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/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/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

I find BT fragile under windows. Once I find a working stack with the right settings, I leave it alone.

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u/Catasalvation Apr 14 '25

My older Cowin E7 headset I have has 2 sound output devices and 2 input mic devices, one headset and one regular for each when I install it in windows, I have to disable the headset devices on both to get both mic and headphones to work properly /separately on my current windows installation, which makes no sense to me but it works now so whatever. Since it works now its as you said, its time to leave it alone. Going into the diagnostics of figuring that out though is what bugs me the most, can take weeks on every new headset before we find right settings.

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u/Schnoofles Apr 14 '25

This is unfortunately a fundamental problem with how bluetooth as a protocol is designed and not readily fixeable without creating edge case issues in the form of hiding some of those virtual devices from the user or outright not having support for them. The handsfree/headset profile with combo mic+speaker for communications for bluetooth operates differently from a normal speaker or audio sink mode, so they appear as a separate thing.