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flashh4

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I read where it's ok to check out of the Insiders Beta/Dev programs now that W11 has been released !
Opinions please ?
Chuck
 

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I am sorry, but your english is not clear. What exactly are you asking?
 

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I read where it's ok to check out of the Insiders Beta/Dev programs now that W11 has been released !

What i was asking is it ok to check out (stop using, quit the Insiders program) now that you have updated in the Beta/Dev part of Windows 11 ??
Chuck
 

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    HP HP ENVY TE01
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    2.90 gigahertz Intel Core i7-10700
    Motherboard
    Board: HP 8767 A (SMVB)
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    16214 Megabytes Usable Installed Memor
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    Windows Defender
What i was asking is it ok to check out (stop using, quit the Insiders program) now that you have updated in the Beta/Dev part of Windows 11 ??
Chuck
You can only leave the Beta Chsnnel when the next release version is released aa then the Beta and Release versions are identical. This cannot happen with the Dev version as it is always ahead of the next release. This could take up to a year now official releases are up to a year apart.

To leave the Dev Channel, you have to change over to the Beta Channel but you will not get updates until the Beta version overtakes the "frozen" Dev version. In practice this means you miss the next release version and have to wait for the one after This could take up to two years.

You can always clean install release version of course.
 

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    Macrium Reflect Home V8
    Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
    Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
I wouldn't bother with it and I would never install DEV version again because I had to reinstall Windows 11 because it screwed up my drivers and I couldn't load my 4 x 4TB disks, he didn't show them to me in file explorer, I tried everything and I couldn't do anything do than install new windows.
 

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You can only leave the Beta Channel when the next release version is released aa then the Beta and Release versions are identical. This cannot happen with the Dev version as it is always ahead of the next release. This could take up to a year now official releases are up to a year apart.

To leave the Dev Channel, you have to change over to the Beta Channel but you will not get updates until the Beta version overtakes the "frozen" Dev version. In practice this means you miss the next release version and have to wait for the one after This could take up to two years.

You can always clean install release version of course.
I installed the latest dev and switched back to beta without having to reinstall

Is what your saying above also the case when using the reg key's located here:

 

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I installed the latest dev and switched back to beta without having to reinstall

Is what your saying above also the case when using the reg key's located here:

I said:

To leave the Dev Channel, you have to change over to the Beta Channel but you will not get updates until the Beta version overtakes the "frozen" Dev version. In practice this means you miss the next release version and have to wait for the one after This could take up to two years.

You are missing the point - you change the channel to Beta but the installed Beta release number is ahead of the current Beta version, and will not get updated until the current Beta release number catches up /overtakes the Dev number you just changed from. You can never go backward on build versions - only wait until updates overtake the Beta version created by mving from Dev to Beta. In the worst case, it can take up to 2 years.
 

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    Computer type
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    Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS Zenbook 14
    CPU
    I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
    Motherboard
    Yep, Laptop has one.
    Memory
    16 GB soldered
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated Intel Iris XE
    Sound Card
    Realtek built in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    laptop OLED screen
    Screen Resolution
    2880x1800 touchscreen
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
    PSU
    Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
    Case
    Yep, got one
    Cooling
    Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
    Keyboard
    Built in UK keybd
    Mouse
    Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
    Internet Speed
    900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)

    Macrium Reflect Home V8
    Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
    Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
thank you for answering my question, I already knew that you can't go backwards but I wanted to know what would happen if I got my updates this way in the long term its helped me out a lot.
 
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