New Windows 11 Feature That Changes Everything

[@Britec09]

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[@sanman187-]

Can this new Windows feature be added to Windows 10 (somehow)? I've been using this technique for years but would prefer to do it with just a couple of clicks, as shown in this video.

[@rjjeffreys]

It only took MS decades to finally, and hopefully, do this right. The older System Restore feature has always been basically a shot-in-the-dark, and Hail Mary attempt. Now, let's see if it actually works, consistently...

[@jensenjs]

First, sorry for my poor english, i'm slightly dyslectic! ----- Good MS for finally doing that. They should have done that for many years ago. I have used ta program called "RollbackRx for many years. This program, have helped me many times over the years. What Microsoft are doing now, are like "Timeshift" in Linux, which again is an ok "clone" of Rollback, but none of these are as efficient as Rollback. But Rollback are not free. I have 5 lifetime licenses of Rollback Rx. So GREAT that they now offer this for their users.

[@Nick41622]

Yes.

[@stevemercure902]

I like the content. How is this change different than using system file checker?

[@mikesunboxing]

Should make troubleshooting much easier for the less technical people with windows problems

[@Britec09]

I think it will help a lot of people, Windows 11 is getting better.

[@RGInquisitor]

If you ask me, this should have been a feature that existed a long time ago, but I'm glad its being implemented now rather than never. It will definitely prove useful to me, considering I reset my gaming PC every 6-8 months to avoid issues with drivers and third party software bugs.

[@ReiverBlue1971]

Same, it'll certainly make it less of a ball ache

[@peterpanda7475]

do you know if this version of win11 is out already?

[@ReiverBlue1971]

@@peterpanda7475 It is on mine so as long as you're Windows is up to date then yes, it will be. Just do a search on your PC for Recovery and that will lead right to it ;)

[@RGInquisitor]

@@peterpanda7475 Definitely not on the public releases. These features are usually included in the feature updates which are released once or twice a year. If you ask me, we probably won't get this feature in the public builds until next year.

[@foxmulder2941]

This is a great feature in my opinion . Now with any luck this feature will eventually come to Windows 10 as I have unsupported hardware for Windows 11. Great video !

[@GeoSam]

Thanks for the preview.

[@Britec09]

Our pleasure!

[@terencejames909]

Great content Brian thanks

[@redstrat1234]

Thanks for the video - will this software just be an automatic update from Windows ? - do I have to search for and download it ?

[@pcrepairtech]

Brian, 25905.1000 is not 23H2, it's a very early Windows 12 build, which would release in 2024. Btw 23H2 would be 22631 which is an enablement package.

[@johnpedersen8387]

Nice tip if the system can boot. If it can't boot you will posibly have to use a install media to save the pc. As important it is to have backup of your own data it is just as important to have a install media so you can save your system. With a install media you can alsow do a "Repair install" and save your programs and files.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Yeah not to mention you need internet access too.

[@kepler186f4]

This feature should be applied to Win 10 systems also, although it is not that much different than System Restore other than the source.

[@Britec09]

Windows 10 is done and won't receive any more feature updates,

[@kepler186f4]

@@Britec09 I have a new machine with Win 11 and I'm in the process of tweeking to my preferences and I find your vids invaluable!

[@DJReverb99]

I do this on Windows 10 by using the Media Creation Tool to do an "upgrade" install. It seems to be what this is doing for Win 11.

[@sanman187-]

@@Britec09 I was hoping for a "Brian" on that one, i.e., a "fix."

[@jonnijon8370]

Brian will this work on unsupported windows 11 pc?

[@winstonb990]

you can do cmd type sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

[@terencejames909]

Hey Brian great stuff love it thanks

[@nozge7091]

Thank you for sharing this information and update. Nice feature! Excited to try it out in the future.

[@nvidiasniper]

All the best, thanks for posting

[@cliffrachman981]

Thank you for this great tid bit of information this is very useful .. you are always adding value to your channel .. and it is much appreciated. ..

