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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
 
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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
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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.
 
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
 
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@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.
 
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@Zed Clampet

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That's interesting. I'm guessing that we're just discovering this because the people who created all of these LLMs probably don't have RT cores at all since they don't put them in AI workstations. Unfortunately, I'm an idiot so I could speculate stupidly, as usual, but I'm going to have to research this. I don't want to mess up my 10 percent accuracy rate.
 
Random software complaints.

1) I wanted to uninstall an app. I go to the search bar on the desktop and type "uninstall" and all it gives me are we links, so I type "add or remove program". nothing. I had to go the long way.

2) Ever since Microsoft goofed around with the Start thing, mine has been a mess, so I got rid of everything but pinned programs. Now I have room to put the important stuff there
 
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1) I wanted to uninstall an app. I go to the search bar on the desktop and type "uninstall" and all it gives me are we links, so I type "add or remove program". nothing. I had to go the long way.
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yep, search for Add and 2nd response is a search result online that shows me the steps... what does co pilot offer?

I feel search has been dumbed down in favour of the AI, although it may have always been this dumb. I use it mostly for applications/widgets like the calculator and System Information.

For Add remove I just right click start and choose settings and find it there.

2. Yeah, I only have pinned and recommended on start. Under that is the list of installed apps.
Only times I use start is if I am starting Steam or turning PC off
 
Zed Clampet said:
Random software complaints.

1) I wanted to uninstall an app. I go to the search bar on the desktop and type "uninstall" and all it gives me are we links, so I type "add or remove program". nothing. I had to go the long way.

2) Ever since Microsoft goofed around with the Start thing, mine has been a mess, so I got rid of everything but pinned programs. Now I have room to put the important stuff there
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I've had the same issue sporadically as well. I should really just turn off the web search results at this point, it's supposedly an easy registry edit.
 
Pifanjr said:
I've had the same issue sporadically as well. I should really just turn off the web search results at this point, it's supposedly an easy registry edit.
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I asked CoPilot, and it told me what to do, but said that Windows resets it with every update, so it told me to create a file in notepad named "DisableWebSearch.reg" and then add the following text:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001
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Double click the file and reboot or maybe just log out. It works. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't actually matter what you name it before the ".reg". Strangely enough, you still have to type more than just "add" to pull up "add and remove programs", like "add and re" or something, but at least it works and there are no search results.

edit: God, this is helpful in so many ways. 🙂 I've been playing with it, and it's amazing to get rid of the garbage.
 
its always smart to backup the registry before changing anything. While you can hope co pilot is right, its always nice to have a backup

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows - Microsoft Support

Explains how to back up the registry for restoration in case it gets corrupted in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, or Windows 7.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

I have found I can fix almost every problem on windows without ever going in there. Of all the questions I answered on TH, very few included using it.
 
Watches video, curious what this hidden storage is for
As suspected, its the space windows reserves for itself, to allow windows update to download the updates. So taking this away from windows is only causing problems for yourself, especially if your drive is small and full now. As you won't have the space to get updates.

having used a vm without this extra space, I can tell you its better left there. Makes updates easier.

Also, no one should be using a 128gb nvme to run windows off. Its too small. Smallest should be about 500gb now, just to give self wiggle room.
 
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Another video where the best answer isn't even mentioned


Get a larger ssd, stop running windows on a 250gb ssd. (237gb is a 250gb drive after its formatted)
Its not 2015 any more (that is size of the ssd I had in PC in that year). 500gb should be minimum size and they don't seem that expensive now. Hardest part is getting a real one.

Combo of high prices, people wanting a bargain, and lots of fake drives means unless you trust the store and the brand, you might be in for a hard time.

250gb can work for windows if you only install applications and have a 2nd or more drives for games and everything else. I managed like that for 5 years. But trying to use 250gb as only drive will limit what you can do.

Added reminder I am so glad I bought PC last year and not now. I wouldn't have 10tb of space when two of my current drives cost about 1k each.


Most of video is redundant f you just run Storage Sense. NO need to clean all these things manually.

it did remind me of cleanmgr which I was trying to think of a few days ago. Handy if you don't have a reserve partition.
 
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Colif said:
its always smart to backup the registry before changing anything. While you can hope co pilot is right, its always nice to have a backup
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I didn't need to back it up because it wasn't changing or deleting anything. It just added two entries, and you could see what the contents were. Basically, I knew exactly what it was doing. If it hadn't worked, all I would have to do was delete those two new entries. Now, if I didn't understand what that batch file was going to do, I definitely would have made a backup.

By the way, I finally figured out why CoPilot can't change stuff/fix stuff on your system. After thinking through how LLM's work, my theory became that the safety rails will never be 100 percent effective. I did more research and that turns out to be right, even though a lot of the people selling AI don't understand it. All these companies reporting that AI deleted their database is a good example. If you put an LLM in your system with full access to everything, including deleting files, then eventually it's going to do that.
 
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Colif said:
Yes....

www.kcl.ac.uk

King's study finds AI chose nuclear signalling in 95% of simulated crises | King's College London

Artificial intelligence (AI) models used for a simulated war game escalated conflicts by threatening nuclear strikes in 95% of scenarios, according to new research from King’s College London.
www.kcl.ac.uk
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Yep. I thought about that as I was thinking over the implications. If you put an AI in charge of the nukes, it will eventually fire them. In the US, the President is the only one who can make that decision, but then there is China, who is putting LLMs in robots and teaching them karate... This needs to be a UN rule, that no AI, even if its function is completely different, can have access to missile launches.
 
Last windows update seems to have slowed down my shut down/restart speed. Which just goes to show I don't need to look at it being fast startup, as it effects turning powering PC off. Fast startup wouldn't effect restarts.

its only slow shutting down, start up is normal.

