At work I got Windows 11 24H2. It has a bug, known from september 2024, that resizes all the windows in a tiny corner.
Basically, when the screen shuts off for standby, Windows thinks the resolution now is no more 3840x2160 but 640x480. EVERYTHING gets resized in the top left corner at 640x480 and it's ULTRA INFURIATING
Because microsoft took 3 years to fix the taskbar and 4 years to fix the "restore explorer windows at boot" checkbox, I'm not confident that they will fix this issue in this decade, and I must find a solution, or i will become crazy.
Workarounds tried:
- using fancywm - every time i wake up screen i need to wait 10 seconds to see all the windows rearranging and resizing and it's still infuriating.
- disabling monitor timeout and replacing it with a screensaver - I'm at work and group policy mandate monitor timeout at 5 minutes
- updating the AMD drivers
- uninstalling 24H2 - the admin removed the uninstall files, i can't revert to previous version
*uninstalling powertoys in the chance if it was caused by fancyzones
- changing UI scale from 150% to 100%
What I did not try:
- replace the displayport cable with a hdmi one (but it should have only 30hz refresh rate in that case)
- use a dummy video adapter
- use a lower resolution
- wipe and reinstall everything, i have too many stuff with too many settings
I took out the DP cable from the monitor and that bug didn't come out. It has to be some correlation of the GPU that goes to sleep
but, with any version of windows released before windows 11 24h2, this problem is not present
If I were you I'd try to change every possible Windows display option I can on every possible monitor and change them back, in each possible combination of monitors plugged in/out.
There's a possibility there's an option that seems like it's set one way but it's actually not. It happens sometimes with Windows version changes.
There's an option that says "reduce all windows to icon when a monitor is disconnected" but it seems pure cosmetic, as it has no effect when the monitor is disconnected. Maybe Microsoft will add the logic to that checkbox in windows 12...
For what it's worth, it works on one of my two PCs. But yeah. Clearly not finished.
what pisses me off is that this bug is not present in windows 10 or windows 11 24H1. If it's not ready and the 100k software engineers working for microsoft aren't good enough to fix it before release, delay it for another 6 or even 12 months. Rename it as 25H2 and nobody will complain, the important is that those annoying bugs aren't there
This bug (if I’m understanding your post correctly) has existed for 10+ years?
Maybe they accidentally fixed it and then reverted back? Didn't have this bug since I got 24h2 a month ago