Windows Patch Tuesday keeps causing headaches, and Microsoft has now acknowledged another odd issue affecting users.

Microsoft confirms a new Windows bug where Recycle Bin delete prompts display internal file names instead of actual ones.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      3 days ago

      Class Identifier {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} (Recycle Bin) did not appear until Windows 95. I’m pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it’s still receiving updates.

      All seriousness aside, let me inform you that if you install any variation of the Calmira Shell in Windows 3.11, and indeed it does actually come with an equivalent Recycle Bin functionality, though it wasn’t programmed by M$, so you should be safe 👍

      Anyways, M$ seems to have shot themselves in both feet in recent years, so I recommend you throw Windows into the Trash (don’t recycle), and install Linux instead…

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      • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        This is why there needs to be a support Lemmy for switching from Windows 11 to Linux.

        Unless there already is and I’ve been living under a rock lol.

        • h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          That seems like a great idea for a community. My only concern would be about distro-specific things. When you talk about “switching to Linux”, you’re really talking about “switching to the Linux kernel with about 1500 additional packages that form your actual experience”. The flexibility is the best part, but i know it can be daunting for the new user.

          This is also where we get a lot of distribution fights and pedantic arguments - there’s a lot of ways to do things, and folks love to argue for their preferred method. What complicates things further is that the nuances are both important and irrelevant. There’s atomic vs traditional, deb vs rpm (and the seemingly hundreds of package managers), systemv vs systemd, gnome vs KDE, X vs Wayland, and even recently lutris vs heroic vs faugus, and each of those is fine to use but will force you to do things a specific way that could make certain edge cases difficult or impossible to manage.

          Honestly, I’d love to see a comm like this, and I’d love to contribute, but it would be to be pretty heavily moderated to avoid a lot of the pointless arguments that would derail the conversions

          • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            Agreed, it would need a K.I.S.S. rule (Keep It Sweet and Simple), as for which distro, we could try having a single topic for voting the top 5 or 10 distros and a summary why. No need to over complicate it by doing each one. It might not be perfect, but it’ll be a start. ¯\(ツ)/¯

            • Vittelius@feddit.orgEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              There used to be/probably still is a Subreddit called “Linux for Noobs” that could act as inspiration

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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          2 days ago

          I’m assuming you mean support ongoing for people learning to adapt as they go? Because it doesn’t have to be on Lemmy to find ways to migrate over and the differences, what works fine and what takes adjustment.

          It would be an interesting community to start - one with rules that state the purpose is for people moving from Win11 to another OS only and not for any side topics, but anyone with knowledge can answer questions posed. Seems like it only has room to grow in need since Microsoft wants to tank their whole product line.

          • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            I was definitely thinking it would be helping people migrate from Windows 11 to safer OS’ like Linux. Since it’s likely to feel like a daunting process for the less tech savvy feeling stuck in Windows 11.

            Agreed, it’s nuts Microsoft would drive their company off a cliff, but people will need white hats to guide them safely away from the Microsoft tire fire and ad/analytics.

      • Nelots@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I’m pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it’s still receiving updates.

        The article actually goes into further detail on what exact versions its an issue on.

        This issue affects pretty much all supported versions of Windows client and server, including:

        • Client: Windows 11, version 26H1; Windows 11, version 25H2; Windows 11, version 24H2; Windows 11, version 23H2; Windows 10, version 22H2; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016
        • Server: Windows Server 2025; Windows Server 2022; Windows Server 2019; Windows Server 2016; Windows Server 2012 R2; Windows Server 2012
          • Nelots@piefed.zipEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            For now, I’m sure they’re working out how to best break it as we speak.

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Back in the day, I dinked around with the Windows registry, and found one value under the Recycle Bin CLSID key that you can change a couple of flag bits, to enable Rename and even Delete in the right click context menu of the Recycle Bin, and both actually work LOL!

              Once the Recycle Bin is deleted though, it doesn’t just stop working, it just disappears from the Desktop, and can only be restored in another area of the registry under the Desktop NameSpace key by adding the Recycle Bin CLSID back.

              Definitely not safe, so very understandable that Microsoft (before the slop era of course) would disable deletion of the Recycle Bin. I have no idea why they’d also disable the ability to Rename the Recycle Bin though, I’d always enable that flag bit, so I could rename it to Shit Can Hahaha!