Rectify11: Windows 11 done correctly

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Today I am going to review the community-driven build called Rectify11. It aims to fix Microsoft mistakes with complete and fixed dark mode, actually usable default browser, no bloatware and fitting icons.
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Rectify11 - dl.malwarewatch.org/windows/m...
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[@Oblivion5367]

i wish there was an upgrade executable within the ISO, tried upgrading my father's PC only to realize the only way of installing Rectify11 is through a clean install.

[@politicallyambiguous8424]

With all the changes, I doubt a setup.exe would work.

[@Endermanch]

the upgrade executable is coming in a V3, info from head devs

[@Oblivion5367]

@@Endermanch that's really good news to hear, thumbs up for that

[@politicallyambiguous8424]

@@Endermanch Good. I'm used to the shitty unofficial versions where that and several other important features are a pipe-dream.

[@tubbunny]

@@Endermanch there is a setup file, but it errors out when you finish selecting a few options and then exits completely

[@Linda-]

windows 11 with a fluent and consistent design ? never knew i would ever witness that

[@nevernever6019]

How is this even fluent and consistent? Reactify 11 has done some major downgrades. Replacing UWP based task bar isn't upgrade it's a huge downgrade, it's not fluent and consistent at all. Updated task manager of windows 11 is much better, consistent and matches fluent design than Reactify one. Reverting old context menu makes it less fluent and inconsistent. Updating old legacy control panel is not upgrade, it's just a downgrade. Since it should be completely removed and replaced by Settings app.

[@yeatstan]

@@nevernever6019 settings app is terrible

[@ShiroCh_ID]

@@nevernever6019 no rectify actually made every micromess program actually look more consistent, for that downgrades whelp at least windows 11 isnt as downgrade as macOs can goes

[@liamsz]

@@yeatstan the win10 settings app is indeed terrible, the win11 one is much better

[@unavailable292]

@@nevernever6019 don't give the creator any ideas okay?

[@Firespecialstar]

when i see these videos, i just get sad knowing that multi-billionare companies don't want to create things that small communities are capable to do too. at the end i highly doubt that Microsoft isn't able to create a good product, they just don't want to create one and instead bloat the computers in the attempt to get more money.

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

And OEM pc are depressing HP is ok.

[@atsizbalik]

yes acually, even they made changing xbox gamertag costs 10 dollars and on windows phone age, when they added traffic racer and it was not free

[@sv_du]

The last time they cared was Windows 7

[@Oblivion5367]

@@WilliamHollinger2019 HP is also depressing

[@xanderplayz3446]

@@WilliamHollinger2019HP is an awful compant

[@jacobeii]

i realized that securing and debloating windows is so absolutely agonizing and once you do that, you get a half-broken system that cant run UWP apps and has errors while most linux distros are perfectly fine and private right out of the box

[@avagata9309]

these customs install can also just be botnets too. You should be fine with linux as long as you dont need adobe software or have to consoom some windows only game that cant be run on linux (which is very few today).

[@regav62]

@@avagata9309 what about wine and proton?

[@mayconlcruz]

@@regav62 Wine and Proton are really fine right now, I'm not gonna lie, but the main disadvantage of using a "middle man" to interpret software is that you will always be liable to find failures to run a specific feature, especially when the software in question is updated. This tends to be a no go for users who use software professionally, or those who want everything running on day one, no excuses.

[@tobyisawesome]

"Can't believe I lived long enough to witness task manager dark mode" Something tells me you aren't on the dev channel

[@MentionedBefore]

Been like that on the beta channel for a while too

[@kubmich30]

It looks very well made. And it is indeed a finally usable Windows system. As you said in the video, I think I will also install version 3 as soon as it comes out.

