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I restarted my computer and it worked only to stop about 15 minutes later.When the usb mouse stops working and I look at the bluetooth settings it shows the usb device not working and bluetooth is turned off.This is driving me nuts. Again, the mouse worked for about an hour and a half then stopped. Other than that I can't tell you what she did.
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I called Microsoft again this morning and the drivers were once again updated. During that 5 hour ordeal they updated my computer from 1803 to 1809. I called Microsoft and after 5 hours I thought it was fixed only to realize two days later the problem still existed. I went into the settings and there wasn't a toggle to turn bluetooth on or off. Sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for hours. Both the usb and bluetooth would work periodically. Checked all the things one would normally do… new battery, actually tried more than one just to make sure, changed usb ports, got a new usb mouse, and tried a bluetooth mouse. I've started having problems with my usb mouse. It'd be interesting to see if other players relying on the built-in codecs, like Media Player Classic, also suffer from this issue in 1809.
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Throw in variable bit rate encoding and you've actually got an interesting problem to solve.If you've ever tried to play an AVI or MP4 in VLC that didn't quite finish copying across the network you'll find that it'll probably play, but you can't seek because that information is, by default, at the end – often choosing "encode for the web" is what puts that information at the start so that a web browser can get the seek information it needs to allow for scrubbing through a file you haven't even fully downloaded.So, in my opinion, it's a codec issue, and that is something that's likely to have been changed in the OS. Seeking through media requires the codec to do some effort to find the actual place in the file to start playing from. That's why it's only certain types of files affected.

IMHO, it's not the seek control that's broken. where are these supposed to go if Control Panel were to be ripped out of Windows?(The more you understand about which parts of Control Panel have been co-opted by third parties, the more it makes sense why some things are taking years to get moved.) Log in to Reply Then there's all the control panels like Java Control Panel, Lenovo System Update, Flash Player, System Center Configuration Manager, NVidia Control Panel, Realtek HD Audio Manager, etc.etc…. Microsoft is trying to wean all these people off these methods. For 20+ years it was common for drivers to add tabs to the Mouse, Sound, Keyboard, etc. there are tons and -tons- of applications, drivers, and such that hook into various places in the Control Panel. It's especially bad when you remove an API as part of a Feature Update, because then apps will just stop working altogether.As for Control Panel, it's the same story….

As soon as they release a version of Windows without that backwards compatibility, they lose a whole whack of customers. In reply to Winner:Correct, but Microsoft doesn't control how long their customers remain intent on using deprecated APIs for production purposes. “Microsoft is working on a resolution and estimates a solution will be available in late November 2018.”Īt least that one has a more specific time frame for the fix. “After installing this update, some users cannot set Win32 program defaults for certain app and file type combinations,” the same support document explains. This is true whether you’re using Windows Media Player in its normal window or in the Now Playing window.Īlso, this Windows Media Player bug isn’t the only known issue with Windows 10 version 1809.

I tested this bug and sure enough the Seek Bar doesn’t work. And that’s saying something, given the history of Microsoft’s “Windows as a Service” debacle.
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What is clear is that Windows 10 version 1809-which is obtained by installing the October 2018 Update-is the buggiest and most unreliable Windows 10 Feature Update yet. Whether that upcoming release refers to a coming Feature Update-the next one is due in the first half of 2019-or a monthly quality update is unclear. “Microsoft is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.” “After installing this update, users may not be able to use the Seek Bar in Windows Media Player when playing specific files,” a Microsoft support document notes. As if there weren’t already enough problems with this release, Windows 10 version 1809 breaks Windows Media Player too.
