Windows 10: About upgrading from W10 to W11 - Skype and Windows Defender

I decided to accept the prompt to upgrade my W10 Pro to W11... it took a while over an hour but was a pretty painless experience otherwise. Only problems I've discovered so far are:1 Skype kept crashing. Fixed by going to Settings > Apps > Apps and Features - scroll down to Skype, then click the 3 vertical dots for the mini-menu and select "Advanced options". On that page opt for a "Reset". Ignore the message about data being lost. Skype is now OK and nothing is lost as far as I can see.2 a bigger issue - and you need to fix this, Microsoft! - is that just by chance I realised tha

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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Issues

Problems with W10 Anniv auto update:

Mom's: (x58 Xeon 5677) Windows Defender was not turned back on automatically (it was "on" in the 1511 edition) and she had a Trojan. Full system scan to eradicate.
Her Epson printer was knocked off, had to uninstall by Device Manager pull USB cable and reconnect cable. W10 did the rest.

Step-mom's: (HP pre built) Windows Defender not turned back on by default. Her USB Seagate Expansion Drive 2Tb was offline so all backup routines were halted. Had to rerun backup plan. Had her do a full virus scan.

Step-dad's: (Dell Optiplex tweaked upgrades) Windows Defender not turned back on by default. Full Scan.

 

What the hell, windows defender?

So, a while back I disabled windows defender via gpedit. Come to find out it's running again, and telling me my miner is a "severe" threat, despite still being disabled in gpedit. There's a few new entries related to windows defender in gpedit that didn't used to be there before. I'm guessing this happened during the big spring update. UAC keeps becoming re-enabled somehow, as well. For now I have a shitty registry key that's supposed to disable windows defender instead, hopefully it works.

Damn, Microsoft. They were pushing users to upgrade to 10 so hard, even resorting to plain trickery to get it on as many machines as possible. Now not only is it doing hardcore data mining in the background, but it's changing settings all on its own to whatever Microsoft wants. One step closer to pushing me to Ubuntu or something. I'd already be there if I didn't think it would be an arduous task learning how to computer all over again while simultaneously breaking a lot of games, which is mostly what I use this computer for...

Bill Gates needs to go back to Microsoft just so he can kick all the guys responsible for w10 squarely in the nuts. /rant

 

My w10 pc is finally ready & approved for w11 upgrade - thank you

Hey guys,
Just dropped back in to say thanks again, here's the new screen shot showing my W10 -21H1
PC is finally W11 Approved and ready to go after downloading and applying Shawn's
W10 Core Isolation Memory Integrity registry fixes.
It only took seconds to apply and it worked flawlessly. It also fixed the drivers that were stopping me from getting the Core Isolation to work in the first place.
Secure Boot and TPM are now all turned on and ready for W11 Upgrade.
Here are my PC and Windows Settings Pages showing everything all turned On
and Approved and ready for W11 Upgrade.
Thank you all so much, yr awesome and you have saved me so much time and frustration
as I was getting nowhere online until I found the W10 and W11 Forum.

WINDOW 10 UPDATE PAGE IN SETTINGS
Showing my PC is now Approved and Ready for W11 Upgrade





WINDOW 10 SECURITY PAGE
Showing Core Isolation is now turned On and ready for W11 Upgrade





WINDOW 10 DEVICE SECURITY PAGE
Showing all 3 Security Features required by Microsoft ready for W11 Upgrade
1- Core Isolation Turned On
2- TPM Trusted Platform Module Turned On
3- Secure Boot Turned On





I hope I have inserted these pics correctly, and all the best with yr own PCs
Thanks again
Cheers Kev