Windows 10/11 Download

[b4pjoe]

If you're having problems, executing a restart is usually better than a shutdown. Shutting down doesn't purge cobwebs as well as restarting (it's often not much more useful than logging out and back in again). Shutting Windows down keeps some data around so it can boot faster (sometimes faster than hibernation).

In this day and age of computers never really powering off, it is perhaps bad form to refer to "power" unless a power chop has taken place. There's shutting down and waking up, and there's restarting. The whole time, there are things active in the computer.

Chopping power is perhaps more like a restart than a shutdown, as Windows recognizes that a proper shutdown wasn't executed, thus it shouldn't quickboot.

Restarting didn't help. Power off and then power on did help.

 

[harshness]

Power off and then power on did help.

The question unanswered in your terminology is whether the "power off" and "power on" were a shutdown and startup software cycle or a physical power cycling of the computer by turning off the power supply or unplugging the power cord.

If a shutdown and startup is more effective than a restart, that's notable.

 

[b4pjoe]

The question unanswered in your terminology is whether the "power off" and "power on" were a shutdown and startup software cycle or a physical power cycling of the computer by turning off the power supply or unplugging the power cord.

If a shutdown and startup is more effective than a restart, that's notable.

Start menu ===> Shutdown. Wait a few minutes and then press the power on button. And yes a power off is always more effective than a warm restart.

 

[b4pjoe]

I run Plex (with a $40 lifetime PlexPass subscription)

Speaking of lifetime PlexPass subscription the price of that now is $249.99 and starting July 1, 2026 is going up to $749.99. A $500 price increase! When I bought it the price was $89.99 base price with a total being $97.64.

Plex's Lifetime Subscription Is About to Get Much More Expensive

 

["MysteryMan"]

2026-05 Preview Update for Windows 11 Versions 25H2 and 24H2 Builds: 26200.8524 and 26100.8524 (KB5089573) and 2026-05 .NET Framework Preview Update (KB5092427) have been released. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. New features and quality improvements come with these updates.

 

[HipKat]

Great update, now my Start Menu won't open.
Running DISM now in PowerShell to see if I can fix it before I roll back the update

 

[harshness]

Great update, now my Start Menu won't open.

Were you running a Start Menu "enhancer" (Start11, Stardock, Explorer Enhancer, StartAllBack, etc.)?

 

[harshness]

New features and quality improvements come with these updates.

This is unusual for a fourth-Tuesday update. With all of the out-of-band updates, I suppose they're out of sync with their convention schedule.

 

[HipKat]

Were you running a Start Menu "enhancer" (Start11, Stardock, Explorer Enhancer, StartAllBack, etc.)?

Actually, yeah. I forgot I was.
Windhawk with Taskbar and Start Menu Styler

 

[harshness]

Actually, yeah. I forgot I was.

It is unfathomable that it has taken 4-1/2 years to claw back some of the basic Windows functionality that has been around since 2015 (or much earlier in the case of the Windows taskbar being moveable).

That there are so many workarounds is proof positive that they don't understand what users desire/depend on. It is probably also why they didn't manage to disable all of them before they put their own workaround in as part of this update.

 

["MysteryMan"]

2026-06 Security Update (KB5094126) Builds: 26200.8655 and 26100.8695 and 2026-06 .NET 80.28 for x64 Client (KB5097149) and 2026-06 .NET Security Update Builds: 26200.8655 and 261`00.8655 (KB509426) have been released. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. Quality improvements only. No new operating system features.

 

[Bruno]

2026-06 Security Update (KB5094126) Builds: 26200.8655 and 26100.8695 and 2026-06 .NET 80.28 for x64 Client (KB5097149) and 2026-06 .NET Security Update Builds: 26200.8655 and 261`00.8655 (KB509426) have been released. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. Quality improvements only. No new operating system features.

My Win10 desktop was freezing all the time and two different guys told me probably needed a new HHD. I am OLD and finally after two days got 10 re-installed. Then I would selet to do update's would lock up. Maybe i should have let it do them at night. I have shut off updates for 30 days to see how it runs. Seems to be running fine but what will happen if it does not update. It was my understanding MS was not going to support them but when i did the new install it gave me the option for them to continue for 6 more months.

 

[HipKat]

My Win10 desktop was freezing all the time and two different guys told me probably needed a new HHD. I am OLD and finally after two days got 10 re-installed. Then I would selet to do update's would lock up. Maybe i should have let it do them at night. I have shut off updates for 30 days to see how it runs. Seems to be running fine but what will happen if it does not update. It was my understanding MS was not going to support them but when i did the new install it gave me the option for them to continue for 6 more months.

Why not Win 11?? Why stick with an OS that's losing support?? Win 11 isn't my main OS, but it's not the boogieman people said it was when it first came out

 

[harshness]

Why stick with an OS that's losing support??

For me, it is mostly about the abject failure Microsoft's "support" has turned out to be. Their "support" has been at least as much of a millstone as a life preserver. This behavior on Microsoft's part arguably shouldn't be "supported".

The last "Patch Tuesday" (June 9) laundry list included 200 issues, including five known zero-days and one exploited zero-day. There were 38 "critical" vulnerabilities, including 28 Remote Code Executions, four Elevation of Privileges, and an Information Disclosure.

Among all "threat level" classes:

• 65 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
• 19 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities
• 55 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
• 30 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
• 7 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• 27 Spoofing Vulnerabilities

According to Bleeping Computer, users who are up-to-date with Windows 11 may experience problems (that don't throw an error) with third-party applications trying to open Office applications using OLE -- a core feature of Office since 1990.

Just yesterday, with the help of a one-man, third-party support site for Windows, I was able to get past a Windows Extended Security Updates activation error that has been plaguing me since October. The fix involved changing an obscurely-named registry entry from one to zero.

I still haven't figured out why Windows thinks I'm enrolled in the Windows Insider Program and, if I am, under what Microsoft account.

 

[HipKat]

I read all that stuff, and I feel like blah blah, whatever. I use Windows about 40% of the time now, for work-related things I need Windows for, and none of that stuff affects anything I do. And that includes web browsing and posting forums just like this one.
As for Insider Program, have you checked in Windows Update under the Insider tab to make sure? That's where you join and leave the program

 

[harshness]

As for Insider Program, have you checked in Windows Update under the Insider tab to make sure? That's where you join and leave the program

That's where it shows that I'm part of the program. One must log into the associated Microsoft account to opt out of the program.

Many, if not most, users have access to only one computer and can't fall back on another for their secure transactions.

I maintain a Windows 10 machine specifically to do my income taxes.

 

[Bruno]

Why not Win 11?? Why stick with an OS that's losing support?? Win 11 isn't my main OS, but it's not the boogieman people said it was when it first came out

I did order a new Win11 machine for my office. My old Win10 does meet the requirements to upgrade to Win11, and will move it to my bedroom that will replace a win7 that was really old and really slow.

 

[Tweek]

There was a new preview download tonight for those interested in knowing such things.

 

[harshness]

A human-readable rundown of what is in the preview:

Windows 11 KB5095093 update rolls out new Point-in-Time restore feature

Microsoft has released the KB5095093 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, which fixes numerous bugs and begins rolling out new features, including the new Point-in-Time restore feature.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

["MysteryMan"]

There was a new preview download tonight for those interested in knowing such things.

My apology for not posting. I'm recovering from cataract surgery.