Windows 11 Support Thread

Speaking of Hyper-V, one of the SNAFUs I recently ran into was I had a Ubuntu instance I setup for dev work for a buddy of mine. After clean installing 11 I re-created the VM using the old virtual hard disk and all was well. My friend requested a copy so I exported the VM and sent him the files, he could not import it - "No VM found". We messed around for a day, making multiple new Debian VMs, until I found out Windows 11 uses configuration version 10 whereas Windows 10 is on configuration version 9. There is no way you can create a version 9 on 11.

In the end I remoted in to my holiday house PC (which I am on now, running 11 after the upgrade 2 days ago) and I was able to setup a configuration version 9 VM for Debian and exported it. My friend could import it fine on his Windows 10 Hyper-V and when I import it to my Windows 11 Hyper-V... it stays on 9.0 :
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FFS, so the only way to get a configuration version 9.0 Hyper-V on Windows 11 is to make it in Windows 10.... WTF?
 
PhireSide said:
TIL that 'bit' is called 'bis' in Afrikaans. Thought it would be called brokkie or something.

For some reason, every 3 or 4 times I wake the E470 from sleep, the touchpad and keyboard nipple won't respond at all. A restart fixes it, but it is rather annoying. Lenovo forums are full of reports of it happening so maybe it's just a Synaptics driver issue.
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Fixed this by reinstalling Windows 10. No more touchpad going walkabout every two or three sleep sessions. It has the exact same driver as what was installed on Windows 11, yet it was really unhappy about it.

It is a laptop from 2017 so I suppose I can't complain.
 
PhireSide said:
Fixed this by reinstalling Windows 10. No more touchpad going walkabout every two or three sleep sessions. It has the exact same driver as what was installed on Windows 11, yet it was really unhappy about it.

It is a laptop from 2017 so I suppose I can't complain.
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One would have thought OEM support would have been better?

I know on the HP website there is no support for Windows 11 on my old EliteDesk, yet Windows update pulled in a perfectly working Synaptics audio driver that HP considers only good for 10.
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Even pulled in the HP audio app from the Windows store - no issues.
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I guess that is the 10/11 compatibility gamble we are playing right now? I can honestly say this little PC is playing along very nice with Windows 11.
 
Rouxenator said:
One would have thought OEM support would have been better?

I know on the HP website there is no support for Windows 11 on my old EliteDesk, yet Windows update pulled in a perfectly working Synaptics audio driver that HP considers only good for 10.
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Even pulled in the HP audio app from the Windows store - no issues.
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I guess that is the 10/11 compatibility gamble we are playing right now? I can honestly say this little PC is playing along very nice with Windows 11.
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I tried all sorts - I left Windows 11 to install the devices upon installation, and the issue appeared. I then tried Windows optional updates - no change. I also tried installing Lenovo Service Bridge and Lenovo Vantage - no dice. Sleuthed around on the forums and tried all sorts of drivers, fixes, workarounds, but nothing would seem to work.

But no matter, this is just a spare device while the Surface gets repaired, so Windows 10 will work perfectly fine for the time being. It seems to work brilliantly with your HP at least. I had a similar looking one that I sold a while back, the HP ProDesk 400 G5 (or was that the ProDesk 500 G4?) and Windows 11 worked well on there as well.
 
I was surprised at how well this tiny PC took to 11. You can pick these up for around R4k, but a clean install will be required to get around the CPU check since the 2x00G Ryzen APU is not officially supported. Dang, that actually takes me back to 2018 when you and me has brand new 2200G / 2400G APUs.

With drivers it is always a crap shoot as to what will work and what won't - and best of all - what will blue screen.
 
Rouxenator said:
I was surprised at how well this tiny PC took to 11. You can pick these up for around R4k, but a clean install will be required to get around the CPU check since the 2x00G Ryzen APU is not officially supported. Dang, that actually takes me back to 2018 when you and me has brand new 2200G / 2400G APUs.

With drivers it is always a crap shoot as to what will work and what won't - and best of all - what will blue screen.
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I actually was busy cleaning out my phone pictures and came across the pictures that I took of my 2200G PC when I sold it just the other night. I miss it but I do not miss struggling getting the WiFi drivers to work on it. I'm sure by now the drivers are matured, at least.

I don't mind doing clean installs - I prefer them, and driver issues are one thing if it's on a machine that I use and can deal with them but this Lenovo is being used by my fiance, so I wanted it in tip top shape while we await the return of the Surface. Why Microsoft chose to finally resolve the warranty issue over the festive season is beyond me. It's not like we logged the call back in early November already or anything:rolleyes:
 
chrisc said:
I typed "Control" and created a link to Control Panel on the tray. How can you exist without this, or am I being retarded?
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It's not that i can't get to it .... Microsoft is slowly moving everything from (inside) Control panel to the settings menu .....

it wouldn't be long before that shortcut of yours means nothing :p
 
Maybe just me, but on Windows 10 I could really feel the difference between using a 4K monitor and a 1080P one. I recall the latter felt so claustrophobic for me being used to 4K. Have not felt like that since switching my 1080P computer to 11. Sure, it is a lot less than on 4K with 11, but somehow it just fits nicer for me.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
OK.... so originally I upgraded Windows 10 to 11, and it worked great. Hardware Unboxed said that a clean install gets better FPS, so the upgrade was always temporary.
Yesterday I made the leap and did a clean install.

And now I have a slow AF POS Windows 11.
I hoped it would go after I installed the AMD drivers, but no.

I think I will wait a week or so and see if it somehow improves and then go back to 10.
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So, a bit more than a week in, and Windows 11 has "settled down". Performance is as good as it was with Windows 10.
 
My Windows 11 experience has been great until this morning. Started up my PC and when it logs in I just get a black screen with a cursor. Task Manager opens and then immediately closes again when I start it.

Tried lots of different ways of fixing it but in the end I had to do a Windows Reset which is sucky.

I had a Windows Update before the problems but was unable to remove it or go back to a system restore.
 
Solitude said:
My Windows 11 experience has been great until this morning. Started up my PC and when it logs in I just get a black screen with a cursor. Task Manager opens and then immediately closes again when I start it.

Tried lots of different ways of fixing it but in the end I had to do a Windows Reset which is sucky.

I had a Windows Update before the problems but was unable to remove it or go back to a system restore.
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Have you tried booting to powershell / command prompt?

When my Win10 was borked after an update, I ended up removing the update through the command line after finding a guide.
 
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