First look at 26H2: MS broke Win32k.sys, quality continues to degrade


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This Windows version demonstrates further degradation of quality, including localization and other things. I think, they completely switched to AI coding and completely removed any quality control.

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But the worst thing, they broke win32k.sys, the core system component of Windows.

The drawing of the classic controls is completely broken:

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This happens to the titlebar buttons unless their size is exactly 22x22 px and the scrollbars unless their sizes are exactly 17x17 px. This also happens when using classic-themed application with any DPI scaling.

Moreover, when a program requests to be unthemed, like CPU-Z, its look becomes inconsistent:

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