Is anybody having issues with Windows 11?

[Richard Russell]

I've received a report of BBC BASIC for Windows not running correctly in Windows 11. It seems to be fine here (Windows 11 Pro version 25H2), and I wouldn't have expected there to be a problem since BB4W runs on everything from Windows 95 OSR2 to the present day. So is anybody else experiencing issues that can be linked specifically with Windows 11?

[Phil_Thatcham]

OK at a trivial level on my Windows 11 Pro 24H2, too.

Do you know what actions provoke the issues? Happy to try them here.

pt

[Richard Russell]

Do you know what actions provoke the issues? Happy to try them here.

Quoting directly from the report I received: 'It all seems to be in order until I want to run a programme. The "not responding" message appears every time... [even] using a simple command like PRINT "OK"'. Not very specific, but I assume it means that as soon as he clicks on the Run button in the toolbar it stops responding.

Internally, what BB4W does at that point is to open a second window (the program's 'output window') so perhaps something is preventing that from happening, but I wouldn't have a clue what.

[JeremyNicoll]

Does the user have any unusual anti-malware software? If so is it configured to be more aggressive than its default settings?

Do they use any Windows tweaks or mods - perhaps designed to make Win 11 behave more like W7 / 8 / 8.1 /10 ?

IS it by clicking "Run" in the IDE ... or when trying to run a compiled program? If a compiled one ... was it compiled on Win 11?

Do any of the sample programs you supply work?

Is the user using the DLLs that came with the version of BB4W they're running?

"Not responding" is a msg issued by Windows itself (I think); would Windows write an Eventlog record in that situation? Has the user looked to see if Windows is reporting ANYTHING at the same time?

[Richard Russell]

Does the user...

Needless to say I don't know the answers to any of those questions, but I have alerted the person concerned to this thread, so hopefully he may see them himself.

[Richard Russell]

Needless to say I don't know the answers to any of those questions, but I have alerted the person concerned to this thread, so hopefully he may see them himself.

He has now reported back as follows: "I noticed that I was having problems with other programmes so I went back to factory settings and reloaded Windows and all is now rosy".

I wonder, with hindsight, whether:

sfc /scannow

would have found and fixed the damaged component of Windows without the hassle of reloading Windows from scratch.