RSS feeds are missing images
RSS feeds are missing images. E.g. article Your Certificate Renewed. Your Gateway Didn't Notice. | Microsoft Community Hub In the RSS feed, you have this: … <H1>What is actually happening</H1> … <img><EM>Figure 1. What validation expects to find, and what it finds when something sits in front.</EM></img> <H1>Why it takes so long to notice</H1> … There's no src attribute and the image does not render. This often makes the feed virtually useless.
Why does Windows 11 Search show web results before my installed apps?
Why does typing an app name into the Start menu search bring up Bing results and web suggestions before it shows the program that's already installed on my PC? Why does it sometimes completely fail to find local files that I know are on the drive, yet it happily pulls in a dozen unrelated web links? Could this be tied to web search integration that can't be fully turned off, a corrupted search index, or something a recent update changed? And is there any way to make local results appear first, or at least stop the web results from cluttering the list?
Win11 End Task option in taskbar right-click menu fails to close unresponsive apps
When you right-click an unresponsive app on the taskbar and select End Task, the app's window remains open and the process does not terminate. You must use Task Manager to force the app to close. This issue is more common in UWP apps and typically occurs after the system has been running for several hours. Restarting File Explorer can temporarily restore this functionality.How to move items from "Show more options" into the main context menu?
Is there a way to move certain items from the second pop-up (the "Show more options" menu) into the main right-click menu? I barely use some of the items that show up by default, and it would be way more convenient to have the ones I actually need right there without the extra click. Running Windows 11—anyone know if this is possible?
Right-click context menu takes 3–5 seconds to appear
On my Windows 11 PC, right-clicking anything—desktop, files, folders—takes 3 to 5 seconds before the context menu shows up. Sometimes it flashes and disappears, then comes back. It started a few weeks ago and has gotten worse since. I've already tried restarting Explorer, clearing the icon cache, and disabling third-party shell extensions. Nothing helped. It's a clean install with no unusual software. Anyone know what else could be causing this?Windows Defender says it's disabled, but everything is actually on
I've been getting a notification that says "Virus protection disabled. Click to activate Microsoft Defender," but when I open Windows Security, everything is enabled—real-time protection, ransomware protection, all of it. I checked Event Viewer and there's no 5001 event, which would normally indicate the antivirus actually shutting off. The weird part is this started right after a glitch during a gaming session. I was playing Palworld while on a WhatsApp call when the screen flickered with lines for a split second, and then my friend said my mic was producing horrible static. I fixed the audio by messing with the driver, but now this notification keeps showing up after every restart. Scans with Defender and Malwarebytes came back clean. Is this just a bug from a recent Defender update, or is something actually wrong?Getting redirecting when access Microsoft Bookings
Sign in Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in. AADSTS50011: The redirect URI 'https://bookings.cloud.microsoft/mail/' specified in the request does not match the redirect URIs configured for the application '9199bf20-a13f-4107-85dc-02114787ef48'. Make sure the redirect URI sent in the request matches one added to your application in the Azure portal. Navigate to https://aka.ms/redirectUriMismatchError to learn more about how to fix this. Troubleshooting details If you contact your administrator, send this info to them. Copy info to clipboard Request Id: 1401b63f-694a-46ac-9ab1-5b5fefc9b400 Correlation Id: e070ab68-46e9-f0b5-15ca-7f41b63d51a2WMIC Deprecation: Why remove it entirely instead of providing a backward-compatible stub?
I am writing to express my frustration regarding the recent removal of the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (`wmic`) tool from recent Windows 11 builds. Like many IT professionals, I maintain dozens of legacy batch scripts that rely on `wmic` for basic system queries (such as pulling the local date and time). Automatically removing this tool breaks decades of established scripts, causing unnecessary downtime and forcing us to rewrite code that has worked flawlessly for years. While I understand the push to modernize and transition administrators toward PowerShell and CIM cmdlets, removing the executable entirely feels like a heavy-handed approach. **A Proposed Solution:** Instead of a hard break, why couldn't Microsoft replace the legacy `wmic.exe` with a lightweight stub or alias? This stub could accept the traditional `wmic` command-line arguments, translate them, and delegate the work to the modern PowerShell/CIM equivalents under the hood. Backward compatibility has always been one of Windows' greatest strengths. Please consider adding a compatibility layer for fundamental system tools before deprecating them completely, rather than breaking the IT infrastructure that relies on them.
