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

Is there a way to stop Windows 11 grouping folders in Downloads yet? It's so irritating that it changes back, even after trying suggestions found online.
 
How do you mean? Forgetting folder views (regardless of what folder) is a typical Windows issue that has been around since XP. Deleting manually Bags and BagsMRU from the registry resolves it until the folders congest again down the line.
 
mrk said:
How do you mean? Forgetting folder views (regardless of what folder) is a typical Windows issue that has been around since XP. Deleting manually Bags and BagsMRU from the registry resolves it until the folders congest again down the line.
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During my testing, the installs were fresh on virtual machines.

As an example, download an archive, extract it, then navigate to the newly created folder and only to find Windows has set the view to grouped. Change the view so the files are ungrouped, close the explorer window, navigate back to the same folder and I almost always find my changed group setting undone and the folder is grouped again. The same applies for the download folder itself, Windows always changes the view to grouped.

I've encountered Windows forgetting folder views on older Windows installations, especially when a lot of folders have been viewed.
 
darael said:
During my testing, the installs were fresh on virtual machines.

As an example, download an archive, extract it, then navigate to the newly created folder and only to find Windows has set the view to grouped. Change the view so the files are ungrouped, close the explorer window, navigate back to the same folder and I almost always find my changed group setting undone and the folder is grouped again. The same applies for the download folder itself, Windows always changes the view to grouped.

I've encountered Windows forgetting folder views on older Windows installations, especially when a lot of folders have been viewed.
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Yeah, I've found the same, the download folder and the folders inside the download folder always seem to revert to grouped, but I have other folders elsewhere regularly do that as well and then switch back later (even though I changed nothing).

It is like the settings you apply have no influence whatsoever. I don't know if having multiple windows open is causing it.
 
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i do as it happens i mainly just play iracing and was suggested that enterprise is slightly better at running iracing as more cpu dependent, just wondering if could help as since update having fps issues, probably no, but its free and have time to test, so y not i thought
 
Context menus are shortened when more than 15 files are selected.

I don't know if this was a thing in Windows 10, but on 11 and it's quite annoying.

How does one get around this?
 
The other day I clicked decline to the harassment about upgrading to Windows 11 as I always do, but it said it would prepare the update. :/
My little Ayaneo Air has just updated in the background. Sigh. This is a 5560u handheld with only 8gb of RAM. Windows 11 just kills the battery and performance. :(

Guess it’s time to try out SteamOS on it again, but it has some real issues with it the last time I’d tried.
 
Since when did windows keep everything you right click, copy on the clipboard? When I used to do this the next thing I copied replaced the previous thing on the clipboard so that when you pasted the thing you just copied was pasted. Now it saves everything so you need to clear the clipboard before copying or you get everything you copied pasted. How on earth is this progress?
 
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Try turning off clipboard history. Not sure if this is the fix, but I have disabled it since it became a thing and my clipboard behaves normally.
 
After searching for ages that setting is already off but many thanks for the suggestion anyway. Is MS trying to alienate their user base on purpose because all of these "improvements" seem to **** people off and make a horrible OS even worse to use?
 
Ah that's a shame. And yes, it unfortunately seems that MS have completely forgotten that an operating system is supposed to be an enabler, yet they seem to keep adding 'features' that are broken or require additional steps to achieve the same task.

One of the recent updates completely broke VSS writers - and by extension most backup tools - and despite being fairly well documented by major IT sites MS have their head in the sand about it.
 
The OS has the hallmarks of one designed by a committee like the one led by Ian Fletcher in W1A / Twenty Twelve / Twenty Twenty Six…

"When it comes to the sequence of events on the day itself, it's key that we all know what's going to happen and we all know what we're doing".

"If ever there was an opportunity for… (MS) …to stand tall and make a big, bold statement about how much it values the idea of valuing values, then surely this is it".

They are also trying to upsell addons like O365 in order to generate income. Not a good combination.
 
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I have built a career around Microsoft so it pains me to see what they’re doing, and what the Windows OS has become.

For me, using Windows is a necessary evil but I have taken steps to minimise the annoyance that is Win11. I use Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise on one PC, Win11 Education N on another, with various modifications to keep them debloated.

I have a Mac, I have 2 new Linux builds which I’m experimenting with and seriously enjoying. Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma, both running kernel 7.01* kernels. I slightly prefer Fedora and that will probably become my daily.

I have no idea what the next iteration of Windows will look like and pray that it more focused on what people want and need rather than what MS thinks we want, but time will tell. It wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft ultimately kills Windows completely in the far future.
 
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Hello, are there any big problems with the May patch?

My Dell laptop now resets every 10 minutes after installed this patch AND some Intel updates that Windows update found.

Its been solid before this patch.

Thank you
 
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