principle of least surprise is worth gold.
Amber :neodog_box:@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social sorry im just showing my underfunded k12 experience of trying to do "basic in principle" things like limit the wifi networks students are able to connect to without MDM bc the district doesn't see the need. for the most part yes, these things are so simple that sometimes i will use local group policy editor on non-domain joined machines of mine to configure things like edge background updates. as you said. it's the fact these change. one of the worst experiences was the introduction of chat. students had o365 through the school while chat would only let you log in through personal. we had windows 11 pro edu builds that shipped with ms teams Work/Business (via office install) and then there was also standalone teams installer. Having to explain to teachers that the standalone personal teams is not it was like the scene from Indiana Jones with the cups.
Amber :neodog_box:@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Oh i think the worst part of that actually was the fact that chat became enabled and would often run in the background as msteams.exe the problem with this is that some educational testing software read "msteams.exe" and decided you hadn't closed out teams and instead of killing the process would outright refuse to launch the secure environment. this led to me doing hacks like using ad to deploy a bat script on login that would run
taskkill /F /IM msteams.exe
before the admx template was released that allowed you to disable chat from the taskbar.
Nanoraptor@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social THIS IS SO FAMILIAR!
Running Windows in a workplace is like having a co-worker who comes in every few weeks on a different mind-altering substance - and is actively looking to use MORE.
And the world accepts that every workplace has a few of these co-workers, and the workaround is to train the rest of us in how to stop them doing whatever it is they do.
Amber :neodog_box:@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social the solution for one week might be to give your coworker mind-altering substances in the morning so that they forget to take more but then when you get to work the next week and try that suddenly your coworker is trying to stick his fingers in the shredder
Amber :neodog_box:@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social my favorite is when researching it, you will find solutions from 2007 that somehow work, while solutions from 2022 are deprecated bc Microsoft decided to drop support for a powershell module. once you get off of learn.microsoft you end up on those sites where you question "is this article written to sell me a product" because it'll be like "EasyRegistryCleanUpCo" and they wrote the worlds most detailed article about how Windows Registry keys work but at the end they say some shit like "If you messed up something or were unable to follow download EasyRegistryCleanUp". so you wonder if they are trying to trick you into breaking something so you download their software. i loved cross-referencing sites like this and finding out no EasyRegistryCleanUpCo despite looking like a download from Softonic actually has solid advice that i don't have to pay for.