Elim Garak
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I will have to report back over the coming days and weeks.
Corporate colibrehs, has your office upgraded your computers to Windows 11?
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One thing I've noticed particularly after doing some clean installs is that it's like all the settings are an extra click or two further away, it's annoying. And changing some of the context menu items to icons just seems like change for the sake of change.
I set up a Tiny11 VM last night: tiny11 2311 : Microsoft/NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
so I can connect to work with the WARP Client without installing it directly to my computer or requiring a separate one. It's nice, light. I haven't missed anything that was removed (yet).
edit: Cumulative update won't install
I switched to minimal Lubuntu 24 + Remmina and it's beautiful 
(I'm not aware of any genuinely new features in Windows 11 apart from... ads?
)
I set up a Tiny11 VM last night: tiny11 2311 : Microsoft/NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
so I can connect to work with the WARP Client without installing it directly to my computer or requiring a separate one. It's nice, light. I haven't missed anything that was removed (yet).
edit: Cumulative update won't install
I switched to minimal Lubuntu 24 + Remmina and it's beautiful This is in Windows 10 too.
(I'm not aware of any genuinely new features in Windows 11 apart from... ads?
)
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Elim Garak
Veteran
Interesting I never noticed it on Windows 10 for some reason.One thing I've noticed particularly after doing some clean installs is that it's like all the settings are an extra click or two further away, it's annoying. And changing some of the context menu items to icons just seems like change for the sake of change.
I set up a Tiny11 VM last night: tiny11 2311 : Microsoft/NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
so I can connect to work with the WARP Client without installing it directly to my computer or requiring a separate one. It's nice, light. I haven't missed anything that was removed (yet).
This is in Windows 10 too.
(I'm not aware of any genuinely new features in Windows 11 apart from... ads?
JealousOnesEn_V
HTX Certified
We just finished our refresh to 11 a couple weeks ago. It was pretty seamless since we use Intune.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
Superstar
shyt got me fuming. I got my single user license version of MS Office and I know these fakkits are trying to force me onto subscription MS Office 360. They need to jump off a cliff.MS gonna force AI and subscriptions on you whether you like it or not
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
github.com
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Yes but a lot of city agencies are still on 10
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
Superstar
(on a private computer, anyway)
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
IVS
Superstar
We have win10 and 11 floating about in our environment. Im about to swap out all our conference room machines with new computers that run Win11. So that will force people to get a lil familiar.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
Superstar
What exactly is going on underneath. I'm quasi-versed in things, but not at a granular level so IDK what this is exactly doing.(on a private computer, anyway)
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
kingdizzy01
ATXBBOY
we did that when it first dropped 
and they also decided to upgrade hardware at the same damn time 
i feel bad for the IT people
and they askin me, non IT professional, for help
and they also decided to upgrade hardware at the same damn time i feel bad for the IT people
and they askin me, non IT professional, for help
I was going to attempt to explain... horribly... but he has provided documentation for each method here: https://massgrave.dev/Ohook#how-does-it-work - Ohook being one of the methods for Office activation.
Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
The latest Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday update is causing SSDs and HDDs to reportedly break with chances of data corruption as well.
www.neowin.net
Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
Sayan Sen · Aug 17, 2025 08:56 EDT · Hot! 42
Last week, Microsoft released a very important Defender update for new Windows 11 and 10 ISO image installations that deals with the widespread Lamma stealer. The security update was published right around the time of the Windows Patch Tuesdays for the month of August 2025 on Windows 10 (KB5063709 / KB5063877 / KB5063871 / KB5063889) and Windows 11 (KB5063878, KB5063875).
The Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update has not exactly been flawless as it exhibited installation issues, throwing up a 0x80240069 error code. The company managed to resolve the issue later and has deployed a fix.
And it does not end there as apparently the update triggered storage failures that cause drives to disappear, making them and their corresponding SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) unreadable by the OS, according to a new report.
The issue purportedly surfaces during heavy write operations to certain NVMe SSDs as well as HDDs, especially when continuous sustained writes approach 50 GB on drives and exceed 60 per cent controller usage. This could potentially lead to a "high likelihood of file corruption when symptoms occurs" adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).
The report speculates that this could be due to a malfunction in the drive cache subsystem. Symptoms are said to recur predictably after a system reboot, which temporarily restores drive visibility but does not address the underlying fault. Affected users are said to be consistently experiencing failure under similar workload patterns within minutes.
Further analysis has suggested that SSDs built on Phison NAND controllers especially DRAM-less models exhibit failures at lower write volumes. Reports suggest that select enterprise-grade HDDs also display comparable symptoms under intensive writes.
The issue definitely bears high similarity to the WD SN770 host memory buffer (HMB) flaw, and in this case, too, restricting or disabling HMB yields no improvement. A suspected memory leak in Windows’ OS-buffered cache region could be the problem.
If you recall, that is something Microsoft apparently fixed back in October 2024, but when we reported again in June 2025, it was still a problem as WD/SanDisk failed to appropriately inform users about the correct firmware patch which meant Windows 11 24H2 was still blocked.
We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too.
Source: @Necoru_cat (X)
Update, same day: It appears that the tester also uploaded detailed test result of all the drives they tested, 21 in total across a series of steps:
For reference,
- Good = no errors, NG Lv. 1,2 = Not Good level 1 & 2.
- NG Lv.1 = Drive inaccessible (recoverable by rebooting)
- NG Lv. 2 = Drive inaccessible (unrecoverable)
Steps:
- Restart the PC after each step to ensure the drive cache is cleared before proceeding. Copy the entire "CyberPunk2077" data folder (92.16GB) from your Steam library.
- Prepare a 62.42GB file (62.42GB) containing 150 video files, each approximately 250MB, compressed into a 7z archive. Write this to the storage device to be verified.
- Decompress the 7z archive written in Step 2 within the storage device and write it to the storage device.
Source: @necorucat (X)
