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Long wait for initial load of this site
There are numerous topics about slowness of this site going back for years (before recent update, which was already so long ago). But what i am experiencing for the past few months is something different. Every time i come to this site first time and say click a link in RSS feed for one of the blog articles i have to wait up to a minute for it to start loading anything (it shows an empty page and loading animation in the browser). After that it would be loading pages quick (well, normal speed for this site, which is still sluggish). But if i do not browse here for 30 min or longer then again first load will be annoyingly long. It is like there is some load balancer/throttling for each new visitor and you have to stand in line.
Windows 11 Pro. 64 bit: Taskbar
I've tried everything to get the taskbar to only be raised from bottom up one level & can't do it. Is there anyone out there that can provide some help with this ? Thanks. I use the taskbar to have quick access to pinned user installed software programs & system shortcut accessing icons on it while allowing room to have recently opened programs with full name of them to show, just like I had done when using Windows 10 Pro. 64 bit & trying to ask this question to evaluate if I should go back to Windows 10 Pro. 64 bit if there is no answer to this solution. The google search says to open RegEdit & perform a certain command adjustment, but later found out that Microsoft has put an end to the use of this & thus doesn't work anymore, so this is why i'm here to ask some questions. Chris Canfield.MS Excell application for Client database working under Windows XP
Hi all, In my company we have a MS Excell application for Client database working under Windows XP. For Windows 10 it wrks now under a virtual box. I want it to work with Windows 11! How is the best and efficient way to do that? Hope someone can help me out. Thanks for cooperating. EricWindows 11 Insider Audio Issue
Hi, I recently got a new 1440p 200Hz monitor and after the installation I completely lost all of my audio devices and got the "no devices installed" on my sound settings. I was able to fix it by opening the services app and changing the windows audio service from account based to local and manual starting the service as it was previously stopped. Now I can see my audio devices but none of them actually produce audio. I have tried updating and reinstalling drivers, and I even contacted windows support, and they said that since I was using an insider build, they did not have the ability to assist further than they did. I am very confused as to how a new monitor caused this and have no idea where to begin to fix it.
Forum site often slow to load and responses don't "take"
Not always, but often enough to be aggravating, the Tech Community forum doesn't always load or takes an inordinate length of time to open a page. That issue occurred a couple of times today. In addition, I responded to a user post with a rather detailed answer this morning. My response seemed to "take" as there was no error message saying it did not post, yet when I checked back a couple hours later to see if the user responded, my detailed response was nowhere to be seen. I re-typed my detail response again and it appeared to "take" but again when I checked back a couple hours later, my second attempt at responding was nowhere to be seen. What's going on with the site? John
Please remove Community Share Buttons at the left
Some time ago, Community Share Buttons started to appear on the left on the Tech Community Discussion Hubs. With normal zoom (100%), they overlap the text and are very annoying. Please get rid of these or give instructions on how to remove them. I found this article from 2018: Community Share Buttons | Microsoft Community Hub But I did not notice these buttons before, or they were not annoying. It seems they were meant to be on the right side, not the left side.
MFA Initial Setup Now Now Longer Offers Security Keys
Hi Microsoft Community, We're trialling FIDO2 keys for our organisation as a priamry means of MFA. We bought a handful of keys to test with a month or so ago, and at the time using a Security Key was an option on first account setup, i.e. after you have provided your microsoft ID and password you are then taken to the Initial Setup wizard. However on testing it now seems like the only options present to the user on initial setup are Authenticator, Hardware Token, and Phone Number. Why/has Microsoft changed approach here, and is there an option to permit use of a Security Key on this pane, as I can not find a setting for this within the Admin Console. It is worth noting that we can use Authenticator on this screen to complete the process, then go to Microsoft Account Security page, add a secondary means of MFA (Security Key), and then delete the original Authenticator method, leaving us with just the Security Key. Of course, this is not practical given we intended to be totally hands-off with our deployment. Many Thanksdesktop login issue
Just recently I noticed that when I power up and go to my desktop login in screen I noticed something that was never there. I'll describe what I'm seeing. Between my user name and the enter my pin number there is now a small rectangular box of dots that I've never seen before. It doesn't seem to serve any purpose. It doesn't affect my login process. It's a grid box of three dots horizontal by three dots vertical with a single dot in the 4th row Any idea what it is? User Name ... ... ... . Enter my pin The dot representation is expanded vertically but that's the best I could do
TCP'connections not closed when using MSappproxy
Hi, We are currently having issues with TCP connections just keep filling up on the server side, that will eventually result in out of memory so that we will have to do a hard shutdown. We are seeing this in the error logs: Object was GCed but not disposed. Any suggestions?
