Comment on Windows 11 your experience

[Buffer6]

So much talk about Windows 11, I thought I'd give it a try and see what all the fuss was about.

It took just over an hour to make the changes. I had to download an updated bios for my motherboard, which made the necessary adjustments without having to go into the bios sections and manually adjust items, and you have to do that first or the bios won't pass the inspection and the Windows 11 won't install.

So I got it up and running.  Now checking it out, after clicking on the Windows Icon in the taskbar

Installed software wasn't showing anymore and no tiles on the desktop, luckily I had made shortcuts for the most used software in Windows 10, so they were showing on the desktop and taskbar after the installation.

I found it difficult to navigate around after being used to Windows 10, and a lot of the useful menu items were missing on right-click on an icon. The transparency effects no longer worked either.

I missed the weather and speedtest on tiles and the current temperature and state of weather on the taskbar.  I played around with Windows 11 for a few hours before deciding to switch back to Windows 10 😃

The only good thing that I found about it was that it seemed quicker when using Windows explorer.

So if you've tried it or are using it, what  are your views on it?

[ALF28]

WINDOWS 11 UPDATE- 12-05-2023

2023-04 Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057)

2023-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5026372)

Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.389.880.0)

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - v5.113 (KB890830)

[Yorkist]

Tudor, you may have run Windows (v1.0) from your earliest pc experience but Windows was not around for the first PC's.

OS/2 far, far better than Windows after OS/2 v1.3 (an one can even argue since inception) as it went 32 bit.  Windows 95 was half way to 32 bit but needed a thunking level for 16 bit code and hence the amount of BSOD.  Got to hand it to Gates and Steve Ballmer and their lackeys that they did a great snow and bulldoze job on many companies in the industry.  So good that they do not exist now even though many had better products than MS.  Go figure!

[ALF28]

LOCKED OUT- of my computer windows 11 -pins not accepted for some unknown reason.

today I was locked out of windows 11, may have been an update?

The windows hello pin would not work and no connection to the internet, it may have been my firewall, so I could not do forgot pin as it need to connect to the microsoft acount. I have removed my third party firewall and now just use the windows firewall, more reliable.

This has resulted in doing a full recovery for windows 11 using a usb recovery and changing bias to boot from a usb drive, I am still doing recovery at 2.00am, is 84% complete so hope I can reset the account and switch off the windows hello pin and just use my password. My windows 10  computer was ok but I have switched off windows hello, some use this to when logging into VM, known devices.

The local acount was also a wrong pin, but could be reset with security questions.

I have had this problem long ago, but my microsoft account was secure, and the problem is with the windows software or updates, the log in failed, my old windows laptop saved the day to complete some online account business transactions.

[newapollo]

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@ALF28 wrote:

LOCKED OUT- of my computer windows 11 -pins not accepted for some unknown reason.

The windows hello pin would not work and no connection to the internet,

Hi @ALF28 

It's possible the Pin failed if the network was offline as it wouldn't have  been able to authenticate with Microsoft servers.

One thing to consider in the future if the Hello Pin fails is, are you using a keyboard with a numerical keypad?  If so it's possible that it's been accidently clicked off, or the boot sequence has turned off the numerical lock. If so pressing Num Lock or Scroll Lock usually turns it back on.

[ALF28]

Thanks for the advice, I am still unsure what caused the pin to fail, mine was letters and numbers rather than just a pin number, a pin failure can also be caused by shutdowns. I have switched off the the auto windows login for update where it logs you in.

The pin number is on the device, not the account but normally a recovery  can be done using a password but I was locked out of the internet and could not gain access to windows so used a recovery usb I had made. However the restore and uninstall last update failed, so i only had one option to delete everything and re-install windows 11 as a new installation which took many hours, at least 4 hours to fix this with many different attempts,  but now working fine, I had to recover my files for backups and also install all my own apps again, still doing that. I think my firewall was the problem it starts up in high security  until I log in and switch to medium security, so it stopped the internet recovery password option totally locking the computer. If I had not mad a recovery USB drive the computer would remain locked and it required me also to enter the bios  using F2 during start up to select a boot from the usb drive first.

I would not advise  using the pin, I have switched it off my account so it still asks for the pin but I select password login now from the icon under the login, the pin can be a nightmare and could not be easily reset in my case.  The windows hello pin can not be removed, it insists you set one up.

The local account also had the same issue but allows security questions then update  pin, I have not yet installed a new local account, the admin account with Microsoft login is easier to use with the apps, so I may not bother with a local account.

So I have removed my third party firewall and just use the windows firewall now which I have reset on both laptops

I have found a non windows firewall often cause problems during windows updates and may mess up the update as the settings change to default and block the internet at start up if you have set the firewall to  start/boot with windows.

What a nightmare this was, I good job I recently did backups of most of my files which I found on 3 usb drives and some on Microsoft one drive, but it has space limitations.

It is security gone mad with too many options having both a password as well as a pin to remember.

I have several times found the windows recovery options do not work, usually it is possible to re-install windows  and retain your own files, but on this occasion only a new clean version of windows was possibe due the computer being locked and only recoverable with a remote drive, so I is always wise to make a recovery usb, i have managed to use one to recover windows 11 also last year when it had problems.

[MrHalfAsleep]

Windows Updates Can Kill Your Laptop

[Adduxi]

I can't remember the last time I was offered a BIOS update via Windows Update?  Also as far as Manufacture's software, that's the first thing to be uninstalled IMHO. My last two purchases, a Lenovo laptop was wiped and Win 11 Pro installed and a DELL desktop had every single bit of 3rd party software removed, including the horrendous "Killer" NIC software,  This also has Win 11 Pro.  Both have Bitlocker deployed as well. 

It's fair to say I hate bloatware ....   😉

[MrHalfAsleep]

Thousands of Windows Users Will Lose Their Data

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"In this video I discuss how Microsoft requiring bitlocker encryption by default in a new build of windows 11 could cause people unfamiliar with bitlocker to lose their data."