Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap
How about Roku’s “Consent or we brick your TV?”
At this point the EU should just set a timer for complaining that Microsoft uses Windows’ large market share to force services on their users. I do like efficient governments.
EU has, so Microsoft basically made an EU version
Every time you open anything in office applications you get these small pop-ups
- See what changes others did?
- We added a new feature, do you want to see it?
Oh my god those popups for new features drive me insane. Yes teams, I know I can do account switching now because you’ve told me the last 10 times I opened the app.
Respondus used to work on Linux. Maybe reach out to their support? It involves copying a DLL somewhere and using Wine, but that’s how I did my exams
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to turn off all the news, bing smart AI, and BS popups in windows 11 on the computers where we clock in for weeks. No such luck.
My coworker opened edge when they added the new ai bullshit and thought the desktop was infected by a virus and started panicking.
Sounds like a waste of time and effort lol
I’m the one who has to deal with these popup every time I login in order to clock in on time. Worth it to me, but perhaps not to everyone.
They ship a version of Windows 10 without any of those included. It’s called Windows 10 LTSC (Long Term Support Channel).
Try installing that to never be bothered again.
I am not the network/sys admin so I can’t but I will pass it along to them. Thank you. What’s funny is we use windows ten for our work laptops because of some software and I don’t have this problem with those. Just the desktops where we clock in and out and do online training.
Once you graduate, this will be the least of your annoyances.
“Welcome to work. Here is your computer, your free corporate swag, and all the terrible enterprise software that will cripple your productivity.”
“When our overly aggressive security software inevitably locks you out next month, please let us know by filing a ticket at this IT portal. You will not have access to said portal once you’re locked out.”
“If you are remote, please do make sure that you know the phone number of at least one friendly co-worker, because you’ll need to interrupt their morning to beg them to scour the corporate intranet to find the last remaining operational phone number to contact the fully remote IT department, because we laid off your one local guy last month.”
Your IT department has phone numbers?!
Well, this was a few years ago…
Get WinAero Tweaker. It’s a tool that applies dozens of registry and group policy settings to kill stuff like this. I ran it once ages ago and never have had to deal with stuff like your screenshot.
They said they can’t wait to graduate, so I’m assuming that means they are using a Windows computer from their school, and depending on what the CIT department’s policies are like there, WinAero may not accomplish much
If the computer is owned by a company or institution they shouldn’t see this anyway. They should either be using Microsoft work or school accounts or they should be using local accounts and the admin should set the required registry settings for them.
I think that they could be using their own computer but they have to use Windows to be able to use whatever Respondus is.
That would be nice. Our admins don’t bother with anything like this, but they also block me from fixing things.
Wait, are universities still using Respondus?
I feel for you. It was used a lot during the beginning of the pandemic, but I thought it was dropped by now.
Some professors kept the online exams for convenience (theirs and for the students depending on the type of exam), but did in presence in a university class, they dropped the recording but kept the lockdown environment so you cannot cheat even with your laptop
Ah, wow. So some exams are happening online, even though classes are in person! There goes a combination I had not thought about. It is annoying to still need Respondus though, even if I understand why
My professors use it for in-person tests. I just have a separate boot partition on my MacBook for it.
Interesting (and annoying). I imagined that most exams went back to the usual pen and paper or laboratory, but there were tests written on laptops and in class long before the pandemic. I had forgotten about those!
Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap.
Install it on ReactOS, lol.
I’m currently running AtlasOS for the first time
Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap
Well, I’ve got some bad news depending on what industry you’re going into: the business world runs on Windows.
Yeah but it pesters your sysadmin in your stead
Yeah this seems like a complete non-issue… All software has its problems and annoyances. Whether it’s Linux, MacOS or Windows they all have different levels of shit and annoying things you have to do.
windows is absolutely the worst of the bunch.
Depends on the person and their usage. For many Windows is the most appropriate.
Dont be a blind fanboy and just say that there is only solution for an OS and that’s Linux. If there’s one OS then it will inevitably get shit itself.
that’s not at all what my point was, go back and reread the thread.
Your point is “Windows is the worst of the bunch”.
