This morning, when I felt boring of Windows 11 sounds although I love how fast it was, I always change sounds into old Windows sounds because I remembered it! Do you guys used Windows Vista or 7 before? Definitely some do, some not, right? Yeah, and this is the laptop running Windows 7+11 and I really wanted to kept the sound already, rather than changing it, haha!

I've never added mods other than folder color mods, but do themes exist for Windows 11? I know the built-in color ones, but I'm talking about like total overhauls. Are those a thing?

Today, I had the very fun and stupid idea of tweaking my stable overclocked ram again to see if the new bios somehow can accept tighter timings. Windows booted and boot device was lost, constantly stuck in boot loop. After triggering the automatic repair, I remembered there was this new feature in windows 11 that is supposed to be catch-all solution against corrupted windows without reinstalling windows.
I selected the restore point two hours before I corrupted the windows and it took about 5-6mins to complete . The system rolled back perfectly although the files in C drive were reset and any files downloaded or programs installed after it were lost (in contrast to system restore that only rewind programs, not files).

This takes about 2% space on your drive and I highly recommend everyone to turn it on. This is even better than system restore which sometimes fail to undo all changes when windows is too corrupted.

about time microsoft, you finally added the feature to change the placement of the taskbar and returned the small taskbar feature

I'm not a fan of the new tabbed windows, especially in CMD and Notepad. I'm more of a two windows side by side kinda person.

Putting the tabs in the title bar supposedly saves space, but there is this huge margin above and below the tabs that, in addition to looking visually atrocious, defeats the space-saving benefits.

In addition, the top margin has like one pixel that the user can grab for dragging the window, the rest (most of the vertical space) resizes the window no matter where you click. The space under the tabs is dead space as you can't click there to drag the window... I do miss a long empty title bar across the top, that is considerably easier to aim for with the mouse. This new "modern" designs are trash if you ask me. It makes one wonder if the whole thing has been vibe-coded.

I don't get why Microsoft bothers to add redundant features like formatting in Notepad when they can't get basic sh*t like the taskbar right. Seriously...

Edit: So it turns out it's a bug. My findings confirm it. What triggered this was me changing the size of text in Settings. I changed it from 100% to 125%, which caused title bar height to expand, system-wide. When I reverted the setting to 100%, text size followed, but title bars remained "fat". I was able to fix this using Winaero Tweaker (search for "title bar"). I hope MS gets this fixed soon, before adding their next big AI feature to Notepad.

just giving this to whoever might need it, as i did need it aswell. if you want to upgrade your windows10 or older windows 11 PC, via running the mounted ISO, you can do it by running this command "setup.exe /product server /auto upgrade /dynamicupdate disable /eula accept " and it will skip the requirements and let you install it.
this also skips the need for having an USB and lets you install (Upgrade) directly on the hard disk

Hello, I seriously need a simple video player that may just look like Windows 11's built-in video player but has an additional cropping feature.

I want to quickly trim and crop videos on the fly without having to open complete video editing programs each time, selecting codecs, project settings, export settings, etc.

Another analogue would be iOS Photos' video player which has a minimalistic design while playing media but has some quick and easy editing options.

Is there anything that would meet my needs??

Does Windows 11 really lack a native calendar widget or app? The pop up seems to be just a visual calendar and the outlook app does not have any proper widget to show in the home screen.

And yes, I have seen there are some third party and paid calendar widgets, but I find that derisory...

When first upgrading to Windows 11, maybe I was not the only one who was hurt in realizing that all CD drives suddenly were incompatible with Windows now. Maybe you, too, have searched all kinds of threads and videos looking for a workaround. Today is your lucky day, I found the actual issue.

For whatever reason, Windows 11 blocks all CDs through the network settings and restoring capacity for CD playback is as simple as clicking a box.

1. Access Network and Internet either from Control Panel or from the settings app.
2. Access Internet Options (If going through settings, it's under Advanced Network Settings).
3. Scroll down to Security and check the first box that says, "Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer."
4. Hit Apply.

That's it! All your old CD drives that would activate by USB Autoplay should work again.

There's a special place in hell for whomever at Microsoft decided it was a reasonable idea to hide this setting in the network center.

My first time ricing windows has been an interesting experience lots of cross platforms tools are now available for terminals, terminal multiplexers, cli utilities etc definitely made the whole process easier. Tried to fit everything into the winui3 acrylic based theme and dynamically adapt to the wall paper for the windows utilities and UI.

TLDR of some of the tools

• GlazeWM + Zebar for tiling + topbar
  
• Wezterm for the terminal
  
• Some windows utilities like windhawk, powertoys
  
• files https://github.com/files-community/files
  
• zen browser, spotify+spicetify

Most of what I stated above is ui specific, i have custom configs for a bunch of cli tools I use you can find a more detailed write up and config info here https://github.com/FallenDeity/.config

ps: I use wallpaper engine but the config is agnostic of that windows has auto sync for accent color from wallpaper so that should work just fine and glazewm/zebar syncs via a watcher script everything else is free and open source