*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***

The latest insider builds are going to be popular. :p

Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE). While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use. Users will need to complete OOBE with internet and a Microsoft account, to ensure device is setup correctly.
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https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...insider-preview-build-26220-6772-dev-channel/

It's only a matter of time before this rolls out across standard release versions.
 
Seems odd for them to be removing that because AFAIK they kept it around so corporate customers could test deployments in a lab environment that may not be connected to a wider network, i guess we'll have to wait and see how they're going to implement it.

Is it going to be a case of Windows setup simply ignoring that setting in the registry (the bypassnro.cmd set a registry key).
 
marc2003 said:
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...insider-preview-build-26220-6772-dev-channel/

It's only a matter of time before this rolls out across standard release versions.
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I love the BS explanation they give for this.

How many users have had a device incorrectly configured/incomplete due to using a local account?
Local-only commands removal: We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE). While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use. Users will need to complete OOBE with internet and a Microsoft account, to ensure device is setup correctly.
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Just be honest Microsoft, this is a business decision. If you really wanted to solve that issue, you could just, I don't know.., make local accounts not need a bypass :rolleyes:
 
marc2003 said:
The latest insider builds are going to be popular. :p



https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...insider-preview-build-26220-6772-dev-channel/

It's only a matter of time before this rolls out across standard release versions.
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I call BS, I've litterally got 30+ machines out in the wild that we're OOBE'd, had a local account dropped on them and then added to the domain after that.
All fine, well, other than the slowdowns since back end of last year when a buld updated started to make users moan..
 
The quote is from release notes for an insider build released yesterday. If you don't use insider builds then this obviously doesn't apply.... yet.
 
I'm now in process of fully upgrading to Win 11 on all my systems. First tried it on a very low spec laptop I picked up as an emergency device for work a couple of years back, that came with Win 11 as standard, a very low power draw Pentium silver with 8gb ram on a 1080p screen with Intel integrated graphics.

The Pentium is a 4 core with only 1.1 standard speed but does boost to about 1.8 on all cores. Runs Win 11 quite well for such a low spec.

Since installed it on an older, more powerful laptop with an 8gen 4 core Intel with hyperthreading 8gb ram and a mobile 1050. Win 11 actually gives better and quieter performance on that laptop, has given it a new lease of life.

Now in process of updating my old, but still current use desktop, 9900k at 4.8, 2070 super and 32gb ram, been an amazingly stable and reliable system on Win 10 for gaming and work for years now, a decent GPU upgrade could keep it going another few years as a decent gaming machine on Win 11.

I waited as long as possible, but with Capcom dropping update support for some games on Win 10 now, the writing is on the wall, though there's been enough good Win 11 updates thay even the generic versions are OK for my purposes.
 
Tetras said:
I love the BS explanation they give for this.

How many users have had a device incorrectly configured/incomplete due to using a local account?


Just be honest Microsoft, this is a business decision. If you really wanted to solve that issue, you could just, I don't know.., make local accounts not need a bypass :rolleyes:
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What a load of BS. I will be sticking to 23H2 for a long time.

Mrk will be along soon to defend their decision :p
 
Anyone else have problems with their PC going to sleep? I have mine set to sleep after 15 mins of inactivity, it was all working fine but for some reason it's not working now. All updates are done and I've checked the usual suspects with powercfg but nothing shows. Any ideas?
 
zom247 said:
Anyone else have problems with their PC going to sleep? I have mine set to sleep after 15 mins of inactivity, it was all working fine but for some reason it's not working now. All updates are done and I've checked the usual suspects with powercfg but nothing shows. Any ideas?
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Did a driver get forcibly updated?
 
Does anyone with a fully updated Windows 11 LTSC version able to check if Copilot and recall are included in this?

Looking online some people say its there but disabled and others have said its not there at all
 
Ive just installed windows 10 IoT LTSC on my laptop and desktop as I much perfer win10 over win11, as win11 is a tad buggy and bloated now.. But was just thinking how much better would windows 11 be if I installed the "IoT LTSC" version?
 

Louis isn't happy, sadly won't change much, as people in the settings said the developers can only be motivated by being obnoxious.
 
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That latest update took ages!

: EDIT : It's installed a different graphics driver :cry:
 
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Vimes said:
Is he ever..?!
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Rarely, however he's certainly not the only one. I've been noticing a heck of a lot of tech & non-tech YouTube videos recently talking about how they're dumping Windows, either through choice because they've had enough of X, Y, Z or because they don't want to send hardware that's perfectly capable of running Windows 11 to the landfill simply because the hardware can't be upgraded to use a TPM 2 chip.

TBH a few years ago i expected MS to reverse course on the whole TPM, online account, cloud storage, eye candy before usability/features as the EOL for Windows 10 got closer but with only a day left until that happens it looks like i was wrong.
 
They aren't dumping TPM, I'm sure there is an ulterior motive to pushing it and not one friendly to the end user. Sadly my usage can't be adapted to Linux or I'd have moved to Debian/Ubuntu years ago - not that Linux is ideal but at least you can take control of things if you need or want to without having to take the nuclear option.
 
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