When I say slow its about 30 seconds. It should be as fast as hibernate.

If I choose hibernate it shuts down before I get to put my mouse down. So its the opposite effect of it was caused by fast startup.

I know its off anyway.

All the fixes suggest start up programs, so I checked them all... they all either update themselves or are now latest versions.
Removing old programs... well, I found Gigabyte had snuck Smart backup onto my PC in January, and I uninstalled parts of Bitdefender that were left on PC.
Drivers - I have the latest AFAIK, GCC doesn't list any now, and the rest are AMD drivers or peripherals that update themselves. Updated WIFI and sound drivers, doubt they be cause.

Most fixes relate to slow PC in general... so its empty storage space, get more ram... things I don't have problems with.

Its not file system as DISM/SFC find nothing wrong.
I ran autoruns with admin rights to see what was loading with startup,

I think its just windows... I hadn't changed anything before the update and it was fast before. Windows will probably fix itself. I have had it do that before.

I did see some people find PC won't even shut down at all, after the updates. Mine is just slow.

event viewer isn't showing anything obvious to me in a restart operation

reliability monitor showed a few failed updates, Office had twice so I just ran it manually. Nothing apart from that. I hate looking at it as it can make you think you have problems when you really don't.

Might think about updating the BIOS. Trying to avoid that for a few more months.
 
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Colif said:
Last windows update seems to have slowed down my shut down/restart speed. Which just goes to show I don't need to look at it being fast startup, as it effects turning powering PC off. Fast startup wouldn't effect restarts.
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Fast startup makes hibernate and turning on your computer faster than reboot.

After an update, sometimes Windows secretly does mini-updates when you reboot and doesn't give you the "installing updates" screen. I know this from that laptop I was trying to keep from updating. It was screwed up, and after updates, there would be a period of time when I thought it was hanging up entirely during reboot. So I researched it, and after an update, Windows does things on reboot like cleaning the component store, deleting old update files, reconfiguring drivers, etc. Some of these things take awhile, and I assume that they think that weekly updates would take too long if they did all of this during the update.
 
Zed Clampet said:
Fast startup makes hibernate and turning on your computer faster than reboot.
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You don't need fast start-up (the windows version, not bios) if you have an nvme or ssd. They are so fast it is about same speed to start from powered off to windows desktop. On my PC anyway.

I don't think it has any direct effect on hibernate speed. They do both use hiberfil.sys to store the files it uses. They are different functions.
Fast Start-up only saves the kernel and drivers, discarding user apps to start fresh, while Hibernate saves all open apps and files, resuming exactly where you left off.
so depending what you had open before you hibernate, it can take a little longer, whereas fast start-up is just like a normal start-up.

I normally only have the same programs that I have set to auto load with windows now, that I doubt I notice a difference at start-up between fresh and hibernate.

Its shut-down where hibernate skips all those things you mention where I am seeing the change.

I remember, if you only used Fast Start-up, you could run a command to shrink hiberfil.sys to save space. Not really important to this discussion.

MS uses the Store to update applications as well, they happen in back ground. Uses same service to update games.

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Windows does things on reboot like cleaning the component store, deleting old update files, reconfiguring drivers, etc. Some of these things take awhile
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It shouldn't run them every time you turn pc off, only maybe once a week or so. Its more likely to do all that during the restart after an update.

Seems MS just added another bug when they fixed the last lot. The patch last month fixed a stack of bugs. Whack a mole is a MS bug hunters job.
 
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Colif said:
You don't need fast start-up (the windows version, not bios) if you have an nvme or ssd. They are so fast it is about same speed to start from powered off to windows desktop. On my PC anyway.

I don't think it has any direct effect on hibernate speed. They do both use hiberfil.sys to store the files it uses. They are different functions.
Fast Start-up only saves the kernel and drivers, discarding user apps to start fresh, while Hibernate saves all open apps and files, resuming exactly where you left off.
so depending what you had open before you hibernate, it can take a little longer, whereas fast start-up is just like a normal start-up.

I normally only have the same programs that I have set to auto load with windows now, that I doubt I notice a difference at start-up between fresh and hibernate.

Its shut-down where hibernate skips all those things you mention where I am seeing the change.

I remember, if you only used Fast Start-up, you could run a command to shrink hiberfil.sys to save space. Not really important to this discussion.

MS uses the Store to update applications as well, they happen in back ground. Uses same service to update games.



It shouldn't run them every time you turn pc off, only maybe once a week or so. Its more likely to do all that during the restart after an update.

Seems MS just added another bug when they fixed the last lot. The patch last month fixed a stack of bugs. Whack a mole is a MS bug hunters job.
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Everything I said came directly from Microsoft (every time I tried to run a diagnostic or basically any type of repair, it shot me to the Windows knowledge center or whatever they call it), confirmed by CoPilot, and tested by me as best I could. I couldn't figure out a way to actually see what it was doing during the hang before shutting down except for one thing: If I hard shut it down, when I started it back up, it told me it was doing a Windows update. Obviously, that's not a good thing to do, but after I sat there for 20 minutes, I thought it was not doing anything.

And I never said Fast Startup did anything to hibernate. It makes hibernate faster than reboot by making reboot slower. And, yes, it does run these things every day (not the same things every day), usually only for about a week and only when their update requires it. Not the same things every day, of course. It only fixes the component store once, for instance, and the next day it does another thing. Sometimes they are fast, other times they are slow. They were always slow on my laptop for two reasons. One is that it tries to do these things even if you aren't online, and it takes a long time for it to give up. And two is simply because my Windows was badly corrupted.
 
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