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.

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[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.

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["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.