Windows 11 and games

 Microsoft will be enabling VBS on most new PS's and that can slow games down by up to 25%.

So what is VBS?

Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), a setting introduced into Windows 10 which uses hardware and software virtualisation to enhance the security of your system. It basically creates an isolated subsystem that helps prevent malware from screwing your PC. Sounds good, but it has been shown to slow the frame rate of some games down by 28%.

Microsoft explains it as follows: "VBS uses hardware virtualization features to create and isolate a secure region of memory from the normal operating system. Windows can use this 'virtual secure mode' to host a number of security solutions, providing them with greatly increased protection from vulnerabilities in the operating system, and preventing the use of malicious exploits which attempt to defeat protections."

More dislikes on Windows 11

In my last post about Windows 11, I wrote about some of the features that I liked in Windows 10 and had been removed. Well here is another one. The pinned to start has changed and is now not as useful or as changeable as it was before.

And another, I need to use the command prompt and that is missing off the menu, yes you can find it with a search. 

What else is missing of the menu. ¯\_(’◡’)_/¯

Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix

Here we go again. 

A newly discovered bug in Microsoft Azure's Active Directory (AD) implementation allows a hacker to have unlimited attempts to guess someone's username and password without getting caught. And, these attempts aren't logged on to the server.

That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker's actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them.

Windows 11

And what they have left out.

So Windows 11 will be released to the public in less that a week and so far all it appears to be is 

• Windows 10 with rounded corners
• A number of features missing
• System requirements that are not needed
  

Yes it is pretty, with the rounded corners, and that is the last of my good words.  

 

Featues missing

Lets start with the MAC style taskbar.

Default is the icons to the centre, but you can move it to the left.

Location of the taskbar is at bottom, no option to have it to snapping to left or the right running vertically, or even move it to the top is not an option.

Icon size, unless you are going to hack the registery then there is one size only.

In Windows 10 I like to have 

• Small icons
• Double height task bar
• Combine when task bar is full
• Seconds showing in the clock

None of this is possible 

Next the context menu.

This is the menu you get when you right click a file, now to get all the useful functions I have to click the "Show More Option".

System Requirements

TMP & UEFI

Windows 10 does not need them and Windows 11 will run with out them. So why? If you computer is over about 3 years old then it may not be able to run it, they say.

Lets start again!

Long time since I put anything here.
Just start with a fun one then I will do some serious stuff