The final Personalization I recommend is from the “Themes” menu. These appear next to the Power options and don’t take up much space, so it’s not a big deal if you don’t use them much. For the “Folders” options, I enable Settings, File Explorer, Downloads, Network, and Personal Folder. I turn off “Show most used apps” as I tend to keep my most used apps as shortcuts in the Taskbar. These are personal choices, but I choose to show “more pins”, as I relied quite heavily on the customizable tiles of Win10, and this is close as we can get to that system. The Start menu had one of the more significant design changes out of all, and while you can’t revert it back to the Win10 design without 3rd-party software, you can still customize it to work better for you.įrom the main Personalization screen, click on the “Start” option. I tend to hide all icons apart from my audio interface’s control panel, and the Windows Update status, so I can see if an update is waiting to surprise me next time I restart my machine. For the taskbar options, I like to turn off Widgets and Chat/Teams taskbar items (the “Widgets” item is a popup for weather and news thumbnails, which to me just means more distractions!) You can then choose which System Tray icons to have visible at all times, or hidden away in the tray. I’d recommend spending a couple minutes going over the personalization options to customize to your liking. You might like to show your taskbar on all available displays, or hide it on all but your primary display – this is where you make that choice. You’ll find the alignment options here, as well as a few other checkboxes I’d suggest you look over. Scroll down to “Taskbar behaviors”, and expand that menu. To do this, right-click your desktop background and choose “Personalize”. To be honest, there are already countless articles online that can help you out with all the nitty gritty details, so this will be more of a shallow overview based on what I personally find important as a music producer and sample library developer. So, what are the differences then? And why should I bother? There are of course some visual and design-related changes, all of which I would classify as minor or insignificant, and many of which can be reverted back to Win10 layouts natively. No need to learn what ARM or Rosetta means, the difference between “apple silicon” or M1, Monterey VS Ventura, and no decimal points… Particularly in the age of Apple’s anxiety-inducing “is this M1 compatible?” debacle, the latest Windows upgrade process is a comforting relief, as there is no change to your software’s compatibility. It works just like any other Windows 10 update, so your programs and files remain installed and untouched. The jump from Windows 10 to 11 is the most seamless OS upgrade I’ve encountered in the last decade.
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