Strap Yourselves In and Prepare a Restore Image Because Windows 11 26H2 Has Arrived

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Microsoft has announced that its latest Windows 11 build 26H2 has finally arrived and is warning, sorry, letting users and IT professionals know what to expect with the newest update. There is perhaps no other update, although NVIDIA had its share following its RTX 50 series launch, that can raise blood pressure more for users […]

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I set my system to reboot and update - came back to find it hung at a black screen with an adrenalin crash.

Had to power off/on and then re-enable my gpu/9070 xt in device manager and reboot again.
 
I'm going to hold off for a bit with my home rigs due to simply not wanting to deal with any complications right now but since it's technically a part of my job, I'm probably going to try and "upgrade" one of our laptops since I need to know in advance what I might be in for down the road, same for a workstation as well.
 
I tried the other day and it bombed and didn't complete... probably needed a user interaction and once it rebooted I tuned out.
 
Apparently it installed cleanly when I was away or sleeping. Went to go check if it was still pending and it wasn't there then checked winver and already at 26H2. no issues thus far, knock on wood!
 
Elf_Boy said:
Had to power off/on and then re-enable my gpu/9070 xt in device manager and reboot again.
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AMD is the modern hero we didn't know we needed...

(seriously, how do they have just an unending stream of issues with Adrenaline)
 
Not crazy about AI "features" being integrated.

Hoping as much as possible of that can be disabled and hidden.

I know I can just not use it, but it still makes me irrationally angry whenever I so much as see a Copilot or other AI UI element in my OS or software.

I don't like using products that make me angry.
 
I've made sure to uninstall anything Copilot related, at the very least. Luckily, apps and things can be uninstalled in this way, that's the least you can do to remove them. I take other measures, beyond that, restricting things best I can manually. O&O Shutup is a great free utility for disabling things.
 
Elf_Boy said:
Oh are we getting out our thing and comparing? Hope I dont make you feel inadequate. :}

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Nice, and that is a ton of storage for pron as well! Impressive!

Curious what your use case is for 192gb of ram and that many 4k monitors. Running simulators? Clearly it's not an AI/LLM optimized setup and that's what currently comes to mind for big builds these days.

our rigs are similar, you have me on ram for sure and I have you on GPU buy a bit for my use case.
 
I always avoid the major Windows updates for 6 months. So won't even be concerned about Win11 26H2 for friends, family, and my secondary desktop PC until at least March 2027. Until then it doesn't exist to me.

Zarathustra said:
Hoping as much as possible of that can be disabled and hidden.

I know I can just not use it, but it still makes me irrationally angry whenever I so much as see a Copilot or other AI UI element in my OS or software.

I don't like using products that make me angry.
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I really feel you on all of that dawg. Couldn't have said it better.
 
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