Windows 11

[SoggyWinter]

I am curious- is anyone here using Windows 11 in their printshop and how is the experience?

I'm sketched out for a bunch of reasons on changing to Win11, including that most of my workstations aren't compatible. I just had to modify the registry for one of my machines to stop Windows 11 installs after accidently approving the install. I'm guessing that I'll buy Windows 10 security updates after the free ones get canceled and switch to Windows 10 IOT or long term servicing channel, which will have updates til 2032.

 

[prepressdork]

Virtually every PC in my plant has been updated to Windows 11 (from 10) and the experience has been positive. A couple things to note:

1. If the PC to be upgraded doesn't have a TPM 2.0 chip, there is a registry hack that will need applied to Windows 10 prior to upgrading which tells Windows to ignore the TPM requirement.
2. Before upgrading, you may need to convert the hard drive format from Master Boot Record to GUID Partition Table as Windows 11 requires GPT. If I remember correctly, there is a utility within Windows 10 that's named something like MBR2GPT.exe which will do this and I believe it can be done without having to wipe the drive or anything. Disclaimer: make a backup of the drive before conversion just in case ;-)

Hope this helps!
pd

 

[TJPrinter]

I just had to modify the registry for one of my machines to stop Windows 11 installs after accidently approving the install.

I did the same thing but didn't feel like modifying the registry, so I just keep changing the date on the update date.
Still haven't decided on updating to 11, and hopefully I'll see some more encouraging responses here for updating to 11.

 

[bcr]

Did EFI ever fix their printer drivers for Windows 11? Iirc a windows update broke them back in December 2022