Windows11 File Explorer freezes when opening a folder with many SVG or HEIC files
When browsing folders containing a large number of SVG vector graphics or HEIC image files, File Explorer freezes or becomes unresponsive for 5 to 10 seconds. The issue is more severe when thumbnail previews are enabled. Disabling thumbnail view reduces the delay but does not eliminate it entirely.Windows 11 just randomly decided to forget my pinned taskbar apps
Booted up my PC this morning and my taskbar is completely bare. All my pinned apps—gone. Just the Start button, Search, and Task View sitting there like I just did a fresh install. Didn't change anything, didn't run any tweaks, didn't mess with the registry. It just... reset itself overnight. Anyone else have this happen? Or did Windows just decide to gaslight me today.Win11 Can't drag files into open app windows on taskbar
Dragging a file from File Explorer and dropping it onto an app icon on the taskbar no longer brings the app window to the foreground. The cursor displays a blocked indicator, preventing users from quickly opening the file by dragging and dropping it onto the app. Restarting File Explorer does not resolve this issue. While this behavior is inconsistent, it is common in third-party apps.
Anyone else getting weird stuttering in Explorer on Windows 11?
File Explorer has been feeling super sluggish lately—opening folders takes a second, right-click takes forever to pop up, and scrolling through files is choppy. It's not constant, but it happens often enough to be annoying. Tried restarting Explorer, clearing File Explorer history, even disabled some of the new tabs stuff. Still happens. Running an SSD, plenty of RAM, no weird background processes. Is this just a Windows 11 thing now or is there actually a fix?Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Coding where context lives and collaboration happens The best prompt may be the conversation your team has already had or is currently having. Until now, using a coding agent often meant paying context and coordination taxes. Developers had to leave the discussion, open another tool, and reconstruct the problem in a lengthy prompt: what happened, what the team decided, which constraints matter, and what needs to be built. With GitHub Copilot in Teams, teams can move directly from conversation to action. @mention GitHub Copilot when the team is ready to act, and it can use the conversation alongside repository context to understand the request, implement the change, and create a pull request for review. This makes working with a coding agent more collaborative and visible. Instead of one developer privately reconstructing the request, teammates can contribute context, correct assumptions, refine the approach in real time, and review the resulting work together. Let’s explore the new GitHub Copilot in Teams experience to see how it can streamline development tasks: If the player doesn’t load, open the video in a new window: Open video GitHub Copilot in Teams is available in Teams channels, group chats, meeting chats, and 1:1 chats. Once the GitHub app is installed and added to the conversation, @-mention GitHub Copilot to bring it into the discussion and start a task. During public preview, users can complete the following scenarios with GitHub Copilot in Teams: Build a feature based on requirements discussed in Teams Implement a fix for a bug Expand test coverage or improve documentation Create and update a pull request No copying the discussion into a CLI. No rewriting it in a desktop app. No asking one developer to translate a team decision into the perfect prompt. GitHub Copilot works where the context already lives, and because that context is shared, working with GitHub Copilot becomes a team activity. Built around the controls teams already use GitHub Copilot in Teams works within existing GitHub permissions and repository policies. Branch protections and required reviews continue to apply, and people remain responsible for deciding what gets merged, ensuring that humans stay in the loop at every step. Availability GitHub Copilot in Teams is now available in Public Preview. To try it, install the GitHub app for Microsoft Teams and check out our documentation to get started! Less context reconstruction. More progress from the conversations already happening.
Multi-Language Custom Windows 11 Image
Hi, I am trying to create a custom Windows 11 Image. I followed this page for most of my customizations : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/oem-deployment-of-windows-desktop-editions?view=windows-11 Almost everything works fine in my online and offline modifications (adding drivers, custom apps, default settings, recovery, etc.). The only thing I haven't manage to achieve is adding multiple languages to a custom image. What I do is : Make offline modifications using DISM on my tech PC. Apply this image to a SSD using WinPE. Boot into that SSD and make online modifications using audit mode. (Generalize these modifications using sysprep) Boot into WinPE again and capture that image. When I apply that final captured image and boot into OOBE, when I switch between languages, the UI does not update. It stays in the default language. I have seen it works on many Dell PCs, but nothing seems to work on my side. Do you have any insights on what I could be doing wrong? Is there missing information in the doc I linked above? I tried adding the languages in the offline step, after the final capture, but the result is always the same. Thank you, Antoine
Border around right-click context menu – is this new or just a bug?
Switched back to the old context menu recently using Chris Titus's Windows util. Don't remember seeing a border around it before—is this a native Windows 11 thing now? Looks nice either way. Edit: It disappears after a restart. Seems to happen when I boot with both TV and monitor connected—output defaults to the TV, and when I switch to the monitor, the border shows up. Probably a scaling-related visual bug, though I have no clue how that affects the context menu. Somehow it does. Also noticed shortcut icons aren't showing the usual arrow indicator—everything in the screenshot except This PC, Recycle Bin, and folders is a shortcut. And some Windows-related icons in the context menu look glitched too.
What's the fastest way to move a ton of photos from Android to a new Windows laptop?
Alright, so I haven't owned a laptop in about a decade—I've just been doing everything on my phone. But I finally caved and bought one, and now I'm trying to move over a massive pile of photos from my Pixel. For context: I do reselling, so I take a ton of product photos, organized into albums by item. I'm not talking about a few dozen pics—we're talking a serious library. Here's where it gets messy. I plugged my phone into the laptop via USB, and OneDrive immediately started auto-syncing everything. Before I knew it, I hit my storage limit and had no idea what was even backed up versus what was actually on my machine. Ended up nuking everything from OneDrive and starting over. Now I'm just trying to manually copy things over, but I'm running into a problem. On my phone, all my photos are neatly organized into albums by product. But when I dig into the phone's folder structure on the PC, I don't see those albums at all—it's just one giant folder with every photo dumped together. Is there any way to keep my albums intact when transferring? Also, speed-wise—what's the actual fastest way to do this? I've seen options like the Phone Link app, but that tried to push me through Bluetooth, and my phone just keeps disconnecting. I spent way too long trying to get that to work and eventually gave up and uninstalled it. USB seems straightforward, but the album thing is throwing me off. And I'm not sure if I'm missing a better approach. Any tips from folks who've done this dance before? Appreciate any help for a laptop newbie who's a little overwhelmed.
