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    From Koopa@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 7 19:27:06 2021
    Just installed Windows 11 on my PC. Go here to get started...

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

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  • From Raj Kundra@21:1/5 to Koopa on Fri Oct 8 17:33:25 2021
    On 07/10/2021 19:27, Koopa wrote:
    Just installed Windows 11 on my PC. Go here to get started...

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

    Are you bleeding now?

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  • From Koopa@21:1/5 to Raj Kundra on Sat Oct 9 09:30:40 2021
    Raj Kundra <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 07/10/2021 19:27, Koopa wrote:
    Just installed Windows 11 on my PC. Go here to get started...

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

    Are you bleeding now?

    On the bleeding edge, yes.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 30 15:49:17 2023
    Win 11 is driving me round the bend. It drops the network connection at
    the slightest opportunity then takes ages to restore (I have check power management where it appears). It can never find my main PC in File
    Explorer until it has run the troubleshooter (which never finds anything)
    then it is fine.

    It has now decide to silently fail to run some programs - one being the
    NET framework installer, the other an app I wrote that runs on all my
    other machines. No message, nothing in the Event Viewer.

    Is this widespread anybody know?

    I will try and find out from Lenovo if Win 10 will work on it. In the
    meantime my onks old Dell 6800 just plods along, although the power cable
    keeps falling out.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Gaines on Mon Oct 30 17:27:44 2023
    On 30/10/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:

    I will try and find out from Lenovo if Win 10 will work on it. In the >meantime my onks old Dell 6800 just plods along, although the power cable >keeps falling out.

    I managed to sign on to Lenovo after being asked to identify a "crosswalk"
    in a picture, took a while as I have no idea what a crosswalk is and don't
    want to.

    Two responses so far. The first said yes, Win 10 can be installed the
    second no it was designed for Win 11.

    I'll give it a few days then go with the majority :-(

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant

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  • From GB@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Mon Oct 30 17:40:43 2023
    On 30/10/2023 15:49, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Win 11 is driving me round the bend. It drops the network connection at
    the slightest opportunity then takes ages to restore (I have check power management where it appears).

    I suspect a hardware error here. Maybe, poor siting, poor antenna, etc.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Gaines on Tue Oct 31 13:06:47 2023
    On 30/10/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:

    Two responses so far. The first said yes, Win 10 can be installed the
    second no it was designed for Win 11.

    Just in case anybody else is interested Win 10 runs perfectly on the
    Lenovo V17 laptop.

    What I did:

    There is a directory on the C: drive called drivers - they are for Win 11
    but work on Win 10, copy them somewhere you have access to!

    Turn off secure boot or it whines about a key.

    Install Win 10 (from Ventoy in my case, brilliant!) - I formatted the old
    Win 11 drive.

    Go through the normal setup process.

    Go to device manager and for all the yellow blobs update the driver by
    pointing it to the drivers directory mentioned above, they are all
    unzipped so point it to the top level and include sub-directories, it
    finds most of them - I am expecting the currently running update to find
    them else I will install Lenovo Vantage.

    That's it, I can find things again.

    I know I have similar problems with each version but Win 11 seems a step
    to far. It's all very well having a black start up screen with a very sexy TextBox with a blue line underneath but how much faster and smaller does
    that make Windows?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF
    if you can read this, you're a nerd 10.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Gaines on Tue Oct 31 13:38:15 2023
    On 31/10/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:

    Go to device manager and for all the yellow blobs update the driver by >pointing it to the drivers directory mentioned above, they are all
    unzipped so point it to the top level and include sub-directories, it
    finds most of them - I am expecting the currently running update to find
    them else I will install Lenovo Vantage.

    The update did find the rest of the drivers so no more blobs - and it
    activated from the BIOS key.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Have you ever noticed that all the instruments searching for intelligent
    life are pointing away from Earth?

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  • From SH@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Tue Oct 31 18:33:39 2023
    On 31/10/2023 13:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 30/10/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:

    Two responses so far. The first said yes, Win 10 can be installed the
    second no it was designed for Win 11.

    Just in case anybody else is interested Win 10 runs perfectly on the
    Lenovo V17 laptop.

    What I did:

    There is a directory on the C: drive called drivers - they are for Win
    11 but work on Win 10, copy them somewhere you have access to!

    Turn off secure boot or it whines about a key.

    Install Win 10 (from Ventoy in my case, brilliant!) - I formatted the
    old Win 11 drive.

    Bow beneath the person (a.k.a. me!) who pointed you to Ventoy!..... :-)

    Great tool isn't it?


    Go through the normal setup process.

    Go to device manager and for all the yellow blobs update the driver by pointing it to the drivers directory mentioned above, they are all
    unzipped so point it to the top level and include sub-directories, it
    finds most of them - I am expecting the currently running update to find
    them else I will install Lenovo Vantage.

    That's it, I can find things again.

    I know I have similar problems with each version but Win 11 seems a step
    to far. It's all very well having a black start up screen with a very
    sexy TextBox with a blue line underneath but how much faster and smaller
    does that make Windows?


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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 31 19:04:00 2023
    On 31/10/2023 in message <uhrha4$15me9$[email protected]> SH wrote:

    Install Win 10 (from Ventoy in my case, brilliant!) - I formatted the old >>Win 11 drive.

    Bow beneath the person (a.k.a. me!) who pointed you to Ventoy!..... :-)

    Great tool isn't it?

    I will be forever grateful :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant

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