[Still Thinking]

Perhaps I judged him too harshly. Course, there is still the liking W11 thing! 😄

[Paul R.]

I didn’t say I “liked” Win 11 Pro, I simply said the transition to it from Win 10 Pro was relatively easy for me. And at least it’s not the Win 7 to Win 8 disaster.

11 does seem to be a memory hog just to run the OS. How it is about memory leaks and huge accumulations of un-necessary log files and such, I shall see, I guess. Win 7, which I mostly am ok with and am working from right now, is pretty bad about such things.

“Mostly”. In SOME ways I still prefer XP... :-)

[daniel1212]

. Course, there is still the liking W11 thing

Well, as with W/10, there are improvements, but also safe freeware to make it more like W/7, via ExplorerPatcher) and thus 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and Open-Shell-Menu. Etc.

download Open Shell (click on Releases>Latest on middle right side) to replace the mobile device W/11 start menu, and there is Explorer Patcher that restores the Windows 11 taskbar to be exactly like Windows 10, while Windows 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (I am using the beta ver.) provides more customization.
Then there are the over 200 tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 and now there is Ultimate Windows Tweaker 5 for Windows 11 from the Windows club.

Add to this the many Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker

Add to this is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus),

W/11 Default Start menu>All apps

Versus OpenShell W/11:

Right Click Extender (some additions):

7+Taskbar Tweaker (stacks open pages from same source, etc.):

Device manager still the same (good!):