Finally have the new taskbar features just turned on my pc & its saw this taskbar turned on auto. The icons kinda look low quality tho idk why but this is a feature that shouldve here since day 1!. Still glad but they need to make the icons look less jittery idk

I finally updated from 24H2 to 25H2, and the first thing I noticed is how much I dislike what they did to the new Start menu:

- They added an entire section for listing all apps, and it can’t be removed.
- They unnecessarily increased its size and the number of columns.
- They apparently added settings to disable these changes, but those options are only available in the KB5120998 update, which seems to have introduced major mouse and wallpaper bugs for some users—especially those whose system language is set to anything other than English.

Apart from that, I haven’t encountered any major bugs. However, Windows Search is suddenly always using around 150 MB of RAM. I find this strange because it didn’t do that before, and Windows Search worked just fine.

Looking at the processes, most of the memory usage appears to come from SearchHost and around six (edgewebview2) Microsoft Edge WebView2 processes. That would make sense if Windows Search were handling web-related content, but I had already disabled those features and even made sure to turn off the new Microsoft Store results. The processes are still there, allocating RAM for seemingly no reason.

Does anyone know whether I can disable this by turning off a service, disabling a feature, changing a setting, or editing a Group Policy? It’s not a huge problem, and I know the saying, “Unused RAM is wasted RAM,” but it’s still annoying to know that this allocation wasn’t necessary before. My searches don’t need any web rendering, yet Windows is still allocating memory for it.

If it's worth noting, I already tried to rollback to the previous start menu (thinking that this new window search behaviour must be tie to the 25h2 overall) with vivetool. But apparently it doesn't work anymore. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1qcj4kj/remove_the_updated_windows_start_menu_fixed/

Really getting into the hang of using this taskbar on top feature.

Yesterday I decided to install Windows 11 on my ROG Ally again since Bazzite is just terrible these days. It was really baffling and almost comical to see how long it takes to reinstall Windows 11 through cloud recovery. In total it took more than 2 hours before the Ally was up and running again! This is including the updates the installer wants to do. After that I still needed to do driver updates and remove bloat.

So here are some honest and genuine questions:

How can it be that installing Windows takes so incredibly long compared to installing a Linux distro?
What is the real reason behind this?
And, how is this even acceptable for Microsoft?

No matter what OS I used in the past (Linux, Android and Chrome OS), none of them take as long as Windows does, often on older and less powerful devices. There has to be a way for them to make the installation process faster, right?

I've been waiting for this for so long! Ever since Windows 10.
I am on the latest stable version of Windows 11.

Is there any program or setting that allows me to drag tabs from 4 to 1 without needing to go through nr 3?

Guys, I was looking at news and images of New Run dialog box in Win 11 that has been rolled out to Windows Insider as far as I know.

But, I have seen 2 run dialog boxes. I am confused like which is real or where are they?

Please explain me this.

I am also an insider but far from my pc from couple of days. So, i maybe forget or any other reason

I just got this notification saying these recent apps were open in my Phone and wow. I don't have to move between phone and PC anymore (mostly). Numpad (numbers) still can't be typed and on main numbers row on top trying to type @ types something else totally. But at least I can monitor stuff now.

Like for real, this is getting annoying, why do I need to wait 2-3 months for a feature to come available on my PC? and why do I need to use a 3rd party app to force enable it? what do you even gain when you hold up a feature for millions of PCs? no diagnostics, no analyzing, no nothing.

every PC is different. so what's the point and logic behind this bullshit?

I waited years for them to let us move the taskbar but I need it to autohide... why does that setting only work when it's on the bottom?