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I’ll wait til I can manually install a safe update of 24H2
I understand. It’s just too bad we can’t rely on Microsoft to deliver reliable, safe updates.
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I’ll let other people do the beta testing for me.
You mean like the AskWoody crew? Right, right – that’s our job.
Actually, I feel like a beta tester every week. Something seems to crop up regularly, 24H2 or not.
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As with many things in FE right now there is a performance lag
Well, I’ve written Windows apps, too, and I’ve never seen that kind of tool tip lag. In Edge, the lag when hovering over the bookmarks bar is about 0.4 to 0.5 seconds, which is what I typically expect.
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Pause Updates
That’s a good point, but it is only a pause. I don’t know of any way to completely stop it once it starts, which means that the next time you want security updates you’ll also go down the 24H2 path.
the things to be careful about with drivers tend to be video, sound, and networking
Sound is the most common culprit based on reports from friends and family, but in almost every case it was Windows changing the default input and output sources. That may have been a side effect of a new driver being installed. I was always able to make the correction manually and never lost audio completely.
I don’t think I’ve had a network problem since Windows XP.
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There are tool tips for those icons
That’s right. But it’s a delay – it takes from 0.8 to 1.0 seconds for the tip to appear in File Explorer. I put tool tips on all the icon bars in the websites I develop, but I consider them backups. I try to choose the most intuitive icon available so the user can select with confidence.
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I didn’t exist for another 9 years!
It’s always delightful to know that we have younger readers!
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As to the spinning circles, might that have something to do with indexing?
I don’t think so, but I don’t index either, so I can’t tell.
Indexing was a good thing 20 years ago. Today, PCs are so fast that non-indexed searching happens very quickly. I searched my entire documents folder looking for a word inside a document. It failed, but it took less than a minute.
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but it also implies that the message wasn’t written with assistance from Copilot.
Exactly.
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Updated Update: I should be more careful, but I jumped the gun. The format of my 64GB USB thumb drive did not complete. I was lulled into thinking it would, and I dashed off the previous note while the format was in progress, without waiting for the final outcome. My excuse is that during the previous test that I mentioned in the article, I received the failure message immediately. This time, the format seemed to be making progress, so I posted the update above.
So, Windows 11 24H2 (6100.3624) will not format a FAT32 drive for capacities above 32GB.
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Update: In my article, I said that Windows would not format a drive (in my case, a USB thumb drive) with FAT32 for anything larger than a 32GB partition. I also mentioned that the visual UI in File Explorer did not offer FAT32 as an option for larger drives. When using the format command at the command prompt, attempts to format beyond 32GB failed.
Yesterday, I finally upgraded my PC to Window 11 24H2 (26100.3624).
Now, the format command will format FAT32 beyond 32GB. The visual UI still does not offer the option.
Seems like a long time coming, but I suppose I must put this in the progress category.
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Nothing to my knowledge is called a “Blog” in this website.
By definition, the home page of this site, AskWoody.com, is a blog.
The notable difference between a traditional blog and AskWoody’s is that comments are detached from the original post and put into an independent forum system. The most common form of a blog is that stub posts are on the blog’s home page, with a link to the full post. Then comments are at the bottom of the full post.
We detach comments because our forums are completely open, to anyone, while many of the blog posts represent stubs for articles in the newsletter. The Plus newsletter contains articles that are behind the paywall. That’s unusual for paywalled blogs, which often put both the articles and their associated comments behind the paywall.
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moving the contents of default folders
Exactly. My point is that I do not move those folders, for reasons I make in the article. I just keep all my content elsewhere to keep it out Microsoft’s or OneDrive’s clutches.
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’ve attached a screencap of my Download folder’s properties showing it located on the D:\ drive.
I should have been clearer about my Download (singular) folder. I do not change Windows’ default setting for Downloads, but I don’t leave anything significant in it. I move everything manually to Download, which today is housed on my mirrored D: drive. I’ve had that folder for over 30 years, moved from PC to PC over all that time. It’s got a lot of stuff in it, much more than I would be willing to commit to the default location.
Also, many downloads are temporary. In such cases, I use the downloaded file as needed and then dispose of it.
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