I have noticed a pretty weird issue in Windows 11 (currently 22H2 Build 22621.2500):
When I open Windows File Explorer it will cause some sort of "refresh" in the graphics subsystem. It's easy to reproduce:
Open Computer Management (right click windows button, computer management)
Press Win+E...
I recently got informed by users that they get prompted to use OneDrive backup. The thing is that those users are working on domain-joined machines. According to the documentation the prompt to move known folders to OneDrive should be blocked on domain-joined PCs.
Then I went through the effort...
Snipped all the Linux/Windows discussion as this is off topic and it wasn't my intention to start any comparison or religious discussion. So please don't start such a discussion here.
It's totally fine to keep either system. And yes you need to deal with its quirks as soon as you have chosen one...
There are still a couple of options.
First you might pretty easily upgrade to Windows 10 to get rid of this problem.
Or you might also replace your shell (less practical prbably)...
This reminds me of an old joke when a user complained a program not to be working... "The product packaging said...
As reported a few posts back this issue seems to have been acknowledged by Microsoft. We just don't have a fix yet.
Also I noticed my Explorer windows randomly jumping from the selected folder to desktop. I usually have something like 5-30 explorer windows open and recently also noticed that...
So back to square... what we know
Seems to happen quite randomly, no clear time/date pattern was observed yet, different users reporting different times of day
No event log seems to correlate to the event
Happening on release, not only on insider builds
Guesses/Busted-theories:
Related to...
It just happened again and I can confirm that I do have another successful group policy update event in event log at just the same timeframe.
Next thing I might try is to disable policies which effect explorer - for example I do have policies for drive maps and creation of network location...
Just some update. I did not reboot after the drier removal of before but Just Explorer jumped to the foreground again at 12:37 CET here. The only event logged in Windows event logs is Event ID 1500 about a successful group policy update (with no changes).
I don't see how this is related though...
This might be related but not the only cause.
At least I can confirm that I am running a recent ASUS mainboard too (ASUS PRIME X670-P). I also confirm that it has installed the crappy ARMOURY CRATE tool. This thing is an absolute catastrophic collection of bad code and bad design decisions...