I wish they release a tool for their system to work properly. Like connecting to Bluetooth headphones or no full cpu load out of nowhere.
Those are premium windows 14 features.
Instructions unclear, advertisements added to start menu 
That “system interrupts” is extremely important.
Whole thing has to get thrown out and rebuilt, its an ancient bloated mess underneath, but they waited too long and now the entire world relies on it.
Am I crazy or are they just reskinning old windows? Go deep enough and old windows things pop up in a disjarring manner.
It blows my mind that system file checker isn’t just a scheduled task that works during idle time. Same with DISM.
You can easily schedule it yourself but I wouldn’t. I have used sfc /scannow about 10 times. It did fix an issue once - a VM repeatedly locking up doing Windows updates.
Yeah even as a technician that’s one I run on the off chance that it actually does something.
Which, sometimes it does, just often enough that I wouldn’t call it useless.
You don’t need to check fs with NTFS.
no full cpu load out of nowhere.
Ah sudden background updates, how I hate them.
My Bluetooth headphones work just fine. Except every time the connect the automatically set the volume to 100%.
The bug bash quests can be found in the Windows Feedback Hub, and partaking in the bug bash often concludes with a badge in the Feedback Hub that acknowledges your participation.
Imagine doing free QA for a multibillion dollar corporation. I hate Microsoft so much.
No one is forcing you. Actually, you need to jump through many hoops to get into the program. And Microsoft tends to pay nice rewards to people who find critical issues.
So a bug bounty that pays significantly less
Cant put a price on a badge though!
I think that might be the problem
If I get that badge, can I hide it? (On 𝕏 I can)
Can’t blame them if people after willing to do it
Watch me. Exploiting people is wrong, even if they’re idiots.
Calm down, no one’s getting exploited. Many people like trying out new features that aren’t available yet for stable releases.
It’s not exploitation if people want to do it
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How do you know someone uses Linux?
They’ll tell you.
I use arch btw.
I use Debian BTW
I use Ubuntu, I guess.
I use Garuda, FYI
Nobody asked btw
So fucking true. Linux people are such a loud minority. Just keep it to yourself. I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work and not deal with hardware and software compatibility issues and learn a new OS. Plus penguins smell bad. Alright ttyl.
I’m a windows windows user and windows is so fucking broken sometimes. Thinking about switching. Package managers are trash, os is buggy, explorer is buggy, search is buggy. Only thing thats keeping me on windows is gamepass
I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work and not deal with hardware and software compatibility issues and learn a new OS
LOL, that’s why I use Linux.
I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work
Yeah, same.
Thats why I use linux.
- just turn the computer on and wait for the updates to finish
I use windows btw
…and just turn the computer off and wait for the updates to finish.
No need to wait either way under linux.
- just turn the computer on and wait for the updates to finish
Like 90% of the internet is running on Linux. If being anywhere in the tech world is something you’re interested in then it would behoove you to learn it. But if all you’re interested in is the gaming then by all means rub the Cheeto dust on your shirt and yell for your mom upstairs to get you another bag.
Fun fact: I’ve been using Mint on my home computer for over a decade. I’ve distro hopped a little bit but Mint is just rock solid reliable. It’s almost perfect.
Are those “hidden features” just more ads?
CIA Target Mode as well probably.
Actually it uncovers the fact that space cadet pinball was actually a covert mind control and indoctrination tool developed by the NSA.
Well then we’re all screwed because who didn’t play the shit out of that?
Noone I’d trust.
Actually it uncovers the fact that space cadet pinball was actually a covert mind control and indoctrination tool developed by the NSA.
I KNEW IT
Usual info-free article with clickbait headline. Tinfoil-heads will call it a “troll / honey-pot”, designed to attract and identify ‘troublemakers’.
And from that comment section, it’s working.
Yeah. It’s called windows 10.
I think you’re misremembering. It’s called Windows 7.
The biggest thing I want is to just move the task bar to the top of the screen. I can’t use my finger on my Surface tablet unless I remove the keyboard. Such idiocy…
I don’t have W11. I have had my taskbar at the top of my screen since the 90s. W11 doesn’t allow this ?
My favourite is when I’m trying to click a notification tray thing and shit like teams messages keep popping up on top. Who the hell designed it so notifications come up on top of tray pop ups? So fucking stupid.
This angers me so, so much and every messenger app does it.
Dude right??? I’ve been losing my fucking mind. My home computer, work computer 2, and work computer VM are all top bar mounted. Work computer 1 for upgraded to 11 and it’s pissing me off. Every week I check for a way to change it back.
I think side is the best. When almost all monitors are wider than they are tall it makes more sense to put it on the short edge to use up less space.
You can do this with TaskbarX
Does it make Windows 11 not total dogshit?
Oh wait, no, it’s still Windows 11.
Back by popular demand! Right click on task bar for task manager!
But none of the other stuff. Thanks, Microsoft.
Regression of features = future.
Nice try, Microsoft, trying to get people to use Windows 11. Just focus on fixing Windows 12 and cut your losses.
It says that the tool is being shared around online but I can’t find it, anyone know where to get it? Just curious is all.
Does the calendar taskbar flyout count as a hidden feature? Perhaps it would be more useful to leak a tool that can disable windows features. Ads, internet-spam, gutter-news, etc.
But mainly I just want the calendar agenda back in the taskbar.
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
This will fix a lot of windows 10/11 bloat.
this will fixx all of them
I never thought of this. I, too, would like this feature!
The tool that disables bloat is the LTSC edition. You can get windows 10 enterprise LTSC right now. Windows 11 LTSC is scheduled to leak in the second half of 2024.
Can I kill efficiency mode and get Chrome working again?
using chrome in 2017 was embarrassing. using chrome in 2023 is just sad.
Why use chrome when edge is just better
Or, use Firefox 😈
Maybe he prefers to hand over his data to Google rather than Microsoft.
You’ll get a lot of hate here for saying it, but you’re not entirely wrong. When they offered free GPT to people running edge I went ahead and loaded it out with my normal compliment of plugins to try it as a secondary browser.
I’m not exactly sure what all they did to it, but it’s not just Chrome with the different skin It’s notably faster and lighter on the memory footprint.
The reason why I’m not willing to convert to them completely as I don’t trust Microsoft with all my data. I’m already keeping as much telemetry from them as I can.
These days I float between Firefox and Brave. Firefox isn’t likely to sell my data, and Brave will sell my data but their anti-fingerprinting is pretty solid so they’re at least not just letting everyone track me for free.
Well that’s a sentence I never expected to hear
They really think ppl give ah fuck?
So what are the hidden features? The article doesn’t say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?
We getting to the point where some Linux distros are objectively better systems… all around. Having way less issues with PopOS than I did with Win11
True, I’ve been using NobaraOS and have no problems at all, I moved my mom from windows to ZorinOS and she only noticed because her laptop no longer “freezes up” randomly, and I’m talking about a surface book that runs better on Linux than on Windows. Gotta love the irony
Yup, just moved to Mint on my laptop since I’ve been getting some issues with Windows draining the battery quick despite it being in “good health” according to Dell, and just general performance hiccups across Windows.
Super low CPU and RAM usage, snappier performance for word processing and surfing, and a longer battery life? With no tracking features to boot? All for free? Hell yeah I’ll move over to Linux lol.
