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

[Deleted member 77746]

Option to keep Taskbar ungrouped
Taskbar application names
Right Click Taskbar Menu
Taskbar Drag and Drop
Taskbar Toolbars

etc...

oh that... have you asked Microsoft why? Not that you would get a responce.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

For work there isn't another option. Years of custom VB6/ODBC/ActiveX/Access applications which don't run on Linux.

Believe me if we could switch to Linux easily, then we would

I'm in the same position. If my RMM client would run on linux I would switch. I've tried to get it working. It won't. So windows it is. I did use LTSC before using windows 11 but I feel it's stable enough to continue to use it as a daily driver. I've just got used to having stuff in the middle. I don't mind it now. One thing I don't like is the right click but that's changed back to 10 right click.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Some of the things mentioned are on the way back, also tabbed file explorer is good.

@Armageus will be pleased.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

11 could be the version I miss out on. As it looks like I dodged a bullet with that from all the complaints I keep reading.

Have you got a spare hard drive you could test an install of it on?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Yes but I refuse to from what I've read. Too many issues I'm still reading about drivers.

That's why you test things before moving over.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

That is why you have settings and options and don't ignore how many users use the OS - it isn't like most of these features are mutually exclusive. One of the things earlier Windows did not terribly was acknowledge you can't cater for every user and leave some things a bit open ended so people could mess around a bit and at least get something close to what they needed.

You can mess around with as much of the OS you want. There's no limits as long as you know where to look. Endless of 3rd party apps to mess about with it. By default is where people are crying because they can't have it the way they want.

It's all up to Microsoft. Don't like it just use another OS. There's loads of things I don't like about it but I'm not going to mess about with it. I'll use it the way it is. Nothing worse than loosing all your settings after a format.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

When i build my new PC can i upgrade my windows 10 without installing it first?
My current rig cant upgrade (6700k no TPM), Can i install windows 11 and then upgrade my license or do i have to go through the pain of installing windows 10 first and then upgrading.

Once upgraded I assume my old windows 10 license would be deactivated.

You can either do a fresh install or an in-place upgrade. I use a new drive when installing as it makes it easier to go back to the older OS. I test it for a while and wait until it's stable.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Edge > Chrome these days (imo)

Agreed, it just works. One of the best decisions Microsoft has made on their browser war.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

For new OS I tend to use a spare SSD drive to make sure things are going to work. Always got a spare SSD in my draw ready for stuff like this. It's been out a while now and matured loads.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Finally tabs in explorer! win!!

Which update did that ?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Yeh I'm in the beta preview but I believe its coming in general release 22h2, don't hold me to that though I could be wrong. New navbar and icons too.

22H2 then looks like it.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

We're rolling out 11 slowly at work now all setup and tests fine. Not really looked into W11 in terms of gaming however, so to save me a while of googling, can somebody sum up any negatives in gaming with W11?

TIA

Non. You can still game.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Ta.

So no worse in supporting older games than W10?

Define older games? which ones you specifically talking about? Some may have issues and not support windows 11, most won't. I play games pre 2000 with no issues so far.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Just a general question as I don't have issues with most games around 2000 currently. I have an XP machine for old games if needs be.

If that's the case should be alright. Worst case is you install windows 11 on a spare ssd, test and if something is a problem pull and revert.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

If i am using a local account on W10 and do the update and keep all files will it still use my local account?

Should do if it's PRO. If it's home then it will probably want to move over to an online account.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'm not offered it yet via WU. Downloading the ISO and doing a manual update.

EDIT: that's 22H2 (22621.382) installed on 3 machines, two of them not windows 11 ready but installed fine.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Health check app is naturally all green ticks lol.

That message shows up when you try and remove the file to bypass TMP / CPU checks. You will need to do it via reg method if you are upgrading.

Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update.cmd

GitHub - AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat: Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2!

Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2! - AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat

github.com

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Not seeing much difference between old and new. The new task manager is there but it's not exactly life changing.

It's going to be a lot of fine tuning under the hood I think.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Interesting thanks, this makes sense as this install was upgraded to from Windows 10 back when I had the i7 6700K which was unsupported at the time so I used the system check bypass media creation method. I guess that bypass is still remnant which the 22H2 installer is seeing since my current CPU is fully supported lo on the same install.

The iso method I think is now broken.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

More updates available today for me. KB5017321 would not download kept getting an error so had to manually download the wsu update and apply it manually.