FAQ:
>How do I activate Windows?
github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
HWID2 generates and registers a permanent legitimate license on MS's activation servers
Usage: paste into Powershell, run.
irm https://get.activated.win | iex
>and Office?
Same method, use Ohook
You can also use Office.com if your needs are very minimal
or try OnlyOffice/LibreOffice and set it to save in MSOffice file formats

>What version should I install?
W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
>Binary identical to Enterprise except no MS Store or apps
>Preinstalled with: Edge & Win32 system apps
>10 years support on "IoT LTSC", 5 for "LTSC"
>Manual version upgrades
IoT LTSC 2022: https://pastebin.com/rHcgvYS7

W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024
>Same as W10 version except:
>UI written in React Native aka JavaScript including: Start, Taskbar and Explorer that lags even on i9s
>Use only if you fell for the 12th+ gen Intel meme and need the new CPU scheduler
>Wait for IoT LTSC 2027 if you can

Installing apps on LTSC
>use WinGet or install MS Store in CMD with: wsreset -i

W10/W11 Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise/Enterprise IoT
>Preinstalled with: Edge, Win32 system apps, MS Store, OneDrive, Weather, Movies, Music, Candy Crush, etc
>Auto-reinstalls apps on feature updates
>1.5-3 years support
>Forced version upgrades

>ISOs:
Windows IoT LTSC https://pastebin.com/ywkasnhM
Windows https://pastebin.com/nUMgAr0b
Office https://pastebin.com/G8w5qu6z

>Should I debloat / build my own ISO?
If you need to ask, then no.
If you know what you're doing:
https://pastebin.com/S5VKBirt

>Portable programs & reinstall-proofing
https://pastebin.com/Zh7WSbJ2

>Useful programs (new installs, essentials, utilities, adobe, etc)
https://pastebin.com/hN8nnwns

>I miss Windows##
OpenShell/RetroBar/WinClassic/StartIsBack

>LTSC Install Guides
https://rentry.org/windowsinstallguide
https://rentry.org/concisewin10
https://rentry.org/ltsc
https://rentry.org/fwtarchive

Previously on /fwt/: >>105610240

>>105654944
>>105655176
>>105657369
Just pirate PC video games in the Steam RIP website. All of them are free and they have zero viruses! You don't have to install anything and you don't have to rely on seeders just to download anything from that website!

https://steamrip.com/

You're welcome!

I'm not gonna lie I don't get the hate for W11 over 10, yes they are installing bullshit AI and bloating with ads, but it's relatively easy to turn off, Microsoft basically encourages you to pirate their software, and it's really the only modern OS that just works, while still being able to configure shit the way you want it.

>>105657647
SteamRIP is definitely one of the good ones

What does the get.activated.win script do? How do I know it's safe (not is it safe, how do I know things like this are safe)?

When updating drivers to a newer version with nvcleanstall, do I need to use ddu first and remove the old one?

>>105658134
Downloads the script, gives it a random hash so Defender doesn't get mad and runs it from the temp folder. That's the most of what it does.

>>105658159
Always remove drivers with DDU before installing a new one

Is there anyway to nigga rig the Windows 11 HDR tool to Windows 10?

>>105657706
Sheeple, who vastly outnumber intelligent people today, circlejerk the "durr it's full of ads and spyware" line until it becomes a moral panic, so people stay away from the recently-released Windows X+1. This is always the first step, and has been since at least Windows XP, when tards with always-on internet connections started flooding into computing. Before that, most users had a clue what they were doing, and internet access wasn't assumed by either the OS or said users.

The second step is that people who are in the know - group that, nowadays, is a single-digit percentage of the user base - look through Group Policy and the registry, see all the new options Microsoft provided, and change the ones that alarm them. This starts as .REG files and/or long, annoying command-lines on Superuser. But as time goes by, they get refined into memescripts, then friendly GUIs, to deploy these changes.

By the third step, all smart computer users (15% and still dropping in 2025) know that Windows X+1 is good stuff once you configure it. Being smart, they're employed - so spending $1,000 to run a next-generation OS isn't an issue. Knowledge that Memescript v168.04 makes Windows X+1 great is getting out. But the sheeple have a problem: they've spent the last two years screaming how bad X+1 is, and they can't just change their opinion without wrecking their credibility. A portion of this group will go on to become Windows X "baby ducks", because holding onto a dead OS is better than admitting they were wrong.

