But still using large icons as if we were in kindergarten, pushing MS products? Even though I eliminate the latter from the default W/10 start menu,
I much prefer the Open Shell menu with its compact setting:
Posted on 10/28/2021 10:50:50 PM PDT by dayglored
Next version of Windows 10 looms around the corner
Microsoft's Windows 11 OS has notched up a respectable near 5 per cent of PCs surveyed by AdDuplex, as another Dev Channel build was unleashed with new features for the favoured few.
With less than a month of General Availability under its belt, Windows 11 now accounts for 4.8 per cent of "modern" PCs (Windows Insiders running the OS account for 0.3 per cent) according to the ad platform. The figure is up from the 1.3 per cent in September, which was Insider-only and points to some migration to the production version of the software.
The figure is both an indicator of Microsoft's cautious approach to releasing its wares and the limited amount of hardware that can actually run the round-cornered OS.
Next month the 21H2 version of Windows 10 will be unleashed, which will be the first indicator of how many users have opted to stick with the old faithful rather than move to the new OS and its diva-esque hardware rider.
Windows 11's early showing was accompanied by the release of build 22489 into the Windows Insider Dev Channel. No, the build did not include the Windows Subsystem for Android made available to US users of the supposedly more stable beta channel (although there are ways around that), but it did feature a reminder that not all Insiders are equal as Microsoft rolled out a new "Your Microsoft Account" settings page to a "small subset" of loyal testers.
Since doing anything much in Windows 11 for consumers is tricky without a Microsoft Account nowadays, the page is an alternative to visiting the company's online portals. Microsoft 365 subscription information, a user's order history, payment details and rewards information are available, and the company plans to enhance things via its Online Service Experience Packs (OSEPs).
OSEPs differ from the Windows Feature Experience Packs, which tweak multiple bits of Windows outside of OS updates. Instead, a specific area – the Your Microsoft Account – is focused on.. assuming you've been lucky enough to win the Windows Insider lottery and be granted access to the new OS.
As well as a raft of fixes, the update also includes support for Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) to allow Windows to bootstrap a DNS over HTTPS (DOH) with only the IP address for a DNS resolver. ®
But still using large icons as if we were in kindergarten, pushing MS products? Even though I eliminate the latter from the default W/10 start menu,
I much prefer the Open Shell menu with its compact setting:
” My laptop is only a year old but the processor (Ryzen 5) is not good enough they say. What sort of travesty is it?”
I bought a new Lenovo all-in-one in Jan. with a Ryzen 5 processor here in Japan . Since Microsoft will end support of Windows 10 I was going to wait awhile until they work out the bugs in Windows 11 . Are you telling me we can’t upgrade to 11 ?
You don’t haave to wait for the Windoes 11 update. You can go to the following Microsoft website and download it any time. For me, the installation was flawless.
Just wait until Upgrading will be MANDATED by the GOVERNMENT-———OR ELSE!......................
I am deeply suspicious of so-called "Trusted Computing" and "Trusted Platform Modules".
First, I'm supposed to believe that the designers have only good intentions and have not been bought off by powerful interests whose motives I disagree with. Well, I don't believe that.
Second, a name like "Trusted" is marketing BS, on the face of it. Trusted by whom, to act how?
Finally, the fact that TPM is mandated is like the ironic meme: "SOCIALISM: Ideas so good they're mandatory."
CONTROL - CONTROL - CONTROL is what it's all about. Loss of choice, loss of freedom, loss of individuality.
The tsunami is probably actually liquid raining down UPON W11 from above it. That’s been my approach.
As of September of this year, 0.26% of all PCs in use were still running XP.
That's more than Fedora Linux, Windows Vista, or FreeBSB.
Meanwhile, the desktop market continues to dwindle and handhelds -- the market that MS has COMPLETELY missed the boat on -- grows ever more dominant.
I ‘ve run their compliance utility and they said the computer can’t be updraded for the reason of poor processor.
When doing a win 10 installation I never ever sign into a Microsoft account. Windows 11 installation forces you too. IOW to install 11 you must be online and have an MS account such as a outlook.com mailbox
But I blundered my way past this by putting the wrong password in a few times for my outlook.com account. The installation procedure then moved me along and said to sign in later, which I will never do. Why should I be forced to sign in for their data collection purposes? Screw /em!
It is a upgrade that people do not have to do anything to get it if they left Windows 10 to update their pc’s for them.
It is not like people are actively downloading it themselves.
#5 Get HTMLPad https://www.htmlpad.net
It is free to try and just $40 to buy. Once you create your layouts you can reuse them so you do not have to start from scratch.
