The truth is undocumented. Best app for Win11 right now: https://teapaw.org/t.co/WRQ8fdfxvE
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What’s dumb is that MS rarely cares about CPU optimization at all. Core Win32/NT/CRT/etc is 20+ years old legacy code where optimizations stopped on MMX. Apple on other hand did all kinds of optimizations (on Intel too), CoreGraphics/dyld/ObjC/etc optimized early
Next step: EU mandate for movable taskbars🤔
Fortnite creator Tim Sweeney and Elon Musk want Microsoft to bring back the vertical taskbar and stop forcing the Microsoft account in Windows 11.
Microsoft is facing the heat as the company keeps pushing Copilot and other AI features.
Recently, Microsoft confirmed it’s adding “Ask Copilot” to the Windows 11 taskbar. It’s also testing “agentic” features for the operating system.
Microsoft’s Windows boss has promised the company deeply cares about power users and is listening to feedback.
ALT Windows 11 taskbar location versus Windows 10 taskbar location.
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PSA: StartAllBack is broken on Dev/Beta/Release Preview. You need to manually check for updates for 3.9.9 or startisback.sfo3.cdn.digital…
Did you know? APPXBUNDLE/MSIXBUNDLEs are somewhat special kinds of zip archive - Windows Update service can download last ~64KB to decode central directory/manifest/digital signature which it uses to verify/download only parts of the zip file for target architecture, for example.
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Who the heck needs this. Why not allow dropping on taskbar icons to share? Like StartAllBack could.
Microsoft is experimenting with a new file sharing UI in Windows 11: the "Drag Tray". When dragging a file, the tray shows up at the top of the screen with a drag here to share hint and lists a few apps. Has a more options button to open the share sheet. (hidden, Beta 22635.4805)
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One more bizzare 24H2 thing: Battery Saver was replaced with Energy Saver and none of the previous api (GUID_POWER_SAVING_STATUS/SYSTEM_STATUS_FLAG_POWER_SAVING_ON/Windows.System.Power.EnergySaverStatus) work.
StartAllBack 3.9 with plump taskbar is out!
This was a very intensive year with a lot of development, resulting in fully recreated and much improved classic taskbar.
Show must go on. What would you like to see in 4.0?
Hot single (or multiple) taskbars in your area! Classic taskbar got plump! Test new perk in beta msfn.org/board/topic/186574-…
24H2 issues with screen jitter seems to be finally resolved (?). If you upgrade, make sure you run latest StartAllBack version.
if you're on Windows 11 I'd highly recommend upgrading to the 24H2 update that dropped today. It's a full OS swap, and there's a lot of work under the hood to make the OS feel more responsive on a variety of hardware theverge.com/2024/10/1/24258…
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Okay it's back I've recreated it
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Windows 8 clusterfuck haunts us to this day and WinUI3 is a sad attempt to salvage good parts of it. Like, there was a great app sandbox and ui kit in 2009, why wouldn't you just copy that then.
Today our @Windows Photos team is sharing more details how their migrated one the most popular desktop apps from UWP to WinUI3 and WinAppSDK, getting significant performance and other improvements to their users worldwide!
Learn more at blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
I've recreated ~1/3 of classic taskbar, you can test the prototype now msfn.org/board/topic/186208-…
And now there are two versions of weather icons, and newer one is much bigger uglier and broken on SAB
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Interesting observation - animated SVG weather icons seem to be reverted server-side. I guess DDoSing server with dozens of requests per each PC is not the best implementation?
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