Windows 11

[Alex321]

Didn’t think you could turn it off in win10. I’ll have a look again at options shortly

You can certainly set it so that it asks you before downloading or installing, because both my home PC and my work one are set up that way, andboth running W10.

I normally tell it to install when I turn the machine off.

 

[fossyant]

Ive downloaded both W10 and W11 isos. Instructions are to copy a couple of files over which stops the checks, and installs the software.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It is your opinion that they are "quick enough", and for you, that may be true.

But that certainly doesn't make what he said untrue at all. There is absolutely no doubt at all,that if you are looking to improve the performance of your PC,and it doesn't currently have one, then adding an SSD and moving the OS and programs to it very much gives the best bang for the buck. The fact you don't feel the need for faster startup doesn't negate that point.

And you are completely wrong about the slowness being "only due to the constant Windows updates being applied during startup".

That has an effect every now and then. Probably once every 2-3 weeks on average, and it isn't all that big an inconvenience. It is trivial compared to the gains from an SSD.

It’s not every 2-3 weeks. I check what’s eating the disk at startup and pretty much it’s Windows Update. Before these regular updates you could boot to login within 10 seconds on the same HDD. I’ll leave you to ponder how much improvement SSD gives over a 10 second boot up on HDD.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You can certainly set it so that it asks you before downloading or installing, because both my home PC and my work one are set up that way, andboth running W10.

I normally tell it to install when I turn the machine off.

I have suspended updates for 7 days to see how startup goes.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have now changed my W10 boot from legacy bios to UEFI. Next is to turn secure boot on and see how that goes. Looking to see if I can upgrade the tpm firmware from 1.2 to 2.0

 

[Milzy]

I have now changed my W10 boot from legacy bios to UEFI. Next is to turn secure boot on and see how that goes. Looking to see if I can upgrade the tpm firmware from 1.2 to 2.0

I have 2.0 but my bios won’t change to UEFI. Motherboard & CPU are compatible. If I do a fresh install it should work then. When I buy a new hard drive I’ll just totally start a fresh.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have 2.0 but my bios won’t change to UEFI. Motherboard & CPU are compatible. If I do a fresh install it should work then. When I buy a new hard drive I’ll just totally start a fresh.

You mean your bios doesn’t have a UEFI option or something else?

 

[Rezillo]

You mean your bios doesn’t have a UEFI option or something else?

For an older PC, it is not as simple as just enabling UEFI - the boot drive has to be formatted as GPT during Windows installation (this is done automatically). The bios may save the UEFI option but if there are not the obligatory partitions present, it will either not boot or just boot in legacy mode without an error message.

GPT partitions and UEFI explained

Here's mine:

The unallocated bit is over-provisioning space for the SSD.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

For an older PC, it is not as simple as just enabling UEFI - the boot drive has to be formatted as GPT during Windows installation. The bios may save the UEFI option but if there are not the obligatory partitions present, it will either not boot or just boot in legacy mode without an error message.

GPT partitions and UEFI explained

Here's mine:

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The unallocated bit is over-provisioning space for the SSD.

You can convert MBR to GPT on an existing Win 10 installation with no loss of data. But that’s not what I asked @Milzy . We don’t know what their problem is yet and whether UEFI is a bios option but they don’t know how to get it to work or it’s not even a bios option.

 

[Rezillo]

You can convert MBR to GPT on an existing Win 10 installation with no loss of data. But that’s not what I asked @Milzy . We don’t know what their problem is yet and whether UEFI is a bios option but they don’t know how to get it to work or it’s not even a bios option.

My guess would be that Milzy can't enable it as the boot drive is not GPT. Simple to check in Disk Management.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My guess would be that Milzy can't enable it as the boot drive is not GPT. Simple to check in Disk Management.

Exactly you are guessing rather than verifying with Milzy as to exactly what the problem is.

 

[Milzy]

My guess would be that Milzy can't enable it as the boot drive is not GPT. Simple to check in Disk Management.

So I have one thing left to try
https://www.techpowerup.com/287584/windows-11-tpm-requirement-bypass-it-in-5-minutes
Do the code onto a usb stick but if that doesn’t work it will have to be fresh install.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So I have one thing left to try
https://www.techpowerup.com/287584/windows-11-tpm-requirement-bypass-it-in-5-minutes
Do the code onto a usb stick but if that doesn’t work it will have to be fresh install.

Is UEFI an option in your bios settings?

 

[Rezillo]

Exactly you are guessing rather than verifying with Milzy as to exactly what the problem is.

Yes.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes.

and if that’s the case, the. converting the existing installation to GPT is straight forward as Microsoft supply a handy win 10 tool to do exactly that.