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

...It annoys me when companies forget the people who got them to where they are today.
It annoys me when companies/people (not you) refuse to accept that something may not be perfect or could be improved, maybe it's an American vs British thing but that we are the best, how dare you tell us we're not perfect, attitude is what caused me to turn my back on MS.

When taking my exams i dared to question why something was done a certain way and the look i got was like I'd just dropped a fart in a lift, what followed was an hour long conversation that mainly focus on explaining that i wasn't attacking the product, that it was meant as constructive criticism and trying to reassure the examiner that it didn't ultimately matter before he could bring himself to admit that how MS had designed a particular thing to work was less than optimal.
 
Whelp Windows 11 can have a total meltdown if a network drive isn't responding - sure it isn't handled the best in Windows 7 but Windows 11 really ***** the bed in comparison :( shame they couldn't put some effort into fixing stuff like that rather putting so much resources into features no one has ever asked for or wants.
 
Whelp Windows 11 can have a total meltdown if a network drive isn't responding - sure it isn't handled the best in Windows 7 but Windows 11 really ***** the bed in comparison :( shame they couldn't put some effort into fixing stuff like that rather putting so much resources into features no one has ever asked for or wants.

Ridiculous! You buried your head in sand. :cry:

It not just Windows 11, it happened in every version of Windows, Mac OS and Linux!

I remembered back to my time at college long time ago it happened many times when Windows 3.1 had total meltdown when network drive was not responded, my lecturers and labs staff too cant accessed their files needed to print outs for class handouts. :)
 
Ridiculous! You buried your head in sand. :cry:

It not just Windows 11, it happened in every version of Windows, Mac OS and Linux!

I remembered back to my time at college long time ago it happened many times when Windows 3.1 had total meltdown when network drive was not responded, my lecturers and labs staff too cant accessed their files needed to print outs for class handouts. :)

For one that is no excuse for it still being the case in 2023... for another as I mentioned Windows 7 still has problems with it but it is better than Windows 11 by a long way, can't speak for Mac OS but some variants of Linux handle it relatively well.

You clearly didn't actually read what I wrote.
 
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My Mac never has an issue with network drives, then again my gaming PC hasn’t either.

I had a mapped drive to a device that the OS had semi-crashed on, in Windows 11 File Explorer was taking 2-3 minutes to respond to every action and anything even vaguely connected to File Explorer in the OS was acting very glitchy. (That is with File Explorer configured to use individual processes) Windows 7 was taking about 20-30 seconds initially then just kind of ignored it once it kind of "knew" the status of it.

You'd think in this day and age they'd have threaded it though - reminded me of the days where a slow reading floppy disc or CD could stall Explorer.
 
Windows 11 ISO 23H2 is available officially for anyone who wants to update via the ISO method.


EDIT: Never mind it's already been posted in another post.
 
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Clean installs are for those who can't look after their OSes :p

Mine's updated, will restart later :D

I just like doing it. Feels clean. I don't need to do it. Not really needed it since Vista days. I just enjoy a clean install every year or so. Super quick to do so why not? :D
 
I just like doing it. Feels clean. I don't need to do it. Not really needed it since Vista days. I just enjoy a clean install every year or so. Super quick to do so why not? :D
Pfff

Could have, would have, should have.

Only takes an update to break a whole OS on windows now.

Doesn't matter how much you look after it really.
Gonna restart now that I'm home, if I don't post back, it's gone to pot.
 
I just like doing it. Feels clean. I don't need to do it. Not really needed it since Vista days. I just enjoy a clean install every year or so. Super quick to do so why not? :D

I'm in this camp too! Although in practice it's every couple of years now. I just did a clean install back in August, so will prob. just upgrade to 23H2 this time :)
 
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I'm in this camp too! Although in practice it's every couple of years now. I just did a clean install back in August, so will prob. just upgrade to 23H2 this time :)

The last two major updates I upgraded. But pretty sure I will do a clean install before the next one drops :)
 
Wow, my update to 23H2 took under a minute! It was a quick download in Windows Update and reboot, total time was about 50secs! Checked winver and 23H2 is indeed indicated and I have the new 'Copilot' icon on my taskbar. Checked Windows update again and there is a new update available now: KB5031455. This is a much more substantial update and is downloading now.
 
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Well this is becoming annoying. I have Windows 11 on a laptop and in Control Panel I set the keyboard repeat rate to the fastest setting. This setting works until the system is rebooted and the repeat rate returns to the nauseatingly default speed, which is slow.
 
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