[@revtoyota]

Damn and here I was hoping for something actually useful. Like them fixing the start menu or changing the right click menu back to how it was instead of making us click 30 times to unzip an rar file. Keep up the great work brother. I have yet to see anything that makes me want to switch over to win 11

[@berkantari981]

Sure those things are annoying but this feature is actually really useful. And from what I've experienced, 11 seems to be faster than 10 most of the time for me so I stick to it.

[@100Bucks]

I'm on windows 11, nothing much has changed. The closest thing to modify windows to your needs is to use hotkeys. I highly recommend learning autohotkey. You can learn it in 5 minutes. The key words to do anything is "run" to run programs and "send" to write auto text. There's a millions things you can do with it but you don't have to learn anything above (send and run).

[@MrKentaroMotoPI]

Hey Brian, you alerted us to the Win11 22H2 SSD performance bug that came with the March Cum Update. Apparently, it's in all the subsequent updates including July 😢 What's your experience with 23H2?

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Cum Update. LOL

[@US_Joe]

Good one Brian. Other than online, isn't that what DISM retorehealth has been doing all along? Thanks for your constant FYI's and news. 👍👍👍

[@TheForce_Productions]

"Fix problems without installing linux".

[@ultralaggerREV1]

Linux is hard to use. We gotta rely on code to install stuff like apps or drivers which nobody has time for

[@100Bucks]

​@@ultralaggerREV1Exactly, everyone glorifies Linux. To much coding to do anything. Windows, click and done.

[@LifeloverX]

If only they brought back the Aero style (transparent titlebars).

[@ELEC7RO]

I've had to reset my PC a lot over the past year, be it either a windows problem or something I messed with, I always hated reinstalling because I need to backup a lot of data and I still lost a lot every single time. This is a life saver.

[@MrKentaroMotoPI]

I've had good luck with Inplace Upgrade on Windows 10 machines that were struggling for days with feature upgrades. This is a downloadable tool.

[@bleakyfinder2692]

Excellent content Brian, thank you.

[@Britec09]

My pleasure!

[@terencejames909]

Great content Brian love it thanks

[@dennislaplant95]

You should clarify that 23H2 Build 25905 is NOT the latest release of Windows for everyone. It is the latest Preview Build that's only available to Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel at this time.

[@MrKentaroMotoPI]

Good point, Dennis 👍

[@KaptainSpaulding]

When do you suppose this release will be available on the DEV channel?

[@ron1134]

Once again, another well-made video. Looking for Windows 11 23H2 and it is not available yet, the web site says it will be released in 2023 Q4. How can I get it sooner? Thank you.

[@ron1134]

I contacted Microsoft about getting the 23H2 earlier than Q4 but they gave me access to a special 22H2 that gave me the same options to keep my files, apps and settings. It worked just fine.

[@johngoard8272]

It's about time they did something positive Brian hopefully I never have to use it.. One query Brian with the Windows .old files do you always delete them or not what do you advise.

[@RebMordechaiReviews]

I assume it won't help with Ransomware if the files have already been corrupted. I also assume that it doesn't fix bad drivers which seems to be the most common cause of Windows crashes. What I would say is, before you begin, unplug all all USB and Bluetooth devices.

[@Britec09]

No, ransomware is bad and most of the time, unrecoverable

[@charlesxix]

Spot on again Brian, thanks.

[@Britec09]

Very welcome

[@hdmoviesource]

When will this feature be availible? I don't see it yet on Windows 11.

[@yesterdaysjam2405]

I planned to hold onto 10 until they totally drop support but I took the plunge and upgraded to 11 after watching this video. Seems to be working fine, only annoyance is the news feed in widgets, switch i can't seem to turn off without turning the widgets off completely!

[@Recon59]

How comes my updated Windows 11 23H2 (Windows Insider/Beta) doesn't show this feature in the system/recovery/

[@VinuITSolutions]

How did you get 23H2??

[@philmaznyk1577]

I believe this new version is only for the developer systems. 22H2 is all the standard users have access to.

