Totally agree Mike. That is exactly what I do too. Saves headaches and regret and allows for painless experimentation.
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, 14:52 mike smith, <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which encourages me to run it all on a VM, and use snapshots liberally so > I can revert. > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 13:53 Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Have a check of your path variable? Some install/updates are fairly >>> brain dead when they modify it, periodically I copy it out to a text editor >>> and clean up removed apps, check for valid paths etc >>> >> >> Howdy, I saw some web posts around that subject, but my PATH looked >> sensible. >> >> I noticed the dotnet --info showed all my runtimes were in Program Files >> (X86) whereas they were in the 64-bit one on my other machines. This weird >> difference had me worried and I didn't know how to alter it. So by 1pm I >> had done no work and since the weekend was upon me I ran lots of backups >> and screenshots and formatted C: and reinstalled the latest Win10 image >> 20H2. >> >> This has fixed my Core project problem and the dotnet --info output >> matches my other machines. >> >> I don't feel so bad about the reinstall, as a lot of crap accumulates >> over 3 years or so with countless updates and new major software releases. >> It took about 8 full man-hours to get everything back to a familiar shape, >> but I notice my program list is much smaller and lots of strange folders >> and settings have vanished, so I feel my PC is much "cleaner" now. I >> suppose it's worth doing this every couple of years if you have the stamina >> for it. Most of my time was wasted configuring IIS, putting credentials >> back everywhere, creating my favourite shortcuts and Start Menu arrangement. >> >> I have one utterly weird and unexpected problem ... the default font in >> notepad, VS2019 output window, Edge text display, and many other places has >> reverted to some italic font. So I've got this stupid italic output all >> over the place and I can't find where it's coming from or how to get the >> normal Segoe (I think?) back again. >> >> Cheers, >> *Greg K* >> >> P.S. I forgot to mention Friday week ago that it was the 25 anniversary >> of the release of JavaScript. >> >