Windows 11 ... anyone using it?

[GooRoo]

I did the upgrade to Windows 11, and am less than pleased with it. The scroll bars are about 1/3 the size they were in Windows 10 ... not helpful to these 81 year (clumsy) fingers directing the mouse. The task bar is now centered ... I have been moving the cursor way to the left for the Windows icon ... and now have to move it toward the center. Old habits (still) die hard. And something is interfering with my Mozilla Firefox browser, causing crashes when doing simple things, like closing a tab.

I am fearful of what will happen when I finally get around to trying to run Gruntz. May require another work-around to get it to run well enough to play even the original 32 Questz.

And in my email today there is an alert about Windows 12!

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

I still have Windows 10, I know I have to upgrade eventually, but I'll keep using Windows 10 while I still can.

I'm so sorry this happened. I'm no computer expert, so I have no idea what I can say to help with your issues, but I hope you will be able to eventually adapt to Windows 11.

[swietymiki]

I believe you can change some of the options, such as the centered task bar, in the Personalization section of the Settings app.

[GooRoo]

Oct 22, 2023 0:29:23 GMT -8 swietymiki said:

I believe you can change some of the options, such as the centered task bar, in the Personalization section of the Settings app.

Most of the differences I consider to be nits; the one thing MOST irritating to me is the reduction in size of the scroll bar(s). So far, the only one I've used is the vertical one, and these old eyes and fingers find me searching for something to hold onto.

[swietymiki]

You should try following this tutorial to make the scrollbars larger: www.groovypost.com/howto/make-scroll-bars-wider-in-windows-11/

P.S. I sent you a PM regarding Blaze's newest Custom Level.

[GooRoo]

This laptop is on its last legs, with a broken wing (hinge) to boot. So we splurged and purchased a current laptop as a replacement, which (naturally) came with Windows 11 installed.

My first problem was just finding the power button to turn it on! It is now squeezed in between the 'prt sc' and 'delete' keys on the top row. One thing I need to look up is to change the 'sleep' setting; it goes to sleep (due to inactivity) in about a minute. But when I select 'sleep' from the power menu, it just goes to a colorful screen waiting for me to alert it to use. I prefer the black screen and turned off keyboard lights on THIS laptop (the new one's keyboard is NOT lighted at all).

Now Microsoft was able to access THIS laptop via my network and capture a lot of my files from the D: backup. NICE! But I cannot access either other laptop from either laptop. Go figure. And I have not been able to locate the username/password that will allow me (the OWNER) to make any changes within the network. I could quickly complete the migration if I could use the new one to access this old one's files (such as all of Gruntz) and copy them onto the new one's storage (1Tb worth!). With 16Gb of 'ram', many of my problems should go away due to my habit of having about a dozen windows (or tabs) open at once, and flit between projects. Computer memory won't be an issue. Which reminds me of Bill Gats' comment that "With MS-DOS you'll only need 640Kb of memory for everyday use". (I can hear you laughing all the way from across 'The Pond'.)