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

I do think they should not just revoke stuff without giving people an easy option for changing it.

Context menu requiring regedit is stupid.

I can no longer show all taskbar icons either, in Win 10 I could check the option for always show them all. Now I can only select which ones to show or not show as long as they're present and loaded.

What Win 11 should be is 10 but better, and for experimental stuff an option should exist to change it in the settings.
 
With the use of StartAllBack (just one of many others that do similar things) alone, that tool has dramatically changed the out of box experience of Windows 11 and unlocked a lot of additional feature that you would otherwise need to regedit for or use other tools/tweaks. The rest has been refined since 22H2 rolled out (aesthetics, tabbed Explorer, dark system theme) and the remaining will be with the Moment 2 update next month.

Armageus said:
Let me know how well tweaking it works in a corporate environment :rolleyes:

Nothing to do with being lazy or unwilling
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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.
 
They should add more of this stuff back in without requiring to run things like StartAllBack though.

Microsoft is a huge megacorp with tons of developers, so hopefully they can improve the OOBE with this to get it more in line with Win 10.

I did like some stuff in W11 though, the dark theme seemed to work very well out of the box.
 
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mrk said:
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.
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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.
 
HungryHippos said:
Context menu requiring regedit is stupid.
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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.

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

Then just reboot to activate it.
 
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One of the problems with tweaking - the way MS approach developing the OS there is a significant chance something gets broken, causes issues with or is incompatible, etc. with a future update and/or you are relying on a 3rd party tool developer to update their software. While potentially could happen with older OSes as well it was far less likely especially after the initial few weeks/months where major problems/changes mostly happened.

This can extend to things like breaking drivers and related software which may or may not be fixed by the 3rd party.
 
GaryTheSnail said:
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.

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

Then just reboot to activate it.
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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.
 
HungryHippos said:
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.
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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.
 
Anyone know of alternatives to T-Clock & ElevenClock for W11?

T-Clock flat out refuses to work without additional programs like a start-menu replacement and ElevenClock only really works if you size it to cover the W11 clock exactly (to small and you can see the default clock underneath).
 
Murphy said:
Anyone know of alternatives to T-Clock & ElevenClock for W11?

T-Clock flat out refuses to work without additional programs like a start-menu replacement and ElevenClock only really works if you size it to cover the W11 clock exactly (to small and you can see the default clock underneath).
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I use Flint Clock as my eyes cannot see the taskbar clock:-)
 
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My GoogleFu must be letting me down as i can't find anything like that, or is it one you've programmed yourself.

I would be nice if MS got with the times (no pun intended) and actually allowed people to configure the display of the clock, i don't need to know the data all day long, if i need that i can just hover over the clock, but i do want see what the time is when I'm 10+ feet away.
 
Murphy said:
My GoogleFu must be letting me down as i can't find anything like that, or is it one you've programmed yourself.

I would be nice if MS got with the times (no pun intended) and actually allowed people to configure the display of the clock, i don't need to know the data all day long, if i need that i can just hover over the clock, but i do want see what the time is when I'm 10+ feet away.
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I coded it, just a C# WinForms with transparent background and frame + custom font.
 
Phil2008 said:
Well Ive gone back to windows 10 as I spent weeks trying to figure out why Task Schedular and other apps wouldnt wake up the computer from sleep.... 1 good thing is I have "never combine taskbar but hide labels" back, but to be fair windows 10 isnt really any different than 11 plus and its more polished(no niggling bugs). Just a shame its coming to a end in 2-3 yrs time.
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Well I had the same prolem going back to windows 10, Task Schedular still wouldn't wake the pc up... So I upgraded win10 back to 11 in the hope to jiggle things and make it work, but na Task Schedular still wouldn't wake up the pc... Anyway 2-3 days ago Task Schedular started waking up the pc.. WTF is that all about?
 
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Phil2008 said:
Well I had the same prolem going back to windows 10, Task Schedular still wouldn't wake the pc up... So I upgraded win10 back to 11 in the hope to jiggle things and make it work, but na Task Schedular still wouldn't wake up the pc... Anyway 2-3 days ago Task Schedular started waking up the pc.. WTF is that all about?
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Rroff said:
Not really one for most people to worry about but still https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/blacklotus_malware_eset/ people bleat on about security any time Windows 7 is mentioned but 10 and even 11 are just as lacking in the real world on that front if security is actually important to you to that level.
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Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 22H2 are not affected so that is very good news with new secure boot DBX update to protected it from nasty BlackLotus malware.

It listed Windows 8.1, Windows 10 1507 to 21H2, Windows Server 2012 to 2022/21H2 and Windows 11 21H2.

It not good and actually very bad idea to run old Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 and Server versions when hackers created malware and ransomware to targets people who refused to updated Windows or blocked Windows Update with third party software.
 
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