Yes, you need to sign in to the widget screen, but you can still do so with a local account. Just like, for example, the W10 weather app or the MS Store. You can sign in independently of the user account type.
But that requires an MS ID to "sign in", does it not? Thus, someone running purely with a local account (and no MS ID), wouldn't be able to use the Weather widget.
In my VM system, most of the stuff I can’t do is because I haven’t activated it. And I’m not going to because this is just a test. Working with applications seems fine. I don’t like the aesthetics, and the tweaking tools mentioned above aren’t getting me where I want to be. Getting used to various admin and config functions has changed - it’s just an annoying learning curve. Win 10 is a pretty solid OS, like Win7 was - I don’t plan to move on for a while. Heck, I just installed Win10 Pro on a machine using a Win8.1 Pro license and it activated with no problem; so it’s not there's necessarily a need to rush.
Any Outlook or Skype account should work. I have outlook.com account but I don't use it to login Windows.
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Just download the media creation tool and install it from a USB drive. That's how I upgraded all my PCs. MS is rolling out the upgrade slowly, so if you go through Windows Update, it can take a while before they offer you the chance.
Upgrading to a just released OS has always had headaches, and it's only for people willing to basically be beta testers.Heh, one reviewer on Twitter had this little nibble from MS. "Microsoft says Windows 11 is like a familiar family home, but it feels like one that's still being renovated."
Now if that doesn't inspire confidence, what will
Yes, and that's fine if you only have one PC to upgrade. Upgrading 6 like I did would mean having to download everything again and again for each computer. Downloading once and using it to install on multiple PCs is easier.
How the frick did Win 11 even get released this way?? When I was writing firmware in the 90s, that kind of retrograde in performance would have been a show stopper and would have led to 80+ hour weeks for the team I was on!
My bad, pretty much everything is still there. Some stuff is moved or hidden. Just need to find the 'god mode' folder hack and all will be well again.
In Microsoft's defense, Windows 10 was pretty rough around the edges for the first 6-12 months. Even after that rough first year, they always seem to find a way to break something with each update. I updated to from Windows 7 to Windows 10 after a year, and even then I would occasionally run into some major bugs (like an update pegging my SSD at non-stop 100% usage).
As annoying as it at times, I just always remind myself it's still a lot better than it was back during the Windows 98, ME, and XP days.
Yeah, Windows 2000 was their first " really good" OS IMO. It was so stable compared to other Windows versions for "home users". I remember getting our first NT 4.0 computers at work, and I was amazed how much more stable they were compared to what I was used to (95, 98, 98SE, etc).
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