The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer
2025-12-06 01:48 UTC
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@SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-06 05:14
At the moment the only fix is likely a reimage, unless you can get to the registry to make some edits or deploy a Powershell script to delay the launch of Explorer.exe until the system is ready for it. How has Satya Nadella not been fired for this dumpster fire of a rollout?
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-06 02:06
Jesus fucking Christ… Is Microsoft literally vibe-coding everything now? Do these updates not go through any rigorous testing at all before being released into the wild? The only solution is to re-image?? This is just flat out fucking awful. Sorry to all those people who went for the LTSC versions of Windows. How the living fuck does this kind of stuff happen.
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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-06 02:55
We have hundreds of devices running this exact described situation, and we’ve not run into a single instance of this. Is this just one guy on Reddit complaining and the media ran with it?
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@goatinspace@feddit.org 2025-12-06 04:56
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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2025-12-06 05:24
Okay, wow. I’ve garnered plenty of downvotes on the Fediverse by not auto-hating many of Microsoft’s new features and updates, I’m sure I’ve been labelled a “Microsoft shill” or somesuch in some folks’ user notes. But this is just ridiculous. The single most important rule Microsoft should have is “thou shalt not brick thy customers’ computers with a routine update.” Sure, it’s not the most common set of triggering conditions in the world, but the problem is immediate and obvious upon booting up. How do they not have a test plan that would catch this?
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@Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-06 09:51
*checks that it’s not an onion article* Oh.. I think it is time to revive: “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!" Glad I decided to never touch 11. Seems almost customary to skip every second Windows version by now. I’m curious to see if it will be just a skip and they get their shit back together by 12. For now, surprisingly, I do not miss Windows one bit. I still keep 10 around as dual boot for PCVR. Sure, I got it working (mostly) on Bazzite but its by no means trivial and hassle free. Everything else was smooth sailing most of the time. Just the few times I crashed head first into the immutable nature, caused me a bit of a headache.
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@reksas@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-06 10:49
oh it was a bug, i thought they did it on purpose to force people to use their stupid ai crap.
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@MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 02:07
So it's a botched update not a designed feature.
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@tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 01:57
\*relaxes in Linux\*
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@nervousnerd@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 02:57
Ah. Welcome back Windows 8.
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@fubarx@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 05:48
For a second I thought this was about forcing people to AI interact with the Start Menu.
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@Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 02:28
Sounds like this affected a very small number of users. Anyone see this themselves?
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@stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2025-12-06 08:17
To be fair, I've had updates break my DE on Linux too. It's one of the reasons why I no longer use Fedora.