Microsoft has fastened a bug in Home windows 11 that has been hanging round eternally, just about – or for over a 12 months anyway.

In truth, as Home windows Newest observes, it took Microsoft fifteen months to repair the issue with File Explorer whereby it will merely pop into the foreground with no warning.

In different phrases, you could be busy working away at some process or different and File Explorer instantly seems on prime of all of your different home windows, for completely no cause.

An odd downside certainly, however we’re instructed that the treatment is packaged up within the newest replace for Home windows 11. That’s the just lately launched cumulative replace for December, also referred to as patch KB5033375.

Microsoft notes: “This replace addresses a problem that impacts File Explorer home windows. When you don’t anticipate them, they seem within the foreground.”

The bug appears to occur randomly on affected PCs, and worse nonetheless, Home windows Newest says that it could possibly happen on a roughly hourly foundation in some eventualities, which is manner too frequently for our liking.

Evaluation: False hacking suspicions

The factor about this bug is that it isn’t only a distraction or annoyance, however greater than this, it could make some Home windows 11 customers wrongly suspect that they’ve been hacked. In spite of everything, your PC doing issues of its personal accord, if you’re not touching the keyboard or the mouse maybe, is an indication of potential compromise – and positively a freaky factor to expertise if nothing else.

On this respect, the File Explorer bug could have precipitated some undue fear on the a part of these experiencing it, who could have been operating virus scans and all types of different carry-on, imagining that there may very well be a possible breach of safety on their system someplace.

It’s good that that is fastened, nevertheless it ought to by no means take greater than a 12 months for an issue to be banished from Home windows 11. There have definitely been some relieved customers we’ve seen on the likes of Reddit rejoicing that this gremlin within the works has lastly been handled, whereas scratching their heads at simply how lengthy it took Microsoft to untangle this one.

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