Windows 11 on new PC

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A friend is about to receive a shiny new desktop with Windows 11 installed. Is there any reason (other than hating the user interface) to fall back to Windows 10? Is it possible to flush it and install Windows 10 in its place? (I thought I read somewhere that you could, that the license would still work.)

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My personal advice is give 11 a shot. Will save work now and also down the road when time to update. I’m running 11 on my daily workstation (heavily modified) and also on 2 other personal machines and about 10-15 client machines with no issues.

While I do miss some of Win10 by and large 11 has been fine and I actually feel it’s not as glaringly bright and easier on my eyes all day.

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TechTango, Steven

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If you don’t like the Menu/Taskbar and the other differences Win11 brings, try StartAllBack.  It allows you to make the menu look like Win10 or Win7/8.1 and fixes other GUI and File Explorer aberrations that Win11 has introduced.

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Fritz

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My Windows 10 machine died, and I bought a machine containing Windows 11.

It was frustrating at first, but over a couple of days I learned the differences.

Now, I am doing just fine.

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Just wanted to note that installing Windows 10 will work. (at least it did for me).

I happened to win a new laptop (Microsoft Surface Go 2) last year that came with Windows 11, but it’s such a low-spec machine that I don’t have much use for it other than as a media player type of device. I’d gotten used to the Windows 10 folder design with folder previews, so I used the Windows 10 media creation tool to do a clean install of Windows 10 on it.

My higher-spec desktop PCs run Windows 11 with StartAllBack and they work fine.

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