[@GunniesLetsFlyVFR]

The voice of knowledge yet again. Thanks Brian, I'm sure many,like myself would have missed this. Should we need to we now have a great repair answer. 😅😂😊

[@RAGE_RONIN]

what does the Reset device option with a toggle option do???

[@Enjoymentboy]

Sigh...I am soooooooo incredibly sick of the "changes everything" tagline. Everything? Really? Sorry, rant done. With that out of the way didn't XP have a similar repair option? I used to use this all the time and only needed my install disc to do it. This was one of the things that really annoyed me about vista and 7 when they took it away. But I recovered many damaged or non-bootable XP systems that just reinstalled XP over top of itself without losing anything. If this is something they finally brought back then YAY microsoft.

[@darylcheshire1618]

Once I had a weird problem where my installation wouldn’t update. Eventually I selected reinstall and it reinstalled windows and I had no further problems, However I had to reinstall my apps. I had a folder on the desktop with my shotcuts and that helped remind me of what needed to be reinstalled. That was the only nuisance. Be nice if everything in Programs and installed apps could be archived and reinstalled. That will depend on the vagarities of the app installers. I think there were 3rd party apps that could do this but they charged you every time you used it. I didn’t lose any data, it was my gaming machine and I didn’t have any docs on it,

[@curts.8940]

Nice video Brian. I have been reading about this upcoming update. I myself have not upgraded to windows 11 yet. 10 has been working great for me. I keep my clients on windows 10 if at all possible. Sooner or later I will have to upgrade their operating system. Let's see what windows 12 will be like. Thanks again brother!

[@Britec09]

Thanks for sharing

[@prodigys9823]

With the previous feature windows, you had to save your personal files and reinstall your applications, so I’m assuming with this feature you can keep your install application and focus on the system?

[@DimpieDeBruyn]

More of a clever play to get users to put the telemetry back that an IT Tech might have disabled in the past 😂 .... or do you think those settings will also stay "as is" ... can you do a test?

[@randseedbin9440]

Very useful information, thank you. It could have been presented in half the time though.

[@PhD63]

Is an 8 minute video too long for you then???

[@randseedbin9440]

@@PhD63 If the same material is repeated 3 times, yes.

[@PhD63]

5 minutes of your life lost then 😂

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

Hi Brian, I was on the Devs channel and I was wondering why I wasn't receiving the update. Then I realised that they had released a canary version a while back, so I took the plunge and tried that I was surprised how long the update lasted, it seems this could be the foundation of Windows 12. I should imagine they'll start slowly building from this point on. What surprised me the most was that halfway through the update my second monitor turned on, it had never done that before and when it got up to 75% it did a reboot and once again it turned on the second monitor. I am sure this is not just an ordinary update. I think it's more than that, I think it is the bare bones on which they will hang Windows 12.

[@othername2428]

You are somewhat correct. They discussed this very topic in the dev channel update notes or one of the recent blog posts.

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

If this update can eliminate the backlog of outdated programs from the Devs Administration, it would be highly beneficial. There have been several instances where obsolete programs have caused issues with Windows after updates. However, when I perform a fresh installation, unexpected features that work correctly appear. Therefore, if this update successfully clears out all old Devs material, it will be incredibly helpful.

[@rjjeffreys]

When is comes to MS, we can only hope, my friend...

[@paulwarner5395]

Nice long awaited feature. Wonder if it will work with "Unsupported hardware" ??

[@geraldthorburn1123]

Just a quick addition to my previous comment: If the 'Match' to the MS Master Registry identifies a rogue application causing the outage, a warning is issued: "x application is causing you problems. We recommend removal." Hopefully, this would remove either malignant or clumsily coded apps.

[@hotmixer2010]

But will this option work on a Win 11 system that's unable to boot to the login screen stuck in bootloop

[@squeezerdsqueezerd2427]

This is why i use acronis i make a clean system with all the important programs pre-installed and then make the backup if ever my system fails i just use acronis to restore it to fresh install and add all my files this way i don't lose anything.

