Watch This BEFORE Upgrading to Windows 11

Watch This BEFORE Upgrading to Windows 11
Before you start to upgrade to Windows 11 to try it, remember you only have 10 days to roll back to Windows 10 and the worst part is Microsoft keeps your programs and apps during the upgrade to Windows 11, but if roll back, you lose you programs and apps. So been warned.

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#windows11 #windows10 #tech

[Valehass]

I'm pretty sure I remember Microsoft saying W10 was the last OS they were releasing and subsequent upgrades would come in the form of updates.

[mr.j]

Every time I think I am brave enough to upgrade to 11, I see one of these videos, and I think: "I'll wait".

[DaystromDataConcepts]

Best thing to do is to image your C: drive prior to any major update. Further, I always partition my drive and move all data libraries to a D: drive. That way, I separate the OS and apps from your data. Also makes recovering an OS image easy without affecting your documents etc

[Dode]

No worries, never upgrading until windows 10 end of support.

[TrevMnkey]

Here's my top tip....
1a. Get a nice big hard drive and partition it.
1b. get second hard drive.
1c. Partion your existing one if it's big enough.

2. Install windows.

3. anything you download to install; whether it's your browsers, office install startup files, printer driver, Adobe Reader etc etc. Save it in an applications folder on the second drive.
4. relocate all your storage folders: desktop, documents, downloads, OneDrive etc... to the second drive

Whenever you need to rebuild or reinstall, you don't need to backup or mess about making a list of the software you need to reinstall.

[jonesgang]

Do a full backup of your system before upgrading. That way if you do decide to go back just do a full restore from the backup and you will be right back where you were before the upgrade. No reinstalling anything.

[Archontasil]

I just upgraded to win11 because my win10 was BSODing. I regret my choice, it's slow, laggy, prone to freeze after hard gaming, slow for hard photo editing.. i want to return to 10

[michelwong]

I did Upgrading to Windows 11 on my few OLD laptops few months ago
What I did was : 1) keep my existing SSD with the Win 10 on it ; 2) use a NEW SSD to install the Windows 11 to 22H2 (SSD so cheap now)
This way, I am able to have 【 2 OS on 1 laptop 】, and do not have the problem of rolling back to Win 10 👍👍😁😁

[leonidas]

Given how cheap SSDs are these days, you're better off cloning your windows 10 installation to a blank SSD first which makes going back as simple as reconnecting your cloned drive.

[MizJunAmi]

1. Make a drive image. Reimage when finished.
2. Run W11 in a VM and decide from that.

[acidive]

No need to complicate things, just create a system image before upgrading and you can always go back.

[rufdymond]

A couple of months back I bought a new PC - it’s the first PC I’ve ever owned that I’ve not built myself or had custom built, it came with Windows 11 pre-installed. Let’s just say that from day one I’ve had nothing but trouble with it…whole parts of the interface don’t work, they simple crash when I click on a menu or some items won’t even load. I really tried to find a way of making this piece of junk work but in the end I gave up - reformatted the whole thing and installed Windows 10……the PC has worked flawlessly ever since.

[Robert-sljo]

The best thing to do is to store all of your data on “External Hard Drives” and any other important data from the C drive onto one of the hard drives. Then unplug all external hard drives before “upgrading” back to Windows 10.

[macnottsuk]

you probably know this but in case, if you install win 11 do it with a download copy and not through windows 10 upgrade. Then DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET WHEN PROMTED use the small print something like access not available right now. That way you create a local account, this stops a lot of windows spy ware/spam from installing. you can if you desire later link your account to a Microsoft account but why would you!

[fido]

I would simply clone my HD before "upgrading". If I don't like it, just put the old drive back in.

[grahamsmith]

I keep a folder on my Windows 10 desktop with all of the .exe programs I've installed. Every time I update a program, I delete the .exe from the folder, and replace it with the newer version. Granted, I'd still have to install them again, but they'd all be in the folder. It would save having to scour the web to find and download them all again. In the video shown above, I assume that folder would still be on my desktop after the rollback, but to be certain, it's probably safer to save it to a flash drive.

[greybeard]

Tried Windows 11 .. didn't like it .. went back to Win 10 and ended up with a completely crippled OS that didn't even work anymore .. but luckily I made a backup disk image before upgrading .. so that saved my a**s so to speak.
Don't trust the rollback option guys .. there is always a chance that something could go wrong .. backup and re-backup your system and personal stuff before doing anything at all .. better safe than sorry.

[idmooseman]

I installed Windows 11 on my StreamingPC, but kept Windows 10 on my GamingPC. I kind of like Windows 11 and have not encountered any issues that would make me regret the upgrade. Will most likely upgrade my GamingPC to Windows 11 after I give it the quarterly cleaning.

[US_Joe]

Seems to me that cloning your boot drive to an external drive before the UG is the most likely choice - Thanx mate👍👍👍

[lloydc]

Thank you for the info, question ?, if the Windows 10 install was cloned before updating to Windows 11, and wanted to revert back to 10 to enable use of the Windows 10 key, would the clone copy of Windows 10 be able to work after you selected to revert to Windows 10, so you wouldn't lose your programs and Aps?, hopefully I put this in a understandable way.