@@olegyamleq7796 At this time another pane is planned on the right side but for some other functionality. I might add ability for users to choose what to show in each sidebar but I don't have a timeline for that yet
I upgraded to Windows 11 on my work laptop, and then spent the next 2 days fighting with the UI, including using some of the tools mentioned in this video. I got no work done during that time. In the end, I found the most effective tool for restoring productivity was to go back to Windows 10. I can't stand Apple as a company, but they do seem to have mastered the art of delivering a consistent UX across devices and OS versions. I think it mostly boils down to the fact that they don't see a need to completely change usability and design paradigms every time they change underwear. Why the hell can't Microsoft do the same? And to those who would say to use Linux, I quote Tom Scott: "No."
Yeah, at first I hate Win 10 Start and UI, now I already attached to it, and Microsoft change it again in Win11, what a joke I will Win11 but maybe later next year, there's no need to upgrade it at least for now.
I'll wait until I cant wait anymore to go to win11. I've set up my rig as I like with win10, I constantly keep update a usb key with a ninite installer, driver and whatever I deem essential and another with the files to reinstall win10. I've even managed to write myself a program to backup my firefox user folder every week on a third usb that's always connected. AND I have 3 hard disk: a ssd for the OS (250GB), an HDD for the programs folder (2TB) and a second HDD for the windows related folder (download, desktop, documents on a 1TB). No need to make an emergency backup (in wich you always forget to put something important) if I've to format the OS: just format the SSD, install win10, hook up the windows folders from the 2nd HDD, erase what you dont like/need from the fist and reinstall what you need. Couple of hours and the rig is ready to rumble again. Just pointing out this: you can choose in wich drive you can download the games from steam and most other launcher. It's a bit hidden and the load speed is lower, but it work. And it mean you dont have to redownload those 200GB/1TB in games. Of course, nowdays 2TB SSD are becoming cheaper so the load speed wont be a problem for much longer. This said, let's talk about linux: while linux is a GREAT so, fast, lightweight and absolutelly not hungry of resource, if you need a gaming rig linux isnt still there. While there are lotsa of compatible games, some of the best truth to be said, as soon as a game have an anticheat you are outta luck. Doom eternal fans can attest to that. So I get where do you come from.
linux is superior in every way, the only selling point of Windows is that its popular and has a lot of software written by it. Thats why I've always admired and liked Bil Gates, he managed to force a way inferior product onto the entire world. The man is a genious.
@@comradenoob8511 Betamax was technologically superior to VHS, yet VHS won the format war primarily due to ease-of-use (I can fit an entire sports program onto one tape) and eventually greater market penetration with more content. In the end, it's not whether a product is technically superior that determines its overall success - rather, it is that product's ability to fulfill a market demand and build a useful/desirable ecosystem around it that draws users. The best system in the world might as well be a rock if you can't do anything with it. Perfection is the enemy of "good enough." Linux has come a very long way, but it still suffers from a high barrier to entry in the form of both segmentation (too many distros and choices to be made just to get started), and information overload (you can customize everything, and pretty much everything needs to be customized). Not everybody wants to deal with all that knob twiddling and lever pulling on a regular basis...and unfortunately the average person couldn't give two shakes about open vs. closed source.
Linux today is as good desktop as windows or Os X! The main problem with Linux (in my case) lack of software! Hear me out... In my case i use LuminarAi and TopazAi photo programs and there is nothing for Linux even remotely as good as this software for Linux! But i really hop Linux get it so i can dump windows for ever
@plsdontbanmeagainyoulibtards, that username!😄Funny that when I worked for a local College about 10 yrs ago they were just upgrading most systems from Xp to W7 just as W10 was about to be released out despite W7 having been out for 7 yrs already. My fave OS was W7 Pro. What I'm puzzled by is that MS moved right along to "W11" which they're pushing everywhere when Gates had suggested W10 was going to be the final major version.
@@zenithperigee7442 I have no clue why they said Win 10 was going to be the last. Microsoft is a big company, they aren't going anywhere. Did they really think they wouldn't make an upgraded OS to push on everyone for the next century at the VERY least.
