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

[Rroff]

Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 22H2 are not affected so that is very good news with new secure boot DBX update to protected it from nasty BlackLotus malware.

It listed Windows 8.1, Windows 10 1507 to 21H2, Windows Server 2012 to 2022/21H2 and Windows 11 21H2.

It not good and actually very bad idea to run old Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 and Server versions when hackers created malware and ransomware to targets people who refused to updated Windows or blocked Windows Update with third party software.

The way MS approaches security there is probably some uglies even in XXH2 being actively exploited. That said if on 10/11 you want to be on at least Jan's security patches as there are some nasties actively being exploited in versions of 10/11 before that including a remote code execution vulnerability. (EDIT: Already a bunch of privilege escalation vulnerabilities in 22H2 have come to light).

If MS did their job properly people wouldn't have to block updates, etc.

 

[BananaDunka]

Intel CPU vuln fixes released, manual update needed:

Microsoft releases emergency patches for Intel CPU vulnerabilities in Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server

Following a security disclosure by Intel way back in June of last year about vulnerabilities affecting its processors, Microsoft has issued a series of out-of-band fixes for the flaws.

betanews.com

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Intel CPU vuln fixes released, manual update needed:

Cheers - installed this patch

 

[BananaDunka]

Slowed down from 120fps recording to 60fps - The slickness of 11's min/max animations are very pleasing to the eyes.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Slowed down from 120fps recording to 60fps - The slickness of 11's min/max animations are very pleasing to the eyes.

I don’t notice everything’s that quick.

 

[FredFlint]

I don’t notice everything’s that quick.

Been using Win 11 since it released and never noticed it or never thought about it, is this new?

 

[BananaDunka]

It's not new, it's just the little details that I notice about things in general.

 

[something daft already!!]

I've noticed a couple of changes with the most recent update. The app tray is a different shape and search had some icon on it, so I removed search from the start bar. Probably should have done this before as I never used it.

 

[Zeebedy]

yeah, i think the app tray is more spaced out now too, which is better.

 

[Murphy]

Doesn't seem to be going well for moment 2...

Windows 11 could be stealth-nerfing graphics cards – even the RTX 4090

VBS security feature is reportedly getting switched on without the user’s knowledge

www.techradar.com

Latest Windows 11 update is causing slow SSDs & WiFi connections, BSoD, and more

The KB5023706 update for Windows 11 22H2, codenamed Moment 2, brought the usual improvements, fixes, and features to Microsoft's operating system, including a search bar in Task...

www.techspot.com

 

[BananaDunka]

Core isolation and memory integrity both remained disabled on mine after the update so no issue there, the slow SSD issue only affects that model of ADATA it seems.

 

[Murphy]

Good for you, tell me more about how these problems don't effect you.

 

[IT Troll]

Doesn't seem to be going well for moment 2...

The longstanding SMB file copy issue was finally meant to be fixed in February's KB5022913; "This update addresses an issue that affects copying from a network to a local drive. Copying is slower than expected for some users."

But it is back as a known issue in March's KB5023706.

 

[ChrisD.]

How hard can SMB be?

 

[drakulton]

Slowed down from 120fps recording to 60fps - The slickness of 11's min/max animations are very pleasing to the eyes.

Having that thing keep popping up on my screen like that would get annoying real quick.

 

[BananaDunka]

It's a slowed down recording, it's nowhere near that "slow" in reality, it's faster than animations on Android when they're set to 0.5x. the point of the clip was to show how smooth and fluid it is vs in the past versions where there existed some micro stuttering.

Good for you, tell me more about how these problems don't effect you.

Being snarky for the sake of it??! I was just staying that the issue isn't widespread like how comments on forums would have you believe.

Yes there are some configs that have issues, but that's the case with everything anyway, oh as well as the SMB copy issue, but again that's not something that affects everyone as only a small minority use SMB, myself included.

 

[Murphy]

Being snarky for the sake of it??!

No, i was being sarcastic for comedic effect as indicated by the winking emote. < That's me being snarky.

 

[BananaDunka]

It's impossible to know with these forums sometimes

 

[darael]

Latest Windows 11 22H2 Patch Tuesday (Moment 2) may be slowing down SSDs, boot times - Neowin

This past week, Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates as it was the second Tuesday of the month. It was also with this cumulative update that Moment 2 got pushed to all users; and according to some users' feedback, the update may be slowing down SSDs or other boot drives. On a Reddit thread, a user "mesp21" says their NVMe SSD speeds were more than halved, going from the rated 7,000MB/s down to as low as 3,000MB/s. The issue seemed to get fixed when they reverted back.

 

[Rroff]

Pretty good update for MS then, it only halved performance.