[@giahieuto5720]

The Rectify11 devs even managed to make the fallback 7’s basic theme looks modern

[@mulahasan8195]

Even though I don't like Windows 11 in general, I tried installing it on my dad's old pc and it runs better than an bloated install of Windows 10 on an ssd and my dad is happy as his computer is fast again. Who knew emptying the recycle bin helps make your pc faster lol

[@kantraa]

try linux and his pc would be a formula 1 race car well, unless he doesn't wanna deal with re-learning everything

[@speedy2263]

@@kantraa if he uses only internet and writes documents then linux mint + firefox + libreoffice pack. Only thing he will need to relearn is desktop look because start menu is in the same place as in windows

[@trisiegt]

@@speedy2263 _10_

[@mulahasan8195]

@@kantraa it's my dad, he gets mad even seeing a new icon In his bloody desktop. I was lucky to even be able to install the damn Windows on that thing

[@SandboxerSandy]

@@kantraa In Zorin/Linux Mint, it's going be very similar to windows

[@TheInfiniteLegend]

If I was going to make a custom gaming PC, Rectify11 would be on my PC. Props to the dev team for this, this looks spectacular!

[@enzoduvernay4540]

It's the best Windows "bootleg" I ever saw, I never trusted bootlegs but this one seems so safe, I was using 7 on my old low specs laptop, I might try Rectify 11 on my laptop after all 🤩

[@randommmmmmmmmmmmm]

don't think about it if you don't have an ssd

[@Oblivion5367]

Rectify11 is more than just a bootleg.

[@Oblivion5367]

@@randommmmmmmmmmmmm well, who uses an HDD as the boot disk nowadays? pretty much any modern computer has a SSD boot drive.

[@LordiGFX]

@@Oblivion5367 I do

[@polytelus]

@@LordiGFX Still a Warrior, I see. I used to be just like you, son. Hard drives for life. But then, the sold state army came at my door at full blast. Such a shame, that I had to give in.

[@survil321]

This actually looks really cool. Wish we got the setup redesign in the real version

[@RavenholmZombie]

I like Windows 11, but Rectify has a bunch of improvements that I think Microsoft _must_ implement.

[@bonaquack]

I used Rectify11 a while ago and I can definitely see the reason why Microsoft didn’t force dark mode on legacy apps. While most built-in apps work great, some third-party apps just don’t, to an extent of unreadable text. This breaks the backward compatibility of Windows.

[@HusseinAl-Dalawy]

They just needed to do it to all built in apps like task manager and to something like recovery mode when you enable dark mode it should effect all system apps and not 3rd party apps since they have their own dark mode (most of them do at least) and they usually just detect what mode you are using to change the light so it wouldn't have hurt them to do these simple stuff

[@SunnyShuklathedoctor]

That's one of the nuances of making Windows i believe. You want to push new things asap, but have to carefully test and try everything so that it doesn't break some weird edgecase.

[@bonaquack]

@@HusseinAl-Dalawy they did rewrite some builtin apps (yes taskmgr) to support the new API. However apps and dialogs have to support the APIs by themselves rather than Windows changes the behaviour of old ones

[@michaeldesanta317]

Excuses. They literally have the source to do things properly, they just don't want to.

[@hundvd_7]

Exactly! Thank you for saying it. Even in this video we saw plenty serious of bugs, and not all of them are as easy to fix as they seem on the surface. Not to mention the billions of little things that Microsoft _has to_ consider because of their business customers, but Rectify11 can ignore completely, and noone will even notice

[@johnarchiepadrigo4591]

I discovered about Windows 10 LTSC last month, and I'm preparing to upgrade my Windows 7 laptop. While browsing KZbin, I came upon your Rectify11 review, which looks good. I'll wait for version 3.

[@dcfuksurmom]

Honestly the only real issue I saw in this video was the graphics driver bug, which was easy enough to fix, and the bug with notepad not starting on the first try, if I wasn't on my neighbors slow ass wifi, I'd give it a spin as is in a vm or maybe a spare machine.

[@velja1312]

This build honestly looks very clean.

[@tyw877]

This may make me actually upgrade to Win11 versus switching to Linux! Go small dev team!

[@cooolgamer-vanced]

This is so awesome, I plan to upgrade my host to this build when some things will be fixed! That's why i'm still on windows10, but this build did all I wanted

[@EpicB]

I wasn't particularly interested in Windows 11 myself but this looks really nice.

[@makodb]

“cooking windows 8 with a kitchen gun” mm, makes sense

[@jbritain]

I'm not a fan of the new mouse cursor, but overall this seems really cool. It would also be nice if they came up with a solution to the new start menu, the 10 one is far superior. Edit: yes I know you can change the cursor back but I still don't like it.