[@angelogforte6971]

Wow nearly 760k subscribers your going to have to show your face soon there Brian lol

[@MartinWeterings]

If only one could do this with a non bootable installation, either from the recovery menu or from a USB installer… does this also work from safe mode with networking?

[@MuzdokOfficial]

I wonder vs running dism and sfc manualy: Would this re-enable crap services and the telemetry and undo all the de-bloating and optimisations done in gpedit regedit etc...?

[@paulfrayne6519]

This is great in theory, however, given the numerous problems with recent monthly updates having a number of issues I will have to wait and see how this feature turns out.

[@phanikumarvempati]

If i need to fix errors, I go back to 10. 11 is still crap. Thinking to go back.

[@aliettienne2907]

Yeah this is a super useful feature it's about time we have something like that. 😎💯👍

[@RockyAllenLane]

Nice feature BUT ... will it actually replace the old, humungous, cluttered Registry with a new, small, uncluttered Registry like a "clean" install of Windows does? If so, it's a repair technician's dream.

[@bertvantol9669]

Where can you download the newest version of Windows ??

[@spede1]

I don't think I've ever had windows troubleshooter solve much of anything, other than it resetting the network adapter or print spooler..

[@ijac]

Problem is have the time the repairs don't work and you have to reinstall any way thanks Micro$oft!

[@OnSilverWings]

Still not sure about moving to Windows 11. Thinking Thinking doing it after the next update came out but if Windows 12 is coming maybe wait for that. 10 does the job just fine and I've heard more meh or bad things than good about 11.

[@Derpingtonshere]

Why they took so long to make something like this is beyond me. About time.

[@deanhayes2977]

I upgraded from Win 10 to win 11 3rd of November 2022 and my version is 21H2. So I have not got that in my OS system

[@rokosbasilisk2894]

I don't get this option in windows 11 update? Mine is still 22H2 and when I check for updates, it says I'm up to date. Are you using the Windows Insider Programme to access this update by any chance?

[@garyaudine3327]

Well if the app that you installed is the reason that something went wrong with windows and still didn't uninstalled it, this will not fix the problem imo if the said app is still be retained after the windows reinstalls. Still best practice to make system restore bfore installing apps for me. But neat feature as long as you can pass boot that is.

[@jam6000]

I've never liked fresh booting and have always manually maintained 3rd party software on my windows systems. Maybe its superstition but when it comes to data loss I have always felt that it has a better lifespan when I maintain the original ecosystem from the initial boot. This new feature makes it worth updating my againg w10 system and giving it a good scrub

[@AlexLancashirePersonalView]

Mine dumped a lot of the apps I had and left a file saying Removed Apps. The problem I had was actually a faulty boot drive which I cloned and the new drive was OK. It was good really because I have only re installed the apps I really need.

[@Britec09]

Bad drive is hardware related, not software.

[@redstrat1234]

Brilliant. About time though.

[@paulanderson2963]

You can already do this is with an in-place install if you have the installation media downloaded. All this is doing is streamlining that process slightly.

[@sandikedua4223]

when 23H2 released?

[@Britec09]

Soon

[@warp00009]

That option doesn't appear on my Windows Insider/Dev edition of 22H2, which is a shame since Windows Update hasn't been able to apply any cumulative maintenance patches since last October. Oh, there's nothing wrong with Windows Update, it can apply smaller patches just fine - but none of the cumulative patches work at all. I'd leave the Windows Insider program but there is no way to do that without resetting the system which I don't want to do since it would take me years to reconfigure all of my existing apps to work again. I'll probably be stuck running an out of date version of Win-11 forever, since I'd be surprised if Win-12 will work on my 10 year old hardware at all...

[@candycommander]

Is it a feature that actually lets me move the phuking taskbar to any border of the screen?

[@welshtony1]

Should help us out with tech support haha

[@orior3650]

i am on 22h2 asking for update it tells me i am up to date ...how to get 23h2 please ?

