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Released 2021-10-05

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• 2022-07-06

• 2022-07-06 - Switched from Windows 10

  • I was able to use my old Windows 8.1 OEM key.

• Product and Services Lifecycle Information: Windows

2022-07-06 ∞

What I expect to suck:

• It has some sort of reinstall thing needed every x months.

  • See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/lifecycle/faq/windows  ^[ 2 ] 

• Windows 11 Home cannot disable internet search via a registry key, and it does not have access to Group Policy settings.

Usage and troubleshooting ∞

Much of the Windows 10 notes will work.

Generic low-level installation check ∞

1. Open an admin command prompt
2. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /restorehealth
3. sfc /scannow

4. Restart

Install Windows 11 without an internet connection or Microsoft account ∞

~2022-07-06 -- While there are some other variations, these instructions were easy to remember and worked for me:

When you find yourself prompted to set up your internet connection:

1. shift-F10 for a console
2. (in the console)
3. taskmgr to launch the Task Manager
4. (In the Task Manager)
5. Click "More Details" at the bottom-left.
6. In the Processes list, find "Network Connection Flow"
7. right-click and select "End task"
8. Exit the Task Manager
9. (In the command prompt)

10. exit

Install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware ∞

You probably have no business installing Windows 11 on that hardware, but here are some links which are reported to help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/q6ph00/how_to_get_past_the_windows_11_requirements_and/

• Use a modified appraiserres.dll file
• Try3 on the elevenforum used the modified appraiserres.dll file to do an upgrade within Windows 10.
• Use Rufus-3.16_BETA2 to make a bootable flash drive
• From TechPowerUp
• From ghacks.net

• How to upgrade to Windows 11, whether your PC is supported or not

Determine drive usage on Windows 11 on the commandline ∞

As admin:

fsutil volume diskfree C:

[WORKAROUND] - Task View does not work ∞

(on Wikipedia)

After this update:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/march-14-2023-kb5023706-os-build-22621-1413-9d3f2de5-08e7-4462-8fba-d944201f4ae1

Either the Task View button on the taskbar, or pressing windows-tab. Both the windows and the tab key work.

All sorts of things, and nothing works..

I tracked this down to a problem with ExplorerPatcher having a Windows 10 taskbar style: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/1687

Increasing VRAM by dedicating system ram to it ∞

System RAM is hella slow compared to VRAM, but it can really help to let memory-hogging graphics applications get access to more ram, even if it's slower.

https://www.lifewire.com/increase-vram-on-a-windows-pc-5072150

1. Launch regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
3. Find your graphics card, e.g. NVIDIA Corporation\
4. Add DedicatedSegmentSize with a dword of however much memory you want to have.

5. Restart your computer.

   • I was able to update my drivers and have this take effect.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\GMM]
"DedicatedSegmentSize"=dword:00016384

Hot swap a SATA drive ∞

I have a power switch on hard drives and I want to selectively power them on to use them.

This is the same issue on Windows 10.

1. Power down the system
2. Connect / power up the hard drive
3. Power up the system
4. Log in
5. Use HotSwap! to dismount it

6. Power down the hard drive

Cannot get rid of the bottom-right menu ∞

2023-09-01 - Version 22H2 - OS Build 22621.2134 - Experience 1000.22659.1000.0

1. Click the Notification (speech balloon) icon at the bottom-left in the taskbar
2. (See the calendar and notifications)
3. It doesn't go away if you press escape, or click anywhere else. It's overtop of the icon, but clicking in that area won't make it go away.

4. Click somewhere within the calendar, and press escape.

Copy-paste does not work ∞

Possible solution: It's Claws Mail, exit it.

Possible solution: Quit out of web browsers which have media playing.

I've had this happen when waking up from sleep. I thought this might have been caused by ExplorerPatcher, but I had it uninstalled and had it happen when waking up from sleep.

I've had no success solving this intentionally; it just fixes itself over time.

• Try restarting explorer.
• Windows-x repeatedly might cause it to restart on it's ow

• Restarting the clipboard service didn't help.

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old notes:

After this update:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/march-14-2023-kb5023706-os-build-22621-1413-9d3f2de5-08e7-4462-8fba-d944201f4ae1

All sorts of things, and nothing works.

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Last updated 2023-09-29 at 14:54:12

Footnotes

1. An archived link so it's a stable page if/when another version of Windows is released. - [↩]
2. was https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/lifecycle/faq/windows - [↩]