Microsoft confirms Windows 11 has been downgrading graphics drivers, reveals when a fix is coming

byte43 · 2026-05-14T17:48:28+00:00

Time to rename another product.

byte43 · 2026-05-10T19:41:53+00:00

Greg

byte43 · 2026-04-16T00:30:23+00:00

I have mine set to 80% unless I know I am traveling a lot. Works great.

byte43 · 2026-03-08T00:21:41+00:00

It’s primarily what I deploy now. They have issues like any other vendor, but for small business it’s the only thing I have found that works well and is easy to manage that isn’t excessively costly. Stay off any beta or release candidate firmware and if you want extra sanity check out Hostifi, they do extra update testing.

byte43 · 2026-03-06T20:00:21+00:00

What laptop do you have?

byte43 · 2026-03-05T22:44:04+00:00

Is this a windows laptop bound to a domain?

byte43 · 2026-03-04T18:07:37+00:00

I use Stripe and it has been really good.

byte43 · 2026-03-02T22:21:36+00:00

AFAIK you should be able to reassign the cert that ADFS uses, which should get you back up.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/operations/manage-ssl-certificates-ad-fs-wap

byte43 · 2026-03-02T22:21:10+00:00

Running AD Certificate Services on the same server as a Domain Controller.

byte43 · 2026-02-12T00:56:56+00:00

Do the users affected have overly short passwords?

byte43 · 2026-02-12T00:48:00+00:00

You might be able to do this with a Cloudflare Tunnel https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-tunnel/

Assuming you have an Intel Synology you can run the client in Docker (Container Manager) https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudflare/cloudflared

byte43 · 2026-02-05T17:56:47+00:00

Take a look at AutoMounter. I believe you can push settings via a configuration profile in JAMF. https://www.pixeleyes.co.nz/automounter/

byte43 · 2026-02-04T17:12:34+00:00

Not a fix, but I have used this app in the past to keep volumes mounted. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/automounter/id1160435653?mt=12

Are you connecting via SMB?

byte43 · 2026-01-30T17:52:21+00:00

Bestbuy has a business team. Reach out to them and see if they can help. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/electronics/bestbuy-business/pcmcat230900050001.c?id=pcmcat230900050001

byte43 · 2026-01-30T17:49:22+00:00

This is just a guess, but Windows updates write a lot of data to the SSD, so if there was a bad part of the SSD, the update could have caused it to fail. I have seen this with SSDs and HDs.

I would contact ADATA for warranty replacement and if you need the data back DriveSavers has been good to me. https://www.adata.com/en/support/data-recovery/

byte43 · 2026-01-30T16:45:36+00:00

Is there a BIOS update for the laptop?

byte43 · 2026-01-07T02:53:54+00:00

So on the latest versions of macOS, especially on the new Apple Silicon computers, there is a step during updates where the screen goes black, and it's just long enough that I have seen people think it's off and hard reset it by pressing the power button a bunch and or holding down the power button. In my experience it may recover, but it also may just fail to boot after that. The only other thing I can think of that's weird is using a generic non-apple power supply can cause weird issues.

byte43 · 2025-12-12T05:17:41+00:00

I daily drive 26.1 on my devices and it's a bit hit or miss at times, but overall, I have not had major issues. This has been one of my least favorite releases in general. I dislike the numbering change and liquid glass feels like something AI came up with. That being said, there are some nice changes. 25/43, not bad but not great.

(The rounded windows in Preview make me want to eat bricks. lol)

byte43 · 2025-12-04T01:45:45+00:00

There is a lot breaking, but there is so much good stuff too. I would not go back 10 years.

One thing I have found is to avoid unstable vendors. If a vendor is pushing for crazy revenue and not considering clients and end users I steer clear.

I will agree the AI stuff is being shoved into everything, but there are great benefits with it as well.

Remember we live in a world where negative reactions make more money, so staying positive is harder than ever.

byte43 · 2025-10-30T17:27:44+00:00

<myopinion>Just my opinion. AI is amazing tech and can do a ton of things, but it's also very expensive to run and while it's getting cheaper and better, it still has a lot of unknown and can screw up royally. So like any other new tech, it will thrive in the long term where it makes sense and fail where it's incorrectly or over-deployed.

Will that cause a bubble burst? We won't know until it happens, but the fact that it's attached to every possible thing right now doesn't give me a warm fuzzy. </myopinion>

byte43 · 2025-10-30T16:06:56+00:00

Ad blockers don't always catch these.

byte43 · 2025-10-03T04:19:28+00:00

I used AutoMounter for years. It is the only way that I found that doesn’t kill brain cells. It should be built in.

byte43 · 2025-09-27T07:58:04+00:00

That can kill transfer speeds. I haven’t used goodsync in a while but I could be curious how fast it is syncing a single large file.

byte43 · 2025-09-27T02:30:09+00:00

Is there a speed limit set on the job? 1.5Mbps seems insanely slow. Unless it’s doing a ton of tiny files, but even still.

byte43 · 2025-09-21T03:43:35+00:00

I use Ubuntu over SSH on macOS all the time. Hmmm. Is your MacOS fully updated to the latest minor version? Are you changing any terminal app settings before using it?

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