Wednesday, February 21st 2024
Microsoft Auto-updating Eligible Windows 11 PCs to Version 23H2
Windows 11 version 23H2 started rolling out last October, but many users of Microsoft's flagship operating system opted out of an upgrade, thanks to a handy "optional" toggle. News outlets have latched onto a freshly published (February 20) Windows 11 "Release Health" notice—the official Microsoft dashboard alert states that Windows 11 2023 Update: "is now entering a new rollout phase." Fastidious users will not be happy to discover that "eligible Windows 11 devices" are now subject to an automatic bump up to version 23H2. Very passive-aggressive tactics have been utilized in the past—Microsoft is seemingly eager to get it audience upgraded onto its latest and greatest feature-rich experience.
According to NeoWin, an official announcement from last week alerted users to an "impending end of optional preview updates on Windows 11 22H2." Yesterday's "23H2" dashboard confessional provided a little bit more context—unsurprisingly involving artificial intelligence: "This automatic update targets Windows 11 devices that have reached or are approaching end of servicing, and it follows the machine learning-based (ML) training we have utilized so far. We will continue to train our intelligent ML model to safely roll out this new Windows version in phases to deliver a smooth update experience."
Microsoft's message also adds a handy upgrade guide: "If you have an eligible Home or Pro consumer device, you can update to version 23H2 by opening Settings > Windows Update, turning on 'Get the latest updates as soon as they're available,' and selecting Check for updates. Once the update is available for your device, you will see the option to Download and install."
Sources:
NeoWin, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Microsoft Windows Health Status
According to NeoWin, an official announcement from last week alerted users to an "impending end of optional preview updates on Windows 11 22H2." Yesterday's "23H2" dashboard confessional provided a little bit more context—unsurprisingly involving artificial intelligence: "This automatic update targets Windows 11 devices that have reached or are approaching end of servicing, and it follows the machine learning-based (ML) training we have utilized so far. We will continue to train our intelligent ML model to safely roll out this new Windows version in phases to deliver a smooth update experience."
68 Comments on Microsoft Auto-updating Eligible Windows 11 PCs to Version 23H2
Also task bar with small icons, tightly packed together for space efficiency.
Spacing on explorer text menu's gaps between each line, size of font.
Its bigger, I just dont think you noticed.
I didnt join 10 until 1809 LTSC build, and I wanted to wait until 21H2 LTSC but hand was forced because of no Windows 8 drivers for the RTX 3080. (was using 8.1 with startisback). Although I think by 1809 10 had improved enough to be useable, but certianly at the start it was in a unacceptable state for me to use.
Of course when I talk about 10, I talk about 10 in its current state, Windows XP was an extremely popular OS, but us early adopters are aware of the problems it had, and it had a lot. XP dodgy at start, great at end.
Yeah I use a buttload of reg files and explorer patcher for start menu like 10s
I don't use it for anything but start menu, it reads other changes I made with reg files I did use it for other explorer changes but 11's explorer really isn't bad enough to mess with it all I really missed was preview pane on the top right and it's there now so all good.
Everything else is on right click menu hehe
But yeah context menu is the first thing to get toasted
Here's a good list of alterations
www.elevenforum.com/t/windows-11-tweaks-leader-board.1842/
Yeah EP is fine of course I don't use insider/ developer/ beta bs ware builds though.
So stick with main releases and everything is fine.
As for space efficiency - i have pinned 19 icons on taskbar and from the free space it seems pin 25 more before it's full.
If you need to pin more than 45 icons then you're out of luck at the moment.
I attached 3 screenshots i made from Win10 a while ago showing different icons sizes. The Large icon size can only be enabled with a 3rd party program.There is compact mode for explorer. Also there was another setting that affects the spacing and that is the view you use. If you use Detailed view than there are no gaps. If you use List view then there are gaps even with Compact setting.
That explains why it doesn't happen to me. I always use the Detail view.
In the Detail and Content views the gaps are non-existent.
In the List and Tiles views, it is already larger and selectable.
With four different icon views, the differences are already quite large.
So if you absolutely want to use the List view, you have to put up with this quirk or use some other file manager.
Looks like open shell.
We have a choice, thats a nice thing, some are ok with it, some like it, some dont like it, Windows 10 is still supported so its a valid option for people to use, 5 years time things may be different with 3rd party support, but thats then, and now is now.
To me the UI is super duper important, keep me happy, dont mess with it, simples.
I rarely even open it. As for telemetry - that can be blocked with a firewall or hosts file. As if Win10 default start menu is better?
Or should I say I could not get 10 to upgrade to 11.
It seems windows update doesn't like the Blue Stacks emulator.
This computer (Intel 7900x) is six years old.
Guess it is not going to run windows 11.
All you'd need is a bios update to add PTT option which is bios TPM.
Chip/ upgrade to 11 should be okay after that assuming disk is efi only boot.