{"id":10594,"date":"2021-09-06T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T22:25:11","slug":"getting-ready-for-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/windows\/getting-ready-for-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-logo.png\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\" title=\"Getting ready for Windows 11\" alt=\"Getting ready for Windows 11\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft will release Windows 11 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2021\/08\/31\/windows-11-available-on-october-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 5 2021<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/insider.windows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Insider program<\/a>, we&#8217;ve had the opportunity to test drive the new operating system for the past couple of months. Our verdict? Windows 11 provides a welcome facelift to Windows 10, while leaving the low-level internals and APIs largely untouched. It&#8217;s more evolution than revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dig into the details of Windows 11 &mdash; and investigate how our software performs on the brand new operating system.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">What&#8217;s new in Windows 11?<\/h2>\n<p>Windows 11 included <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Features_new_to_Windows_11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many improvements<\/a>. Our top highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>General <b>improvements to the user interface<\/b>, focusing on simplicity, ease of use, and flexibility. This is the &#8220;cleanest&#8221; and most &#8220;Mac-looking&#8221; version of Windows to date.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-desktop.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Windows 11 desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-desktop.png\" title=\"Windows 11 desktop (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Windows 11 desktop\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Excellent support for <b>multiple desktops<\/b>, with large previews and easy switching:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-multiple-desktops.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Multiple desktops on Windows 11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-multiple-desktops.png\" title=\"Multiple desktops on Windows 11 (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Multiple desktops on Windows 11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improved security, with <b>protection against firmware and hardware attacks<\/b>. In a world besieged by ransomware, phishing, and worse, this is a welcome addition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">What features have been removed?<\/h2>\n<p>The list of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">features deprecated or removed in Windows 11<\/a> is fairly short for a major release. Here&#8217;s what raised our eyebrows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Support for <b>moving the taskbar<\/b> to different locations on the screen (e.g. top, left, or right) has been removed. That was convenient for our team, especially when making screen recordings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>Internet Explorer has been disabled<\/b> and replaced by Microsoft Edge. Finally! We won&#8217;t miss IE around here&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Right-clicking on the taskbar calls up a menu with a single entry &mdash; Taskbar settings. We&#8217;ll miss the convenience of quickly summoning Task Manager, showing the desktop or effortlessly arranging windows from the Windows 10 taskbar. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Will Windows 11 run on my computer?<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/windows\/windows-11-specifications#primaryR4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">system requirements for Windows 11<\/a> are fairly modest &mdash; 2 CPU cores, 4 GM RAM and 64 GB hard drive space. Most modern computers easily meet those thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>However, to deliver important security benefits, Windows 11 only runs on devices that support <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-GB\/windows\/security\/information-protection\/tpm\/trusted-platform-module-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out if your computer supports TPM, run <b>tpm.msc<\/b> from a command prompt. Here you can see that our Windows 10 desktop (purchased in 2019) supports TPM version 2.0:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/tpm-windows-10.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Trusted Platform Module (TPM)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/tpm-windows-10.png\" title=\"Trusted Platform Module (TPM) (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Trusted Platform Module (TPM)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Note that TPM is a requirement for physical hardware, <b>not for virtual machines<\/b>. We had no trouble installing Windows 11 on a VirtualBox virtual machine, even though TPM is not supported there.<\/p>\n<p>One oddity to watch out for: Windows 11 Home edition requires internet connectivity and a Microsoft account to complete setup on first use. Apparently Microsoft is very keen to bring you into their online ecosystem!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">What&#8217;s changed for Windows Services?<\/h2>\n<p>As far as we can see, Windows 11 does not introduce any changes to the Windows Services API, nor to the service-related tools distributed with the operating system. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <a href=\"\/blog\/windows-services\/essential-tools-windows-services-msc\/\">Services application<\/a> and the Services tab in the <a href=\"\/blog\/windows-services\/essential-tools-task-manager\/\">Task Manager<\/a> look and work exactly as they do in Windows 10:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-services-tools.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Services and Task Manager are unchanged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/windows-11-services-tools.png\" title=\"Services and Task Manager are unchanged (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Services and Task Manager are unchanged\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And finally, the practical <a href=\"\/blog\/windows-services\/essential-tools-for-windows-services-net-command\/\">NET<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/windows-services\/essential-tools-windows-services-sc-exe\/\">SC<\/a> commands don&#8217;t present any new options either.