My new PC is technically just a cloned drive of my old PC C drive, but too much hardware has chnaged and windows activation is not working. Sadly this was a windows 7 key, which was upgraded to 10 and linked to a Microsoft account, but now I’m not sure if I need to “remove” the old instance of the machine from my account and try to activate again or if I need to get MS support involved because I know the windows 7 key to 10 upgrade pipeline no longer works for windows 11.
This is it–the best version of Windows 11.
How much can you trust this? I don’t know. But it may be an option for some.
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Having done a bunch more experimenting, for those who don’t have a computer with a TPM chip, you have two good options:
- There’s a fix using Rufus that allows you to bypass the TPM and other requirements on Windows 11 install. You can upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without any data loss. Works a treat!
- There’s actually a “lite” version called Windows 11 LTSC IoT that is missing a lot of features like Copilot that you probably don’t even want. The major downside is that it’s a different version of windows, so unless you’re already running Windows 10 LTSC it will remove your programs and such on installing.
You can use a search machine to figure out the rest - or DM me if you need more info.
So Windows 11 only checks for the TPM on install? After being installed everything is just AOK? It installs Windows updates normally? Features like Windows Hello that would presumably use the TPM work and don’t cause errors when the TPM can’t be found?
Windows 11 no longer recognizes my Bluetooth cards no idea why
Yeah I am waiting until the next update to test that. This is just on a spare machine so I can make sure everything is all sweet before I do this on an important machine.
(I guess I could not download the updates during installation and then get the updates after, but too late now!)
Windows 10 support ends next week.
For those of you who can’t buy a new PC since the specs aren’t up to snuff for W11, extended support is available for free for another year if you have a Microsoft account. Instructions here.
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Took to opportunity to bin the Windows PC (it wouldn’t update) so got Steam Deck instead. It’s Linux in the background and using the OS has made me realise how bloat there is on Windows. A few games won’t play but it’s great overall. And less choice is good for my ADHD!
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Not me waiting till the last minute to buy 15 new Windows 11 machines for my little organization.
So, I got my new Windows 11 PC up and running a couple days ago. I’ve done a bunch of tweaking, and now something is bothering me.
Does anyone know how to get that rid of the notifications box sitting just above the clock? Every tutorial I found on YouTube just parrots the same advice: “Go into Settings and disable Notifications,” yet that doesn’t help the problem at all. I don’t want notifications disabled; I want this box GONE.
No, you can’t remove that in any official way, and you probably shouldn’t.
Notifications are a standard web API, and have been for some time.
Every personal computing platform, mobile and desktop, offers notification support. It’s going to be somewhere.
While you should disable most notifications, there are always going to be important notifications that you want to see. I would not recommend disabling all notifications. Instead, I would carefully choose which ones to allow.
Also, I did one web search and immediately found a way to remove the box using some shady looking third party tool. I wouldn’t trust this windhawk thing, but if you want to risk your own computer, that is on you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1e4ihiq/remove_unnecessary_notification_box/
I would not recommend doing this. Not only do I not trust this tool, but I worry if it will have the side effect of messing up the notifications feature.
My advice. Just ignore it. It’s a box. It’s not hurting you. Don’t be one of those people who gets super angry over every little UI change. Just get used to it and move on with life. There are other things actually worth being upset about. If you let every UI change bother you, you will just be perpetually angry because software is always changing, and you don’t have the power to control the UI of every piece of software you use, even on Linux.
A Powershell script that disables ALL AI in Windows 11. (Should work in future Windows updates, too.)
Windows 10 ESU has been extended for another year.
If you already signed up for it, you don’t have to do anything. Enjoy your extra free year of W10 support.