*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***
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More seemingly positive news coming out in that there is talk of moving back to actual native apps not the web wrapped frameworks
Finally they are starting take notice. It's not like people want to go steam os or linux. They are pushing us that way.
I have always been a windows guy from day 1. Never liked linux or even worse mac.
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Well I'm annoyed 
I loaded up Battlefield 6 and it did shaders like a new nvidia driver was installed, yet the one I installed over a week ago was the 581.89! Checking MSI Afterburner and it showed 591.86 which is a completely different driver, a driver installed by Windows Update.
So I checked Windows Update and sure enough Successfully installed on 31/03/2026.
Because of that Windows Update issue whereby some systems were affected by BSOD's and performance issues ( it was recalled ) I had turned everything is OFF, including services (disabled) to stop these updates coming over.
I have NEVER allowed Windows to install it's own crappy drivers
So yeh, it's forced installed and turned services back on. I thought this **** wasn't going to happen anymore
I loaded up Battlefield 6 and it did shaders like a new nvidia driver was installed, yet the one I installed over a week ago was the 581.89! Checking MSI Afterburner and it showed 591.86 which is a completely different driver, a driver installed by Windows Update.
So I checked Windows Update and sure enough Successfully installed on 31/03/2026.
Because of that Windows Update issue whereby some systems were affected by BSOD's and performance issues ( it was recalled ) I had turned everything is OFF, including services (disabled) to stop these updates coming over.
I have NEVER allowed Windows to install it's own crappy drivers
So yeh, it's forced installed and turned services back on. I thought this **** wasn't going to happen anymore
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Well I'm annoyed
I loaded up Battlefield 6 and it did shaders like a new nvidia driver was installed, yet the one I installed over a week ago was the 581.89! Checking MSI Afterburner and it showed 591.86 which is a completely different driver, a driver installed by Windows Update.
So I checked Windows Update and sure enough Successfully installed on 31/03/2026.
Because of that Windows Update issue whereby some systems were affected by BSOD's and performance issues ( it was recalled ) I had turned everything is OFF, including services (disabled) to stop these updates coming over.
I have NEVER allowed Windows to install it's own crappy drivers
So yeh, it's forced installed and turned services back on. I thought this **** wasn't going to happen anymore
Neil, you have so many issues that I am starting to think there is some pebkac going on here mate
Can I customise the start menu so I only have apps? Or do I need start is back or similar software? I've done a clean install due to new motherboard and NVMe drive and I figured I'd try vanilla Windows 11 out for a bit before using something like CTT. But the start menu is just so bad.
I use Explorer Patcher which allows me to make it look like Windows 10 along with quick Launch feature back which was removed from 11.
Windows pushing through 591.86 has ****** me off - it causes issues with coming out of fullscreen apps due to a glitch with the driver stack and DWM but now there isn't a simple rollback without messing about with the nVidia App which it has broken compatibility with FFS. So now I'm gonna have to spend some time fixing a perfectly working setup because MS devs are utter *****.
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I installed Windows for the first time in years (had an old upgraded from 8->10->11 on an old SSD that I booted into every now and then, but wanted to start again on my 2nd NVME Drive, hadn't realised how painful it was these days. I didn't have the options immediately to burn it via something like Rufus to skip all the online nonsense, just a command line and good old dd. I had not realised oobe command was no longer support, but fortunately a quick Google fixed that.
All so I can bloody play a game that doesn't work on Mac or Linux. No other real issues since though, but it's generally just an open steam play game kind of machine with maybe a web browser to browce every now and then, then back to Linux.
All so I can bloody play a game that doesn't work on Mac or Linux. No other real issues since though, but it's generally just an open steam play game kind of machine with maybe a web browser to browce every now and then, then back to Linux.
Getting really tiring that Windows has no option to set an audio device permanently as your selected output device whether present or not - I spend a fair bit of time switching in and out hardware, etc. and then finding there is no sound in my headphones because it has decided to switch to another device and/or suddenly having audio playing on speakers unintended - which when you are working nights, etc. is particularly undesirable.
After all this time and still no such option is terrible.
After all this time and still no such option is terrible.
The new patch Tuesday has also added a nice new "feature" which when ever you run a .rdp file now brings up a huge potential security warning about possible password theft blah blah blah. As someone that uses rdp files daily it is bloomin irritating.
Thankfully you can bring back the original behaviour via a regedit change:
I'm quite curious regarding the file explorer improvements that mrk mentioned as one of my other machines suffers from that issue, i'll have to update and check it
Thankfully you can bring back the original behaviour via a regedit change:
Understanding security warnings when opening Remote Desktop (RDP) files
Learn how to interpret and respond to security warnings in the Remote Desktop Connection app.
learn.microsoft.com
I'm quite curious regarding the file explorer improvements that mrk mentioned as one of my other machines suffers from that issue, i'll have to update and check it
Yeah it's been since 24H2, unless you set the option to open a new window every time you click into a folder instead of using the same window, then loading folders takes 1-2 seconds to load, but if you right click open in new window, it loads the contents instantly.
The latest patch almost fixes that, there is still a short delay but it's under 1s now which is more than fine so I have gone back to opening new folders in the same window so I can retain mouse middle click to open in a new explorer tab when needed. Setting to open in new window makes middle clicking a folder also open in a new window instead of a tab which was annoying in itself.
The latest patch almost fixes that, there is still a short delay but it's under 1s now which is more than fine so I have gone back to opening new folders in the same window so I can retain mouse middle click to open in a new explorer tab when needed. Setting to open in new window makes middle clicking a folder also open in a new window instead of a tab which was annoying in itself.