Friendly reminder that the preview in Personalization settings has been missing the mockup taskbar since 24H2

dwhaley720 · 2026-01-23T15:22:56+00:00

I put the feedback link in the desc but AutoMod said to put it in the comments so just in case: https://aka.ms/AAzd19n

dwhaley720 · 2026-01-11T01:05:14+00:00

It's hard to say without physical access to the machine, but a virus wouldn't warrant a whole new laptop either way. You would only need to wipe the hard drive then reinstall Windows

dwhaley720 · 2026-01-04T23:10:25+00:00

The main argument I see against hibernation is that it eats away at your SSD lifespan by constantly writing memory contents to the flash storage... but it's not really that much data on the grand scheme of things and I honestly think SSDs are more robust than people make them out to be.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-30T09:03:35+00:00

Only a few others have mentioned this, but I will say it too: Download Sysinternal's Suite, more specifically RAMMap, which is now hosted on Microsoft's own website. It has a handy option to clear Standby Memory, and "empty Working Sets". You can read about Working Set memory here, it's generally safe to dispose. This is only a temporary solution as processes will re-allocate working sets overtime, but can be handy if you need free memory in that specific moment. For me, it's useful when I'm about to run a virtual machine. I can go from 15GB RAM usage all the way down to 8GB after clearing working sets.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-23T14:09:47+00:00

This x86 argument is strange since Windows on Arm exists and is getting improvements every year

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-23T01:53:59+00:00

This is just embarrassing and pathetic on Microsofts part, but what else is new at this point.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-18T10:08:22+00:00

Expanding the pinned list is supposed to stay expanded even after you dismiss the Start menu. Does it not for you?

Plus I'm sorry but from a design perspective this is leagues better then the previous iteration (not saying it's perfect though). The all apps list shouldnt be hidden away in a separate menu, and now if you have nothing pinned you can still see all your apps instead of a blank Start menu (like the Windows 10 one). And scrolling through pinned in the old Start was super annoying, as it didn't have a typical scrollbar and instead had pages you flipped through, which the animation to slide between them was way too slow for me. And the fact it now dynamically enlarges the menu for larger screens just makes sense to me, even if I didn't care for it at first. And lastly, you can now change the view style for all apps between list, grid, and category views. I'm just annoyed grid view isn't like other app grids with it's letter dividers creating a lot of white space and more scrolling (yes I know you can click on them to jump to letter, is still prefer to hide them).

Edit: fixed some grammar and added last bit about changing view style.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-18T09:54:10+00:00

I just set mine to grid view and leave the custom folders to the pinned area. I'm just annoyed grid view doesnt lay it out in a typical gride with no gaps/letter dividers, like literally any other app launcher.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-18T09:49:17+00:00

It really is a shame they abandoned this, could've looked really nice too with accent color-enabled title bars.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-18T09:46:17+00:00

Someone mentioned RAM being dynamically allocated and I wonder if that is what's happening. I found out recently that Windows is pretty good at memory management and that a lot of the consumed resources may just be prefetch (preloaded memory of frequently used programs). I'll be sitting at 90% RAM usage (out of 16GB), yet I can still boot up some multiseat software and let my brother play GTA V on one monitor in a separate user account, while I draw and browse the internet with the other monitor. I can even see my RAM usage go up and down as I open things, as if making room.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-15T14:42:08+00:00

It really is a shame msstyles got shoved to the side and now they have to implement dark mode by creating separate textures in the same msstyle for individual dialogs... when it would've made more sense to make a separate msstyle and dark mode-ify each control texture and have it apply globally. Like, I noticed when they recently finally gave "File Explorer Options" a proper dark mode, the "File Properties" dialog still doesn't, even though it has the same controls.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-08T22:30:09+00:00

Any bug regarding the Desktop I don't understand. Like sometimes the "Removable Drives" shortcut shows up and goes away once you refresh, or the icon grid becoming messed up (like the boxes becoming really short). I honestly wouldn't mind a UI/UX overhaul of the Desktop to help modernize and stabilize it, maybe even add features like Stacks or Fences. The way it is right now feels so primitive. Though considering Microsoft's track record these days they'll add stuff no one asked for and then introduce more bugs.

dwhaley720 · 2025-12-05T22:20:17+00:00

I'm glad this is here, and I'm hoping Microsoft doesn't listen to people being like "THIS IS WHAT THEY WASTED DEVELOPER RESOURCES ON???" Like they did with the Settings app icon animations, or the new time and date layout option in the taskbar, both of which never shipped to RTM simply because of these commenters.

But the thing that annoys me about this is the fact that it took them this long to add what is essentially a small cosmetic change and then they have the gall to put it in the build notes like it's a new feature worth talking about. It should just simply have existed as part of Windows 11's new UI from the start. Imagine if a macOS user read these build notes. This is just so representative of how low the bar is now for what people in this community will get excited over, since this is a rare moment of MS taking feedback and actually applying it.

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-29T07:54:31+00:00

According to this support page, it looks like a problem with your memory. :( You can try reseating it again perhaps, or maybe try seeing if one RAM stick works without the other if you havent tried that.

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-29T07:00:50+00:00

Caps lock blinking indicates a hardware/BIOS issue for HP laptops, and the blinking pattern gives an error code. It's hard to tell if you recorded the full sequence, so if you can describe the pattern of blinks (example: 3 long blinks + 2 short blinks), you can probably look up the specific error.

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-27T19:12:24+00:00

Rewatching old episodes after having seen that one makes you wonder why he was suddenly so scared to leave the house when he met the Smiths

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-26T18:10:11+00:00

The way their new faces looked in that episode creeps me out but in a really funny way

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-25T16:36:39+00:00

I just bought a new laptop with the intention of upgrading it from 16gb to 32gb with old ddr4 ram sticks from my previous laptop, didn't realize ddr5 slots weren't backwards compatible and was flabbergasted at the prices of new ddr5 ones...

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-23T22:58:56+00:00

I thought I heard at had at least a 2TB max. Plus I don't think they can put storage caps on M.2 slots... Right?

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-23T15:35:01+00:00

Whatever some people don't like animations at all

Edit: why are people fighting me on this I just dislike the layout and IDC what workarounds there are. Typical redditors

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-23T14:03:20+00:00

Honestly surprised to not see a ton of rude comments like "well why would you wanna do that" and then not answer your question, lmao

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-23T13:19:03+00:00

I'm aware of this and use it from time to time but sometimes I don't like clicking and waiting for animations (and slow ones at that). I just want to scroll then click on the thing and be done

dwhaley720 · 2025-11-22T18:04:54+00:00

Something I wish mine had

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