* *** WIN11_PROBLEMS TXT - 9 Apr 2025  15:42:21 - JGKNAUTH


This is for Windows 11 24H2.

Design Retrogrades
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 1) Win11 removed the ability to create a toolbar on the taskbar, so I
    cannot create my "X" popup with easy access to many facilities I
    use.  See Windows_Use_Notes.htm#toolbars.  As a workaround, I have
    created an "X" folder with shortcuts to the programs and then pinned
    a shortcut for the "X" folder to the taskbar.  (The pinning has its
    own problems; see below.)  This doesn't provide as neat an interface
    as the no-longer-provided toolbar facility.

 2) Windows borders are too skinny and cannot be visibly enlarged.  This
    is an old problem, but it has been made worse in Win11 because File
    Explorer title bars have been removed, so cannot be highlighted with
    different colors to show the active/inactive status of the window.
    In Win11 you must now depend on the almost invisible border to see
    the active/inactive status of a window.

 3) The Quick Access Toolbar has been deleted from File Explorer
    windows.  Some settings are now under View, View Show, and "...".

 4) The ribbon has been deleted from File Explorer wondows, which means
    that once again users must search to see where old facilities have
    been moved (if they haven't been deleted completely).

 5) There is no longer a way in File Explorer to select a file and ask
    that a command window be opened with the directory set to the file's
    location.</p>

 6) Quick Actions has been removed from the facility that has replaced
    the Action Center.

 7) Win-X now provides only Terminal (Powershell); it no longer allows
    Command Prompt.

 8) It is now harder to specify default programs.

 9) Seconds display has been removed from the taskbar time popup
    (Windows 10 had added seconds to the display).


Some Other Workarounds
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 1) Poor format of Start menu and taskbar.
    ===> Start11 restores desirable formats.

 2) Some frequently used items were moved from the context menu to a
    submenu (S-F10).
    ===> Registry patch restores old format:
    https://www.howtogeek.com/759449/how-to-get-full-context-menus-in-windows-11s-file-explorer/

 3) Windows does not remember windows placements and sizes.
    ===> ShellFolderFix handles this.

 4) Dragging an item to the taskbar no longer pins it to the taskbar or
    to File Explorer.  "Pin to taskbar" is displayed, but that seems to
    be a lie.  The item does not show up on the taskbar or in File
    Explorer's jump list or in the Quick access list.  However selecting
    "Pin to Quick access" from an item's context menu does work.  A
    workaround is to prefix the text "explorer " to the folder's
    location text in the Target field of a shortcut; then you can drag
    that shortcut to the taskbar.  Poor.
    ===> Start11 Version 2 does provide a way to pin things to the
    taskbar.


Bugs
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 1) Right-clicking on the titlebar of a File Explorer window and
    selecting "Move" produces the move crossbar icon, but dragging the
    icon doesn't move the window.  However Move seems to work as before
    (in Win10) for non-folder windows.

 2) Windows 10 has replaced the Console Host (CMD window) with Terminal.
    If you create a shortcut for C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe and
    doubleclick it, now Terminal gets started.  Any tailoring for
    colors, fonts, placment, etc., in the CMD shortcut are ignored,
    unless you know the (not-so-reliable) workaround.

    If in Terminal > Settings > "Default terminal application" you
    select "Windows Console Host" and do a Save, things go back to the
    Windows 10 way of working.  You can still run Terminal by invoking
    it directly, e.g., from Win+X keys or the Start menu.  This is more
    of a documentation issue about why CMD shortcuts stopped working as
    they had before.

    However there still may be a bug.  Sometimes the Terminal setting of
    "Windows Console Host" is lost.  (Maybe I did something that causes
    this, but I haven't found it yet.)  The "Default terminal
    application" setting reverts to "Let Windows decide".  For me,
    Windows always decides wrong and Terminal starts for my CMD
    shortcuts instead of the Console Host I want.

    I use such Console Host items a lot, e.g., for desktop shortcuts and
    for work started by the Task Scheduler.  I want the resulting
    windows to appear as I tailored things -- colors, font, position on
    the screen, etc. -- not as Terminal decides.  It's annoying to have
    Terminal started instead, not where I want it and with an undesired
    appearance.