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So I find a dinky little laptop, a Chwui Minibook X 2023, which has 12 gigs of RAM, a 512 GB SSD, and a screensize of 1920x1200 in a 10-and-change inch screen.

It unfortunately comes with Windows 11. Which means dealing with the quirks that Microsoft put in, and oh boy, there are many. Microsoft caught Option Removal Syndrome. Here's how I'm dealing with them:

The Taskbar does not show titles anymore.

Seriously. I can't tell if that icon goes to Firefox or some program that's faking Firefox. That's a big security risk!

Fixes:

The Start Menu hides practically every program

Yes, I used Windows 7. I've used Windows XP. I've used Windows NT 4. Hell, I used Windows 3.11 and even got to play with Windows 1.04! No, Windows 7 has a good Start menu and I can care less about widgets. They're only getting in the way.

Fixes:

  • Use OpenShell but be careful not to install OpenExplorer.

The right-click menu in File Explorer and the desktop hides options I use.

Where's the Dropbox menu? Where's 7-Zip's entry? Hell, I need to format a drive, where's Manage when I right-click the This PC icon on the desktop... And FFS why is everything CURVY?

Fixes:

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