Windows 11 Explorer Issues Are Seriously Making Power Users Consider Linux
Hello Microsoft, I would genuinely like to understand how a company with Microsoft’s engineering resources managed to break one of the most fundamental components of an operating system — File Explorer — and ship it as an “improvement”. This is not a low-end machine, and please do not default to the usual “unstable hardware” explanation. The system is running an i9-13900K with 80 GB of RAM and is fully stable under heavy workloads, stress tests, and professional applications. Yet File Explorer freezes while deleting files smaller than this message itself. Copy operations hang. Deletions hang. Sometimes simply opening a folder introduces visible delays. When basic file operations fail on proven high-end and stable hardware, this is not a performance limitation — it is a software design and quality problem. Additionally, a long-standing and extremely basic workflow has been broken: clicking the middle mouse button (mouse wheel click / MButton 3), which for years opened folders in new Explorer windows, no longer works. A behavior relied upon for decades has simply disappeared without explanation or replacement. In exchange, users received tabbed Explorer — a feature that appears to have been implemented at the cost of responsiveness, stability, and predictable behavior. The new Explorer feels like an experimental UI layer forced onto users rather than a mature, production-ready system component. It increasingly feels as if Windows is no longer engineered as a reliable working environment but instead assembled from layered UI experiments placed on top of legacy code, resulting in a slower and less stable experience with every update. The most frustrating part is the lack of choice. Users are not allowed to keep a stable workflow. Updates impose major behavioral changes with no official option to retain the classic, fast Explorer experience. Therefore, this is a direct request: ***Please provide an official Windows 11 build option without the tabbed File Explorer — a version using the classic, fast, and stable Explorer implementation without the modern WinUI-based interface layer.*** An operating system should not struggle with basic file operations on high-end hardware. Stability and performance must take priority over visual redesign experiments. Windows used to be valued for reliability and backward compatibility. Right now, updates feel less like improvements and more like forced participation in ongoing UI experimentation. Users need a dependable tool — not an evolving interface experiment.
How to hide OAlert error ID: 300 from the event log.
Since this isn't a real error, is there a way to hide it from the event log, since it's the only error I'm currently experiencing? I've tried everything I've found online, but nothing has worked. My system is Windows 11 25H2 and Office 365. Thank you.
Windows 11 upgrade issues
I only use my desktop during the first part of every year. I missed the windows 10 end of security updates. I am trying to download TurboTax but my computer states that my system does not meet requirements for Windows 11. My system does indeed meet the requirements, but I can't upgrade to windows 11. Is this due to me missing the deadline to upgrade last October? How can I upgrade to Windows 11?Windows 11 UI Rendering Failures, Freezing, and Shell Initialization Issues After Update
A senior Microsoft support technician at Microsoft headquarters asked me to post this publicly because the issues I’m experiencing are part of a known Windows backend problem affecting many users. Engineering is working on a fix, and they said posting here helps increase visibility. I’m sharing my details so Microsoft can keep us informed of progress and any upcoming patch. Issue Summary My Windows 11 system is experiencing persistent UI rendering and shell initialization failures across multiple apps. Symptoms include: After startup or restart, taskbar icons and desktop shortcuts won’t open until I open Task Manager, which instantly “unsticks” the system. Washington Post, Facebook, YouTube, and other apps intermittently freeze until Task Manager is opened. Audio fails to initialize until a video is fully opened or after several attempts. Washington Post featured videos do not play at all. Facebook feed auto‑cycles new posts every 1–2 seconds for several rounds, as if the entire page is being re-rendered repeatedly. Issues began shortly after a Windows update. Dell diagnostics found no hardware problems. Five Level‑1 Microsoft techs and one Level‑2 tech performed extensive remote troubleshooting (startup cleanup, service changes, repairs). No solution. The issues are progressively worsening. Why I’m Posting A senior Microsoft technician told me: This is a known backend issue, not a hardware or local software problem. Many customers are reporting similar symptoms. Engineering is actively working on a fix. Posting here helps raise the issue’s priority. Updates will be provided when progress is made. I’m requesting acknowledgment from Microsoft engineering and any available information on the status of the fix or upcoming patches.
