^{(I have used Start since November 2012. It changed my Windows 8 GUI to look like Windows 7. A huge throng of people here on Avsim bought and used Start8, which is where I heard about it. No more silly swipes or widgets). Start8 cost $5. Start10 cost $5 (It made Windows 10 look like Win7 or Win8). Start11 now costs $10. It makes Win11 look and feel like Win10 or Win8 or Win7. I make Win11 look, feel, and work like Win7. As the screen about 15 seconds into this video shows: its the wonderful Win 7 Start screen being used on Windows 11.}

Here is Start's competitor Nighthawk. It looks a lot like Start:

Whenever I took a screenshot it went right to the Pictures folder in Windows 10 but now I'm on Windows 11. I looked and looked but can't find a setting in 2024 for taking a screenshot.

I did a google search and there were a bunch of ways to do it, one with the NVIDA panel but that's kludgy as it was so simple just last week. 

Is there a simple way like in Windows 10? It just worked last week in 2024 on the other PC.

Much appreciated.

EDIT: My Logi keyboard doesn't have a Windows key 😞 

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/some-pcs-cant-boot-after-latest-windows-11-security-update-no-fix-in-sight-mostly-affects-24h2-and-25h2-versions

Make a shortcut to the "thing" you want in the list.

Right click on the shortcut and select COPY

Open the windows run box (Windowskey + R  is one way to do this)

In the windows run box type this: shell:common programs

(That opened the proper File Explorer folder for the All Programs list)

Paste the shortcut there.

Done.

All has been fine up to just before Christmas when I noticed that I was getting update failed messages. Before that updates were taking place regularly.

I checked and found that the update was reporting that it could not proceed as TPM and secure boot were not present.

Dear old Google showed a registry hack that I was assured would fix it.

It hasn't.

There doesn't seem to be any practical downside to this at present but is there a permanent fix (apart from buying a new PC, which is out of the question)? And why now is it starting to complain?

Any suggestions welcome.

Of course this is a hardware issue, but an agent of HP chose to do a fresh install of W11. So far it has taken HP 7 days to come up with a solution, but as the PC is still under warrenty, Nvidia has said it's the responsibilty of HP, etc.

It's bizarre as the drive is physically there in the computer, but it's not showing on Disk Management!

I'm running the paid professional version of Fortect.

Any ideas how to retrieve this drive would be very helpful.

Thank You

Martin

Users running R580 branch drivers (58x.xx) or newer may observe lower performance in some games after updating to Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 [5561605]

Adobe Premiere Pro: Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding [5431822]
Vulkan apps crash when launched on Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs [5509161]
F1 25: Performance optimizations when using DLSS Frame Generation [5422722]
Battlefield 6: Gaming stability issues [5582125]
Counter-Strike 2: Text may appear slightly distorted when in-game resolution is lower than the native resolution of the display [5278913]
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Light flickering after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Corruption after driver update on some system configurations [5432356]
Black Myth: Wukong: Lower performance in driver branches newer than R570 [5562283]
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne: Some particle effects may be missing on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5546598]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Gameplay becomes dim over time [5488108]
Madden 26: Stability issues [5535693]
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Random corruption on main character's sword corruption [5363151]

Fixed General Bugs
Sophos Home Antivirus: System stability issues [5581371]
Green line observed while viewing videos in Chromium browser on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs [5535388]
 

I've googled this to death and can't seem to find a way of swapping the channels in Windows11 at all - Anyone got any suggestons other than cutting and swapping the wires on my headset, which I really don't want to do or of couse I could get a USB extension cable.

I did find a suggestion about using Realtek to do it, but it didn't work and Realtek seems to have caused me nothing but problems, so any other solutions would be great - surely it can't be that difficult to do within Windows, though it seems to be from what I read.

The cure is to download KB5070773 if it is not already shown as installed in Windows Settings.

(The last messages of this thread):

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/windows-11-25h2-24h2-and-msfs-observations-insights-issues-and-tips/657704/234

I installed 24H2 a few days ago. First impressions, cool, no big upsets. Then I hit a snag.

It seems that 24H2 has managed to destroy the computer's connectivity over wifi. What do I mean?
I have various movie/music etc files on the computer. I could access them through a variety of apps such as VLC, Foobar2000 and the like and enjoy the view on the home theatre tv set.

Since 24H2 I simply cannot access anything neither from my mobile nor from the tv. I keep getting asked to input a domain name and password.
After numerous days of trying different solution suggested on various websites I finally decided to restore the computer to 23H2.
It is now all back to normal.

This is, obviously, not a solution as support for 23H2 ends in November and I would prefer be up to date with security issues rather than risk anything especially now that we are constantly connected.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers.

Warning if you use apps found online such as discord to alter taskbar and other features it may be hard to remember how you have changed the windows registry. And then when you run the MS windows compatibility app it will say all is well, but despite that, 24H2 won't install. Windows 24H2  is now picky about 3rd party apps. It requires a reinstall of windows to proceed, which saves data, but does NOT save your programs. What a mess!

The only safe way to change the new GUI of 24H2 is Stardock Start11 ($10). It's 20 years old (it keeps changing the name). Very safe and lets you do almost a hundred options to change Windows to an easier and simpler GUI. Taskbar, Start window, Seach window, much other stuff.: It lets you choose between windows 7,8,10,11 looking interfaces, taskbar, etc. Mine is set up to look and operate like Windows 7, not Windows 11. It's windows 11 in functions, but with a Windows 7 GUI look and feel.

https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/

This process has worked perfectly well for many years until Saturday.

I did some searching and found KB5065426 is responsible. I uninstalled it but of course Windows wants to install it. More research and I discovered a utility provided by Microsoft that will block selected updates from being installed - wushowhide.diagcab.

Except they've withdrawn it for reasons unknown with no alternative yet available. Fortunately other sites have it and I was able to download it. Having uninstalled the update I then ran this utility and it displayed the problem KB.

I've now blocked it from updating. This is very useful for any updates that interfere with your systems.

To force windows to fix before a windows bootup, you run two command prompts (run as administrator). And then do a "restart" in the normal way or run a restart command from the command prompt (all / should be proceeded by a space in any command prompt). It's at time 7:20 where he shows running the commands.