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

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.



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

The drawing of the classic controls is completely broken:




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:

We’ve seen this movie before.

pseymour said:

We’ve seen this movie before.

25H2 - Windows quality continues to degrade

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This time they broke the core component that even Windhawk cannot fix. Neither u can take files from an older version.

It's too bad we can't read the dialog boxes in the things you posted. ^^


Screenshot from 26H2...

My CPU-Z looks always the same. No changes observed. No degradation observed.

My PC is older than yours. You should get an old system to compute, maybe.

@suatcini54 Hmm. Interesting. Does the scrollbar in the drop-down lists in this program get broken with DPI scaling?

Mine looks the same as always...

And people wonder why I'm in no hurry to upgrade to 26H2!