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Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?

From wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?
Date 2025-01-14 09:58 +0000
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On 14/01/2025 00:45, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 1/13/2025 4:42 PM, Chris wrote:
>>
>> So 2025 will be win10 upgrade year, so what's the cheapest/simplest 
>> upgrade
>> path for hardware and software?
>>
>> I have a home desktop PC based around a Coffee Lake i3 which isn't win11
>> compatible. It's not often used, but I don't want to get rid of it so
>> what's the sweet spot cpu/mobo these days? I'd like to keep the RAM,
>> SSD/NVMe, PSU, etc.
>>
>> Can I transfer my win10 pro license key to win11? What do I lose if just
>> use an unlicensed version of windows?
>>
> 
> I did what Win11 24H2 user did, except that no command line
> is required. Just mount to ISO and run setup.exe. Stay offline.
> Choose an update. It worked fine for me, despite TPM2 being
> disabled. Worth a try.
> 
>    If you're the type who religiously updates then it might make
> sense for you. I just did it out of curiosity, to see how salvageable
> Win11 is. It's not too bad. I cleaned it up, removed Edge, installed
> Classic Shell... Compared to Win10 there are just a few glitches
> so far: The taskbar is a mess and it was hard to get quicklaunch
> back. My utility to customize folders doesn't seem to be working.
> 
>    In general, MS have broken a few things, but basically it's just
> Win10. They just picked a version and decided to start calling it
> 11, in order to force people to accept their crap. But Copilot
> and the Apps are now gone on my system, with no problems.
> 

How did you get the Quick Launch back?

-- 
Regards
wasbit

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Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-13 21:42 +0000
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 17:45 -0500
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <invalid@nospam.com> - 2025-01-15 07:56 +0000
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:12 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:54 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 18:10 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-15 03:30 -0500
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:54 -0600
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Windows 11 24H2 User <fvgtgfrf@juiklopjhy.com> - 2025-01-13 22:40 +0000
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-13 19:45 -0500
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-13 19:09 -0600
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-13 22:48 -0500
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 03:28 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-14 08:43 -0500
            Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:28 -0700
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2025-01-14 10:05 -0700
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-01-14 09:58 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-14 08:59 -0500
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-14 14:55 -0500

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