Windows 11 Week numbers to taskbar and calendar
Hey microsoft! I like to see week numbers! Please add this feature. I don't want to browse internet for simple things. I found out that you can add dddd or ddd to see week day on taskbar without clicking calendar, but nothing for week number. PS. Add :ss to short time! I wanna see seconds on my taskbar clock!
Robocopy wildcard ignores leading period
Hello, I came across this as I was making a custom procedure to sync our roaming folders (yes we still need them!), as this feature has been a bit shaky in W11. In the root of a user home, there's a few NTUSER-related files, NTUSER.DAT ntuser.dat.LOG1 ntuser.dat.LOG2 NTUSER.DAT{... and so on. Even though I think that it's best to leave all these files alone, while playing around with wildcards I noticed that it was impossible(?) to get /XF "ntuser.dat.*" to match only ntuser.dat.LOG1 and ntuser.dat.LOG2, it swallowed NTUSER.DAT as well. Only if I matched on /XF "ntuser.dat.L* did it leave NTUSER.DAT alone. Surely this is not intended behavior? Or does the dot have an undocumented function in relation to wildcards? Best regards AlexanderUninstalled junk apps keep coming back
I just upgraded this computer a few days ago from Windows 10 to Windows 11 and immediately went to work cleaning it up and streamlining it to make it work faster and to not have it take up too much room on my SSD drive, which is 238GB. One of the first things I did was begin deleting a bunch of apps that are in the start menu. I noticed that it freed up about 6 gigabytes of space. Today, I was looking at my apps list again to see if there were any others I could get rid of, and I noticed that all of the apps I got rid of before are reinstalled again. What is going on here, and how can I prevent it from happening again? I hate to think that Microsoft is telling me that I have to put up with whatever they put on my computer and that I have no say in the matter. That's what it feels like right now.Windows 11, can you use your mobile phone with your fingerprint to log in to Windows?
I would like to have this option too. If I forget my Windows password, I can connect my mobile via USB and have it recognize me by reading my fingerprint. Is it possible? This is so that I don't have to buy a separate fingerprint reader. I'm talking about Windows 11 Home 24H2. Thank you!
Problem With Snipping Tool
I've encountered a problem when using the Snipping Tool that seems to be related to either my Windows profile or the OS itself. To be clear, the problem manifests itself when using the Snipping Tool, but I don't believe that the Snipping Tool is actually the root cause of the issue. Here's what's happening. I use the Windows+Shift+S shortcut to do the screenshot. About half the time the screenshot is successfully saved to the Screenshots folder, and about half the time I get a 0-byte file in the Screenshots folder, but the screenshot is on the clipboard, and a good copy gets saved to the following location: C:\Users\<User_ID>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\Snips When the screenshot saves successfully to the Screenshots folder it never hits that Snips folder. When the screenshot fails to save to the Screenshots folder, the 0-byte file hits the Screenshots folder essentially at the same instant as the good copy of the file hits the Snips folder. At least with folders open side-by-side my eyes could not discern a meaningful difference. From this, I gather that the screenshot only gets save in the Snips folder if saving to the Screenshots folder failed, so it would appear that it tries to save to Screenshots first, and Snips is just the backup plan. I've done research online and here are the things that I've tried: Settings > Apps > Installed Apps > Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Advanced Options > Repair Settings > Apps > Installed Apps > Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Advanced Options > Reset Launch Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Settings Automatically Save Original Screenshots = On Screenshots are saved to C:\<User_ID>\CRB005\Pictures\Screenshots View diagnostics data Requires a viewer available from the Microsoft Store, which is blocked Confirmed no sync'ing with OneDrive Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.ScreenSketch* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\\AppXManifest.xml"} sfc /scannow Found and fixed corruption Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Found and fixed corruption (Confirmed by running /CheckHealth and /ScanHealth again) This actually made things a LOT worse until I re-registered the Appx apps with the Get-AppxPackage command above Remove-AppxPackage -Package Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2508.29.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe -allusers Not 100% about the syntax on this one. A co-worker ran it on my machine remote and says he thinks this is the command he used Those are basically all of the recommendations I've found online save one--Windows profile reset. I work in IT and have done Windows profile resets before, so it's something that I certainly can do, but I regard it as something of a nuclear option. I am trying to find a more finely targeted solution. Great thanks in advance for any thoughts and suggestions that you may offer! I will be in the office tomorrow, but then out until the end of the month and most likely not checking on responses, so please understand that if you reply, I may not reply until early November. --Tom
Windows Defender Service Crashing with 0xc0000374 on Windows 11 24H2 Lenovo X13 Laptops
Environment: Devices: Lenovo ThinkPad X13 laptops OS: Windows 11 24H2 Management: Microsoft Intune/Entra ID managed Started: Approximately 1 month ago Symptoms: Intermittent system freezing - devices become unresponsive requiring hard reboot Windows Defender service stops and cannot be restarted manually Event Viewer errors: Event ID 7031 (Service Control Manager): "The Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 7 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service." Application Error Event ID 1000: MsMpEng.exe crashing with exception code 0xc0000374 (heap corruption) Pattern: Issue affects devices from only 1 of multiple Intune/Defender tenants we manage Not all X13 laptops affected - only random subset Other tenants with identical hardware models not experiencing issues Started approximately 1 month ago across multiple devices Current Status: MsMpEng.exe keeps crashing repeatedly Real-time protection cannot stay running Service recovery attempts fail Has anyone else experienced this specific error on 24H2? Any known issues with recent Defender platform/definition updates causing heap corruption?