Win 11 pro . Browsers , Explorer covers up taskbar
Greatings , recently around October 2024 , not sure after what update . The browsers (all of them ) and Explorer on start up , covered the taskbar EVERY time. so I reverted back to a restore point . Reverting was a story all of it's own , so that after 2 going back to a restore point Win 11 seems to have destroyed ? those restore points. but that's not why I am here After doing these restores , I ended up loosing most of the programs that were installed. I have backups on other drives but did not use them. As usual I lost my cool and just wiped out the ssd and re-installed Win 11 pro 22h2 iso . I had modified this ISO 2 years earlier ( ntlite licensed to Remove Onedrive )and had successfully installed it on other machines . I will spare you my rant on " how much I hate Onedrive and Microsoft's push to forces us all into Onedrive paid subscriptions " . I re installed it on my machine as I;ve done before in 2022 with regular updates until Oct 24, this time the issue was present from the gitt go, Edge did it , Explorer did it , Firefox did it . since it's fresh install I checked the auto hide task bar , it was off , checked the resolution , at default , checked drivers it was ok , some of the more special Asus drivers for OTHER thins were not correct , especially the TPlink Bluetooth. I ran the latest Asus Chipset driver package for the Asus Tuf x670e wifi plus Motherboard . All issues corrected except for Tplink that I did not use, ( I tried it as a experiment a year ago and never unplugged it ) I removed that plug in USB unit . I have searched the web for people with this issue and not found ONE response on this . AAMOF all I find is the opposite how to cover the Taskbar or use f11. So I am turning to you the community ( and pray for the bits God that people with understand my complain and myabe have NEW suggestions that I have not found so far ) my background is extensive going back to the Sinclair home built units . so I'd like to think , I know what I am doing 🤣. to mitigate this issue for now, I have modified the size of the apps in question by hand to a size less the taskbar region Tank you all Best Regards Roman
How do I transfer iPhone photos as JPG instead of HEIC on a new Windows 11 laptop?
Please help me with this, if anyone can. I got a brand new laptop in January. An Asus Vivobook. And ever since I have been having this annoying issue when trying to transfer my iPhone photos to my laptop via the folder. I have always had my photos as JPG. But with this new laptop, they show up as HEIC. And I do NOT want them to. I want and need my JPG files back. And I cannot figure it out at all. The issue is NOT with my iPhone. I connected it with my old laptop, and it works just fine with JPG photos, not HEIC. But this new laptop is killing me. I have tried everything. Searched everything. I cannot figure it out. Please help. Twice, it suddenly turned into JPG files and I got the photos added to my laptop. I thought it was because I took out the power cord. But no. I'm now trying without the power at all, and it is still just HEIC files. This is driving me insane. Again: it is NOT the settings on my iPhone. It works as it should on my old laptop. The issue is this new devil. Just. Please help me. I want to add all my photos from my iPhone to my laptop like I have always done, since 2009. This new laptop is killing me. I just want my JPG files. And yes, settings are correct on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Set to "Automatic." I have tried every setting possible. I keep turning it off and on from my laptop. Nothing works. Not with power, not without. I just want my photos as JPG files, please. Gods, this is annoying. I have spent hours trying to figure it out. But no answer anywhere.app windows
Est-ce possible d’avoir à l’ouverture d’une app spécifique un pre-set/profil par défaut pour la position et les dimensions des fenêtres selon l’environnement d’écran détecté ? Je m’explique, je passe mon temps à redimensionner et déplacer les fenêtres de mes applications, car j’utilise un laptop avec plusieurs environnements d’écran ( 4 tv, 3 tv ou 1tv) et selon mon environnement, j’aimerais avoir la possibilité d’automatiser le tout selon la détection des écrans (l’app #1 s’ouvre dans tel écran avec les dimensions et sa position prédéfinies selon le pre-set/profil). Est-ce possible? Merci de m’aider
Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (domain) not updating to 23H2/24H2
We have a decently large domain. For whatever reason, we have a large amount of computers on the domain that have not gotten any feature updates past 22H2. Running Windows Update on these computers manually gets the result "You're up to date." I've set a Group Policy to target Windows 11 version to 24H2, but nothing has occurred or updated for a week since. Running a manual update via mounted ISO (timed) took 3 hours, which is not feasible to do one-by-one. What are my options?
Virtual Machine High RAM Consumption
I am installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine while the host system is also running Windows 11. The total system RAM is 16 GB, and I allocated 8 GB to the VM. When I reduce the allocation to 4 GB, the VM displays nothing. Although the system uses DDR5 RAM, the guest OS runs slowly during installation, and overall RAM usage rises to 96%UNKNOWN PROGRAM/APP FROM WINDOWS/MICROSOFT
About a week ago I discovered a new app/program on my computer and have never seen it before (see picture). It was installed on 20.05.25 and it was the same day I reinstalled Windows 11 home. Everything was then completely deleted so that I had clean hard drives and cleaned them afterwards with Revo uninstaller. 20.05.25 and the next few days only Windows 11+upgrades to Windows were installed. This app/program was not there then and only appeared about a week ago, when I saw it for the first time. I think it was after one of the upgrades for Windows. The strange thing about this app/program is that it has no "size". It only says 3 dots there and therefore I can't find out where it is. It can't be uninstalled and it changes name every time I start the computer. Mostly Japanese letters/text. I have run Windows Defender both via Windows and at startup. Nothing is found. I have run Malwarebytes and Super antispyware in full scan. Can't find anything. From the date on the app/program, I see that it must be a Windows or Microsoft app. Only from those that were installed that day and the next few days. The computer is not used very often, as it is a work machine where I mainly just write articles and do genealogy research. So not much with programs on it. Mainly Office 365, upgraded drivers, Google Chrome, Legacy, which is a genealogy program, and some tools that came with the purchase of the computer. Everything is upgraded to the latest. Wondering if this could be a Windows program/app that Windows has removed and that was not completely uninstalled? I have another computer and a laptop. Neither of them have this. So wondering if anyone else has experienced this and possibly knows what causes it and how it can be removed?
