Windows 11 - 3 Months Later & Removing Microsoft's Spyware

After using Windows 11 for about 3 months now, I have found some things about it that really need to be improved. Everything takes time but this might help you decide if you want to upgrade after all.

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[sbts]

I uninstalled windows 11 and went back to windows 10 immediately after seeing that they've made it more difficult for user to change the default browser. Glad to know that I'm not the only one annoyed by this 'new design'

[warrengibson]

As a visitor from the Linux world I am astonished at the abuse you folks take from MS.

[datriaxsondor]

The only way to get a "good" version of Windows 11, is to get an ISO that has been hacked to hell and back, to physically remove all the trash requirements and spyware. Doing anything through the menu, is redundant, as everything is silently re-enabled anyways.

TPM 2.0 is another step in their glacial maneuvering to lockdown Windows. One step at a time, MS is turning Windows into a closed platform. Not happening overnight, but, it is happening.

[nicholasmaude]

MS should be prosecuted for loading spyware onto the Windows OS, spyware should be illegal.

[anderssorenson]

I don't think that Microsoft are being transparent of their own volition, I think it might have more to do with EU data protection laws. For example the EU telling facebook to "Well go on, fuck off then" when they threatened to pull facebook and instagram from Europe if they didn't let them hold private data outside of the EU.

[jouebien]

FYI open power-shell in a folder location has been a thing since windows 7. All you have to do is shift+right-click. There is also an option to add it to the context menu without the shift.

[blackyonbi]

Windows 11 Made me learn Linux.

It was a nightmare trying to get into My BIOS due to the whole booting restrictions Windows has implemented over the years.

[graalcloud]

I had no idea that Windows 11 has been out for 3 months but that fact is extremely frightening to me. I literally refuse to upgrade and it's serious this time.

[okamiboi]

"This actually delete everything from their servers"
"I'm glad Microsoft are transparent on the data they're taking"

*Oh boy, how naive you are*

[andreasplosky]

What I love about Windows 11, is that it is basically clumsy, unfriendly, unfinished, and barely in beta state. It is a truly great downgrade experience compared to Windows 10.
It is such a wonderful decision by Microsoft to release this version of Windows far too early to the public. They are obviously a real pro OS developer.
Perhaps in a year or 2 it will be ready, and that is fine, because the best thing about Windows 11 is, that it is a completely superfluous release. Nobody needs it.
Thank you Microsoft.

[tristandunn]

Love the linux gag at the end! Vista was enough to push me to Linux and I'm so pleased I did. Having to go through the OS and switch all that off looks to be a complete nightmare. I think I read somewhere that as soon as you get a feature update release to the next sub-version of Windows, a lot of those settings get switched back on again. That's horrendous. I don't really know what the answer is. I'm pretty sure Apple and Google are hoovering up information about us by the bucketload through our phones. Don't think we can escape it unless we completely opt out

[kingrofty]

I used Windows 11 Home since it became available for download. Last month I went back to Windows 10 Home, and just so happy. So, I did give Windows 11 a fair chance, but you simply need to sacrifice too much. Windows 10 is way lighter on resources and it's just great to have a functioning Start menu back again.

[minhphuongduong]

To enhance your privacy, you can edit all the settings in Group Policy Editor - > Administrative Templates -> System. You can turn off cortana, disable completely diagnosis data...

[GugureSux]

11 years later, and I'm still sticking to Windows 7 as my daily driver.
Got no trouble whatsoever with it. It's very secure, "offline" if you catch my drift, uses way less resources, and generally stays out of my way.
Games still work just fine. Multimedia editors still work great. Browsers and such are exactly the same no matter the system. There's plenty of functional antivirus software to choose from.
Seriously, when Win7 finally becomes obsolete for real, probably around the time when Wee10 is killed off (circa 2025), I've probably been already using a Linux distro of some sort for a while.

[StrutTower]

You've been able to open the command prompt/PowerShell in a specific folder for years. Shift + Right Click will show the option in Windows 7/8/10. You can even make this show up in the normal right click menu if you make some changes to the registry.

[JonoSSD]

It's funny how new versions of Windows keep removing options or making them more difficult to find and/or use.

It already took years for me to move to 10 because it's vastly inferior to 7 in pretty much everything, but Microsoft's constant chase after Apple just makes 11 even more unappealing.

I'm stuck with Windows at work because of Adobe, but as soon as Linux gets more support I'm switching for good this time.

[RRKS_TF]

8:08 fun fact! In file explorer, you can type cmd into the folder path/URI and it will open a command prompt in that directory. That being said windows terminal is much more convenient as you can have bash, wsl, vs20xx and cmd all in one app that is easy to open in a specific directory.

It's worth noting that the Linux in windows or WSL is also on win10. wsl is very nice if you are testing an application between operating systems

[ProHyperMaster]

8:00 you could also do that in previous versions of Windows, like Windows 10, 8 and 7, but is a little hidden, you need it to press SHIFT in the keyboard and then right click so you get an extended context menu with that option and more, also at least they made an improvement recently readding in Windows 11 the drag and drop over the task bar, and btw although is very annoying for me that they don't at least let you customize the right click in the task bar to add previous options like task manager, you still can right click on the Windows start button on the task bar and options like the task manager is there.
And before they finally added the drag and open apps things I said above they suggested you use an alternative that is click to drag the file, but instead of going over the task bar press Alt+Tab to switch to where you wanted to drag the file and you'll be still holding it so you can drop it where you want without the task bar, although an option I find very inconvinient converting a simple mouse movement in a combination of mouse movement with a multi key combination

[SonicBodhi]

So I’m pretty confident that the decision to hold back on the ‘free upgrade’ to my two machines from Windows 10 to 11 was the correct one, based on this review.

[szabotudor]

3:50 You can right click start button for the settings that usually appeared when clicking the taskbar