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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]

EDIT:

 

[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!

 

[ReBurn]

Nvidia should also have been ready with updated code when the Windows update dropped. If I have pre-release access to test against Windows updates then I'm guessing Nvidia does, too. When a chunk of your livelihood depends on your stuff working with Windows then you need to test your stuff ahead of Windows updates. But gaming GPU's continuing to work isn't Nvidia's priority right now. This hotfix debacle shows they weren't keeping up.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

as most regular home users will not encounter these problems.

So, only power users?

 

[ReasonBeing]

So, only power users?

Still to broad of a category. I quoted who were effected for you to read.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I don't know if it's related but I've had severe issues with Bluetooth connectivity. I can't get my speakers or wireless buds to work even if it says I'm connected. No sound no matter what I do. It worked perfectly fine a week ago and now it's complete shit. I fucking hate Windows.

 

[poppabk]

I don't know if it's related but I've had severe issues with Bluetooth connectivity. I can't get my speakers or wireless buds to work even if it says I'm connected. No sound no matter what I do. It worked perfectly fine a week ago and now it's complete shit. I fucking hate Windows.

Don't think you can just blame windows for Bluetooth - I haven't owned a single Bluetooth device that hasn't had some kind of issue at some point.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Don't think you can just blame windows for Bluetooth - I haven't owned a single Bluetooth device that hasn't had some kind of issue at some point.

I blame Windows for everything, including my failed marriage and life.

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[Unknown?]

Was this when they thought they owned Donkey Kong because they bought Rare?

 

[chromhound]

Fix the WiFi adapter

 

[diffusionx]

I am sure some more H1B visas will solve this problem

 

[j0hnnix]

Was this when they thought they owned Donkey Kong because they bought Rare?

I think this was when Bill Gates sniffed The Rocks fart. I'm kidding. It was the Windows 95 launch with Balmer.

 

[DryvBy]

I get a random bug where the desktop forgets I have icons on it. So then I have to access my desktop through explorer. I also randomly will have a menu freeze in my screen and it won't disappear until a restart.

Windows 11 is the biggest pos ever and I really don't know why people defend it like they made it.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Yeah, had a "fun" patch experience a couple of weeks ago where explorer.exe imploded. Was hours of fun, fun, fun.

I consciously avoid updating anything unless MS pushes/forces it on me, hoping that by that time they've ironed out any jank...but no such luck.

I know Win10 has it's fan base. But for me Win7 was the peak of a hassle free Windows experience.

 

[Saber]

 

[Loomy]

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.

Neowin is beyond useless.

This is what they're reporting on

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

MS really on a roll this year

 

[Fake]

Make me wonder about the Windows fanboys waiting to them to admit everything is broken.

 

[StereoVsn]

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!

Who needs QA or actual human engineers. Let's fire everyone and let Satya and his execs vibe code everything to success!

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Who needs QA or actual human engineers. Let's fire everyone and let Satya and his execs vibe code everything to success!

The only think they know is PR talk. A code vibe looking like PR statements everywhere. GEAT SUCCESS

 

[StereoVsn]

For all his faults at least Ballmer (and Gates) were all about hiring devs.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

And these fuckers are constantly trying to make me upgrade to windows 11.

Jobs said it best. They make crap products.

 

[Soren01]

I feel like going back to Windows 10 or installing 11 LTSC, but I also want to try out the Xbox Fullscreen Experience

 

[Fermbiz]

I want to see Jensen Huang do this when he blabbers about AI.

 

[StereoVsn]

I feel like going back to Windows 10 or installing 11 LTSC, but I also want to try out the Xbox Fullscreen Experience

I am thinking "savings" from LTSC probably will even out the benefits from Fullscreen.

 

[bender]

Windows NT 4.0 WS for life!

 

[proandrad]

Please save us Lord Gaben.

 

[Soren01]

I am thinking "savings" from LTSC probably will even out the owns from Fullscreen.

That would be a shame... But that's what I think is going to happen

 

[phant0m]

I know Win10 has it's fan base. But for me Win7 was the peak of a hassle free Windows experience.

The last great version. I'd pay MS ALL the money for Windows 7 with dx12 and security updates.

 

[ReyBrujo]

AI Vibe Coding everyone!

 

[mayham2199]

Wait till these updates to windows 11 start breaking their big screen mode.

 

[Mengy]

Windows 10 bros how he holding up?

I'm still on W10 and I plan on staying with it for some time. Everyone I know who is on W11 has so many issues with it. W10 works pretty flawlessly for me so I'm sticking with it for as long as I can, or until W11 gets its act together.