A few glitches and things following last night’s reset of Windows 11:
- Despite uninstalling all the non-included software, my Start menu settings were preserved, which means it’s littered with uninstalled apps. This is suboptimal, but not a dealbreaker or anything. I can manually prune the Start menu by going here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs, and I’ve kept some of the stubs as reminders of stuff I may want or need to install later. - The wallpaper–which had been randomly changing on its own despite me turning off or tweaking every conceivable option to make sure it wouldn’t do that–had randomly changed when I logged back in this morning. I went through to see if one of the possible triggers had gotten reset in the reset. It’s resets all the way down.
- I’ve re-installed Signal–because I was using it!
- I re-installed ShareX because it is totally skookum for screenshots, of which I take a lot
- I remembered to bump the refresh rate of the monitors, since they support 144 Hz
- I still haven’t opened Edge
- I disabled those weird streaming Steam audio settings I’ll never use but always show up as options cluttering yup audio settings
- The audio on the monitors, which have speakers that can be described generously as “tinny” seem louder than before. Maybe that’s just me.
I can’t say I regret the reset yet. But it’s still early!
Next on the list:
- Install Unity
More will follow along after Unity, but that will get me going.
UPDATE: The following additional software has been installed, as noted below.
- Unity Hub and Unity editor
- iCloud for Windows. It’s crappy, but it lets me get photos from the iPhone into Windows.
- Steam client. Once Steam found all existing games, I uninstalled a bunch of them.
- Epic Games Launcher. I tried the same thing here, but it doesn’t work as seamlessly, so I just nuked a bunch of game folders. At least I know there’s no lingering registry entries! I installed Torchlight 2 as a test case.
- Canon EOS3 Utility software. To allow photos to be transferred from my camera to the PC.
