windows 11 getting on my nerves

[hardcore_gamer29]

Alright got it upgraded yesterday from windows 10. I did clean install through usb stick. Now first issue is whatsapp and whatsapp business apps have no popup and no sound notification. I connected through ms support she did tweak some setting in sound, then it got ok but again its same issue now. And ubisoft gaming app stops responding while downloading games. Now task bar stops responding sometimes and closes and comes back after that. What should i do? Windows is fully updated now 25h2. I have good pc with i9 10900k 32 gb ram and rtx 4070 GPU

 

[DaaQ]

Alright got it upgraded yesterday from windows 10. I did clean install through usb stick. Now first issue is whatsapp and whatsapp business apps have no popup and no sound notification. I connected through ms support she did tweak some setting in sound, then it got ok but again its same issue now. And ubisoft gaming app stops responding while downloading games. Now task bar stops responding sometimes and closes and comes back after that. What should i do? Windows is fully updated now 25h2. I have good pc with i9 10900k 32 gb ram and rtx 4070 GPU

Did you use MS creation tool or another software to make the bootable .iso?

You may need to remake the .iso Be careful on Rufus website, alot of clickbait ads on there.
I found another iso make called balenaEtcher not alot of options but it is quick and easy to use.

USB drive could have had an error during install, or the iso image could have had an issue.
was your windows10 64 or 32 bit. home or pro?

I would and had to myself reinstall twice, second time I went into diskpart through command line and did a clean all on the disks instead of the quick format that is in the setup installer.

 

[bba-tcg]

Alright got it upgraded yesterday from windows 10. I did clean install through usb stick. Now first issue is whatsapp and whatsapp business apps have no popup and no sound notification. I connected through ms support she did tweak some setting in sound, then it got ok but again its same issue now. And ubisoft gaming app stops responding while downloading games. Now task bar stops responding sometimes and closes and comes back after that. What should i do? Windows is fully updated now 25h2. I have good pc with i9 10900k 32 gb ram and rtx 4070 GPU

It sounds like you have "Do Not Disturb" activated in notifications.

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

what a pathetic shit this windwos 11 is. I did clean install again in palce upgrade. Now again whatsapp no notification, also whats app hangs. i mean wow. I should go back to 10 asap

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

It sounds like you have "Do Not Disturb" activated in notifications.

dont bother about these shit settings all settings already right.

 

[Indus]

what a pathetic shit this windwos 11 is. I did clean install again in palce upgrade. Now again whatsapp no notification, also whats app hangs. i mean wow. I should go back to 10 asap

That's what I did..

I left the win 10 alone and got a new NVME and put linux on.

After 3 months I'm quite comfortable with linux as my daily driver but I'm not yet comfortable with GIMP (subsitute to Photoshop).

My main stuff.. google docs.. steam gaming.. network share all work good!

I'm hoping eventually I'll get photoshop working via wine or something but I haven't really tried to do that... maybe I should look into that but right now when I just need photoshop.. I boot into win 10!

Oh and on linux.. the app for whatsapp is called Whatsie. Works fine!

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

peice of shi## now i do trading as well guess what now tradingview app hanged 2 times. ghosh!

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

I have i9 10900k 32 gm ram and rtx 4070. Still when game starts loading whole UI of windows 11 starts lagging.

 

[Zepp]

I have i9 10900k 32 gm ram and rtx 4070. Still when game starts loading whole UI of windows 11 starts lagging.

the ui lag is one of the biggest nopes for me with it. It's infuriating to sit waiting more than a second for a simple right click context menu to appear.
also the un-resizable giant task bar

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

the ui lag is one of the biggest nopes for me with it. It's infuriating to sit waiting more than a second for a simple right click context menu to appear.
also the un-resizable giant task bar

Without testing how microsoft can release it?

 

[Indus]

Umm dude.. just go back to windows 10 or try debian/ linux mint.

There's no reason the OS itself should be the problem.. that makes it unusable.

10900k should not be behaving like a celeron 300A with win 11.. unless it's designed to do just that to make you upgrade (which is probably the case).

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

i talked to support help 3rd time she said many people have these issues. Microsoft will roll out updates soon lets see

 

[hardcore_gamer29]

now edge browser i am getting signed out automatically. sync is on

 

[Indus]

 

[WilliamM2]

I remember the same complaints when XP came out, when Win 7 came out, and when Win 10 came out.
A few tweaks, and I can't tell windows 11 from 10 or 7 now. Works just fine.
I'm also trying Mint on a spare PC. Windows ran much faster on that PC than Mint does. And is much easier to use. I can't even get YouTube videos to play smoothly on Mint.

 

[Zepp]

I remember the same complaints when XP came out, when Win 7 came out, and when Win 10 came out.
A few tweaks, and I can't tell windows 11 from 10 or 7 now. Works just fine.

