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Windows 11 General Discussion

lexluthermiester said:
You mean being morons and not listening to their target audience? Yeah, that's been their trend since 2011..
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You know, with all the disparate and shaky decisions and moves MS has been doing with Windows for more than a decade now, I don’t know if they actually even KNOW who their target audience even is. They can’t make up their minds. Oh, we want mobile customers. Oh, wait, back to desktop. Shit, cloud tech is taking off, make that a focus! Okay, we need an ecosystem like Apple. No, wait, what if we try and make Windows tablet-friendly. No, now we are about AI. It’s a mess with no vision and the marketing nonsense driving the direction of the whole division, if that can even be called a direction.
 
It should be noted that Windows only makes up about 12.5% of Microsoft's business. Office and server cloud services are much bigger. Plus it is the consumer that decides most the path (mobile, PC, yadda yadda) the industry goes, along with the various hardware industries, all advancing at their own paces. MS has some input but really is forced to play follow-on and catch-up most of the time.

Look at PCs. As more and more users started doing more and more of their computing tasks on their cell phones, PC sales plummeted. Nobody really anticipated that, not Intel, not AMD, not NVIDIA, not Dell or Microsoft.

But then PC gaming started taking off and PC sales started to rebound.

My point is, the Windows target audience is constantly changing.
Onasi said:
I don’t know if they actually even KNOW who their target audience even is. They can’t make up their minds.
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Again, if the target is constantly changing how can they make up their minds? They must change with it - no easy task.

I think they know who their audience is. They just don't put their audience's [ever moving] wants and desires high on the priority list. :(
 
Or at least make it autonomous and in the controlling hands of the developers and not the marketing weenies.
 
So son messed up his w11 install so I nuked from space last night and discovered that W11 is partially nuke resistant.

Used latest 11pro and rufus - still ended up having to put in his email for sign on account (I guess no local for latest version 11 and rufus??) Then was extra steps and questions to format and wipe than 10. Then 11 pop up asked which of the 14 cloud backups I wanted to install....so who knows if they are corrupted or have virus etc. also if I went full out nuke option why even ask............

Finally got through it all with fresh and clean but what an annoying installation experience.
 
mechtech said:
I guess no local for latest version 11 and rufus??
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Microsoft removed the script for local, but I wasn't aware they did so outside of Insider builds:
windwhirl said:
arstechnica.com

New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory

“Bypassnro” is an easy MS Account workaround for Home and Pro Windows editions.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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Check this, btw
windwhirl said:
www.bleepingcomputer.com

New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement

A previously unknown trick lets you easily bypass using a Microsoft Account in Windows 11, just as Microsoft tries to make it harder to use local accounts.
www.bleepingcomputer.com www.bleepingcomputer.com

And not even a week later we have the new bypass :pimp:
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windwhirl said:
Microsoft removed the script for local, but I wasn't aware they did so outside of Insider builds:


Check this, btw
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Thanks

But I stand by what I said
"what an annoying installation experience."
 
I found another high contrast mode bug. Yellow text with small letters on white background.

Details - how to reproduce:

New refurbished notebook since a month with windows 11 pro.

High contrast mode selected. Black colour background selected. Black Lime theme selected.

Bug: Please try to use powershell.
hint: startmenu type PS -> select admin menü

have fun using the powershell. the commands are in yellow on white or grey background. I can barely read the commands on my lenovo laptop. Well lenovo is cheap from the cheapest notebook displays. But still please try it yourself. It is 3 clicks for the change of modes and 2 minutes to test powershell.

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I found a fancy guide which praised a fabulous powershell mode which can install and uninstall windows updates. the plugin installed but the command failed. (i do know bash / ms-dos / and a little bit powershell) I did not bother going into details. Later I found a text the plugin is broken.

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Online Windows update are broken last week and this week for my refurbished notebook and windows 11 pro. I'm not sure if it is the privacy tool where i selected a few options or the offline user. I tried to install the KB package per hand. It does not work. (just the last KB package does not want to install - the other big update did install) -- the internet is full with update package this or that does not install with the same gibbersh long hex code. Microsoft is unable to provide a proper error code. Or fix the install issue. REpair attempts according to guides posted on microsoft hosted websites does not succeed.

The same file did install on my home desktop computer 7600x / x670 mainboard with my older windows 11 pro installation wiht an offline user. Microsoft wants now for every install a working internet connection.

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Generic opinion: I have ventoy. I keep older windows images on that drive. You may use an older windows 11 pro installation image from the microsoft homepage to bypass the online user.
 
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I am facing an issue with my graphics driver ( i7 1185G7 with Intel Iris XE ). Whenever I open a game which is not running at my native resolution, my screen goes black,and I have to lock my laptop and then open it again.

Will a Windows 11 Inplace upgrade fix this, or the inplace upgrade doesnt fix drivers. This doesn't happen on version 5768, A18, and only on newer drivers.
 
I'm not sure. I had problems with my recently purchased refurbished notebook. Windows update installed non functional graphic card drivers - and the web is full with that complaint.

@TurboGlitch May I suggest to disable the automatic driver updates? May you than downgrade the drivers. I assume your previous driver maybe worked better.
 
_roman_ said:
May I suggest to disable the automatic driver updates? May you than downgrade the drivers. I assume your previous driver maybe worked better.
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Disabling automatic driver updates through the policy editor?
Yes the previous driver worked better (no black screen). Also, do I just install the old drivers using its setup or should I uninstall the current one using Device Manager then install it?

Thank you
 
windwhirl said:
Microsoft removed the script for local, but I wasn't aware they did so outside of Insider builds:


Check this, btw
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If it's a home edition, you'll need those tricks. But if it's a pro edition, you only need to go with the "this pc will be in a domain" or something like that. It will ask for a local account instead the online one.
 
TurboGlitch said:
Disabling automatic driver updates through the policy editor?
Yes the previous driver worked better (no black screen). Also, do I just install the old drivers using its setup or should I uninstall the current one using Device Manager then install it?

Thank you
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Personally I use DDU for disabling the auto updates of graphics drivers.
 
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The graphics driver my laptop has right now is the old one which works without any problems.

But windows update says it installed the newer version today.
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Should I leave it alone? Because I am not getting any black screens.
 
TurboGlitch said:
Disabling automatic driver updates through the policy editor?
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I searched the internet and used some "setting" in the Setting option.

I assume United Kingdom Language / German Keyboard layout. Windows key -> settings -> there is some option somewhere. (I did that a few days ago on my refurbished notebook)
than appwiz.cpl -> remove the driver. Install the correct driver. I usually grab my windows software from computerbase.de/downloads (my recommendation for a website mostly trustworthy with ads and german language)
 
11 days after the upgrade to 11, I think PCs are a little bit faster.

I'm glad I'm took that path.
 
Is there any specifics for installing LTSC or is there special requirements or installation procedure?
 
mechtech said:
Is there any specifics for installing LTSC or is there special requirements or installation procedure?
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Yes. You still need to use account requirement removal and if installing to unsupported hardware, those bypasses too. Only IoT versions ignore the hardware. There are a number of ways to do this.
Involved, but if you take your time it will render excellent results.
There's also Rufus, which as been updated to include the latest work-arounds.
 
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