>YOU ARE HERE<

At the fourth step, every new computer comes with Windows X+1. Poors are finding computers in the trash that are plenty good enough to run Windows X+1. Windows X goes out of support. 10 year old computers are being replaced, and drivers for Windows X dry up. Software starts having Windows X+1 as its minimum requirements. A "killer app" comes along, and suddenly Windows X+1 is now 90%+ of the market.

Then we hit step 5: Windows X+2 is released...

>>105658478
I look like that and say that.

Man if somebody's never even used 365/Intune/Enterprise/that Azure shit, or even have access to those dashboards on the site in the first place, how the utter fuck do you make M$ stop once one of their Very Thoroughly QA-Tested Updates weaves right through all your autoupdate blocks to shit itself right in your lap and APPARENTLY brand your computer with a fucking DEATH MARK doomed to nonstopneternal restrictive Enterprise auto-provisioning/"Flighting"/"Managing"/doing whatever Intune or MDM or Enterprise bullshit to your account automatically without consent the instant it's logged into even so much as a browser or just the store app on a given computer, not even logging into as that account directly, jesus christ. Like it's just invisibly tied to the fucking account at this point so I'm beginning to doubt I can just Regedit or drive format their shit away

>>105658573
Can't you just go to the MS account web settings and detach the account/hardware from whatever cloud you're connected to?

I'm confused, does the gravel command activate 11 iot ltsc or not? From what I'm reading it sounds like if you want an activated w11 iot ltsc you have to use some shady unofficial iso right?

>>105658731
Course it does. 11 LTSC isn't special.

>>105658573
Anon, if you think any other ?aaS offering is better, I'd like you take a look at this antique bargain bridge...

>>105658742
not LTSC, IoT LTSC, the command literally said it can't activate Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC Evaluation editions, which are the only ISO's microshit officially puts out

>>105658785
Anon what are you doing using an evaluation ISO. You fell for a noob trap.
Get the ISO from the massgrave repo.

>>105658795
I know they have an iso but my point is it's not an iso released from an official channel so someone could have fucked with it right?

>>105658818
No anon it isn't fucked with. It wouldn't be offered if it was tampered with. Massgrave is very reliable and lauded in the community.

>>105658821
Okay cause I'm installing this one, if microshit sues me or rajesh steals my blACKed porn then so be it

>>105658834
Yes that's the two links to the same 11 IoT LTSC ISO. Remember to use Rufus to flash it.

>UI written in React Native aka JavaScript including: Start, Taskbar and Explorer that lags even on i9s

Is there any source for this? All I could find is the settings menu, and the recommendations tab in the start menu is made with React.

>>105657591 (OP)
What a funny-looking dog.

>>105658620
That's the problem: I'm not actually, "officially" connected to jack fucking shit; any pages I go to for Insider or 365 or whatever either say I'm not connected yet or can start my free trial now (just enter my credit card here) or in the case of cloud syncing miscellaneous account data, I can keep clicking that button to erase everything but nothing changes so it must not have anything to do with that bullshit.

But I know it isn't just some shit from a shifty ISO because I pulled this shit clean from the UUP dump, didn't tweak it, went right in, and yet if I go root around in the registry and export a few keys I'll find crap in a long convoluted string value compiling a history of promos and free trials and old subscriptions I let run dry on my M$ account YEARS ago.

>>105658843
this is uhh... eerily comfy

>>105659055
The very best 11 experience you can get. Enjoy, anon.

I've studied and graduated from CS and I realized that computers are boring. The only time I was interested was when I was programming something because it lead to something actually being made.

>>105658942
It's actually a pair of big tits

I still can't find what kind of windows process is trying to get all my disks smart data when idle. All I know something call it through wmi.

>>105658478
...well, it's more of a comment really.

It's amazing how much less crap Win11 IoT LTSC has. Finally took the plunge.
Are there any big downsides on a non-gaming laptop??? I use it for coding, media consumption and just some browsing...

>>105660344
It's just 11 Enterprise at the end of the day really, just with barely any included UWPs and a long EoL (I think it lasts until 2035). After you install abbodi's VCRedist AIO pack and the .NET 8.0 desktop runtime you shouldn't have any issues running programs.

