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Mikeyjames
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Windows 11 Sign-In Screen Not Showing Status or Picture Information
Hey All I am using Windows 11 Pro fully updated on three laptops - Gaming, Office, and smaller, lighter one I take on holiday. All three have the same settings. I use Windows Spotlght for my lock screen and choose "weather and more". It works fine when I choose to lock the PC. I get the Spotlight picture which changes each few days, a prompt to see the information about the picture, weather, and status info on some other apps. I see. I also choose the option "Show lock screen background on the sing-in screen" On all three laptops I get to see the Spotlight picture when I choose to reboot, cold boot, or log off. The issue is that on two of the three I don't see the prompt to find out about the picture nor do I see weather or app status information. On one of them it works fine. On the two that don't work I see what is below on the sign-on sreen, on the one that works it looks the same as the first picture. The weirdest part is that if I reboot as part of a Windows Update, the two laptops that don't normally work show the sign-in screen like the good one (first pic). It only works for the one reboot post-update and then reverts to not working.. So to sum up. The one that works Cold boot = pic 1 Restart = pic 1 log off = pic 1 lock = pic 1 restart as part of Windows Update = pic 1 The two that have issues Cold boot = pic 2 Restart = pic 2 log off = pic 2 lock = pic 1 restart as part of Windows Update = pic 1 For someone with a brain bigger than mine, can they see any reason why this might happen. Is there a clue in the behaviour that rebooting during a Windows Update would trigger the sign-in screen to show pic 1 on the two laptops that normally show opic 2? I have already tried the following. Re-installing Spotlight scannow /sfc DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth An in place Windows 11 repair - I did get excisted as the first book after the repair behaves the same as the reboot during an update, which I guess ir is. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers MIckRe: OneDrive client and Indexing
This is really annoying. I have Onedrive set to keep local copies of all files and always used to enable my folder in indexing. I can no longer do this and searches take forever. I wonder if this is a bug or by design. With MS the latter wouldn't surprise me. The weird part is that for me this was working until very recently and only stopped with a fresh install of Win 10 in September 2022. Until then I was able to have the od folder selected.Re: navigation bar moved to left
I am actually angry about this. It looks horrible and unnecessarily wastes space. Well done MS, didn't you learn from the Win 8 debacle that people don't like forced change? Just so stupid and annoying. Unless they introduce the ability to put it back at the bottom i will not be renewing my Office subscription. Just to be clear MS, I hate it.
