Windows 11 Insider Preview channels grayed out for months — Build 29648.1000 (rs_prerelease)
Hello Windows Insider team, I'm using Windows 11 Home Insider Preview, build 29648.1000 (rs_prerelease), on my HP Laptop 15-fc0xxx with an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U and 16 GB RAM. The Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channel options have been grayed out for months. I cannot select a channel or change my Insider settings. I contacted Microsoft Support, and they directed me to the Microsoft Tech Community for further assistance. Could someone help me identify why the channel options are disabled and explain the recommended steps to resolve this issue? Thank you!
Windows 11 Pluton TPM AIK Enrollment Fails with HTTP 404 — The authority does not exist
Hello everyone, I'm experiencing a Windows TPM/AIK certificate enrollment issue on my ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (FA401WV), and I'm looking for guidance from someone familiar with Windows TPM attestation. System information Laptop: ASUS TUF Gaming A14 FA401WV CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 OS: Windows 11 Home Single Language, 64-bit, build 26300.9711 BIOS: Version 322, confirmed by ASUS as the latest available for my model TPM: Microsoft Pluton TPM 2.0 Secure Boot: Enabled and active Problem Call of Duty's Secure Attestation Wizard passes the TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot checks but fails to generate the required attestation key. It reports a BIOS firmware update requirement even though my BIOS is already up to date. To investigate the underlying issue, I ran the Windows command below from an elevated Command Prompt: certreq -enrollaik -config "" The request fails during GetCACaps with: HTTP status: 404 Not Found Windows error: 0x80190194 Message: "The authority does not exist." The request is directed to a device-specific Microsoft AIK enrollment endpoint under microsoftaik.azure.net. The failure happens before certificate enrollment completes. Troubleshooting already performed Verified that Windows detects the TPM and reports it as ready. Confirmed that Secure Boot is enabled and active. Checked with ASUS and confirmed that BIOS version 322 is the latest available. Retried AIK enrollment using my phone's mobile hotspot; the same HTTP 404 error persists. Tried the game's enrollment utility, which also produced 0x80072EFD (WinHTTP cannot connect) on a separate attempt. Another laptop using a Microsoft Pluton TPM successfully completed the same certreq -enrollaik -config "" command. I understand that this comparison does not establish the root cause, but I am including it as potentially useful context. Questions Is this a known issue with Windows AIK certificate enrollment for Microsoft Pluton TPMs? What supported diagnostics can help determine why the device-specific AIK enrollment authority returns HTTP 404? Is there an official Microsoft support or Feedback Hub route for getting this investigated by the appropriate Windows TPM/AIK enrollment engineering team? The laptop manufacturer confirmed that BIOS version 322 is the latest available for my device. I can provide the full command output and diagnostic logs through an appropriate support channel. I have intentionally left out device-specific identifiers from this public post. Thank you for any guidance.
I want to ask Microsoft, why are there abnormal in the file history logs after these two updates?
This past month has been very frustrating for me. It's not that I like to ramble, but I've genuinely encountered problems after updating. I want to ask Microsoft: after updating my laptop and desktop to KB5101684 and KB5120249, I'm experiencing issues with file history: Files can still be backed up to the D drive normally. The "Last Backup" time in "File History" is not updating correctly. Newly created or saved Word documents, images, videos, etc., still show "No previous version available" in "Content → Previous Versions". I haven't modified some folders; please change the modification dates yourself. Both updates state, "This update fixes an issue that affects File History automatic backups to network shares using Server Message Block (SMB). Backups did not work because Windows showed a false 'invalid credentials' error when connecting to SMB shares." I didn't expect the update to cause this problem; dozens of users have reported the same issue. Microsoft, please investigate and fix this. When will it be fixed? If you have the same problem as me, please leave a comment below.Win 10/11 file history is malfunctioning after an update why has not Microsoft fixed this issue yet?
