Windows 11 - lightweight? fast? and Android?

[devnull]

I upgraded my Surface Pro X (the ARM laptop) with the Windows 11 preview. It was mindlessly easy to do.

I am impressed how complete the preview is. Its not slow or crashy or glitchy. Definitely feels like a Windows 10 skin though, albeit a nicely updated one.

Windows explorer seriously needs a shake up though. It's not bloody different from Windows 2000 (still my favourite windows OS!)

[Nimby]

MS have pulled the Health Checker; hopefully they are rethinking some of the requirements after so much adverse publicity.

[saaby93]

Nimby said:

MS have pulled the Health Checker; hopefully they are rethinking some of the requirements after so much adverse publicity.

Can we have the task bar back on the left now too please

[snuffy]

Nimby said:

MS have pulled the Health Checker; hopefully they are rethinking some of the requirements after so much adverse publicity.

Your average user is not going to have a clue about secure boot and TPM. If they continue with that idea most people will not be installing W11.

[paulrockliffe]

snuffy said:

Nimby said:

MS have pulled the Health Checker; hopefully they are rethinking some of the requirements after so much adverse publicity.

Your average user is not going to have a clue about secure boot and TPM. If they continue with that idea most people will not be installing W11.

It's true, though I thought the best point Hitler made was there's no chip capacity to build all these PC that Microsoft have decided we need to buy. And Corporates aren't going to wear it, so it's going to be a flop if they don't row back.

[saaby93]

saaby93 said:

Gary C said:

Thought MS had declared windows 10 was the last operating system needed ?

Here we go 808 Estate

So apart from turning being able to turn the number up to 11, what's the advantage over 10?

[anonymoususer]

paulrockliffe said:

It's true, though I thought the best point Hitler made was there's no chip capacity to build all these PC that Microsoft have decided we need to buy. And Corporates aren't going to wear it, so it's going to be a flop if they don't row back.

Now now
Wont that simply mean that a load of reasonably specced machines will have their life cycles artificially extended beyond 2025 ?

[saaby93]

They're changing this too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57695586

Why is it your PC has run into a problem
rather than Our Software has crashed?

[TameRacingDriver]

Because a BSOD isn't necessarily a Windows fault?

[Order66]

TameRacingDriver said:

Because a BSOD isn't necessarily a Windows fault?

This. The majority of cases are caused by 3rd party drivers or crap hardware. The alternative is have a closed ecosystem like apple - both approaches have their positives and negatives.

[jimmyjimjim]

Over the last 10 years, I've had BSOD twice. To be exact, two batches of them. Both were fundamentally the same issue; my graphics card of the time chose to die. Replaced it, problem resolved.

Blaming this on Windows is wrong.

[colin_p]

[saaby93]

Isnt the point of task manager that it can trap an app?

[FourWheelDrift]

[snuffy]

saaby93 said:

Can we have the task bar back on the left now too please

You can have it on the left if you want.

[TameRacingDriver]

snuffy said:

saaby93 said:

Can we have the task bar back on the left now too please

You can have it on the left if you want.

You can have the Start button and icons aligned to the left, but 11 does not allow you to move the taskbar to the left hand side (at least not currently).

[StressedEric]

I used this simple system checker to see if my laptop is compatible with Windows 11:

https://www.wisecleaner.com/checkit.html?ad_wdc

Much better results than PC Health Check

I says I have TPM 2.0 but it also says my i7 CPU is Seventh Generation, so the checker says not compatible.

My laptop is about 14 months old.

Not happy.

Edited by StressedEric on Wednesday 7th July 10:54

[Jinx]

StressedEric said:

I used this simple system checker to see if my laptop is compatible with Windows 11:

https://www.wisecleaner.com/checkit.html?ad_wdc


I have TPM 2.0 but my i7 CPU is Seventh Generation, so the checker says not compatible.

My laptop is about 14 months old.

Not happy.

Don't worry too much yet - my CPU is an i7 seventh gen yet the MS health check lists my PC as compatible "Great - news etc...."
So even though the official compatibility guide doesn't list my i7-7820X as compatible their own "health check" program says it is.

[TameRacingDriver]

Jinx said:

StressedEric said:

I used this simple system checker to see if my laptop is compatible with Windows 11:

https://www.wisecleaner.com/checkit.html?ad_wdc


I have TPM 2.0 but my i7 CPU is Seventh Generation, so the checker says not compatible.

My laptop is about 14 months old.

Not happy.

Don't worry too much yet - my CPU is an i7 seventh gen yet the MS health check lists my PC as compatible "Great - news etc...."
So even though the official compatibility guide doesn't list my i7-7820X as compatible their own "health check" program says it is.

Usernames both check out

Seriously though, I reckon some of these requirements will be relaxed, MS have a habit of doing things like this and backtracking.

[Vanden Crash]

Will this be the fix for windows print spoiler?