I'm testing this build 4 days in variuous situations. No BSOD's - all fine. Best interface performance - more better than other Win10/Win11 Best RAM/CPU usage It seems that all your problems are related to hardware or drivers.
Clean + LP + Drivers. Next, I disabled UAC, Defender and all its components such as VBS, Smart app control, SmartScreen, WTD, Exploit protection. All work fine
Has anyone else noticed Bitlocker automatically encrypting the OS drive when clean installing 26100? For whatever reason, using the same .ISO and bootable memory drive, upon doing a clean installation on my desktop, the OS drive remains unencrypted, which I prefer, as I manually enable BitLocker afterwards using hardware encrypted as this is preferable in terms of performance as I have NVMe drives supporting hardware encryption. However, after a clean installation on my wife's desktop, her OS drivers get automatically encrypted using AES-XTS 128. I have never seen this happen before on self-built desktop systems. Our systems are almost identical, but where I have an Asus Maximus Z690 Hero and an Intel Core i9-12900K, she has an Asus Maximus Z490 Code and an Intel Core i9-10900K. Both have physical/dedicated TPM 2.0 modules and Samsung 990 Pro NVMe. For the life of me, I can't figure out why hers insists on enabling Bitlocker and automatically encrypting the drive upon installation. It's rather annoying.
This is a more recent change with Pro (and Enterprise, I'm sure). If you create your install media with Rufus, it actually has an option now to disable the automatic Bitlocker encryption of drives. I used it recently and it was quite handy and worked as expected to disable it.
Maybe when you use an online account but with local accounts, no automatich encryption occurring on my many test installs.
Absolutely not. I upgraded to 24H2 from 23H2 from 22H2 and back on 22H2 I removed everything I won't ever touch. The removals carried over and the start menu is still just the stuff I want. I think Teams was the only thing I removed from 24H2 that showed up after I removed it in the past.
Yes, BitLocker encryption is on by default on clean installations now. I generally love this, as I turn on BitLocker on my system drive manually on 23H2 and prior. However I noticed that it enables encryption by default on other local SSDs as well (I have a system SSD, a data SSD and an external SSD, and it automatically enables it on the first two). I would be happier if it only targeted the system drive by default.