Underrated tool: Chris Titus' debloat script. You guys should really feature it (well ask him first maybe), because it's awesome and he's always working on it. Real gem.
Here's the best fix. Format the hard drive, remove partitions, install windows 10 Professional. During installation choose to turn off, well everything. Problem solved. No more bloatware that comes preinstalled with new computers, no more having to constantly change everything back to your own preferences, no more having to constantly download and install software to try and make 11 even usable. Common rule of thumb for Microsoft Windows since it was first released is when a new version comes out, wait a few years before going to it. This not only allows them to work out the eternal list of bugs (both hardware and software incompatibility), but also gives time for people to sue the crap out of Microsoft for all the things they put in it to spy on and collect data about you, and oh there's allot in every new release, and then be removed (or atleast in many options, a way to disable them).
Last week I finally went to linux, without any windows dual boot or vm. I somehow feel liberated and to my amazement games run great these days even with old hardware. Hell some games even run better. Not looking back 😊
Yea I usually align my taskbar to the left, but after a week the improved search functionality and smoothness of the UI made me completely for about it. No real issues. I actually hated tiles and doubt I'll even be using the new flyout apps very much either
@@23_yash_gaikwad59 I’m not sure I’ve heard that there are performance issues for AMD users, I think it might be fixed or in the progress of being fixed so just do some research
Elevenclock is a must have for multi-monitor users IMO. Essentially all it does is puts the clock in the corner of all taskbars like in Win10 instead of it only being on the main display.
I think you guys should include a how-to for setting up VMs on Win 11, mostly as a painless intro to Linux. I started using Linux during the the real final years of XP (Microsoft actually, mostly, stopped supporting it on April 9, 2019), starting off by testing out different distros as VMs running on Win 7 before committing to a full hardware install (and a role reversal of running Win 7 and Win XP as VMs running on Linux). By the time Win 10 was released, I regarded Windows as a legacy/special purpose OS and Win 11 does absolutely nothing to change this.
Love this type of video from you guys. I had no idea you could control external monitor brightness with PC software, that's sick! Downloaded Twinkle Tray to my laptop pronto and now I can dial in my brightness painlessly. Thanks so much!
I personally use ExplorerPatcher, which is a free Open-source project, for setting the taskbar icons to full size labels, remove Win11 simplified context menu, and more.
2:03 Being unable to move the taskbar is genuinely the top reason I've been avoiding Win 11 for as long as possible, it's a big accessibility issue for me on my monitor-tablet. Microsoft's insistence on an immovable taskbar in Win 11 would force me to position my hand awkwardly low on my desk to reach the bottom edge of the screen. Positioning the taskbar on the right side of the screen makes everything far more comfortable to access with the stylus in my right hand.
I'm currently still using Windows 10, but this was still helpful to me; I am now using Twinkle Tray. Changing the brightness from software without having to use the unintuititve physical buttons on my screen is something that I've always wanted.
One of the biggest things I miss from older versions of Windows is being able to drag a file over something in the taskbar and have it open the window.
I'm running both Linux and windows. Recently got Linux , its light , snappy and I'm overall happy. Not gonna throw windows though for gaming needs and just some other stuff. Otherwise good move..
This video is being added to my favourites for when I get a PC compatible with Windows 11 or my friends/family utterly despise one of the issues you just explained how to fix
I recomman Lively Wallpaper to the team, would make your pc look soo much better, like, no tasbar, animated background that you can customize... and stuff
When Windows 8 came out I started using a tip to just make a taskbar shortcut to a folder where I keep shortcuts to my most used programs. I was a big time Start Menu user up to 7 but gave up on it. Oddly, you have to pin a random program from the start menu to the taskbar then edit it to point to a folder. You can't drag anything to the taskbar anymore without a hack.
Controversial opinion (?): I think the centered Start Menu makes a lot of sense in a world with ultrawide monitors. It should be more customizable, though, for people without ultrawides.
