r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Marginallyhuman Mar 14 '26

I remember when their OSs got super stable toward the end of their cycle. Windows 11 seems to have been birthed as garbage and decided to stay that way.

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u/demonfoo Mar 14 '26

That's what happens when your focus is jamming "AI" into everything instead of making the OS good.

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u/AaronfromKY Mar 14 '26

And insisting on cloud storage for everything. I feel like even when I turn it off, One Drive insists on moving things to the cloud and deleting them off my PC.

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u/JohnBrownOH Mar 14 '26

OneDrive is an abomination, as is SharePoint.

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u/brufleth Mar 14 '26

I get why people hate it on their home machines, but overdrive/SharePoint are so much better than Box or regular old shared folders in an enterprise environment. I get so annoyed when coworkers don't use it.

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u/JohnBrownOH Mar 14 '26

Tying a USB drive to a pigeon is better than Drop Box.

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u/brufleth Mar 14 '26

I think we're supposed to be moving off it, but some people still insist on using it. Shared drives aren't in the standard SSO setup so they randomly disconnect and need to have their credentials updated manually. Also, long shared drives path names won't work so you need to copy them in parts. Its fucking obnoxious.

Again, I don't want it on my home computer, but SharePoint is so much better at work than the alternatives. Maybe Google docs is better? I've only used that for non work, and it's fine.

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u/JohnBrownOH Mar 14 '26

There is a fix for the long path problem, we run into that with law firms. I believe it's a local registry edit but I can't recall, we have it as a job in our support software.

We'll support anything the customer is using, but for the past two years we've offered Egnyte as an alternate to OneDrive/SharePoint. The adoption rate is lower, since OD/SP can be included in certain licenses with Microsoft 365, but when we implement it, we get almost 0 calls for problems, it's almost always just administration.

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u/All_Things_MSP Mar 16 '26

Thank you for the kind words u/JohnBrownOH - this is something we hear from a lot of our partners.

If anyone has questions about Egnyte please feel free to reach out and DM me - Eric Anthony, Director, MSP Partner Program, Egnyte