I ordered a new computer...

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My 8 year old HP Z-Book with Windows 7 has served me well! I just ordered this as it’s replacement. I hope I can figure out the windows 11 crap… Any advice for when this arrives as far as do’s and don’ts when setting it up? Is it an anxiety promoting event? I’m nervously excited. Will be running VCV Rack, CorelDRAW Standard, and Movavi video editor.

ASUS ROG Strix G18 18" Gaming Laptop, 2.5K 240Hz Display, Intel 24-Core i9-14900HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 64 GB DDR5 RAM, 2 TB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 11 Pro.

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If you can be bothered, format the disk and install windows from scratch. Then you can just install the drivers you need, and not have all the OEM bloatware that windows usually come with. Probably worth changing the power settings to max performance, other than that there’s not much I’d do. I used to spend hours tweaking windows settings for performance but these days it seems to just change itself back whenever you get updates. I’m still on windows 10 on my main laptop, but I’ve used VCV on 11 too and didn’t seem to have any problems.

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don’t know win11 (just seen here and there but never been on my pc), but I have seen that win10pro runs fine on good machines and ages very well, while the “slick” version = slow death.

you have a good machine and the “pro” version, I would not be on anxiety.

I know many of us here in the community are on win11, I’m interested as well in what they have to say about it

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I worked at a technology repair center in the 80’s. I worked on IBM PC, XT, 286, running DOS. I would format drives and install DOS and later windows, from floppy disks. haha! But I don’t know the new stuff. At all… haha! I would be happy with windows 7 forever, but there’s no support for it any more. thanks! I remain optimistic.

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My last laptop lasted over 8 years. So I was hoping to avoid the inevitable windows 10 is no longer supported. :slight_smile: I’m hoping for the best. :slight_smile: thanks

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When win7 stopped security updates a couple of years ago I got a win10 computer. I then let it update to win 11 eventually.

I’ve had no problems at all, although I don’t make super large VCV patches very often.

My ancient m-audio pci audio adapter had to go, so I did need to get a new audio device.

Before that I had probably used the win7 system for like a decade.

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I guess I’m just a rebel. I refused to get win 10 because I would loose CorelDRAW 15 which I use for my laser. It got to the point I could not open newer format files, certain websites would not work anymore… Long overdue. I was able to score a humble bundle with CorelDRAW Standard, for $35, well I paid more cause it’s for charity.

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I received my new laptop. The first thing it did was to update the BIOS. I was a but nervous, but it went flawlessly. Then it did some windows updates. It is pretty awesome. I got it setup, somewhat. I installed Movavi, a video editor, it recognized the hardware accelerator and implemented it. I did a test render of a complex scene and it is so much faster. Like wtf faster… lol

I still need to install VCV on it. will do that today. I guess I just install it, and copy my files over? Oh crap, I have to reinstall Southpole modules, I still have the file… And my VST’s… Oh crap oh crap oh crap… :frowning: :face_vomiting:

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