Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken
A major new Windows 11 update has introduced widespread stability issues affecting core system functionality. Many users, including myself, are now experiencing frequent and disruptive problems like File Explorer crashes, slow performance, taskbar glitches, and Bluetooth failures, which together make the operating system frustratingly unreliable for daily use.
Windows 11 - Can't Change The Order Of Taskbar Icons
The title pretty much explains it all. I recently updated to Windows 11, and as I expected, I regret it, for numerous reasons. My biggest issue currently though is with my taskbar. I do tons of stuff with my PC on various apps, and I like to have those apps organized in a very specific way on my taskbar so they're easy to find. Well, ever since I upgraded, I can't move my taskbar icons. I'm tech savvy, so yea, I did all the common sense things. I tried right-clicking an empty space on the taskbar to make sure it's unlocked. The only two items that pop up when I right click it are "Task Manager" and "Taskbar Settings". So after that, I went into taskbar settings, figuring the lock feature must've been moved into there. I went through every single item on my taskbar personalization settings at least eight times now. Opened all the drop-downs, even went to other places in settings to try and find it. There is no "unlock taskbar" option in my taskbar settings either. I scanned everything on the drive with both "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" and "sfc /scannow". Neither found any issues. Can someone take a screenshot of where the "lock taskbar" option is supposed to be found in "personalization > taskbar" now? I am curious as to where it's supposed to be, and if anything else is missing too. But most importantly, can someone give me a suggestion to fix it? I hate to do system restores, as any time I did it in the past, it messed up multiple files of mine. Oh, and before you ask, this was an upgrade, not a fresh install. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is for extremely important things, let alone spend hours and hours completely reinstalling my OS, all apps, configuring it the way I want, etc. It'd easily take me half a day, which I do not have anytime soon. So, any suggestions where I don't have to spend hours and hours or jack up my hard drive to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for you time.Save the date: Windows Office Hours - December 18, 2025
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Windows 11 22H2 Upgrade from Windows 10 – Stuck at 48%
Trying to upgrade to Windows 11 22H2 keeps getting stuck at 48%. Tried so far: All Updates/Clean Boot/DISM/SFC/Chkdsk-F Saw this as an option. Has anyone tried it? If updates continually get stuck due to drivers, open Command Prompt as administrator and run: rundll32.exe pnpclean.dll,RunDLL_PnpClean /DRIVERS /MAXCLEAN Dell E6540 Latitude Windows 10 22H2 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz, 2701 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) 16GB RamAzureAd\xxxx user as local admin seems not to be dynamic
Hello. I am not sure if this is the correct place. The question is: I have an account protection that enables a Azure groupX as local admin in w11. I have a AzureAd\userX than belongs to the groupX in Entra Id. That works fine. But If I remove the AzureAd\userX from de Entra id groupX (and close the local session) the userX still have admin permission. The opposite is the same. Nothing changes unitl I remove the local profile in the w11 for AzureAd\userX. It seems something remain in the profile and w11 is not capable for reading dynamically Entra id groups. It is a rare behaviour. The problem is that in my company this is in production now and the workaround for some users that are moving to another department have issues with the userX (wich act as admin, instead the ordinary user they logon interactively) Any idea? Thank in advance. Regards
Disk transfer speed deterioration since installing Windows 11
I am not sure whether this question belongs in Windows 11 or PC hardware, it seems to be hardware but the change in O/S has introduced the issue. If an admin wants to move this into a more appropriate forum please feel free to do so. Amongst other devices on my home network I have a home-built desktop PC with multiple disk drives and a Synology NAS. I recently gave the PC a heart and brain transplant but retained all my disk drives, and at the same time replaced Windows 10 with Windows 11 Pro. Since then although everything – Windows and apps – seems to be functioning fine, I have noticed two odd things relating to disk transfer speeds. Both versions of the PC had an SSD drive as the primary C drive, and the following 3 SATA drives: D: Seagate Constellation ES.3 3TB (7200 rpm) E: Western Digital WD Black 6TB (7200 rpm) G: Western Digital WD Red 6TB (5400 rpm) The old PC could copy data from any of these disks to the NAS at 110MB/s. That’s what I would expect on a gigabit network, and it’s what I got. But the new PC can only copy data to the NAS at 55MB/s. So far as I know nothing has changed in the system other than the version of Windows and the motherboard (was an ASUS Z-390 ROG-STRIX, now an ASUS Z-890F ROG-STRIX). But for some reason the data transfer across the network has halved – just from this PC, not from other machines. I am sure the problem has nothing to do with the NAS or the network, which have not been altered in any way, nor the disk drives themselves, which have not been changed – the rebuild only replaced the contents of the (SSD) C drive. But there is something fishy about the HDD performance, because this brings me to the second observation. I never bothered noting any transfer speeds between the disks in the Win 10 incarnation, because all copying just ran at a more or less constant rate and I never had any concerns about performance. But in the Win 11 version I have been seeing very erratic behaviours, slow downs and pauses. As a test I created a data file of 5GB and copied it between all the disks. I renamed the file each time to try to avoid caching (although I don’t know for sure that this would prevent it, or if it would be a problem if I hadn’t). My experience tells me that the rate and elapsed time of all of these transfers would have been consistent in the Win 10 environment.