I mean I was there when each came out and I don't recall the complaints being nearly as substantial for the previous windows'. XP complaints were mostly about stability, but coming after ME it was far superior. 7 was a breath of fresh air for everyone after Vista, which I will admit I never used. 8 was pretty awful but I ended up liking 8.1.

10 was the first time since ME that I felt like it often became unusable. I would have serious UI lag or freezing, it always felt like something heavy was secretly processing in the background at the expense of my usability and performance.
after that I didnt use it for the next 3 years, until it eventually smoothed out and became solid overall.

11 is back to what 10 was at release with the added insult to fewer UI setting options, more obtrusive ads and copilot integration and you have to jump through hoops to create a local account. I am forced to use 11 at work and I have windhawk installed to shrink the taskbar, but it's far from a perfect fix.

I'm also trying Mint on a spare PC. Windows ran much faster on that PC than Mint does. And is much easier to use. I can't even get YouTube videos to play smoothly on Mint.

that's strange for windows to run noticeably faster. Mint is not always the best linux distro for given hardware. If you are using a relatively recent Nvidia you may need the proprietary driver. could also be a cause for youtube playback. But generally these issues are quick to troubleshoot with the large active and helpful mint community. My switch from windows at the beginning of this year was pretty flawless and I've been really enjoying using my PC.

but if you are happy with windows then Godspeed, just dont want you to completely disregard linux as a capable desktop option because of a few issues that might have an easy fix.

 

[Indus]

I mean I was there when each came out and I don't recall the complaints being nearly as substantial for the previous windows'. XP complaints were mostly about stability, but coming after ME it was far superior. 7 was a breath of fresh air for everyone after Vista, which I will admit I never used. 8 was pretty awful but I ended up liking 8.1.

10 was the first time since ME that I felt like it often became unusable. I would have serious UI lag or freezing, it always felt like something heavy was secretly processing in the background at the expense of my usability and performance.
after that I didnt use it for the next 3 years, until it eventually smoothed out and became solid overall.

11 is back to what 10 was at release with the added insult to fewer UI setting options, more obtrusive ads and copilot integration and you have to jump through hoops to create a local account. I am forced to use 11 at work and I have windhawk installed to shrink the taskbar, but it's far from a perfect fix.


that's strange for windows to run noticeably faster. Mint is not always the best linux distro for given hardware. If you are using a relatively recent Nvidia you may need the proprietary driver. could also be a cause for youtube playback. But generally these issues are quick to troubleshoot with the large active and helpful mint community. My switch from windows at the beginning of this year was pretty flawless and I've been really enjoying using my PC.

but if you are happy with windows then Godspeed, just dont want you to completely disregard linux as a capable desktop option because of a few issues that might have an easy fix.

I liked Vista. I never understood the hate.

Basically it was hate of the UAC.. which people just hated for some reason.. but MS toned it down a bit in Windows 7. It would always prompt in Vista.

7 believe it for not was a Vista clone except for UAC default being lower and it not prompting you. Like they literally just used the same exact operating system and put a 7 on the box!

 

[Shmee]

Vista was the first proper 64bit Windows. It had higher system requirements than XP, but if you had good, recent hardware and lots of RAM, it made more sense. XP really only worked well with up to 3GB or so of system memory, as I recall that your video memory on the graphics card counted towards the 4GB limit. You could use XP Pro 64 bit, but I remember hearing that had all kinds of issues its own.

 

[Indus]

Vista was the first proper 64bit Windows. It had higher system requirements than XP, but if you had good, recent hardware and lots of RAM, it made more sense. XP really only worked well with up to 3GB or so of system memory, as I recall that your video memory on the graphics card counted towards the 4GB limit. You could use XP Pro 64 bit, but I remember hearing that had all kinds of issues its own.

Funny how I jumped on it after I got AMD 64 E2800 IIRC.

20 years later we're finally ditching 32 bit cpus and operating systems!

 

[lxskllr]

Vista is my favorite windows. It wasn't the most performant, though it gave me no problems, but it was gorgeous. Aero glass with curves is sexy. I also liked the sidebar with widgets. I do much of the same on linux with conky. Nothing as visually stimulating as vista was, but informative stuff. I like having a sidebar.

 

[mikeymikec]

I remember the same complaints when XP came out, when Win 7 came out, and when Win 10 came out.

Win11 has been out for over 3 years. It should be a mature product which is at least as good as or better than its predecessors.

Instead, hardly a week goes by without me having to sidestep bugs and performance issues in Win11 on a multitude of PCs. The fastest response time I've seen on a Win11 box was actually an "unsupported PC" with a Pentium G4650 running 23H2 but with classic Explorer context menus, it was probably the first time I thought, "that's how it's meant to perform".

I'm also finding it weird how Microsoft spent years addressing having to reboot in scenarios where users of other operating systems were wondering why a reboot is necessary to sometimes requiring two reboots for a monthly update. Or this "update and shut down" business actually meaning "I'm going to reboot back into Windows regardless and then shut down".