Upgrade Or Not Upgrade That Is The Question...

Lance1 · Dec 3, 2022

Ghot said:
Been listenin' to a lot of Home Free covers recently...

And you cut that video Why? I love Home Free.

Lance1 · Dec 3, 2022

Here it comes... Waite for it...

Lance1 · Dec 3, 2022

Here's another one!

Lance1 · Dec 3, 2022

Country guitar... Just a taste.

Lance1 · Dec 3, 2022

Beat this. I think to know you can't

Ghot · Dec 3, 2022

Too metal for me. ^^

Bree · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
Beat this. I think to know you can't....

Remind me, what was the topic of this thread?

Lance1 · Dec 4, 2022

Bree said:
Remind me, what was the topic of this thread?

Yes, we got a little off track.

Lance1 · Dec 4, 2022

Here's a question... If you decide to upgrade to Windows 11 as I did. Should you leave everything default and learn to use it as is?? OR! Use third-party apps and bastardize Windows 11 to look like Windows 10 like you never left. I changed the right-click context menu to look like Windows 10 and also Task Manager. But that was actually a fix and not a change because MS messed up with its update. So suck it up and learn it as we all did with all the other Windows versions as they came along?? So! Keep Windows 11 Original? OR! Bastardize. That Is The Question...

Ghot · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
Here's a question... If you decide to upgrade to Windows 11 as I did. Should you leave everything default and learn to use it as is?? OR! Use third-party apps and bastardize Windows 11 to look like Windows 10 like you never left. I changed the right-click context menu to look like Windows 10 and also Task Manager. But that was actually a fix and not a change because MS messed up with its update. So suck it up and learn it as we all did with all the other Windows versions as they came along?? So! Keep Windows 11 Original? OR! Bastardize. That Is The Question...

Personally, I use maybe 6-8 tweaks in Winaero, and about 10-12 tutorial tweaks.
That's pretty much it.

Things I altered...

1. Context menus
2. Removed junk from Search and Start and File Explorer
3. Removed most apps
4. Made it so I could easily grab scroll bars.
5. Clear Taskbar
6. Local Account and 3rd party AV/firewall.

Bree · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
So! Keep Windows 11 Original? OR! Bastardize. That Is The Question...

I keep it original, same as I have done with Windows 10 since I first got it in August 2015. No third party tweaks, and about the only tutorial used was to restore the Windows Photo Viewer.

I suspect that is a contributory factor in never having had a cumulative or feature update fail on me.

Edwin · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
... Use third-party apps and bastardize Windows 11 to look like Windows 10...

I do whatever it takes to un-bastardize Windows 11 to function properly and intuitively, with sensibility and familiarity. The look is fine.

Lance1 · Dec 4, 2022

Edwin said:
With sensibility and familiarity.

Familiarity... That is the clincher. We lean toward that which keeps us comfortable. Windows XP to Windows 7 was harsh for me but easy for others. So is this just a personal preference thing? As it should be! Everyone reacts differently to a NEW MS OS Release. I am still adjusting...

Edwin · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
So is this just a personal preference thing?

Yeah, pretty much.

Lance1 said:
Everyone reacts differently to a NEW MS OS Release.

I'm accustomed to doing certain things a certain way..., if they hamper that ability, I'll find a way around it, or walk away!

Bree · Dec 4, 2022

Lance1 said:
Familiarity... That is the clincher. We lean toward that which keeps us comfortable. Windows XP to Windows 7 was harsh for me but easy for others....

Age, I think is the thing. We cling more to familiarity as we get older.

My laptop was running XP when I retired, and I could feel myself getting 'comfortable' with it and not having to think too much.

Then it died and I had to get a replacement quick. At the time every new machine came with Windows 8 and I certainly didn't want anything to do that. So it was a 2nd hand Windows 7 laptop that I got. Harsh? No, but it was certainly a wake-up call. I could feel my brain cells starting to work for a living again.

Then in August 2015 it got the free upgrade to Windows 10. That was really disorientating - for all of two weeks until I started to feel as 'at home' as I had been in Windows 7. Even Windows 8 now started to make some sense in retrospect, I run it in a VM these days (and XP, and 7). The transition from 10 to 11 was minor in comparison.

Change keeps the brain young and active. I embrace it rather than trying to live in the past.

Lance1 · Dec 4, 2022

Bree said:
Change keeps the brain young and active. I embrace it rather than trying to live in the past.

Well said.

Edwin · Dec 4, 2022

Bree said:
I embrace it rather than trying to live in the past.

I would but, everything I wish to embrace, they've removed from Windows 11 !!! :winkt:

Berton · Dec 4, 2022

I have some good Win10 machines but after Win11 came out a year ago none will properly Upgrade so I got a new Notebook back then and in April a new Desktop, both Dell Vostro. My need is to see what my clients will see if having to get new computers, had 2 just before Christmas last year. I do very little customizing for that reason. I do check each computer I access to see if they can be properly Upgraded or advise what to do if they can't be.

Lance1 · Dec 4, 2022

Berton said:
My need is to see what my clients will see if having to get new computers,

You are a true tech. I would come to you in a heartbeat. That is if I can't do it myself. I can...

Berton · Dec 4, 2022

I try. Some may think I'm crazy but if I can't fix it I don't charge them, no need to pile on more woes. There's 2 things about being a tech, in most industries, fixing a problem to the point of the tech wanting to use it the client will want to use. The other is that if the tech does the job right he/she doesn't need to be called back very often. Most of my working life has involved some teaching/instructing.