>>105660368
>After you install abbodi's VCRedist AIO pack and the .NET 8.0 desktop runtime you shouldn't have any issues running programs.
Gonna do it now. Thanks!

>>105658859
The OP is a no-coder who doesn't know what the purpose of React Native is or how it functions. React Native or JS has nothing to do with Explorer being "slow", if it is.

is bypassing the windows 11 requirements in rufus necessary when installing it to an supported modern system? any downsides bypassing them? and you can re-enable them later anyway, right?

>>105660889
>do i have to go to jail when i didnt commit a crime?

>>105660889
It just bypasses the checks during the setup stage (AFAIR Rufus injects the LabConfig keys to boot.wim's registry hive). The install itself shouldn't be affected.

>>105660930
figured as much. i will take of the tick and see what happens.

>>105660889
Just add all the bypasses to the flash even if you know you don't need them. No reason not to.

>>105658620
>>105658991
>a history of promos and free trials and old subscriptions
That's persistent hardware ID and MS will never delete that data
Only way is to delete your old MS account AND dispose of all your old motherboards

>>105660930
>AFAIR Rufus injects the LabConfig keys to boot.wim's registry hive
Does it?
I know it creates autounattend.xml with check disablers but never heard about it modifying registry hives directly.

>>105661448
NTA but these days I think it's a more direct editing.

Probably a retarded question, I have a windows partition that I use explicitly for muh simulation games. The C: partition is only used for the system and a couple of essential programs. The 90 gigs I gave it used to be enough but I constantly have to remove installed programs for it and clear caches but it keeps filling up through time. The disk cleanup tool only found like a 100 MB of shit to clear up.
I know that on linux when the drive space starts running low without me installing anything I can just delete the package manager cache and some temp files, is there something equivalent in windows that gets clogged up with update files?

>>105661914
If you don't do regular major version upgrades than windows keeps piling up layers upon layers of minor updates just in case some programs might require specific old version of some system component.
That's what WinSxS folder is for, if it's too big it's not safe to clean manually but it will be cleaned if you upgrade to newer major version (for example 23h2 to 24h2 etc) even in-place upgrade without wipe will help.

>>105661914
If it's not WinSxS than it might be SoftwareDistribution bloat which would be a sign of broken windows update stuck on redownloading. It is safe to delete but requires manually stopping update service and taking ownership first.

Just how vulnerable is Windows XP on bare metal these days?
I have an old legacy computer I'd want to boot up and do a fresh install of its native OS that it came with, but I see youtubers making videos about instantly getting viruses and shit when connected to the internet. Is it actually that bad or are they up to something?

Some people online say don't connect it to the internet at all. Would it be fine to download the update and patch it to SP3 before connecting it or is SP3 even insta nuked when connected?

>>105662580
It's probably not that bad but I wouldn't do anything sensitive like logging into online accounts or do anything with important data

>>105662580
Personally I'd say that you should firewall deny everything but your web browser (which should be MyPal68)

>>105662612
>MyPal68
Which is better between this and Supermium?

>>105662632
MyPal68 if you want Firefox, Supermium for Chromium.

>>105662645
I'm seeing this on the Mypal68 github, this seems like a dealbreaker. Supermium doesn't have this problem

>>105662667
Well if Supermium doesn't have this issue that you think you'll run into then use that.

>>105657591 (OP)

Did anybody ever get around to doing better than that one guy who tried to make a custom digital audio driver pack to replace the shitty paid Windows Store version of Dolby Atmos that doesn't even work by default for normies anymore because the geniuses removed AC3 from 24h2

I went back looking for that mod job someone threw together years ago but the thread was closed and the folders were empty

any ideas why w10 ltsc iso doestn work in ventoy?

what are some good software alternatives to more of the mainstream programs? ie:
mpv > vlc
7zip > winrar
or any other good software like everything, notepad++, etc

