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The "show shadows under windows" keeps enabling itself some time after I turn it off and its driving me crazy. Anyone know a way to permanently disable it?
 
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The "show shadows under windows" keeps enabling itself some time after I turn it off and its driving me crazy. Anyone know a way to permanently disable it?
There, might be.

Have you tried the following?
 
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So contact support and tell them you want that option re-enabled!


Join in! They can't know they've removed something people care about if no one says anything.

they have known about it for a month now, wizards of the coast magic arena bug forum, its in the top ten posts with the most comments of any other bug post. lmao

i guess they just like taking their sweet time in fixing things.
 
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Does it revert after updates? Or is it a at-login thing?
That is a good question. One thing I know is that it has persisted through fresh installs, and different machines. I'll try to pay attention next time it shows up.
 
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That is a good question. One thing I know is that it has persisted through fresh installs, and different machines. I'll try to pay attention next time it shows up.
Chime back in next time you notice it and we'll see if we can find a workable solution.
 

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How do I stop Cortana popping up every time I hit my left control key on my new 13th gen work laptop? Every time I hit the left CTRL Cortana pops up, I even have it disabled through WinAero Tweaker and it stills does it... I thought that might have fixed it, but nope. Very annoying... I am on Windows 11...
 
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I just deaktivated everything just at installing.

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Cortana does not pop up at my site.
 

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I just deaktivated everything just at installing.

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Cortana does not pop up at my site.

I was cleaning my keyboard earlier, so I must have turned something on by accident. I figured it out, I just removed Cortana with Tom's Hardware command prompt step by step tutorial they have. Everything works fine now.
 
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How do I stop Cortana popping up every time I hit my left control key on my new 13th gen work laptop? Every time I hit the left CTRL Cortana pops up, I even have it disabled through WinAero Tweaker and it stills does it... I thought that might have fixed it, but nope. Very annoying... I am on Windows 11...
You have to uninstall Cortana to get it to stop. If you'd like me to walk you through it, let me know.
 
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Went to log in to my local account (admin account) only to be greeted with a denial stating my password had expired. Amusing.

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Looks tied in with MPO and DXGI flip - seems like MPO might be extended to secondary displays.
An FPS cap at the desktop layer, without MPO all the layers are forced to run the same so it feels like they're all tied together.

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This seems like the fix to AMD's higher power draw issues, because they can then render the compositor frames at a lower frame rate if needed - 30FPS video on display 2 wont need to be rendered at 120fps, just 30 and repeated like overlays to a game are with mpo.

DRR is an interesting one, where the display can render the desktop compositor (the wdm.exe desktop image) at the lower FPS of your VRR range - so if your display is 48 to 144 it'll drop to 48Hz at idle and not 144. THAT is going to be a game changer for idle power consumption with how common high refresh displays are these days. Clearly designed for laptops, but could be interesting if enabled on desktops too, with the right displays.

They could play it safe and just have the option set a 60FPS cap to the WDM layer in MPO, and save a bunch of power at the desktop without any risk of that screwing with displays that have shite VRR ranges, like VA monitors.


Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25915 | Windows Insider Blog


If they arent using VRR/FPS limitations to do this, the downside is that it will cause a flicker/black flash as the screen changes refresh rates. Not keen on that, and not something i think MS would be daft enough to do. An FPS limit to their desktop compositor would fit far better, as it only affects things they control and cant break third party programs or software at all.

Went to log in to my local account (admin account) only to be greeted with a denial stating my password had expired. Amusing.

Decided to try a new option in rufus this go round that saved me the trouble of setting up my user account on a full install to bare drive. Believe I'll now go back and reinstall a bare copy of W11 to save myself any other highly sought after features they have seen fit to opt me into. Funnily the second local account I set up already had the Never Expires box ticked. So it must've been how I installed my primary user. Easy enough fix once you are back into Windows, easy enough to make a new password since you've already entered the correct one. Amusing.
I ran into something that seemed like this, but it basically wanted me to reset the pin - the password worked fine still

I find it simple to use rufus and make one local offline account, then make a seperate online one rather than login with it.
If its a PC i dont keep anything important on, easy enough to set auto-login for that offline account.
 
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check out this article from Neowin:

Not that it'll stop us, since we can just install older versions, disable the security feature, or hack the damn thing with tools like rufus

as they said the lock is in the install.wim file, so you can use an older install.wim with the newer ESD file and bam, unlocked install
 
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check out this article from Neowin:

@microsoft
People will eventually upgrade their hardware to modern specs. However, forcing people is NOT acceptable. When are you people going to use your heads for something more than a seat cushion? We all know you're not doing this for security reasons. When are you people going to learn that you do NOT have the right to control everything?

Please stop being such petty, narrow-minded a-holes!

Thank You.
 
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So, install old build ISO, then update by KB from Win Update catalog ! Possible ?
 
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I used Rufus to install and it worked for a bit, but locked up when upgrading (went through this twice)

i.e. install was not my problem; updates were
 
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I used Rufus to install and it worked for a bit, but locked up when upgrading (went through this twice)

i.e. install was not my problem; updates were
I'm not having issues. It's the feature update you need to create the usb with Rufus then within windows extract the files the run setup or run the usb without the extract but it's faster extracted
 

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I used Rufus to install and it worked for a bit, but locked up when upgrading (went through this twice)

i.e. install was not my problem; updates were
I wonder if that was driver related - I've not tested systems quite as old, but my 4th gen laptop still works fine and updates normally, and 2nd/3rd gen desktops
 
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Maybe so; guess it's Windows 10 for now.
 
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I booted this os today, because there are new AMD chipset drivers and I wanted to install them.

As i booted it i decided to move the taskbar to the top, because thats what I tried in my main os for that last weeks and I like it - browser tabs and menus are at the top, so that is less mouse movement.

Turns out there is no such option in the GUI. I've found tutorials how to do this editing the registry editor, but it keeps reverting the change! ;))



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