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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Gadget on Wednesday 30 October 24 16:46 GMT (UK)
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I accidentally installed Win11 on my desktop yesterday and, although I can use it OK, I prefer my old Win10 and would like to go back to it.
I thought I'd solved it by uninstalling the update (using the instructions) but when it restarted, I see that I'm still on Win 11.
Is there anyway to get Win 10 back, please.
I'll stick with it if there's no solution but.......
Gadget
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Take a look at Settings > Recovery > Go Back
There is supposedly a 10 day grace period with upgrading to Windows 11
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Thanks. I see it was updated last night so I have 9-10 days. I might play around with the settings to make it look/behave more like Win10 before I change it back.
What is your opinion of Win11?
Gadget
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Gadget - is it worth going back to Windows 10 for you?
It's only 'supported' until next October.
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My laptop broke - it just wouldn't download anything one morning when I turned it on. The computer engineer came round and told me that, somehow, my hard drive had been wiped. Whether it had or not I don't know*** but he wasn't able to retrieve anything, so downloaded Windows 11. I'm just about getting used to it, but I don't like it. I don't like the fact that although I use Thunderbird, if I save an email to a folder, when I try to open it, it reverts to Outlook, unless I right click and bring up another menu, then go to "open with" and choose Thunderbird. There are lots of other quirks like that, it drives me mad but I'm stuck with it.
I have no idea why they keep changing things, I guess it gives Microsoft employers something to do. ;D ;D
*** I consulted another company and they said as Windows 11 was now installed it would have overwritten everything else (and of course I have no way of recovering it), however, there are some companies that for a large fee, can retrieve anything from hard drives that have, apparently, been wiped. The files and folders I lost, although important to me, are not important enough to pay up to £1000 to retrieve them. I do have an external hard drive which was backed up to 2019/20 (sadly after that it hadn't been connected to the laptop - it is now) so I got most files/folders back and my family tree program, plus as I'd sent a copy of the family tree to one of our grandsons a few weeks ago, he could send a copy back to me so that any work I'd done since 2019/2020 wasn't lost.
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I'm slowly adjusting it to make it look and behave like Win10.
My laptop is on Win10 but can auto update if I wish.
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What I haven't work out yet is taking off all those mini-pics from the
file folder icons.
And WiFi Settings are not as easy to access.
::)
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Must admit I'm still on Windows 10 and dreading updating.
However, I am of an age when I might not be here next October so will not have to face that hassle!!
(I do like to look on the bright side!)
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What I haven't work out yet is taking off all those mini-pics from the file folder icons.
I wonder if this will do it
https://www.lifewire.com/change-folder-icons-in-windows-11-5200732
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I would not recommend returning to Windows 10. In common with everyone here, I don't like 11 much, but the simple reality is Windows 10 will not be secure for much longer, and at least for me, my remaining Windows 10 laptop now takes forever to do anything, and indeed some programs no longer work at all.
Every single version of Windows since XP has been worse than it's predecessor, in my personal opinion, but you get used to the changes each time, eventually. Give it a year or two and we'll all be grumbling about our Windows 11 PCs being "upgraded" to Windows 12, like as not.
At least Vinyl is making a comeback.
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I think it will be OK if you have a decent virus etc protection.***
Does anyone remember Windows for Workgroups 3.11 :)
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add - https://www.aztechit.co.uk/blog/windows-10-end-of-life
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I've gotten used to Windows 11. It took me about a week to streamline it the way I wanted it. I still make little tweaks now and then to streamline it further. Mostly for me it was a matter of turning stuff off. For example, it kept insisting that I needed to "synch" with my other "devices." I have no other devices, thank you.
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I'm slowly coming to terms with it and doing what you have done, Erato.
Some more experimenting and tweaking required yet though.
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It might be worth investing £9.95 (UK pricing) in Start11 which can make Windows 11 look like Windows 10 or even Windows 7.
I've been using its predecessor Start10 for years, to make Windows 10 look and feel like Windows 7.
https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/
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Having worked in IT for decades, I'm comfortable with technological change. Having said that, I just couldn't warm to the default Windows 11 interface.
This was how I transformed it from bearable to enjoyable:
- Go into the Settings app from the Start menu
- Choose Personalisation, Taskbar, 'Taskbar behaviors' and change 'Taskbar alignment' to Left
- Choose Personalisation, Colours, and change 'Choose your default Windows mode' to Dark
Now when I work occasionally on a Windows 10 laptop, I can't wait to get back to W11.
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I started off with Windows 95 then Win98 - plus a few FREE DOWNLOADED "Shareware" programmes. I lost quite a lot of images and documents when XP was introduced as most of the former programmes were not supported. e.g. Images were on a Kodak programme and as I was not (and still not) computer savvy, I lost content that I had obtained from obsolete websites.
It's a shame that small website owners who provided free information/images, were either bought out or "nudged out" by companies that needed to make a profit for their directors and/or shareholders.
Speaking of websites reminds me that I tried to gain access to my genealogy reports on "Ny Heritage" recently via the APP that is on my desktop I was invited to pay a subscription charge before I could enter. I declined, which means that I am unable to check or enter the new names, dates and other information that I have not yet included in my tree.
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I did that yesterday, Rattus .
I've used computers for my work since the late 60s :)
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We have a computer windows 7, can't update that as windows 10 it isn't compatible with my family tree, I also have a windows 10 laptop and I don't like it, and now they want us to upgrade to windows 11, not a happy bunny
LM
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I started off with Windows 95 then Win98 - plus a few FREE DOWNLOADED "Shareware" programmes.
I started with MS-DOS and CP/M. Then used Gem - a graphic interface similar to Windows.
I have used Windows since Windows 3 - but bypassed Windows 8 and 9!
I miss Harvard Graphics and WordStar!