[Did You Know] Ultimate List of Windows 8 Bugs and Goof-ups

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1. Start bar/clock jumps out from the side of the screen for no reason and at random. Any ideas on a fix? I’ve already returned my comp twice for a new one.

2. ^^ Please check following:

   https://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-hot-corners-charms-bar-start-screen-thumbnail-app-switch-list-in-windows-8/

3. If you have the taskbar at the top of the screen, and open a window from a shortcut, it will open behind the taskbar, the only way to get it out is to resize it. But sometimes you can’t get programs like fraps out! 😮

4. Sometimes, when searching in the start screen, if there are no results under a category, clicking on it freezes the start screen over the computer rendering it useless until you log off. It is the most annoying bug I’ve seen.

5. The Windows Explorer Titlebar bug: The menu disappears one the second click no matter the what is the sequence of the clicks or selection of the menu !

6. Windows 8 itself is a bug itself and therefore, a huge miserable mistake from Micro$oft.

7. Each time i am rebooting the system, i need to go through 1 login, then installation screen, and then i need to log out of the user, and then log in to use the pc

8. Hey VG! Great Post! 🙂
   I have found another bug in windows 8(works in windows 7 too)

   First you must enable file extensions, then, on the desktop, create a text file(or any file).
   Now right click on that file, rename, change the extension to anything.
   Now click outside on an empty area on the screen. Click Yes on the dialog.
   And voilà! The mouse will be in dragging mode! Just click anywhere to make it stop.

9. ^^ Interesting. I found this bug first in Windows Vista. Check “File Renaming Bug” in following topic:

   https://www.askvg.com/windows-vista-facts-bugs-and-goof-ups/

   Surprisingly it still exists in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

10. Nice findings! You may add those as well:

    1. ‘Aero snap’ left border rendered incorrectly: i.imgur.com/v05rzWA.png
    2. Windows explorer address bar highlight glitch: i.imgur.com/K2mapiL.png
    3. JPG wallpapers get visibly downgraded: i.imgur.com/V1ZDYCB.png (2x scale)

11. Biggest bug I’ve encounter in Windows 8 and 8.1 is no classic theme or option to disable desktop composition.

12. I found a disturbing bug in the Windows 8.1 spring update. When you change your theme or anything else in the personalize menu, a lot of graphical glitches occur.
    1 : In the explorer, there is a part of your desktop showing.
    2 : The settings menu in the charms bar is transparent.
    3 : Only 3 things are shown in the charms bar.

13. To do this bug, you must have your taskbar on the left side of the screen with autohide on.

    Go to the window menu at the top of the taskbar and click it to take you to the apps. Run a program from there. The screen will switch back to programs with the taskbar displayed. It doesn’t matter which screen you click in, the taskbar will remain displayed. The only way to hide it is to click on a blank area of the taskbar and then click in a program window.

14. I have an issue where I click on a folder to open it but it does not display. It opens but all that it displays is a transparent square, nothing more. How do I fix this? I cannot open anything folderlike anymore.

15. Mephilel, this might be explorer problem try restore windows.

16. [BUG] When you navigate the start screen with the mouse wheel, after navigating sometime, it will freeze and not move. If you zoom out with [ctrl] and mouse wheel down, iv will not zoom out but every thing will blur. To get rid of it click on the left bottom thumbnail.

    Thanks,
    Harsh Chaturvedi

17. Hi Vishal
    I am an experienced windows user and after using each and every version of windows
    i came to the conclusion that windows 8 is the worst thing i ever used.
    I have changed my keyboard three times every time the ctrl and the alt button stop working and also some other buttons..
    please tell me is there any such bug or i will have to downgrade to the ‘Best’ Windows 7

18. ^^ I have not seen such kind of bug in any computer. Try to attach another keyboard to your system.

19. Personal Information

    Name: Phoenix Eve Aspacio
    Gender: Male
    Age: 14 years old

    Computer Information

    Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics
    Model Number: NP305U1A-A0CPH
    Operating System: Windows 8.1 PRO without WMC

    Issue

    This is an issue in Windows 8.1 that is bothering me for a while since my friend from Bangladesh gave me a genuine Windows 8.1 Pro Product Key. Basically, randomly and following no specific action the hot corners including the charms bar stopped working, title bars in apps installed from store is not showing. They do not appear at all, the start button becomes unclickable and the apps in the taskbar is having a bad time thinking I am hovering into it.

    Physical button combinations do make them appear though. This is happening on my laptop (Non-touch), freshly installed Windows 8.1. It does not matter how many times I format, reinstall or uninstall apps, the bug is still there. I’m starting to think it’s a bug in the OS itself and it’s my usage pattern that triggers it. Nevertheless, it’s annoying. The only way to restore proper functionality is to restart explorer.exe (or to reboot).

