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I guess I'm going to have to put in effort to tame W11 into submission the way I did 10, but I'm not looking forward it - I honestly rarely have a need for it t

I guess I'm going to have to put in effort to tame W11 into submission the way I did 10, but I'm not looking forward it - I honestly rarely have a need for it these days.

officeplant 1y ago
Most things can be registry edited back into reasonable form including the new right click menus. The task/start bar is unfortunately not size adjustable anymore and requires third party replacement if you want that back. It can be molded back into a reasonable Windows experience, but I imagine future updates will break every change I make at least once.
- JCattheATM 1y ago
  I was using OpenShell with W10 so needing a thirdparty taskbar isn't horrible. I see people complaining they can't truly disable updates on 10, which I did without too much of an issue. Truly removing and shrinking down everything was a project, but it's been solid and fast since doing so. I kept a lot of notes and a lot should still apply to 11, but it's still a chore. I'm actually looking at recreating Tiny11 as a base and figuring out what to manually add back on a case by case basis to have all the functionality I need. I will need something to run GTA6 when it comes, if nothing else.
mock-possum 1y ago
You can get close, in my experience, but there are some things that windows 11 simply will not allow you to do. The two that piss me off the most are - web results in start menu - and there being no option to always show all icons in the system tray.
- vossbutton 1y ago
  Both of these annoyances can be disabled (looks like the tray icon workaround creates a scheduled task that sets the tray icons visible): https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
dspillett 1y ago
I've found https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to be useful, though test it out before relying on it as some have reported stability issues with some options (I've not noticed any problems myself, other than things a little confused by my ZenBook's 1.5 screens when positioning some UI parts). There are a few other similar tools to try as well, I'll leave others to talk about them as I never got around to trying more than this one so can't talk with any authority at all.
bee_rider 1y ago
Once a machine has been rooted by an attacker, IMO the least-bad option is to just nuke it and start from scratch. For all I know, the tools I want to use to ferret out the infection are also infected. When the attacker is Microsoft, the situation seems pretty hopeless.

I guess I'm going to have to put in effort to tame W11 into submission the way I did 10, but I'm not looking forward it - I honestly rarely have a need for it these days.

officeplant 1y ago

Most things can be registry edited back into reasonable form including the new right click menus. The task/start bar is unfortunately not size adjustable anymore and requires third party replacement if you want that back. It can be molded back into a reasonable Windows experience, but I imagine future updates will break every change I make at least once.

JCattheATM 1y ago
I was using OpenShell with W10 so needing a thirdparty taskbar isn't horrible. I see people complaining they can't truly disable updates on 10, which I did without too much of an issue. Truly removing and shrinking down everything was a project, but it's been solid and fast since doing so. I kept a lot of notes and a lot should still apply to 11, but it's still a chore. I'm actually looking at recreating Tiny11 as a base and figuring out what to manually add back on a case by case basis to have all the functionality I need. I will need something to run GTA6 when it comes, if nothing else.

mock-possum 1y ago

You can get close, in my experience, but there are some things that windows 11 simply will not allow you to do. The two that piss me off the most are - web results in start menu - and there being no option to always show all icons in the system tray.

vossbutton 1y ago
Both of these annoyances can be disabled (looks like the tray icon workaround creates a scheduled task that sets the tray icons visible): https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

dspillett 1y ago

I've found https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to be useful, though test it out before relying on it as some have reported stability issues with some options (I've not noticed any problems myself, other than things a little confused by my ZenBook's 1.5 screens when positioning some UI parts). There are a few other similar tools to try as well, I'll leave others to talk about them as I never got around to trying more than this one so can't talk with any authority at all.

bee_rider 1y ago

Once a machine has been rooted by an attacker, IMO the least-bad option is to just nuke it and start from scratch. For all I know, the tools I want to use to ferret out the infection are also infected. When the attacker is Microsoft, the situation seems pretty hopeless.