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Does AlwaysUp run on Windows 11?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a minor inaccuracy detecting the operating system version in internal logging components, AlwaysUp version 13.0 (to be released in October 2021) performed perfectly on Win 11.<\/p>\n<p>And over the course of the past 7 weeks, we have run OneDrive, Dropbox, Java and VirtualBox continuously as Windows Services. All have performed flawlessly through multiple reboots, automatic updates, deliberate crashes and other challenging scenarios.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/onedrive-on-windows-11.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"OneDrive\/AlwaysUp running on Windows 11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/onedrive-on-windows-11.png\" title=\"OneDrive\/AlwaysUp running on Windows 11 (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"OneDrive\/AlwaysUp running on Windows 11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">Does Service Protector work well on Windows 11?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>With the underlying Windows Services architecture remaining intact, we detected no issues running Service Protector 7.0:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-works-with-windows-11.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Service Protector works well on Windows 11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/service-protector-works-with-windows-11.png\" title=\"Service Protector works well on Windows 11 (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Service Protector works well on Windows 11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"blog-caption\">What about your other software? Are they all compatible with Win11?<\/h2>\n<p>To date, here are the results of our testing on the new operating system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"\/products\/ServiceSecurityEditor\/\">Service Security Editor<\/a>: No problems found.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"\/products\/AlwaysUp\/AlwaysUpWebService\/\">AlwaysUp Web Service<\/a>: No problems found.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"\/products\/WindowsServiceAuditor\/\">Windows Service Auditor<\/a>: No problems found.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"\/products\/ServicePilot\/\">ServicePilot<\/a>: No problems found.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/applications-compatible-with-win11.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"Our applications are compatible with Win11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/applications-compatible-with-win11.png\" title=\"Our applications are compatible with Win11 (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"Our applications are compatible with Win11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The only application that did not pass with flying colors is <a href=\"\/products\/MyFolders\/\">MyFolders<\/a>. Unfortunately the MyFolders menu is not visible when you right-click in File Explorer! And in order to reveal the MyFolders menu, you must select <b>Show more options<\/b>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/file-explorer-show-more-options.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"File Explorer: Show more options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/file-explorer-show-more-options.png\" title=\"File Explorer: Show more options (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"File Explorer: Show more options\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Afterwards, the familiar menu from Windows 10 will appear and you will be able to interact with MyFolders as normal:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/myfolders-menu-win-11.png\" class=\"zoomPopup\" title=\"The MyFolders menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-padding\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/myfolders-menu-win-11.png\" title=\"The MyFolders menu (click to enlarge)\" alt=\"The MyFolders menu\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if there is a way to eliminate the inconvenience of that extra click.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:30px\">\nBest of luck with Windows 11 if (when) you decide to upgrade!<\/p>\n<!-- relpost-thumb-wrapper --><div class=\"relpost-thumb-wrapper\"><!-- filter-class --><div class=\"relpost-thumb-container\"><style>.relpost-block-single-image, .relpost-post-image { margin-bottom: 10px; }<\/style><h3>You may also like...<\/h3><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><!-- relpost-block-container --><div class=\"relpost-block-container relpost-block-column-layout\" style=\"--relposth-columns: 3;--relposth-columns_t: 2; --relposth-columns_m: 2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/windows-services\/schedule\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"Essential Windows Services: Schedule \/ Task Scheduler\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/windows-schedule-150x150.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">Essential Windows Services: Schedule \/ Task Scheduler<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/alwaysup\/application-not-restarted\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"Q&amp;A: Why Doesn&#039;t AlwaysUp Restart my Application?\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/restart-button-150x150-1.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">Q&amp;A: Why Doesn&#039;t AlwaysUp Restart my Application?<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/alwaysup\/alwaysup-8-5-released\/\"class=\"relpost-block-single\" ><div class=\"relpost-custom-block-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"relpost-block-single-image\" alt=\"New Version\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.coretechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-version-150x150.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\/1\"><\/img><div class=\"relpost-block-single-text\"  style=\"height: 75px;font-family: Arial;  font-size: 12px;  color: #333333;\"><h2 class=\"relpost_card_title\">AlwaysUp 8.5: Run in Session at Boot, Switch To Session 0, and more<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><!-- close relpost-block-container --><div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div><\/div><!-- close filter class --><\/div><!-- close relpost-thumb-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will release Windows 11 on October 5 2021. As a member of the Windows Insider program, we&#8217;ve had the opportunity to test drive the new operating system for the past couple of months. Our verdict? 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