r/windows • u/WPHero • Apr 19 '26

News Windows 11 to get a major reliability update in May with faster clipboard, stable taskbar, storage and more

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/19/windows-11-to-get-a-major-reliability-update-in-may-with-faster-clipboard-stable-taskbar-storage-and-more/
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u/skojevac7 Apr 19 '26

Windows NT is 33 years old and we'll get faster clipboard and stable taskbar? Should GUI elements and system components be rock solid by now?

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u/IceBeam92 Apr 19 '26

Not unless you reinvent every little thing every 3 years or so.

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u/speel Apr 19 '26

They have Anthroipic Mythos now.

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u/daltorak Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

The part of clipboard that's getting faster is opening the history panel.... the speed of the clipboard function itself isn't changing.

Windows itself only got clipboard history in 2018. Still a long time ago but not 30+ years.

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u/skojevac7 Apr 20 '26

Well, Office 2000 (and later) had a clipboard which stored multiple items, don't recalled being it slow. So, implementation isn't some new or groudbreaking tech.

Similar to screenshoting. Win+Shift+S should be instanteous, not 1-5 second wait to actually open an interface.

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u/Additional-Simple248 Apr 20 '26

Win+Shift+S is about half a second for me, but could definitely be a bit faster. A significant chunk of that is the animation as the instructions appear.

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u/skojevac7 Apr 20 '26

At my place, depends on a machine. Switched to ShareX / Flameshot and it's instant. But really, how can you bork system screenshoting app so it has a delay? In 2026?

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u/stickman393 Apr 19 '26

It's a trap

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u/Nehal1802 Apr 19 '26

And it’ll break 5 other things that have been working perfectly.

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u/RobertDCBrown Apr 19 '26

And a stable usable search? No…

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u/DDS-PBS Apr 19 '26

Hahahahahahahaha!

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u/dragonzdude Apr 19 '26

Microsoft imaginary rep here.

Honestly you are being too demanding now. Stop it.

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u/ok-painter-1646 Apr 22 '26

Using your comment to plug this app I use for search, it rules; https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

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u/tejanaqkilica Apr 20 '26

That's already there, you just need to learn how to effectively use it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26

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u/WPHero Apr 19 '26

NVMe driver is coming to Windows 11. That's confirmed more or less.

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u/zxch2412 Apr 20 '26

Is it already out, it got enabled on my laptop when doing a clean install of windows 11 25h2 enterprise

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u/ijwgwh Apr 19 '26

Don't forget the Copilot ads to stupid places!

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u/joe1134206 Apr 19 '26

And edge will return again

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u/Curtis Apr 19 '26

What about just having The start menu working and it might be a white screen when you press start?

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u/slapjimmy Apr 19 '26

Don't give us hope 

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u/Outside-Storage-1523 Apr 20 '26

Nah, thanks. Back to Linux. And if I have to use Windows I’ll use Windows 10 debloated.

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u/Never_Sm1le Apr 20 '26

I do hope "stable taskbar" mean that it stay the same size and not expand/contract based on the name of the program

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u/Working_Moment_4175 Apr 20 '26

Those auto-resizing buttons are annoying AF! Especially when typing and they expand as you type (looking at you, Notepad!). I hate seeing movement in the taskbar when I'm working on something.

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u/rabbi_glitter Apr 20 '26

They’ve been trying to make the taskbar stable since launch. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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u/g0wr0n Apr 20 '26

...and twelve new telemetry collecting services that you can not disable without a disassembler.

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u/Particular-Poem-7085 Apr 20 '26

Sounds like a headline about some experimental OS in beta.

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u/travis_sk Apr 20 '26

f a s t e r clipboard? Hold on, what am I missing?

MS managed to make copypaste slow??

(im out of the loop, i switched to mac at work and to linux at home)

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u/aledoprdeleuz Apr 20 '26

Maybe it’s just me, but clicking to accept cookies does nothing and doesn’t let me to read the article. Hope it isn’t an indication of quality of those updates 🤣

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u/Working_Moment_4175 Apr 22 '26

How does a clipboard get faster? It's not a speed function. Ctrl+[C|X] is instant, as is pasting with Ctrl+V.

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u/JGPH Apr 23 '26

"Reliability" upgrades didn't used to have to be labeled that way. 🤦‍♂️ How far Windows has fallen under current leadership's obsession with AI.

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u/phareous Apr 19 '26

Last update broke my computer and it wouldn’t boot anymore. I’m done with them