24H2 Good things, weird things...

Well, I have lived with 24H2 for a while now and I have noticed a few things about it that I like, and a few things that are still a little weird/bad.

The good:

1. Overall, my system is a little faster. Confirmed with benchmarks.
2. My icons have stopped randomly moving around
3. The Win8 gadget pack works better. The gadgets have stopped moving around.
4. My system is stable, and I think it is more stable than 23H2. I have not had a blue screen since upgrading.

The weird:

1. The Explorer menu bug (opening upward all the time)
2. Older joystick drivers are giving my system the fits at times. (May just be an incompatible driver but that is the only one that Logitech has)
3. Networking issues, particularly file sharing between computers. Unnecessarily difficult to set up.
4. Periodic freezing of mouse and keyboard - necessitates a hard reboot. (Could be a failing motherboard USB port or driver issue - don't know yet)
5. Occasional reboot of system when at idle or sleeping. (Could be hardware, but started at the same time I upgraded.)

This is just based on my own experience. Overall, I am pretty happy with the new upgrade and I have every confidence that MS will eventually fix the bugs. Right now I don't seem to be suffering too much because of them.

If you have a thing you like, or a thing you think is weird, please post your thoughts. I am anxious to see what other people think.

Love your avatar.
I use StartAllBack - might help your explorer probs.
Make sure you have all the latest drivers for your NIC from your mobo mfgr - that goes for chipset, BIOS, etc stuff from your mobo mfr.
The Z790 should not be problematic! Love 'em
Need latest BIOS for 13th gen cpu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to say it but may need to get a different joystick. I love Logitech but may be too old in this case.
Mouse/kbd, wireless or wired. Use different cable, use different adapter, plug to different port. I use Logitech but have had problems w adapters though that was mostly on my old P15 laptop.
24H2, NOW, I actually like. I removed Edge and Copilot and added startallback but that is about it.
Should not spontaneously reboot unless maybe you have a wayward defrag program that is set to do that. builtin/default won't.

I hated the transition from my old Toshiba P870 with Win 7 to W11.
The fluff and bloat!!!!
But after 2 months of tweaking with more to come I can turn it into a tolerable system.
I had problems with intermittent black screens and lockups but it's been 2 weeks now and no issues so I think my diagnosis was correct.
The one and only problem I have left is that stupid missing Power-off button on the login screen, which is in the WAY-too-hard basket for everyone.

Morph000 said:

that stupid missing Power-off button on the login screen, which is in the WAY-too-hard basket for everyone.

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What he said.

Morph000 said:

I hated the transition from my old Toshiba P870 with Win 7 to W11.
The fluff and bloat!!!!
But after 2 months of tweaking with more to come I can turn it into a tolerable system.
I had problems with intermittent black screens and lockups but it's been 2 weeks now and no issues so I think my diagnosis was correct.
The one and only problem I have left is that stupid missing Power-off button on the login screen, which is in the WAY-too-hard basket for everyone.

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krism said:

Love your avatar.
I use StartAllBack - might help your explorer probs.
Make sure you have all the latest drivers for your NIC from your mobo mfgr - that goes for chipset, BIOS, etc stuff from your mobo mfr.
The Z790 should not be problematic! Love 'em
Need latest BIOS for 13th gen cpu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to say it but may need to get a different joystick. I love Logitech but may be too old in this case.
Mouse/kbd, wireless or wired. Use different cable, use different adapter, plug to different port. I use Logitech but have had problems w adapters though that was mostly on my old P15 laptop.
24H2, NOW, I actually like. I removed Edge and Copilot and added startallback but that is about it.
Should not spontaneously reboot unless maybe you have a wayward defrag program that is set to do that. builtin/default won't.

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I love the Z790. It's a wonderful board, and yes, I have the BIOS updates in place.

I love my joystick as well, but I may have to get something a little better, since it doesn't look like Logitech has any interest in updating the drivers for the one I have. Shame that is it still sold, but is not Win 11 compatible. I had to take out the drivers to upgrade to 24H2.

The mouse/keyboard thing turned out to be my Nvidia drivers. I had the latest, but had to revert to an older version due to stuttering and screen freezing. All is good now.

Still haven't figured out the reboot problem. I haven't been able to capture a BSOD as of yet. I'll keep trying...

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The mouse/keyboard thing turned out to be my Nvidia drivers.

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Don't understand that at all but that's what makes computers fun - glad you sussed it!
Logitech makes good stuff but like all businesses who wish to survive they try to get you to buy new stuff...

"Still haven't figured out the reboot problem. I haven't been able to capture a BSOD as of yet. I'll keep trying..."
video camera on screen 24/7???

krism said:

Need latest BIOS for 13th gen cpu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yep, updating the BIOS, is like the rabies shot for Raptor Lake!

Funny, I only experienced a temporary freeze issue on one Windows 11 PC, and I uninstalled CPU z ( www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html ), and the freezing problem was eliminated / solved / gone. I noticed it hung at loading the app once it reached 80% loaded so, maybe their next version will be better.
Or just use HWINFO64

I use cpuz 2.12.0 all the time, no prob, prob just uninstall/re-install.

CPU-Z has never given me a lick of trouble. I use it all the time.

It has never given me a problem before either, it was only on the one PC. Could have been a coincidence. It was Windows 23H2, and after I uninstalled CPU z, I updated without issue to 24H2 and updates. So I'll re-install next week and I'm guessing the issue will not happen again. 24H2 runs much snappier.

Yes, I agree 24H2 is snappier. I seem to recall that when I went to 24H2 I did have to re-install a few of those tools. I rely on them.

I've been getting black screens forcing a hard power-off every few weeks.
Waited and waited for LG to release the new Intel drivers suspecting they may be the cause, but nope, they're slow.
Stuff 'em! I installed the latest Intel graphics and wifi drivers today and so far they haven't rolled back.
Fingers crossed.

Morph000 said:

I've been getting black screens forcing a hard power-off every few weeks.
Waited and waited for LG to release the new Intel drivers suspecting they may be the cause, but nope, they're slow.
Stuff 'em! I installed the latest Intel graphics and wifi drivers today and so far they haven't rolled back.
Fingers crossed.

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check for latest BIOS (for Intel microcode 29b or whatever.)

Morph000 said:

The one and only problem I have left is that stupid missing Power-off button on the login

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I have a power icon on far bottom right of login screen.