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My major annoyance with Windows 11 is they keep changing File Explorer, rarely for the better. Specifically there is a new right click menu with the default options, but you have to click again on Show More Options to see the historic menu we've had for 25 years with addon like TortoiseGit, TortoiseSVN, 7Zip, etc. Somehow WinRAR seems to be on both menus, so maybe there is a new API other developers have not found yet to get onto the first right click menu. Angus

I would go back to Vista or Win 7 in blink of an eye. I would be thrilled if I could have stayed on Win 10, too. Windows 11 is by far the worst Windows version ever (and I could not believe this was possible after Windows 8). There are zero new features I want to have and they messed up everything else. For start half of the things no longer cannot be configured. Taskbar height is too big, colors and icons are awful, Windows theme even worse (selection colors, checkboxes, and similar), you need ten clicks more to do things, fonts are total nightmare and cannot be uninstalled. Whoever designed that Cascadia Mono font needs to be tarred and feathered. It is absolutely illegible and half of the websites are using is as the default monospace font. And this is just scratching the surface...

I hate reinventing the wheel..... Wanted to do something a little different. After a few iterations this is where I ended up... https://github.com/jimmckeeth/MineSweeperHex I want to dress up the UI some more. Double-click to restart (after game over).

Today, when running the Delphi 12.2 IDE in Windows 11 24H2, I got this warning message: For what purpose does "Embarcadero need my location"?

Hi All I published a simple wrapper over the Windows Credential Manager Api https://github.com/VSoftTechnologies/VSoft.WindowsCredentialManager

Embarcadero doesn't want your location. This warning is starting to show up for a lot of network-enabled apps. A recent Windows update is enforcing permission to Wifi info, as it CAN be used to reveal your location, which is a privacy concern. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new-windows-11-version-24h2#windows-location-improvements

This is fair, I use shift right click to get the full context menu, but it would be better if they allowed you to choose which you wanted

I'll take XP back any time. From a user perspective, many of the real improvements of later Windows versions were available as add on tools for XP already. Other so called "improvements" are in fact not improvements at all. There is one notable exception: It's definitely an improvement that nowadays Windows pretty much means 64 bits and 8 Gig of RAM. There was a 64 bit version of XP too, but it wasn't widely used. As for Windows 98: I skipped that altogether, I went from Windows 3.1 (detouring over OS/2 2, 3 and 4 and even Linux for a short time) to Windows NT 4 and then XP. So Windows 95, 98 and ME just are names for me. But hey, I've only got another 8 years to retirement, so chances are that Windows 11 will be the last Windows version I have to suffer through. If I retire earlier, that would mean less years of using Windows as an added bonus. Or maybe I'll even switch careers from software development (in Delphi) to IT infrastructure, which is an important part of my current job anyway. But so far software development still is the part that's more fun.

Thanks 1) It's stored in the windows credential manager encrypted. It's of no use to me hashed, I'm using thing credentials to pass on to other applications - for example when talking to a website. 2) Windows Credential Manager is umm... windows only.

Which version ? This could also be a component you've installed.

You are using the version of FormatDateTime() that relies on global variables initialized with your PC's locale settings. For instance, the '/' specifier is not a literal slash character, it is a placeholder that uses the global DateSeparator variable in the SysUtils unit. This is documented behavior. You can update those globals to customize things like the date/time separators, but this affects the whole app, and is not thread-safe. When you need custom formatting that is locale-agnostic, you should use the version of FormatDateTime() that takes a TFormatSettings parameter, eg: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var lDate: TDateTime; lFmt: TFormatSettings; begin lFmt := TFormatSettings.Create; lFmt.DateSeparator := '/'; lDate := EncodeDate(2025, 3, 26); Edit1.Text := FormatDateTime('dd/mm/yyyy', lDate, lFmt); end; The alternative is to wrap desired literal text with quotes in your format string, eg: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var lDate: TDateTime; begin lDate := EncodeDate(2025, 3, 26); Edit1.Text := FormatDateTime('dd"/"mm"/"yyyy', lDate); end;

The first official entry into the challenge - please give him a star on GitHub! https://github.com/davidreed1666/davidreed @vhanla please finish your entry by adding your link to the GitHub discussion thread.