Java Jive
2024-06-16 14:07:34 UTC
Today, I found a need to rerun the Windows 10 Media creation tool to
remake my W10 installation ISOs.
To begin with, it takes some time just displaying ...
Getting a few things ready
... then the usual EULA comes up, then it displays again ...
Getting a few things ready
[Aside: As a simple point of English, shouldn't that be: "Getting a few
*MORE* things ready" the second and later times around?]
... then you get to choose to upgrade the PC then and there, or create
installation media, I chose the latter.
Next you get to choose the language, edition, and architecture. I'm in
the UK, my regional settings are UK, but that choice is initially greyed
out, because "Use the recommended settings for this PC is selected, and
that's "English US", so that's an error, albeit a relatively small one,
unfortunately, bigger and stupider ones follow. I uncheck the default
settings, choose English UK, and select both 32 & 64 bit architectures.
Then there's another display of ...
Getting a few things ready
... before ...
16GB of free disk space needed on (C:)
[Aside, as a simple point of English, why the brackets around 'C:'?]
Well, duh! There's about 750GB free on D:, so why not use that? But
no, I'm not given any chance to tell it to be sensible, it won't let me
tell it where to store temporary files, or even wait until I've cleared
some space so I can tell it to try to get past this point again. I have
to abort the program and rerun it.
I cleared enough space easily by temporarily disabling hibernation which
releases at one stroke 32GB of extra space by deleting 'hiberfil.sys',
and then tried to rerun the program, but now it aborted almost
immediately with an error message that conveyed no useful information as
to what exactly was wrong when it had got past that stage without error
before, but hinted that rebooting may help. WTF? So now I have to lose
my desktop of a dozen or so running programs and reload it all just to
overcome someone else's incompetency?
So I reboot, and run it again, waiting wearily all over again while it
repeatedly displays ...
Getting a few things ready
... and now it gets past the disk space check to the next screen which
enables you to choose between creating media then and there or creating
ISOs, and I choose the latter, only *NOW* to be given a choice as to
where to save the files, thus proving that my disabling hibernation, and
having even to reboot, was all for nothing.
When the dialog box comes up to save the file, its default name is just
'Windows.iso'; there is no version information, no architecture
information, nothing useful like that, so, unless I give it a sensible
name myself, in a few weeks time, how am I going to remember what the
file actually is?
Just *WHO* programs shit as bad as this?
remake my W10 installation ISOs.
To begin with, it takes some time just displaying ...
Getting a few things ready
... then the usual EULA comes up, then it displays again ...
Getting a few things ready
[Aside: As a simple point of English, shouldn't that be: "Getting a few
*MORE* things ready" the second and later times around?]
... then you get to choose to upgrade the PC then and there, or create
installation media, I chose the latter.
Next you get to choose the language, edition, and architecture. I'm in
the UK, my regional settings are UK, but that choice is initially greyed
out, because "Use the recommended settings for this PC is selected, and
that's "English US", so that's an error, albeit a relatively small one,
unfortunately, bigger and stupider ones follow. I uncheck the default
settings, choose English UK, and select both 32 & 64 bit architectures.
Then there's another display of ...
Getting a few things ready
... before ...
16GB of free disk space needed on (C:)
[Aside, as a simple point of English, why the brackets around 'C:'?]
Well, duh! There's about 750GB free on D:, so why not use that? But
no, I'm not given any chance to tell it to be sensible, it won't let me
tell it where to store temporary files, or even wait until I've cleared
some space so I can tell it to try to get past this point again. I have
to abort the program and rerun it.
I cleared enough space easily by temporarily disabling hibernation which
releases at one stroke 32GB of extra space by deleting 'hiberfil.sys',
and then tried to rerun the program, but now it aborted almost
immediately with an error message that conveyed no useful information as
to what exactly was wrong when it had got past that stage without error
before, but hinted that rebooting may help. WTF? So now I have to lose
my desktop of a dozen or so running programs and reload it all just to
overcome someone else's incompetency?
So I reboot, and run it again, waiting wearily all over again while it
repeatedly displays ...
Getting a few things ready
... and now it gets past the disk space check to the next screen which
enables you to choose between creating media then and there or creating
ISOs, and I choose the latter, only *NOW* to be given a choice as to
where to save the files, thus proving that my disabling hibernation, and
having even to reboot, was all for nothing.
When the dialog box comes up to save the file, its default name is just
'Windows.iso'; there is no version information, no architecture
information, nothing useful like that, so, unless I give it a sensible
name myself, in a few weeks time, how am I going to remember what the
file actually is?
Just *WHO* programs shit as bad as this?
--
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Fake news kills!
I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website:
www.macfh.co.uk