Just bought a new ASUS Tuf f15 gaming laptop with win 11 preinstalled. Was excited to get started with this amazing new Windows OS. BOY was I surprised when I tried to customize my home screen, taskbar, etc. This is like a Windows For Dummies!!!! My X-Box, PlayStation, etc. are all more customizable! Maybe some of the things I wanted to do are POSSIBLE, but if so life is too short to spend years of it looking for ways to do it. It took me all of 10 minutes with this piece of crap of an OS to decide it WAS a piece of crap, but I kept working on it for several hours thinking that every time I upgraded to a new version of Windows it took a while to get used to the new design and features so I was willing to give it a chance. But after 2 hours of trying to figure things out and futilely searching the internet for help I had to concede that my first impressions were right – Windows 11 was designed to drive any power user totally insane!!! Thank god there is a way to put Windows 10 on this computer. I am going to do this NOW before I throw this nice new laptop out the window – I’m referring to the good old glass window in the wall of my living room! If this trend with Windows (the OS) continues I’m consideri,ng looking for other options
I did a rollback on one of the pre-release versions of Windows. It was just a bit too buggy for me at the time. What I did though was to give myself a bit more time to do the rollback. I wanted to think about it more before pulling the pin. Here is an abbreviated version of what you need to do to extend the rollback time. You can extend it to 60 days (or less) and if you get to 59 days then (not sure of this) you may be able to extend the deadline for another 60 days.
Open a Command window with admin rights.
This command will tell you how much time you have left.
DISM /Online /Get-OSUninstallWindow
The next command will set the number of days left to allow a rollback. The command sets the rollback time to 30 days but the valid range is 10 to 60 days.
DISM /Online /Set-OSUninstallWindow /Value:30
It should tell you that the command was successful but just to be sure, you should run the first command again.
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Just bought a new ASUS Tuf f15 gaming laptop with win 11 preinstalled. Was excited to get started with this amazing new Windows OS. BOY was I surprised when I tried to customize my home screen, taskbar, etc. This is like a Windows For Dummies!!!! My X-Box, PlayStation, etc. are all more customizable! Maybe some of the things I wanted to do are POSSIBLE, but if so life is too short to spend years of it looking for ways to do it. It took me all of 10 minutes with this piece of crap of an OS to decide it WAS a piece of crap, but I kept working on it for several hours thinking that every time I upgraded to a new version of Windows it took a while to get used to the new design and features so I was willing to give it a chance. But after 2 hours of trying to figure things out and futilely searching the internet for help I had to concede that my first impressions were right – Windows 11 was designed to drive any power user totally insane!!! Thank god there is a way to put Windows 10 on this computer. I am going to do this NOW before I throw this nice new laptop out the window – I’m referring to the good old glass window in the wall of my living room! If this trend with Windows (the OS) continues I’m consideri,ng looking for other options
I’m sorry you had such an unpleasant experience. What exactly did you try to customize and didn’t succeed in doing it?
I did a rollback on one of the pre-release versions of Windows. It was just a bit too buggy for me at the time. What I did though was to give myself a bit more time to do the rollback. I wanted to think about it more before pulling the pin. Here is an abbreviated version of what you need to do to extend the rollback time. You can extend it to 60 days (or less) and if you get to 59 days then (not sure of this) you may be able to extend the deadline for another 60 days.
Open a Command window with admin rights.
This command will tell you how much time you have left.
DISM /Online /Get-OSUninstallWindow
The next command will set the number of days left to allow a rollback. The command sets the rollback time to 30 days but the valid range is 10 to 60 days.
DISM /Online /Set-OSUninstallWindow /Value:30
It should tell you that the command was successful but just to be sure, you should run the first command again.
Excellent tip. Thank you!