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Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 166 points 9 months ago (45 children)

I would upgrade to windows 11 if it wasn't full of ads, I had two computers accidentally upgrade after mis-clicking an upgrade prompt and the experience was bad enough I reloaded the whole computer.

Not only that, but it doesn't make sense to have a task bar on the bottom of an ultrawide display. I've been putting my taskbar on the left side for over a decade, and now you just can't do that for some reason....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have to use W11, but I use ExplorerPatcher to make it bearable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had to purchase new computers for my wife and son. So W11 home edition it is. $12 for for the family pack of startallback and the PC's run as they should. It's so stupid that I have to do it, but it clears out all the annoying shit so it's worth the few bucks.

I have been using classic shell/open shell since Win8 anyways. My screens look the close to the same since Win7 and I am not changing anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using classic shell fro years. Is there a reason you're paying for startallback?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They successfully reverted adding a custom toolbar to the taskbar. I create one for each of my cloud drives and one for the desktop. It turns a folder into a menu.

I organize my files in nested folders. It allows me to open files/programs much faster than searching using the mouse hover on the folders

For example:

Clouddrive^research/2023/ file.

Older files or less frequently used ones are buried deeper in a folder tree. Actives ones are very shallow so it's fast to find them.

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