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

mrk said:
But it actually doesn't bother me, it has had zero impact on my use of the OS or use anywhere else and the things I can manually turn off or uninstall that might be a bother have been disabled or uninstalled. Tow hat extent will they go looking ahead? Short of a cloud based OS where you have no control I can't see things getting even more snoopy because the telemetry stuff has to be non identifiable anyway otherwise they risk falling found of privacy regulations and will be fined or held accountable like they have been in the past.

I still think it's a bit of internet chatter that does the rounds every cycle and will remain as such. For those that outright don't care will be none the wiser, those that are power users, will disable any obvious red flags anyway and the world continues to rotate!

I only have two complaints over Windows that haven't been addressed in years, the OS forgetting folder views which needs a manual intervention via the registry to fix, and Windows Update forcing restarts. Both are fairly trivial but they are the only annoying things about Windows currently as far as I am concerned. Everything else is bespoked or tweaked in some way to fit ones needs.
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Point is nothing bothers you now, like it did not me until they went with trying to force everyone to use an online profile when doing a clean instal. If they head in this direction give it a few years and they will introduce something that bothers you also. Hope it ain’t the case as I have always preferred Windows to Linux or other OS’s.
 
Bloody still keeps asking me if I want to update it every time I turn the computer on. I have no plans to for a while. Nothing in it that I need anyway.
 
Recently I had my first case of Windows just deciding to restart for updates, rather than doing what I wanted which was resume from having the lid closed.
Alongside this latest update comedy, and sleep in general seeming a bit cack, I deeply dislike the OS.

I've always liked messing about with computers but it's 2022, we should be way passed this.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Recently I had my first case of Windows just deciding to restart for updates, rather than doing what I wanted which was resume from having the lid closed.
Alongside this latest update comedy, and sleep in general seeming a bit cack, I deeply dislike the OS.

I've always liked messing about with computers but it's 2022, we should be way passed this.
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I guess it's only been out a year, it's not enough time to fix all of the problems.
 
something daft already!! said:
I just noticed I have tabbed Windows Explorer.
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Tabbed explorer is nice and all, though I use multiple windows for a reason, but personally I'd rather see the left hand navigation pane have a category listing open explorer windows you can drag and drop files to, possibly even use to switch to though the OS has existing functionality for switching windows and I'm not a fan of multiple approaches for the same feature.
 
I recently moved to W11, first fresh install since 2016! 10 Certainly had some longevity compared to Windows of old.

I really don't mind it after a week. Sure it's getting a bit more totalitarian, I hate data being mined off here there any everywhere (I use O&O ShutUp10++ and Net Limiter) and some of the newer UI for settings & options is not an upgrade, it still does the job for me. I daily drive a Mac for work though and I wouldn't want to do dev work in Windows, but I've always felt like that.

Anyway, I managed to trick it into showing me the local account options during install but not 100% sure on the steps.

I got it to the login screen during install and either entered nonsense, let it fail, pulled my network cable then went back. Or pulled the network cable, submitted the login form then went back. Some combination like that anyway.
 
I have decided to severely limit the pagefile allocation having now done quite a bit of testing and monitoring. Looking at Windows Performance Monitor after enabling the pagefile use % and pagefile peak % counters, it seems that at no point during photo editing, exporting, browsing or even gaming is the pagefile even touched, even though the system managed size is a mirror of the RAM (64GB in my case).

System Managed is geared toward writing a memory dump to disk in the event of a crash, this is something I do not suffer from and if a driver crashes and BSODs, then I have auto restart disabled so the blue screen will show what has actually crashed and I can go from there. Usually in the past it wa s due to incorrect RAM settings in the BIOS but I have long had that sussed.

So essentially I am thinking of having the pagefile limited to 2GB just for the sake of legacy apps that i might run one day which still rely on a pagefile simply being there else they complain.

I guess it has come to the point where in certain configurations, having a manually controlled pagefile is sensible, as you free up SSD space. There is no logical sense in having a 64GB pagefile sat there never being used.
 
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mrk said:
I have decided to severely limit the pagefile allocation having now done quite a bit of testing and monitoring. Looking at Windows Performance Monitor after enabling the pagefile use % and pagefile peak % counters, it seems that at no point during photo editing, exporting, browsing or even gaming is the pagefile even touched, even though the system managed size is a mirror of the RAM (64GB in my case).

System Managed is geared toward writing a memory dump to disk in the event of a crash, this is something I do not suffer from and if a driver crashes and BSODs, then I have auto restart disabled so the blue screen will show what has actually crashed and I can go from there. Usually in the past it wa s due to incorrect RAM settings in the BIOS but I have long had that sussed.

So essentially I am thinking of having the pagefile limited to 2GB just for the sake of legacy apps that i might run one day which still rely on a pagefile simply being there else they complain.

I guess it has come to the point where in certain configurations, having a manually controlled pagefile is sensible, as you free up SSD space. There is no logical sense in having a 64GB pagefile sat there never being used.
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I've limited my pagefile to 1 GB for some time now and I can't say that I've ever ran into any problems because of doing so.
 
mrk said:
I have decided to severely limit the pagefile allocation having now done quite a bit of testing and monitoring. Looking at Windows Performance Monitor after enabling the pagefile use % and pagefile peak % counters, it seems that at no point during photo editing, exporting, browsing or even gaming is the pagefile even touched, even though the system managed size is a mirror of the RAM (64GB in my case).
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Which browser do you use?
 
Performance Fixes :

> It addresses an issue that affects some games and applications. This issue is related to GPU performance debugging features. This lowers the expected game performance.
> We fixed an issue that sometimes affected File Explorer when you opened a file. Because of this, there was high CPU usage.

November 29, 2022—KB5020044 (OS Build 22621.900) Preview - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

Probably already mentioned but I don't follow the thread very often lol
 
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Just accidentally found that last week's update to 22H2 added the ability to middle mouse click folders and they open in a new tab in explorer. That solves one of the issues I had with tabbed explorer. the remaining issue is that you can't middle click a folder from the desktop or somewhere else and it opens in the last tabbed explorer window as a new tab, you also can't drag one tab from one explorer window into another, nor can you drag a folder to tab bar and have it open as a tab in that explorer window.

Small steps...
 
I am thrilled to say that if you now right click on the task bar, you can now choose task manager again! I really missed this feature when I moved to 11. Not sure when they added this but it must be fairly recent, post 22H2.
 
Why not set up a single keypress on your keyboard to open task manager though instead of having to right click the taskbar? :p In Logitech Options that is what I did to the "right click menu" key on my keyboard, much better use for that button!
 
I have a Razer gaming keyboard with some macro keys on it which I have never used. I only got it for the switches and I had a mouse as they used to be good back in the day. Not so much now though. I would not get another Razer. I'm not certain if it has the ability to set macros and I was just used to doing it that old way.

Edit: looking at the software it looks like it might be possible with the macro keys.
 
Whether it can load tskmgr.exe or use the keyboard shortcut via a macro (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC), should do the job.
 
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