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

[Gee]

You can but MS are increasingly making it difficult and trying to trick/force/annoy people into an online account so may need to Google the various procedures.

I thought as much, cheers mate. I think the [email protected] then a random password seems to work still. I'll have a butchers.

 

[Infidelus]

Guys, can you do the 10 to 11 upgrade (offered via Win Update) only using a local account without having to faff around logging in with an email etc.? Some contradicting information from what I gather online but I only want a local account on my machine. Cheers!

When I had a brief play with Win 11 in a VM I used Rufus to make the bootable USB and get rid of the online accounts and telemetry.

 

[photoshop]

In windows 11 is there any way to show the progress of a transfer of a file from one folder to another in the taskbar like it use to on Win10?
Use to be handy to quick glance and see what the progress was and to open up the transfer window but now i have to hover over the window icon in taskbar before it loads the open window preview

 

[Throrik]

When I had a brief play with Win 11 in a VM I used Rufus to make the bootable USB and get rid of the online accounts and telemetry.

Oh nice, didn't realise Rufus did it for you now - I've always used the shift F10 and then OOBE\BYPASSNRO method.

 

[mrk]

In windows 11 is there any way to show the progress of a transfer of a file from one folder to another in the taskbar like it use to on Win10?
Use to be handy to quick glance and see what the progress was and to open up the transfer window but now i have to hover over the window icon in taskbar before it loads the open window preview

It still does this, if the progress dialogue is behind other windows, then you can glance at the taskbar tab for it as it is shaded with a green background acting as the progress bar:

 

[ED209]

It still does this, if the progress dialogue is behind other windows, then you can glance at the taskbar tab for it as it is shaded with a green background acting as the progress bar:

That is a nice speed your getting there! lol

 

[mrk]

Going from NVMe to NVMe it's usually 3.4/3.7 Depends on how Windows feels that day

 

[ED209]

Going from NVMe to NVMe it's usually 3.4/3.7 Depends on how Windows feels that day

why does that not surprise me lol

 

[photoshop]

It still does this, if the progress dialogue is behind other windows, then you can glance at the taskbar tab for it as it is shaded with a green background acting as the progress bar:

How did you make your transfer window black?

I have dark theme on but my window is still white

 

[mrk]

StartAllBack!

StartAllBack to fix all Windows 11 deal-breaking UI issues

StartAllBack restores taskbar, start menu, context menus, explorer, sanity, style and order!

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It has steadily updated to dark theme dialogues that would otherwise be white, even with system dark mode enabled.

 

[UberTiger]

Tried Win 11 for a week last week and felt there were so many UI regressions, found it so annoying to use. Just re-installed Windows 10 and all is well in the world again

 

[Throrik]

Quite an amusing new feature name.

 

[UberTiger]

What the ****. I thought that was supposed to be some lame mounting joke when I saw this post a few hours ago, now that I’ve seen it on Twitter it turns out someone did a lazy zip to postcode translation????

Feels like an April fools joke!

 

[mrk]

Could we collectively sue Microsoft when we aren't getting our damn postcode files???

 

[UberTiger]

Let’s hope they’re not using YTP as their new transfer protocol (Yodel Transfer Protocol)

 

[mrk]

"Your file is on the roof - Sorry"

 

[mrk]

Microsoft still haven't fixed the large file transfer overhead in Explorer. When copying or moving very large single files around, you can repeatedly encounter the phenomenon where the transfer dialogue simply pauses and Windows has a 5-7 second tea break then realises "oh yeah I was moving this file, back to work!":

Using FreeFyleSync (or any other tool for that matter that bypasses the Windows storage stack) does not see this issue:

Then, go back to Explorer and try doing the same again and suddenly it's all fine:

LolWindows.

 

[Rroff]

Microsoft still haven't fixed the large file transfer overhead in Explorer. Whne copying or moving very large single files around, you can repeatedly encounter the phenomenon where the transfer dialogue simply pauses and Windows has a 5-7 second tea break then realises "oh yeah I was moving this file, back to work!":

Partly related to the Malware Protection Engine

 

[mrk]

Yeah I suspect so, Defender is quite heavy handed with random actions like that.

 

[Rroff]

Yeah I suspect so, Defender is quite heavy handed with random actions like that.

On the one hand it is good it is doing stuff on the other hand one of the advantages it had over 3rd party AV was being relatively light in impact while being effective - recent updates it seems to just become more and more heavy handed.