@@9SMTM6 I've been noticing professionals that used to use multiple monitors are now switching to ultrawides in huge numbers, though that's definitely a niche. If I was in charge of the Windows UI team, I'd have several Start Menu options, one of which is to left-align the Start Menu, with windows populating the space to it's right (like normal), but to be able able to adjust the left margin. I use an ultrawide at work, and I don't particularly want the Start Menu to be in the center, but I also don't want it to be wayyyyyy over on the far left side of my monitor. I'd like it to be about 2/3rds to the left, to approximate where it would be if my monitor was a normal width.
I'm using "Classic Start" found on ninite for free and have replaced the stock windows icon with a spinning globe the covers the the standard, so when I click it or press the windows key, I get a windows 7 style start menu. If I hold down the shift key and click the globe or press the windows key, I get windows 11 start menu. I've chosen the left screen for the menus.
When you need to install extra third party app just to improve the UI and user experience in Windows 11. Well, I rather wait a couple of months until the OS matured & stable enough to upgrade, till then I stick to Windows 10
Guess I am weird. I just roll with the changes these days and don't rail against the change. Helps that the way I generally work in Windows is, press start, begin typing what I want and selecting what I want w/ mouse or keyboard. I don't need to care where the Start Menu sits and I have no issue with using Edge. Glad there are ways for people to get Windows 11 closer to what they want though, even if MS doesn't make it eay.
I love videos like this, worth saving in my favorites so when I eventually go Win11, I can make that crap less crappy. Even learned about a couple tools I didn't know existed and would be useful.
That was very helpful! I really liked the new look of Win 11, but after enjoying it for a few months I decided do go back and clean install Win 10 because some of my older programs (like scanner software) stopped working and I had a lot of issues with USB and bluetooth drivers suddenly missing, then reappear out of nowhere after few days, which honestly rendered my laptop useless.
I've been using Windows 11 for about a month now on my desktop, and while yes, it has typical microsofty annoyances, for me it's still a major step up from windows 10 in terms of UI. Everything just feels so much more satisfying to use. With Windows 10 I constantly felt like I was using a server OS, everything was built around function, with no thought given to form. I envied Mac users for how good macOS looked and felt to use. And now Windows 11 just looks much cleaner and updated to modern standards of design.
Ironically I felt the opposite. That Win10 was trying too hard to look pretty. But then again I turned windows Vista back to the classic theme to save on resources back on the day, even on a computer that could handle the theme easily.
The biggest issue is when old stuff doesn't work anymore. I'm willing to bet there's old good games that still don't work on 10, although in my case fortunately all the ones I care enough about have been updated.
I am surprised Powertoys is still a thing. The most helpful/useful set of utilities I used for 20 yrs! Definitely something MS would want to eliminate or charge a fee to use.
There are upsides to being able to choose your window manager. And if said window manager's developers work for a project that starts with "G" and ends with "NOME", you can easily switch to a different window manager that was forked from earlier versions. It's a bit ridiculous how people are forced to research and apply these workarounds with every major upgrade from Microsoft, especially since Windows 10 was supposed to be the last major release. Sure, there were applications like this as early as Windows XP, but they were mainly to add functionality, not to address things that Microsoft had made worse.
It would be interesting to see a poll of how many people actually appreciate major releases from Microsoft. It's always a fiasco, both at home and work. I've seen some offices absolutely crippled from the switch to Windows 8, and the battle continues. End user downtime is a thing that sadly isn't taken seriously, which is why Windows is still relevant. Most of the IT industry has gotten away from its server offerings years ago.
