Windows 11 is out today. Is there any reason for QQers to upgrade from Windows 10?

[marpow]

Markie, do you have two copies installed? If so the program might see a registry entry and get confused. Sorry, this stuff is aggravating.

Thanks, I just don't know the answer.
I'll do a deeper dive when I get home.

 

[Guy Robinson]

I have been using 11 so long that I don't remember 10.

 

[Marplot]

Dvd ae is easy to get a new key for.

 

[Imbobman]

Windows 11..ha?....I'm still using windows XP, thank you very much!

 

[H.A.L.]

Windows 11..ha?....I'm still using windows XP, thank you very much!

I miss playing the original TROPICO on XP. Those were the days. . . .

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Dvd ae is easy to get a new key for.

The instructions for how to do it are on the website

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

I would like to put Windows 11 on my 2015 Dell Inspiron 17 laptop but it fails the upgrade test... How rude!

 

[andyp]

Anything after Windows 7 sucks. That wasn't difficult to figure out and just to see if I was the only one who felt that way, I researched online...do that and see what you think.

 

[barfle]

Hell, I miss Windows NT. That’s what was running when I got my MCSE.

 

[mandrix]

I would like to put Windows 11 on my 2015 Dell Inspiron 17 laptop but it fails the upgrade test... How rude!

YouTube is full of ways to install Win 11 on "unsupported hardware". I did it on my older pc, it's 6th generation Intel. Got a Win 11 Pro key off Groupon for like $12.

 

[marpow]

Failed- Did as support said and wont recognize PC ID, stuck on old PC ID? I think?
Good enough to get close, story of my life.
Sent another support ticket, will see what they say.

 

[Owen Smith]

Anything after Windows 7 sucks. That wasn't difficult to figure out and just to see if I was the only one who felt that way, I researched online...do that and see what you think.

I'd go back to Windows 7 in a heart beat if I could get supported hardware and software for it eg. web browsers, drivers for modern peripherals etc.

 

[ssully]

Dvd ae is easy to get a new key for.

Yes. See the answer to this question, esp the part about re-downloding the license from your account. You shouldn't need to buy DVDAE again.

https://www.dvdae.com/support/faq/1

 

[ubertrout]

Funny to see this thread come back to life. I've been using Win11 for a few years now and it's fine. I do enjoy older PCs (in fact, that's become more of a hobby lately) but for actual work Win11 isn't really optional anymore.

 

[ssully]

Failed- Did as support said and wont recognize PC ID, stuck on old PC ID? I think?
Good enough to get close, story of my life.
Sent another support ticket, will see what they say.
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you're supposed to 'copy to clipboard' that machine ID (which is the ID of the machine you are using) and paste it into the 'assign to machine" box for the license then hit 'Assign'

 

[himey]

Anything after Windows 7 sucks. That wasn't difficult to figure out and just to see if I was the only one who felt that way, I researched online...do that and see what you think.

Thankfully that hasn't been my experience. I use Win 10 for my server and Win 11 for the three PCs connected to it.

 

[mandrix]

I admit I was very slow to move beyond Win 7. (Point of fact I was slow to move off XP to Win 7) Had no interest at all until Win 10 came along. Now with three pc's currently in the house, all are running Win 11; two are Win 11 Pro and one Win 11 Home.
One pc is 6th gen Intel....so does not meet MS's criteria for running Win 11. But there are many ways to install Win 11 on older hardware, and one only has to look to YouTube to find them. So far I've been getting updates just fine on the older machine.
Could MS decide to stop updating Win 11 on older hardware? Sure, it's possible. But my oldest machine has what was at the time a very expensive motherboard and I'm not eager to retire it.

The only thing about Win 11 that I have reverted to previous versions is the mouse right click menu. I like the older versions better than the Win 11 version....and also I've turned off all telemetry to MS that AFAIK is possible.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Anything after Windows 7 sucks. That wasn't difficult to figure out and just to see if I was the only one who felt that way, I researched online...do that and see what you think.

Thankfully that hasn't been my experience. I use Win 10 for my server and Win 11 for the three PCs connected to it.

Agreed... Windows 11 has been fine for me (with the exception of the 24H2 release which screwed up my networking). After deleting all of the Windows and ASUS bloatware from my laptop it boots up in around 15 seconds, which is much faster than any of my Windows 10 laptops.

 

[mandrix]

Agreed... Windows 11 has been fine for me (with the exception of the 24H2 release which screwed up my networking). After deleting all of the Windows and ASUS bloatware from my laptop it boots up in around 15 seconds, which is much faster than any of my Windows 10 laptops.

Networking seems to be MS's achilles heel. 24H2 did not screw mine up, but subsequent updates did on one machine. Changed the static IP to DHCP for some reason.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Networking seems to be MS's achilles heel. 24H2 did not screw mine up, but subsequent updates did on one machine. Changed the static IP to DHCP for some reason.

One of the Windows updates changed my static IP to DHCP too. It's working much better now though.