I have Dell 5820 workstation with Win-11 for workstation which I bought in October 2022. I have not used it at all for last 2 years since I received it because of tiny fonts issue. I want to give it another try. That means I will have to download last 2 years updates which will take forever. Should I do that or Fresh install Win-11 ? Dell has not given Win-11 disk or image. I need your help & expertise as to what is the best solution ? Thank You.
You will need MSFT's "Media Creation Tool". You can look that up. All you'll need to get started is a flash drive of at least 16GB (the media creation tool will erase everything on the drive and reformat before installing files for the fresh OS install). It doesn't take very long. I don't know about W11, but the last time I did it for W10 Pro seems like it didn't take much more than an hour... but I've got fairly fast wired internet connection and SSDs. You might consider putting your OS and most often used programs on an SSD and data on your spinner drives. I suggest you do W11 as W10 will be running into "end of life" in the not too distant future. GL
Scat, Let me understand. So you are suggesting fresh install ? Where will I get Win-11 since Dell has not given me anything ?
I think you'd be fine installing the updates. But, here is the download link for Windows 11: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
Sorry, I was thinking you were needing to choose between installing W10 or W11. You already have W11 installed... so you can just do an update/upgrade. Windows Update will likely ask you if you want to do that and you just click yes. (Might be automatic update also... MSFT presumes you intend to update simply by accessing Update. FWIW.. I don't let MSFT install anything automatically by default. In the Pro Versions of W10 and W11, you can use Group Policy to set your updates to manual instead of automatic. Why would you want to select manually? The manual setting shows what's available in individual updates then you choose to install or not. And example of why that's helpful... the Windows Update version of the driver for my video card is inferior to the one I download from Nvidia's site... I don't want MSFT automatically updating my video driver at all. I also don't want Windows to automatically update my rig with the latest "version" of Windows... I want to delay that for 6 months or more so that they have time to discover and repair more bugs. I ran W10 on v1909 for 3 years until MSFT took all reference to it off its site. I had to upgrade to v22H2.. which is the only and final one available to W10 users.) FYI... Neither Dell nor MSFT are making any hard copies of Windows Media these days. You just go to MSFT link and download the Media Creation Tool onto a flash drive, then boot from that. Instruction links same place you download the creation tool from. Dell likely has their own customized version of Windows you can use as well... has some features tuned to Dell hardware/software utilities that the basic OS doesn't have, but it comes with some clutter.
I have just reinstalled Windows 11 in a 1 year old computer after advice from a trading computer expert. He delete Windows Command Prompt *bad for trading software* and Power Toys *Bad for Hotkeys*. I have read that Windows 11 within the last half year have relesed 2 bad upgrade. That said I do not know anything about computer so do not ask me why
Any idea if Dell fooled around with Font Size in their version of Win-11 ? They are really tiny & their Scale & Font tool doesn't help much.