Fix Your Windows 11 User Experience
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- If you’ve recently installed Windows 11, chances are that you found some of the changes off-putting. In this video I show you a number of settings tweaks that might make things a bit better, as well as a paid third party solution that fixes pretty much all of Windows 11’s burning UX issues.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Move the Start menu
2:17 Add links to Start
3:10 Remove the Widget button
4:10 Remove personalized ads
5:37 Remove File Explorer ads
6:23 Limitations
6:39 About Registry edits
7:24 Start All Back
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The number of times I've heard W11 users waiting for and hacking things to get back features I still have in W10 is hilarious. I still haven't figured out why I would upgrade just for a centered taskbar, neutered start menu, and rounded edge windows. It was a relief when the upgrade tool told my I couldn't upgrade my three year old computer.
I find it hilarious people fight with their computers running Windows. Meanwhile, I am using Linux peacefully.
@@dreaper5813 same here brother, never even used windows aside from VMs and I’m happy
@@excalligator5529 Yes. And keep those VMs offline. Just like isolating malware. I use a lite mod of Windows too with all the BS removed. It is known as Phoenix Lite OS. I use that should I by some miracle need Windows. That is next to never. But when I do, I use that mod in a VM with GPU pass through configured. And for extra measure, keep the VM offline so that I maintain complete control. All on top of my Linux system.
To me, that is the only way to use Windows and have actual control over the OS.
Windows 11 is a lot more than a centred taskbar tho. Yes, some features are still missing, but nothing too bad.
Personally, I use both a Windows 10 and a Windows 11 machine, but to be completely honest, I prefer using windows 11.
It looks way nicer, and after using it for a while I have gotten quite used to it. Small stuff like tabs in file explorer is honestly quite useful.
The fact that you can adjust it even more with these "hacks" just makes the experience even better.
@@temanor Windows and its hassles from MS aren't worth it today.
What it needs:
-show seconds in clock without third party app
-tray icons on all monitors
-direct links to specific pages in settings like in win 10
@@Mario583a in win 10 we had the option to do both, so why take away functionality?
What are you doing that requires you to know the exact second?
@@nickye2864 Yes, well do you care about performance? they also removed acrylic, and replaced it with mica (which is much more performant).
@@AMZG I just tested it and got the similar variation between same setup results as with seconds on or off
@@nickye2864 I'm not following. On windows 11 did you install something to show seconds?
For me, the Windows 10 start menu just looks so much better with its dynamic tiles, compared to Windows 11.
Ironic, considering the tiles were hated so much in the beginning (and deservedly in Win8). But they seem kinda nice and much more flexible than this MacOS inspired rigid structure of the Win11 Startmenu
Ehh many people could care less about the dynamic tiles, I just want my win10 apps list and options.
If you give toggle give whatever features you offer lol
Especially if you want something looking clean like Win10 LTSC you're stuck with a huge amount of empty space now...
I like tiles too, I'm gonna miss them when I upgrade to W11
There is something wrong with putting the start button in the center for non 100% touchscreen users. Putting it in the corner makes the button 1000x bigger because you can just blindly move your mouse there. Same with the minimize everything button on the bottom right.
Plus years of muscle memory from using previous version of windows. Putting it in the corner just feel right
Its still bad in win11 because of the rounded corners, the start won't see the click on the square cornered screen.
I think centered start menu also useful for multi display
Press the super key😊
I never understand putting the dock at the bottom. Putting it at the top left is way more convenient because that is where your pointer naturally sits most of the time.
StartAllBack is worth it for the price they ask considering the customization they offer. I really couldn't get used to right-clicking the start button to access task manager, and you can center your apps icon while still having the start menu on the left too which I really like the aesthetics of. I've been using it for a while now, even before I switched to win 11, they offered upgrade from StartIsBack which is for win 10.
Why didn't you go into the File Explorer under the Windows Folder and pin the Task Manager?
Task Manager is back in the taskbar right-click.
I just pinned task manager to the taskbar
Or instead of paying money for third party software JUST to get back simple functionality microshit should have never removed....
Nuke winturd and install Linux Mint Cinnamon. The end
ctrl+shift+esc
@@madworgen4766 Yeap...has been a direct shortcut for Task Manager since the xp days
You are the greatest. The personalization and with that start back program is the great. This has been the best 5 dollars I've ever spent and you can customize so much and make windows what it used to be.Thank you again.
