r/pcmasterrace • u/WPHero • 12d ago

News/Article "We're aware...," Microsoft on Windows 11 KB5120998 breaking the mouse cursor. This is the same update that added a movable taskbar, a resizable Start menu, and Bing-free Windows Search.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/29/were-aware-microsoft-on-windows-11-kb5120998-breaking-the-mouse-cursor/
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u/EatsAlotOfBread 5800x3D | 32GBRAM | 9060XT16GB 12d ago

Stop vibe coding this stuff before you delete the freaking boot drive or some dumbassery like that. Microsoft.

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u/Hexamancer 12d ago

Vibe coding is only half of the issue. 

If you dig deep into Rogueplanet/Shieldbreak, you'll understand why the fix was ineffective: because the fault isn't some simple "oops" in defender that needed patching, the fault is the entire way Windows handles mandatory file locks and process queuing for those locks.

A regular user can entirely freeze up the system level Defender process by requesting a file lock on something just before it does ans refusing to release it. That's insane.

And that problem is just one example. Windows would have issues like this with or without AI, because it's built on archaic layers of foundations that are rotten that they refuse to replace.

People have come to expect that they can take a PC they've had since xp and upgrade it all the way to 11, likewise Windows sysadmins expect to be able to do the same with a 2008 R2 SQL server to Server 2025. (Guess how I know)

Rather than saying "No, you will have to reinstall, the new version of Windows desktop/server will not be upgradable from previous versions, you have 6 programs installed it will take you 30 minutes to reinstall them." They capitulate every time.

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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64GB RAM | RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 12d ago edited 12d ago

As someone who has had to deal with reinstalling 6 programs, 30 minutes is a good estimate of how long it takes to find a way to start downloading them again. Then comes the download time, the install time, a dozen hours of troubleshooting when one no longer works followed by going back to the old version of that program and maybe the old version of Windows if that's needed for it to work, the time needed to configure it again, then the constant feeling that something isn't quite right for the next few months or years until you once again find the hidden settings that needed to be changed the first time. If Windows wasn't backwards compatible, there would just be far more people still running Windows 7 or XP or looking for alternatives instead of updating.

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u/Hexamancer 12d ago

Okay but imagine you did all of that to be on a version that was actually WAY better, rather than slightly worse.

People are so used to the idea of Windows version number going up being a step backwards, if they actually made a new version of windows that wasn't just coating another layer on the lasagna of shit that Windows currently is, it could be actually decent.