Turns out it was suggested that I use PCMover, and for some reason I thought it was Microsoft, but it is in fact by laplink (but is 'recommended by Intel and Microsoft'). It sounds OK: https://go.laplink.com/product/pcmover-home
I only recently moved to Win 10 from Win 7 and that was definitely a downgrade, so I know what you mean ... Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Rony G. Flatscher [mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at] > Sent: 22 December 2024 21:13 > To: oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad creating a release of ooRexx > 5.1.0, please give feedback > > On 22.12.2024 18:16, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > >> [Actually, I am totally backlogged with different time-consuming > >> tasks, among them my new Windows 11 laptop that arrived late and > >> which needs to be installed with a wealth of software to > become able > >> again to build ooRexx. At the moment this important project is on > >> hold ... > > I thought Windows 11 from Windows 10 migration was supposed > to be as > > easy as Android .. i.e., just 'update', not 're-install everything'? > > Wish that were the case. Got a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows > 11 preinstalled. From starting up the machine for the first > time until I arrived at the state where I could start to > install software it took almost four hours: fetching > constantly updates, applying them, rebooting, a few times. > Microsoft forced me to create an account with Microsoft, > otherwise I could not get to use Windows 11 that I had > already bought with the laptop, talk about abusing power! > > The user interface has "blind" links to all of Microsoft's > Office modules pre-installed, including OneDrive, Co-Pilot > and the like. If you click e.g. on the Word link it appears > to get you to the open page, where you can choose a document > type then a dialog pops-up where you have to register in > order to really use it, and the registration would move you > to a monthly license fee plan it appears. No competitor of > Microsoft has the same ability (to put links to their > software on to the Windows interface and toolbar) thereby > pre-empting any competition by abusing their market power! > (No, I would not want any advertisements or software bundles > on an operating system, just the operating system to operate > the software.) > > As I do not want any license fee based PC software I looked > for the latest MS Office that is not license fee based. It is > rather hard to find, but since October there is a new one-time-fee > ("permanent") Office 2024 Pro PC. Researching a little bit I > finally got a version for € 29,99 which entitles me to > install it on three PCs (go figure if comparing to the > officially announced prices). > The site I found would have Windows 10 or Windows 11 for that > price, but also bundles with various MS Office suites for > that very same price. When installing MS Office 2024 one > needs to remove any traces of a prior installation of MS > Office or one of its modules. And interestingly, the blind > links are installed and need to be uninstalled. (At that > occasion I noticed that MS Edge seems to be uninstallable as > well which I contemplate as Windows 11 does not fully honor > my choice to use Firefox as the default browser.) Also it > seems that Microsoft used my newly created Microsoft account > without asking, thereby personalizing the Office product > without any need as the proof of ownership had been given > with presenting the acquired product key. Talk about breaking privacy! > > Doing a Shutdown (German "Herunterfahren") will not shut down > Windows 11 but put it into sleeping/hibernation mode without > telling you, so no reboot process when restarting. > Researching on the Internet yielded a solution: press the > shift-key while choosing "Shutdown", then it will shutdown > (the meaning of words does not mean anything anymore it seems). > > And on, and on, and on, a true time killer, not a > productivity tool anymore, I am afraid (not the least because > of the many changes in the user-interface that force you to > research on the Internet what to do in Windows 11 in order to > achieve what you have been doing for years if not decades on > all Windows versions in the past). > > An important productivity howto for Windows 11: just memorize > to use the <WindowsKey>+<R> to get a little input window to > enter a command like "cmd" and press <enter> to get a command > line window, if you need it with administrative rights you > need to do a <shift>+<enter> instead. There is no icon/link > anymore to allow you to open it directly in normal or > administrative mode. > > If you choose "Terminal" in the search window you will get by > default the quite human-unfriendly "PowerShell" command line > window (which very Windows-unlike does not search in the > current directory first and then on PATH, but sticks to the > original Unix rule to only use PATH for locating programs). > To escape from PowerShell into the classic command line > window one needs to enter the command "cmd". > > (If it was not for ooRexx- and BSF4ooRexx-projects I would > not use a Windows machine anymore, but rather a Linux or > Apple machine with open-source software.) > > > [Some annoyance here because none of family machines are > 'Windows 11 > > compatible' (they use the EU versions of Intel CPUs but the USA > > versions of the same model are supported) so in theory have > to replace > > all PCs and laptops at huge expense when current hardware is plenty > > fast enough...] > > > >> ... as I will be visiting my mother over Christmas and > possibly New Year. > > Have a good Xmas, and all the best for 2025! > > Thank you and also have a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025! > > ---rony > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
