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Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:30 am
by fortyshooter
Have been very happy with Windows 10 and have always heard how difficult Windows 11 can be. I keep getting updates that say Windows 10 is no longer being supported and some of my HP computer features like photo editing and Words for composing documents in different fonts and graphics no longer functions.
How has you experience been switching to Windows 11? I am not one who likes tech change cause most of time it is NOT good for the end user!
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 12:02 pm
by cooperhawk
Not a problem once it was all installed.
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 12:35 pm
by CT_Shooter
I hate tech change, too. I finally bought a new machine with Windows 11 a year ago, but I kept a Windows 7 laptop on the network just because I have thousands of dollars of software that I've used for more than a decade that could not be installed on the new machine. Adobe disabled the authentication website for the Creative Suite 6 Master Collection so they could require annual subscriptions to the cloud based applications. The Win 7 laptop is on my home network, so I can still use Adobe Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, Fireworks, and the other programs in that suite.
I had no problem using Windows 11. It's quite familiar and I expect you'll have no problems with it.
My greatest concern and challenge was to bypass Microsoft's Account as the username and password for my local Windows 11 machine. It was possible to do it then, but it was tricky and I do not use a Microsoft Account username for anything. I uninstalled Office 365 and installed Office 2010, which (other than Outlook) works just fine.
I had lots of reasons for not wanting MS to control my local computer, but the most important reason was to avoid encrypting my hard drive and automatically backing it up to the MS account in the cloud, which can't be disabled. I didn't want MS to encrypt and store my data off site and dependent on their Username and PW. I backup the system and data myself to external drives.
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 12:49 pm
by JEBar
fortyshooter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:30 am
Have been very happy with Windows 10 and have always heard how difficult Windows 11 can be.
been there, done that .... I was very happy with Windows 10 and resisted the incessant badgering to upgrade until my laptop died .... the replacement had Windows 11 and I wasn't too happy about it .... after a short while I got used to 11 .... looking back my concerns ended up as "much to-do about nothing"
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:10 pm
by Mags
Similar situations here.
When Win11 was first released it was annoying because so many Win10 features didn't exist or behaved very differently. MS has fixed most of that so once upgraded today, Win10 and Win11 experience is very similar. I also used the hard to get at procedure to create the Local username account. I then went through all the new apps to see which ones required an MS account and uninstalled them. All my old software worked fine after the upgrade. And then the hinge on the left side of my laptop froze up. Forcing the laptop open, blew out the left corner of the LCD and half the screen quit working. Bought a new laptop with Win11 already installed and did the same local account setup and app removal.
For my old desktop, which has a lot of old S/W on it through several upgrades all the way back to WinXP, I used an image builder to turn off H/W incompatibility checks. Win11 works fine on it, including the ancient software. So far updates still work, though MS has said they might turn off updates at some point for Win11 running on unsupported H/W.
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:13 pm
by fortyshooter
Thanks for the info!
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:25 am
by clovishound
I did that upgrade a couple years ago to a previous computer. Everything went fairly smoothly IIRC.
Re: Anyone using the old Windows 10 upgrade to 11 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 10:22 am
by GFK
CT_Shooter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 12:35 pm
I hate tech change, too. I finally bought a new machine with Windows 11 a year ago, but I kept a Windows 7 laptop on the network just because I have thousands of dollars of software that I've used for more than a decade that could not be installed on the new machine. Adobe disabled the authentication website for the Creative Suite 6 Master Collection so they could require annual subscriptions to the cloud based applications. The Win 7 laptop is on my home network, so I can still use Adobe Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, Fireworks, and the other programs in that suite.
I had no problem using Windows 11. It's quite familiar and I expect you'll have no problems with it.
My greatest concern and challenge was to bypass Microsoft's Account as the username and password for my local Windows 11 machine. It was possible to do it then, but it was tricky and I do not use a Microsoft Account username for anything. I uninstalled Office 365 and installed Office 2010, which (other than Outlook) works just fine.
I had lots of reasons for not wanting MS to control my local computer, but the most important reason was to avoid encrypting my hard drive and automatically backing it up to the MS account in the cloud, which can't be disabled. I didn't want MS to encrypt and store my data off site and dependent on their Username and PW. I backup the system and data myself to external drives.
Amen!!