Windows 10 Support Expiring

[gables]

The compatibility bit is a pain as mine, a home build, had a 6th Gen i5-6500 processor (iGPU, 16GB RAM, SSD drives) which isn't supported by Windows 11, however the rest of the PC met the required specs after I enabled TPM and the system performed perfectly well for my use. So I did an in-place upgrade with a registry tweak (from MS I think) to get around the CPU incompatibility and it all worked fine and I could've stopped there, but AI got the better of me so I ended up with an upgraded PC and the (now) old one being turned into a DVD\Bluray automatic ripping machine :-)

[xoggoth]

I got a Windows 11 PC as spare a few months ago, planning to make it my main when I get round to it. Got it all set up with most of the programs I want on it, including some quite old ones, all seems ok.

[northernladuk]

Well for some reason I got an Office365 update message and couldn't start Outlook, word etc. Went on for ages so eventually did a reboot and it appears it had kicked off Windows 11 update. Couple of hours later after a couple of reboots and long periods of just grey screens it finally allowed me to log in but another hour or three of everytihng running like an absolute dog. Every app I opened was so slow. I assume it's re-building all it's caches, seach indexs and whathave you but its taken thick end of 3 horus since I first spotted the update and its still running every new app really slowly.

Lesson : Manually run the update when you are ready and don't need it for a good few hours. And just wait... and wait

Obviously desktop went back to standard so had to move and resize taskbar items, background and all that. Bit of a pain but manageable. Most menus look different but again managable. Just the time it took.

It's still running slow but getting there.

[woody1]

It's for this reason that I disable auto-update. This has got harder with every release; 8 was easy, 10 a bit more convoluted, 11 nigh on impossible to disable it completely. None of the following methods are 100%.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-s...tes-windows-11