I'll clean the screen, okay?

 

 

We're in lads and lady lads...

 

Edited 30 December, 20214 yr by AnnoyingPentium
It worked.

Yes it does take a while, at least you can still use your computer whilst downloading, as you are. 👍

11 minutes ago, Tbjay124 said:

Yes it does take a while, at least you can still use your computer whilst downloading, as you are. 👍

 

I'm sending this from W11 now and it feels quite Mac OS X like, at least like on my iMac G3 AIO

Well done soon in use, get to know all the tips & tweaks with and I am sure you will like it as much as I do

5 minutes ago, Tbjay124 said:

Well done soon in use, get to know all the tips & tweaks with and I am sure you will like it as much as I do

 

I'm enjoying it so far, just wish my uni laptop (ThinkPad X201i) and my desktop (custom, with i7-2600k at the heart) could run it without having to go to hell and back. Again, reminds me of Mac OS X Panther with the rounded shrunken windows and the likes, such as in iTunes.

 

The being able to create multiple desktops and easily switching between them is quite useful, making each one for different subjects, like personal, work and of course one for this forum.

One thing I've noticed with W11, I no longer get a little thing beside the volume control on the screen to tell me that Spotify is running/not running, or which track is playing.

Hi Annoying Pentium,

never used Spotify so that’s something I couldn’t help you with.

I know there are a few niggles but hope you are liking W11

10 minutes ago, Tbjay124 said:

never used Spotify so that’s something I couldn’t help you with.

 

It's the same as the little thing you'd get when pausing a YouTube video I believe.

 

10 minutes ago, Tbjay124 said:

I know there are a few niggles but hope you are liking W11

 

No issues to report so far, seems less buggy than W10 did on this laptop.

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

It's the same as the little thing you'd get when pausing a YouTube video I believe.

A standard issue "play" > symbol you mean?

Just now, KenONeill said:

A standard issue "play" > symbol you mean?

 

Not quite, the little control thing that come up with volume contained playback controls that no longer appear when I pause or play music. 

For those thinking of upgrading, Computer active(Oct/ Nov 2021) ran an article on tips to let older computers bypass some of the checks and asks the question if MS will reduce some of the requirements to meet public demand.

Just updated my main PC(Ryzen 5 3600) to Win 11 after having it on my laptop for a couple of months. Doesn't seem any different to Win 10 on the most part. Most of my other PCs with Win 10 can't upgrade as the CPUs aren't supported, which is a bit of pity. 

3 hours ago, io1901 said:

Doesn't seem any different to Win 10 on the most part.

 

The file explorer has changed somewhat. Looks smoother but I'm not sure I'm all too keen on it.

 

3 hours ago, io1901 said:

Most of my other PCs with Win 10 can't upgrade as the CPUs aren't supported, which is a bit of pity.

 

Same here. Wee brothers Dell Latitude E6540 (i7-4800) isn't compatible with W11. Shame as it's well kitted out. My desktop with an i7-2600k meets specs otherwise with 24GB of RAM and other fine things, but won't run it. Same for my ThinkPad I use for University but I don't mind that as much since I only need it until 2025.

I's indeed a shame. My PC is a lot faster than min W11specs,with a decent FSB bus speed and more than double the memory needed. It lacks the TPM chip and the CPU is not compatible. But W10 is still supported till  2025(?). With the current state of the NHS ( no politics please), can I expect my health to be supported that far into the future? So do us older folks NEED W11?

And then I wonder. HOW long will corporate clients wait to upgrade from W7 or W10 to W11.

 

Anyone wanting to upgrade to W11 where there PC/laptop doesn't meet MS specs just needs to make a bootable USB using https://rufus.ie/en/ and tick the 'bypass W11 requirements' bit as detailed here https://www.becs.co.uk/windows-11-bootable-usb-rufus/

 

It works perfectly as I have tested it on a 9yo Dell M4800 that only has a TPM1.2 chip.

Edited 18 June, 20223 yr by petrolcan

1 minute ago, petrolcan said:

Anyone wanting to upgrade to W11 where there PC/laptop doesn't meet MS specs just needs to make a bootable USB using https://rufus.ie/en/ and tick the 'bypass W11 requirements' bit as detailed here https://www.becs.co.uk/windows-11-bootable-usb-rufus/

 

It works perfectly as I have tested it on a 9yo Dell M4800 that only has a TPM1.2 chip.

 

May try it on ye olde desktop.

Wonder if it would work on an Asus 901 eeepc

13 hours ago, petrolcan said:

Anyone wanting to upgrade to W11 where there PC/laptop doesn't meet MS specs just needs to make a bootable USB using https://rufus.ie/en/ and tick the 'bypass W11 requirements' bit as detailed here https://www.becs.co.uk/windows-11-bootable-usb-rufus/

 

It works perfectly as I have tested it on a 9yo Dell M4800 that only has a TPM1.2 chip.

Could you use your Win 10 licence key for that and was it accepted?

21 hours ago, @Lee said:

Could you use your Win 10 licence key for that and was it accepted?

I didn't get a new key, just logged in with my MS account and it was registered so I assume from my previous Win10 key.

On 22/09/2021 at 19:21, KenONeill said:

Seems avoidable.

AND if you don't game???? I remember my last progressive firm held back ( according to our IT blokes) to see that the latest Windows & Office office offerings from MS were secure. I personally wait for SP1/2 on a new MS offering before I upgrade, and with the latest motherboard upgrades, I think I'll wait a bit more. Something Gates might look at .

4 minutes ago, VWD said:

AND if you don't game

After backtracking a year to check the context, that was exactly my point. An OS "designed for gamers" seems eminently avoidable if you don't game.

Ken, I'd be happy with XP(as in your version), but the engineer in me wants more. I was happily running a Gigabyte board with W10 and XP til my son gave me an iNTEL 5 board with an I5.  His old board had crashed  and ( as dads do ) I'd bought him a board off e bay. When he bought a new set up he gave me the old.new board back. But new board wont run XP or even W7. I like the speed of the I5 on W10, but miss the things I can do on W7 .

I've still got a system (or more than one) that'll run Windows 98... just to really make us all step back in time. To be fair, they do serve a specific purpose these days. I've been able to move most things on, but some of the stuff I've got is surprisingly more secure on a non-networked 98 laptop since you'd need to physically access it to get the data.

I am such a geek that I had to load the latest Windows 11 (22H2)

 

It was released finally yesterday, though will be up to Q1/Q2 2023 I think before most PC's will get it via Windows update (if supported of course)
 

As usual, plenty of nice useful QOL changes, for me it's getting a new task manager that finally comes with dark mode

And there are more options here than ever before.

 

 

I did find a bug with Windows update where the CU got "stuck" where it would not download/progress

 

 

Fix was to run Admin Command prompt

SFC /ScanNow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Sync PC Time
Reboot

Download the WU manually
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB5017321
Apply, reboot

Check Windows Update, and it then began downloading and applying the same KB update

 

/Geek off