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victor2 said:

400ixl said:

victor2 said:

Stay with 10 as long as you can. 11 is full of "issues" IME.

What issues are unique to Windows 11? The majority of it is Windows 10 with round edges.

Can't say I have any issues on 11 that don't exist on 10. Too much hearsay on Windows 11 that is mostly untrue.

Now MacOS is still a bit of a mess, but they make great hardware so you kind of live with it.

My Windows 11 frequently freezes for 20 to 30 seconds on the lock screen when waking it up. Only mouse movement is detected, no clicks or keyboard response.
Then there is the known problem of disappearing icons on the task bar. They are there, but invisible unless you manually stop and restart Windows Explorer. MS have known about it for about a year and no fix. It only occurs with dual monitor setups apparently,  so clearly not a priority. 
Then there's the copy, cut and paste options when you right click on a file in File Explorer - they're buried under a second level menu. You can hack the registry to get the Windows 10 style dropdown menu back, or hold down shift when you right click to get it. WHY?

Hopefully Windows 12 will be better...

Not recognising any of those problems in W11.
Never had any icons disappear from the task bar
Cut and Copy and paste are located in the top ribbon of the menu when you right click.  
So not really inherent W11 problems.

Neil_Jones

victor2 said:

400ixl said:

victor2 said:

Stay with 10 as long as you can. 11 is full of "issues" IME.

What issues are unique to Windows 11? The majority of it is Windows 10 with round edges.

Can't say I have any issues on 11 that don't exist on 10. Too much hearsay on Windows 11 that is mostly untrue.

Now MacOS is still a bit of a mess, but they make great hardware so you kind of live with it.

My Windows 11 frequently freezes for 20 to 30 seconds on the lock screen when waking it up. Only mouse movement is detected, no clicks or keyboard response.
Then there is the known problem of disappearing icons on the task bar. They are there, but invisible unless you manually stop and restart Windows Explorer. MS have known about it for about a year and no fix. It only occurs with dual monitor setups apparently,  so clearly not a priority. 
Then there's the copy, cut and paste options when you right click on a file in File Explorer - they're buried under a second level menu. You can hack the registry to get the Windows 10 style dropdown menu back, or hold down shift when you right click to get it. WHY?

Hopefully Windows 12 will be better...

Your lock screen issue is almost certainly caused by something you've got installed as that is not normal Windows behaviour.

As for copy and paste... they're at the top of the context menu.

I can count the number of Windows 11 "issues" I've had on the hands of a man with no fingers.

victor2

First result when goggling the problem...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/missing-icons-on-taskbar-windows-11/18e2565b-744a-4f07-8444-053b37ccb7fe

400ixl

Sorry to hear you are suffering with some issues.

The disappearing icons in the taskbar on dual monitors has been fixed. That was a well known and documented issue last year, give you that, but fixed on all my devices now by an update and I use dual monitors all the time. It was most noticeable when they brought out the new Outlook and Teams applications.

Copy and paste aren't buried when I right click on a file in Windows Explorer, the are icons across the top/bottom of the list of actions depending on where the list appears on the screen. They are also icons at the top if I just click on the file in Explorer.

Certainly don't get the frequently freezing either. That sounds like a device / configuration / compatibility issue on your device. Unfortunately these things happen. You sound savvy enough that you have likely updated the BIOS and drivers for all your hardware and applied all the MS patches, so not going to insult you there.

Use about 5 different Windows 11 machines all the time and don't have any of those issues currently. 1-2 of the machines are quite heavily customised UI's and the others pretty standard.

Just because you are experiencing issues doesn't mean they are systemic. People should be encouraged to keep their technology up to date for their own security, not discouraged due to a single users issues in my opinion.

victor2

400ixl said:

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Just because you are experiencing issues doesn't mean they are systemic. People should be encouraged to keep their technology up to date for their own security, not discouraged due to a single users issues in my opinion.

Fair comments. 

Have suspected my hardware configuration and looked for fixes to the freezing issue, but haven't found anything yet.

Similarly hoping an update will rectify the disappearing icons.

Have a problem with my (now unsupported) Macrium backups not quite terminating as they should too, but accept that is just me expecting things to run as they did under Windows 10. Also accept that I must move on from my Win 10 habits and expectations. We've probably sidetracked this thread enough anyway...

PHK

Getting back to the OP’s question. 

You have absolutely no need for Mcaffe at all. It will just make your experience worse, as you’ve found out. 

Windows Defender with something like Malwarebytes is what you need on Windows 10 

Vitor

Use a filtering DNS that blocks known bad web-sites, e.g. Home Free by OpenDNS so your browser/PC has less chance of accessing a site sending malware etc.

twopenny

I've had the same problem as Snaver. My old Kindle Fire has increasingly blocked me from NHS and other Government sites. Came out of the blue and sneakily continued.

But it is an old one so I'm guessing it's no longer compatible as other sites update their web.

Surprised about Windows though. I'm using W7 and allows me all access. But yes, it may be the combination of out of date compatibility with the new sites, new security and your MacAffee.

If I remember from my AVG and Norton days you can switch them off and on again. Is this still the case?

If so try that and then access the reputable sites. See what happens

Le_Kirk

victor2 said:

Hopefully Windows 12 will be better...

Oh NO, I hope that is a tongue in cheek comment!  The main problem stopping a W10 to W11 upgrade is lack of TPM, Trusted Platform Module.  I kept my W11 until I started having problems with fan supports breaking due to overheating and having replaced them once, when it started happening again decided to go for new PC with W11 only a couple of months ago and have just got it back to how I like it, except when installing Microsoft Publisher it wiped out MS Office!