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hotaru251 called MS just needs to re-do windows from ground up. It is a mess of redundant stuff that should have been deprecated and cut off ages ago. Apple (i loathe the company but their tech is great even if i'd never use it due to my hate of said company) showed you don't need native support of old stuff to run it anymore so long as you have a good translation layer….. MS 100% COULD do that. If you want an awful OS used at least re-work it for the modern times. Reply
Gurg 8/11/2026 W11 update corrupted MSI Afterburner and caused Time Spy and TS Extreme to stall once starting up. (Tried to run TS and TSE to see why PC wasn't working properly) I finally stumbled onto WII version 25H2 (repair version ) , downloaded and installed it. I was able to then redownload the affected programs and they now work properly. This is obviously a MS W11 update issue not a RGB lighting control App issue since running the repair version eliminated the problem. My RGB controller APP still runs fine. Reply
ezst036 Microsoft investigated Microsoft and discovered that Microsoft was innocent! Reply
jridder It's really up to Microsoft to make sure that isn't happening. It's their kernel, their system. Reply
Bigshrimp I blame Microsoft for breaking their own product. It was their update that broke their own OS. I bet they will use AI to try to fix their slop, all to just break something else, lol. I just can't… Reply
johnnycanadian hotaru251 said: Apple (i loathe the company but their tech is great even if i'd never use it due to my hate of said company) showed you don't need native support of old stuff to run it anymore so long as you have a good translation layer I've never understood this attitude: "I can see that computing would be so much better using this other piece of gear, but I refuse to use it because I have an irrational hatred of a corporation who wouldn't know if I lived or died". Completely idiotic. Reply
USAFRet johnnycanadian said: I've never understood this attitude: "I can see that computing would be so much better using this other piece of gear, but I refuse to use it because I have an irrational hatred of a corporation who wouldn't know if I lived or died". Completely idiotic. Similarly, no matter how crappy a driver or other software is written for Windows, it is the fault of Microsoft if it does not work. Reply
BTM18 johnnycanadian said: I've never understood this attitude: "I can see that computing would be so much better using this other piece of gear, but I refuse to use it because I have an irrational hatred of a corporation who wouldn't know if I lived or died". Completely idiotic. Typical apple-sheep response. Pal, you never will, "get it' . Reply
Sippincider Windows is indeed an utter mess, and the entire thing needed to be thrown out and rebuilt from scratch at least 20 years ago. BUT. Why does a decorative light driver of all things need need to be in the kernel space? Indeed an exploit waiting to happen. Should be one of the lowest priority things in the system. Reply
PEnns I am not a big admirer of Microsoft. But to blame MS for this ludicrous issue is preposterous: "this issue is related to peripherals or internal device components which have RGB lighting features." The software governing these devices would install drivers or code components with file names similar to "inpoutx64" to control the RGB. When you'd launch a certain game, inpoutx64 would trigger the issue and cause a crash." Why should Microsoft accommodate every Tom, Dick and "inpoutx64" used by somebody's junky software ??? Now MS has to make sure the RGB crowd's bling this and RGB that should work or else? It's bad enough that MS has to make Windows work with every conceivable hardware and software system on the planet, even much earlier version thereof!! Your beloved Linux and Apple would sink and go broke trying to do that!! And despite that, some people would turn around – and with a straight face – excuse Windows of being bloated….while complaining their unicorn vomit isn't working because of Windows, not because it installed some carpy software on their PC, laptop or whatever! Reply
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