{"id":608232,"date":"2023-02-15T07:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/its-finally-game-over-for-one-of-windows-11s-oldest-and-annoying-bugs\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:49:35","slug":"its-finally-game-over-for-one-of-windows-11s-oldest-and-annoying-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/its-finally-game-over-for-one-of-windows-11s-oldest-and-annoying-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s finally game over for one of Windows 11&#8217;s oldest (and annoying) bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"KqEyj5mDWxzRJqY2dwcFSY\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\" aria-label=\"Return to News\">News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\" aria-label=\"Return to Computing\">Computing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"Side of the Razer Wolverine V2 Pro\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; 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Windows 11 has been behaving rather oddly for those with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-controllers-for-pc-2019-the-best-pc-game-controllers-you-can-buy-today\">game controller<\/a> hooked up to their PC, in that the system may not enter sleep mode due to that peripheral being connected. Well, all that\u2019s a distant memory now as the cure has finally been implemented here.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, there are also solutions to several niggling problems in search functionality with Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p>The main one is that when hunting for image files using the taskbar search, there\u2019s a bug that prevents opening the pic in the photo editing app of your choice; and that glitch has now been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>A further issue that stopped users from searching for a file via its contents has also been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of other fixes for minor issues here, outlined in full in the release notes, and some security measures applied as expected with these monthly patches.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"analysis-a-tricky-fix-it-seems\">Analysis: A tricky fix, it seems<\/h2>\n<p>The game controller-related flaw \u2013 which also stops the screensaver from kicking in, as well as preventing sleep mode \u2013 is a strange bug indeed, affecting not just gamepads but the likes of flight controllers. It\u2019s an issue that has dogged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/pc-mac\/software\/operating-systems\/windows-10-1267364\/review\">Windows 10<\/a> users persistently in the past too, and indeed, there have been quite a <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&#038;mid=24542&#038;u1=trd-us-1219869734531326000&#038;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fforum%2Fall%2Fhid-compliant-game-controller-still-preventing%2Fdb5e54a3-e8ba-4f20-9b67-98759a683f3f\" data-url=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/all\/hid-compliant-game-controller-still-preventing\/db5e54a3-e8ba-4f20-9b67-98759a683f3f\" target=\"_blank\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&#038;mid=24542&#038;u1=hawk-custom-tracking&#038;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fforum%2Fall%2Fhid-compliant-game-controller-still-preventing%2Fdb5e54a3-e8ba-4f20-9b67-98759a683f3f\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"microsoft.com\" data-merchant-id=\"1855\" data-merchant-url=\"microsoft.com\" data-merchant-network=\"LS\">number of reports<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> online about this problem over the past couple of years (with bug reports that can be traced back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&#038;mid=24542&#038;u1=trd-us-9606981540063382000&#038;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fforum%2Fall%2Fscreensaver-and-sleep-mode-not-working-with-game%2F32299fb3-55ab-45b5-9813-48a9bfeda6cf%3Fpage%3D2\" data-url=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/all\/screensaver-and-sleep-mode-not-working-with-game\/32299fb3-55ab-45b5-9813-48a9bfeda6cf?page=2\" target=\"_blank\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&#038;mid=24542&#038;u1=hawk-custom-tracking&#038;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fforum%2Fall%2Fscreensaver-and-sleep-mode-not-working-with-game%2F32299fb3-55ab-45b5-9813-48a9bfeda6cf%3Fpage%3D2\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"microsoft.com\" data-merchant-id=\"1855\" data-merchant-url=\"microsoft.com\" data-merchant-network=\"LS\">very launch of Windows 10<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>, in fact).<\/p>\n<p>Why has it taken Microsoft so <em>very<\/em> long to solve this, then? Well, that\u2019s a question we can\u2019t answer, but we guess it must have been a deeply embedded issue that took some work to unpick. (Either that, or it fell off priority lists and disappeared into a chasm of inaction for some years).<\/p>\n<p>Better late than never with the fix, of course, although in this case, Microsoft has pushed the acceptable bounds of the definition of \u2018late\u2019 to extremes. Hopefully this fix will come to Windows 10 soon enough, and indeed it\u2019s also notable that we\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.flightsimulator.com\/t\/microsoft-finally-fixed-game-controllers-not-letting-a-computer-turn-on-its-screen-saver-or-sleep\/572498\/10\" data-url=\"https:\/\/forums.flightsimulator.com\/t\/microsoft-finally-fixed-game-controllers-not-letting-a-computer-turn-on-its-screen-saver-or-sleep\/572498\/10\">comments<\/a> online from some affected PC owners that this fix alone has prompted them to upgrade to Windows 11 (or nudged them off the fence, likely).<\/p>\n<p>In these days of spiralling energy prices and the cost-of-living crisis, gamers can doubtless ill afford for their system not to be sleeping when it should be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel &#8211; &#8216;I Know What You Did Last Supper&#8217; &#8211; was published by Hachette UK in 2013).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/its-finally-game-over-for-one-of-windows-11s-oldest-and-annoying-bugs\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Margarete Kucera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: Future) Windows 11 has got a new cumulative update which applies some important fixes to the taskbar, and also resolves an issue that has been bothering some PC gamers for a long, long time (we\u2019ll come back to that).Patch KB5022845 (opens in new tab) has now been deployed, containing all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[848,46,23032],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-608232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finally","8":"category-technology","9":"category-windows"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}