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Hi,
@Scramjet :
You could make an image of your current installation of W10 and do an in place upgrade to W11.
It certainly is far more stable than earlier W10 iterations.
Cheers,
Windows 11 available on October 5
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New #631
Very Interesting. I too, received the invite on my laptop that it is W 11 ready. But hesitate just as Scramjet has stated. As for install. I'd rather follow MS with the "download and install". Has anyone else done that? And is successful - enough for us skittish people to at least give solid thought to upgrading. I guess I'm concerned about some of the things I hear that are on W 10 but not on W 11. How important are those differences. i.e. What are they specifically and how do they affect your view of W 11 and is it worth bothering with. After all, we have 5 years to decide whether to upgrade or not. I guess a conservative approach would be to upgrade and be ready and able to revert back to W 10 if we want or need to. Any good advice would be appreciated.
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New #632
@fdegrove yes that is true. I may hold off a bit though and continue to follow the forums here. Besides clean installs never bothered me lol. I usually do it once a year. @MorganBilbo Maybe I will get an invite to Win11 soon also. Although I have sometimes went ahead and done the over the top upgrade many times in the past years lol. I am trying to hold off a bit and read more first.
cheers
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New #633
I have been using W11 on my 'daily machine' for nearly three months now. I restored a system image of my System One below to new 11-ready hardware then upgraded its W10 to W11 with an ISO of the first Insider build from UUPDump. I used it like that for all my daily tasks for two months, then when W11 was released I transferred the W10 system image again and waited for Windows Update to offer the upgrade. It's been running the RTM W11 since 20th October.
I find W11 to be as stable as W10, and has been so since the first Insider builds. In fact the kernel seems little different from W10 and all my software runs as well in W11 as it ever did in W10.
Where it does differ (and where some find difficulties with it) is in the design and functioning of the Start menu and Taskbar. Some W10 functions, particularly for the Taskbar, are missing, click-and-drag to the Taskbar for example.
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New #634
@Scramjet I participated in the Win 11 Beta with my laptop and have since clean installed from the ISO. All working well, and I like the new look and multiple desktop feature. Highly recommend the clean install route.
The desktop that my wife uses got the invite to upgrade. The upgrade was completed on the weekend and I asked her to let me know if she noticed any differences or had any problems. She typically uses the PC for 6-7 hours a day and I have zero feedback from her (and she is very vocal about any technical issues).
@MorganBilbo There are three options:
1. clean install from an ISO
2. upgrade using the download and install from WU
3. upgrade using an ISO
I actually did #2 on the desktop a week ago and had an issue (unrelated to the process), and did an image restore to Win 10. The update took over 2.5 hrs on the spinning HDD. This last weekend the update was done again using the #3 process. This time it took about 1 hour 45 minutes. I would recommend the ISO route (see prev post for this process) over #2.
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New #635
Yes. and (as I have previously done with major W10 Feature Updates) have compared it with the alternative of an in-place upgrade using an ISO downloaded from Microsoft. Either method produces exactly the same end result, but Windows Update is the slower of the two.
How long does the Windows 11 upgrade take using Windows Update? | Windows 11 Forum
Not counting download time (as that is entirely dependent on your ISP) this low spec machine took around five hours to upgrade successfully. In post #11 of that thread I repeated the same upgrade on the same machine using an ISO. The upgrade took an hour less to complete.
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New #636
We have 2 laptops, one which is upgradeable. Then have 3 notebooks that are not capable to upgrade to W11. The processors do not meet the requirements. I don't think I am going to replace anything with current processors, just so I have W11? Win 10, version 1H21 is working just fine for basic needs, on all PC's.
I have the 11" notebooks from upgrading the past 7 years. The 11" are nice for traveling and taking to morning breakfast at the local restaurant.
Win 11 does not excite me for my needs.
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New #637
Thanks for the replies Bree and quandary. I will wait a few more days to see if it comes in the WU on this Z590 system. Maybe it will not considering it shows on my Z270 i7-7700k that it don't meet the min CPU requirements lol. I just changed my profile system specs. Geez I didn't realize I still had the old P5E3 Deluxe specs there and had the Z270 since 2017. So I updated it to the Z590 specs :)
cheers
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New #638
Four weeks ago I upgraded my desktop to make it compatible with Windows 11. Ten days ago I received an invitation in Windows Update to upgrade to Windows 11. I took the plunge and updated the computer from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro. I tried to be positive but became more and more discouraged every day because of the numerous bugs in Windows 11. Now on day ten with time run out I have started the process of going back to Windows 10.
Update:
I just checked. The process only took a few minutes and is done already. Now to see if everything survived intact.
I may try again to upgrade to Windows 11 in a few months. If I do it will be a clean install of Windows 11. Maybe doing that will make Windows 11 more stable. Also, by then maybe Microsoft will have fixed most of the major bugs in Windows 11.
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New #639
I upgraded my main rig to 11 and after several days I really couldn't see the point (for me). So went back to 10.
My laptop is running 11 and again cannot see the point of 11 over 10. Obviously there are things under the hood with 11 but having both systems with secure boot, MS Defender, Malwarebytes, etc then I suppose it may just come down to a plain old fashioned aesthetic view.
Speed wise - no difference in my case.
So I'll just stay with 10 for now and see what 'goodies' (if any) MS bring to the table in the future but it sure looks (in my eyes anyway) that it's just a marketing exercise for the hardware manufacturers.
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