>>105661448
When it comes to this specific option, it does directly modify the hives. Word of God (Akeo) says:
https://superuser.com/a/1812525
Only when it is not able to does the tool set the registry keys in autoattend.xml as a fallback.
>>105661914
>90 gigs
It might not be sufficient, unless you like your drive barely having any free space. Take in count:
>base Windows image (open install.wim with 7-Zip and see which edition indexes take how much space, or use the right DISM command to display index information)
>pagefile (virtual memory) and hibernation file (saving your user state when you sleep/hibernate)
>Component Store (WinSxS), where all the system component and feature packages are located, side-by-side assemblies - the latest stuff are hardlinked to respective system folders; older packages are located in case you want to uninstall an update, or when a program requires a specific version of some assembly (avoids DLL Hell in the process); DISM has SxS-specific commands, including doing a cleanup of older update packages
>Driver Store (PnpUtil/DISM can be used for managing driver packages, including removing and uninstalling - DriverStoreExplorer serves as a nice GUI)
>Shadow Copies (incl. System Restore points)
>crashdumps
>user profiles, including user-scope application data (AppData) and user registry hive (NTUSER.dat)
>system-wide application data (ProgramData)
>temporary files (%TEMP%)
>populated registry hives
>NTFS metafiles (some anon a couple generals back ended up with a bloated $TxF folder, containing transactional NTFS metadata - circa 12 gigs)
>installed programs and drivers
not to count OEM bloatware - I assume it's a clean Windows install, not some OEM recovery shit.

WizTree will gladly tell you which files and folders take so much space. BCUninstaller is good for uninstalling programs and removing its leftovers that the uninstaller might've forgot. BleachBit with Winapp2 cleaners is also reliable for cleaning junk files.

reporting back on my weird issue of launch steam freezing my entire desktop from the last thread:
i have a laptop with integrated and dedicated graphics. the igpu is disabled in bios, and also disabled in device manager, but after an update it got re-enabled in device manager, which seemed to caused steam to sperg out looking for it for some reason and softlocking the os. disabling it in device manager once again looks to have fixed the problem.

just posting for future reference to help out any laptop bros who have this extremely specific problem. i dunno if its steam or windows in general trying to utilize an igpu thats disabled at bios level but its fucking gay.

I love Windows!

>>105663714
It does, you're doing something wrong.

>>105662366
>>105662330
awesome, thanks. I have LTSC so IDK if there are any major versions at all...

>mzinho ate a booger out of his nose
lmao

>>105666005
LTSC does not upgrade itself so it's especially prone to WinSxS bloat, but if you have 11 24h2 it is new enough to rule that out.

How do I use obs on windows so that it doesn't show my programs like tor and other stuff and bookmarks on my web browser? I need to send it to a teacher but I don't want to seem as if I'm trying to hide something either.

>>105658478
It's true.
I've been primarily Linux since 2010 (was Mac for about four years prior to that... obviously Windows before that). I avoided the shit out of Windows until around the time Windows 10 came out.
Windows 10 was pretty alright. Windows 11 isn't bad at all. I don't understand the hate either of them get -- I'm honestly tempted to use it as my primary driver.

i wish more secksy 2d women got posted in /fwt/

>>105657591 (OP)
Hello friends, how can I use Windows 7 in 2025? I love my precision touchpad and Microsoft Edge (with ublock Origin) but I miss the awesome UI. Could I use Windows 8.1 instead? What do you guys recommend?

>>105666731
Check the Eclipse forums for links for Windows 7 Updated v5. One of the best ISOs you could use to install a Windows 7 you could use today.

>>105664351
I love Windows too!

>>105666612
>he's still going through puberty!
You have to be 18+ years old to post in the 4chan, buster!

>>105666774
Dipsy-chan and GeminiPro-chan on a date while 4o-chan watches from the bushes...

How to actually remove MsMpEng.exe in a clean way that doesn't require 3rd party code?

>>105666744
Thank you anon I'll try that out, I have a couple of PCs with old hardware that need as much help as possible for day to day tasks and Office 2010 is good enough for them

>>105666981
The only way is with ionuttbara's Defender Remover script. There's no first party way to remove it from a Windows install because MS don't want you to do that (besides just installing a new AV to turn it off.)
The only other way pretty much being using the group policy to disable it (though not before turning off Tamper Protection in the settings) and restarting, hopefully showing that your Defender is now being "managed by your organization"

Somebody please tell me what the 16MB MSR partition is actually for. As far as I can tell, it exists solely to be a thorn in your ass if you try to resize the EFI partition...