[@reggyxt]

@@AndrewCzE according to them a fork specially made for rectify11 will be used so yeah

[@reptarien]

You can change the mouse cursor REALLY easily. Literally search mouse in the start menu and you can change it. Also, Classic Shell is probably what you are looking for in terms of start menu. I agree with everything you said though, just offering solutions to them.

[@Felipe_9999]

And in my opinion the 7 one is far superior than the 10 one

[@dubl33_27]

@@Felipe_9999 ok who asked

[@andrejbartulin]

Yeah, mouse cursor is bad

[@ArcticArca]

this actually looks really good and something id use rather than real win 11

[@MartinDerTolle]

Much respect to the dev team that made this. I would really like to know how msstyles work and make my own theme. I don't want to pay for Vista Style Builder.

[@vscodeproltsc884]

Your intro is so cool! I always watch it completely whereas the other boring ones will be skipped. 😅 Edit: also the password for the download link is 😂😁

[@luhgarlicbread]

I was looking at your channel and wondered when you're next upload was going to be

[@andresbravo2003]

This makes it much better than we thought.

[@Macsneese2345]

Thats good, improved installer :) And its a beutiful background i think... And hope that everything will works fine when v3 released... Good right click taskbar... And Mixed A Little With Windows 10X boot screen loading circle :/ Thumbs up! :)

[@thisfeatureisbad]

I remember that the screen tear/tilt was happening on the first day Windows 11 "not public" release. You had to use VMWare and change the resolution.

[@macbookair7914]

that Screen Wave happen when the VM is UEFI + resolution =1366x768

[@Paco0parla]

Idk, I installed windows 11 after a month out and I liked it out of the box. The context menu is a little annoying when extracting zips, but I find copy and paste easier. And Microsoft is releasing dark mode task manager in the next updates (it's already in the insiders builds)

[@longnuub]

y'know, people have different opinions

[@mineland8220]

this windows distro looks promising. will have it on my radar for later

[@toaddx]

Very cool tbh Although I have to admit that i'd not really use 2.5 on my main pc because of missing cumulative updates and because it's not quite feature-complete. Will consider when v3 comes out though!

[@AshanSanjula]

2:45 it might not a fault of this mod. It happened to me in windows 11 official installation

[@orangebanana2700]

I'm honestly amazed. What Microsoft couldn't do in 3 years this company did it in a matter of months. It's such a good improvement/tweak/OS, I'd be happy to use this as my daily OS. Btw when I try to open Rectify's website, it shows the windows 11 logo for a second and then it goes to a white screen and nothing happens. Tries this on all my devices, nothing works. Any idea what's happening? Or is this a server issue?

[@AlessGoss]

I love how Rectify11's dark theme is consistent. :)

[@weiquanlow9]

does it continue updates tho?? Like updates from microsoft to get new features and stuff

[@lalishansh]

Are Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android working correctly?

[@_GhostMiner]

Finally a version of Windows I'd consider trying out. But it still has the hideous black colour instead of user colour on backgrounds

[@gunlyrics]

Wow! This is really good. I would definitely daily-drive this. However, I am too lazy to reinstall all my programs...

[@kozeta67]

I'd really like to have this on my PC rather than just regular Windows 11. Gotta love how they redesigned the Control Panel and I hope they've also removed the redirects to the Settings app via certain Control panel links.

[@tkan2653]

Can you install hackintosh on your computer or vitual machine?

[@reptarien]

VERY interested in this. Would be willing to clean install from my current Win10 install into this if it works well later in development. I have an older ryzen 5 1600 Processor though, so hopefully that will work without the AVX support, although I want to upgrade it anyway. Very cool.

[@trisiegt]

If it needs TPM, use the registry if your board hates it (I use a maximus 7 ranger from 2012)

[@ahmediriza1323]

hey does it do the same bug when you start it up after someone else installs it, or is that only with you

[@KittyUZutty]

I use windows 11 and have been preparing to go back to Windows 10 with how little tolerance I have for it. I like the design, just not the little things even after countless tweaks. This, might actually be a good option for my main PC!

