Re: Win11 explorer bug?

On 09/12/2024 22:44, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 11:01:24 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 09/12/2024 00:33, john larkin wrote:

One of my guys said that File Explorer is lately crashing in weird
ways. Now mine has started doing it.
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We share files with Dropbox, so maybe the bug is there.
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Do you get a BSOD or a crash dump when it fails?

 The file explorer window just freezes up. It can be killed with the
task manager and then it works again.

Sounds like a race condition where it is waiting for something that never happens and doesn't timeout properly. MS has lots of those :(

 And, maybe unrelated,  my PC has decided to do dead black screen once
in a while, for 30 seconds or so.

Try disabling the screen saver.
I have found Win11 almost as usable as Win7 with none of the troubles you see. Main advantage for me is that Win11 understands E & P cores.
Win8 was a complete crock of shit. Win10 wasn't much better but I managed to avoid it entirely since Win7 was so good.

 And when I restart, the cursor has a little blinking hourglass
attached for a day or so.
 Windows is such garbage.

Don't expect me to stand up for MickeySoft!
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Martin Brown