r/Windows11

I’ve been dealing with a massive headache for a long time: video on my second monitor would constantly stutter or lose smoothness when I was gaming. It’s that classic Windows bug that hits when you have a large gap in refresh rates (my setup is 240Hz primary + 60Hz secondary).

It happened regardless of the game or the browser.

I spent a whole week trying to fix this. Drivers, registry hacks, Windows settings - you name it. The only common "solution" was disabling HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling), but I play with Frame Generation, so that wasn't an option for me.

After getting nowhere, I gave up on Windows and just built a workaround.

The Fix: It’s a tiny background utility that draws a 1-pixel invisible moving rectangle on the secondary monitor. It forces the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) to keep the display in a high-performance render state, which completely eliminates the desync.

I know, it’s a total hacky crutch, but it’s the only thing that actually saved my setup after a week of trial and error.

Since I know how frustrating this bug is, I threw the .exe and the source code on GitHub. If you're losing your mind over this same issue, give it a shot.

(Note: Just grab the .exe from the "Releases v 1.1.0*" section on the right side of the GitHub page).*

GitHub: https://github.com/Arccalc/Dwmfix

EDIT: Pushed v1.2 to GitHub

• Interactive Position Customization (Drag & Drop): Enabling the "Show & adjust position (drag & drop)" option displays the render indicators and allows you to freely drag them to any position on your screen.
• Single Instance Enforcement: Implemented a system-wide lock via shared memory. Attempting to launch a duplicate instance will prompt a warning dialog ("DWM Fixer is already running.") and cleanly terminate the duplicate process

Hope this helps some of you save your sanity. Let me know if it works for your setup.

EasyEffects is a famous Linux app that can make modifications to your mic or output in real time, such as reverb, noise removal, or echo removal.

Good evening, the latest version of ExplorerPatcher is flagged as a Trojan by Windows Security. Is this a false positive?

hello
heavily considering rolling back from 24h2 -> 23h2 (my PC is an older PC that does NOT handle 24h2 well with CPU spikes & all, but this is another topic) but I’ve had something on my mind for a bit
with the “go back” option, will the PC installation history practically be the same after rolling back?
say the history is something like this:
first installation of windows 23h2 / first time using the PC -> 6-12 months of usage, updates to drivers, security, and all -> 24h2 update -> rollback to 23h2 -> etc
is that right? will the 23h2 rollback not affect my current PC history / will it just be included part of it normally?
and would this current 24h2 be closer to the original PC history?
thanks

The new Xbox Feedback hub gave me the idea.

In a perfect world, on where their new GameInput API is perfectly implemented and all inputs from every controller are universally read:

• Gyro
• Back paddles
• Additional buttons
• HD Rumble

We could potentially see a simplified, controller-friendly interface that allows us to simply configure our controller on a game-by-game basis, kinda like Steam Input does.

What do you think?

What would you like to see in a potential Controller Panel?

If you are not a MS Ninja Cat (Insider) and can't wait. This is the easier way to try the feature.

(The .bak file is created by HxD once I opened "test.txt" inside HxD)

It shows that the .bak file has been deleted ~126 years ago.

(In 2nd screenshot, I added 00 00 then saved the file)

It seems someone at Microsoft has heard about the accessibility issues that comes with having a CoPilot key instead of a right CTRL, and at least in this article it promises a new remapping feature will be added in a future update.

However I was not able to find a date on when this article was written on Microsoft's website.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows/copilot/understand-updates-to-the-copilot-key-on-windows-devices

First let me say my knowledge on computers is very basic, I struggle to understand code and such so please bear with me and my best attempts at describing from the viewpoint of someone who does not work with computers and discovered this on accident.

So, I got a new Lenovo computer recently with Windows 11Pro. And I found that the Snipping Tool was pretty decent. I always use it with the ImpPt button. This opens a small banner at the top of the screen.

However, (and I do not recall what I did to achieve this, mind you. I remember that when I first got the computer, this was not an option, but I did something that enabled it) at one point I found a new feature.

After selecting what I wanted to screenshot, the selection stayed on screen, had a resizing border option (the - - - - line with a thicker button in the middle that you hold and drag to resize the selection itself before taking the actual screenshot) and a banner underneath to edit it immediately instead of it all disappearing and sending a notification that the screenshot was taken, for me to open and edit from a window. It also had a new button. Off to the left there was a long button that enabled a drop-down menu with three options. Copy only, save to clipboard, and save as.

It is important to emphasise that this did not open a new window. It kept the selection marked ON MY SCREEN and had both the sizing frame and editor banner with this "save as" button and the usual drawing/highlighter/etc buttons.

It was extremely useful, as I often take screenshots and being able to resize on the spot instead of on a new window (without being able to size it bigger), to choose to just keep it on the clipboard or whether and where I want to save it, and to edit it right away is perfect!

The problem is that due to a problem with my SSD, I had to take my computer to a tech and factory reset the computer. It's all fine now.

But the snipping tool now only sends me the notification that a screenshot has been taken and doesn't show me the editor right away. The resizing frame and the button with the drop-down menu are also gone. I went and tried googling videos and article tutorials on how to use the tool, but none of them mention this button or the frame. It's as if they didn't exist, but I know it exists because I've used them several times for around three months!

I was wondering if anybody knows what I'm talking about and whether it's possible to enable that button again. I'd be really thankful!