Windows 11 Support Thread

HAL 9000 said:
Where to begin? A friend of mine (a Luddite) was trying to install the latest 2025-02 Cumulative Update to Win 11 24H2 on a Huawei Matebook - which has an integrated C: Drive with 128 GB (on a chip) & a separate SSD for the D: drive (either 512GB or 1TB, I can't remember offhand).

So he sends me a screenshot (photo on phone - instead of using PrtScrn) on WhatsApp this morning saying that it is taking an inordinately long time to install the update (last week, when I did some IT support for him, I noticed that the C: Drive was almost full - about 10GB free space remaining on the 128GB C: Drive.

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I had previously told him - on MORE than one occasion - to ONLY download or save any documents, movies & tv series, videos & music onto the D: Drive - so that the C: Drive was used exclusively for Windows & MS Office 365 - but apparently this information fell on deaf ears - no surprises there!

Then he tells me he was trying to MOVE folders from the C: Drive to the D: Drive (instead of creating folders on the D: Drive & using CTRL X / CTRL V to move the data over) - and then sends me another photo 'screenshot' on WhatsApp, saying he is trying to MOVE this folder over to the D: Drive and this 'Error Message' popped up...

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And people wonder why I sometimes go to the wall and bang my head against the it when doing IT support for people who have NO cooking clue about how technology works - OR how easy it is to royally screw things up in moments with their ham-fisted meddling either.

"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread" comes to mind... ;)
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Sympathy ...
 
HAL 9000 said:
Where to begin? A friend of mine (a Luddite) was trying to install the latest 2025-02 Cumulative Update to Win 11 24H2 on a Huawei Matebook - which has an integrated C: Drive with 128 GB (on a chip) & a separate SSD for the D: drive (either 512GB or 1TB, I can't remember offhand).

So he sends me a screenshot (photo on phone - instead of using PrtScrn) on WhatsApp this morning saying that it is taking an inordinately long time to install the update (last week, when I did some IT support for him, I noticed that the C: Drive was almost full - about 10GB free space remaining on the 128GB C: Drive.

View attachment 1801633

I had previously told him - on MORE than one occasion - to ONLY download or save any documents, movies & tv series, videos & music onto the D: Drive - so that the C: Drive was used exclusively for Windows & MS Office 365 - but apparently this information fell on deaf ears - no surprises there!

Then he tells me he was trying to MOVE folders from the C: Drive to the D: Drive (instead of creating folders on the D: Drive & using CTRL X / CTRL V to move the data over) - and then sends me another photo 'screenshot' on WhatsApp, saying he is trying to MOVE this folder over to the D: Drive and this 'Error Message' popped up...

View attachment 1801634

And people wonder why I sometimes go to the wall and bang my head against the it when doing IT support for people who have NO cooking clue about how technology works - OR how easy it is to royally screw things up in moments with their ham-fisted meddling either.

"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread" comes to mind... ;)
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If you were a "good" IT Support, you would have pointed all the Library folders to the D drive. Problem solved...
 
HAL 9000 said:
Where to begin? A friend of mine (a Luddite) was trying to install the latest 2025-02 Cumulative Update to Win 11 24H2 on a Huawei Matebook - which has an integrated C: Drive with 128 GB (on a chip) & a separate SSD for the D: drive (either 512GB or 1TB, I can't remember offhand).

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"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread" comes to mind... ;)
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Daar issi pille vir stupid nie ....
buy him a calculator to play with
 
For those that like to play around with scripts and for those that have no idea, this is a nice site to built your own script for debloating W11 and add/remove things for your own installation .... that way you don't have to rely on a dodgy script floating on the interwebs.

WinScript - Make Windows Yours.

Open-source tool to build your Windows script from scratch.
winscript.cc winscript.cc
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
For those that like to play around with scripts and for those that have no idea, this is a nice site to built your own script for debloating W11 and add/remove things for your own installation .... that way you don't have to rely on a dodgy script floating on the interwebs.

WinScript - Make Windows Yours.

Open-source tool to build your Windows script from scratch.
winscript.cc winscript.cc
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And this site, does not generate "dodgy" scripts?
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
For those that like to play around with scripts and for those that have no idea, this is a nice site to built your own script for debloating W11 and add/remove things for your own installation .... that way you don't have to rely on a dodgy script floating on the interwebs.

WinScript - Make Windows Yours.

Open-source tool to build your Windows script from scratch.
winscript.cc winscript.cc
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Trust me. The damn AV programs always give a false positive for my stuff...
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
And this site, does not generate "dodgy" scripts?
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How does it? You start with a blank script and then add or remove stuff ... at the end you can read through the script before deciding to download/save it as a .bat file. Can't get any simpler :unsure:

You can view all the script codes here :

Document

Description
docs.winscript.cc docs.winscript.cc
 
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deesef said:
Trust me. The damn AV programs always give a false positive for my stuff...
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It's normal yes

The desktop app may be flagged as a threat by Windows Defender; however, this is a false positive. This occurs because the scripts you create with WinScript can modify system settings. Rest assured, WinScript is safe, transparent, and open-source.
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All of a sudden some of my games and apps have no save data

Have a look, oh My Documents folder is missing

Technically it still exists, just cant access it, some apps can

OneDrive has nuked itself again, tried to fix it but its hopeless. No I'll have to nuke it off windows and download my folder from the web interface and then restore files manually

Absolute piece if schite
 
Windows 11 is starting to get on my tits :cautious:

Have a system that you can stress test for hours under Windows 10 without issues.
But under Windows 11 it keeps rebooting randomly even when idle. :X3:

And the one that required a BIOS update before Windows 11 would install is now stuck in a loop trying to boot.

crash-burn.gif

Third Windows 11 issue this year. 2024. Zero Windows issues under 10.
 
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Here's a cool concept video of what Windows 12 could look like - we can only dream that Microsoft implements some of these ideas... ;)

Windows 12 - 2024 - AR 4789​

This is Windows 12 2024. All designs like UI's, features and others in this concept belongs to me (AR 4789) this is NOT an actual/real OS or software, this is just a concept, so there is no ISO for this OS.
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HAL 9000 said:
That's what I eventually did to solve the low space issue on the C:\Drive... ;)
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Just don’t symlink (or junction or whatever it’s called on Windows) the wrong thing to another drive.

I think it was PackageManagerCache or something that broke the Windows Store. Super obscure error message (google results all said to reinstall Windows).
 
RedViking said:
Its midnight. I am trying to get stuff to the Building Council so they can approve the plans and boom, this message:
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Guess what, Windows has just done an update in the background :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Set the updates to ONLY notify you they're available .... that way you can download and install them when the PC is free ;)

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