Windows 11

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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.

Hey Cliff, have you considered putting your work computer (and all the company's computers actually) on a domain? That way you can use group policy to control and enforce your own update schedule that supersedes Microsoft's.

You can also pretty tightly control the Windows image on your computer that way, cutting out almost all the bloatware nonsense it comes with out of the box.

 

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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! View attachment 166225

Rufus is great. Use it all the time for my builds and friends. Never had a single issue.

 

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