Windows 11 upgrade noobie question
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Best thing about W2K was it installed from scratch in under 10 minutes. Having installed, it just worked; never had a blue screen, never had driver issues, never had compatibility issues, and ran like something very runny indeed. No flashy stuff, no hiding stuff; just a simple, consistent, functional interface. The thing that's really pissing me off with W10 recently is the lack of a border around windows and the white title bar. Sometimes there's no title in the title bar, just blank (on many Windows dialogs) and if you've a screen with a lot of white on it, it's next to impossible to drag or resize the window. And if you miss by a pixel the window you're trying to manipulate disappears as its Z-order pushes it behind what you actually clicked on. [Update: Having vented my spleen on here I finally got around to finding the setting to change this to something more useful. The dialog was horrendous, and took about 30 seconds to update on any change, but at least I now have a 1px border around windows, plus a really horrible-coloured title bar. Why can't they just use a sensible default?] [Update 2: and then MS goes and tramples over its own settings with a non-configurable title bar colour for Edge! You couldn't make it up... ]
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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded today - where has the start menu gone ? how the f*ck do you find anything ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
If you think that's annoying, wait until the notification widget starts serving you ads :mad: You really want to use OneDrive, don't you? DON'T YOU!?
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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded today - where has the start menu gone ? how the f*ck do you find anything ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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How ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Right-click on the taskbar and select Properties. It will bring up the new Windows Settings window. Just scroll through all the options and change what you like. If you use the context menu in Windows Explorer a lot (right-clicking on a file or folder brings this up), then you can change a registry setting to make it appear like the Windows 10 context menu. Google it for details. Hope that helps.
Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded today - where has the start menu gone ? how the f*ck do you find anything ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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DerekT-P wrote:
the change is just for change's sake and complaints about it are valid
I heartily agree. There are some things about 11 that still annoy me after using it for more than a year. There are also things I love about it and miss when I use my Win10 box at work. My argument is that whinging about the change is counter-productive if you have to serve customers who are using Windows 11.
Software Zen:
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I installed Explorer Patcher to make it look and fell like Win 10. Home · valinet/ExplorerPatcher Wiki · GitHub[^]
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How ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I really like the new window layout choices when you hover over the maximize/normal button in the window caption. I use that a lot.
Software Zen:
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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded today - where has the start menu gone ? how the f*ck do you find anything ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Install OpenShell... ;P
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I've been using a launcher since at least XP. Originally Launchy and now in 10 and 11, Powertoys Run. On the rare occasion that what I want doesn't come up, just hit the Windows key and start typing to find it on the Start Menu. When you don't rely on how the Start Menu looks and operates, any version of Windows works as well as any other. Since XP, I've used 8, 8.1, 10, 11 and they all behave the same for me. Even on the hated (by everyone else) 8 I had no problems.
I'm mostly in your camp. Just now, based on recommendations above, I installed Open Shell. Pretty quickly uninstalled it. It's pretty darned easy to just type what you want in the search box or to pin a few things you use a lot to the taskbar.
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If you think that's annoying, wait until the notification widget starts serving you ads :mad: You really want to use OneDrive, don't you? DON'T YOU!?
For me, the worst is DropBox. Just did a fresh install of Windows 10 on my daughter's old laptop and DropBox was very noisy. One drive was pretty bad but calmed down quicker.
