Windows 11 26H2 Windows Search without search highlights??
Hello community support, I just recently finally updated my Win11 Desktop PC to 26H2 from 25H2 and now I noticed that Windows removed the Windows Search >> search highlights (along with the little mini picture in the search box on the taskbar that had a daily highlight) and just now has the boring search history: Current Win 11 version: Edition Windows 11 Home Version 26H2 Installed on 4/6/2025 OS build 26300.9711 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.372.0 I also see that the "Show search highlights toggle option no longer exists in Settings>>Privacy & Security>>Search Yes, I can still perform "web searches" but the ready-populated web highlights on the righthand side was a decent feature and now it looks generic and very boring (too simple). Obviously I do not want to mess around with the registry and the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" option, but again - why not just keep giving users the control and option to turn highlights on or off rather than force users to not have it at all?? Thanks MJ
Getting account back after hack
I have lost my account to a hacker, and whenever i try to do the account recovery form i get a response the same minute that they dont think its me, i still have the gmail thats connected to the account but cant use that to prove that i am the owner, since the recovery mail has been moved How can i prove that the email the account is registered under wants to change the password? Im only writing here since i am running out of optionsHow does Sleep mode drain more battery than actually using the laptop?
I've noticed that my laptop's battery drains faster when it's in Sleep mode than when I'm actually using it, which seems completely backwards. Could someone explain why Sleep mode would consume more power than active use, and whether this is a settings issue I can fix?
Windows 11 passkey QR flow: Android shows error, Windows sends 01 00 instead of Shutdown 00
Hi all, We see the following on every Android phone we tested when creating or using a passkey through the QR code (hybrid) flow from Windows 11. The operation succeeds on the PC and the passkey works, but at the end the phone shows "Something went wrong. Restart the process on your other device to try again." An iPhone shows no error. Reproduced on: - Windows 11 25H2, builds 26200.9711 (Enterprise, managed) and 26200.8875 (Pro, unmanaged, no policies) - Edge 157 and Chrome (both hand the flow to the Windows WebAuthn API) - webauthn.io and Microsoft Entra ID, attestation none and direct - Samsung, Pixel and OnePlus phones, Google Password Manager and Samsung Pass - also on a mobile hotspot without VPN or proxy What the logs show: Windows (Event Viewer > Microsoft > Windows > WebAuthN > Operational, verbose events 2332 and 2333). The post-handshake messages are logged as padded plaintext (32 byte granularity, last byte = number of zero padding bytes). The final write message after every registration and authentication is: 01 00 00 00 ... 00 1D After removing the padding the payload is `01 00`. In caBLE v2 the message types are kShutdown = 0, kCTAP = 1, kUpdate = 2, kJSON = 3 (Chromium, device/fido/cable/v2_constants.h). Chromium ends a session by sending `[0x00]` (Shutdown) and waiting for the phone to close the tunnel (fido_tunnel_device.cc). Windows sends `[0x01, 0x00]`, which is a CTAP message with the invalid command byte 0x00. Android (adb logcat, Google Play services 26.43.30): ``` [HybridMessageProcessor] Received CTAP message [HybridMessageProcessor] processing the CTAP message failed for invalid data Received invalid CTAP command ... can't find command for CTAP request [HybridResponseHandler] Generic hybrid error: INVALID_CTAP [HybridErrorFragment] HybridErrorFragment is shown ``` So Google Play services rejects the final Windows message as INVALID_CTAP and shows the error screen, after the credential has already been created or the assertion returned. A very similar bug was fixed in libwebauthn (desktop closed the tunnel without a proper Shutdown): https://github.com/linux-credentials/libwebauthn/pull/310 Questions: Does anyone else see this, with which Windows build and phone? Can someone from Microsoft confirm whether the missing Shutdown message is known and when a fix is planned? Is there a supported workaround until then? Thanks SeverinHow come the clock is wrong by exactly one hour after every update?
Ever since installing Windows updates, my computer's clock keeps showing the wrong time by exactly one hour after every update, even though it was correct before restarting. I have checked the date and time settings, and automatic time synchronization is enabled, but the problem keeps coming back whenever Windows installs new updates. Has anyone else experienced this issue, and what could be causing it?
how do i get past bitlocker?
i updated my bios which tripped the bitlocker and i dont have access to the recovery key at all, its not on my microsoft account anywhere, its not saved anywhere and i didnt even know i had it enabled when i updated thet bios, i tried restoring the old bios to see if that would fix it and it didnt, im at a lose at what to do now and im out of ideas, i have the original windows 10 key i use when i upgraded to win 11 and alphanumerical IDs when getting into the command prompt from the bitlocker recovery system, nothing i type in for a password seems to be working, ive tried numerous short passwords and even the password to log into my microsoft account, all of my drives are locked and i need to to get back into them to save files that i dont have backed up anywhere else, it wouldnt be so bad if it was only the C drive locked since i only keep the windows install and any programs i download, can anyone please help me out here im open to any and all ways of getting back into my drives, exploits, hacks or anything, i do have a backup i made sometime last year of the C drive on an external harddrive which i dont know if that can help at all, am gonna attempt to take out all of my drives and install an old SSD ive got and try to restore windows with that backup to see if i can find the key somewhere from that unless someone tells me how to work it out, thanks for reading