[@theverylol30]

go back to windows 10 windows 11's performance is WAY too bad on unsupported PCs

[@MSWinNT]

​@@theverylol30if you use the Rectify11 iso, performance does good

[@JynxYtube]

Legend is back

[@lukan2]

Windows 11 actually has a dark-mode-themes Task Manager in the latest version.

[@charginginprogresss]

2:46 Win11 itself does that after some updates. One minute or a reboot and it goes. Btw this applies to any app that is considered a WindowsApp, so the calculator, windows photos, etc

[@nukethief1]

Will you check out later the installer version of Rectify11?

[@reboothasyt]

This project actually makes me want to install windows now (obviously Rectify11). Just 1 question, how do you set your username to not be administrator. Or if it just throws you into the default Admin account to create your own, that wasn't really explained. However, I applaud the work that they did and thank you for showing it to us! (Why didn't Microsoft do this in the first place?)

[@Nickotoo]

it'll throw you into the default admin account, you can simply create another user afterwards with any username

[@DustySLR]

Would there be any problem if I we're to install this as my main OS on my actual PC?

[@TheEmo1]

In the old windows, they used to have code names when they were in beta, now the Windows that come out are going into beta with their name directly in the beta process. For example codname:Longhorn :( I'm using Windows 11 and it's a nice operating system running smoothly.

[@ThatRandomToast]

Codenames are now only used in documentation or something.

[@TSAMMariolover5554]

Windows 11's codename is Sun Valley and supposedly the leaked Windows 12 is named Next Valley

[@diberhaze]

i unironically bursted out laughing at the very first song

[@Napert]

windows 11 is crooked can i get a windows 11 build that completely annihilates any usability so i can finally convince myself to finally switch to linux?

[@everypizza]

Use Zorin if you're used to Linux

[@ImmortalChanger]

I can't believe I didn't install this but instead I went with the stock Windows 11, this is so much better. System wide dark theme is something that looked like not even God itself could have given, yet here we are. Once the V3 comes out, I'll consider it

[@guestincognito9659]

U released this on my birthday :)

[@mikeKidLazy]

This one looks promising. Please keep us posted when v3 comes out. Might consider installing this thingy myself at some point.

[@winexperiments]

Join the discord server (link in description)

[@mikeKidLazy]

@@winexperiments thanks

[@5cover]

Microsoft be like : Write that down, write that down!

[@whoman0385]

I have no idea how this is even possible but very cool

[@Sophron.]

Nightly upload, missed it

[@anishrashinkar316]

Legends back after a month

[@airshaped]

Is there a way to get the windows 11 taskbar? If not, what's the point?

[@zeinalfa708]

The windows 11 is not available? It says 404 not found

[@ubercrispy]

i’d switch to linux if it was compatible with my stuff i’ve tried it before and it’s crashes far too much to be a daily driver.

[@Blockmangovids]

what app did you use? because i am on windows 7 :(

[@NaeemAhmed-sw9jc]

I would have switched to linux a long time ago but the fact that most software I use is made for windows is not on linux is annoying, and sometimes wine doesn't work as intended

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

Same, PaintDotNet has nothing close to an equal on Linux. I wound up needing Krita, GIMP and Ibis Paint just to have the same level of functionality as a single program. Needless to say, until Linux gets PaintDotNet, Windows is here to stay.

[@the_mine_vn]

Welcomeback Enderman :))

[@Arthurbarbosa455]

This model of windows 11, If I install will I lose all my apps?

[@UnderfellSansTheEdgySkeleton]

As someone who already has Win11 installed it’d be cool to upgrade into this masterpiece

[@Oblivion5367]

yeah, it's really promising, and it sure would attract Windows 10 users, who were reluctant of upgrading to 11. I am one of those users by the way.

[@timurs022playz]

bro the windows logo back to the side is actually soooo good bro

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

You can put it back on the left as standard. I know that's the first thing I did, having it centred felt too "MacOS" to me, not that it's a bad thing, I just didn't like it personally.

[@lanceuppercut_]

This is very cool, I will make sure to use it the day I'm forced to upgrade to Windows 11

[@neca1542]

I was here to withness the ultimate Windows 11 build

[@fateen.binmizan]

recitfy v3 came out sometime after this video, can you try it out andrew?