An OS is not a movie. It's not art. You don't need to "innovate it's design" or "subvert expectations". It's a technical tool that we use on an everyday basis. Which is why it needs to be intuitive, easy to work with and freaking simple. Windows 10 did this. It worked. So if you're gonna make a new OS then don't fix the things that ain't broken. Innovate by making it more efficient, faster, better performing, but for the love of god don't change the damn UI. But if you absolutely have to, then change the stuff people were complaining about. NOT THE STUFF NOBODY EVEN MENTIONED.
at the end the Desktop is less importent the only thing that matters is binary compat and the system api's so that kernel functions can be used in a efficent way. Windows 11 did a good job on that so credits for them i do not rate the desktop 50% of users are running fullscreen games the other part is using a fullscreen browser so :). If your only a browser user ChromeOS or ChromiumOS is what your looking for else go to Linux or Windows if your a coder for multiple platforms. When your also gaming a lot you will Prefer Windows as it is the best supported os by most game vendors.
I agree with you about games being supported most on windows, but as to your point about windows being not about the desktop and more about the kernel, not so much. Imo windows, if we forget about gaming, is only useful as an intuitive and user friendly way to get stuff done. It gets the job done, but not necessarily in the best way possible. Dont believe me? Check out all the system processes that need to run in the background and eat up your resources. Its reasons like that which make windows really only relevant because of its ease of use. This popularity in turn caused game developers to primarily make games for windows, which is why linux/macos are considered bad for gaming. If/when popularity shifts away from windows, then games will be made for the new operating system
And to be honest, Windows 11 is the FIRST WINDOWS version I am avoiding to upgrade the moment it came out. (I always been an Beta user of Windows (Or adopted early in case of XP, I think I even betad that one, cannot remember), Windows 11 was the first I avoided.) Not for the TPM 2.0 reason but for all the things they done. (Centered Bar, Non-alignable, even if I use standard pos, start menu, etcetra)
@@Ganerrr Not for me. I've taken more than enough time and distros and it still is incomparable to windows for a home pc. The worst part are the drivers, which is ridiculous because the whole OS was based on supporting a lot of hardware.
@@vigilante_stark Woah woah hold on mate, you don't wanna wake up the Linux diehards. Though for my use case Pop!_OS has been fairly good for home use.
Yep, got the notification to upgrade, that's a NO for me. No way I'm dealing with all the bugs and inconveniences that W11 brings. Maybe in a year or 2.
I love the "can't move taskbar around" feature of Windows 11. Thanks, M$. Been looking for this functionality for a while. This, along with making desktop context menu harder yet another click away from usefulness, as well as outright removing the taskbar's context menu, makes me sooooo happy.
@@Smaylik03 Not caring about IT doesnt make you stupid. Most people just need a computer to run basic programs. There are smarter people out there that doesn't care about IT
BTW, I wrote this comment when they said that even if you change your browser, some links will still open in Edge, which sounds just crazy to me and like Microsoft is just shoving their browser in your face without your consent
YES MAKE THIS A REGULAR THING. This is exactly what I need. All the power tools and quality of life tweaks and bits and things. This is my favorite LTT video of the year.
Get a better OS. Windows peaked over a decade ago with Windows 7 and has been on the decline ever since. I'm glad I've never had to experience MS trying to force Edge down my throat like that (I like Edge okay, but those shenanigans to change your default browser are messed TF up).
The only reason I decided to get startallback was to make the taskbar icons smaller. I hate the large icons and it baffles me that microsoft would go out of their way to remove such a simple feature.
Another channel seems to suggest you can adjust size by selecting, pressing control key and using scroll on mouse. I can't try it out as I don't have win 11 yet
@@RobBob555 yes, 60background tasks not running in the task manager and everything u search not going to microsoft totally makes linux unusable lmao, like just define how its unusable
@@RobBob555 Yeah, but deep down, we all know your mom raised you as son of a bitch. Linux is not a piece of shit if you treat it as another ecosystem rather than trying to bring already learned knowledge to Linux, only some of that applies everywhere. It is same thing as switching from windows to macOS, they are not the same so different work styles must be learned to use them effectively, same with Linux.
u mean software tech tips... does merit its own separate channel... linux, mac os, windows os, chrome os, android, android 12L, wear os, iot softwares... there are so many...
