Liking Windows 11 because it is Windows 10

Am liking Windows 11 because it is Windows 10 with window dressing (pun intended).

My Danish son-in-law, who is in the know, confirmed it. But I had suspected it for several reasons, the one most significant was it's Windows revision number 21H2.

21H2 is supposed to be the next big revision to Windows 10 due out this month. But being from the computer industry, the use of the same revision is never done between different hardware of major differences in Software.

Why, because it causes significant confusion when one person would be talking about 21H2 on Windows 10 when another is thinking they are referring to it on Windows 11. It just isn't done.

There were other things that make me suspect that it was Windows 10, was the fact that many of my applications were still working. After the Windows 7 upgrade to 10, many of my applications had to be reinstalled because they were not working. But after the Windows 11 upgrade, some of my most sensitive applications were still working including the drivers and scanning utilities for my ancient Scanner Printer (over 10 years old).

Beyond this, was how fast and easy it was to upgrade. I do have fast internet and an NVMe drive for the old Laptop I bought for the purpose of trying Windows 11. I had bought a Laptop made around 2017 which had NVMe capability for it's system disc. I had purchased it and a used 250GB NvMe M.2 drive on Ebay for this project.

Cloning failed and I had to install Windows 10 over the clone of C: and the Boot area. It retained the Windows license but had to reinstall the apps. Windows 10 with an NVMe C: drive was an absolute joy as my ancient laptop became snappy.

Then when I saw under Windows Update that it was saying my system was compatible with Windows 11 and I got the itch to upgrade. My Danish Son-in-Low said that they were prioritizing new PCs first and that it might be quite a while only increased the itch.

So I searched for the Windows 11 installer and found the Windows Installation Assistant for Windows 11 via Google. There were no questions before downloading the "Assistant" and the download was extremely fast (another clue it was Windows 10 with Window dressing).

The installation went very fast with very few questions, just that you accepted the license agreement.

Booting included the usual reboot at 30% and when it started coming up included the usual greating "Hi There" and "Please wait while we...". But it didn't take as long as on Windows 10.

Within one hour, I had downloaded, installed and was up on Windows 11. My desktop Icons were still there and so was the Recycle Bin icon on the Left. But the usual Taskbar Icons were in the middle, not on the left and I didn't have the pretty purple artwork that I had been seeing on the web regarding Windows 11.

My apps were all working and when I pressed the Windows Icon, I got selections on what to do from the Center rather on the left and I did not see any Cortana things running around on Windows 10 (Whoopee)!

Windows Mail still had my clients and seemed snappier. Typing this note on FreeRepublic seems very snappy as I see no delays at all. True, I am on Fiber Optic internet, but it seems better on Windows 11 than 10.

So to wrap this up, I'm liking Windows 11 a lot and think Microsoft was very smart to do this.

They seem to have avoided the disasters that came with every other major revision for the last thirty years.

They have increased security against viruses immensely by using the TPM 2.0 hardware requirement (about a 1% performance hit on most application loading times).

They now require Dual Core and are trying new balancing algorithms. Just wait until the CPU chips have 64 cores and are affordable to the public!

They have highly suggested NVMe and my experience with NVMe C: on Windows 11 has been exceptional.

Note, I did buy an extra 4GB memory card so that the Dual Channel nature of NVMe M.2 can take effect. And I've done all the Performance Tweaks that I usually do for Windows 10.

I do fault the installer for turning on the scheduler to "Optimise" C:. It is a bad thing for NVMe and SSDs in general. And yes, I turned off all the feedback and monitoring that I possibly could.

I did a stress test of my now Windows 11 on this ancient dual core laptop. Ripping 3 DVDs at the same time with another system Ripping 3 DVDs and feeding it back to the dual core with a network share. And started YouTube Videos on both with 4K test movies within Microsoft Edge (hardly skipped a beat).

