# Wednesday's Windows Woes **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266 "2022-03-15T23:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/1 "2022-03-15T23:52:55Z")
Why is your font rendering so bad? 😬 Look at that insane kerning between ‘m’ and ‘a’! ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/2 "2022-03-15T23:55:33Z")
Yeeaah, I was having Windows performance issues and thought I’d turn off all windows performance stuff which included anti-aliasing of fonts. It hasn’t fixed my performance issues but when I tried to turn it back on it didn’t seem to want to re-anti-alias before a restart so I just turned it back off again 😁 I haven’t restarted my laptop in… a while… probably the _actual_ cause of my performance issues haha Perspective clients look a bit special but i’m used to it now 🤷‍♂️ ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/f/9f4da5e4c127f09df4fce98cf45e940d9695dd6b.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/5/75793c11419537fcea42e8b42e27b7eab2592bb6.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/1/51243817810b334923ed996b94e42fa331b7c7c0.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/6/36810f5d7a5067ca200108b091574e7f1a8f66a9.png) ---
**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/3 "2022-03-16T09:57:39Z")
Sooo why arent you restarting it? xd ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/4 "2022-03-16T15:32:03Z")
I don’t know about @nminchin, but I hate restarting Windows. It takes a long time to boot (probably partially due to domain policies and software), and then I’ve got to track down everything I was working with and open it again. If I restarted it every time it was half frozen, I’d be restarting it several times a day–have found Ctrl-Alt-Del-\>Task Manager-\>Windows Explorer-\>Restart usually brings it back to life. ---
**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/5 "2022-03-16T15:40:46Z")
maybe you also have freezing problems because you arent restarting 😛 Also there are options to restart apps on launch, i think. Am i the only one that do it? i even turn off the default sleep mode, just to be sure everything restarted clean ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/6 "2022-03-16T15:44:09Z")
> [@victordcq](#): > > maybe you also have freezing problems because you arent restarting 😛 Haha, yeah, maybe that too. However, mine is usually half frozen any time I come back to it after the screen is locked--even the first time after a restart. ---
**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/7 "2022-03-16T15:51:02Z")
At work i _never_ restart, nothing good comes from whatever new policy IT has pushed and will now infect my workstation. ---
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/8 "2022-03-16T18:46:39Z")
> [@josborn](#): > > At work i _never_ restart, nothing good comes from whatever new policy IT has pushed If only, I get a nice little warning telling me that my computer will be rebooted for me in 1 hour. Then it reboots weather I like it or not, and any unsaved work is just lost. I usually just stop and reboot and let the pain be what it will on restart. ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/9 "2022-03-16T19:10:33Z")
Our friendly warning was 60 s which wasn’t always enough to save everything. After some pushback it was revised to an hour. Yep, stop, save, and reboot before like it or not comes. ---
**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/10 "2022-03-16T19:27:05Z")
Oh, they do that to me too but there is a work around (; ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/11 "2022-03-16T20:13:07Z")
Shh, don’t let that get back to IT or they might find a workaround for the workaround 😁 ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/12 "2022-03-16T22:00:28Z")
@paul-griffith should have named the topic “Windows Woes”. Missed opportunity 😆 I can’t change it anymore because I lost my Regular badge over the Christmas break 😭 Our IT have a similar push-updates thing but I can delay for 8 hours. Once time’s up though, down it goes, no questions asked. ---
**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/13 "2022-03-16T22:19:21Z")
It seems the forum doesn’t like your obviously superior title choice: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/c/1cb36c768d7ee116dbd9d659b16e01459920b479.png) ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/14 "2022-03-16T22:22:41Z")
Someone needs to add a better sense of humour to Discourse. Clearly it wasn’t designed by newspaper editors! What about “Windows Woes Wednesdays”? ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/15 "2022-03-16T22:23:57Z")
Saaweeeeet! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/16 "2022-03-16T22:36:06Z")
> [@nminchin](#): > > I can't change it anymore because I lost my Regular badge over the Christmas break 😭 What?!?!? You took time off and weren't posting on here?!?!? 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/17 "2022-03-16T22:41:39Z")
Haha, I know it’s a crazy world to imagine. But hey, having lived over the last couple of years and now just 2 weeks ago, nothing’s crazy to imagine anymore 😕 ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/18 "2022-03-17T00:51:41Z")
@peter @witman Speak of the devil. I wonder if that was pure coincidence or a magical IA fairy? 😆 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/d/cd34a776722fbac9e2eb67ccc79909485593556c.png) ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/19 "2022-03-17T06:50:57Z")
Actually I changed it slightly again haha ---
**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266/20 "2022-03-17T12:22:40Z")
> [@witman](#): > > It takes a long time to boot That's my coffee time [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wednesdays-windows-woes/57266.md?page=2)