It’s pretty basic/has no value… Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to disprove.
again re read the context. worst of the bunch in regards to the specific topic we were discussing.
in the future consider if you think someone is making such a stupid comment, maybe you are misunderstanding something.
I use Windows, and I honestly never see this stuff at all.
Haven’t used Linux/MacOS in a long time now but from this specific perspective they all appear the same to me. Or at worst, it’s easy to disable.
And the tech world will often force you to use a macbook, as well. As if Windows wasn’t locked down enough.
God I hate not being able to change FN and ctrl on a locked down mac that work gives me , also all the other limitations
Graduation unlocks all the white collar career paths, and your inevitable induction to enterprise IT spyware and power tripping local admins.
Better yet, become a power tripping admin.
Literally the only way my Windows PC is usable at work is with admin rights.
The policies at my work are really backwards IMO.
I have full administrative access to our prod hypervisor (including inside the VMs running on it)… but not my own dev machine 🤦♂️🤦♂️
And better pay… Hopefully
Scumbag design: cave in now or get pestered again in a few days
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
“It’s important we give our users a choice.”
“… and then just keep giving them that same choice over and over again for as long as it takes for them to finally do what we want.”
Literal malware techniques. MS learned well from all the viruses that infected Windows in the 2000s
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YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we’ll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I’d watch a gif.
I would argue that they were a good idea on Vine. It allowed them to stay away from other platforms.
I don’t think shorts are bad, but they aren’t the reason I go to YouTube at all. They are just in the way.
I wouldn’t even mind them as much if they showed you who posted the short before you watched it. There are a few creators I like enough that I’d watch shorts by, but I’ve got no way to know it’s by them
I like short form content too, but not on my longer form content website. And I wouldn’t want ten minute videos on my movie service.
I agree. Shorts are just a way for me to discover new creators when I’m on the toilet since my recommendations page sucks now and never recommends new creators to me.
Collaberations and word-of-mouth are the main ways I find new creators, the algorithm sucks at understanding the finer points.
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Yes! It really is that. Just like how so many men are taught to never take “no” as an answer from a woman, and to keep pestering her until she gives in.
Every shopping site now wants you to sign up for some kind of discount or offer as well.
Instead of “No thanks” or “No, I don’t want to subscribe”, the reject button always says “No, I want to pay full price” or “No, I don’t like savings” and other manipulative bs.
Makes me not want to shop there.
And a lot of them don’t even wait for you to find something to buy, you just show up and it’s “HEY DO YOU WANT A DISCOUNT?”
This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.
Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.
Should we start refering to pop-ups that give no option to say “no” as something like “rape-ups”?
The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like “The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]” and here, when you need it, there’s never an option for “remind me later”. So you either have to stop what you’re doing and go and read a massive blog entry that’s not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it’s actually relevant
I’ve also felt the “impossible to say no” lingo is awful. “remind me later” fuck off
We need a community! I am really annoyed by this, it is rapey and gaslighting and abusive. Another one they started to do is “You are almost finished with your updates”, updates that i didn’t request nor allow.
We need words, customized pitchforks and a leader to recover dignity!
Just use Linux
It is not only Windows, it is common in all apps, but i get the point
There’s already one. it’s called the linux community
Linux/FreeBSD and piracy are like the only way to mostly avoid this crap now lol.
Which will make you see it anyway in any consumer product or service other than the computer OS.
There’s at all plenty one can do with FOSS stuff without needing to resort to that, but ya, in geraral that’s true
I got a BACK UP WITH ONE DRIVE window yesterday on my Windows 10 PC, but it had an option to remind me again in 1 year…
Probably, because I’m from the EU…
I use onedrive for school and work. I think it does its job.
I’m sure, it does…
But I prefer storing my personal data locally, e.g. in a nextcloud or Synology.
I’m using my private Windows PC only once a year anyway…
OneDrive does work for many people. But not everyone wants it. They might have other tools, not have reliable internet, or just not want it. That’s doesn’t mean Windows should keep pestering.
Why don’t you use a debloat script?
I’ve used one of those twice on different pc I’ve configured (for two friends), and it is pretty slick.What do I add to my batch file to turn off this popup?
I don’t know the batch command, I’ve used a tool from github (since I’m not good at Windows): https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools
