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Windows 11 Windows 10 to windows 11 ?

Windows 10 to 11 update was a lot of fun at work :laughing:

Took out outlook on 4 of the 10 computers and had to be rolled back.

Still on Windows 10 at home.
 
I was very anti Apple until I moved to using Macbooks. I only use Windows on my Gaming PC now (Win 11)

I currently have a Macbook Air M1 from 2020 - it's still as fast as the day I bought it and the battery lasts over 8 hours between charges. Any Windows laptop I've owned is slow and sluggish after 3/4 years and battery gives you an hour if you are lucky. They generally need replacing after 5/6 years. My Macbook just works with no issues and I feel I'll easily get another 2/3 years out of it. Price/performance the Macbook wins hands down.

FYI - for anyone comparing cost. Buy a Macbook Air from Costco during black Friday deals for around £750, awesome value for a machine that will last you 10 years.
 
I've just installed Windows 11 on my main PC and removed virtually everything with WinHance and it's running great!
As previously mentioned, use Rufus to create an installation USB stick and it will give the option to skip all of the microsoft hardware checks.

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Willo3092 said:
I've just installed Windows 11 on my main PC and removed virtually everything with WinHance and it's running great!
As previously mentioned, use Rufus to create an installation USB stick and it will give the option to skip all of the microsoft hardware checks.

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Yes good tool I did try it but still went back to windows 10.
 
Zigza said:
Hi, I am doing a clean install of windows 11 pro and once done, I want to clone my system drive.


I was looking for Acronis true image 2025, any ideas where to get?


Thanks
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Not sure about the whole drive, but you can create a System Image with Windows itself:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7) Create a system image (It says Win7 but it's good to go on 11)
You can save it to a partition on the same drive/ different drive, or a USB drive. :)
 
Dar1437 said:
Not sure about the whole drive, but you can create a System Image with Windows itself:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7) Create a system image (It says Win7 but it's good to go on 11)
You can save it to a partition on the same drive/ different drive, or a USB drive. :)
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Never actually used the one on windows always been acronis for me I also backup other partitions separatly , And recently cloned 1TB M2 ssd to 2TB M2 ssd to upgrade storage on laptop.
 
I've got a lifetime licence for Aomei Backupper, but I downloaded an 'evaluation' copy of Macrium Reflect a few weeks ago and it beats Aomei hands down.
It will image my entire hard disk in less than a minute.
 
Dar1437 said:
Not sure about the whole drive, but you can create a System Image with Windows itself:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7) Create a system image (It says Win7 but it's good to go on 11)
You can save it to a partition on the same drive/ different drive, or a USB drive. :)
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Thanks for the advice.
 
Willo3092 said:
I've got a lifetime licence for Aomei Backupper, but I downloaded an 'evaluation' copy of Macrium Reflect a few weeks ago and it beats Aomei hands down.
It will image my entire hard disk in less than a minute.
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You can perhaps say that but every one will be different acronis was always fastest , it also depends on what devices and PC spec and what media hdd, SSD . M2 SSD
and Macrium Reflect after initial backup ony really runs in background does snapshots of changes. I for example fully system image ie windows C: and associated partitions 93GB actuall space used on windows C: takes roughly 6 minutes. Actuall backup file is 32GB,

I can do other backup few weeks later if not full backup but incremental and only will take a minute it is just backing up changes that have been made since last full backup. Aomei Backupper not to bad but slow can't remember if that was the one with 1 click restore it could make recovery type boot press function key without needing recovery media, that was one thing I did like about acronis press F11 , but that now does not work on newer devices so boot media needed. :confused: but old habits die hard everyone will have their preferred one :smiley:
 
I only make full backups, not differential or incremental.
C: drive is about 95Gb and the backups are about half of that, but I'm only using medium compression.
Probably fast because it's a good spec PC with a new install:

__GENUS : 2
__CLASS : Win32_WinSAT
__SUPERCLASS :
__DYNASTY : Win32_WinSAT
__RELPATH : Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
__PROPERTY_COUNT : 8
__DERIVATION : {}
__SERVER : MSI-B670-PII
__NAMESPACE : root\cimv2
__PATH : \\MSI-B670-PII\root\cimv2:Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
CPUScore : 9.5
D3DScore : 9.9
DiskScore : 9.7
GraphicsScore : 9.9
MemoryScore : 9.5
TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 1
WinSPRLevel : 9.5
PSComputerName : MSI-B670-PII
 
Willo3092 said:
I only make full backups, not differential or incremental.
C: drive is about 95Gb and the backups are about half of that, but I'm only using medium compression.
Probably fast because it's a good spec PC with a new install:

__GENUS : 2
__CLASS : Win32_WinSAT
__SUPERCLASS :
__DYNASTY : Win32_WinSAT
__RELPATH : Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
__PROPERTY_COUNT : 8
__DERIVATION : {}
__SERVER : MSI-B670-PII
__NAMESPACE : root\cimv2
__PATH : \\MSI-B670-PII\root\cimv2:Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
CPUScore : 9.5
D3DScore : 9.9
DiskScore : 9.7
GraphicsScore : 9.9
MemoryScore : 9.5
TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 1
WinSPRLevel : 9.5
PSComputerName : MSI-B670-PII
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laptop in use is
A dell Precision 3560 Workstation just bought it second hand before xmas 5 years old
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
32 GB DDR4 ram
2TB nvme ssd
 
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