So as you can tell, I like Windows 11 a lot. I've encountered one bug (can't play Blurays in VLC), but that has not been a show stopper for this Life Scout.

Yeah, Windows 11 is Windows 10 with window dressing (a few visual techniques and tweaks around security and multiple cores). And I am liking it.

I e been looking but I’ve been spending like a drunken monkey the last year, and can’t quite swing it this year. I paid 450 for a Samsung pro 1 terabyte, wish I had waited awhile. I could got the 2 terabyte for less

My side is fast, and I love it, but the nvme is faster isn’t it? Almost I start on? I don’t mind the speed of my ssd though if I can’t get nvme

I know, it was the major reason that I didn’t upgrade from7 to 10. I couldn’t beleive how much they locked us out of settings we previously could access. A d also the phone home stuff- I didn’t go for that at all. Especially when they would change your setting on you everytime an update happened. It was bad enough that they took control away for certain settings but then they go and don’t allow you to set other settings permanently.

I had had it and switched to Linux for all my online work except for some gaming, which I still,do,on windows 7

> Funny. I’m still using Paintshop Pro 5 (1998 free version).

LOL, PaintShop Pro -- I'm still running version 4.14, paid version. It runs on everything through Win10 20H2, with one exception, that when it starts cold, it tries to write a Registry entry and fails. I just ignore that and continue, doesn't seem to bother anything.

And yeah, "installation" is "copy the program files folder to the new computer". Works fine.

I actually bought and paid for version 7, but I didn't like it, too much stuff I didn't use that got in the way.

Some ancient programs "Just Work" so well.

I tried the paid version as well. Hated it. I kept every handout and test I ever wrote for Financial Accounting. I have Wordstar for DOS, Word Perfect 5.1 and every version of Multimate and Word represented in the files. Unfortunately, my Wordstar files for CP/M never got transferred. The hard sector floppies were unreadable by regular disk drives. I think Word Perfect 5.1 was the best program ever written.

I will undoubtedly upgrade to Win 11 so I can run Hitman Absolution and Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific for the next 7 or 8 years. I assume everyone here knows about WinAero version of Windows 7 games that runs on Win 10 and I assume Win 11.

My side is fast, and I love it, but the nvme is faster isn’t it?

One YouTube claimed a regular SSD was 5 times faster than a Hard drive. And an NVMe drive was 5 times faster than an SSD.

My experience with NVMe on Windows 10 vs NVMe on Windows 11 was that Windows 11 was much snappier. I could see delays on Windows 10 with my NVMe C: drive. With Windows 11, I'm not seeing any delays except the usual internet ones.

It has 9MB of ram, but an older CPU. I hate to junk it because when I can get it to work properly it performs well.

I don’t game or use exotic programs that use graphics. I do however trade currencies and have a couple of programs that send me data constantly.

Any suggestions?

I’m having a problem with an older computer stalling out or freezing when it is asked to open several programs such as my mail program, a browser, and the running startup programs such as Bit Defender and Win 10. It has 9MB of ram, but an older CPU. I hate to junk it because when I can get it to work properly it performs well. I don’t game or use exotic programs that use graphics. I do however trade currencies and have a couple of programs that send me data constantly. Any suggestions?> Sounds like a memory problem to me. You say you have 9GB - that is really odd. Do you have 3 memory cards or something??

If you do, I would pull the 1GB card and see if you still have the problem. If you still do, check to see if the 2 other 4GB cards (if you have them) are the same type and manufacturer. Also check your Bios Memory setting if it has one about Dual use..

Windows 10 can run on as low as 4GB of memory. You might try just one card.

If the problem persists on one memory card 4GB or greater, then I would consider going to another motherboard or better yet get another system. I'm loving this ancient Dual Core 3854 Inspiron laptop and using a USB DVD player. If I add a wireless keyboard, mouse and moniter, I can easily see this as a Desktop! And am on Windows 11 on it!!

I also think there is a memory test available in Windows 10.

Good Luck with it :)

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