[@danmar007]

Windows Troubleshooting never fixed anything for me. :-)

[@Nick41622]

I have heard about this.👍

[@HipocratesR]

Every time I hear good news about Windows 11 in less than 48 hours I get Win11 bad news from my Google news feed without even looking for it, and Reddit is full of people fighting about 10 or 11 but always you see is more pain to upgrade than to remain the same on Win10, if not broken why fix it. The urge to upgrade is no longer in me, Windows 10 till we get Win15 or whatever, Microsoft always delivers in a mediocre way regardless of the profits or amount of employees.

[@indianjoe52]

Never known troubleshooter fix anything

[@MichCapich]

Is this not the same as downloading the latest W11 ISO, mount it and then start the upgrade-process (yes, from W11 to W11 in this example) ??? I hope that someone can confirm this, or not...? 😅

[@raymondgradzewicz]

Didn't make it in the 23h2 update?

[@Techkomsan]

It great feature

[@KlipschHead281]

There are other ways of fixing windows update they could have rolled out as option 1 and then re-install as option 2, they aren't even trying.

[@MarsMan1]

Does windows 11 come with all the Microsoft spy tools turned off?

[@JonHermansen30]

When will the update be out (🇪🇺)

[@MakeTheGOD]

This Changes Everything.

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@anglewoden]

It would have been informative if you had informed people how to get 23h2 as I understand it it isn't out yet so is this video just clickbait? I really could use this feature now and now I feel even more miffed as it isn't even available.

[@Romgenas]

Still on Win10 with AM5

[@JohnDoe-ld7ud]

Ok... this isnt sponsored right??

[@mihajlo20m]

From my experience with windows (since `95), 90% of all those "automatic" fix/repair options and tools are completely useless. Only things that resolve issues is either manual repair or install from scratch. We will see about this one.

[@JunkBondTrader]

lol since 95 also, or whatevr was prior to that... And device manager driver updates, has never worked for me once in all those 25 years haha, it just claims they're all up to date every time. Occasionally I check if they fixed that broken feature or not, they never have.

[@cinemaipswich4636]

A tiny amount of windows users have gone from windows 10 to windows 11. an upgrade is not needed.

[@JunkBondTrader]

largely because it doesn't support x32

[@Nick41622]

But can't you do this manually?

[@JunkBondTrader]

yes.

[@mcwolfbeast]

So just an overlay install, then. Just integrated in the control app. Nothing new, us sysadmins have done this for decades ;)

[@AalifBin]

dude pls install drivers

[@woodsmn8047]

this is the first thing that makes me want win11 .. everything else is trivial nonsense ...!

[@janmillerty4528]

Hi 👋

[@Britec09]

Hi

[@zootallures6470]

Not a decade too soon!

[@Bekon241]

As all know windows Recovery never work good, then better not use any auto repair trash tools. I definetly never use win 11. When win 10 support end i download iso with last update and stick with him until firefox will be too old to browse network.

[@geraldthorburn1123]

Just my simple mind, but with each update you would think MS adjusted a 'W11 Master Registry Copy', so that in the event you suffered an outage, on re-boot your Registry Hives were compared with the Master, suitable adjustments made and a happy re-boot resulted. But I'm not as clever as so many of you chaps, so just my KISS ('Keep It Simple Stupid') mentality. Apologies to those who find this naive. As for backing up data, anyone who doesn't deserves what they may suffer.

[@Rollsjr]

Nice

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@rjl7655]

if your pc has a major problem, how are u going to get access to this stuff?, or the web?? its a bs feature, && does not "change everything" . . . nice clickbait though . . . You are correct however when u said uSoft's troubleshooter has never been very useful; thats been my experience as well. This is a criticism of uSoft, not you, your videos are very good, and very useful, for i have learned from them. Question: do u think Win-11 has bloatware??, too much??, if so, do a vid on that. thanks for your efforts.

[@Thullu123]

Love from india

[@Britec09]

Thanks, same to you.

[@rodshephard3837]

I have installed the update no problem.The only problem is the fix with windows update does not show in the program.I uninstalled and reinstalled-still no show.....