*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***

[Vimes]

Well, that was a non-event for my main PC. After running a Macrium backup before it was installed, it took longer to do that than it did to run through the download and install process of the update.
I assume that much of what was needed had previously been installed.

Even better, things, so far, seem to work still, noting that StartAllBack got an update already for some dark theme issues with 26h2.

 

[Armageus]

Well, that was a non-event for my main PC.

I assume that much of what was needed had previously been installed.

Everything will still work, and it's a total non-event. It uses the same codebase as 24H2 and 25H2 and is just an enablement package for the few new features.

The main reason for it's release is simply to reset the support period to another 2 years (as 24H2 is out of support in a couple of weeks)

 

[mrk]

26H2 is an enablement update rather than a big update itself as everyone on 25H2 will already have had the slow rollout of all the main features anyway over the last few months.. This update still has more features being slow rolled out and enabled by MS like the new context menu customisation stuff.

 

[Vimes]

Feature updates have tended to throw a challenge or two, this enablement update has been a type of non-event that I rarely associate with MS when build numbers of Windows change.

 

[mrk]

Just to highlight how small this "update" is, disk cleanup has no instance of windows update cleanup files to clean

 

[Rroff]

Albeit it is more of an enablement update than anything but yeah surprisingly installs pretty quickly and without issue on my setups so far, there is a noticeable increase in Windows overall responsiveness (the previous update for responsiveness was already enabled). But the Start Menu is still tragic - it isn't exactly difficult to do customisable categories...

 

[Rroff]

Trying to play a game and my fans are going nuts and performance is affected - Windows installing KB5127648 in the background... FFS Microsoft...

 

[throwaway4372]

This morning Windows greeted me with 15 mins of faffing about with updates.
Which rebooted multiple times, found new updates multiple times, updated nvidia driver I didn't ask for, raised a notification about updating defender which said it was up to date.
I thought they had made changes recently to improve windows update along with the right click responsiveness etc - but windows update seems as garbage as ever to me.

 

[Rroff]

WTF, went to help my dad put up a shed and left my PC with stuff running, came back to find it had restarted to install the update messing up what I had running... fortunately I'd saved anything critical but not amused, guess I have no choice but to take the nuclear option and use WUB 24x7. ******* unacceptable.