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https://web.archive.org/web/20160511192917/https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3073930

this is incredible. apparently:

  • there is an official microsoft tool that lets you blacklist vendor drivers from windows update so it'll stop FUCKING overwriting working versions with dog shit
  • nobody except me knows it exists
  • because microsoft published it in 2016 and has since broken the link in two completely novel ways; it currently redirects to a useless FAQ page containing no information that has ever been useful to anyone
  • it has yet another completely apeshit extension which must have seemed incredibly important to some fucking VP and then it was never used again for anything. the file is called: wushowhide.diagcab

as always, if you say any smug shit to me about linux i will block you immediately

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xkeeper
@xkeeper

nice find! windows's support site had so many of these little one-off troubleshooter things and of course their various redesigns obliterated most of them

i know at least one person who this would be real useful for, time to forward it along. cheers

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irina
@irina

its always shocking to me how often i try to look something up on windows, expecting to find documentation, and instead get nothing, maybe a well-meaning support person in a comment log but no actual docs.

how do they keep track of their own stuff? just let us access that!

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ILC
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Seems like every new Windows version they just expect everything to work and rarely every consider what to do if it goes wrong. Then again a lotta recent software and systems just seem to be following that type of mentality.

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dgelessus
@dgelessus

huh, I'm a bit surprised that this isn't common knowledge - I remember people talking about this when Windows 10 was new and everyone was still outraged about forced automatic updates. (If the timestamps are to be trusted, wushowhide.diagcab was released all the way back in June 2015!) Not surprised that Microsoft broke their website for it though.

I was going to say "no, .diagcab isn't a one-off extension, it's used for all of the standard Windows troubleshooters" but actually no, the ones under C:\Windows\diagnostics are not .diagcab files, but rather plain directories (with the same files as in a .diagcab, just extracted). So this tool might really be the only use of .diagcab ever, lol

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as always, if you say any smug shit to me about linux i will block you immediately

"Our documentation is great, why are you so lost?" Says the average Linux dev, as they present a distro/software that at best looks like the UI/UX equivalent of programmer art and at worst is an esoteric nightmare of menu systems and instructions that are the unholy love child of byzantine bureaucracy and MC Escher's paintings.

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