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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:08:25 -0400
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On Tue, 3/18/2025 9:31 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:55:15 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
>>
>>> Many years ago, a software engineer named Fred Brooks predicted that
>>> some systems could get so complex that they would exceed a
>>> manageable threshold of complexity, where every attempt to fix a bug
>>> would just create new ones.
>>>
>>> Microsoft passed this point a long time ago.
>>
>> Further evidence
>> <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/this-months-windows-updates-are-removing-the-copilot-app-accidentally/>:
>> now a Dimdows update deletes your Copilot app and taskbar icon, and
>> the only workaround is to put it all back again yourself:
> 
>   "deletes your Copilot app" "from *SOME* Windows 11 PCs"
> 
>   Perhaps another case of thousands in billions, like your previous FUD?
> 
>   Anyway, the Copilot app did not get deleted from my system. Sorry
> about that. (There never was a Taskbar icon, so a tad hard to delete
> that.)
> 
>   Let's hear from others, who - unlike you - actually have/use this
> stuff.
> 
>>     Microsoft says it is "working on a resolution to address the
>>     issue" but that users who want to get Copilot back can reinstall
>>     the app from the Microsoft Store and repin it to the taskbar, the
>>     same process you use to install Copilot on PCs where it has been
>>     removed.
>>
>> This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth
>> nothing.
> 
>   Well, it seems to keep *you* quite busy.
> 

All I got, was this lousy T-shirt.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/FFZzjH9B/do-the-hokey-pokey.gif

On several OS installs here, this pops right up on the screen,
claiming it is installing itself or something. I clicked the "X"
but evidence is, I wasn't fast enough. Now I have to do
the hokey-pokey. That's what it's all about.

If you're wondering when that one came in, you can see the
muddy footprints on the floor, here.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/y6QB1g6s/Reliability-Monitor-Office-Hub-Incoming.gif

*******

The CoPilot icon on the Task bar, second from left ?
Naw, that's still there. On all the OSes I've looked at recently.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/vZXCzC1M/Co-Pilot-App.gif

This is the thing running in the picture. That gives the package name
if you need it for some reason.

   "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Copilot_1.25014.121.0_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\CopilotNative.exe"

  Paul







   Paul