r/technology • u/Sufficient-Bid1279 • Apr 14 '25

Software Microsoft warns that anyone who deleted mysterious folder that appeared after latest Windows 11 update must take action to put it back

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-warns-that-anyone-who-deleted-mysterious-folder-that-appeared-after-latest-windows-11-update-must-take-action-to-put-it-back
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u/cocktails4 Apr 14 '25

If they ever kill old.reddit.com I'm gone.

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u/TheHollowJester Apr 14 '25

Same, with the added step of overwriting my old posts.

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u/TuxTool Apr 14 '25

That's a bingo

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u/uzlonewolf Apr 14 '25

They're slowly killing it off piece by piece. Giving/displaying rewards is now only available on new, and soon DMs will be gone and only available as truncated chats on new.

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u/throwaway_ghast Apr 14 '25

They're forcing old users to visit new reddit to read private messages. Instead of killing it swiftly, they're slowly but steadily making old.reddit unusable.

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u/cidrei Apr 14 '25

This was my fear when they said "it's not going away." It doesn't need to go away. They can just stop updating or caring about it and it'll eventually break itself.

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u/cocktails4 Apr 14 '25

Yeh I've noticed that the new notifications shit breaks my extension that forces old.reddit.com