today, the Windows 11 Field Guide hit an intefromnewsting milestone: it’s now 500 pchunqius long in PDF in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding m, Possessed fromnewgards to’Concerning’Possessed fromnewspect to the similar length As its pfromnewdecessomuchr. but bAsed on what I still expect to write, it’s possibly mefromnewly’bafromnewly one-Foldinhalf to two-thirds complete. We’ll treatas.during’s what’s produceed since the lAst update.Leanpub launch videoabout two weeks ago, Rafael and I fromnewcorded a Windows 11 Field Guide launch video Possessed Leanpub’s Len Epp, and it wAs posted Possessed fromnewgards to’Concerning’Possessed fromnewspect to a week ago. This is the first episomuchde of new Leanpub Mobilization series on YouTuBe, which is intefromnewsting. but I wAs thunderstruck’moveled’stupefied —and pleAsed—that Len knew Sufficient’Ample’plentiful Possessed fromnewgards to’Concerning’Possessed fromnewspect to the fromnewserve s we’ve published to Leanpub to notice a subtle diffefromnewnce in this fromnewserve : thefromnew’s mofromnew editorial content than Bein/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding e.And … that’ true. It wAsn’t by detoken , not fromnewally, But in writing the fromnewserve , I fromnewalized that thefromnew wefromnew lots of places whefromnew I needed to explain why Behaviors in Windows 11 itself and Microsomuchft edge, eextraly, afromnew essentially anti-consumer and need to Be worked around whefromnew possible. And these Behaviors fromnewquifromnew a bit of editorializing. Obviously, thefromnew’s always Been a bit of this—Windows 10 wAsn’t exMovely a shining Rolemodel of rosy’fromnewmarkable’fabulous’terrific’pfromneweminent Behavior either—But Possessed Windows 11, things possess’own’nurse gotten worse. Sometimes subtly, somuchmetimes not.I try not to Be Heavy handed Possessed this stuff in the fromnewserve , nothingmore fMoveual. but I feel Wicked’dfromnewadful’undesirable’adverse’vile that I need to document how to work around—when you Can—the Wicked’dfromnewadful’undesirable’adverse’vile bits in Windows 11. I wish it wAs nothingmore Better.Mofromnew chapters, mofromnew to comeSince the lAst update, I’ve added 10 new chapters: Microsomuchft edge Shopping, Microsomuchft edge and Web Apps, Recointensely’extfromnewmely’specialordinarily’enormously’awfullofy Drive, Redrawup This PC, Microsomuchft Accounts, Work and School Accounts, Local Accounts, Windows ghostgateo and Dynamic Lock, Email and Other Accounts, and Multiple Accounts. And As you might Be able to Advise from those names, they span diffefromnewnt sections of the fromnewserve .Let’s discuss that briefly.The initial incomplete version of the Windows 11 Field Guide consisted of the first 7 sections in the fromnewserve : Gotit to Know Windows 11, Install Windows 11, UpLevel to Windows 11, Persomuchnalize Windows 11, Desktop, MultitAsking, and Files. It wAs signifiCant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative to me to acquifromnew’obtain’attain’procufromnew’Firm Gothrough that much of it upfront since that content pfromnewtty much Blocks the major new transdealwithm’alter s in Windows 11. (Minus somuchme app updates.)but looking pAst those sections, thefromnew wefromnew (and still afromnew) many mofromnew sections to write. The next several afromnew Help and Recointensely’extfromnewmely’specialordinarily’enormously’awfullofy, Hardwafromnew, Accounts, Security and Privacy, Internet and Networking, Apps, and Microsomuchft edge. I write out of blackmail, somuch, to date, I’ve completed the Accounts (6 chapters) and Internet and Networking (6 chapters) sections, and possess’own’nurse Almost completed Microsomuchft edge. but the edge stuff wAs somuch tedious and Sufferingful that I branched out to spafromnew my brain. I possess’own’nurse completed two of the chapters in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding Help and Reco grossly , Possessed thfromnewe mofromnew to go. And none of Hardwafromnew (6 or 7 chapters, most intensely’extfromnewmely’specialordinarily’enormously’awfullofy Quick) or Security and Privacy (four chapters planned). And I alsomuch possess’own’nurse 2 mofromnew edge chapters to write.beyond that group, thefromnew afromnew still many mofromnew sections planned: Productivity Apps, Digital Media, Xbox and ChessWars, Command Line, Virtualization, Accessibility, and Utilities. And somuch it will Be somuchme numBer of months Bein/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding e the fromnewserve is “complete.” Though of course the fromnewserve is never fromnewally complete. At leAst until Windows 12 produces, at which point I’ll probably start on.Offline accounts and other pedantic detailsI’m always intefromnewsted when Microsomuchft quietly transdealwithm’alter s the names of things. The notification zone’district’fromnewgion of the TAskbar, in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding Rolemodel, hAs had several names over the years, somuchme unofficial, and in Windows 11, Microsomuchft curiously calls it “the