Start Fresh Without Starting Over with Windows 11

From the new Start Menu and File Explorer to built-in, always up-to-date security, Windows 11 is the best Windows yet!

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[LeonAlkoholik]

If you want to find a file, then you wouldn't use the search menu. Instead you use the program "Everything" and instantly find your file, rather than waiting and waiting, until the search menu finds it (because Windows own Indexing is *bad* )

[andrewshobbybasement]

The reason people aren't switching to Windows 11 has nothing to due with being worried about having to learn a new version of Windows. I would guess that the vast majority aren't switching to Windows 11 due to having previously experienced Windows 11.

Also, the TPM requirement doesn't help.

[thepolymorphicaris]

There's soo many services running in background? It lags for us low end pc gamers

[fungi_]

Why do you send users data to third parties? Windows isnt free.

[koxhecker]

Meanwhile windows 10 start menu had all apps listed on the side, while on windows 11 you have to additionally click to show all apps

[madden]

Really wished 11 kept the idea of a 10 style start menu like how XP and Classic were shared side by side as selectable options.

[Nicky-T]

Can we please just have Windows 7 back? PRETTY PLEASE? It worked... it wasn't ugly... the good ole' Start Menu was still there...

[XYZ-pmju]

Windows 7 was peak desktop - for power users, it's gone downhill ever since. Whenever there is a "cross-platform" thing going on, desktop design principles are dropped. Tiles, endlessly nested menus, and removed options are the unfortunate result.

[flying_Night_slasher]

I'm going to wait till 10 dies out. You want to hear my feedback? The Windows 11 start menu is worse than XP's, it's so simplistic it's complicated, The Windows 10 start menu I believe was perfection; app list on the left, pinned apps and folders (and live tiles) on the right but now it's small icons, an extra click for your apps list, and a recommendation section that I doubt anyone uses. So for me I'm going to use Start 11 and explorer patcher to both restore my precious start menu and make the app windows have sharp corners again because I don't know why the whole trend of rounding everything exists. It's something about it's calming to the eye and mind or something but to me it's the opposite; sharp corners relax me it feels natural but it's weird; XP to 7's windows I don't even realize were rounded like I didn't even pay any mind to it that's how the whole aspect of the OS blended together at least if you didn't go digging deep in it and unearthing fragments from Windows 3.1; but Windows 11's rounded corners feel forced.

[mzamroni]

But you down grade the task bar to pre windows era.
Even i can't expand the task bar to multiple rows anymore

[StarwingUK]

the 11 start menu makes finding anything but your programs and documents easier. it internet searches by default, making finding your own local stuff harder.

[itjustcrashed]

Moving to Linux makes computers simpler

[acron]

Yo microsoft, make left and right taskbar orientation accessible.

[GRCanalYT]

Please make an alternative start menu that looks like Windows 10's

[astral]

Microsoft here trying to get me to move to Windows 11…

Windows 7 for life!

[something]

I've been using Windows 11 since launch! <333

[antivanti]

I don't like any of these changes... also let me move the taskbar to the side of the screen again already. That's literally the biggest reason I haven't updated...

[danielcowen]

This has to be the most tone deaf ad Microsoft ever created. Windows 11 is the opposite of I'm a PC with Windows 7. Windows 10 is still better than 11, stop lying to us. Windows 11 is not better or easier. I'd rather live with Windows 10 security madness after OCT 2025 than install Windows 11.

[rxREDSTONE]

Windows 11 is not as nice as it is advertised... (No arguments pls, this is just my opinion)
Drag an icon on Taskbar on the very left after arranging taskbar to the left, restarting explorer, then arranging the taskbar to center without restarting explorer? **Explorer crashes**
Seeing Windows 10 strings in the Registry? **My life was a lie, Windows 11 is Windows 10**
Task manager randomly crashing after being idle for 30 minutes? **What?**
BSODs after prolonged sleep mode? **As expected!**
Rounded corners disappearing when no graphics driver is present? **Oh, look, it's Windows 10!**
Windows 11 Task Manager with Windows 10's Task Manager when broken? **Oh, I thought Task Manager is a whole new redesign!**
Windows 11 Explorer with Windows 10 Taskbar when broken or no graphics drivers? **Actually, Windows 11 is Windows 10...**
Explorer memory leaking... A LOT... after prolonged use? **I'm tired of restarting explorer since... when...**
Strict hardware requirements? **Windows 10 was taken... redesigned... added updates and updated programs... and now suddenly needs much more hardware requirements?**
No support for x86? **At least I'm on x64, but x86 can be significant for some people...**
At least everything else is an upside.

[JonatzGoesNuts]

I just want a Windows that looks like these ads