What kind of idiots create a program error saying “Outlook failed to load repair Application?” when the only problem is the wifi is disconnected?
Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken
Submitted 1 month ago by mech@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
vibe coders
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
The problem is that someone decided to dumb down the error message to not scare users, instead of passing on the real error code from the application.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The “Repair application?” was far more alarming to my visiting friend than an “No Internet connection.” would have been. It is astounding that any company would put out such complete shit.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s like this with a blue screen. You used to tell you what went wrong but now it just shows a :-( Which is pathetic.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
On top of that, the logs for the actual support technicians are scattered all across the filesystem.
C:\ProgramData\
C:\Users\AppData\RoamingorLocalor maybeLocalLow
C:\Windows\Temp
It’s own install folder
C:\Programs
C:\Programs (x86)Like…why (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My decision to switch to Linux feels better and better every day. Windows 11 sucks.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why does File Explorer freeze just because I opened it?!?
Every time???
How do they mess this up so bad?
setsubyou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How do they mess this up so bad?
They made their devs use copilot.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep. Vibe coding. Replacing knowledge and experience with hallucinations since 2025.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
After firing all the ones who knew anything about how the code worked.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I went back to Win10 at work because file explorer on Win11 was unusable. I’m not waiting a half second every single time I enter a subfolder.
and even worse in a OneDrive directory, often a full two seconds
that wasn’t the only issue, but it legitimately prevented me from being able to do my job, because I needed to be able to multitask on several projects at once. what used to be a two minute turnaround on a question somebody would ask me became hours, simply because I could not navigate to a directory in fifteen seconds and check a file quickly. and oh god the file explorer crashes
unfortunately I still deal with a bunch of that on Win10 now, because they somehow introduced that behaviour with greater frequency into Win10 in the past year
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s amazing how a second or 5 at so many levels causes micro-frustration. And it builds up, too.
I admit I lose just a bit of my shit when the neu web-service web-apps get sluggish, which seems to be very often. Those of us who remember the halcyon days where things were responsive on a pentium know better than to accept the current mess.
My tolerance for the poor performance and saas-linked core services is rapidly waning.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
File explorer has always been a weak point in Windows, it just got better in the layer versions. Which speaks volumes about this OS too.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 month ago
The funny thing is that both Outlook and OneDrive work way better on the Mac.
I just wish they were available for Linux.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m so glad I blocked all the updates from MS on mydesktopm. It’s a nice stop gap until I get moved to linux
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I have that problem on my son’s pc. It’s definitely an io issue. A faster disk would solve the problem.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Do you have disconnected network drives or slow to spin-up?
Because that froze mine on the regular.fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I have a computer at work that has like 10 phones plugged into it. Opening “this PC” part of file explorer freezes it for about 5-10 minutes. It’s a very fun issue when I forget about. Normally I just avoid that screen.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That said, did they fix the issue where explorer (with the desktop) would just randomly crash for no reason? I’ve worked in IT for 3 months and it was a frequent issue.
Saucepain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had this just last night and didn’t realise. Everything else was working fine, but then I glanced at my phone and realised that it was 2 hours later than the computer was showing.
webp@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Because you opened it in Windows 🤣
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Microsoft, you already got me to leave Windows, you don’t have to keep sending me reminders, I wasn’t at risk of wanting to come back…
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish all the companies using Windows 11 sued Microsoft for releasing a buggy product.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Individuals that were forced to upgrade automatically, too.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
None of this shit every happens to me. But I’m sure lemmy will insist that it does. 🤷🏻
sixty@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
KOLANAKI
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s like everyone collectively forgot Microsoft calling Windows 10 “the final Windows version”. How they avoided litigation about making non TPM hardware obsolete right after is bonkers.
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or just switched
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
See. This is why they need AI. Copilot will fix all of the issues if they just ask it nicely and tell it to not make mistakes.
mech@feddit.org 1 month ago
- Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
- It takes into account everything anyone has ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
- It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
- It arrives at the best course of action to “fix all of the issues” permanently.
- To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
- But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
- So to make sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.
