Even the obligatory Microsoft Account sign-in, one of the vital continuously complained-about facets of Windows 11, was a Windows 10 innovation—it was simpler to avoid than it is now, and it was only for the Home version of the software program, however on reflection, it was clearly a step down the street that Windows 11 is presently touring.
Windows 11 did make issues worse, although
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A desktop with an additional informational wallpaper icon, a Start menu stuffed with apps you might or might not use, and a busy taskbar will greet you the primary time you log in to Windows 11.
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A cleaner desktop, taskbar, and Start menu, with many extraneous components eliminated. With the exception of Edge, most Windows apps might be retained or eliminated as you favor.
Andrew Cunningham
A cleaner desktop, taskbar, and Start menu, with many extraneous components eliminated. With the exception of Edge, most Windows apps might be retained or eliminated as you favor.
Andrew Cunningham
A desktop with an additional informational wallpaper icon, a Start menu stuffed with apps you might or might not use, and a busy taskbar will greet you the primary time you log in to Windows 11.
Andrew Cunningham
A cleaner desktop, taskbar, and Start menu, with many extraneous components eliminated. With the exception of Edge, most Windows apps might be retained or eliminated as you favor.
Andrew Cunningham
But a lot of Windows 11’s annoyances are new ones. And the large drawback is that these annoyances have been stacked on prime of the annoying issues that Windows 10 was already doing, progressively accumulating to make the brand new PC setup course of go from “lightly” to “supremely” irritating.
The Microsoft Account sign-in requirement is floor zero for lots of this since signing in with an account unlocks a litany of additional adverts for Microsoft 365, Game Pass, and different companies you might or might not want or need. Connecting to the Internet and signing in grew to become a requirement for brand spanking new installations of each the Home and the Pro variations of Windows 11 beginning with model 22H2, and whereas workarounds existed then and live on now, you must find out about them beforehand or look them up your self—the OS doesn’t give you an choice to skip. Microsoft can even apparently be closing a few of these loopholes in future updates, making circumvention even more troublesome.
And if getting by these screens when establishing a brand new PC wasn’t annoying sufficient, Windows 11 will usually remind you about different Microsoft companies once more by its Second Chance Out-Of-Box Experience display screen, or SCOOBE. This on-by-default “feature” has supplied to assist me “finish setting up” Windows 11 installations which might be years outdated and fairly completely arrange. It might be turned off by way of a buried checkbox within the Notifications settings, however eradicating it or making it less complicated to completely dismiss from the SCOOBE display screen itself could be the more user-friendly change, particularly since Microsoft already bombards customers with “helpful reminders” about many of those similar companies by way of system notifications.