Since Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows/7 (and all earlier versions), we're all now forced to "upgrade" to Windows/10. That experience was rather horrible. Now there is a new version of Windows coming - Windiws/11. And it looks like Micro$oft is determined to make the experience miserable once again. Below are links documenting this mess:

I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

Dec 2024: I bought a new computer since my old one was going to be quite slow if I upgraded it to Windows/11. It took the usual week of reinstalling my backups and doing minor tweaks to get it usable. It was not too horrible, but seems to add nothing useful for all the trouble. But Window/10 is losing supprt in October 2025, so I upgraded now instead of waiting until the threatened tariffs kicked in.

13 Aug, 2025: I just upgraded from Windows/11 23H2 to 24H2. I had to obtain a full install of 24H2 from Micro$oft - Windows Update refused to offer 24H2 to me and support for 23H2 ends in Nov 2025 so the update had to be done. One of the things that broke was all the Program Shortcuts (Icons) that had a substitute drive in the path to the program - even tho the substitute drive worked for everything else. But changing to full underlying C: path for each Shortcut fixed this annoyance.

Another new annoyance is the pause for 3 seconds upon every use of a Ctrl+Alt hotkey. I killed C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe via my
  taskkill /IM SystemSettings.exe /F
batch file. That eliminated the 3 second pause - at least until SystemSettings.exe gets fired up again by Windows/11. But Win/11 keeps restarting it so I wrote this batch file called killsyssetloop.bat:

REM SystemSettings.exe is in C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel
:loop
taskkill /IM SystemSettings.exe /F 2>> nul
if errorlevel 1 goto notfound
time /T >> C:\temp\tempkillsettings.txt
sleep 600000
goto loop
:notfound
sleep 60000
goto loop

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Leigh Brasington / / Revised 16 Aug 25