Windows 11 Support Thread

This morning, I booted up my dinosaur PC running an 'unsupported install' of Windows 11 Enterprise at 05h00, used it normally to watch a few YouTube videos, then shut it down at 05h50 as our area was scheduled for load-shedding from 06h00 to 08h00 - this never happened - the power stayed on - so at 07h45 I powered up my PC again, and was greeted by this charming Windows error message...

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When I logged into my user profile, it came up with the 'Preparing Windows' message & then booted into a default OOBE desktop with only a few program & shortcut icons & the default Windows 11 wallpaper.

When I checked the C:\Windows\User folder, there was a TEMP folder with today's date stamp on it, as well as my user profile folder, my brother's user folder (which I had created long ago, in case he ever needed to use my PC) & the default user profile folder as well.

As a client of mine had experienced a similar issue with his Windows 10 laptop a few months ago, I logged in with my brother's user account profile (thankfully I had also made it an administrator account), and followed the procedures listed in this website link below, which successfully resolved the issue and booted me back into my normal user account & desktop profile.

 
^ I had the same on a Win10 PC at the office about 2months ago ....
It happened straight after I did a .Net framework Win update and restarted.

iirc, I booted from install usb and did a system restore which on restart booted into the correct profile....

I did the update again and that time it worked perfect.

It's weird to find others now with the same issue :unsure::eek:
 
I finally bought a NVME SSD and am now wanting to move my Windows install to the SSD. Initially the updater said my PC was not compatible with Windows 11 - I enabled TPM in BIOS (Ryzen 3600). Now it says I can install Windows 11.

I do not know what the implication of this TPM change is. Should I just leave it enabled?

Is the general consensus that I should now move to Windows 11?

I assume I'll create a bootable drive on a mem stick, install Windows 10 Home and then upgrade to Windows 11?
(implication being that I need to move any files of the old drive manually - why can't moving Windows be as seamless as changing phones? :P)
 
PhreakBoy said:
I finally bought a NVME SSD and am now wanting to move my Windows install to the SSD. Initially the updater said my PC was not compatible with Windows 11 - I enabled TPM in BIOS (Ryzen 3600). Now it says I can install Windows 11.

I do not know what the implication of this TPM change is. Should I just leave it enabled?

Is the general consensus that I should now move to Windows 11?

I assume I'll create a bootable drive on a mem stick, install Windows 10 Home and then upgrade to Windows 11?
(implication being that I need to move any files of the old drive manually - why can't moving Windows be as seamless as changing phone
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Download Win11 ISO : https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

Download Rufus : https://rufus.ie/en/

Create install USB media and boot from it ...
Install onto NVme ... direct to Win11, no need to go Win10 first ... your old key will work :thumbsup:

Install other software and transfer old data from old HDD to New.
 
hi everyone. A bit late to this Windows 11 party.

I quite enjoy Windows 11 but wow the file explorer on 11 is a true pile of rubbish.. I enjoyed Windows 10 coz it had a zero lag when navigating folders on OneDrive but Windows 11 takes the cake here. I've never seen such slow navigation through the OneDrive folders. I have a nice powerful laptop and seeing the exact same navigation lag on my home laptop too.

Anyone else found a way around this ?
 
GTIsean said:
hi everyone. A bit late to this Windows 11 party.

I quite enjoy Windows 11 but wow the file explorer on 11 is a true pile of rubbish.. I enjoyed Windows 10 coz it had a zero lag when navigating folders on OneDrive but Windows 11 takes the cake here. I've never seen such slow navigation through the OneDrive folders. I have a nice powerful laptop and seeing the exact same navigation lag on my home laptop too.

Anyone else found a way around this ?
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I use OneDrive extensively and have never noticed a lag. Been on Win 11 since it's launch.
 
PhreakBoy said:
I finally bought a NVME SSD and am now wanting to move my Windows install to the SSD. Initially the updater said my PC was not compatible with Windows 11 - I enabled TPM in BIOS (Ryzen 3600). Now it says I can install Windows 11.

I do not know what the implication of this TPM change is. Should I just leave it enabled?

Is the general consensus that I should now move to Windows 11?

I assume I'll create a bootable drive on a mem stick, install Windows 10 Home and then upgrade to Windows 11?
(implication being that I need to move any files of the old drive manually - why can't moving Windows be as seamless as changing phones? :p)
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Easiest way imo:
1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows11
2. Create Windows installation media.
3. Upgrade your current install to windows 11. This will give your current PC a windows licence.
4. Do a clean install of windows 11 on your SSD and just automatically use the assigned licence.
 
GTIsean said:
hi everyone. A bit late to this Windows 11 party.

I quite enjoy Windows 11 but wow the file explorer on 11 is a true pile of rubbish.. I enjoyed Windows 10 coz it had a zero lag when navigating folders on OneDrive but Windows 11 takes the cake here. I've never seen such slow navigation through the OneDrive folders. I have a nice powerful laptop and seeing the exact same navigation lag on my home laptop too.

Anyone else found a way around this ?
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I had the issue when I still had my OneDrive folder on a mechanical drive. With TPM enabled with a mechanical drive in the machine Windows 11 was slow. Reverting to Windows 10 was also slow until I disabled TPM again.
I went back to windows 10 without TPM until I could get rid of all my mechanical drives and now Win 11 is great.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Easiest way imo:
1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows11
2. Create Windows installation media.
3. Upgrade your current install to windows 11. This will give your current PC a windows licence.
4. Do a clean install of windows 11 on your SSD and just automatically use the assigned licence.
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No need for this ... the Win10 key will activate on a clean install of Win11 ... as long as you go from "home to home" and not "home to pro".

I take it his current install is legally activated.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
I had the issue when I still had my OneDrive folder on a mechanical drive. With TPM enabled with a mechanical drive in the machine Windows 11 was slow. Reverting to Windows 10 was also slow until I disabled TPM again.
I went back to windows 10 without TPM until I could get rid of all my mechanical drives and now Win 11 is great.
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hi there. Many thanks for your input and reply. I am currently running a HP Probook 450 G8 i3 with 16gb of ram and a 512GB NVME SSD. For some reason I find Windows 10 to be mad fast on this processor but I can see taht the effects etc for Windows 10 are looking old now if you know what I mean.

Ok so how do I go about disabling the TPM? is it necessary for me to do this? I also find that after HP's latest BIOS update, that my performance is absolutely awful but I hope that gets sorted.

Thanks again for your input
 
GTIsean said:
hi there. Many thanks for your input and reply. I am currently running a HP Probook 450 G8 i3 with 16gb of ram and a 512GB NVME SSD. For some reason I find Windows 10 to be mad fast on this processor but I can see taht the effects etc for Windows 10 are looking old now if you know what I mean.

Ok so how do I go about disabling the TPM? is it necessary for me to do this? I also find that after HP's latest BIOS update, that my performance is absolutely awful but I hope that gets sorted.

Thanks again for your input
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Disabling TPM is different from bios to bios, so you'll have to google for it.
On mine it's clearly marked as TPM 2.0.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Disabling TPM is different from bios to bios, so you'll have to google for it.
On mine it's clearly marked as TPM 2.0.
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Thanks for the feedback here. I'll check out the HP's bios over the weekend. Any risk in disabling it?
 
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