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Afternoon all. I'm sure we've all seen the Windows 11 stuff out there and the "issue" of many many slightly older devices not being compatibleand it seems like Microsoft have screwed us all in to having to buy new PC's. Well, I've just completed a Windows 11 upgrade to a 10 yesr old Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop by following the advice here: It took a total of 7 hours(!) BUT it went very smoothly indeed with zero glitches of the type that often have us IT guys rolling our eyes when we do this sort of thing And having followed the advice in the video, for my install at least, I did NOT have to log in to a Microsoft account which is great 'cos I don't have one and don't want one. For what it's worth the laptop I have used as a test bed has about 50% of free space on a 480Gb mechanical hard-drive and 16Gb of RAM. I used a SanDisck USB3 stick for the media creation tool on a USB3 port on the PC. I'm posting this from the newly upgraded laptop to see how it behaves and it's pretty good. During the install I chose the option to preserve all my apps and data and so far, it all seems to be present and correct, although I did do a back-up before I started the upgrade, naturally. The 7 hours install time does NOT include taking a back-up first so make sure you have plenty of coffee/tea/beer to hand. I'm usually not one to recommend early adoption of new technologies as I tend to abide by the "buy first, buy worst" aphorism, BUT I know there may be some of you who are keen to try Windows 11 so I thought I'd share my experience so far. I will update this thread as I use it more and report any issues.

If he'd kept the momentum going, that would have been awesome! Wasn't me, by the way... 😂

Regular monthly meet 19.30 Thursday 2nd December at The Crown Inn Bridport DT6 4AX. Hope to see you there.

Anyone else fancy it? So far we have: 1. @Rush Motorsport 2. @Arrive and Drive 3. @maurici 4. @AdamR 5. @Pco Snowo dorifto!

Driver numbers attendance at specific venues is analysed ever year and popular venues stay in the calendar as long as the the organising clubs accept us and believe that quite a few Westfields will attend and support their sprits/hillclimbs. We also try to get a good spread all over the country.. The most popular and well attended events this year were Blyton, Anglesey, Harewood hillclimb, 3 Sisters and Loton Park hillclimb

It tries to in so far as they are embedded, but they are easy to delete or "switch off" so they don't nag. Don't forget to pay attention to the Start-Up menu in Task Manager too Also installed are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime and a bunch of other crap that can be uninstalled with a simple right-click > Uninstall. I'm just ploughing through those at the moment. I didn't think much of Edge when it first came out but having used it a bit it's not so bad. Under the hood it's the same as Google Chrome but with a Microsoft front end. A trot through the settings has it behaving 95% as I want it to, which is enough for me to get along. My default browser is Chrome FWIW.

@CherryTreeFW I am a member of Kitnet and the founder Colin is a local to me here in Bristol - he drives a lovely Yellow/Black Duratec Westy. They are quite active in this area, very open to any type of kit and don't have any hang ups as long as you are polite and don't stir stuff up - bit like us! They run a number of excellent track days with PJ's Track Days(Profits to charity) days down here at Castle Coombe or Pembray (Not last year as rules changes). There are regular monthly pub meets as well as other socials, a good help section and also offers of tools/big kit loans etc. As @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said, just be careful of the info/answers as there are just as many opinions there as here...

No harm is joining Facebook groups etc. Can help you connect to the local kit scene.

@Westfield Parts Dept have you got any Carbon Exhaust Cans in yet?

Whoever it was needs to say a thank you to the video Truck/Coach driver who had their wits about them and stopped in time. Me thinks the westy would have lost that meeting for sure.

No ones going to own up to cutting lanes like that.......

Thanks guys. It was a fraught last few events as my engine blew up at Blyton in September with 6 rounds left. Whilst I had a spare engine I didnt have time to fit it before 4 of the last 6 rounds at Curborough 2 weeks later so withdrew and fitted it over that weekend in time for the last 2 rounds at Castle Combe this weekend. As it turned out, results went my way at Curborough and I need not have bothered but I cemented the championship with 2 more maximum points anyway. Its been a good season as I finished 8th in the British Sprint as well to cap it off. Big thanks to Troy at sponsors Northampton Motorsport for making a slot for me to have the spare engine mapped 2 days before the event and to @pete g for letting me drive his incredible Ecboost Mygale at Anglesey in between Blyton and Curborough. Club member love 😍

Back up for wet days at Cadwell.. save me changing wheels over..

Been there, done that. Not me tho.

The track day section doesn’t look very busy!