    I’ve searched for solutions online but I found no permanent solution. I also found some windows 8.1 users having the same problem. I’ve tried all the cmd stuffs to check whether the system is corrupted, but none of those codes helped. I hope you have a permanent solution for me.

20. ^^ First make sure you have installed Update 1 and Update 2:

    https://www.askvg.com/windows-8-1-update-1-available-for-download/
    https://www.askvg.com/windows-8-1-august-update-aka-update-2-now-available-for-download/

21. Keyboard repeat rate slow setting doesn’t work on re-start.

    Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Set Repeat Delay to short, test in the input provided below. It works as expected, pressing the space long moves fast.

    Now, restart the machine, pressing the space long is again slow, although when we go back to the control panel -> keyboard, it shows Short. Now, changing again to long & slow & applying, makes it work again.

22. Does any body else experience these bugs, or is this just an issue with my installation:

    #1 When you enable “View all folders” in the navigation pane and then try to open a sub folder of your own profile folder (the folder in the navigation pane with your name), it always opens in a new window, sometimes even twice (so two new explorer windows after every double click).

    #2 When I search under start, it only finds applications (even though “Everywhere” is selected”. When I switch to “Settings” it can find settings and when I switch back to “Everywhere” it finally does search “everywhere” and displays apps and settings.

    Both are really annoying, but I haven’t figured out yet how to get rid of these problems… I wonder if these are common Windows 8.1 bugs or something got messed up with my user profile.

23. on last reboot of install for Win 8.1 the screen is dim as though the brightness was turned all the way down. if I reboot to Win 7, all is as it should be. any ideas? installed Win 7 & 8.1 for dual boot on Sony Vaio laptop… grateful for any ideas… ran driver update – sez I have the most recent driver already installed… ??? many thanks for help….

24. Bug: in a save file window (such as the download file window in Firefox), typing something in the search bar of the window and then trying to save the file will result in a “Location not found” error. This is because when you begin to search for something, the File Explorer window actually changes location: s11.postimg.org/g6q3t2bf7/bug.png

25. Hi VG,
    I found a bug in windows 8, 8.1 and 10 right off the bat. Open IE and open File Manger(Windows explorer) and set the two side by side on the screen. Next visit any website and drag the Icon from the address bar to a folder in Windows Explorer, not only does this make a Link, but it launches the Link in new window in IE. Before windows 8, I never saw this happen. When I use Chrome in Windows 8 and above, and drag the icon from the address bar to a folder, it just makes a link which is how it used to be with IE. I consider this to be a flaw in windows 8, 8.1 and 10 using IE and possible a security problem, and if not, it is definitely annoying especially if you are trying to bookmark that way.

26. Another bug in windows 8, 8.1 and 10 is typing in Internet Explorer and when you are editing and moving the cursor around back and forth using the arrows on the keyboard by default my keyboard is in Insert mode, but all of sudden when moving the cursor back some place, and then to the right, it changes to Type-Over mode. It doesn’t just happen on my laptop but on my desktop and both computers us windows 8/8.1. This same flaw/bug still exists in windows 10. Perhaps this bug is a result of the Spellchecker, who knows?

27. After a trillion dollars in revenue how can a software be so terrible. We’r hostage to their incompetence

28. I’ve actually been haunted by Bug #1: “Windows 8 Explorer Titlebar Bug”. Not sure what’s causing it but I have a fix which seems to work reasonably well.

    Here’s an AutoHotkey script which addresses it. This fix works reasonably well most of the time, however, if you switched to/from the explorer window after clicking on the title bar too quickly, it won’t kill the excess context menu which pops up. I’ve not tested this yet on Windows 10 but I’m sure I will soon 🙂

    Github link (likely more up-to-date and with installation instructions): github.com/patricknelson/windows-explorer-context-bug

    —-

    ; Prevents the context menu from appearing twice when right clicking the title bar of Windows Explorer in Windows 8.x.
    ~RButton::
    if WinActive(“ahk_class CabinetWClass”) {

    ; Check if title bar.
    CoordMode, Mouse, Window
    MouseGetPos, ClickX, ClickY, WindowUnderMouseID
    WinActivate, ahk_id %WindowUnderMouseID%
    WinGetClass, class, A
    WinGetPos, x, y, w, h, ahk_id %WindowUnderMouseID%

    if (ClickY 0 and ClickX > 0) {
    KeyWait,RButton
    WinWait,ahk_class #32768
    Send {ESC}
    ;msgbox %w%
    return
    }
    }

29. Ok, I’ve perfected my fix for this and now it’s on Github with screenshots and etc: github.com/patricknelson/windows-explorer-context-bug

    I’ve worked around the initial focus issue!

30. Just a Windows 8.1 user on a desktop. My main frustration with the Personalization option is I set the Desktop Background to Fit in Picture position box, and Save Changes. This works for a few hours and then reverts back to Center later.
    Is there a way I can edit the registry to not have Center in the list of options?