11-07-2017, 05:26 PM
I have grown used to WMP for most videos and music, with VLC for screencapping DVDs and playing Ogg Vorbis files. Given how Windows 10 just recently added support for Matroska MKV video, you'd think they would have also added native Ogg support too...
Speaking of media players, I found a very odd bug with Windows Media Player, or perhaps any legacy MS app that has an old style Help button.
Normally, if the Help button is clicked in WMP, Paint, or some other legacy app, your browser will open to a general Windows 10 help page on MS' site. I done this by pure accident a few times, and I just ended up closing the tab that opened. For whatever reason, when I closed the browser and restarted/cold booted Pearl, my browser magically reopened and displayed the same help page I closed earlier.
I reproduced this issue by restarting the PC after I clicked the WMP help button and let the browser do it's thing. I closed the browser and rebooted. Edge opened up and displayed Help again on it's own.
I then restarted without clicking the help button in WMP. Rebooted, and Edge didn't open at all.
Very strange state of affairs with Win10. I do understand sticking with Win10 gives my PC the most secure Windows OS, but with all the bugs that Win10 now seems to have with Modern apps and other things, it makes me want to roll back to Windows 8.1 despite it's declining support and still being in mainstream support until April 2018, and extended support until 2023.
Then again... I do want to play Cuphead. It's available via Microsoft Store but requires Win10.
Speaking of media players, I found a very odd bug with Windows Media Player, or perhaps any legacy MS app that has an old style Help button.
Normally, if the Help button is clicked in WMP, Paint, or some other legacy app, your browser will open to a general Windows 10 help page on MS' site. I done this by pure accident a few times, and I just ended up closing the tab that opened. For whatever reason, when I closed the browser and restarted/cold booted Pearl, my browser magically reopened and displayed the same help page I closed earlier.
I reproduced this issue by restarting the PC after I clicked the WMP help button and let the browser do it's thing. I closed the browser and rebooted. Edge opened up and displayed Help again on it's own.
I then restarted without clicking the help button in WMP. Rebooted, and Edge didn't open at all.
Very strange state of affairs with Win10. I do understand sticking with Win10 gives my PC the most secure Windows OS, but with all the bugs that Win10 now seems to have with Modern apps and other things, it makes me want to roll back to Windows 8.1 despite it's declining support and still being in mainstream support until April 2018, and extended support until 2023.
Then again... I do want to play Cuphead. It's available via Microsoft Store but requires Win10.