Windows 11 Support Thread

[airborne]

Let us know if you succeed and which route you took.

I used the Rufus tool to strip the requirement protections from the ISO, all went plain sailing after that.

 

[HAL 9000]

Here's a new glitch - the Weather app in Windows 11 has decided that - even though 'South Africa (English)' is set as the default system region / language in the app - that the text is displayed in Asian hieroglyphics...

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Looks like Windows 11 did an update to the Weather app yesterday, which has restored the correct language again...

 

[Fulcrum29]

For people with really old 'unsupported' hardware who wish to upgrade to Windows 11. I mean where SSE4.2 isn't met. You can still do 23H2, however this means that you likely have a pre-x86-64v3 system. Do disable Link State Power Management. Firmware, BIOS and drivers that aren't up to date don't play along too well. It is almost best to stay with Windows 8.1. Disabling it makes Windows 11, and 10, a much nicer place. I won't recommend disabling it on mobile devices and supported systems as it works as intended.

For those needing older ISOs or direct upgrades/downgrades to previous versions, here you go. It is all direct 'unadulterated' downloads, the script is inside.

GitHub - AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat: Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2!

Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2! - AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat

github.com

 

[OCP]

Like I said, you need to run a reg file to bypass the requirements. Do you know how to create one ?

Microsoft had the info on their site.

Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup
Name: AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Check out this video .... might help a little (it's from 10 to 11 tho)

And people bitch about having to edit the odd text/conf file on Linux.....

 

[deesef]

And people bitch about having to edit the odd text/conf file on Linux.....

You gotta do the text thing on old and brand new PCs if going the Linux route...

 

[RedViking]

Man i hate this OS. It's been stuck on this rubbish for hours. Restarting just brings me back to this.

 

[RedViking]

Man i hate this OS. It's been stuck on this rubbish for hours. Restarting just brings me back to this.
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Had to role back to a previous system restore point. All good now. Looks to be some security update as that was the last update from Windows before the issue.

Man I hate this company.

 

[airborne]

Had to role back to a previous system restore point. All good now. Looks to be some security update as that was the last update from Windows before the issue.

Man I hate this company.

Stop being poor and get a MacBook already.

 

[RedViking]

Stop being poor and get a MacBook already.

Very very very close to do this, when financially possible

 

[Dave]

You know, my Surface Pro is now about five years old but it still takes every update without any issues, boots up in about 20 seconds and works as it should.

I don’t know what machines some here are using. @RedViking are you sure what you got is a Dell and not some Chinese counterfeit Dill PC?

 

[RedViking]

You know, my Surface Pro is now about five years old but it still takes every update without any issues, boots up in about 20 seconds and works as it should.

I don’t know what machines some here are using. @RedViking are you sure what you got is a Dell and not some Chinese counterfeit Dill PC?

Who knows

 

[quovadis]

Who knows

Most of my experience with Dells and failed updates/freezing etc have more to do with the drivers/utilities from Dell than the hardware.

 

[Dave]

Who knows

Dill computer and Niscafe coffee…

 

[RedViking]

Most of my experience with Dells and failed updates/freezing etc have more to do with the drivers/utilities from Dell than the hardware.

Yeah, the drivers are unreliable, specially that optimisation app thing.

Anyways, I'm grateful I have a good laptop to work on.

I also suspect there is some registry or file that might be syncing with my windows account and that is why I experience similar issues on all my windows machine, even though I do set it up from scratch.

I know I'm grasping a straws here.... Maybe I just have badluck.

 

[FiestaST]

I've got a Dell Latitude 5420 from/for work (11th Gen i7 & 32gb RAM), Windows 10 Enterprise on it is rather "fragile" at times.

Zero fragile issues with my povo spec (M1 8gb) Mac Air.

 

[quovadis]

I've got a Dell Latitude 5420 from/for work (11th Gen i7 & 32gb RAM), Windows 10 Enterprise on it is rather "fragile" at times.

Zero fragile issues with my povo spec (M1 8gb) Mac Air.

I remember having endless thermal issues with I7 Latitudes which cannot be good for longevity. Never used to spec anything more than an I5 as a result. Not so much of an issue with newer generations though.

 

[FiestaST]

I remember having endless thermal issues with I7 Latitudes which cannot be good for longevity. Never used to spec anything more than an I5 as a result. Not so much of an issue with newer generations though.

Aha yes, you’re reminding me of the (often) fan sounding like it’s about to take off

 

[HAL 9000]

RIP Dell XPS...

 

[airborne]

Aha yes, you’re reminding me of the (often) fan sounding like it’s about to take off

So it’s not just my 5400, the fan gets extra noisy if it starts collecting dust on the fan blades but even if they are spotless if you do something cpu intensive it gets noisy.

 

[HAL 9000]

So it’s not just my 5400, the fan gets extra noisy if it starts collecting dust on the fan blades but even if they are spotless if you do something cpu intensive it gets noisy.

Does it sound just like a Boeing 757 with Rolls-Royce RB-211 turbofan engines starting its take-off roll & initial climb-out, perhaps?