Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits (start menu, explorer, search, taskbar)

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/windows_11_start_explorer/
Published: 2025-12-06
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2025-12-06 02:45:52 by Horse
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Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates. The problem, which "primarily affects a limited number of enterprise or managed environments," occurs on PCs running Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 with a monthly cumulative update released from July 2025. XAML-dependent modern apps such as the Start menu, Explorer, Windows Search, and the taskbar might abruptly crash or fail to load.

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Server and PC prices are climbing sharply as hardware manufacturers grapple with soaring memory component costs, multiple supply chain sources have told The Register. Major manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo, HP, and HPE are planning price increases of around 15 percent for servers and 5 percent for PCs, according to channel sources. "I believe the hikes are coming from everyone," said a contact at a major reseller who requested anonymity.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/server_prices_15_percent_jump_memory_costs/?td=rt-3a
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OpenAI Faces $140 Billion In Losses Before It Turns $1 In Profit 

No start-up in history has operated with expected losses on anything approaching this scale. We are firmly in uncharted territory.
 IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is critical saying those data centers capexes will never be profitable.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/openai-faces-140-billion-losses-it-turns-1-profit
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Rep MTG - There should be a DOJ investigation immediately and Covid vaccines should lose their FDA approval.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/rep-mtg-there-should-be-a-doj-investigation-immediately-and-covid-vaccines-should-lose-their-fda-approval/
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Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel

A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration - and who still holds a security clearance - was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) - which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in February of this year.

Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI's money laundering operations and resigned in January 2016 ahead of Trump's inauguration, laundered around $750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more - totaling over $12 million, according to the indictment. 

Campo's home was raided by federal agents on Thursday.


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-obama-dea-official-charged-laundering-money-mexican-drug-cartel
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Trump's New National Security Strategy Stuns Mainstream In Saying Europe Faces "Civilizational Erasure" Within 20 Years
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"Their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real & stark prospect of civilizational erasure."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-new-national-security-strategy-stuns-mainstream-saying-europe-faces-civilizational

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India Steps Up Purchases Of Sanctions-Free Russian Crude
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India’s Bharat Petroleum and India Oil have bought Russian crude from non-sanctioned companies, with Bharat ordering a cargo of 2 million barrels of Urals crude for January delivery, from companies other than Rosneft and Lukoil

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/india-steps-purchases-sanctions-free-russian-crude

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"Widespread Misconduct": Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation's Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records
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SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said there is mounting evidence that minority contracts had become "a pass-through vehicle for rampant abuse and fraud... 


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/widespread-misconduct-trump-admin-orders-all-beneficiaries-nations-largest-dei-program

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Hollywood Actress Halle Berry SHOCKS Audience at NY Times Summit After Demolishing Gavin Newsom Just Before He Takes Stage

The crowd at Lincoln Center gasped audibly as Berry unleashed a devastating rebuke of the far-left governor.

“At this stage in my life, I have zero f–ks left to give,” Berry said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, before turning her attention directly to Newsom’s repeated vetoes of legislation designed to support women going through menopause.

Berry has spent the past year advocating for broader access to menopause and midlife health support through her company Respin.

“Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that’s okay because he’s not going to be governor forever,” Berry said.

“With the way he’s overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either.”

The sharp jab at Newsom, who spoke later in the same program, sent a shock through the crowd, prompting audible gasps.

She continued, “Just saying, I need every woman in this country to fight with me. The truth is, the fight isn’t just for us women. We need men, too. We need all of the leaders, every single one of you in this room. This fight needs you.”

WATCH:  https://twitter.com/i/status/1996645567938941129


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In a stunning development, the US Supreme Court agreed to decide the Constitutionality of President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

In September President Trump asked the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship.

Democrat attorneys general sued the Trump Administration to block the birthright citizenship executive order.

Several federal judges have blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan-appointed judge in Seattle, previously issued a nationwide temporary injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

In February, US District Judge for the District of Massachusetts Leo Sorokin, and Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s order and said in a 31-page ruling that loss of birthright citizenship, even if temporary, and later restored can likely leave ‘permanent scars.’

According to President Trump’s order, the 14th Amendment is being misinterpreted by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies.’

“It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth,” Trump’s order stated.

Trump’s order argued the 14th Amendment has always excluded babies born to people in the US illegally.

“[The] Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,”” Trump’s order said.

“Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text,” the order stated.

CBS News reported:

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, which automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/breaking-stunning-development-supreme-court-agrees-decide-constitutionality/


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#4: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

Microsoft has really shot itself in the foot by both requiring more advanced hardware for Windows 11 (rendering older hardware that is only supported up to Win 10) and expiring support for Win 10.  People are opting to turn to Linux rather than buy new computers to upgrade to Win 11. 

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Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel

A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration - and who still holds a security clearance - was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) - which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in February of this year.

back in the '80s the Walkers (father/son) were busted transferring classified information to agents of the USSR the navy's answer was to pull security clearances when people transferred out and if they needed a clearance at their receiving command required them to have a clearance they were to request the clearance be reinstated. I submitted ammo transaction reports but could not get the comeback copy of the message because it was classified and my clearance was pulled and not reinstated by the boat I transferred to    

In late 1985, Walker made a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, which required him to provide full details of his espionage activities and testify against his co-conspirator, former senior chief petty officer Jerry Whitworth. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to a lesser sentence for Walker's son, former Seaman Michael Walker, who was also involved in the spy ring.[

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#6: Horse    To: Pinguinite (#4)

I tried Linux. It sucks. I could not et it to play my streaming services. Instead of cable, I got rid of my TV and signed up for video streaming services. Now I can watch really great shows from all over the world on demand, no broadcast schedule. If I get money, I will go to Apple. 

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