Recent content by wa1fhy

Periodic scanning is (and has been) set to Off. Defender has been turned off since the day I got the computer. It just seemed strange to me that I received the (almost daily) security intelligence updates for Defender for exactly one month, and haven't seen any more in the last 6 days. And...

Dell Inspiron 15" laptop, Win 11 Build 22631.4037. Can someone explain the connection between the Smart App Control and Windows Defender? I have been receiving almost daily "Security Intelligence Update for MS Defender AV" as shown in Reliability Monitor. Exactly one month after the...

I started getting this problem suddenly in late January (I did several posts about it a few pages back). It plagued me for about 6 weeks, but the problem has completely disappeared over the last month and everything now works fine. There have been probably a couple of dozen updates, including...

Disabling location setting in Windows Experience Pack got rid of the arrow on the lower right of the taskbar. However, it did not fix the "mouse click on desktop icons after idle" problem. Oh well, it was a nice guess!

Here's something I just discovered that might shed some more light on the problem. I came back to my laptop after a 30 minute idle, which I knew was when the mouse clicks would not work on my desktop icons for the first 10 seconds or so, and I noticed in the bottom right of the taskbar a little...

The issue seemed to go away on my computer for the last two days, but now it's back. Gotta love this software crap!

When this first started to happen, my initial thought was perhaps it was widget related. So I turned off the widgets. Didn't help.

I'm neither the OP or the person suggesting the problem is with the left side of the screen, but for the record, I experienced the issue in this thread running Windows 11 Home, 22H2, OS Build 22621.1265 on a Dell Inspiron (3511) laptop.

What is even more strange is starting about two days ago, I no longer have this "desktop icon mouse delay after idle" problem. Maybe this announcement is premature and the problem will come back - I've been fooled before! The only updates I see in the last few days have been the...

I let my Avast do its deep scan - nothing found. I'm leery of using any kind of registry cleaner. As far as drivers go, Avast suggest some updates, Dell suggests some updates, MS suggests some updates, etc, and none of the lists agree with each other. I've done all the ones that I deemed...

My Dell Inspiron laptop is only about one year old. It essentially has the initial stock Dell Win11 build and I've only installed a couple of applications, such as MS Office. All Win11 updates and Dell BIOS/drivers are current. The fact that this only started a few weeks ago would point to a...

All these workarounds are fine, but.... I see no reason why this issue should not be reported to and resolved by Microsoft. I mean my computer never had this problem until a couple of weeks ago (possibly due to recent Win 11 Updates???). It doesn't seem too much to ask that the proper...

I am experiencing the exact same thing on my Dell Inspiron (3511) laptop, virtually word-for-word with the descriptions given above. I've tried everything suggested as well as a few more power related settings. This all started right after a couple of Windows 11 updates on Jan 25 and 27. I...