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[Colif]

Snipping tool randomly stopped working.
Looked for fixes, ran the one in settings.. still didn't work.

Classic fix worked, restart PC.
glad that did, app seems to randomly stop working a lot.
Shame they broke paint for screenshots, I knew what I was doing for ages... it didn't randomly go AFK

 

[Colif]

https://www.techspot.com/news/111783-microsoft-rethinking-windows-11-after-months-complaints.html

lol no, Windows 11 is fine, these users are just mentally challenged
Won't run in 8gb, lies... it walks in much less space. Running requires more ram, just buy more, stop whining about prices, It runs perfectly fine in my 32gb of ram...

Most people whine about the TPM and that isn't going anywhere, just buy a new PC... its been a requirement for 6 years now, deal with it. I mean seriously, I have two PC that can run Win 11 and I am hardly rich.

They could get rid of Co Pilot, I won't complain... not that I ever used it

 

[Zed Clampet]

Snipping tool randomly stopped working.
Looked for fixes, ran the one in settings.. still didn't work.

Classic fix worked, restart PC.
glad that did, app seems to randomly stop working a lot.
Shame they broke paint for screenshots, I knew what I was doing for ages... it didn't randomly go AFK

I've never tried the snipping tool because I always already have some other art program open. However, I have tried Clipchamp the last couple of days, and Microsoft did a fantastic job with it. I'm not a pro video editor, so I couldn't tell you what all it's missing, but for just stringing clips together and exporting them as MP4, it is easily good enough.

 

[Colif]

The more ram you have, the more windows will load into ram. 8gb isn't really low for it when the recommended minimum ram amount for win 11 is 4gb... I wouldn't really want to use that little as it would hit page file a lot. That comes in laptops that are already underpowered due to their CPU.

I have never had 8gb, instead I jumped from 3.5gb in win 7 32bit to 16gb in Win 7 64bit, in two different PC. In the 3.5gb Windows 32bit I didn't know a lot about PC and couldn't work out why my hdd was constantly losing space. When I swapped to 16gb I realised I had been running off the page file as my usage jumped to over 8gb

Now usage with 32gb is only about 12gb so really I haven't changed a lot in 10 years. Windows just grows to use the ram you have.

I had about 5gb of ram in the 32bit system but it could only see 3.5gb of it, hence I said that amount above.

I don't remember ever flashing a bios before my last two PC. I may have done the Z97 but prior to that, probably not. It was a dangerous thing to do in past but much easier to fix now. Ignoring current update there as its a beta.

Had a weird one earlier... could have caused it by accidentally hitting random keys with my knee earlier, as a logon screen appeared I didn't want, and closed it... anyway, Windows appeared to need to run an update, as it showed icon in taskbar... so I restarted PC and it seemed to do nothing... until I got to logon screen and it was telling me it had lost my PIN... which was annoying but I had password handy and just set it up again.

No updates showing in Windows Update so must have been my knee

I leave KB on bed next to my legs when not typing and I sometimes hit it accidentally... this was one of those times.

I bet it flies though drivers might be a problem

5060ti on WIn 3.1

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Colif by the way, if you aren't using CoPilot to fix Windows problems, you are doing it wrong. CoPilot is easily the best resource for fixing Windows. I just made a post about it in the General section, but I have a lot of Windows problems because of all the amateur software I use, and CoPilot has fixed them all, and many of these problems are things you can't really find on Google without wasting a ton of time, and you may still not find them, period. CoPilot is batting 100 percent for me. It knows how to fix Windows. Now it will sometimes give you a list of potential fixes, but one or more of these has always worked for me. Usually giving as much info as possible in your question reduces the list of potential fixes. The more vague you are, the bigger the list.