Anyone installed it on a multi monitor setup? Can you confirm if you have the same two issues I have discovered:
There’s no clock displayed in the taskbar on the secondary monitor. Irritating when you’re in full screen on your main monitor in a game for eg, and glance at the time in the corner of the second screen - where it always was in Win10 - only to see nothingness.
The menu actions on the secondary screen are also iffy. I can click on the Start icon to pop out the menu and activate apps that are pinned or show in the Recommended section, but clicking into the “Type here to search” field to at the top to find something else just closes the entire thing down. Clicking directly on the search icon in the taskbar on the secondary monitor does absolutely nothing at all.
Again, both more irritations than anything else. Just curious if others have the same, or if it’s a me issue because I broke the rules and installed on a machine I wasn’t supposed to…?
MEW (and other browsers tabs) + YouTube on 2nd screen
DSTV Motorsport channel + F1TV for when the stupid Sky people irritate me (and the cockpit views )
Working on marking assignments - Students’ PDF + my marking rubric on screen 2
iTunes + YouTube Music, because why not? (Audio plays across desktops, regardless of which you’re on and which is used to play the music/video. So I can have the F1 practice audio playing while marking and then quickly switch over to that desktop if something interesting happens.)
And yes, I know I can have all of these things open on just one desktop instance, but this way I dont have to hunt and peck for the right application icon, the right window, etc. Everything is as I leave it - Full screen DSTV, PDF’s at screen width, etc. And all I need to do once I’ve set them up is use @Viper’s Ctrl+Win+Arrow shortcut to move between them.
Oh, and if you right click on an open desktop icon you can rename it
Also, you can keep your “slacking off at work” stuff on another desktop, and then when the boss comes in, a quick keyboard shortcut should make it look like you’re working.
Right, so after ready the comments from @MetalSoup and @GregRedd I started experimenting with using multiple desktops. And you are bastards!! Why didn’t you guys tell me about the wonders of multiple desktops sooner!? It’s so awesome!
I’ve now created a few desktops and it feels so nice and organized. When I switch to a desktop, my mind switches to that theme as well. I if I take the decision to play games, switching to that desktop means I’m gaming and my mind is focused on that. If I want to watch stuff on YouTube, the keyboard shortcuts also switches my brain and I’m ready for that. It feels more focused, purpose filled when you switch to different desktops.
And, with Windows 11 you can easily group different windows and open the group up when needed. It’s probably the new Windows 11 feature I’m using the most now. So now, on top of the dedicated desktops for spesific function, I have different groups for programs and tabs I need opened. So awesome! I’m sommer angry I only got onto this party now only.
PSA - snipping tool doesn’t work in Windows 11 currently. I got an error message and after googling see that it is a wide spread issue. Now to find an alternative app until they fix it.
Odd. I’ve used it almost every day since the Win11 install, on 2 different machines. And like Farlig have had zero issues with it at all. Even the markup and highlighter tools work:
New patch went out yesterday to Beta and Preview channels that claims to have fixed the Snipping Tool issue. Shouldn’t be too long before it’s released to users.
I decided to give Windows 11 a proper try. Whenever I release a new version, I set up a VM with all the component versions as at date of release. Well, usually I just make a copy of the last VM and upgrade the components to the latest versions and that becomes my new snapshot. So now I’ve set up a completely new VM with Windows 11, Visual Studio 2022 and SQL 2019 and I’ll use this going forward for my snapshots.
Thus far honestly, I’m still not a fan. One thing right off the bat that is missing is the ability to group your icons on the start menu and specify the position of the icons/tiles. I guess this can be solved by Stardock’s Start 11, but I’ll rather wait since there might be more things I run into that I don’t like. Some other things looks like they’ve improved with updates already so maybe in a year from now, Windows 11 would have evolved to the point where I actually like it.
So for my main work instance, I’m just going to reload Windows 10. I might install this for my gaming OS though, especially if there are gaming-related benefits.
So I have been on 11 for a couple of days, 1st thing I have learnt, muscle memory is a thing in windows - teaching myself to use the buttons in the middle and so far so good. As a noob, I honestly cannot tell the difference except for 1 thing, Outriders worked on win 10 refuses to launch in 11
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