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Feedback on Windows 11
lightsenshi54Agreed. Microsoft removes features without asking users if they want to keep them. For example, I move the taskbar to the left of my screen where it takes up less space and allows me to maximize the vertical space on my monitor. Microsoft took that feature away and now you are stuck with the taskbar running across the entire bottom of the screen wasting screen space.
I identify with your pain as well as the many other similar comments. My home computing started with CMOS and using W 11 at work and now with a new laptop with a disc drive for older software that I still need. I think I can deal with change and always learning new systems and software. What I don’t like is spending time being forced to use software that now take 2 to 3 steps instead of 1. I realize that MS has multiple ways of doing 1 thing and that is fine, just make the ways to get to what I want do hidden in an option. “E.G. I need to figure out how to bypass the Home button to just get to where W10 opened.” I don’t know programing, but it seems to me that if you already have W10 why can’t the W11 just be the same on the front and different behind the scenes? If people want a new skin let them choose…I just want it to be secure, run fast, store more, and shift smoothly. I like storing things on my PC, I don’t want my info ~documents~ automatically stored on the cloud. A backup hard drive works well.
My PC background: “ozzy” in 1981 and then a Kaypro II with 4 drives so we could convert CMOS to DMOS (family of engineers have to modify everything). 1994 was a IBM ThinkPad. Today just replaced my 7 yr old HP Envy 17.5 with a Lenovo Yoga 16. Going from CMOS to Windows 11 means I am used to change. And if I didn’t live surrounded by stop signs, and my knee didn’t bark my convertible I would still have a 6 speed. My upgrade uses paddles when I want to have fun…yeah, I can change but…
What an appalling system is Windows 11. I am at my wits end trying to understand it and use it as I did Windows 10. It is slow, little works as you would expect it to, there seem to be many more meaningless (to me) options, the inconveniently-positioned Task Bar. The fact that I had to buy a new computer before Windows 10 support ran out is black mark against Microsoft as far as I am concerned.
