Ojula Technology Innovations - Windows 11: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Windows

The Good, The Bad

& The Ugly

By

Ojula Technology Innovations

Windows 11: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

ISBN: 9791220846813

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Table of Contents

In this chapter Ill go first over the good features which are the major changes since the Windows 11 insider preview was released. This will be available as a free update to windows 10 users later this year, as long as you meet the system requirements. Now, these requirements could change as quite a few people have been upset about them, since they don't necessarily have all of these requirements but windows 10 runs just fine.

If you meet the below listed minimum requirements, you should be good to go:

• 1 GHZ or faster CPU, dual-core on a compatible 64-bit processor.
• 4GB Ram.
• 64GB storage.
• Motherboard with UEFI and Secure Boot. So, windows 11 cannot be installed on a PC with a legacy bios.
• DirectX 12 compatible graphics.
• TPM 2.0 support (TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module, a type of processor for preventing malicious attacks on your hardware and boot process).

Initially, Microsoft claimed that Windows 11 wouldnt work on a PC without a TPM 2.0 but it has now confirmed that you can upgrade to Windows 11 without needing TPM 2.0, and that the OS actually requires only the older, much more common TPM 1.2 module. Microsoft said however that without a TPM 2.0 module you won't be getting the latest security fixes for your brand-new operating system, so you could be opening yourself up to a lot of risk.

Now lets look at whats new in Windows 11 from the custom-built PC that I made.

The first feature thats obviously a good change in Windows 11 is the Start menu. Its now in the middle of the display.

Fig. 1.2.1: The start menu

It can be customized or changed back to the left-hand side if you prefer, but it works great if you have an ultra-wide monitor for example.

They've also added rounded edges to everything. So, if we click on the start menu, for example, you'll see the corners are rounded. There's also some nice sort of shadowing going on behind to give some depth.

Fig. 1.2.2: The Start menu, rounded corners, shadows and Power menu

This looks more like an Android app because we have pinned apps with some new icon designs as well. If you want to see all of your apps, just click on All apps. Then you can scroll through all of your apps alphabetically. There are no more live tiles.

You also have the power menu/button in the lower right corner where you can restart or shut down.

Now on the desktop you can see we have a nice background and some new themes which I'll show you in a moment.

Fig. 1.3.1: The Desktop showing a few icons

If you right click on one of the icons, such as Microsoft Teams which is also new and installed on every Windows 11 PC, you'll see they are updated just a little bit. We have Cut, Copy, Rename and Delete.

Fig. 1.3.2: The selection window for Microsoft Teams icon, showing the new Cut , Copy , Rename and Delete buttons

So, just like you would expect, the desktop hasn't changed much. It's just the visual overhaul.

The next icon (on the right of the Start menu shown in Fig. 1.2.1) is the Search. If you click on search, you'll see a search bar with Type here to search inside, as shown in Fig. 1.4.1.

Fig. 1.4.1: The Search box showing top apps, recent apps and quick searches

You will also see your Top apps, Recent and things like that. So, just like you would expect, these are your recent searches or things you've opened before. We also have the Control Panel. If you click it, youll see that all of the old ways to manage your Windows computer are still there. See Fig. 1.4.2.

Fig. 1.4.2: The Control Panel window

They're in the background running. If you want to change from small icons to category icons, for example, you can do that. Microsoft havent removed any of these yet. They're still there if you prefer that. But Microsoft have just visually overhauled everything to make it a little bit easier to use.

The next feature is the icon shown in Fig. 1.5.1. Its called the Multiple Desktops ( ). It looks like two gray squares. When you hover your mouse cursor over this icon (or if you use the shortcut Win + Tab ), it will display all your open programs and all virtual desktops you have created.

Fig. 1.5.1: The Multiple Desktops feature

If you click on the + sign inside the New desktop preview window ( ), you can create multiple desktops with different backgrounds, themes or different applications. You can close any one of these desktops out and switch between them very easily if you prefer to use your computer that way.

As you can see in Fig. 1.6.1, the next icon is Widgets (). Microsoft have brought widgets back to windows. Clicking the Widgets icon () opens a few widgets, such as Weather, Suggestions, Calendar and Esports (). We can customize the size of any of these widgets with small, medium or large (), or even remove them altogether.