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Windows 11 is awful.

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Anonymous
2024-04-24T15:03:51+00:00

I have no clue why but I can't send any screenshots or photos so I'll try summarizing it.

Windows 11 is awful and will be going back to windows 10 with the new pc I'm putting together. Windows 11 runs absolutely unnecessary background processes and windows processes. My current gaming laptop specs should be able to handle what I do on my computer but instead a small game running will cause my laptop to get hot (already it gets a bit warm from just all the stuff running in the background THAT I DIDN'T INSTALL. Everything on there either was there or is new from the update.) Without running any personally installed applications, my window/background processes my task manager says I use NEARLY HALF of my CPU and around 30 Memory. I have tried ending tasks in the task manager but they continue to pop up and I attempted to uninstall the programs causing it but can't delete any of them because my SYSTEM can only make changes to those. I have looked here for an answer and have done just about everything Microsoft 'claims' to help. What's worse is I don't know what is SAFE to uninstall if I do figure it out. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO GET A NEW GAMING COMPUTER/LAPTOP DON'T GET WINDOWS 11 UNLESS YOU'RE A MASTER WIZARD AT UNINSTALLING OR HAVE A BUNCH OF CPU/MEMORY. I'm apparently not the only one having this particular problem where Windows runs way too many processes in the background, several friends of mine refuse to upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11 because of it.

I don't know if there's a way to go back because it's been a bit but I'd much prefer going back to windows 10.

Personally, I would prefer windows 8 (the biggest failure of them all) over windows 11. I'd rather have a hard time navigating around on my computer than hardly being able to use it for its intended purpose.

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics 1.80 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (13.8 GB usable)

Device ID 0662E79D-D3FB-4DE4-81F8-F79964A0CC5A

Product ID 00325-97249-48126-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Pen support

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Recovery and backup

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-26T00:04:12+00:00

    I agree windows 11 is horrible. I’m on my 3rd laptop in a month as the other 2 (which ran for over a year with win 10). 11 waste resources, killed notepad. Sound drivers malfunction on several PCs I have tested. I have yet to find anything I see as an improvement. Even worse there are ads all over, unwanted news ect. With 16gb of RAM I have to close teams just to open ms word. I can honestly say that this is by far the worst version of windows and rips off Linux and mac ideas in a “hacked up” way. It’s all about forcing people to use ms accounts for everything and pushing to the cloud. It’s so bad I’ve considered leaving a 25 year in IT as this is beyond appauling.

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    Anonymous
    2024-04-28T12:08:43+00:00

    I agree. In my case, 11 was already installed. What bothers me the most is how unconfigurable it is. Their menus are bland, boring, mediocre, malignant, obtuse and confusing. The start menu is a circus joke. And telemetry is a festival. From my first day with it, it already started to cause problems in the first updates. No wonder there are many people who flee like the plague when they see this pile of compost called 11.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-06T15:49:28+00:00

    Not only is windows 11 ridiculously slow, poor performing and practically inoperable with Teams running or if you need to run more than two apps simultaneously but, microsoft have also rigged it so after 10 days you cant change back to windows 10.

    Really poor and very frustrating.

    DONT GET CAUGHT OUT..... DO NOT CHANGE TO WINDOWS 11.

    Rgds,
    Dave

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-25T08:10:25+00:00

    It did come with windows 10 originally installed but due to the update it automatically moved into windows 11 without me even knowing it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-25T08:14:46+00:00

    Oh thank you! I'll be doing that then. Even if windows 10 no longer gets support/updates, I'll be staying with Windows 10 until Windows 12 comes out (hopefully with less stuff running in the background. If not I'll just be sticking with 10 for a while.) I don't always need the 'next big thing' even if it looks nice, has support, or has regular updates.

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