After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be

It's become a universal truth that you should probably not upgrade to the latest and non-greatest version of ANYTHING these days. Not Android, not Windows, not iOS, not macOS. It's just embarrassing how companies with market caps sometimes above $1T produce workslop.

I use Windows Update Blocker on Windows 10 to keep it "protected" from upgrades (!). I can see that critical security updates are occurring despite this, so it's a good compromise. For now. When Windows 12 is announced, Windows 11 may finally be usable.

For anyone that does not want to switch to linux LTSC is a good alternative to avoid issues like these:

https://github.com/massgravel/massgrave.dev/blob/main/docs/w...

I recommend IoT Enterprise LTSC and you can use https://get.activated.win to activate it.

If you are using it in a business setting it's $30/month per license (there are unfortunately no non subscription licenses for windows 11 IoT).

Alternatively you can install AtlasOS and disable automatic updates and rely on maintaining a strong firewall or/and switching every application to run sandboxed using sandboxie for security. Take note that for an average person you can run without updates as long as your computing device never leaves your home and your local network / networks you trust, use external tool for driver updates.

The password icon being invisible is just funny. Some of the other issues are actually problematic, as they may interfere with some workflows.

However if you go to the December 1. (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/december-1-2025-kb...) the icon is still missing. How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon.

Probably not a priority.

Expanding the "Gradual rollout" section is … interesting. I could hardly read it, let alone understand it straight away. For me a clear indicator that I am trying to ingest AI generated content. It's so embarrasing - is quality in documentation now a foreign concept in the age of AI, or does nobody simply care?

Can't wait for my new SSD to arrive, then it's finally Goodbye Windows, Hello again, Linux.

Copilot is on the job to fix it already!

Perhaps someone with good with reverse engineering skills could figure out what went wrong here - it might be amusing...

Microsoft: if you're eating your own dog food and use Copilot etc. to develop Windows, please stop.

If you're not using it (why not?), please start.

Does it matter? It's designed to be used only by by AI agents anyway.

But hey! At least these four AI components made it in, so the important stuff is okay...

In other news, 500 million PCs declined to 'upgrade' to 11.

Man. I’d pay actual money to be able to just install security updates and nothing else indefinitely for this pile of shit. Really does suck that 90% of my workflow on my Windows PC remains Windows-only.

Did Microsoft just completely give up on QA in the name of accelerated slop delivery? They are in the news once a month for a serious windows bug. My disdain for windows id getting immense, at this point I'd rather have a linux computer, if I can't have a macbook. (But don't get me started on OSX & iOS, which are also total messes)

I mean this is a Preview release right? Essentially a beta? Are we surprised there are bugs in a beta release?

This makes sense.

The Windows Insiders are so glazed over they probably don’t even use passwords to log in — they’re too lost in the “free QA for Microsoft” sauce.

And? Writing software at scale is incredibly hard. Where is the empathy for MS devs who are sprinting every day to give us an awesome product