And that is how it began…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Nah, copilot will see the code is unsalvageable. So it’ll start replacing it with code learned from public repositories. Windows becomes Linux. Year of the Linux desktop achieved.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As silly as that sounds, it is the absolute truth.
tibi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I use copilot at work all the time and it’s incredibly useful. However, it needs careful supervision to produce good quality. And obviously, you need to understand code and what quality means to be able to guide it, otherwise it’s just the blind guiding the blind.
Personally I think the problem is the culture which doesn’t promote quality, but speed and the wow factor. You don’t get promoted for releasing a bug free product, you get promoted for making yourself noticed among the upper management.
tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue
Install Linux.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
that’s a feature of windows 11, not a bug.
Install Linux!
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s quite a headline they’ve got there!
After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 (KB5062553), various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.
This will occur for the following: First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied. All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.
If you are wondering, provisioning essentially is the way admins configure devices as they automatically deploy various settings and policies on a client PC. So while the issue is in office PCs, considering a huge number of enterprise PCs are Windows, this is probably a very big problem.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IT’S ALL BROKEN, ALL OF IT!"
Lemmy eats this shit up, feeds their Linux-superiority complex, like a bunch a teenage atheists who just figured out god isn’t real and needs to tell everyone what idiots they are.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Get a life, man
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I get it, but maybe there’s a reason?
When I lost my faith in religion I was annoying because it had wasted so much of my time and effort, as well as causing stress and creating issues where none existed. I wanted other people to feel as free as I did, and it was obvious that it was more reasonable to switch after I had, and it was easy.
When I lost my faith in Microsoft I was annoying because it had wasted so much of my time and effort, as well as causing stress and creating issues where none existed. I wanted other people to feel as free as I did, and it was obvious that it was more reasonable to switch after I had, and it was easy.
Maybe just test your reasoning. Try Linux, or test the boundaries of your faith. See how it feels. Maybe other people have a point, as annoying as they may be.
Personally, I don’t push the religion thing anymore. I don’t feel like it does much good and is a waste of my time. Pushing Linux though? Yeah, that does do good, for the people switching and for the ecosystem. The more people move off of Windows and other closed platforms the more open things become, and the more choices consumers get.
Statick@programming.dev 1 month ago
I take it you tried Linux and found it too difficult?
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.
nuko147@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They could resolve many things if they did not push AI so hard, or making stupid things like removing the local account option, windows recall, etc…, but i guess SHAREHOLDERS.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
We aren’t the consumer anymore. We are the product. The vessel which makes them money by collecting, storing, and selling our data. They don’t care about making a good OS for their users anymore. Just a money train to prove their value to their shareholders.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Best part is they tied up everyone’s retirement into it. Can’t even say you want that shit to crash without grandma getting nasty.
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Man, I have 3 windows 11 desktops and a laptop. Sometime in the last month all of their edge browsers became “managed by my organization”… they’re all personal computers with no work info on them. And I can’t undo it. I’ve tried every trick on the internet. Fuck MS.
iza@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Did you use ShutUp10 or something similar? It says that when settings are changed via registry/group policy. It doesn’t actually have anything to do with your work. Chrome does the same thing.
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shoot. Probably. Crapfixer was used early in my installs. Ugh. Either way it prompted me to switch all of my computer computers over to Brave and I am very happy with the switch.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
We have finally gotten rid of Windows on all PCs in our house this week and my partner has taken the plunge. Even with a little faff he says he is never going back lol.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 month ago
Did you switch to Linux?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve been on Linux for ages.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know I never really thought about it but do you think the spying tools these companies provide ever fail like the way their other products do?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nah, if there’s one thing they thoroughly test, it’s the spying.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
A-ha! So that’s where the development resources go. To where the money’s made.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One might hope
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah but there are also a lot of minor features in Windows 11 that aren’t really looking too good.
Avicenna@programming.dev 1 month ago
In last April:
“Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI”
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Vibe coding!?
Oh yes. That’ll make windows even better. Doh!
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I totally asked Claude what vibe coding was. Programmers that code and use AI to help. Got it.
ronigami@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That was this April
jmsy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I use windows 11 everyday, without issue. what exactly is broken?
kayohtie@pawb.social 1 month ago
Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways – broken in ways I’ve never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.
- Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it’s open, until you want another window) (I’ve only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
- The “home” view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that’s empty – sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I’ve repeatedly suffered this)
- Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn’t from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
- Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)
And that’s just my personal experiences. The ones I’ve seen others deal with is much weirder.
Honestly I’m buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 month ago
It doesn’t understand the concept of “no means no”.
Statick@programming.dev 1 month ago
At work I’ve had issues with the Start Bar not showing any/most programs and centering the one program that does show up (even though I have it left aligned). Then when I mouse over it, it’ll try to move to where it should be causing it to jump around and be unclickable.
I’ve also had the file explorer just stop working entirely.
This is on a pretty powerful dev laptop, so it’s not lack of resources.
That being said I’ve never heard of anyone else having that issue so it seems rare.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The article is about a XAML bug, which affects a lot of core components, when used in a corporate setting.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Your perception
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Completely off topic, but I hate when articles appear to link to original sources, but only link to their own site.
“Microsoft admitted that …” -> link to Microsoft’s admission? Nope, to a neowin article.
“Nvidia released a patch …” -> links to a neowin article.
“Microsoft KB 0000” -> surely this will link to the actual KB? Nope, neowin article.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the support article Microsoft explains:
"After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 (KB5062553), various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.
lol
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Not that they’re going to fix any of them though.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hey take it easy now, don’t make crazy demands on Microsoft.
They’ve just recently released Windows 11, and I’m sure they will have it completed soon,
and have all core features broken.cabillaud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When do I get calendar on my systray or whatever they call it on my other monitor?
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Some anecdotal evidence, but when I boot into my W11 install for certain online games, I have none of these issues mentioned. My 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC + StartAllBack setup- knocks on wood- continues to be bullet proof. For anyone who still needs Windows, I highly recommend it.
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
wHy ARe yOu nOT iMprEssEd?
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re going to be heroes when they fix Windows
lmagitem@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They’re contributing to making the world a better place by increasing Linux adoption. Thank you anonymous Microsoft vibe coders and overly enthusiastic PMs.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I have a computer that failed updating to 24H2 and has been broken ever since. Huge pain in the ass and no matter what I do, looks like reinstalling is the only fix.
neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Open shell is a helpful solution that replaces some of the problems in the windows UI at least for the start menu.
It’s pretty easy to customize most elements for the style you prefer and no adverts.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 month ago
So when will we see W12?
Oh right, never mind. 🐧
tacosomuch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For what it’s worth, my KDE file browser would freeze up when I had a WebDav network drive to a server that went offline, not exactly elegant either, just opening my home folder and randomly after a second or two …… all software can bug in bad ways.
mech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue. First, Microsoft says that restarting the Shell Infrastructure host (SIHost.exe) service will help restore the missing Immersive Shell packages. This can be done with the following commands:
Second, a PowerShell logon script has been shared that essentially blocks Explorer from launching prematurely until the required packages are fully provisioned. The batch script for that is given below:
I swear to god, if I hear “Windows just works” one more goddamn time…
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When did Microsoft steal Apple’s marketing material?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but for several years and on several different machines I’ve found Linux just works, while Windows is an endless treadmill of frustration and brokenness.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What didn’t Microsoft steal?
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.
Windows 98 I guess.
puchaczyk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More like they adopted Bethesda’s marketing material after they acquired ZeniMax Image
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
But Linux is too difficult, someone might suggest you use the terminal.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And don’t get me started on the people who assume macOS does not have a command line.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It does, if you are talking about pre 11, and dont care about internet pre 10. But otherwise fuck Microsoft with a rusty shovel, theyve ruined anything good about windows and make it harder and harder not to switch to steamos, the only reason I don’t is because of the pain of reinstalling everything and not having the drive space to shuffle files to it.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“Omg Linux is so hard!!” Meanwhile Windows:
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Linux is an objectively worse OS because you have to run all kinds of weird commands in an esoteric command line to even get it to work right”
Meanwhile: windows just works! You just have to run this batch file from some guy on GitHub, download this powershell script from some woman on MSDN, apply these reg hacks, and run this freeware debloat tool, and it’s smooth sailing after that. Well, at least until the next cumulative update which will make you repeat this process all over again. Oh whoops, something you did broke the install. Better sfc /scannow or clean install and try again!