The feature I hate the most in Windows 11 is its truncated context menu. There’s no explanation for why Microsoft would take these options away other than just to make sure that Windows 11 looks different than 10. While this doesn’t bother me as much as it does others, it’s annoying that you can’t ungroup your taskbar icons, resize the taskbar or move it to the top or side of the screen like you can in prior versions of Windows. When I measured on my computer at 1080p resolution, the Windows 11 Start menu was 642 x 725, sitting above a taskbar that was 50 pixels tall with another 13 pixels of blank space between the taskbar and the Start Menu. ![]() The problems begin with the Start menu, which seems to be screaming “look at me” in Windows 11, while taking user efficiency away. I also can’t find a single, must-have feature in Windows 11 that I don’t have in Windows 10. However, I just like using Windows 10 better than Windows 11, because the latter’s interface is less information dense, wastes a lot of screen real estate, and makes me click more to perform some of the same tasks. And I like spending time with both operating systems on a regular basis so that, when I write a tutorial, it’s easy to check whether the instructions work the same way on both platforms. I should note that I run Windows 11 on my laptop, which I use as my primary computer several days a week. Why I Haven’t Upgraded to Windows 11Īs the editor-in-chief of a technology publication, I usually like to run the latest and greatest software, but I have several reasons why I still have Windows 10 on my desktop workstation. I haven’t gotten a Windows 11 upgrade nag notification since doing this change, but it’s too early to tell if it works for sure. I then created a String Value called TargetReleaseVersionInfo and set it to 22H2. Then I created a DWORD (32-bit) value called TargetReleaseVersion and set it to 1. I navigated to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate. ![]() I have Windows 10 Home so I tried doing this in the registry editor. If you’re on Windows 10 Professional, you can use the group policy editor to set 22H2, the most recent and likely final Windows 10 version, as the Target Release Version. On the bright side, there are some hacks that allow you to – hopefully – make the Windows 11 upgrade nags go away. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) How to Block Windows 11 Upgrade Nags (We Hope)
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