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[YCoCg]

Meanwhile on the Windows side, it has probably been worse. The tech giant got blamed by Nvidia today as the latest Patch Tuesday is leading to performance issues in games. The GPU maker has released an emergency hotfix driver to resolve the problems.

This comes hot on the heels of the massive backlash that the company's Windows boss recently faced due to the evolution of the operating system into an agentic OS as unveiled earlier this week.

On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/

Full details in article of broken features.

AI Vibe Coding everyone!

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Speaking of observed problems, Microsoft notes that the following dependent Shell components and related services may fail and report an on-screen error or silently fail to execute, such as the following:

Explorer.exe crash
shelhost.exe crash
StartMenuExperienceHost
System Settings silently fails to launch

Application crashes when initializing the XAML views
Explorer running but no taskbar window.
other XAML island views fail to initialize.
ImmersiveShell

How the fuck do you break the Explorer? That's the taskbar, Start menu, window decorations; everything related to actually using your computer graphically. That's some shit I expect from KDE Plasma, not Windows.

Windows 10 doesn't have all these problems. I still have an old computer running it and it still works beautifully.

 

[IntentionalPun]

How the fuck do you break the Explorer? That's the taskbar, Start menu, window decorations; everything related to actually using your computer graphically. That's some shit I expect from KDE Plasma, not Windows.

Windows 10 doesn't have all these problems. I still have an old computer running it and it still works beautifully.

It's a problem with the installation of an update, not with explorer.

This is a garbage article as they aren't admitting problems with Windows but with one patch causing issues.

 

[falconhoof]

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[Montauk]

It's a problem with the installation of an update, not with explorer.

This is a garbage article as they aren't admitting problems with Windows but with one patch causing issues.

Almost nobody reads articles they comment on, so all you need is a misleading clickbait title.

 

[Hudo]

When Nvidia, who are famous for releasing shit drivers and buggy software, call you out, you know it's bad.

 

[winjer]

Yeah, we had noticed that sometime ago.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Xaml? Xaml by Xaml? A dancing cat?

 

[ReasonBeing]

Read the article and it suggests that this is a problem with a cumulative update that shows up when "A first time user logs in after the update is applied" or when logging on to a non-persistent virtual machine where application packages have to be installed every time.

Unless I'm reading this wrong, this posted article title and thread title are incredibly misleading, as most regular home users will not encounter these problems.

 

[YCoCg]

It's a problem with the installation of an update, not with explorer.

The problem is with another damn update causing issues where it shouldn't be, Windows 11 updates have been fucking things up for a good while now, only now are Microsoft admitting "yeah an update is screwing up important features", it's funny how things started getting worse since Microsoft let AI Coding help with OS Updates. How many more things do they need to break before they realise AI Vibe Coding is doing more damage than it's worth to the brand and user experience?

 

[El Hee-Ho]

Windows 10 bros how he holding up?

 

[T-Cake]

My taskbar never redraws itself properly after resuming from standby. I get like one or two icons and the rest are blank.

 

[Skifi28]

And nobody suspected a thing!