Pay $5 to get my desired experience in win11... that may actually be worth it, but still ridiculous that its not already in win11 by default.
It's actually kinda tempting to move to 11 just knowing that this is possible, but come on Microsoft you are so close.
Pst StartAllBack is an unlimited free trial
I love the style of these videos. And always straight to the point. Also funny. Truly an awesome channel.
Windows 11 cannot be fixed with tweaks, it needs to be fixed by Microsoft itself.
Startallback
@@Lusc1nt paid program,plus i can get decent results with just open shell(unsure how well it works on 11 but it works great on 10),custom start button,taskbar texture,and stuff like that,if you want you can make your own skins if you don't necessairly like the ones provided from the getgo.
This tutorial is amazing and you are really good at teaching !! great job sir !
2:10 Imagine placing the start menu left on an Ultra-Wide display
Great video!
Btw, what keyboard is that?
Start11 is also a very nice tool for the taskbard and startmenu when you like the boxes from windows 10
I'm _this_ close to switching to Linux. Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the user experience progressively worse with each OS update.
Game compatibility has been getting impressive on Linux, and I'll probably switch to it once it gets to Windows level
Haha I just noticed that I'm so early that the only video quality available is 360p
I'm moving over to some sort of Linux distro whenever my win10 kicks the can. I ain't moving to win11 for my personal rig. Sadly I do have to use 11 for work :v
I'd recomend you to dual boot Linux already, and use it for those times you don't need windows. Just so you don't have to learn everything at once
Linux in great until you have to do something incredibly advanced such as... connecting to a proxy
@@RustyNova My understanding is TPM 2.0 makes it difficult to dual boot with W11 & Linux. This is probably why M$ is using TPM 2.0 in the first place. TPM 2.0 is a major threat to privacy because it specifically identifies your computer with the onboard unique keys.
I wish they would let us have a web-context menu like in maya, ideally customizeable
the biggest turn off for me is the locked taskbar... I'm used to put it on the side of my 2nd screen, since windows XP!
I did not know about ads on file explorer until now, and I'm happy I dont have to experience them.
Using Linux?
Every time I watch a video about Windows 11, it just makes MacOS much more attactive for me.
Someone even skinned win11 with the Mac UI
I feel MacOS is a race to the bottom compared to OS 10.8.5 and I am no fan of Win 11 UI either. Shame two once great operating systems are devolving to cater to the lowest common denominator - but hey! New Emojis!
Thanks buddy... Take love❤️
I'm gonna move to win11 after i don't have to do any registry editing to have things the way i like it. Not because i don't know how to edit the registry but because if i need to fight the os that much, it's not for me.
Taking away moving the taskbar wherever i want it is such an insane thing to do. Like Apple designed 11.
Or, just forget Windows and start using Linux. lol
Explorer Patcher for windows 11 its the best free option it works like startallback essentially.
I have a problem with the audio bar! if it could be changed to the previous location now it is in the center of action in addition it lags sometimes and takes a while before disappearing!
Cool vidz dawg... Do you have one with an updog... Would be helpful... Gruß
Stardock Start11 is great for Windows 11 customization and even works on Windows 10! Still has a 5.99 price tag tho.
I did all of when I got Windows 11 when it came out lol. I have no weather widgest dont use em i toggled everything off and no visual effects for max performancxe and all security settings off and stuff. replaced chat with dicord and edge with chrome etc
I like the menu in the middle but ironically I now use the Windows key instead. With the menu in the center it is closer to my mouse cursor when it comes up which is great. More MAC like and a good change.
The worst problem I've had in Windows 11 so far is that Bluetooth audio volume is not always unified with the volume of my computer. It has started working recently, but only sometimes, and this is after months of it not working at all.
Nice video. I don't have tips but I am looking for a solution. Did anyone find a way to turn on the seconds in the W11 clock?
The one thing i would really like is to get the calendar widget back in the bottom right. Is that at all possible??
Very interesting concept.
I just use ThisIsWin11 to ease the process. It neatly compiles many settings/tweaks in one place and helps debloat, disable, and remove unwanted nonsense. Especially useful for removing telemetry and irremovable junk.
My kid made fun of me because I was still running windows 10. I knew of the limitations before I did it but he convinced me of performance gains by upgrading. Thankfully I'm still in the trial period because I haven't noticed any improvements.
Really tiny one. But if you have multiple monitors. The time and date will only show up on 1 of your displays. Elevenclock adds the time and date to all other monitors too, complete with full functionality for sound and stuff. Really handy if you like gaming on your primary monitor on fullscreen. But still want to be able to see the time. And it's free :)
A long while ago Windows 11 got an update to bring that back by itself
Startallback completly crashed when updating to 22h2. Waiting for an update. But i do recommande it
Need the apps icons on the center, just the start button on the left.
Start11 from Stardock Software can do that. It's the same price as StartAllBack and includes the same features along with some extra ones.
5:49 What keyboard is that?
Seeing your name in MS account reminds me of a balkan name, if you are alright to say it, in which country do you live?
What's annoying is that if you have a touchscreen, and you swipe in from the left, It opens the Widgets panel, regardless of whether the button is enabled in the taskbar. On Windows 10, it would open the Action Center, which I preferred, and still do (my Windows key just doesn't work anymore)
Thank you
My Folders section in My PC are not showing for some reason. any fix for that?
In windows 10 shutdown button was directly above start button in start menu but in Windows 11 we find account button directly above start button and shutdown button on the other side which doesn't make sense
Bloody hell, it really is just like what my brother said... _it's just Windows 10 with extra steps..._
_It makes me so glad I switched to Linux..._ 😹
Window Start Menu on side is much easier to go to, one case is its on the corner so just flick the mouse to that corner and there you go, unlike on center, hmm okay now I have to target it like an opponent on a fps game
I love how windows users complain about macOS and windows is quickly starting to look more and more like macOS. I use Mac most of the time but I do also use windows and used windows most of my life only started using Mac a 2 years ago. Im not complaining I’ve always thought that macOS looked better than windows.
I've been trying but I just can't get used to having the taskbar centered.
I’m not using Windows anymore, but I shared this video with my partner as I think it’ll be useful to a windows user. Some of these changes I understand the reasoning behind, but the widgets in their current state are so unnecessary I think. They could be useful if people were given the opportunity to fill the side panel with a feed (RSS or something) with content they like. For example, I would add news sites, but not about celebrities and other meaningless stuff to me.
Tell your partner to drop Windows. lol
About the task bar and start menu. There is a good reason to put it in the corner. Buttons in th corners of the screen from the ui/ux perspective are infinitely big. If you push your mouse down and left it WILL hit the start button just like doing the opposite will close any maximized window. Corners are GOD in UI design for that reason. I have no idea what absolute idiocy possessed Microsoft to make center bottom the default
Center bottom is ideal for ultrawide monitors & AR headsets.
I fixed my "Windows 11 user Experience" by making an "Tiny11" iso image with a github script. That fixed everything...expect the UI. But there is a solution for that called "Explorer Patcher". Yup.
It gets the job done pretty good actually.
It's okay to have the icons in the center of the task for but the start menu yeah no thank you also isn't that how Mac does it? They don't have a start menu as far as I'm aware.
is better if Microsoft has a setup part where the user Picks what they want
Mac OS like
WIndows 10
or the new menu
I feel like if they move it up right is look like Apple verson of slide down
Linux has been touching windows 11 new disign before it gets to other who willing to pay for an KEY
Oversimplified icons is the most frustrating thing. And it doesn't matter what I do, Windows 11 doubles the watts. Windows 10 needs half the power, so I will just stick to 10. I wish we had an evolution of 7 and not 8 today. 11 just makes the same mistakes. Getting annoying. Oversimplifying and make it much worse. Doing something new and just f*ck up. Designers today are just idiots. The Xbox Dashboard isn't much better. But that started with the last 2 updates of the 360 Dashboard. Flat, boring, not good to see where I actually want to navigate to, it's just stupid. But I see why they want to stick with the Win10 Dashboard, 11 would just f*ck up even more, that flat oversimplified Design would be even much worse than it is now.
And there is one more: the buttons in 11 are not sharp enough if scaled. It was good before, now they don't use proper graphics or vector or whatever it was anymore.
