Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and windows 11 brings a lot of new visual changes
and refinements to windows overall and i thought we'd go over all the major changes and features as
as many of you have requested since the windows 11 insider preview has been released now this will be
available as a free update to windows 10 users later this year as long as you meet the system
requirements now these requirements could change as quite a few people have been upset about them
since they don't necessarily have all of these requirements but windows 10 runs just fine and
those requirements are a one gigahertz or faster cpu four gigabytes of ram 64 gigabytes of storage
secure boot tpm 2.0 support as well as directx 12 compatible graphics if you meet those requirements
you should be good to go now i'm currently running this on a custom built pc that i made
and as you can see here if we go into settings it's an amd ryzen 7 5800 x with 32 gigs of ram
and it's also running an rtx 3090 graphics card so that's what this is currently running on we'll
talk more about settings in a moment now the first thing obviously is a major change is the
start menu or start bar is in the middle of the display now this can be customized or changed
back to the left hand side if you prefer that but this works great if you have an ultra wide monitor
for example so that's been updated in windows 11. they've also added rounded edges to everything so
if we click on start for example you'll see the corners are rounded there's some nice sort of
shadowing going on behind to give some depth and this looks more like
an android app launcher for example where you have your pinned apps here with some new icon
designs as well and then also if you want to see all of your apps you click on all apps
now you can scroll through all of your apps alphabetically so that's an updated change
and something they've updated with the start menu itself there's no more live tiles for example
below you have recommended things you may have opened recently and again you can click on more
and see more of that information or more different recommended applications you might have opened or
documents you also have your power menu here where you can restart or shut down for example
now on the desktop you can see that we have a nice background there's some new themes i'll
show you that in a moment but if we right click on one of the icons such as microsoft teams which
is also new and installed on every windows 11 pc so we'll right click and you'll see it's updated
just a little bit you have cut you have copy you also have rename and then delete so this
is updated like you would expect with the theming to match the rounded corners and also your obvious
different properties and things like that that relate to this specific application so just like
you would expect that hasn't changed much it's just a visual overhaul now the next icon as you
can see is search if i click on search you'll see that we have type to search and then you have your
top apps and recents and things like that so just like you would expect before your recent
searches or things you've opened and as you can see we have control panel all of the old ways to
manage a windows computer are still here they're in the background running if you want to change
from small icons to category for example you can do that so they haven't removed any of these yet
they're still here if you prefer that but they've just visually overhauled everything to make it a
little bit easier to use now the next thing here if we click on this we have multiple desktops we
can create a new desktop for example with a different background and theme or different
applications or we can close that out and switch between them very easily so you have that option
as well just to switch between multiple desktops if you prefer to use your computer that way
the next icon is widgets they're bringing widgets back to windows and so as you can
see i have the weather widget suggestions calendar and esports and then you can customize the size of
these with small medium or large or remove them all together of course you can add a widget and
there will be more later on but maybe we want to add tips and sports you can add those and
we can resize these to match so maybe make it medium and now everything's matching now so
they've updated this with your news sort of like the live start menu before where you had live news
and things like that but now it's a widget pane to the left again you can search the web here as well
now if you have a touch screen you can slide in from the left and use that also so they've updated
this just to make it really nice and as you can see all the transitions and movements are very
smooth even for an early build now something that they've been talking about quite a lot is called
snap layouts so if we go into microsoft edge for example and within edge we'll go home if we hover
over the maximize bar these are all snap layouts that are the most commonly used layouts now just
like before we can drag the window up to the top to make it full screen we can drag it back drag it
to the left to snap it to the left or right all of those things are still here but the most commonly
used layouts are available here so maybe we want to go to the far left with this one then we'll
open up chrome and maybe hover over this put it in the top right and then maybe open up the microsoft
store and we'll put this one in the bottom right so you can just snap things wherever you'd like
and also the layout is remembered if you connect an external monitor for example so maybe you have
an external monitor connected to a surface laptop when you plug it in it will remember this when you
