Windows 11

Dave Merrill said:
So the fix was rebooting in safe mode multiple times? Sheesh. Lovely.
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Tried to reboot a few times. Took me to repair. Tried that a few times. Could not repair. Rebooted in safe mode a few times. Then rebooted regular. A few bsods.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it what got me up and running was shutting off my 3 Apollos until it booted.
Rock solid since.
 
To add to this …

I accidentally shut off my computer from the power brick a week or so ago..

As a consequence, everytime I turn on the computer it would try repairing an un-named drive.

It would eventually say “100%” repaired , but here’s the catch..

It would repeat that repairing process over and over for a week (hoping it would fix itself eventually but nooo…)

As a remedy I looked up the error…[ //?/ xxxxxx…] folder and it turns out It’s an error for the windows boot configuration.

So I looked up a solution and followed them…

I created an installation media for windows 11..

Did command prompts to try repairing it… (I’m not new to cmd it but still what If I was an average user?)

And turns out something my drive partition wasn’t in the right format (MRD?) to correct the boot files?

I believe it’s because I upgraded to windows 11 that the partition wasn’t the right format.

So I technically didn’t do anything

But through all that….it somehow fixed itself?
 
Bruce Sokolovic said:
Tried to reboot a few times. Took me to repair. Tried that a few times. Could not repair. Rebooted in safe mode a few times. Then rebooted regular. A few bsods.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it what got me up and running was shutting off my 3 Apollos until it booted.
Rock solid since.
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And you've rebooted since without problems?
 
SonVolt said:
My son just got his first laptop w/Windows 11. By the end of the setup process I was cursing the whole experience... it FORCES you to use an online Microsoft account to login to your own g*d****m computer. No local logins unless you install Windows Enterprise edition and join it to a domain. And since I was setting it up for a child, the 1 hour "screen time limit" was reached DURING THE SETUP PROCESS and hard locked me out for 24 hours.
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You can set up Windows 11 Home with a local user account by using a command during the setup process to bypass the Microsoft account requirement. Here’s how:

Use the start ms-cxh:localonly command:
  • Boot new Windows 11
  • Proceed through the setup until you reach the "Sign in" screen.
  • Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.
  • Type start ms-cxh:localonly and press Enter.
  • The system will reboot and display a "Create a user for this PC" dialog.
  • Enter your desired username and password (optional but recommended).
  • Complete the remaining setup steps.
 
rushfan said:
You can set up Windows 11 Home with a local user account by using a command during the setup process to bypass the Microsoft account requirement. Here’s how:

Use the start ms-cxh:localonly command:
  • Boot new Windows 11
  • Proceed through the setup until you reach the "Sign in" screen.
  • Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.
  • Type start ms-cxh:localonly and press Enter.
  • The system will reboot and display a "Create a user for this PC" dialog.
  • Enter your desired username and password (optional but recommended).
  • Complete the remaining setup steps.
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Does that work for Pro too?
 
Dave Merrill said:
Does that work for Pro too?
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You don’t need that for pro. For pro, you choose “other sign-in options” (or something like that) and then choose “domain join”, and then you can enter a local username for it.
I’m a computer network consultant for a large firm, an hired gun for about 20 companies, and do this stuff all the time.
I had a couple of clients with their “remote laptop” that were the home version, and was determined to NOT set up a Microsoft account for it! Thanks to Duck Duck Go search, I found my answer!
 
rushfan said:
You don’t need that for pro. For pro, you choose “other sign-in options” (or something like that) and then choose “domain join”, and then you can enter a local username for it.
I’m a computer network consultant for a large firm, an hired gun for about 20 companies, and do this stuff all the time.
I had a couple of clients with their “remote laptop” that were the home version, and was determined to NOT set up a Microsoft account for it! Thanks to Duck Duck Go search, I found my answer!
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Domain Join doesn't need a real domain, just a local name i give it?
 
Dave Merrill said:
Domain Join doesn't need a real domain, just a local name i give it?
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Correct. It assumes you are going to have a local admin account, and then join it to a domain later. Kind of misleading, but that’s Microsoft! I think they once had a motto of “making it all make sense!” LOL!
 
They've enabled onedrive on our work laptops, it's horrific, just saving things to your actual hard drive is stupidly convoluted. It always defaults to saving to onedrive as well. I hate it. It was much easier just having a network drive.

Don't even get me started on the "new" Outlook or MS Teams.

Microsoft is vibe coding their software to oblivion.
 
Maybe go the whole nine yards and put a HDMI and keyboard/mouse usb port on the fractal devices then you can be your own man forever. Just a thought. Im putting together a new system right now and I still just bought a win10 license... I think I'll pass on win11 as I use OBS a lot for streaming and for what I do win11 will be a resource hog.
 
rushfan said:
You can set up Windows 11 Home with a local user account by using a command during the setup process to bypass the Microsoft account requirement. Here’s how:

Use the start ms-cxh:localonly command:
  • Boot new Windows 11
  • Proceed through the setup until you reach the "Sign in" screen.
  • Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.
  • Type start ms-cxh:localonly and press Enter.
  • The system will reboot and display a "Create a user for this PC" dialog.
  • Enter your desired username and password (optional but recommended).
  • Complete the remaining setup steps.
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Does this still work?