Context menu is the only thing preventing me from upgrading to w11
Nothing like "StartAllBack". Even the price... Worth every penny
2:15 this solution is NOT simple because w10 had the option to put the panel at any side of the screen. so the problem isn't about left vs center, it's much deeper.
I don't see myself upgrading to W11 in a couple of years or more. With the utilities and tweaks that are available, I could replicate W11 features that I like on W10. If I ever get a new PC with W11 preinstalled, I'm "downgrading" it to W10, lol.
ExplorerPatcher by Valinet Solutions SRL is a great free third-party option to fix or customize Windows 11's crippled functionality.
Open Shell still works for Win 11
4:08 the bug of tooltip everywhere is still not fixed somehow. Look you have the "Realtek Audio" in start button. lmao
I reccomend explorer patcher, does the job pretty well and for free
I personally use a program called start 11 to change the start menu and taskbar.
Lol I really needed this vid
Windows 11 as a whole is a test build, it's not meant for using on a regular machine..i hate the new Microsoft strategy of making things worse.
In windows 11 my wifi drivers were not showing up so the icon to turn wifi on disappeared
This happen to me with windows 10
@@near5148 How did you fix it
What Wifi card you got? Try reinstalling the driver.
It's fixed
Step 1 open cmd as administrator
Step 2 type Ipconfig /flushdns **press enter**
Step 3 type netsh winsock reset **press enter**
Step 4 restart computer
It's done
is the native android emulation fixed yet? and when i mean fixed, fixed as in running proper games instead of shitty tiktik
It's just an Emulator. It can run any APK you give it. The only downside is the trash amazon AppStore. I downloaded all my apps through apks.
Why pay for StartAllBack when you can use ExplorerPatcher for free which does the exact same thing?
Because some people, including myself, have money to support developers
5:37 File explorer ads were never added to Windows 11.
let be honest, where is new tab (+) in file explorer? 😄
Every windows upgrade is in actuality a downgrade,
I installed Linux KDE PLASMA a week ago and I was mind-blown how esthetically pleasing and how lightweight and fast it is !!
what benefit you gain from switching to w11?
Nothing for the moment, security updates continuing after 2025
Mobile apps
Literally nothing. It sucks. Better off using Linux.
The amount of hate towards Windows 11 are wild. For my own experience using Windows 11 21H2 & 22H2, i didn't have any issues that annoys me so far, i even using unsupported hardware. I believe most of people will start loving Windows 11 a year from now, mark my words!
I would guess "sync provider notifications" were intended for things like "your backups are out of date", not "buy our new software."
O&O's ShutUp10 can do these too!
edit: about controlling your privacy
Koja razlika :D
i put windows 11 on my gaming PC and it feels like a budget version of my MacBook
which is strange cause my PC cost more than my MacBook, and I still use the MacBook for everything that isn't gaming
here before youtube hd processing
Watching this video made me glad I didn't upgrade. The ads alone are enough to get me to stick to w10.
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didnt even mention explorerpatcher...
I finally cracked and got so annoyed with Windows 11 start menu I paid for start11 , miles better
See? MS is making you pay for their mistakes. Man... Just use Linux.
@@dreaper5813 i would say,dualboot 10 with a linux distro of your choice.
@@Damian-cilr1 Nah. I'm past dual booting. Haven't done that in like 5 years.
I walked up to my Win 10 machine after a few days of non-use, and found it updating the BIOS! Before, I had successfully declined the Windows 11 upgrade 'suggestions' and thought I was safe. I most certainly did not ask for an upgrade and I rarely use this machine. (I live alone) After many minutes of "do not turn off the PC" messages, I was disoriented, eventually finding I had Windows 11. This was a forced upgrade without my permission and I'm very angry about it. This is why my important machines will NEVER see the Internet. I spend a lot of precious time getting my computers the way I want them to work and don't want some remote, unprincipled jerk making unwelcome changes.
if you search nasa dart space it will create a animation
Having buttons on screen corners/edges
makes them faster to click
according to Fitts's law
basically it says
the more travel you gotta do, the slower the action is going to take
the bigger the targeted object area is (the less accurate you need to be), the faster the action is going to take
and putting them on edges, gives them infinitely large area in 1 dimension
and putting them in corners gives them infinitely large area in 2D
at least that's with cursor interface
@@VaclavNemec70 Do you have an ultrawide monitor?
why is it on by default
I don't think more than 50% of the users have ultra wide monitor...
