Windows 11

[Smokin Joe]

So, anyone got any experience on whether the various updates have solved the problems some of us had with W11?

 

[ColinJ]

I had completely forgotten about W11! Microsoft seem to have gone a bit quiet about it compared to the nagging I experienced when W10 came out...

 

[DCBassman]

So, anyone got any experience on whether the various updates have solved the problems some of us had with W11?

What sort of problems? Having not played with it, I thought that most problems were of the more trivial kind.

I had completely forgotten about W11! Microsoft seem to have gone a bit quiet about it compared to the nagging I experienced when W10 came out...

This. There are still so many Windows 10 machines, Windows 11 hasn't yet got any real traction. Just catching up on Win 7!

 

[Smokin Joe]

What sort of problems? Having not played with it, I thought that most problems were of the more trivial kind.

PC ran carthorse slow,

 

[Smokin Joe]

AMD processor? You may have mentioned before but too many posts to read back. If so that was fixed some time ago.

No, Intel Pentium.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Fine here since day one. 10th gen Intel.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I have just finished flattening and rebuilding an ultra compact PC with Windows 10 and got the usual `get ready goy Windows 11` nagging screen back. i clicked on it to get rid of it and it look me to a webpage with the box below on it. This would suggest Microsoft are reviewing supported hardware.

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I had the same with an almost new cpu! Needed to enable TPM 2.0 in bios then fine.

 

[DCBassman]

Just discovered another way to get 11 in to unsupported PCs. More later...

 

[DCBassman]

Download Win 11 English International iso from Microsoft.
Download Rufus 3.18
Flash drive, 8GB or larger, all data will be lost!
Use Rufus to create a boot USB drive. It has Win 11 extended options, choose without hpm or secure boot check.
Once done (takes a while), noot your chosen machine to upgrade or install.
Caveats: DO NOT try this on a legacy ios machine. UEFI only.
I'm doing this on machines which have a full Win 10 Pro licence already.

 

[DCBassman]

Machine spec:
I7-2600K, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, C drive of 100,000MB.
Registered and activated, updated fully.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Machine spec:
I7-2600K, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, C drive of 100,000MB.
Registered and activated, updated fully.

Nice! Good old Sandybridge on latest OS

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Machine spec:
I7-2600K, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, C drive of 100,000MB.
Registered and activated, updated fully.

Why such a small hard drive?

 

[DCBassman]

The spare space on the ssd is formatted separately and things like Downloads are relocated there to keep the OS drive as clean as possible. Additional 250GB hdd on top of that.

 

[DCBassman]

Nice! Good old Sandybridge on latest OS

And now the Sandy Bridge-E too, after successfully upgrading the main box. The other was a clean install.

 

[DCBassman]

No, Intel Pentium.

Which model was it? I'm running two different 2nd gen Core i7s, and they eat it for breakfast...