How to run In-place upgrade in Windows 11

I suggest going back to Windows 10. To do that you will have to do a clean install. Have you found Windows 11 any better than Windows 10? I like the Windows 11 Start menu but with 3rd party software you can have the Windows 11 Start menu on Windows 10.

I think you're possibly right. Honestly, I know it's mostly cosmetic changes from 10 to 11, but for me, the updates to 11 were welcome. As hinted earlier, I've had every version of Windows from 3.1 and the "standard" looks to the OS were wearing thin (My personal favourite has been 8.1 (I loved that OS for not having a single error or issue once)).

I have re-installed 11 since my last message, paused updates for 5 weeks and mostly everything works. The Microsoft Store is missing and will not install no matter what I do (I've ran commands via Powershell, took advice from another post where you install it through the Xbox app (why?), but it's still missing.

So much has been broken which is a shame because I installed this on Day 1 of the launch and it was great until the past week. I've installed no other programs, the only changes made are actual Windows updates.

Can I ask you though. Am I able to go back to W10? I was under the impression that I only had 10 days from installing W11 to make the change back.

Thank you again for your time.

Does the inplace repair update request the Windows license? My Dell laptop came with windows preinstalled so would the Dell license work?

thanks

You are welcome.

This is the only Microsoft support that I know of. Are you contacting support through one of these channels?

Contact Microsoft Support:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/

Here are the Global Customer Service phone numbers:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/global-customer-service-phone-numbers

Hi,

I was sent here by microsoft support fix a side-by-side configuration issue. My only problem is, there isn't another browser installed on the PC I'm trying to fix. So how do I go about downloading this?

I wish I knew. Did you install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware?

Did you have issues like this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ba-7yHHsI

Fully supported hardware, no dodgy workarounds. It was verified from the Windows Update panel in settings, and it was a upgrade keeping files and settings. I've got TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, a new supported CPU etc etc etc. And no. The issue I had was when you click the start menu, it will not open at all. I could not click any search box neither. I could see them, just not click them. I thought that it could have been because I kept files and settings, so last night I did a clean install, but once I installed all updates it was broken again.

I am back on W10 Pro now, and although I do not like the cosmetic side of things as much, the stability side is brilliant. (Windows 10 still had more issues for me than W8.1 (the reason that is my favourite haha)).

Thank you for your time working on this, I know it's been an unsolvable issue, but still thank you.

Just in-case you're curious, and see others with this issue, below are my PC specs for if anyone else has issues. My bios/chipset etc etc are on the most recent updates.

CPU: Ryzen 7 3800x
MOBO: Asus X570-P
RAM: 32GB 3200 MT/s (D.O.C.P On & off had the issues)
GPU: RTX 3080
Storage: C: Samsung NVMe Gen4 - D: WD Black HDD - E: Samsung Gen4 NVMe
Network: Ethernet -> To Switch -> To Network

EDIT: To reiterate. I installed Windows 11 on launch day, and up until the past week everything was fine.