Windows 11

[Way2slow]

Just updated my laptop to windows 11, but made the dumb mistake of not doing a full backup to a remote drive first.   Has anyone else upgraded to 11 yet, if so how do you like it.  They only give you about 10 days to revert back to 10 if you don't like it.  After that, you have to do a complete install of 10.  So, I was wondering if others have tried it, and like it.  I'm debating if I should go ahead and revert back to 10, do a complete backup and then re-install 11 before it hits that magic date., so if I start having issues with 11, I can just do a restore.  I know I had all kinds of issues with 10 when it first came out and had to go back to 7 for a couple of years.

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Way2slow said:

I know I had all kinds of issues with 10 when it first came out and had to go back to 7 for a couple of years.

You're more up-to-date than me...I'm still on Win-7 Pro.

 

Keep giving 10 a shot...but still hate it.

 

You can have my 7 Pro when you pry it from my cold/dead fingers.

[Way2slow]

I've stayed with 7 Pro on my on my HP Laptop.  I still like 7 Pro best and have no plans on updating it, even though they will soon stop supporting it with security updates, but 7 Pro is not the best to use on touch screens and had to upgrade my old MS Surface Pro 3 to windows 10 when it came out to be able to do some of the stuff I needed to do on it  Dropped that one and cranked the screen on it last year, and the touch screen quit working.  It was almost $200 for an new screen with the digitizer, and I wouldn't give $100 for the POS, so I bought me a Dell XPS 2 in 1.  I need one with touch screen, and that's the one I just upgraded to 11.  It's only a couple months old and has the Gen-11 i7 eight core processer and a boat load of memory, 16 or 32GB, what ever the max it would hold was.  It easily meets all the requirements of windows 11, so figured I would give it a try.

[J Francho]

Bring back Windows 98 - the best OS ever.

[Deleted account]

19 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Bring back Windows 98 - the best OS ever.

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[Glenn]

1 hour ago, Deleted account said:

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Welcome back BassWhole!

 

[moguy1973]

I won't switch until I know they have remedied all of the issues in this public beta version.  I know there are issues with AMD Ryzen CPUs L3 cache that they've fixed once and it made things worse, but it seems they've figured that out and a new patch will fix it.  I just don't understand why Microsoft would come out with a new OS that has hardware limitations on what can and can't run it (unless they are incahoots with hardware manufacturers), when Win10 was supposed to be the "Last version of Windows" there will ever be.

[Jig Man]

The last time I did a switch was to windows 8.  It killed my computer.  The Geek Squad at their Louisville location couldn’t even fix it.  I had to trash it and most of the files couldn’t even be recovered.  Now I just buy a new computer and have the files transferred by the Geeks.

[Way2slow]

Look at all the new computer sales it generates over the next few years.  Most home users do just fine with win-98 and win-7, but a whole lot of professionals have to use OS,s that are supported with the latest security and updates. Microsoft quits supporting older version.

 

 

[Koz]

I honestly thought it was still in Beta. That being said, I just ran a diagnostic on my home built PC and I'll need to update my BIOS before upgrading. I'll probably wait until January to upgrade after Microsoft releases the 1,573 patches it will probably need to fix Win 11

[Way2slow]

Yep, it's called consumer testing.  Design a build something as quick and cheap as you can, then let the end user do all the testing for you.  That's the American way.  So what if it fails and cost you mega bucks and some data you couldn't recover.  It took over a year for them to get Windows 10 halfway right.

That's why it chaps my butt reading that time limit you have to revert back out of 11 to 10, and I didn't do a full backup before installing it.  I've pretty much convinced myself to revert back, do the backup, and then re-install 11.  Just a little CYA as we called it in the military.

 

[TnRiver46]

I don’t even have 11 windows in my house…….

 

see what I did there? 

[Way north bass guy]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t even have 11 windows in my house…….

 

see what I did there? 

Your lucky. We have way too many windows in our new place and it takes way too much time to clean them all. Makes for great views though. 

[Way2slow]

I've got you beat there.  I have 23 in my house, I know because I personally replaced all 23 of them with energy efficient, dual pane, storm windows,   They told me they only charged $35 per window to take the old out and put the new in.  However, they wanted $125 each to do the aluminum wrap around the window casings, so I didn't ever have to paint the casing again, that made it almost $4,000.  Doing it myself, I also fenagled a discount from $275 per window, to $167 per window, so for over a $6,000 savings, I could do them myself.