@@berto1014 By the time I watched they had put it into the video chapters, it's MSEdgeRedirect apparently. Chapter title is now "EdgeDeflector (RIP - Use MSEdgeRedirect)"
Yeah, this highlights a fairly major problem not really emphasized in the video, and applies to all those people who say "you can just use program X to fix that, it's no big deal" every time MS decides to shaft us. All those programs can break at any time, any time MS decides to change something, and each time there's no guarantee there will be a fix. I wish people would stop giving MS an easy ride with the excuse that you can "fix" something with 3rd party software, it's not a stable solution, it might not be performant, and they can break other features as well.
Use MSEdgeRedirect. But yeah it is so much crap and screams antitrust how intensely MS is again forcing their own webbrowser down the users throats. Even worse than back in the IE days.
Yeah recently they did, and no response yet about that. Though new Edge is indeed better and more people actually liking it, I don't know why they need this tactic anyway. Some people will just keep using alternative Web browser regardless how good Edge already is.
@@chrisw1462 Why not just use windows 10 then? Because a Windows 10 VM still needs Windows 10 to run funny enough, a Linux VM for Windows 10 is just Windows 10 with extra steps... If you also want linux, dual boot, it's much less effort, and gives the best of both worlds
Moment I saw this I grabbed my laptop and did most of these tweaks because they are exactly what I needed. Amazing as always Anthony, never fail to deliver.
@@dbunik44 Yes and for my purposes of having a struggle free gaming experience it's just not for me but I probably wouldn't mind using it if I just used it for general use of watching RU-vid videos or something but I do a tonnnnnn of gaming on my computer and having basically a plug and play experience with Windows 10 is nice where as with Linux for basically anything outside of Steam it's a bit of a struggle.
Would love for you guys to do more software stuff like this, maybe even going deeper in detail about some specific ones and comparisons of features like you did with StartAllBack vs Start11 here. Tons of good tools out there and always some neat ways to improve or change your workflow. A few I use: ShareX, Bulk Rename Utility, Mp3tag, Unlocker, Process Explorer, and plenty more.
yeah this kind of tool is so simple to use that a mild techie can properly utilize it but it's so "obscure" because no one ever advertise for it except for productivity tips video having a big youtube show how easy it is to use and how useful it is, even if you're using it once per 2 months or smth probably will bring a lot more eyeball to the software, and hopefully, also interested developer
So excited to switch to Winodws 11 in like 2023 with fully-developed, tested and stable tools to fix all its nonsense. Without all the nonsense it seems like a pretty good OS. Curse of every second Microsoft being bad broken?
I’m crossing my fingers that by 2025 Linux will have caught up for gaming. They have come a long way the last 5 years so maybe in another 5 it will be better than windows?
So basically Windows 11 is so borked that you have to go to Linux levels of personalization just to make it usable? Why don't we all just jump ship to Linux at this point?
It is going to be broken with optional update releasing next week. Someone developed another utility now that should work. Sorry I don't remember the name.
@@xenon7124 bro you've got your os families mixed up: windows is by far the most targeted system by malware and that's not getting into the malware that comes with it, while linux makes you actually input your user password for important things
I remember being excited for the windows 10 release and upgrading from 7. But now I give no shits about 11 and don't ever want to use it. Which lucky for me none of my computers even support it so they won't just force it on me unexpectedly.
I should disable my TPM module so my only PC that currently supports it doesn't. Why did they make Windows look more like ugly iOS? You couldn't pay me to upgrade right now, I'll use Win10 to EOL at this rate and then switch to Linux.
@@Commander_ZiN the worst thing is they copied the worst feature from macos, rounded corners. It's so useless. Thankfully I dual boot windows 10 with Linux even if it's not a full replacement most stuff works on par or better on Linux. One big thing that doesn't is hardware video decoding in browsers.
yep. To me it seems like windows 11 has a few minor productivity features vs hundreds of steps backwards from windows 10. I might upgrade to 11 if they ever fix any of these issues, but it's more likely that i'll just move to Linux once it's more compatible with everything.
