sorry for the dumb question but if we are currently on 22622.586 and we want to switch to the most recent stable build of Win 11 without losing any of our data/games/apps, can we do that (i.e. an 'in-place upgrade') or is that not possible? Like others have stated, xx.586 seems to have weird issues with the control panel not working through the start menu as an example. Explorer crashed on me today when transferring files etc. I'm crossing my fingers there's a way to do an in-place upgrade for the stable build of Win 11 - or else I'll have to wait for the next "update" from MS for the insider-build.
No, you have hung the rope around your neck. Listen. Get a working system, whether 10 or 11?, Macrium it (image), then play about after , all the while knowing you can go back to square one in an instant I do this for Nvidia drivers alone, lol, never mind the OS. I always have my faithful Win10 working system at the ready, no matter what I choose to test. Something I don't like?, restore in seconds, boot back to normal
How do I control the notifications with regedit? So many unnecessary ones pop up. I can't disable them completely because I need the notification for the Snipping Tool to work.
I've advised quite a few people to use Macrium Reflect Free. It's full featured and I feel the best free imaging program. Make a boot USB in Other Tools, back up your entire Windows drive to a secondary drive, preferably an SSD or M.2, problem solved!! It only copies the portions of the Windows drive that has files on it so the images are relatively small. You can even uninstall the program and just keep the boot USB after you make it.
Can people here advise me on this problem reproduced in screenshot for Win 11 22622 (not 22621) and specifically for left side navigation pane. These lines come up as soon as I create additional libraries beyond the 4 by default. These lines are an eyesore and have to do with the `new' and improved left side navigation pane. I have tried everything from vivetool for disabling all new features including disabling (a) tabs (b) navigation pane (c) open with. On restart, the lines disappear as do all the disabled features. But all the features come back after 1-2 boots alongwith the ugly dashed lines. I would be grateful for any solutions in group policy, registry etc that (a) disables new navigation pane permanently (b) if possible, keep tabs and open with feature. The lines are the major issue for me and I can forego the other features just to be rid of these.
Anyone noticed that latest beta freezes for a second when moving a file/.exe to another folder ..recyclebin or desktop? like just randomly
Yea they look terrible, thing is Microsoft said they fixed this You can enable all folders, if you like poop loads of stuff in the navpane For some reason disabling the flighting and remote config doesn't seem to work, ive not tried to enable (do not use for testing) maybe you could try that
You can just uninstall KB5016701 (.586) and get back to .575 via CMD. try this way: on an elevated command prompt, put this: wusa /uninstall /kb:5016701 /quiet /promptrestart done.
I'm on 22622.575 with no problems (knock on wood). I think I will avoid 586, from what I've been reading on here. I will second (or third) the recommendation for the free version of Macrium, it seems to work rather well. But the "restore in seconds" comment is a bit misleading, unless you're thinking of "hundreds of seconds". I have used Acronis, Macrium, O&O, and probably others that I have forgotten to transfer the contents of a boot drive, and I've never seen "seconds". If for any reason you don't like Macrium (and I can't imagine why you wouldn't), then O&O DiskImage is cheap right now ($14.98), and it's very easy to find a disk image of Acronis Cyber Protect (formerly True Image).
So this cmd line (as admin) should roll back from 22622 to 22621? wusa /uninstall /kb:KB5015669 /quiet /promptrestart
Showing all folders does not seem to work. Also it is enabled by default in 22622 and adding libraries immediately causes those ugly lines to appear. The left side is built for a specific icon set of default. Adding say more than 2-3 icons (in libraries, quick access, etc) causes that horrible stuff. I have tried all sorts of stuff and just gone back to 22621. That does not have this ugliness on out of box and vivetool also fails. So 22621 is working FOR NOW. I dont know if the final 22621 out for GA will also have this issue because then they will mess with 22621 too???. Dont know if MS developers are blind or just sadist or just do not like anyone to go adding things `beyond the box'. This line stuff is there from say mid July updates and before that they unleashed the wider spaces on right side icons if I did anything except view details. View as list messes up the right navigation with icons being more widely spaced. Also given the way scaling is done and fonts are optimised, I think MS has given up optimising fonts and scaling for greater than 15 inch screens and 1080p resolutions. On a 27 inch 1440p screen, there is no way that one can work at 100%, yet MS recommends 100%. They simply have not bothered to do scaling so that a 27 inch screen gets a 125% scaling out of box. Given that we look at fonts and not a white screen and that a bad font/display scaling can ruin everything, I wonder why MS has abandoned bigger and higher resolution screens. On my 17 inch laptop of 4K, out of box is 250%. I have tried various scaling and I find that using custom scaling of anything like 130%, 121% is a horrible idea. I have to work at 125% which is bad, but then there is 100% (unreadable) and 150% (horrible scaling).
sorry, where i said that command would do that? Edit: i misunderstood all. and yes, you are right, that command should rollback from 22622 to 22621.
im hearing a lot of complaints on rolling back...im running 22622.586 with out any issues and i upgraded from win 10 19045 to 22000 and then 22621 to 22622 havent done a single clean install yet
It's 'seconds', as one is only restoring the OS partition (providing you have sectioned it off from the rest of system, which one should , leaving all data/games etc. as is, on other partitions, drives etc. 42.5 seconds to restore my OS on Nvme 'C' partition, which is only 77Gb worth of data, so yeah, seconds I also install nothing on 'C' whatsoever, unless forced to, and backup/restore from an external 3.2 USB-C SSD drive, which has various boot options through the amazing 'Ventoy', one of them being the Macrium recovery image. Lightning fast
Bet that is actually the less stable option, I've never been a fan of uninstalling updates. I've had it go wrong where the update refused to uninstall. If I had a bugged update and a new one became available, I would build an image with the new update integrated and then to a full upgrade install.
I'm not sure if this is Intel's fault, Microsoft's fault or a combination of both. I installed the latest CU and latest Intel graphics drives (suggested by Intel's DSA) on an 11th gen laptop and this combination completely disabled brightness controls. I could move the sliders and the onscreen meter responded to keyboard shortcuts, but the brightness was locked to "dim". Going back a driver version fixed the issue. When the next CU comes out I will retest this to see if it is just Intel.