 
Apparently, Rufus is still applicable and up to the task. I made a bootable USB drive using the 25H2 ISO that I downloaded from Microsoft, using Rufus. Among other options, it let me choose to bypass needing a Microsoft account, as well as asking me if I would like for it to create a local account, and what to name it. I used said USB drive to install Windows 11 Pro on my new build, and it went flawlessly! biggrin.gif
 
The unannounced reboots are also a joy. At least OS-X notifies you and asks if you want to update. Windows 11? Nah, we're just going to update your computer without asking and if you didn't save your work, oh well, screw you.

My PC must've applied an update last night because I was greeted to the login screen. Fortunately I had saved all my work. However, about five minutes into working on something Windows just decided it needed to reboot one more time and closed all my windows without asking and I lost my work.

My hatred for Microsoft and their latest steaming pile of donkey dung grows by the day.
 
FractalAudio said:
The unannounced reboots are also a joy. At least OS-X notifies you and asks if you want to update. Windows 11? Nah, we're just going to update your computer without asking and if you didn't save your work, oh well, screw you.

My PC must've applied an update last night because I was greeted to the login screen. Fortunately I had saved all my work. However, about five minutes into working on something Windows just decided it needed to reboot one more time and closed all my windows without asking and I lost my work.

My hatred for Microsoft and their latest steaming pile of donkey dung grows by the day.
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Man that would suck during a FW upgrade…
 
FractalAudio said:
The unannounced reboots are also a joy. At least OS-X notifies you and asks if you want to update. Windows 11? Nah, we're just going to update your computer without asking and if you didn't save your work, oh well, screw you.

My PC must've applied an update last night because I was greeted to the login screen. Fortunately I had saved all my work. However, about five minutes into working on something Windows just decided it needed to reboot one more time and closed all my windows without asking and I lost my work.

My hatred for Microsoft and their latest steaming pile of donkey dung grows by the day.
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The thing that is really annoying about this is that most times windows apps like Notepad will usually still have your data after an unexpected reboot.

So clearly there is some persistence built in to their apps where something is stored in memory during a reboot.

Why don't they just do the same thing for 3rd party apps, even if they don't have some type of auto-save?
 
FractalAudio said:
The unannounced reboots are also a joy. At least OS-X notifies you and asks if you want to update. Windows 11? Nah, we're just going to update your computer without asking and if you didn't save your work, oh well, screw you.

My PC must've applied an update last night because I was greeted to the login screen. Fortunately I had saved all my work. However, about five minutes into working on something Windows just decided it needed to reboot one more time and closed all my windows without asking and I lost my work.

My hatred for Microsoft and their latest steaming pile of donkey dung grows by the day.
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I think there's a setting to avoid auto-restarts, it's never happened to me, I just get a notification after an update where I can choose to restart now or later.

EDIT: here's what Gemini says:

Disable Auto-Restart in Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise)
This stops Windows from restarting if you are logged in.

Press Win + R, type gpedit.msc, and hit Enter.
Navigate to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.

For Windows 11, look under Manage end user experience or Legacy Policies.
Double-click No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations.
Select Enabled, then click Apply and OK.

Adjust "Advanced Options" (Windows 10/11)

Go to Settings > Windows Update > Advanced options.

Toggle On "Notify me when a restart is required to finish updating".

Toggle Off "Get me up to date" (or "Restart this device as soon as possible").
 
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FractalAudio said:
What a steaming pile of excrement.

Seriously? After all these years this is what you come up with?

1. It's an ugly OS. White on light gray on just slightly darker gray. Or you can change the mode to dark and then it's black on black on black. But only for some things. Other windows remain gray on gray on gray. Inconsistency seems to be the one common theme in the OS.

2. Window borders are one pixel wide. So when you have windows on top of each other all this white and gray makes it hard to see where one window ends and another begins.

3. Scroll bars. Again, inconsistency rules here. In some windows the scroll bars disappear. You can turn that "feature" off but then the actual bar you drag turns to a thin line unless you hover over it. In other windows the scroll bar doesn't disappear and the bar doesn't change to a thin line.

4. Did I mention inconsistency? There's a settings "Applet" and also a Control Panel. They use completely different UI language. Some of the things in one aren't in the other but some things are common between the two. WTF is that? Oh, and in Control Panel it has an item "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)". WTF is that?!!! This is an upgrade from a clean install of Windows 10.

5. Lazy programming. I wanted to connect to our corporate server via the VPN. A window popped up asking for user name and password. Near the bottom it said something like "The credentials you have entered are incorrect". Not surprising since I haven't entered any yet. So I enter my user name and password, which are correct, and the message doesn't go away. I hit enter and the dialog box closes and I'm granted access.


The whole thing feels like it's just a money grab. I can't see a single advantage over Windows 10 (which was nearly as bad). I'm sure they'd tell me there's more "security" and "ease of use" but I don't see why that stuff couldn't have been added to Windows 10. The core OS under the goofy UI is the same.

The Start menu and Taskbar have been changed yet again and still don't feel like there's any logic to them. Screams "designed by committee".

But we get "Widgets" which are things that maybe some people use.
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If you really want to get control of this totally piece of crap OS i would get software to control the out of control virus/malware/trojan horse that the globalist Microsoft team has created, go to YouTube and chk out JAYZ2CENTS channel his got you covered
 
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