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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] stopforgettingit 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (8 children)

I had to install Win 11 on my work computer and it is still total dogshit. One example - The search from the Start menu never works so you have to pin every app to start or go through the whole app list to find the one you want. Its been like this for a year at least. Things, like my speakers, just randomly stop working and I have to restart to get them to work again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not that you should have to, but there are a lot of ways to fix the most annoying issues. Usually reg edits, better drivers and Powershell scripts.

Openshell makes start at least usable: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Am going through this on our corp PCs.

[–] stopforgettingit 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, I remember using this to fix Win 8 before they added the start menu button back. I might have to set it up again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Does the job & will let you pare down the menu to the essentials, move start position etc. Can also be deployed and configured by GPO, which has been a godsend.

For the issue that you can no longer tell Windows to show all icons in the system tray, you can manually drag them out of the overflow into the visible part - or slap this into a powershell script and have it run at logon to do so automatically:

$Name = 'IsPromoted'
$Value = '1'
Get-ChildItem -path $RegistryPath -Recurse | ForEach-Object {New-ItemProperty -Path $_.PSPath -Name $Name -Value $Value -PropertyType DWORD -Force }

For the right-click menu being shit, hold shift before clicking, or put this one-liner into an adminstrative command prompt for a longer term fix. Restart explorer or the PC as a whole to apply afterwards:

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

Snappy Driver Origin is great for obtaining up to date drivers. I've also had good luck pasting the hardware ID into search with site:driveridentifier.com to snag better drivers. IDs can be grabbed from device manager, under the details tab for the device properties. Example.

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