Open a webpage you have then click on the Vertical Page tab at the bottom to view it.
On the left side you have the code or you can move it to the righside, you can resize the panels by dragging. You type in the code section and it appears right away in the Vertical or Horizontal view. You can have many tabs open.
I switched this year as Dreamweaver was to complicated and other choices were as well. Once I learn some Flex and Grid I was able to create pages that can be viewed on a cell phone or tablet or big monitor. I already knew enough css and html.
#29 Win10 would ask for a Microsoft account to. The workaround is to unplug the network cable when installing. May be the answer for Win11.
Great idea! I will do this next time. Unplug. No internet/network detected by Win 11 installation process. Let’s see what it does.
“Meanwhile, the desktop market continues to dwindle and handhelds — the market that MS has COMPLETELY missed the boat on — grows ever more dominant.”
Windows PCs/desktops/laptops have been selling well the last 18 months as people have been working from home. Private sector work from home is monitored and is real. Public sector work from home has been a do nothing scam. In the UK one Gov’t biggie said she always will be working from home. She has 1000 people working under her. This zooming it in scam gives her time, she said so, during her alleged workday to work out on her Peloton bike (might have been another brand) UK Daily Mail exposed this parasite.
FWIW — The start menu in Win 11 is back to simplified. No more tiles. Here is what it looks like, kinda android>>> https://tinyurl.com/2meu3zsz
Well, that makes two of suspicious, but aside from a very few pirating and gaming watchdogs[1][2], I see no really seeing a cause for concern, esp. as concerns ideological content. It seems to me that requiring hardware trust in order for you to use your working hardware can easily evolve into requiring the user and or his content to be trusted, like as FB does. All in the name of the common good.
[1],https://www.fsf.org/news/lifes-better-together-when-you-avoid-windows-11[2] https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html [3]Video: Is Windows 11 DOA Or The End Of Computing As We Know It? What is TPM?
I’ve had it for about a month now.
It’s prettier, more aesthetic, nice shadow effects.
The start menu is more functional.
Most likely many features I have not encountered or concerned myself with.
I agree on those points. OTOH, it's a computer, not an artwork. Am I to hang my monitor on a wall, stand back, and just admire it? I use it for computer tasks, and I find complex pictures behind my task windows distracting. :-)
But I readily admit I'm an outlier in that regard -- most computer users seem to like complex pictures on their desktops.
"https://www.howtogeek.com/
What is this? Looks like a phone. Why not actually enable the user to see all installed programs at once as my image shows by using Open Shell, thank God.
One frank reviewer (the best for both Windows and Linux I know have found) states,
Almost exactly 10 years ago, Microsoft came out with Windows 8, featuring Start Screen, a useless idea that introduced extra mouse clicks into an efficient desktop workflow. As a member of a small group of people with IQ above two digits, and who value productivity, I wrote a guide on how to disable the Metro interface. This was during the preview, pre-release phase of the Windows 8 lifecycle. And then, Microsoft took the capability away.
I had to use Classic Shell, and to this day, Classic Shell, or rather, Open-Shell (the new, up-to-date version of the original) is my go-to menu in Windows 8. Now, now, now, color me surprised, a decade later, the exact same thing is happening with Dev builds of Windows 11. We have a new, useless menu that adds extra mouse clicks, because mobile. Used to be tablet, now phone. The cycle repeats itself. You could disable it via registry, no problem. But then, boom, new Dev release, and that tweak is gone! Well, we must resort to Open-Shell once again. Indeed, here, I want to show you what you need to have a good, seamless experience with this alternative menu utility in Windows 11. After me. (https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-open-shell.html)
But to me "trusted computer" means "reliable, well-designed, robust computer", and it has nothing to do with whether Microsoft or the government approve it.
I've been a computer systems design engineer (that's "system" as in: hardware + OS/drivers + applications) since the mid-1970's, and some of the industrial process control computers I designed and delivered in the 1980's are still working to spec in difficult environments. For a decade I designed and delivered spacecraft computers to the highest MIL-SPECs. I cut my teeth doing component and subsystem failure analyses in the early 80's as a subcontractor to NASA. These days I'm still doing high-rel work, although to be fair I'm working at a considerably higher level of integration; my days of designing with latches and A/D converters, and writing in assembler, are long past.
But you will understand that I bristle a bit when some untrusted company or untrusted government hack tells me I have to use their "mandated trusted" hardware and/or software.
Being old-school has this benefit: My present computer hardware is doing well, and may just outlive me, and I won't have to deal with the latest and greatest "mandated trusted" atrocities. :-)
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