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You are exactly right, Susan. Almost no one wants Windows 11 untested, and unnecessary innovations. Any new features should be presented to users who should choose what new features they want to have on their OS, if any.

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R, Fred, Cybertooth

Yes. But it’s true for OLED screens only.

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WCHS

I like dark reader on my Pixel 6a. It keeps display energy use down, since OLED only lights up non-black pixels.

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As annoying as  Windows has become, I find that it’s still more versatile than Linux Mint. MX Linux is pretty good. But, I stick with Windows because of ease of use.

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When GoDaddy tried to move me to Microsoft email system, I instead set up forwarding to Gmail addresses. I prefer Gmail as it has been very reliable, and free.

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Macrium Reflect Home with password protection of encrypted backups is priced sensibly. Each version is good for ~ a few years. Upgrade to 8 from 7 (Home for four PC’s) was $60US. Worthwhile for insuring that only you can mount your Reflect images.

Also, setting a policy in Windows Pro to only allow executables from running from a specific location (folders of C:) works great. I clean out badly infected customer drives manually by connecting them to a SATA port or USB 3.0 adapter for all M.2 and Micro-SATA drives. Temp files are deleted. Rogue batch and JavaScript files can be safely deleted without executing on my workstation. (The message is essentially that the file is block by administrator, when a rogue executable tries to run when scanning the drive. Malware is pretty indefensible when it’s being cleaned out this way.

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rc primak

I use the Microsoft Update Catalog website often. It always throws a “not secure” warning. I find it pathetic that a trillion dollar company hasn’t even upgraded the entirety of their websites to https. It’s perplexing.

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0patch Pro does a great job for a fraction of what Microsoft charges. In fact, 0patch often releases micro-patches for nasty zero day exploits before Microsoft does. I’m staying on Windows 7 Pro on my main workstation until 0patch gives up on it. ]

Happy holidays to every person on earth!

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LHiggins, Alex5723

Whenever Windows managers change, Windows changes. Microsoft can’t remember mistakes as it isn’t a single mind. Every manager wants to put their stamp on things by changing what they can. Animations in 365 annoyed me so much that I went to LibreOffice. It’s less powerful but it does what I need without animations, annual subscriptions, or random changes.

Microsoft doesn’t really care what users want. They change things because they can, not because it’s to our benefit.

Windows 11 has a couple more years until the deeply rooted bugs, and the more obvious annoyances, are resolved to the satisfaction of most users. Windows 10 was the same way, at first. Now, it’s relatively polished. Although I still use Windows 7 Pro on one workstation with 0patch Pro installed to keep it secure.

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21H2 is one of the few feature updates that has not caused any grief. I hope the new annual cadence keeps it that way. Fewer rushed releases is a good thing.

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Mu laptop is running Windows 10 v.21H2. It just finished installing the .NET update. I really wonder what is going on at Microsoft. Why haven’t they update more Windows 10 users to v.21H2? It appears to be flawless to me. I’ve upgraded some customer machines to v.21H2 using USB stick created with Rufus.

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0patch.com still supports Windows 7. It is expected to also support Windows 10 when Microsoft moves to paid Enterprise support only. 0patch is the real deal.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

(Video here) It’s squirrel away time. Time to download a copy of Windows 10 21H1 and ensure you have a copy in case you need it to do a repair install
[See the full post at: Tasks for the weekend – September 18, 2021 – it’s squirrel away time]

This is always good advice. I keep flash drives of the last two release channel versions of Windwos 10, and older versions on DVD’s. It was interesting to watch Windows 10 ISO grow from about 3.2 GB in 2015 to 5 GB starting with v.20H1.

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This would have been much clearer to some people if the letter v was put before “2004”. Most of us know that Susan was referring to Windows 10 v.2004, not the year 2004, since the subject was feature updates of Windows 10.

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0patch will support Windows 10 after Microsoft stops doing so for anyone not paying for support. Windows 7 is still supported for another year and 1/2. 0patch is only $30 per year and has worked wonders on one of my workstations. If you seriously like Windows 10 you can keep using it after MS support ends, and safely. In fact, 0patch often puts out parches before Microsoft does, and has never broken anything while doing it.

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