[@LalawalonaTT]

yay! The ISO now works! thanks!

[@konm08]

I installed Rectify11 (v2) on a friend's 15 year old windows 7 laptop that ran unbelievably slow and had no internet access. It runs somewhat fast and has access to everything related to the laptop (USB, speaker, camera... you name it)

[@redm00n748]

What are the minimum specs for this OS? I want to try this out!

[@justinhamilton8647]

Can i install this on a computer not supported by w11?

[@Windows-wj9jr]

Windows 12 bring me to this ?

[@ArchevodSB]

yes lol

[@rostyc]

Won't updates break all of these custom features?

[@asiano3385]

I prefer functionality over visual appearance... But this is really nice.

[@brokensamsaj5]

Enderman, please tell me the location to the VMware Tools setup because mine isnt working.

[@akurasubject9617]

is it based on win11 22h2?

[@nikkiofthevalley]

1:48 Did Windows somehow read the display pitch wrong only after the installer??? How is that even possible?

[@atsizbalik]

its a vmware bug

[@gwgyt]

4:04 Microsoft added dark mode to task manager in newer insider builds

[@shadowcomputing]

Finally, a Windows 11 version I would actually use!

[@sulfur0022]

Would you say its as performance intensive as Windows 10? Or like at the same level as the usual stock Windows 11?

[@sulfur0022]

@Patrick Schlienger I meant whether the rectify11 performed at the same level as windows 10 or not

[@foogley]

@Patrick Schlienger you also post dumb shit on youtube on pc?

[@joshuafhiggins]

They should release scripts to generate the iso so that people can verify the integrity of the system

[@GabrielM01]

Just found out the windows "distro" i will be using in my VMs when i take microshits software off of my pc completely

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

If I can upgrade from my spanish-localized install I'm giving it a shot hands down, it seems they removed the worthless widget bar

[@SearInMinecraft]

I actually ran that on my main (low spec) laptop. And to be honest, it's much better and faster than the bloated Windows 10. And even faster than Windows 11.

[@zakariya2011_]

Yes even on an unsupported vm that is so slow

[@FubarMike]

Can you install this on "unsupported" hardware?

[@rocky_1904]

Where is the official site? Curious to see it

[@callmehking5690]

I mean if Rectify11 v3 will be able to upgrade from an existing Rectify11 v2 installation I might as well install it now

[@𰻝]

1:36 why does this bug happen after installation but not in Windows PE?

[@rmt74358]

Want to really bring back a good look? I and my friend were blown away at how Windows 10 or Windows 11 looks with Windows Blinds and the "Aero 7X Clear" looks on Windows. I personally have everything 100% transparent, but it really offers a close experience to windows 7 but with today's Windows features. I also use Start 11 for the Windows 10, Windows 7 or even Modern style XP start menu. With ver 22H2 Build 22621 Windows brings back the windows 10 search and give its a modern look with the curved edges instead of square. Windows has never looked so good.

[@YaSheNePrydumav]

Why are you hating the edge?

[@f1sh3boy]

I tried this out on my main PC, but gaming did not turn out to be well so I "upgraded" to actual Windows 11.

[@Oblivion5367]

interesting. the only thing that made me turn back to Windows 10 was the performance decrease, but i don't expect Rectify11 to have an impact on performance, or to be worse than Windows 11 in that aspect. if that is the case, well let's just wait till V3 comes out.

[@fred-youtube]

Enderman made a video on how to make it look like Windows 10, you can take some tweaks from that, the Chris Titus Toolbox, and uninstall stuff (Like Edge) with Revo Uninstaller to make it more usable,

[@trisiegt]

YOU MEAN DOWNGRADED? Edit: Sorry for the caps

[@lucassantossj]

@@Oblivion5367 As showed in the video they removed some drivers from the iso, so you can imagine they also removed some important components that make the software-hardware communication better.

[@c8ff]

The download link is broken.

[@Toffioy]

hello is amd athlon 250 supported for windows 11

[@Povilaz]

Holy shit finally, windows 11: really good edition.

[@Galaxy.Windows]

can they rectify Windows 10?

[@antiuu4194]

Actually, without the theme the control panel is dark but not the old like mini sections or how is it called