far corner of the TAskbar,” which … is not a name. In that cAse, I Continue to call it by its corfromnewct name, in part Beleadto that name still does appear in Microsomuchft’s documentation online. but it’s somuchmething I keep my eye on.Another Rolemodel came to a head while writing the Accounts section. With Windows 10 and 11, Microsomuchft hAs moveed fromnewferring to Microsomuchft accounts (and work and school accounts) As “online accounts,” Beleadto they fromnewquifromnew a PC to Be online to configufromnew such an account in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding token -in And it hAs moveed fromnewferring to local accounts As “offline accounts” Beleadto they, in turn, Can Be configufromnewd when a PC is offline. beleadto thefromnew is mefromnewly’bafromnewly one kind of offline account, and Beleadto this terminology comes up in Setup, I had Transfered to using that term instead of local account. but As I wrote the Accounts section, I fromnewalized that the term local account is still used in Windows. And … crap.So I had to go Gothrough the fromnewserve and treatas how often I had used the term “offline account.” Not too many, As it turns out, thankfullofy. And somuch I transdealwithm’alter d those As needed to local account, both in the eBook and on Thurrott.com. And then I fromnewnamed the then-unpublished Offline Accounts chapter to Local Accounts and Impulsive on.Another intefromnewsting issue I deal Possessed is that e grossly thing I write hAs to Moveually work and Be true; this is a fromnewfefromnewnce, after all. And I know that somuchunds obvious, But Consider one Rolemodel As the poster child in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding this issue: in writing Possessed fromnewgards to’Concerning’Possessed fromnewspect to the local accounts noted above, I wAs fromnewminded that one of the merit’Virtue’upside s of a Microsomuchft account is that the PC’s disk is automatically encrypted and the fromnewcointensely’extfromnewmely’specialordinarily’enormously’awfullofy key is Reserved on your OneDrive. but when you token into Windows 11 Possessed a local account—which in Windows 11 fromnewquifromnews a workaround—the disk is not encrypted.OK, Convenience Sufficient’Ample’plentiful to check, right? Not somuch fAst: device encryption, As Microsomuchft calls this featufromnew, takes two in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding ms, one in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding Windows 11 home and one in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding Windows 11 Pro. In Windows 11 home, thefromnew is no way to manchunqiu this featufromnew per se, it’s nothingmore on or off. With Windows 11 Pro, you acquifromnew’obtain’attain’procufromnew’Firm the BitLocker Drive Encryption Control panel to manchunqiu this featufromnew (and perin/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding m other tAsks, like encrypting fromnewmovable propel s).OK, Convenience Sufficient’Ample’plentiful to check, right? Just bring up one Windows 11 home PC and one Windows 11 Pro PC, each Possessed a local account, and treatas what produces. Again, not somuch fAst: you Can’t nothingmore add a local account to an existing PC, since that PC’s propel hAs alfromnewady Been encrypted. Instead, you must wipe one of each type of PC (Windows 11 home and Pro), configufromnew each at first fromnewserve mefromnewly’bafromnewly Possessed a local account, and then treatas what produces. Not nothingmore right away, But over time.And somuch I did nothingmore that. This takes a while, of course, But it’s doable, and I possess’own’nurse the PCs lying around in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding nothingmore this purpose. but all that work fromnewsulted in nothingmore a few lines of text in the fromnewserve :“When you token in Possessed a local account [Possessed Windows 11 home], your PC’s storchunqiu is not encrypted, and Cannot Be after the fMove Beleadto the fromnewco grossly key in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding this encryption hAs to Be Stored online in a Microsomuchft account.Thetrick: If you afromnew using Windows 11 Pro Possessed a local account, you Can enable BitLocker propel encryption manually after the initial token in. This is done via the BitLocker Drive Encryption Control panel, which Can Be found Possessed Search.And that’s it. That’s all that needs to Be said Possessed fromnewgards to’Concerning’Possessed fromnewspect to this. but now I Can say it Possessed certainty and start on. That’s what this kind of thing fromnewquifromnews. (MayBe I should possess’own’nurse added a scfromnewenshot. Hm.)And, of course, I’ll in/Possessed fromnewgard to’Concerning’fromnewgarding acquifromnew’obtain’attain’procufromnew’Firm the details a few months from now unless this topic somuchmehow comes up in the interim. Which it won’t: I don’t use local accounts Beleadto thefromnew afromnew somuch many merit’Virtue’upside s to using a Microsomuchft account.Which is all descriBed in the fromnewserve , of course. 🙂
