Microsoft confirms Recycle Bin bug across all versions of Windows

2 days ago by BrikoX to c/technology

Microsoft confirms a new Windows bug where Recycle Bin delete prompts display internal file names instead of actual ones.

osanna 15 points 2 days ago

Even windows 3.11???

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over_clox 12 points 2 days ago

Class Identifier {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} (Recycle Bin) did not appear until Windows 95. I'm pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it's still receiving updates.

All seriousness aside, let me inform you that if you install any variation of the Calmira Shell in Windows 3.11, and indeed it does actually come with an equivalent Recycle Bin functionality, though it wasn't programmed by M$, so you should be safe 👍

Anyways, M$ seems to have shot themselves in both feet in recent years, so I recommend you throw Windows into the Trash (don't recycle), and install Linux instead...

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WYLD_STALLYNS 14 points 2 days ago

This is why there needs to be a support Lemmy for switching from Windows 11 to Linux.

Unless there already is and I’ve been living under a rock lol.

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Rhaedas 5 points 2 days ago

I'm assuming you mean support ongoing for people learning to adapt as they go? Because it doesn't have to be on Lemmy to find ways to migrate over and the differences, what works fine and what takes adjustment.

It would be an interesting community to start - one with rules that state the purpose is for people moving from Win11 to another OS only and not for any side topics, but anyone with knowledge can answer questions posed. Seems like it only has room to grow in need since Microsoft wants to tank their whole product line.

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WYLD_STALLYNS 7 points 2 days ago

I was definitely thinking it would be helping people migrate from Windows 11 to safer OS’ like Linux. Since it’s likely to feel like a daunting process for the less tech savvy feeling stuck in Windows 11.

Agreed, it’s nuts Microsoft would drive their company off a cliff, but people will need white hats to guide them safely away from the Microsoft tire fire and ad/analytics.

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h0rnman 5 points 2 days ago

That seems like a great idea for a community. My only concern would be about distro-specific things. When you talk about "switching to Linux", you're really talking about "switching to the Linux kernel with about 1500 additional packages that form your actual experience". The flexibility is the best part, but i know it can be daunting for the new user.

This is also where we get a lot of distribution fights and pedantic arguments - there's a lot of ways to do things, and folks love to argue for their preferred method. What complicates things further is that the nuances are both important and irrelevant. There's atomic vs traditional, deb vs rpm (and the seemingly hundreds of package managers), systemv vs systemd, gnome vs KDE, X vs Wayland, and even recently lutris vs heroic vs faugus, and each of those is fine to use but will force you to do things a specific way that could make certain edge cases difficult or impossible to manage.

Honestly, I'd love to see a comm like this, and I'd love to contribute, but it would be to be pretty heavily moderated to avoid a lot of the pointless arguments that would derail the conversions

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WYLD_STALLYNS 5 points a day ago

Agreed, it would need a K.I.S.S. rule (Keep It Sweet and Simple), as for which distro, we could try having a single topic for voting the top 5 or 10 distros and a summary why. No need to over complicate it by doing each one. It might not be perfect, but it’ll be a start. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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Nelots 3 points 2 days ago

I’m pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it’s still receiving updates.

The article actually goes into further detail on what exact versions its an issue on.

This issue affects pretty much all supported versions of Windows client and server, including:

Client: Windows 11, version 26H1; Windows 11, version 25H2; Windows 11, version 24H2; Windows 11, version 23H2; Windows 10, version 22H2; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019; Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016