Question Double the work, Double the time.

[MrN1ce9uy]

Anyone else notice that a lot of things on your computer at home or work have to be done twice and takes twice as much time? Example: You click on a web browser search bar and it didn't do anything, so you have to click again. Same thing for other things in Windows 11 or various web browsers.

Maybe it's just me..

 

[Barty1884]

Anyone else notice that a lot of things on your computer at home or work have to be done twice and takes twice as much time? Example: You click on a web browser search bar and it didn't do anything, so you have to click again. Same thing for other things in Windows 11 or various web browsers.

Maybe it's just me..

Absolutely not. If you click on a search bar & nothing happens, something is wrong. Every once in a while, glitches can happen - but certainly shouldn't be happening consistently.

 

[Darkbreeze]

That specific thing, I think is just you, because I haven't noticed that on any of my Windows 11 machines of which I have three. And all of them are different platforms. One is a 6700k system, one is a 12700k system and one is a 5600G system. None of them have that issue or anything like it. Maybe try a clean install of Windows followed by a manual installation of the manufacturer supplied drivers for chipset, audio, network adapters and peripherals from the motherboard/peripheral manufacturer's website.

Now, I HAVE noticed a few quirky behaviors in Windows 11 that I never saw on any of these systems with Windows 10 such as clicking into or selecting some text fields not wanting to allow right click options for "Copy", yet pressing Ctrl+C copies fine. This might however be due to registry modifications having unexpected and varied results from restoring the full context menus to mouse right clicks rather than the hateful partial context menus that MS has been trying to shove down our throats in order to make the OS look "different" than previous releases. If they'd just fix things that have been broken in many versions of Windows for a long time and leave the behaviors alone, people would be a lot happier.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Absolutely not. If you click on a search bar & nothing happens, something is wrong. Every once in a while, glitches can happen - but certainly shouldn't be happening consistently.

I thought maybe I was just getting older and missing the search bar by a few millimeters while in a hurry.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

That specific thing, I think is just you, because I haven't noticed that on any of my Windows 11 machines of which I have three. And all of them are different platforms. One is a 6700k system, one is a 12700k system and one is a 5600G system. None of them have that issue or anything like it. Maybe try a clean install of Windows followed by a manual installation of the manufacturer supplied drivers for chipset, audio, network adapters and peripherals from the motherboard/peripheral manufacturer's website.

Now, I HAVE noticed a few quirky behaviors in Windows 11 that I never saw on any of these systems with Windows 10 such as clicking into or selecting some text fields not wanting to allow right click options for "Copy", yet pressing Ctrl+C copies fine. This might however be due to registry modifications having unexpected and varied results from restoring the full context menus to mouse right clicks rather than the hateful partial context menus that MS has been trying to shove down our throats in order to make the OS look "different" than previous releases. If they'd just fix things that have been broken in many versions of Windows for a long time and leave the behaviors alone, people would be a lot happier.

It's not just Windows 11, it's various web-based systems as well.

Now, I completely agree with you on Windows 11 context menus constantly changing. Once I get comfortable with a 1-2 step process in Windows, they change it to a 2-3 step process. I think it's much more cynical than just allowing kids (young adults) to program, I believe it's more along the lines of removing the control that some people have over their own copy of an operating system. And not just from a business stand point.

 

[punkncat]

Is it just me thinking perhaps you should consider a new mouse and/or adjusting the settings there?

edit to say-

There are some work tasks that I perform so many times during the day that I sometimes move to the box and click, but never actually stopped moving the mouse which typically shows a ghosting of the cut and drop feature. Are you sure this isn't what is going on?

 

[USAFRet]

Anyone else notice that a lot of things on your computer at home or work have to be done twice and takes twice as much time? Example: You click on a web browser search bar and it didn't do anything, so you have to click again. Same thing for other things in Windows 11 or various web browsers.

Maybe it's just me..

The only time(s) I see this is due to a dying rodent.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah, dying mouse will do it.

 

[Eximo]

Agreed. Mouse clicks not registering.

Another thing is applications stealing focus. While your mouse may be over something, doesn't mean that is the active window. Just depends on how well people have programmed all the things you have running on your system at any given moment.

Now, there is a weird issue that I swear seems to be limited to Dell systems. Random hitches in HID devices. Essentially the whole system pauses, and then resumes, but while that happens it ignores key presses entirely. So I will often be writing and have two or three characters just get skipped.

Other systems that have such pauses keep registering keystrokes and it just gets drawn a little after the fact. I have not observed this on anything but several Dell business laptops over the years.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Another thing is applications stealing focus. While your mouse may be over something, doesn't mean that is the active window. Just depends on how well people have programmed all the things you have running on your system at any given moment.

I think this explains the part pertaining to Windows 11. Multiple monitors would exacerbate this.

 

[USAFRet]

I finished a NUC 11 running 11 and it took hours to optimize it to run reasonably well. Took a little while to figure out that I had to hold some odd button down on her old Yamaha receiver to get bluetooth to pair for her audio output, but all seems to be working okay and pretty fast for that little i5 NUC. Well that one is for the wife and she seems happy now.

I'm in the middle of a new build and tired from all the lifting, Lian Li 011 Dynamic Evo XL segments are all heavy, as are all the other parts including the 420mm radiator setup. I'm getting too old for this. 😉 I need a beer break. I'll post my thoughts on 11 in two or three days when I actually get it going.

Correct forum?

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Correct forum?

Same thing happened to me earlier today. Clicked on a post and typed a response, turned out it was the wrong post.