Hey Anthony, just want to say that the work you've put in to hosting these films really shows! And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thinks that. Listen up, Linus, the world wants more Anthony (and he wants a payrise 😀 )
The biggest thing for me is SO minor: You can't by default have a centered taskbar, but left-aligned start menu. It's annoying as hell, because UI wise, the start button being the bottom-left corner is IMPORTANT. That effectively makes the start button infinitely large, as no matter how far you drag to the bottom and left, you will reach it. You can slam your cursor into the corner as hard as you like and it will hover over the Start Button. And visually, the centered task bar looks really sleek. So it's would just be logical to let me pick and choose.
Jup. My though exactly once I saw that horrible design. Yeah, by all means, the app icons being centered makes sense, but why, oh why, did you steal my edge start button? I guess I use the windows key most of the time anyways, but it's still a real fail in UX design.
@@TalesOfWar I found that feature to be one of the most obnoxious UX design in history. You already have a bar, that top bar to reach specific window settings just trashes your productivity...
You had me at separating the internet from the volume icons, and giving me the full right click menu by default. I'm fine with virtually everything else.
I updated to 11 a few hours ago and I am going to fix them by rolling back to 10 🤣😂 The new start is nice if you are on a tablet or something but for a desktop, it just sucks to do anything with it. I had games in one place, editing tools in onother, work stuff separate, now it's just an endless scrolling icon list. So yes, roll back... EDIT: it only took 4 minutes for the roll back...
Please make this into a monthly/bimonthly segment. I've been holding off on win11 but if I can get kept up to date on this kind of thing I'll switch eventually
It’s worth mentioning explorer patcher which lets you make your taskbar and start menu look exactly like windows 10 again, for free. It also has a lot of other tweaks like degrouping the control center and setting the volume, battery, etc flyouts to the windows 10 or windows 7 ones
Elevenclock is a must have for multi-monitor users IMO. Essentially all it does is puts the clock in the corner of all taskbars like in Win10 instead of it only being on the main display.
Gaming on the primary monitor with no quick access to a clock can lead to a lack of sleep ^^'. I found that one too and it's baffling that Microsoft thought it was a good idea to not allow that
I've tried it all. There is NO way to simply drag and drop the taskbar to your second monitor, like in windows 10. The only way you can get the taskbar to the secondary monitor is by making it the default display, which is the one thing I DON'T want to do. As a RU-vidr, I'd like to screen capture the main display WITHOUT the taskbar! It was so nice to be able to just drag and drop it on the second display in windows 10. This is simply IMPOSSIBLE in Windows 11.....
@@justinandout it was considered the most stable / user friendly (as in games ran and everything) after sp2, i changed from win2k as many others after sp2. so its not wrong that xp was one of the (if not the) most liked windows to date. more than win7 imo.
@@bencze465 right, "after SP2", but we're talking about launch - and everyone hated XP when it launched - colorful rounded mess if compared to 98/2000. What I'm saying - is nothing is new here - ppl. tend to hate every new version of windows, just to praise it as being "the best version" several years later ;)
@@justinandout You could switch to the classic theme in 2 clicks. And also, I just went back to look at it, and I have to say, Its nowhere as obnoxious as Windows 11 with its floating start menu.
"Microsoft isn’t a good steward of the Windows operating system. They’re prioritizing ads, bundleware, and service subscriptions over their users’ productivity." -Daniel Aleksandersen [EdgeDeflector developer]
"I can think for myself so I quote someone who I respect and always agree with." - R.Vincent A. Seriously, Edge is fine, Windows 11 is fine and as you can see you have options to change these things so productivity is not affected if for some reason your organization uses only Firefox. The developer just likes whining.
literally when i heard "5% performance increase" and rounded windows i upgraded. Took literally about 8 hours of screwing around to get all my mods in order, im planning to switch to Linux here soon as windows is scum
Careful though, it's super easy to put 8 hours or many more into your Linux installation until you get it how you want it to be. But the beauty is that there is a way for everything on Linux, just depends on your commitment.
@@maximmk6446 I've been on linux full-time since around Feb 2020. It's amazing as long as you don't need EAC for any of your games and don't need any windows-only software.
