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

Glad that worked. I remember at the time it made a marked difference. Whilst I understand that you may want a UI to have delays for accessibility needs , it staggers me to think why they would want by default to build it into the normal build …

Guys I’ve got a great idea … let’s delay the UI responsiveness cause that’s what users will really want ….

Just affirms the notion of wondering who really is making decisions on windows .
 
Anyone come across the back button not working in Explorer?

Just had this in Explorer on the 24H2-based Server 2025.

Click into a folder, then try and click the back button and it does nothing. However backspace on the keyboard or back button on my mouse both work :D


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Also clicking the "bread crumbs" in the path bar seems to open every folder in a new window, regardless of what the settings are
 
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darael said:
I still find myself hitting backspace in Firefox when I want to go back a page. I would like to say I'm slowly getting used to it's loss, but I'm not. :(:o
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I have a button on my mouse that goes back a page (web browsing), saves me having to move to do it
 
Armageus said:
Anyone come across the back button not working in Explorer?

Just had this in Explorer on the 24H2-based Server 2025.

Click into a folder, then try and click the back button and it does nothing. However backspace on the keyboard or back button on my mouse both work :D


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Also clicking the "bread crumbs" in the path bar seems to open every folder in a new window, regardless of what the settings are
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Yeah, exploring in the uh, explorer is a bit of a 'mare lately. Trying to search seems to break the window entirely too (after it completes), have to close it to restore normal behaviour.
 
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SpartaP said:
For those looking to setup a debloated installer, creating an autounattend file is a good way to do it.


And here’s an example but I would leave edge alone personally as it can cause functionality problems and focus mainly on the debloat section. Also hardware requirements, internet requirement etc.

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It seems nothing has changed from Windows XP days, when Internet Explorer was so tightly intertwined with everything you couldn't remove parts without breaking your system.

The thing that annoys me is that every few weeks or months when an update happens, before you login it asks you if you'd like to set Edge as your browser or get all these "features", and your only option is to say "Ask Later" rather than never.
 
Nevakonaza said:
So glad you told me about this, Its like night/day difference.

Past few fresh install of 11 I've done on various machines its a HUGE improvement in how snappy things are.



For anyone wanting to try.
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I still see a noticeable delay when right clicking the desktop. It feels like about 0.25s before the menu pops up and that's with your tweaks.
 
darael said:
I still see a noticeable delay when right clicking the desktop. It feels like about 0.25s before the menu pops up and that's with your tweaks.
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Oh really,I noticed the diffrence immedietly,Mind you its a brand new fresh install of 11 here on mine so potentially could be why mines instant, Whether as time goes by with updates making changes i don't want etc slows it down again we shall see.
 
darael said:
I still see a noticeable delay when right clicking the desktop. It feels like about 0.25s before the menu pops up and that's with your tweaks.
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Do you have the old context menu restored? mine is pretty much instant but I'm using the old menu - because who the **** designed the new one...
 
Nevakonaza said:
Oh really,I noticed the diffrence immedietly,Mind you its a brand new fresh install of 11 here on mine so potentially could be why mines instant, Whether as time goes by with updates making changes i don't want etc slows it down again we shall see.
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Rroff said:
Do you have the old context menu restored? mine is pretty much instant but I'm using the old menu - because who the **** designed the new one...
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I am testing on a VM with the Windows 11 default context menu, so it could be one of those. But there is a very noticeable difference between clicking the Start menu and right clicking the desktop - the Start menu is instant, where the menu on the desktop is distinctly slower.
 
I give up.

Came in this morning to find a Server 2025 install has rebooted itself after installing an update, despite being set to Manual via SConfig. Never had this problem on older versions.
 
Armageus said:
I give up.

Came in this morning to find a Server 2025 install has rebooted itself after installing an update, despite being set to Manual via SConfig. Never had this problem on older versions.
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I've never found anything short of Windows Update Blocker 100% prevents restarts - while somewhat rare if MS decides a restart is mandatory they'll push it through.
 
darael said:
Windows 11 default context menu
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As others have said, this is unacceptable. :p

Save as blah.reg, double click to apply, log out and then back in again to restore some sanity.

Code: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
@=""
 
I'll be upgrading soon so it's an ideal opportunity for me to move over to W11. I'll be doing a clean install and going to try the xml method on schneegans website. My licence is digital and I think it works with this method. I've only ever used a local account but is it ok to log in with an MS account or should I stick to local? Not sure what the pros/cons are for local/ms account login so will do a bit more research.
 
Depends how you want to use your PC.

With a local account MS can't easily track your activity, sync data or link stuff to your identity. While windows still sends some data, a local account keeps things a bit tighter/less intrusive. No auto sign in to Edge, Xbox, Store etc basically their eco system.

However, if you like to benefit from the above, their eco system device syncing / One Drive etc then no harm logging in.

Personally I find manually logging in to Edge (for drop feature), Store/Xbox, covers my syncing needs. I remain on a Local account in Windows though.
 
Bug in the latest Windows update? Context menu swaps between classic and modern between right clicks on any file lol.

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Weird, not happening to me, but they have broken a few things in respect to Explorer in recent updates i.e. unresponsive navigation and menus not responding if they opened via hover over instead of clicking to open them so not impossible.

Started up my main laptop earlier, which hasn't been used for 23 days, all I wanted to do was update one game, for the first nearly an hour it averaged 28% CPU usage albeit that did include me manually updating the nVidia drivers but mostly Windows being **** with catching up on updates and maintenance tasks... the developers really are clueless.
 
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Photos Legacy plays up now as well to the point I just uninstalled it and went back to modern Photos app for image viewing. Only only started happening since the recent big update. Ah well 1 step forward 1 step back as seems to be the case.

I've checked StartAllBack as well and it's up to date and not set to display classic context menus in the Explorer section.
 
Googling it seems quite a few people reporting problems with KB5058499 and Explorer with some mentioning force reinstalling the latest version of StartAllBack fixed it, others still having Explorer related issues with or without StartAllBack present - so I'm guessing it is related to that.

Interestingly quite a few people noting that MS is increasingly ignoring update related GPO settings if the feel like it as well.
 
New version of Windows 11 announced, specifically for gaming, coming to handheld machines first then PC later

This cleaned up version of Windows 11 features its own gaming focused UI and by default disables any background processing in W11 that is not gaming related. Microsoft says this frees up 2GB of system RAM and reduces idle power draw by 60%

 
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