@Catweazle in 60s or 70s

interesting

@robertecullen Maybe nushell? Though it's not yet RTM.

I think Arachnid (OP) may be onto something. Today I had a similar problem, and this is why I'm concerned.

I was not using Vivaldi. I'm in my writing app and just have Vivaldi up in the background with a few basic sites pulled up (google sheets, gmail, google calendars, zillow, and FB messenger). I am not actively using them. While writing in my separate app, I suddenly got a "download complete" pop-up notification from Vivaldi. It showed that I had successfully downloaded a .xlsx file about something to do with LOA and the source came from a .gov site. I cannot remember the last time i was on a .gov site. I panicked and deleted it from downloads and recycle bin immediately without recording the details, hoping it was a one-off situation.

Five minutes later, I'm again not touching Vivaldi. Haven't changed the sites on it or used them at all. I get ANOTHER "download complete" pop-up notification. This time, I had the presence of mind to take a screenshot.

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Now it's from a different .org site for Lassen County, CA (I assume, based on google's results for Lassen County, I did not open the website address). I live in the midwest and have not done any research on California. There's no reason for this document to be auto-downloading to my computer unprompted.

I don't know what's going on, but Vivaldi is DEFINITELY downloading documents unprompted. I'm less panicked since they are from .gov and .org sites so probably less likely to be malicious but at the same time, it's still very unnerving that this can happen.

@v127, in my spare time I also play some games, but mostly some Browsergames where it's irrelevant which OS you use. eg.https://studiohammergames.itch.io. and the only bigger installed game is The Dark Mod, which works fine in Windows, Mac and Linux. There are also more and more companies which release games for other platforms. So for this part, gaming isn't anymore a big argument for Windows.

@Barruel FX sound is also open source now

@Hadden89
I've set that option previously... several times. Windows Updates seem to undo that option or reset Task Manager as the default.

@Dr-Flay Or longer if enuff customers need it.
See:

but will extend that as long as there is sufficient market demand for them. Yes, if this means providing patches for Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 in 2030, we'll do that.
— https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009437380-How-long-do-you-plan-to-provide-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-Micropatches

@wintercoast They've published a Root Cause Analysis now.

TLDR

"What Happened

The CrowdStrike Falcon sensor delivers AI and machine learning to protect customer systems by identifying and remediating the latest advanced threats. In February 2024, CrowdStrike introduced a new sensor capability to enable visibility into possible novel attack techniques that may abuse certain Windows mechanisms. This capability pre-defined a set of fields for Rapid Response Content to gather data. As outlined in the RCA, this new sensor capability was developed and tested according to our standard software development processes.

On March 5, 2024, following a successful stress test, the first Rapid Response Content for Channel File 291 was released to production as part of a content configuration update, with three additional Rapid Response updates deployed between April 8, 2024 and April 24, 2024. These performed as expected in production.

On July 19, 2024, a Rapid Response Content update was delivered to certain Windows hosts, evolving the new capability first released in February 2024. The sensor expected 20 input fields, while the update provided 21 input fields. In this instance, the mismatch resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read, causing a system crash. Our analysis, together with a third-party review, confirmed this bug is not exploitable by a threat actor.

While this scenario with Channel File 291 is now incapable of recurring, it informs the process improvements and mitigation steps that CrowdStrike is deploying to ensure further enhanced resilience."

@greybeard So what is the issue here?

@Tesseract131

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Try clicking "More choices" and using your PIN (or another method) instead. I always use PIN, as it's simpler and requires less typing. You can set up a PIN in Windows Security settings.

@Davidjohn20, as @Ayespy said, here are a lot of geeks which knows how to tam Windows, but they can help if you ask for specific issues or problems.
Windows is a very complex OS and using this forum as an online manual exceeds the possibilities it may have.
Well, for example I can give you advice on how to improve Windows performance.

Deactivate the Hibernation service, since it is not essential and takes up a lot of RAM by continually creating duplicates of the running programs. The index service is also unnecessary, especially if you use an SSD. This service uses system resources to rewrite and correct the locations of your files and documents, to allow a faster search later, but since it does not offer great advantages in search speed on more modern computers and we usually know where they are stored, It can also be easily deactivated. Now reviewing the services, it is also advisable to discard those that point to functions and devices that we do not use or have and that load unnecessary drivers (digitizer tablets and things like that) Disable animations and transparencies In the programs that are loaded at the beginning, leaving only those that we are going to need Disable Cortana Activate GodMode (1), this gives you access to all Windows settings, even those that are normally hidden. Optionally you can also use an app, which helps you with this and can also improve privacy. One of the best is Hellzerg Optimizer (Free and OpenSource).

(1)

Create a new folder anywhere you want Rename it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Done. The folder changed its icon and when you open it, you'll find a list of the accesses to all the settings of Windows (>200), sorted by categories.

@npro by the way KDE on manjaro works great whereas on kubuntu was quite slow and samba didn't work out of the box (is painful to troubleshoot its issues). Now I understand why mint dropped the kde variant.

@esap1944
Hi and welcome to the forum.
This should be the default but anyway, open Settings > General:

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If you want to use the new workspace feature and open with tabs you may have open you need to enable Last Session.
A new tab always open the Speed Dial with this settings.

F1 open the help pages, search for workspaces, speed dials and so forth.

Cheers, mib