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Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10

I can understand if your computer can't be upgraded but if it can why would you want to stick with 10?
 
Darat said:
I can understand if your computer can't be upgraded but if it can why would you want to stick with 10?
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I HATE CHANGE!!! The new one is always worse than the old: the old one was better!!

(Until I'm used to the new one and it becomes the old one and is due to be replaces with a new, new one. Then I want the old new one, not the old, old one, as the old, new one is now best and the new, new one is intimidating and confusing and unnecessary. Repeat and add version number ad infinitum)
 
That's really strange, surprised there is an incompatiblly between 10 and 11. Have you tried running them as Win 10?
 
Darat said:
That's really strange, surprised there is an incompatiblly between 10 and 11. Have you tried running them as Win 10?
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You mean running them on the new one as Win 10? Never thought of that this time around, even though previously I had success at doing Compatibility mode for those programs. I may have to try that. As it is, every time I go to a new laptop it's a minimum of three weeks before I get all my programs installed and everything the way I like it.
 
Windows versoin changes annoy me as they do stupid random things, at least from my POV. For example in Win 11 the small right-click context menu with most of the things I want now moved (e.g. rename) or moved to "more options". Sure I can fix it with WinAero or regedit but it's the to me whimsical way they change.
More obscure - at some point the IsWindowVisible() method would tell you if a window was visible. Now it tells a Window may be visible or not depending on the style from GetWindowLongPtrA(hWnd, GWL_STYLE) and comparing that to an enum.
 
theprestige said:
Medical devices. It's generally desirable to keep them current on security updates, without making any feature updates to the OS.
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Not just desirable, absolutely mandatory. Some medical software/systems are certified only on a specific OS platforms and even hardware. Change either and the certifications are voided. Voided certification is a sure and certain way to legal nightmares and giant insurance payout figures in the medical field.
 
3point14 said:
I HATE CHANGE!!! The new one is always worse than the old: the old one was better!!
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You obviously never had WinME. :)

That said, my PC keeps bugging me for the free upgrade to 11 and I always ignore it. Last job had 11 and I hated it. It offered nothing that was better.
 
Wudang said:
Windows versoin changes annoy me as they do stupid random things, at least from my POV. For example in Win 11 the small right-click context menu with most of the things I want now moved (e.g. rename) or moved to "more options". Sure I can fix it with WinAero or regedit but it's the to me whimsical way they change.
More obscure - at some point the IsWindowVisible() method would tell you if a window was visible. Now it tells a Window may be visible or not depending on the style from GetWindowLongPtrA(hWnd, GWL_STYLE) and comparing that to an enum.
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Reminds me of Mac developers back in the day. They'd exploit undocumented functionality, and then get rug-pulled when Apple closed the loophole and admonished them for going off book.
 
theprestige said:
Reminds me of Mac developers back in the day. They'd exploit undocumented functionality, and then get rug-pulled when Apple closed the loophole and admonished them for going off book.
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No. If you had thought for a second you would have considered what the IsWindowVisible() might do. Perhaps to quote the documented functionality it "Determines the visibility state of the specified window." It used to do that. As I said.
I avoid undocumented functionality apart from once when writing signon code for older CICS system I used an undocumented (externally) call to DFHSNP as there was no alternative.
 
alfaniner said:
You mean running them on the new one as Win 10? Never thought of that this time around, even though previously I had success at doing Compatibility mode for those programs. I may have to try that. As it is, every time I go to a new laptop it's a minimum of three weeks before I get all my programs installed and everything the way I like it.
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I install many programs on D:\Apps, as most will make their registry entries upon first run if these are missing. This is along with a great many portable apps, and I maintain shortcuts to all the apps using my preferred classic menu structure. An OS reinstall is then often reduced to copying the shortcuts to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu and updating the OS.
 
We've been moving all of our end users over to 11. So far no real issues, just the random complaints about things being different. We haven't run into any issues with our software not working, which was a concern of ours.
 
The only thing I don't like about Win11 is the task bar is no longer moveable. Something about the new UI contract not including functionality to place it anywhere except across the bottom of your screen. Which seems pants-on-head-retarded to me, but it's a minor peeve in the grand scheme.
 
Darat said:
I can understand if your computer can't be upgraded but if it can why would you want to stick with 10?
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Because Win 11 buys you nothing and if anything is worse (for ex. how in File Manager, you have to click "more options" to see common options now)?
 
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