Are you happy with Windows 11

Silvio said:

I have found, running Windows 11 on fairly modern machines (TPM2, native NVME, UEFI bios, DDR4), results in the OS intelligently optimizing performance, to a surprising extent.

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Maybe so, but when you're only a web surfer, it's really hard to tell the difference. If I were doing CAD Work, I would probably see some difference, but I'm not really sure.

Silvio said:

I have found, running Windows 11 on fairly modern machines (TPM2, native NVME, UEFI bios, DDR4), results in the OS inteliigently optimizing performance, to a surprising extent.

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I run Win 11 on a fairly modern machine (TPM 2, native NVMe, UEFI, DDR4) and it's a complete PITA. If this is supposed to be intelligent optimization please bring back the organics! At this rate I may as well go back to MBR and Legacy.

RD Mercer said:

Maybe so, but when you're only a web surfer, it's really hard to tell the difference. If I were doing CAD Work, I would probably see some difference, but I'm not really sure.

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My Windows 11 machine is mainly used for Citrix, but it feels much snappier doing anything, than after fresh install, 3x months ago.

Nothing wowee about the spec, Xeon 2680 v4, 32gb DDR4 2400mhz, nvme drive, Quadro M4000 8gb graphics.

Unless the ancient old gfx card, really is that good, at 2D.

Silvio said:

My Windows 11 machine is mainly used for Citrix, but it feels much snappier doing anything, than after fresh install, 3x months ago.

Nothing wowee about the spec, Xeon 2680 v4, 32gb DDR4 2400mhz, nvme drive, Quadro M4000 8gb graphics.

Unless the ancient old gfx card, really is that good, at 2D.

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I wished I would have known more about the Xeon's when I built my Asus socket 1366 machine a few years ago, I would have bought a socket 2011 board, so I could have used a better/faster Xeon. Those boards and those 2680 v4 Xeon processors are still not cheap. Well I just looked on eBay, the processor is not bad at all now.

Windows 11 is great as desktop OS!
With TrueNAS and 10 Gbps network I enjoy very fast and safe working and gaming space. First thing after fresh Windows 11 installation on m.2 is firewall, which blocks everything except Windows Update. Documents and media are on NAS so only one extra m.2 drive is required, for profiles, "My Documents" and "ProgramData". Since most mainboards have two m.2 slots, it is perfect configuration. Essential to keep user and program profiles on non-system partition. Privacy hardened with free O&O ShutUp10, which disables many Windows spyware mechanisms, just in case, even when blocked by firewall.
Environmental variables are godsent... they allow to change folder location without modification of links.
Links between folders are extremely usefull, one can quickly jump between places like My Documents, ProgramData, profiles, NAS folders, etc.
Original start menu is garbage. With Start11 I compose my own whole-screen-start-menu with tabs with links (powered by environmental variables).I can have start menu with 15 categorized tabs (tools, games, windows, folders, etc), every tab is capable to fit 80 link icons!
AutoHotKey is genius! You can have per-program keyboard shortcuts with #HotIf directive. Image every tool or game customized with own shortcuts! With Logitech G815/G915 keyboard 5 GKeys and 3 memory buttons you may have 15 customizable single-key keyboard shortcuts independent from ALT, CTRL and SHIFT. To be even more independent from ALT, CTRL and SHIFT, I combine GKeys and AutoHotKey to utilize virtual function keys F13-F24 for keyboard events. There were keyboards in the past with 24 function keys. Modern keyboards have only 12 function keys, but ISO standard still contains F13-F24 keyboard codes.

I love 23H2 ( works very fine !) ...............24H2 sucks ( too much bloated , buggy , unreliable ) !

Bree said:

No 3rd party "tweaks" for me, not now in W11 or previously in W10....

(...plus the 24H2 update since I wrote that.)

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You don't even use Vive Tool?

pietcorus2 said:

I love 23H2 ( works very fine !) ...............24H2 sucks ( too much bloated , buggy , unreliable ) !

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I should say, my experiences are also based on Win 1123H2.

Seen no reason to update yet.

My "non compatible" hardware, is not Copilot aware, and have no interest in it, either.

" Seen no reason to update yet."................agree !

mecanicogolf said:

You don't even use Vive Tool?

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Only occasionally on Insider builds, never on any of my RTM installs.

Bree said:

Only occasionally on Insider builds, never on any of my RTM installs.

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That's the same with me. If I really want to test a feature in my Insider VM, vivetool is the way to go! On my stable installations I try to limit any unnecessary third party modifications.

RD Mercer said:

I wished I would have known more about the Xeon's when I built my Asus socket 1366 machine a few years ago, I would have bought a socket 2011 board, so I could have used a better/faster Xeon. Those boards and those 2680 v4 Xeon processors are still not cheap. Well I just looked on eBay, the processor is not bad at all now.

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The X99E-WS is a 2011 board but I went with the 6900K chip. Sadly, that chip is not on Windows compliant list for Windows 11.

It's a beautiful board but evidently it's just too archaic.

Scannerman said:

The X99E-WS is a 2011 board but I went with the 6900K chip. Sadly, that chip is not on Windows compliant list for Windows 11.

It's a beautiful board but evidently it's just too archaic.

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That board is $300.00 and up on Flea Bay, as an "old" retired or at least semi-retired dude, I can't justify that in this life.

RD Mercer said:

That board is $300.00 and up on Flea Bay, as an "old" retired or at least semi-retired dude, I can't justify that in this life.

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Wow. That cheap already. The board used to cost over 1K in Canukistan currency. I didn't pay quite that much because I got it on a Black Friday deal. I shudder to think what a brand new comparable work station board like this would run me today. I'm slotted in the same position as you, with four dependants and one foot in the grave. lol

RD Mercer said:

I wished I would have known more about the Xeon's when I built my Asus socket 1366 machine a few years ago, I would have bought a socket 2011 board, so I could have used a better/faster Xeon. Those boards and those 2680 v4 Xeon processors are still not cheap. Well I just looked on eBay, the processor is not bad at all now.

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I stopped building machines with off the shelf Mainboards, over a decade ago.

Been with with Dell ex corp machines, with Windows COA sticker/in BIOS, for as long as I can remember.

Free, licensed Windows, is my priority,

Can I install this on Winders 11?

RD Mercer said:

Can I install this on Winders 11?

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Probably, yes. Office XP can be installed in Windows 10, it should be no different in Windows 11. I've see videos of Office '95 being installed on W11.

A look at running older versions of Microsoft Office on Windows 10

I had Microsoft Works running on my Laptop not too long ago.

Yes, I like the latest version of 11. It runs quite fast, and my software runs well too. I just upgraded to Movavi video editor 2025, flawless editing and rendering!

Yes, happy with it. No issues. (Famous last words!)