TROUBLE WITH LATEST WINDOWS UPDATE?

[GypsmJim]

If you've got Windows 10, you may not have a choice on updating to 11. I was putting off updating and then one morning, lo, I had 11. And, despite having bought the latest Windows 11 for Dummies, not everything works like the book says it should. Maybe I have Windows 10.5?

Very often I get a popup that encourages me to go to W11. But it always requires me to click on something. It does not do it by itself. At least that's how mine works.

I admit that a few times I almost fell for it. They keep changing the positions of the "OK" button and the "No thanks" button.

 

[H Richard]

I liked 10, but when my laptop mother board died, I had no choice, bought new laptop with 11 installed. Hasn't been too bad, I have finally gotten fairly comfortable with it. I don't like that it keeps wanting me to do things I don't want to do, like connecting to my cell phone. I want NO emails to my cell phone.

 

[zeke]

imo, biggest problem with windows is their insistence on continuously trying to force you to use their browser (Microsoft edge) . Seems impossible to completely remove. Every version of windows makes it increasingly more difficult to access the (guts) directly, while gearing it toward small devises.

 

[Journey]

Windows 11 or older version?

11. I don't get the buffering symbol, it's just slow loading. The last upgrade always said I had something still running when I shut down. I always had to punch shut down anyway. The latest update fixed that, but slowed down. I'm not an IT and don't want to be one. Just sell a product that works and don't tinker with it.

 

[JohnRippert]

On mine I found that my Xfinity modem was set on 2.4 GHz instead of 5 GHz. Once I changed that I went from 125 mb to 700 mb download speed.

 

[oink]

My Lenovo T490 is at least 5 years old. It came with Windows 8, a i7-8665U at 1.90GHz, 16GB ram and a 500GB SATA drive. Fortunately the motherboard was fairly upgradable so I upgraded to 32GB of RAM and a 480GB solid state drive. I've upgraded to the latest stable version of Windows 11, 24H2.

I've been pretty happy with Win 11 although one of the more recent major updates caused issues and I had to do a repair install to straighten it out. It did have me worried for a bit. But it worked out fine although it was a bit time consuming.

If I'd been stuck at 16gb of ram I'm not sure I'd be able to run 11 or if it'd run well if it could run it at all. The solid state hard drive helped a bunch too I'm sure but I did that not long after I bought the computer when I saw a deal on the drive. I looked into upgrading the CPU but even if it's possible there is only one a notch faster CPU the board would support and I found it to be surprisingly expensive for what would be an obsolete processor, so no, and I didn't investigate further.

If you don't have a solid state drive and your board will support it, it's worth upgrading. You can usually find a good deal on solid state drives if you look. Same goes for the RAM. Don't ask at Best Buy or even the computer manufacturers tech if the upgrades are possible. They usually just tell you they aren't upgradable. The manufacturers techs tend to be surprisingly ignorant. You have to go to the independent tech forums to find out.

Yeah, Win Xp worked well for it's day. Actually I thought 98 was good too. Some of the others were turds though. Win 8 was pretty good. I like 11.

 

[TX-Dennis]

My Lenovo T490 is at least 5 years old. It came with Windows 8, a i7-8665U at 1.90GHz, 16GB ram and a 500GB SATA drive. Fortunately the motherboard was fairly upgradable so I upgraded to 32GB of RAM and a 480GB solid state drive. I've upgraded to the latest stable version of Windows 11, 24H2.

I've been pretty happy with Win 11 although one of the more recent major updates caused issues and I had to do a repair install to straighten it out. It did have me worried for a bit. But it worked out fine although it was a bit time consuming.

If I'd been stuck at 16gb of ram I'm not sure I'd be able to run 11 or if it'd run well if it could run it at all. The solid state hard drive helped a bunch too I'm sure but I did that not long after I bought the computer when I saw a deal on the drive. I looked into upgrading the CPU but even if it's possible there is only one a notch faster CPU the board would support and I found it to be surprisingly expensive for what would be an obsolete processor, so no, and I didn't investigate further.

If you don't have a solid state drive and your board will support it, it's worth upgrading. You can usually find a good deal on solid state drives if you look. Same goes for the RAM. Don't ask at Best Buy or even the computer manufacturers tech if the upgrades are possible. They usually just tell you they aren't upgradable. The manufacturers techs tend to be surprisingly ignorant. You have to go to the independent tech forums to find out.

Yeah, Win Xp worked well for it's day. Actually I thought 98 was good too. Some of the others were turds though. Win 8 was pretty good. I like 11.

16GB is enough RAM to run Windows 11 quite nicely. That's what I have in this machine, and it's quite fast and VERY stable. 11, for me, has been the fastest most stable version of Windows so far. No crashes. No slowdowns. Bootup takes about 10 seconds (thanks mostly to the SSD.) I do have a much faster CPU than you listed, though, and a decent graphics card.

 

[oink]

16GB is enough RAM to run Windows 11 quite nicely.

Well you probably manage your windows better I do. You probably don't have 100+ browser tabs open across 3 browser windows. That and other assorted Apps., including office suites and the occasional light weight graphics program. I miss the better graphics programs like Photoshop or even Paint Shop Pro. Now all I have is IrfanView and Gimp. I can't justify the cost of a good program. All I have for graphics is the Intel UHD 620. For being an out of date computer it runs fairly well, at least for my purposes.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Well you probably manage your windows better I do. You probably don't have 100+ browser tabs open across 3 browser windows. That and other assorted Apps., including office suites and the occasional light weight graphics program. I miss the better graphics programs like Photoshop or even Paint Shop Pro. Now all I have is IrfanView and Gimp. I can't justify the cost of a good program. All I have for graphics is the Intel UHD 620. For being an out of date computer it runs fairly well, at least for my purposes.

Yeah, I rarely have more than 20 tabs open simultaneously. I do use a couple of different office suites along with Photoshop Elements, GIMPSShop, Audacity, etc. I am not a gamer, so no tremendously taxing rendering going on other than the occasional movie encoding. Radeon XT6600 graphics w/ 8GB VRAM, and a Ryzen 7 6 core (12 threads) processor running at 3.5 - 5.2 max. So, while not a high end gaming machine, it's more than enough for what I do with it.