Windows 11 is awful.

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Anonymous
2024-04-24T15:03:51+00:00

I have no clue why but I can't send any screenshots or photos so I'll try summarizing it.

Windows 11 is awful and will be going back to windows 10 with the new pc I'm putting together. Windows 11 runs absolutely unnecessary background processes and windows processes. My current gaming laptop specs should be able to handle what I do on my computer but instead a small game running will cause my laptop to get hot (already it gets a bit warm from just all the stuff running in the background THAT I DIDN'T INSTALL. Everything on there either was there or is new from the update.) Without running any personally installed applications, my window/background processes my task manager says I use NEARLY HALF of my CPU and around 30 Memory. I have tried ending tasks in the task manager but they continue to pop up and I attempted to uninstall the programs causing it but can't delete any of them because my SYSTEM can only make changes to those. I have looked here for an answer and have done just about everything Microsoft 'claims' to help. What's worse is I don't know what is SAFE to uninstall if I do figure it out. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO GET A NEW GAMING COMPUTER/LAPTOP DON'T GET WINDOWS 11 UNLESS YOU'RE A MASTER WIZARD AT UNINSTALLING OR HAVE A BUNCH OF CPU/MEMORY. I'm apparently not the only one having this particular problem where Windows runs way too many processes in the background, several friends of mine refuse to upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11 because of it.

I don't know if there's a way to go back because it's been a bit but I'd much prefer going back to windows 10.

Personally, I would prefer windows 8 (the biggest failure of them all) over windows 11. I'd rather have a hard time navigating around on my computer than hardly being able to use it for its intended purpose.

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics 1.80 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (13.8 GB usable)

Device ID 0662E79D-D3FB-4DE4-81F8-F79964A0CC5A

Product ID 00325-97249-48126-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Pen support

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Recovery and backup

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-01T22:28:14+00:00

    I only bought my win11 desktop because of some software that I need to run only runs on windows. I haven't used Windows since Win7 (been on macos since). I f'ing hate Windows. Vista was far better than this poor excuse for an OS. everything is linked to cloud accounts and everything breaks like every days. You look at the computer and it gets corrupted. Have spent the last 2 hours just trying to get the stupid xbox app, once again, to use the same account as the ms store. This is so stupid. This is why Microsoft is losing so much ground to so many other tech companies. Everything they do is total garbage. If it wasn't for their OS monopoly power, they'd have gone out of business years ago.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-04T09:54:00+00:00

    Yeah Windows 11 is just Microsoft making people think That they can improve on windows 10, but the background apps and interface is so bad and I still use windows 10 (Will do until end of support and hopefully windows 12 will be out by then.) My gaming PC could hardly run it, Windows 11 used up all the ram and heated it to over 40c even when I wasn't gaming

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-11T05:17:32+00:00

    I agree 100%. Windows 11 is a **** product! I was able to mirror my computer to my TV with windows 10 and now unable to do the same thing with windows 11. It should be a simple thing to do this in house on a private network.. but Windows 11 is unable, unwilling to do the same thing with the same hardware and same TV.

    **** Windows and Microsoft! You **** keep forcing me to "upgrade" when its a constant downgrade.. FIX YOUR **** ISSUES, BILL GATES! or be the **** we all know you are! Maybe, youre too worried about being on the Epstein list to fix the issues!?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-12T05:51:54+00:00

    my goodness your right I have a msi crosshair 15 and I recently download drivers for the graphics card and CPU and it literally blue screen on me when i tried to restart my computer because of the overheating issues with the dogshit windows 11 . and i just switched to windows 10

    and my battery life has tripled and the overheating issues are gone.

    ps

    i spent over an hour solving the dam.sys issue even with a msi technician

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