God I hate windows.
The guy had put in AVG & CCleaner from somewhere it kept opening window after window - couldn’t do squat. So I msconfig’d to start just basic
Of course when rebooted, his PIN no longer worked and he’s what’s a MSoft account…
Reboot w a stick, won’t let me (netuser /add) as it oartially boots into his acct.
So looks like backup files and fresh install - hope he remembers his other passwords!
Grrrrr discover my big USB backup drive has left the planet entirely and the little one decided to fail so I had to reconfigure my USB-NVME one from ext4… 8:00 pm, now I csn get started…
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My daughter has a perfectly good Dell laptop with 16 GB RAM that had Windows 10 on it. When I was in PG I put Ubuntu 24.04 on it(Winders 10 expiring in October). I went into the BIOS to disable secure boot and of course Bitlocker kicks in preventing the unit to boot up. I hate Bitlocker. I enabled legacy boot and was able to get around it to install Ubuntu. I also hate Windows.
You can run Windows 11 on it no problem. Just back up any important files and wipe it from scratch. Use Rufus to create a Windows 11 USB that ignores requirements, etc.
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I’ll try that when I’m in town again in October if she wants Winders again. Thanks! 
OMG that guy’s PC reported it didn’t meet Win 11 CPU specs with a 7th gen i5…
the guy said no to Linux as he’s too old to learn a new OS. He’s gonna do some learnin’ whether he wants to or not with 11…
Yeah, those specs mean nothing. Rufus can override it.
I have Windows 11 running on stuff that’s 15 years old.
Meanwhile, this is how my morning’s going:
Just a load average of 903. No big deal.
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Alright. I did some digging and rufus seems straight forward enought.
Very cool! Is there any chance that M$ will play the a$$hole card and say: “Hey you’re not running Win 11 on approved hardware so we’re going to stop sending you updates.”
Yup. But it’s not because of the hardware. It’s because older versions of Windows 11 are just not getting updates, so you need to install a newer version when it prompts you.
There’s been 4 major versions of Windows 11 already. And the first two, 21H2 and 22H2, aren’t receiving updates. So it prompts you to install a newer version. No big deal. But if it’s older hardware, you just need to download the newer ISO and do the Rufus thing again. You can do an upgrade install.
Once it’s installed, it doesn’t care about hardware.
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Rufus pushed that nonsense out of the way. Unfortunately had to do a clean install to make it so. Got his docs. pix. etc,
Any idea how to pull the passwords/bookmarks out of appdata? I couldn’t run Win10 to export them from Edge.
Sad how no one backs things up or remembers their passwords. Two calls today driving to PG, where phone magically required passwords out of the blue.