PhilBurton
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Operating system:: Windows 11
Outlook version: Office 365
Email type or host: Comcast/Xfinity
Outlook version: Office 365
Email type or host: Comcast/Xfinity
While Windows 11 has many new and useful features, it is a step backwards in usability. There are a lot of UI changes for no apparent good reason. One obvious example is moving the START button to the center of the taskbar. Why? The Explorer Window no longer has a ribbon.
Fortunately, there are two third party programs that can make it easy to change the interface back to appear more like Windows 10, reducing the learning curve. Winaero, Download Winaero Tweaker, and Explorer Patcher, https://github.com/valinet/Explorer...ad/22621.4317.67.1_b93337a/ep_setup_arm64.exe
Windows Patcher is pretty easy to use. Just run it. Once you run it, right-click and select Properties on a blank area of the taskbar. That will bring up a menu of the various sections of Explorer Patcther. If you do not understand some of the options, best not to change them. However, where the default setting is Windows 11, click on that setting and you will see Windows 10 options.
Winaero has a long list of "tweaks" that you can set. As with Explorer Patcher, do not change settings you do not understand.
Also you may or may not know that Microsoft will EOL support for the last release of Windows 10, named 2H22, in Oct. 2025. No more security patches, no more anything. There are options for payng Microsoft for one year of "extended" support, but I don't want to get into the details of this tar pit. That means, for most people you will need to upgrade to Windows 11. You can expect that as of Oct, 2025, Microsoft may not make Office 365 upgrades available. (my surmise.) Also if you use Adobe applications it's very unlikely that you will be able to install the new versions (announced each October) of Lightroom, Photoshop and other Creative Suite programs. (Announcements at Adobe MAX)
Fortunately, there are two third party programs that can make it easy to change the interface back to appear more like Windows 10, reducing the learning curve. Winaero, Download Winaero Tweaker, and Explorer Patcher, https://github.com/valinet/Explorer...ad/22621.4317.67.1_b93337a/ep_setup_arm64.exe
Windows Patcher is pretty easy to use. Just run it. Once you run it, right-click and select Properties on a blank area of the taskbar. That will bring up a menu of the various sections of Explorer Patcther. If you do not understand some of the options, best not to change them. However, where the default setting is Windows 11, click on that setting and you will see Windows 10 options.
Winaero has a long list of "tweaks" that you can set. As with Explorer Patcher, do not change settings you do not understand.
Also you may or may not know that Microsoft will EOL support for the last release of Windows 10, named 2H22, in Oct. 2025. No more security patches, no more anything. There are options for payng Microsoft for one year of "extended" support, but I don't want to get into the details of this tar pit. That means, for most people you will need to upgrade to Windows 11. You can expect that as of Oct, 2025, Microsoft may not make Office 365 upgrades available. (my surmise.) Also if you use Adobe applications it's very unlikely that you will be able to install the new versions (announced each October) of Lightroom, Photoshop and other Creative Suite programs. (Announcements at Adobe MAX)
