Any Concern With X13 and Windows 11?


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2 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Larry , I have been using windows 11 for about 6 months now, at first there were some problems but nothing I couldn't work around. they have fixed all that now and it's working fine.

Thanks again P. My computer is not ready to upgrade to Win 11. Some BIOS tweaks or some hardware permissions I think. Probably won't bother till I have to.

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8 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Thanks again P. My computer is not ready to upgrade to Win 11. Some BIOS tweaks or some hardware permissions I think. Probably won't bother till I have to.

 

Windows 11 requires ,TPM or SecureBoot to be enabled in the Bios , a quick google should find you plenty of info.

 

Not sure I am in any rush either at this point........ at least not on my Main (Drawing) Computer. 

 

M.

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I did a little exploring and found the 'secure boot' function in the BIOS and learned that the boot needs to follow the UEFI process and I tried a couple options eliminating the 'legacy' option and the computer would no longer boot. Point is, and hope it might help others, I'll not upgrade to Win 11 until forced as spending the time to learn the intricacies of what's needed is not in my schedule for now. Anyone else have Win 11?

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Thanks Mark, helpful as always but as helpful as those articles might be it kinda makes my point. Just too much crazy to switch at this point, and no real reason other than just wanting the latest and greatest which is mostly a recipe for disaster on a working computer. Are you using Win 11?

 

Here's an interesting review...

 

ZDNet's Ed Bott believes Windows 11 is not so much a software refresh as it is a nudge for people to upgrade to newer hardware:

This version of Windows marks a major hardware transition, with Microsoft drawing a firm line in the silicon and declaring that the majority of current CPUs will be obsolete when Windows 10 support expires in October 2025.

For the first time ever, Microsoft is releasing a Windows upgrade that it doesn't want most of its existing customers to use. By my back-of the envelope calculations, roughly 60% of the 1.3 billion PCs now running Windows 10 will be blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 (although the owners of those PCs can install Windows 11 manually). That finding tracks with the results of a survey of 30 million enterprise PCs by IT asset management company Lansweeper, which estimated that 55% of those PCs would fall short of Microsoft's hardware requirements.

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16 hours ago, HumbleChief said:

options eliminating the 'legacy' option and the computer would no longer boot.

 

It maybe that your SSD/NVME/HDD is currently using an MBR Disk Partition Type rather than GPT which UEFI needs, but there is a free built in converter in Windows 10, which does not loss any Data , though it would be prudent to use Macrium Reflect or some other type of Imaging Backup type Program 1st just in case.

 

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-move-bios-uefi-windows-10

 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024558/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

 

Mick.

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

It maybe that your SSD/NVME/HDD is currently using an MBR Disk Partition Type rather than GPT which UEFI needs, but there is a free built in converter in Windows 10, which does not loss any Data , though it would be prudent to use Macrium Reflect or some other type of Imaging Backup type Program 1st just in case.

 

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-move-bios-uefi-windows-10

 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024558/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

 

Mick.

 

 

Thanks for once again making my point...

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2 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Thanks for once again making my point...

 

I am surprised your newish computer it is not already using UEFI/GPT, that's on the Builder, unless the Disks were just brought over from an even older system, all newer systems should be using UEFI these days.... only the Boot drive needs to be GPT , Free use Utilities like MiniTool Partition Wizard or Easus will also easily do this without Data loss.

 

M.

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