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« on: Sunday 17 October 21 11:20 BST (UK) »
When I turned on my laptop this morning, Windows 11 had been installed. It is dreadful, all my icons had disappeared and when I put them back on my task bar and then clicked on, for instance, my Thunderbird email icon, I was asked to register, same with my Roboform password and my Legacy family tree. I tried opening Mozilla Firefox, same thing, please register and download. I was nearly in tears, everything had disappeared. I tried to find out how I could revert back to Windows 10 but it didn't seem possible. So I just shut down and restarted the laptop and by some miracle, everything is back to normal.
I looked up Windows 11 which is being rolled out on all compatible PCs (from last June apparently) and it seems they want it to be more like a Mac, easier for gamers, etc. but it's not easier for people who aren't gamers and have never used a Mac PC. As far as I was concerned, it was totally unintuitive, not surprisingly, everything was Windows based, so Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Store, etc. were on the taskbar, but everything I use like Word, Skype, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, even Windows media player had totally gone.
It seems after 2025, Microsoft will not support Windows 10 but, hopefully, by then they will have made Windows 11 more intuitive to use.
Anyone else had any problems, or was it only me?