Windows 11: Let's Be Honest, There Are Big Issues, Right?
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Durin
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Even less of a good idea when it's become clear Microsoft doesn't test those updates like they use to before throwing them out to the public.
Just need Valve or someone else to offer some solution to the anti-cheat issue, and Nvidia to improve Linux drivers so I can just make Linux my default instead of my dual-boot setup.
Bojji
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I usually do updates when there is no drama around them (like right now) and then pause for 5 weeks. On pro system you can do that.
Housh
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I've had 2 WD Black nvme drives die on me and it wasn't related to the Windows 11 update. I believe since 2021 there was a Host Memory Buffer (HMB) problem with nvme controllers that would cause them to over write data to the buffer making them overheat resulting in crashes and failures. This was fixed in a firmware update which requires the user to download specific software and flash the drives which no one did or knew about it so the company would just replace your drive without any questions and they extended warranty to 5 years.
My first 2tb WD black drive died in an ubuntu machine which never had windows on it and my second drive died in my Windows 10 media server. Both never had the firmware update and insufficient thermal management for the nvme drives.
My gaming PC is Windows 11 and has 3 WD Black nvmes inside which have the latest firmware flashed on them using the Sandisk Dashboard software. I have a good motherboard that has nvme heatsinks. No issues with the latest update. I believe most nvme manufacturers have the same problem with their controller that may have been corrected with firmware updates but that requires the user to seek it out like a bios update which is not ideal. I'm sure this windows update can be just one of the triggers to the HMB problem. I recommend everyone to update your NVME firmware using their drive's manufacturer website.
My first 2tb WD black drive died in an ubuntu machine which never had windows on it and my second drive died in my Windows 10 media server. Both never had the firmware update and insufficient thermal management for the nvme drives.
My gaming PC is Windows 11 and has 3 WD Black nvmes inside which have the latest firmware flashed on them using the Sandisk Dashboard software. I have a good motherboard that has nvme heatsinks. No issues with the latest update. I believe most nvme manufacturers have the same problem with their controller that may have been corrected with firmware updates but that requires the user to seek it out like a bios update which is not ideal. I'm sure this windows update can be just one of the triggers to the HMB problem. I recommend everyone to update your NVME firmware using their drive's manufacturer website.
nemiroff
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Yeah, remember the recent issue where MS/Windows supposedly caused big file writes to brick SSDs? It was all over tech news (omitting the fact that the issue in most cases could be fixed by a restart btw). Turns out (according to a report I read today) it wasn't MS's fault, and now the arrows are pointing at some controllers.
TigerKnee
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I mean, I don't have any problems any different than previous versions of Windows so...
Valonquar
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I manage roughly 10k Windows machines with now under 100 left to upgrade to W11. At home I game on a W11 machine. Upgrading to 11 is FREE even if MS doesn't heavily advertise the fact anymore. If your machine has an unsupported CPU or lacks TPM requirements can use Rufus to upgrade bypassing those. If you're concerned about shoddy updates you can turn off updates by disabling it in services and do it manually later after the fact.
Many hardware vendors (and at least FFXIV, VERY LIKELY Steam, if not a bunch of MS GAME related devs) will end support for W10 in October when it reaches EOL. Stuff will still probably WORK for another year at least, but if\when it DOES break, they aren't going to help you. It DOES mean that they could easily turn off DX9 support at that time though which might cause you some grief on W10. So you're going to be stuck in the past on a OS already behind the times. Do whatever ya want, but you're just fighting the tide at this point.
Also if you use your home PC for MS Office stuff, they will end support for that on W10 too.
Many hardware vendors (and at least FFXIV, VERY LIKELY Steam, if not a bunch of MS GAME related devs) will end support for W10 in October when it reaches EOL. Stuff will still probably WORK for another year at least, but if\when it DOES break, they aren't going to help you. It DOES mean that they could easily turn off DX9 support at that time though which might cause you some grief on W10. So you're going to be stuck in the past on a OS already behind the times. Do whatever ya want, but you're just fighting the tide at this point.
Also if you use your home PC for MS Office stuff, they will end support for that on W10 too.
ReBurn
Gold Member
At least until Windows turns it back on without telling you, anyway.
EverydayBeast
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Every time I see windows it always looks the same, you might see the windows button in a different corner of the screen
kevboard
Member
open the terminal (not sure if you need to open it as an admin, but I'd just do it anyway),
copy/paste this:
Code:
reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /veopen the task manager, stop explorer.exe, launch explorer.exe (or reboot the PC)
done.
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Krathoon
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Thanks. That was the most annoying damn thing they did. Also, I have to switch off the added app security too.
kevboard
Member
that was always an issue on laptops, for as long as iGPUs existed. they always used some annoying "auto detection" that would of course detect wrongly half the time lol
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marquimvfs
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Professional also forces some updates on users. On some updates, I've turned off my pc without installing update just to have it installed when the pc turned on. When installing some programs or drivers that require an restart after installing and doesn't have the option to postpone, updates also install automatically.
Like I said, it isn't coherent on it's own logic, and sometimes some users with some setups and from some regions can be pushed the way you maybe isn't.
marquimvfs
Member
You can manually set those apps to always run with your dedicated GPU. I don't recommend to use the dedicated GPU all the time due to the increased usage of battery and, depending on your GPU, increased heat.
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Valonquar
Member
It isn't going to do that unless you manually applied an update. Feature updates often count as a kind of installing the OS on top of itself thing that resets a lot of things. Kinda like how iOS wants to ask you to re-opt in to like 20 things every major update.
**Edit, this also happens in W10 anyhow. (Though I guess if you have the Oct update it won't after lol)
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Topher
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Eh....installing a feature isn't reinstalling the operating system so Windows should be smart enough to keep track of whether updates are "manual" or not. Windows is constantly bugging me to reset defaults like search and browser so this is obviously all by design.
Topher
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What other operating systems automatically turn automatic updates back on? Linux doesn't do automatic updates in the first place. Mac doesn't turn automatic updates back on. Windows 10 and Windows 11 are the only ones I'm aware of.
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