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    • Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
    • It takes into account everything anyone ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
    • It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
    • It arrives at the best course of action to “fix all of the issues” permanently.
    • To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
    • But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
    • So to make 100% sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.

    And that is how it began…


  • My parents moved into separate bedrooms when I was 6. My mom moved out when I was 10.
    It was an incredible relief for us children. Not because we hated her or anything.
    But the fighting stopped. Both of them stopped drinking daily. The constant, tense atmosphere at home was gone.
    We continued living with our dad, but spent most of the day at our mom’s place 3x a week.
    Weekends were usually spent with both parents. Because since they weren’t forced to live together anymore, they actually got along very well in a friendly way.
    Later we celebrated big holidays together with my parents AND their respective new partners, and my mom was present at my dad’s second wedding, as was her new partner.
    It probably doesn’t work out like that very often. But your children feel when a marriage is only sustained “for their sake”, even if they aren’t conscious of it and can’t put it into words. So separation can also be better for them.








  • Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue. First, Microsoft says that restarting the Shell Infrastructure host (SIHost.exe) service will help restore the missing Immersive Shell packages. This can be done with the following commands:

    Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
    Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
    Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
    

    Second, a PowerShell logon script has been shared that essentially blocks Explorer from launching prematurely until the required packages are fully provisioned. The batch script for that is given below:

    @echo off  
    REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS  
    powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"
    REM Register Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS  
    powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  
    REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core  
    powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  
    

    I swear to god, if I hear “Windows just works” one more goddamn time…