Hello, I would like to ask whether other Windows 10/11 users have experienced the same File History problem. I also hope the Microsoft technical team can seriously investigate this issue. My laptop is running Windows 11 25H2. Before installing KB5101684, File History had always worked normally. In Control Panel → All Control Panel Items → File History, the backup time would update normally whenever files were backed up to my D: drive. Around July 28–29, 2026, at approximately 10:00 AM, before KB5101684 was installed, File History was still working normally. I want to make this very clear: I did not manually change my File History settings, delete Event Viewer entries, or modify or delete relevant registry settings. The problem started after KB5101684 was installed. I have already confirmed the following: File History is still enabled. The D: drive is working normally and can be accessed without any problems. After selecting Control Panel → All Control Panel Items → File History → Run now, files are indeed written to: D:\FileHistory\user\LAPTOP-GJTRIQFJ\Data\C\Users\user However, the "Last backup" time displayed by File History does not update correctly. Even after modifying a document, confirming that it was successfully saved, and then clicking Run now, the latest backup time and file versions do not update as expected. Under File Properties → Previous Versions, it still says: "There are no previous versions available." I also noticed that every time a backup runs, folders such as Desktop and Favorites under the FileHistory folder on the D: drive continue to have their modification dates changed, even when their contents have not actually been modified. What makes this even more concerning is that my Windows 10 22H2 desktop computer also started experiencing File History synchronization problems after installing KB5120249. In other words: Windows 11 25H2 → KB5101684 → File History problem Windows 10 22H2 → KB5120249 → File History problem This makes me seriously concerned that these problems may be related to a recent Windows Update change or regression affecting File History. To be honest, I am extremely frustrated with Microsoft. The problem is not simply that Windows has a bug. Any large operating system can have bugs. The real problem is that users have reported the issue, provided detailed testing results, identified the Windows versions and specific KB updates involved, provided the actual File History paths, and spent considerable time troubleshooting, yet it is already August and there still does not appear to be a clear official confirmation from Microsoft regarding whether these issues are related to KB5101684 or KB5120249. Users should not have to repeatedly troubleshoot the same problem without receiving a clear explanation or effective solution. I would like the Microsoft technical team to seriously investigate the following: Could KB5101684 be causing File History backup timestamps or version information to behave incorrectly on Windows 11 25H2? Could KB5120249 be causing similar File History problems on Windows 10 22H2? Why are files actually being written to the FileHistory directory while the "Last backup" time does not update correctly? Why does "Previous Versions" continue to report that no previous versions are available? Why do folders such as Desktop and Favorites have their modification dates changed during backup even when their contents have not been modified? Could this be a File History regression introduced by a recent Windows Update? Please do not simply ask users to repeatedly reset File History, reselect the backup drive, or recreate the File History configuration without investigating the underlying cause. Microsoft needs to determine what is actually happening. I would also like to ask other Windows 10/11 users who have experienced similar File History problems to leave a comment with the following information: Windows version KB update number Date when the problem started Whether the backup location is a local drive or network drive Whether the "Last backup" time is incorrect Whether "Previous Versions" is unavailable Whether files are still being written to the FileHistory folder Please also consider sharing this post or bringing it to the attention of other Windows users and the Microsoft technical team. The more independent cases Microsoft can compare, the easier it should be to determine whether this is a common problem. I am not asking Microsoft to guarantee that Windows will never have bugs. I am asking Microsoft to properly investigate problems that users have clearly reported, provide an explanation, and deliver an actual fix when appropriate. This issue has now continued into August, and I am extremely disappointed with the way the File History problem has been handled so far. Microsoft, please do not ignore this issue. Please investigate it seriously and provide users with a clear response and an actual solution. Thank you.KB5124010 File History still has problems.
To the Microsoft engineering team I can confirm that File History worked perfectly prior to KB5101684, but following that update and the subsequent KB5124010 / KB5120249 updates, File History has suffered severe synchronization failures—the backup timestamp remains frozen, new and updated files fail to generate Previous Versions, and attempting to Clear Versions triggers an Element not found error; this issue has been reported by users and tech outlets globally, and Microsoft Support agent Vensky has confirmed the engineering team is actively investigating it, so I strongly urge Microsoft to release a resolution in the October 13 Security Patch—if you are experiencing this same issue, please submit a report on Feedback Hub and post your link below to help raise awareness for a speedy fix! This case has been continuously tracked through the Microsoft Technical Support Project (09/23–10/10, specialists Vensky et al.) and Feedback Hub. We hope that the Microsoft Windows Feature Engineering team will pay attention to the core bug in this backup mechanism and release a hotfix as soon as possible. This is my opinion feedback center report: https://aka.ms/AA13n2f3 https://aka.ms/AA13n22w
Disable incessant nagware popups
I don't know about everyone else, but I am sick and tired of the nagware pop ups in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. Every single product harasses me with pop ups trying to tell me "hey, did you know this feature was here?", "you can do this if you click that", "let me hold your hand through using products you've used for decades even though you don't want daddy Microslop to do that". This is a prime example. I keep getting the same ones again and again and again and everything I've read indicates they should only appear once. But they don't. They keep coming back like a psychotic stalker ex who wants alimony even though you were never married. How do I get this nagware to stop?!
