Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:48:05 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:47:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3773ecbefd18139fdf1947cccc87a008"; logging-data="2393465"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Ef0jExQ6djSWn8/igZh2HECxIg0PqCT4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VSc1GUnxC+osDuZJTWmzeCXblIE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:16279 alt.comp.os.windows-10:181330 On 1/13/2025 8:09 PM, Hank Rogers wrote: > > It does take a while to pick through all the settings to adjust things > to a sane choice, and turn off advertizing and rediculous "helpfull" > stuff. Also need to cull rubbish programs you don't need or want. > > There are several programs that can address the screwed up taskbar, so > maybe you can find one you like. > I did finally figure that one out. There's a program that I forget the name of now. It puts a context menu on the taskbar, which then provides the old Toolbars menu. From there I was able to get a Quicklaunch bar. The other problem was that it was too high and no longer adjustable. That turned out to be an option in the Registry. One can set icon size and then the taskbar automaticaly sizes in accordance. It's a but mysterious, though. Why did they break two such handy things? It seems to be part of a gradual move toward blocking all customizing, restricting software choice, and generally defining Windows devices as MS property that we get to rent. I was stunned to see the cacaphony of News and Interests having ads on it, along with piles of nonsense headlines. I didn't know it had gone so depraved. But it seems that virtually all the crap is removable and virtually all customizing is still doable. It's just taking more work than it used to, so that hardly anyone will do it. The one thing I haven't yet confronted is the folder windows that are way too wide aand rangey. On WinXP I figured out how to make all folders the same size. On Win7 they broke the whole thing, but I figured out how to work with the new setup. Win10 brought still more breakage, but it was doable. Win11? I'm not sure yet. My Win10 tools don't seem to work. > And you're right, it's basically win 10 under the hood. They just added > a lot of crapware, then renamed everything and moved everything around, > but once you've gone through it, you'll realize  ... It's just win 10 > with a different color lipstick. >