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

[Deleted member 77746]

it does if you rely on text in your task bar and expect apps to have separate entries. I've worked this way for 20+ years, I don't like having forced change that has no benefit than "looking cleaner"

So you didn't move over to 11 right? you stayed with 10? or maybe Windows 7?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

And an email address and then it uses that as a gauntlet of other accounts it wants to connect to. Don't forget the ads!

Understandable I guess.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

So I take it all of you are not on windows 11 then right?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Installing 3rd party software to make 11 look like 10 seems to defeat the point of me running 11 though?

You kind of got that with every OS there's always someone creating a 3rd party tool to look like another OS.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Just use Notepad++, it just works, has a dark mode, and is no nonsense.

Although the new Notepad UWP is very good too so not sure why you'd remove it?

I’ve used notepad++ forever. It’s great.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

^^ What an absolute **** show! People shouldn't have to do this, the settings should be centralised.

Sounds like screensavers are a thing of the past now and they don't want it on show.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Irritating ui changes. Startallback app fixes it tho.

We shouldn’t have to install 3rd party stuff. Microsoft really should make things optional.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I get it, they want to repeat the mistakes of the past and integrate the code responsible for parsing HTML into Windows so it can natively handle that but they do they really need to install an entire browser, all +1GB of it, just to do that. Then there's all the extra tasks and services it sets up so it can update itself because apparently they can't integrate them into Windows update.

Nah it's Microsoft they don't care.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Ive just updated to windows 11, previously running windows 10 pro on a local account. I now have windows 11 on a local account, without any nagging for me to use a microsoft account... i didnt think this was the case?

Did you clean install or update? If you had a local account on your windows 10 install then it follows what is on the system but it will more than likely ask to upgrade the account at some point.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

All I do is play games on it so I gave in and installed Windows 11. It appears to have fixed an issue on login where background apps don't load for a few minutes. However the audio sounds weird, need to look at that. Sorely tempted just to go with ggOS if I can't sort the audio out.

Maybe just go with Hannah Montana Linux?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Que?

It was a joke, anyone who mentions changing OS gets the treatment.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Has Windows become spyware? Yes.

SNIP

Data is worth more than the cost of the OS, why do you think they give it away for free as an upgrade.

They marketed it in such a way people moved over to it.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

They give free upgrades because it makes it easier for them to end support for the old OS sooner. Hardly anyone would bother paying for an upgrade if there is no major differences. Imagine how costly it would be to keep supporting all those old operating systems at the same time.

Well that can't be true. Otherwise it would be free for everyone, forever. You have to buy 11 on retail and oem but at first it was free upgrades.

In fact most would still get it free as an upgrade but you still can buy it.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Well of course new people with no license have to buy it, but what does that have to do with offering free upgrades?

You got free upgrades. If I never had the OS I would have to buy it. It still expires at the same time.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Whatever telemetry/spyware they have in the latest OS could easily be added to the older OS through an update, they don't need people to upgrade to collect it.

They not going to do that, they want to push people over to the new OS whatever it takes. Old OS are not been developed so they concentrate on the latest OS development.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

How do you fix the right click context menu from hiding all of the useful options?

This is one of the more annoying things I've found whilst using it, along with the tiny scrollbars

I don't want to spam 3rd party tools really here, Windows should reasonably cater for stuff out of the box.

How to bring back classic context menu on Windows 11 - Pureinfotech

On Windows 11, to bring back the classic right-click context menu with all the options, you can edit this key in the Registry or through CMD.

pureinfotech.com

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Nobody has mentioned corporate environments in this latest conversation though. If you're using a work machine then everything is dictated by your IT team, you should not have the ability to change much at all due to group policy and everything.

That's why when changes are made to the OS they need to make sure there's a GPO to go with it so stuff can be configured.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Context menu requiring regedit is stupid.

You could make a batch file and just run that. I did an update not long ago and it reversed the context menu back. I can't remember which one it was though but I just applied my batch file again to reverse it.

reg.exe add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /f

Then just reboot to activate it.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Believe me I am familiar enough with things to do this without a batch file, but it's just not a good way of doing things, more being my point.

It being missing on various things puts Win 11 firmly into Beta software category. Perhaps it is considered Beta, I am not sure.

How do I know what people know? I said it for a reference for anyone who might want an easier way and playing about with reg.

But yeh... I get what you mean. It should be a setting somewhere.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Maybe MS are having a bunch of moments

I think it's called an every day moment. Mon-Fri, every day of every month of every year.