I fixed my Wibdows 11 User Experience by reinstalling Windows 10.
PS: Please do not advise me to use Linux. I don't use Linux since it doesn't have everything I need. I use my computer for more than just surfing the web and watching movies. Please, God, help Linux users understand that everyone is not the same as them.
Or, you could fix Windows entirely, by wiping it from the drive and installing Linux.
@@dreaper5813 I had previously tried several distros, but none of them worked for me. No MS Office, no printer connection, no better GPU drivers, no gaming. Linux is not for me; I only use it as a server operating system because that is all Linux is good at. Linux has not yet evolved to work with humans. Maybe in 100 more years. Will see.
@@smith4591 Or, maybe this a limitation of the end user not willing to adapt. There are nicer options than MS office (not just libre office) for Linux. Seriously, MS office is such old news. And for the GPU, if it is Nvidia, drop it. Go AMD or Intel.
All I see is you making excuses. Because if my drunken sister can use something like Zorin, anyone can use Linux pretty much.
@@dreaper5813 "get rid of your NVIDIA gpu so you can install linux" lmfaooo
@@PaledMoment You can still install Linux with a Nvidia GPU. Just saying that Nvidia sucks with Linux due to their suck support for Linux. I was glad I got rid of my Nvidia GPU for all the hassles it gave me. I went with AMD and I have been very happy with it.
Windows 11 is like as if it is specifically designed to troll its users! You had one job MS!
@@dreaper2087 My older computer had Debian :) Almost 5 years!
@@dreaper2087 Windows 11
@@dreaper2087 The moment its warranty ends!
@@dreaper2087 I'll give old one to my mum, :D
I already did.. I installed Fedora.
I honestly have not been given a single reason to upgrade from Vista to be honest. Windows 7 brought things to the table I didn't really need/care for, and not much has changed since then. Only for the worse, in my opinion.
@@dreaper2087 No, I'm really better using Vista. It's the best setup for me, I'm more familiar with it. I don't have the time/patience to relearn an operating system, and on top of that I can somehow install extended security updates for Server 2008 SP2 on my Vista install.
@@dreaper2087 So we're resorting to bashing people's preferences? Who cares if it's not supported? You know what's not supported? Linux in a wide variety of applications. I'm not lazy, I just simply prefer Vista more than I ever would Linux. I don't care if Vista is no longer officially supported, with extended kernel and extended security updates, I get more use out of it than 7 does to this day. Vista simply works for me, and I'm happy with that. If Linux works for you, that's great too. I'm not going to bash/attack what you think because it works for you.
P.S. Unsupported operating systems don't just connect to the internet and download viruses on start up...at the end of the day, the best security is knowledge and I DO happen to know what I'm doing when it comes to using computers. Several anti-viruses still work too, and even if you check the Microsoft Knowledge Base for their extended security updates, the security flaws outlined in the updates are either none at all, or VERY specific scenarios in workstations that just don't apply to me. So even if I was left "unsecure," it's not like the current security updates do much good for me anyway because they don't amount in terms of serious security flaws.
I'm mildly terrified Microsoft will offer the Start All Back dude a shit ton of coin for his IP, then quietly blow it up :/
In ThinkPad setting open by pressing F8 key....
😂👋
Fin.
Windows 11 login password is not showing so I can’t enter windows 11 sucks full of bugs and can’t update hewlett packard usb,install error and always I have to reinstall to fix bugs windows 11 sucks
360p
too many steps for simple tasks
Windows 12 is slated to be released in the year 2025?
Wait this isn't a google easter egg video
Hmmmmm?!
Another Windows 8 type release, I guess that means 12 will be generally better accepted.
Install rectify 11
Here's the thing though: The Windows license is *not* cheap - If I have to resort to third party tools just to get basic start menu functionality back, then what exactly am I paying for? a downgrade?
Start all back is free now (:
o hell no just looking at windoze11 it's like vista Me and 8.0 all over again.
windows 11 made me switch to opensuse linux
Yes. Windows Eleven is making a lot of people switch. How is your experience with opensuse?
@@dreaper5813 pretty good, got used to the zypper package manager
@@birunicorp Nice. :)