Anyone upgraded to Windows 11

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My pc meets all the requirements including Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for the Windows 11 upgrade. I check for updates to Windows 10 several times a week. But, I've never been prompted to upgrade to Windows 11. So, two questions:
1. How have you upgraded your PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
2. What issues did you have when you did the upgrade?

Thanks!
 
I tried to upgrade but I lacked TPM. My BIOS was about 8 versions behind the current. A flash upgrade to the BIOS and I was TPM ready. The upgrade was painless.
 
I did a clean install on a PC that wasn't up to spec. The machine is working perfectly with the latest version of Win 11.
 
Marcozi said:
My pc meets all the requirements including Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for the Windows 11 upgrade. I check for updates to Windows 10 several times a week. But, I've never been prompted to upgrade to Windows 11. So, two questions:
1. How have you upgraded your PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
2. What issues did you have when you did the upgrade?

Thanks!
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Download and run the 'Windows 11 Installation Assistant'

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
 
We downloaded Windows 11. We now regularly get a message that "a driver cannot load on this device." Seems a security setting is blocking the download. But good luck figuring out what it is, or how to allow the download.

The computer seems to work fine though.
 
I leveraged my financial wealth and just replaced my upstairs laptop that is 8 years old with a new $199 laptop with windows 11. Don't tell anyone I like this one better than my more (?) powerful Core 5 HP. More than one way of skinning a cat. But i love the 17" screen on the HP vs 15" on the new one.
 
demarpaint said:
I did a clean install on a PC that wasn't up to spec. The machine is working perfectly with the latest version of Win 11.
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But it did have the EUFI bios, right? Not 100% sure of the abreviation, but the graphical bios.
I have an older laptop that I would like to move to 11, but installed Linux Mint instead. I understand that kind of BIOS is a must for any 11 upgrade.
 
Strictly regarding work PCs, I've had issues with the upgrade vs a clean win11 install on work PCs.

The most glaring issues (which are more quality-of-life things)

1) start menu and everything it encapsulates like searching and control panel takes notably longer to load.

2) at the login screen, instead of being able to hit any key to select the user and put in the password, I have to click on the actual button.

3) updates seem to install much easier with a clean install

Again, not really issues, just QoL stuff but annoying when working on multiple PCs because muscle memory automatically hits certain buttons after input.

I seem to have a lot more driver issues causing BSODs with 24H2 compared to any other win10/11 feature updates as well. I literally went 4-5 years with only 1 BSOD; now I have gotten 3 this year alone.

On my personal PC, the update to 24H2 has somehow screwed up the GPT partition, although I've gone longer without reinstalling Windows than before.
 
JohnnyG said:
But it did have the EUFI bios, right? Not 100% sure of the abreviation, but the graphical bios.
I have an older laptop that I would like to move to 11, but installed Linux Mint instead. I understand that kind of BIOS is a must for any 11 upgrade.
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Yes, here's what I followed for a clean install. It worked perfectly. You can use this if you want no bloatware. Win 11 Clean Install w/o Bloatware
 
ecotourist said:
We now regularly get a message that "a driver cannot load on this device." Seems a security setting is blocking the download. But good luck figuring out what it is, or how to allow the download.
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Have you looked at Device Manager ?
 
I bought my computer with Windows 11 installed. Unfortunately, now I can't use my fairly new Canon laser printer. The jokers in the company refuse to put out updated drivers for my printer to operate in Windows 11.
 
Kestas said:
I bought my computer with Windows 11 installed. Unfortunately, now I can't use my fairly new Canon laser printer. The jokers in the company refuse to put out updated drivers for my printer to operate in Windows 11.
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There is a way to use something like "Windows 10 compatibility mode" or something, isn't there ?
 
Kestas said:
I bought my computer with Windows 11 installed. Unfortunately, now I can't use my fairly new Canon laser printer. The jokers in the company refuse to put out updated drivers for my printer to operate in Windows 11.
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You may be able to download a similar driver and tell Windows to use that or use the stock Windows PCL6 driver. I have to do that for our HP 4000/4100 printer lol.
 
2002 Maxima SE said:
How did you upgrade the ones not meeting spec? I've got a PC in the same situation.
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The easiest way is to download the windows 11 iso from Microsoft and then use Rufus to create a bootable install on a USB drive. Rufus will give you an option to skip the hardware check and initial setup crud. I just refreshed my iso on Tuesday since I use it to reimage work PCs all the time. This way does require at least a 8GB USB drive though.

I think there's another way via regedit and CMD prompt but I have not used that and it would be a hassle for my use.
 
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