leave it will go back to your main device and it won't just rearrange everything for you and have
windows all over the place so it's nice that they've added that and if we close these and
go back in you'll see that it goes back to where it was so it remembers those layouts
now the next thing you can see down here is the file explorer that's been updated just a little
bit it's just been updated to match what we had before with rounded corners for example and the
newer icons everything you would expect is still here though of course so there's those new icons
let's close that out and also settings has been dramatically changed and much easier i think
so instead of the control center we now have settings and you can see all of your settings
here now again you can access anything the old way as well if you're used to that but on the
left you have everything organized by bluetooth and devices network and internet personalization
apps gaming accessibility privacy and security and windows update now windows update has been updated
as well not only to be faster but have smaller installs and they said they'll be updating this
on a yearly cycle as far as new features so not twice a year anymore so that's a visual change i
think i like this sort of consistency they're showing throughout the os so again display if
you go into display everything's very consistent in what you would expect such as your scaling and
your resolution for example so that has been updated as well now personalization again it
follows themes like we had before so maybe if we switch to a light theme click on that
and now you can see everything shifts over to a light theme like you would expect from before
and then if you want to change the theme here you have more options to add your own wallpaper
and sounds for example and of course there's new sounds there's different colors everything
is customizable just like you would expect so you have all of these different backgrounds
you have glow you can see that's glow then you have this one here which is called captured motion
then also you have what they call flow it's just sort of a variation on the light and
dark theme you have before and then finally you have this one which is called sunrise
so sunrise looks like this so they're all very nice again with matching themes and you'll see
there's some small changes and glitches here as i have to mouse over some of these options but for
an early build it's working quite well now of course if we click on our clock and date here
in the bottom right we have our notifications like we would expect and then there's a little updated
volume icon if we click on that we have some larger buttons for wi-fi and bluetooth for example
again all updated with rounded corners just to match the overall theme nice animations throughout
so you have those options also you have a security panel where it shows security at a glance so this
is very much like we had in windows 10 if you had a virus and threat protection for example it looks
basically the same as we had before so this hasn't changed too much just with rounded corners updated
as well now they've updated the microsoft store and this one's fairly significant so not only do
we have our gaming with xbox game pass we also have auto hdr like we have on the xbox series x
where it will take the different graphics from the games that are not by default set up for hdr
and sort of enhance those areas to make them look a little bit nicer that's built into windows 11
but the biggest change i think is that you can use android apps within windows 11 through the amazon
store now google play could bring this later on that's up to google but you can see if we
go here we'll click on tick tock you have this available and you can install it on windows 11
and use it here by default it doesn't matter what processor you have it can be an amd like this one
intel or even an arm processor on a surface x for example so this should work on all the different
platforms natively so you'll be able to use all these android apps as they're released
for the device so hopefully we see a lot more of those again your normal apps are here as well so
they're encouraging different companies to add their apps here like adobe for example
and not charging a bunch to add them here so they can put their own app stores here as well now
they've also enhanced touchscreen support voice and pen support with different haptics for example
and like i said there's all of the older features here that you would expect from before so
if you go to the start menu right click on it you'll see that we have device manager
you've got disk management for example just like we had before the only difference is rounded
corners and it fades in and out like you would expect so all of the things are here that you're
used to using maybe windows terminal for example or computer management it's all here just like you
you're familiar with if you need to admin this computer so it's a really nice update
mostly visual with some nice changes just for usability i think people have been using this
at home quite a bit and realizing that it has some downfalls with windows 10 they wanted to
update it make it a little bit nicer and easier to use with things like teams for example built
right in so those are all of the major changes within windows 11 of course there's other small
changes throughout and they'll continue to update this as it gets closer to its final release
if there's anything else though you'd like to see about this let me know in the comments below
and of course i'll link this wallpaper if you don't have it already in the description like
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