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  • W11 latest update (I think) strange things, things missing

    From David@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 30 13:29:18 2025
    When I came back to this laptop a week or so back it showed signs of a
    restart (presume patch Tuesday) but strange things happened.

    For example it seemed to loose my log in details for X, and tried to
    create me a new account.

    I had some alerts from Microsoft about unusual account activity (4) all at
    the same time.

    Wordpad have vanished (I think I had it previously).

    Paint looks different.

    The printer drivers for my HP Colour Laserjet now don't seem to know that
    it can print in duplex, although W10 still manages that.

    Has there been some kind of major tidy up recently?

    Oh, and LibreOffice has disappeared and I have had to reinstall it.

    Cheers



    Dave R


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  • From David@21:1/5 to David on Mon Jun 30 13:39:03 2025
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:29:18 +0000, David wrote:

    When I came back to this laptop a week or so back it showed signs of a restart (presume patch Tuesday) but strange things happened.

    For example it seemed to loose my log in details for X, and tried to
    create me a new account.

    I had some alerts from Microsoft about unusual account activity (4) all
    at the same time.

    Wordpad have vanished (I think I had it previously).

    Paint looks different.

    The printer drivers for my HP Colour Laserjet now don't seem to know
    that it can print in duplex, although W10 still manages that.

    Has there been some kind of major tidy up recently?

    Oh, and LibreOffice has disappeared and I have had to reinstall it.

    On the printer front:
    It didn't seem to be my default printer, but when I used the "set default printer" option Windows grumbled that it wouldn't be able to manage the printer.
    I looked for drivers, but the HP tool only does up to W10 64 bit.
    No mention of W11.
    I poked around and there is a tick box for duplex printing installed.
    I changed that from No to Yes and printing now offers double sided.

    No idea what is going on.

    Cheers



    Dave R





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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Mon Jun 30 19:57:53 2025
    On 30/06/2025 14:29, David wrote:

    When I came back to this laptop a week or so back it showed signs of a restart (presume patch Tuesday) but strange things happened.

    For example it seemed to loose my log in details for X

    Cookies cleaned?

    and tried to
    create me a new account.

    I had some alerts from Microsoft about unusual account activity (4) all at the same time.

    Wordpad have vanished (I think I had it previously).

    Wordpad has been killed-off

    Paint looks different.

    paint (and notepad) have been "enhanced"

    The printer drivers for my HP Colour Laserjet now don't seem to know that
    it can print in duplex, although W10 still manages that.

    dunno, I have to keep some truly ancient HP printers running on W11,not
    noticed anything recently

    Has there been some kind of major tidy up recently?

    Sounds like you've just got a 2xH2 update, what does it say in
    Settings > Windows Update > Update History ?

    Oh, and LibreOffice has disappeared and I have had to reinstall it.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Philip Herlihy on Tue Jul 1 11:35:50 2025
    On 01/07/2025 11:19, Philip Herlihy wrote:

    I have a not-very-technical friend who relies on Wordpad to write
    letters, etc. What's a good comparable alternative for him?
    Copy the old wordpad files from another computer?

    <https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376881/how-to-get-wordpad-back-windows-11-24h2.html>

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  • From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 1 11:19:01 2025
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    says...


    Wordpad have vanished (I think I had it previously).

    Wordpad has been killed-off



    I have a not-very-technical friend who relies on Wordpad to write
    letters, etc. What's a good comparable alternative for him?

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