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

mrk said:
What examples are there of TPM being more intrusive as time has gone on? Other than the Windows 11 install requirements needing stuff like it being enabled, but you can then turn off after, I don't know of any consumer apps that must have it as of yet?

TPM has been around a long time and other than a bit of chatter every now and then, it hasn't been a must have enabled thingin anything useful that I've seen yet really?
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Community Driven MorePowerTool For AMD GPUs Will Not Support RDNA 3 GPUs Due To Hard-Lock, Users To Pay For Power Limits & Features

It looks like AMD is hammering down on any community-driven tuning applications and options for its latest RDNA 3 GPUs.
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Maybe one or the other has read my last post in the MPT thread at Igor, but we, i.e. mainly gupsterg and his contacts, have now come to some conclusions. Of course, Veii has already determined his part, and we actually all agree.

Pretty much everything is double and triple secured. We would have to rewrite firmware and drivers, and we can't do that. Not even under Linux. So there will be no MPT for RDNA3.
AMD really screwed it up this time.

Incidentally, firmware flashing is also controlled via PSP, and we can no longer easily hack AMD software to enable you to flash it. Seems to only work with an external programmer.

This means that you now pay for your power limits and features, you cannot change or activate them afterwards.
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Look like AMD gone Apple way with Radeon software now use TPM via PSP for RDNA3 GPUs locked out MorePowerTool to prevent people hacking Radeon software and drivers to gain access to modify VBIOS or attempt to flash modded VBIOS etc on Windows 11 and Linux.
 
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?
 
champ222 said:
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?
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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.
 
champ222 said:
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?
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You can still do this on a clean install to bypass the requirement for a Microsoft account

shift + F10 and in the command prompt you type: OOBE\BYPASSNRO

Tested on a VM on the latest ISO a few days ago and worked fine
 
GaryTheSnail said:
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.
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I just did an update. It'll no doubt nag me to use a microsoft account everytime there is an update, like it does on Windows 10.

ED209 said:
You can still do this on a clean install to bypass the requirement for a Microsoft account

shift + F10 and in the command prompt you type: OOBE\BYPASSNRO

Tested on a VM on the latest ISO a few days ago and worked fine
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Good to know, thanks
 
champ222 said:
I just did an update. It'll no doubt nag me to use a microsoft account everytime there is an update, like it does on Windows 10.


Good to know, thanks
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Once done the PC will reboot and allow you to use a local account.

I do not want to use a Microsoft account for logging in to Windows which is why I am testing on a VM before going down the W11 route
 
champ222 said:
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?
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Which version do you have? Pro does not require an account.

I must confess that I really hate Microsoft data collection. I didn't ask for it, nor did they ask me if they could do it. I would prefer to pay for Windows. If one day they force me to create an account then I will just create one under a false name. I already refuse to use any Microsoft products (other than Windows) because I don't trust them any more.
 
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SpellowHouse said:
Which version do you have? Pro does not require an account.

I must confess that I really hate Microsoft data collection. I didn't ask for it, nor did they ask me if they could do it. I would prefer to pay for Windows. If one day they force me to create an account then I will just create one under a false name. I already refuse to use any Microsoft products (other than Windows) because I don't trust them any more.
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One of my many pet hates with Windows 10/11 - I don't really care what they do with the home edition - but at least give us the option of paying for Pro and being able to use it as a power user... unfortunately Windows will only ever as things stand see more and more things we didn't ask for or want fostered on us.
 
Couldn't find this posted but this restores the classic right click context, found on a hardware canucks video, tested and confirmed working

Restore old Context Menu in Windows 11 Right-click the Start button and choose Windows Terminal. Copy & paste command below and press enter:

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve
 
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Windows terminal, now it comes with 11 is its only eye candy or does it have practical uses?

About the only useful feature i know of so far is one that featured in a recent LTT video of binding a hot key so it can be used a bit like Yakuake on Linux. Anyone know of other reasons to use it other than eye candy?
 
I've recently had my laptop upgraded to Windows 11 at work. Having a weird issue where if i'm listening to Spotify on headphones and someone rings me on teams. With Windows 10 it used to auto-pause the Spotify web browser as i answered the call. However since the update it now turns the volume up and plays over teams!
 
Just updated one of my Windows 10 systems and restarted... got a splash screen for Windows 11 on rebooting, had to tell it 3 times no I wanted to stay on Windows 10 and it still tried to download the Windows 11 update in the background... seriously MS just not acceptable... not remotely acceptable.

EDIT: This is the screen I got - I had to choose "I want to keep Windows 10" 3 times in total and it tries to hide that option away with 2 buttons which both are effectively "yes" to installing 11 https://www.neowin.net/news/microso...-windows-11-upgrade-ads-with-two-yes-buttons/ and it still tried to download the update in the background even after that if I hadn't manually killed it...

Personally think this kind of stuff is absolutely bang out of order.
 
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Disable TPM in your BIOS = problem sorted. :)

It's one thing i like about the HW requirements of W11, you can put a hardware level block on being offered the upgrade.
 
Murphy said:
Disable TPM in your BIOS = problem sorted. :)

It's one thing i like about the HW requirements of W11, you can put a hardware level block on being offered the upgrade.
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True can do that - though that system has dual 10/11 boot and had TPM on for testing something.

Still an unacceptable approach though.
 
This is actually annoying me a lot - the options for the Windows 11 upgrade banner and notification are "hide for now", "stay on Windows 10 for now" and it was actually hiding updates including important security updates to 10 until I choose one of those options... just not acceptable.
 
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.
 
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