Geenirvana

Thank you.

I am not a heavy user and I genuinely did not know this was an option. My experience is so bad I feel embarrassed opening the application in public.

You may have saved my sanity

It's UX for me. Maybe because I am getting old and I can't keep up with latest "software trends"

I literally had to google how to restart my phone the other day.

I had been drinking almost every evening for the past year. It was only a few bottles of beer or a bottle of wine but it was enough to make me groggy in the morning.

I found it real hard going to a supermarket without going down the alcohol aisle - there are always deals going on.

Just recently, I realized I was gaining weight, so started watching what I eat. As alcohol always made me binge eat I 'simply' did not go down the alcohol aisle on the next shopping trip. I put simply in quotes because it took me real effort to avoid it. Without alcohol in the house, the choice to drink has been taken away from me.

I have basically gone cold turkey and drink tea/water instead.

Honestly, I thought I would have had a more difficult time but it hasn't fazed me in the slightest.

I personally do not, but my company issued laptop does.

I would not disagree that it makes the computer worse, there was a significant performance decrease when the latest version was installed earlier this year but this is off topic.

What I found interesting was that I didn't know about EICAR until today.

I obviously did not find it amusing.

I had my young son with me at the time so I didn't investigate it further. What would have I seen if I clicked the More > button in the Start Menu - would there have been more leakage? Have I logged into my work account on my personal PC at some point? Why did it only show the OneNote file but not any others? What happened if I actually clicked it and tried to open it? Did I simply make a mistake when using multiple accounts in one OS?

There are numerous questions I am asking myself that I don't have an answer for yet.

As far as I can see, I have removed all traces of my personal account off my work laptop now but I am hoping (not sure this is the correct wording in this context) that I can see still the file in my Recommended Section when I get home.

I really would like to know exactly how it can happen.

I do not mind logging into a Microsoft account however the most bizarre situation happened to me very recently.

I will occasionally log into my personal Microsoft account when accessing a Microsoft website when I am on Lunch to work on some personal projects.

At work last week, I was upgraded to Office 365 and as a result I started downloading the latest versions and trying it out in various ways. One of these was upgrading my old OneNote into the latest version (2013 -> 365)

Saturday morning, I booted up my own different PC at home and notice in the "Recommended" section on the Windows 11 start menu "Work 365". This is the name of the OneNote I created at work when I upgraded the document. I do not even have Office on my own PC. Hovering over it would show that it was located in my Works One Drive folder.

I must have been logged into my personal account on OneNote and it somehow meta-data? links it between the work and personal accounts.

I am now in process of removing all traces of my personal account from Windows on my work laptop as the very last thing I want to happen is to see personal files appearing in the Recommended section of my works laptop!

Wish I was smart enough to do this

Frustrating for the tech user. Very frustrating for the none tech user.

Probably intentional, as when someone does not understand something, there is a good chance it will be ignored.

I'm all for having the ability to make fine-tuned changes to settings, but these need to be under some kind of advanced dialog in my opinion.

This UI change shows no indication (for example) what a .svg file is, or what a .shtml file is. How on earth can a none tech user know what these mean when by default file extensions are hidden on Windows.

I work with many people who simply do not know what file extensions are.

"This photo is made up of 62 individual images which were stitched together once they were sent back to Earth."

I do not know how the operations work at NASA but I would like to think that some lucky individual stitched these together manually using whatever software they use at NASA.

Naive question. How does one know this is malicious before installing it?

I think this would fool me if it wasn't for this thread. The only thing that seems off to me is the lack of information, and hovering over the contact developer shows a gmail address.

I wouldn't have looked at the comments in the reviews as I know what the Microsoft Authenticator does, as I use it constantly on my mobile device. So in this instance, I could have seen myself finding this link, clicking Add to Chrome without much thought.

I can surely see how an average user would fall for this and it's frightening.