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WINDOWS 11- free upgrade to windows 10.
Running windows 11 now and seems good, it took 2 days to get the download to work, due to insufficient storage. Also I had to use a usb pen during the installation for temporary files. (I used 64gb)
Windows 11 needs a microsoft account set up, so I set that up in windows 10 ready for the update.
Windows 11 download and installation kept failing several times with error codes due to storage, so I had to delete some unusued stuff to make space, I eventually managed the windows 11 install, with 2gb spare on C drive which is only 64gb ssd drive. The old windows 10 remains also on the C drive in case of rollback.
The layout has changed but is very similar to windows 10, cortana not active but can be added.
I also downladed update kb5007215 (26/12/2021) and a driver update to my laptop, two more updated are pending kb5008215 & kb5006363, not sure why pending.
My older laptop is still on windows10, too old to update to windows11, but I think windws 10 will be supported till 2025.
All my files and programmes were saved but I did back up my data to a flash drive, one local account was removed by choise to make space, not sure if windows 11 home does local accounts, but I will now use the microsoft account which has a pin login.
alf28
WINDOWS 11 -UPDATE NIGHTMARE
My windows crashed- wifi switched off, would only work on ethernet.
After I did some fault finding which is not easy in windows 11, I reset windows 11 and wifi still did not work.
I lost most of my programmes also, so still putting them back on.
I eventually found the windows firewall had switched off connections to the wifi adapter, and I ticked them manually to fix the issue, it was in flight mode but could not get out of flight mode, even a firewall reset did not work.
The issue may have been caused by a clash of software during updates of windows, but resetting windows removed a lot programmes, one may have interfered with the firewall settings.
The old windows 10 had auto deleted so I could not roll back to windows 10 which was a concern. This has at least solved my storage issue so I now have 18gb spare on c drive.
alf28
- Roger_Gooner4 years agoAlessandro Volta
I've found that you rarely need to fall back to a previous version of Windows, so losing W10 is unlikely to be a big deal.
I suggest running with minimum apps and gradually installing more may help identify a problem app.
- newapollo4 years agoVery Insightful Person
I keep a back up of my documents, pictures, music and extra non windows programs on an external usb hard drive
- enlli4 years agoVery Insightful Person
Having used Linux for years before coming back to Windows 10 I think I will give this a miss.
If forced to upgrade then it's back to Linux
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