martinlest
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- Windows 10
I have spent many, many hours over the past few days setting up Windows 11. Some individual programmes took me two or three hours to get working, with the help of the developers in more than one case, to sort out various issues (which I didn't have in Windows 10). And then, this afternoon, I let Windows Update run: back at the desktop I am horrified to see that everything's pretty much back to where I started three days ago - Windows seems to have restored the O/S back to its default. Many of my created desktop icons are still there (others not), but their associated applications don't run, as I see their .exe files have been removed from their folders in Program Files, which I had installed over the past few days. And they all worked fine an hour ago.
Needless to say, I am feeling pretty angry, and pretty miserable. I am going to have to go back to Windows 10 (it's a dual boot PC, so that's easily done), and will be sticking with it (the PC is primmarily for X-Plane flight-simming). I am certainly not spending another three days, or more, setting things up from scratch all over again (only to have the same thing happen in a few days time when updates install, in all likelihood).
Is there any way I can get back to how things were? Uninstalling updates is not going to bring back my desktop and applications, is it? System Restore isn't what I am used to to be honest - the option I am presented wih is to go back 'to the previous build'. (It is now Win11 2H2 - I thought that that is what it was before too?). What happens if I run that, do you imagine? Again, it seems highly unlikely all my customisations and application executable files will return.
Just a shot in the dark here - maybe there's a way to get back to how things were that I am unaware of? But I am not expecting it.
Thanks
Needless to say, I am feeling pretty angry, and pretty miserable. I am going to have to go back to Windows 10 (it's a dual boot PC, so that's easily done), and will be sticking with it (the PC is primmarily for X-Plane flight-simming). I am certainly not spending another three days, or more, setting things up from scratch all over again (only to have the same thing happen in a few days time when updates install, in all likelihood).
Is there any way I can get back to how things were? Uninstalling updates is not going to bring back my desktop and applications, is it? System Restore isn't what I am used to to be honest - the option I am presented wih is to go back 'to the previous build'. (It is now Win11 2H2 - I thought that that is what it was before too?). What happens if I run that, do you imagine? Again, it seems highly unlikely all my customisations and application executable files will return.
Just a shot in the dark here - maybe there's a way to get back to how things were that I am unaware of? But I am not expecting it.
Thanks
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