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Microsoft has quietly closed a small but long‑standing Windows annoyance: the “Update and shutdown” option — which for many users installed updates only to leave PCs powered on instead of off — now behaves as labeled after Microsoft included a servicing fix in preview builds and the October 28...

Microsoft has finally corrected a persistent Windows annoyance: the “Update and shut down” option now behaves as labeled in recent preview builds and in the October 28, 2025 preview package KB5067036, which Microsoft documents as including a targeted servicing fix that addresses the underlying...

Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 preview cumulative—KB5067036 (OS Builds 26200.7019 for 25H2 and 26100.7019 for 24H2)—has started landing for Windows 11 devices and brings a dense mix of visible shell changes, on‑device and cloud‑assisted AI actions, accessibility improvements, and a broad set of...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of Windows’ most persistent little mysteries: the “Update and shut down” / “Refresh and shut down” option that for years sometimes installed updates and then restarted the PC instead of powering it off has finally been corrected in the October preview package...

Microsoft has confirmed that a pair of recent Windows 11 servicing updates introduced display and rendering regressions for some users — ranging from videos and games appearing unexpectedly red to apps and browsers failing to refresh correctly when a full‑screen game or app ran in the background...

Microsoft’s October preview for Windows 11 (KB5067036) has introduced a puzzling regression: closing Task Manager with the window Close (X) button sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, leaving behind “ghost” Task Manager processes that accumulate with each reopen and can degrade system...

Microsoft’s long‑promised Start menu redesign arrived for mainstream Windows 11 users in the October 2025 non‑security preview (KB5067036), but the new single‑page Start surface and fresh layout options have arrived with a selection of odd regressions that are already frustrating testers and...

Microsoft has quietly delivered the most significant Start menu overhaul since Windows 11 launched, replacing the two‑pane launcher with a single, vertically scrollable canvas, new browsing modes for installed apps, and tighter Phone Link integration — and it's being rolled out via an optional...

Windows 11 users on recent preview builds are reporting a strange and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, and each reopen can spawn another live Task Manager process — producing dozens of background taskmgr.exe instances that...

The optional October preview update KB5067036 can leave Task Manager running after you click the window “X,” and repeated open→close cycles may spawn additional background taskmgr.exe processes that accumulate memory and occasional CPU until you explicitly kill them or reboot — a reproducible...

Microsoft has confirmed that an optional Windows 11 preview update (KB5067036) can leave Task Manager processes running after you close the window — producing multiple background taskmgr.exe instances that can potentially degrade device performance until they are terminated or the system is...

Microsoft’s latest optional preview has quietly turned a maintenance tool into a resource leak: closing Task Manager with the window “X” can leave the process running, and each reopen spawns another background copy of taskmgr.exe that quietly consumes RAM and occasional CPU until explicitly...

Microsoft’s optional October preview for Windows 11, KB5067036, introduced a surprising and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” can leave the underlying taskmgr.exe process running, and repeating the open→close cycle spawns additional background Task Manager instances...

Microsoft’s optional October preview for Windows 11 (KB5067036) appears to have introduced a puzzling regression: clicking the Task Manager window’s close button (the “X”) can leave the process running and — worse — spawn a new taskmgr.exe instance each time you reopen it, producing multiple...

Microsoft’s latest optional preview for Windows 11 appears to have introduced a baffling regression: the Task Manager’s close button can fail to terminate the app, leaving behind one or more live taskmgr.exe processes that accumulate each time you open and close the utility. The bug was tied to...

Microsoft’s optional October preview for Windows 11 has introduced a puzzling regression: the Task Manager can fail to close and instead leave behind multiple running taskmgr.exe instances, producing a slow, hard‑to‑diagnose resource leak for affected systems and forcing users to adopt manual...

Microsoft has quietly packed a long‑requested overhaul of the Start menu into an optional Windows 11 preview (KB5067036) and the new single, scrollable Start experience can be activated today — either by accepting Microsoft’s staged rollout after installing the preview, or immediately by...

A surprising and disruptive regression in Microsoft’s October 28, 2025 optional preview update is leaving multiple copies of Task Manager running in memory after users close the window — a glitch that can quietly consume RAM and CPU and that so far has required manual containment rather than a...

Windows 11’s latest optional preview update, KB5067036, is producing an odd — and potentially costly — regression: clicking the Task Manager window’s Close (X) button can fail to terminate the app and instead leave behind a live taskmgr.exe process, and repeated opens-and-closes spawn additional...

Microsoft has quietly rebuilt the Windows 11 Start menu into a single, scrollable launcher and made it available to users via an optional preview (KB5067036) while continuing to gate visibility with server-side rollout flags. Background / Overview Since Windows 11’s launch, the Start menu’s...