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@xenopanther.bsky.social

Canary #WindowsInsider who loves finding small changes and bugs. Feline fan. They/them Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/xenopanther

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[Internal Corpnet Required] Windows 11, version 26H1 (28000.1198)

10.11.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ngl Windows looks lowkey good like this

27.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

2025's development of Windows has really killed my enjoyment of the OS and seeing its development

21.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The desktop is finally full at 1366x768

14.10.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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12.10.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What the hell, I've never seen Rover do this.

11.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can I have everyone's attention please

Thank you

10.10.2025 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚠️.NET Framework 3.5 is no longer an FOD starting with build 27965. You will have to download a standalone installer

08.10.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ADK/SDK are out for build 27959
Server build 26501 coming later today

08.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For those curious, these are the blacklisted folder names for the DefaultUserFolder command

07.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time to archive the VM. Don't want to lose a vm from 2018

06.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it might be time to retire my Windows XP VM and upgrade it to 7. The audio issues and some DirectX stuff crashing the VM is getting too much

06.10.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

End of Support for Windows 11 25H2...
Home/Pro: Oct 12, 2027
IoT Enterprise / Enterprise / Education: Oct 10, 2028

30.09.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's always nice to clean out files. Went from 65GB to 251GB free

22.09.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amanda Langowski on X: "Bittersweet news as we say goodbye to @brandonleblanc in his role with @WindowsInsider! Thank you, Brandon, for everything you've done to support and grow the WIP Community and wishing you all the best in your next chapter :) https://t.co/yDgZQlMVDJ" / X Bittersweet news as we say goodbye to @brandonleblanc in his role with @WindowsInsider! Thank you, Brandon, for everything you've done to support and grow the WIP Community and wishing you all the best in your next chapter :) https://t.co/yDgZQlMVDJ

Link to the original post; x.com/amanda_lango...

19.09.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was posted over on Twitter by Amanda Langowski But @brandonleblanc.bsky.social is leaving their role in with the Windows Insider Program.
Wishing him good luck with the next step of his journey

19.09.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Wait, so it's not my keyboard that is dying? It's an issue with the latest canary builds where my keyboard stops working until I unplug and replug?

18.09.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fun fact. By setting ProgressUXType to 0 in C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\sources\SetupPlatform.ini right before the second stage of setup begins. You can get back the early Win10 era setup screen.

This still works as of build 27943

14.09.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just had my first Android crash

12.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Purple Visual Studio ftw!

09.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Windows Setup is black is hotter than the usual blue

05.09.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter is down here

03.09.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realised that thanks to the Premium Assurance Support, IA-64 Windows is still supported until Jan 2026

01.09.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is going to go VERY well, isn't it?

30.08.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is the error when attempting to reset your PC on build 27934 (Blog mentions this as a known issue)
Resetting will get to ~29% before undoing changes

29.08.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course if you go from stable releases then:
NT 3.1 (1993) > Vista (2006) - 13 years
Vista > Today - 19 years

Then there's ESD, which has been around for ~13 years but we're still using WIM

26.08.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Installing windows via the i386 folder didn't last that long all things considered.
WinNT 3.1 used it (First seen in 1991 builds)
and Longhorn Build 4001 used WIM (December 2002)

So the WIM format in one form has been around for 23 years. Whereas i386 was around for 11 years

26.08.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry for forgetting to post over here :(

24.08.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Did Twitter and Discord just die for anyone else?

20.08.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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27928.1 (se_release?) and 29429.1000 (rs_prerelease) have appeared on the MS Symbol Server

19.08.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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