
Paid third-party apps like Start11 can change it if you want, however. You can no longer do that natively, as in Windows 11, the Taskbar only stays on the bottom.

However, you can still move it back to the left if you want.īut if you want to pin your Taskbar to the right or the left of the screen, then we have bad news. This makes it look a bit more like macOS and ChromeOS. In the new operating system, Microsoft centers the Taskbar and the Start menu on the screen.

Windows 11 makes a big visual departure for Microsoft. The Windows Copilot puts Bing Chat in every Windows 11 computerīetter design and features Arif Bacchus/ Digital Trends The new Windows 11 Backup App takes another cue from the Mac
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As Moore concludes, "when the beta version of Windows 11 has been acquired from outside the Windows Insider Program, it increases risk dramatically even if the target machine is not connected to anything sensitive.ChatGPT can now generate working Windows 11 keys for free After all, if the risk of something going wrong is an issue, then grabbing a download from an unofficial source raises that bar significantly. That's the least risky option for most folk who really can't wait until the proper release, which is due before the end of the year. Instead, my advice tends to be to wait a few months more and grab the final preview release, just before Microsoft goes public, from the Windows Insider 'Release Preview' channel.

I've had people asking me for hand-holding help in setting up VMs so they can run a Windows 11 build but, with the best will in the world, if you are having trouble with getting your head around a VM, then maybe previewing early OS builds isn't really for you. Jake Moore, a cybersecurity specialist at ESET, goes further and says, "before a genuine release date, it is advised to only play with new software on air-gapped devices with little or no data held on them to mitigate any attached risk."įor most technically minded people, the testing out of early operating system builds is done using a virtual machine (VM) rather than a system required for day-to-day usage. "The easiest thing they can do to protect themselves is to only ever download software from trusted and vetted sources, usually directly from the vendor or official application stores," he advises. "People don't have to resign themselves to not getting hold of the pre-release build for fear of falling victim to malware," Sean Wright, Immersive Labs' SME application security lead, says.
