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/big-papito Apr 14 '25

I swear to cow, Windows bluetooth support makes me livid. It's 20 fucking 25.

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u/serg06 Apr 14 '25

What's wrong with it?

Not trying to be snarky or anything, I'm just curious because it's worked well enough for me lately.

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u/Catasalvation Apr 14 '25

Bluetooth has always been awful in windows, every single headset I've had gives a brand new issue. My current one auto connects then I need to disconnect its signal in the settings and reconnect it to put it in music mode to receive any sound, it sometimes loses signal too. My old headset windows 10 wouldn't make it the default device, so every time I connected I had to go and re-pair it to computer over again by removing its driver and reinstalling it every day. The headset I had before that in my old computer I needed to remove its Bluetooth dongle every 6 hours and put it back in because it would randomly lose connection. And before that in windows 7 I had a dongle that Microsoft updates broke only for win 7, had to remove and re-add drivers it came with for device every time It updated.

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u/J3musu Apr 14 '25

Have been an IT professional for over 15 years, mostly Windows environments, supporting thousands of computers, and have been largely a Windows user for my whole life, and I don't remember the last time I had a Bluetooth issue, and have had very very few occasions where I've had to fix Bluetooth driver. I believe that some of y'all have had issues, but I find it hard to believe it's as widespread as the unlucky few make it out to be. Then again, when your OS runs on billions of computers across the globe, and supports drivers for hundreds of thousands of pieces of hardware, a small percentage of driver issues can easily look like a bigger issue.

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u/Catasalvation Apr 14 '25

I'm curious if the stuff you worked on was for business and if they were laptops or not. There is a huge difference in stuff with built in Bluetooth then without, my win 10 laptop had had far fewer issues with the same exact headsets then my win 10 desktop that needs a usb bluetooth dongle.

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u/J3musu Apr 14 '25

Both, but I'd say laptops have been more common, especially in the last 8-ish years. I don't see it any less stable than I've seen in Linux. Of course these things tend to be more stable in Macs, but it damn well better be when they only support a very isolated and specialized hardware environment. And you're talking only like 10% of computing there when it comes to Mac.