>>105663928
MPV, WinRAR (way better at dealing with S-JIS ZIPs, yes they still exist, and RAR is better than 7z), Everything, Notepad++
FastCopy https://fastcopy.jp/ better than TeraCopy
WizTree https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ call anyone still using WinDirStat a retard
PowerShell - go install PowerShell 7
GoldWave https://www.goldwave.com/ fuck Audacity. If it's not complicated enough to make opening Audition or a DAW worth it, I still use this stanky ass shit

Various tools for images:
TweakPNG - easily remove PNG metadata of any kind
OptiPNG - Optimize PNGs
jpegoptim - Optimize JPEGs
jpegli - best JPEG compression. XnViewMP has it as an optional JPEG encoder, I have cjpegli in PATH for using with some scripts

>>105667594
It's basically just placeholder "reserved" space and also part of the MS's GUID standard. You can move it using something like AOMEI or MiniTool.

just woke up and all sites are loading super slow today
tested my internet speed and it's 900 mbs as it should be
could it be a problem at the isp?

>>105667809
DNS problem maybe? Have you restarted your router? I know it sucks doing that because of the 15 min first captcha timer but it could work

>have laptop with w11
>battery is full and laptop is plugged in
>want to clean my laptop
>shut it off and unplug charger
>spend 5 minutes cleaning laptop
>replug laptop
>turn on laptop
>battery now at 55% and its charging
>mfw
Should I be concerned?

Please pardon me for my inexperience, but what's the difference between Windows 11 Enterprise and Pro?

>>105668124
Think of Enterprise as the mother edition. Pro is basically that but with a lot more restrictions added to it, but not as much as Home.
You should always use Enterprise, you're just gimping yourself if you use Pro or Home.

All Windows SKUs fall into four different market segments: Server, Business, Consumer and Embedded. Enterprise (which is a "Business" edition) is the "base" version of Windows: in the Microsoft build labs, they compile Enterprise (this is why Insider versions, build leaks etc. are all Enterprise), then add/remove parts, and/or change some settings, to target different markets. Then they throw in a license agreement suitable to that market segment, and off they go.
This is how the market segments are divvied up:
>add server components = server editions
>do nothing = business editions
>hardwire certain config options, remove high-level parts = consumer editions
>remove low-level parts = embedded editions
The segments are then further divvied up to make the actual SKUs. Server editions:
>do nothing = server datacentre
>remove highend server components = server standard
Business editions:
>do nothing = enterprise
>change a couple of registry values to be "kid friendly" = education
As an aside, while Education is technically a "Business" edition (and as such, based on Enterprise), it's often included in "Consumer" edition Windows ISOs for some reason.
Consumer editions:
>do nothing = pro
>re-enable workstation features = pro for workstations
>change a couple of registry values to "kid friendly" = pro education
This is the difference between the Education and Pro Education SKUs: the former is an Enterprise-derived "Business" edition, the latter is a PfW-derived "Consumer" edition.
>remove all support for active directory = home
Microsoft include a lot of management tools (such as the User Manager, Group Policy Editor etc.) in the "Active Directory support" section of the Windows source code: removing AD support removes those tools too. This why Home is such an unconfigurable SKU.
Embedded editions:
>remove all user-facing uwp apps and slap on extended support = [iot] ltsc
>remove the ui, add server components = server core
>remove as much as you possibly can = windows pe

>>105668590
>>105668556
I see, so if I wanted to download the Enterprise edition, I should be downloading the Business edition?

>>105668598
Yes, 10/11 Business includes Enterprise.

>>105668603
I assume Business includes other versions as well, like Pro and whatnot?

>>105668605
Yeah it includes a bunch of editions within it besides Enterprise, but don't bother with them

>>105668609
I see I see. I ordered a new 2TB nvme drive to replace my 500GB one, I think I'll be installing the Enterprise version of Windows 11 on it.
Thank you for your insight!

>>105668612
Sounds good fren
Just remember to keep an exe of ShutUp10 on the install USB so you can run it before the install connects to the internet, as you should be installing it offline beforehand (a Rufus USB will let you instantly select "I don't have internet" at the network screen in the OOBE.)

>>105668625
Oh my, I've never used that tool before. I'll start using it, thank you!

>>105667761
AOMEI wanted something like 7 hours to move it. Shrinking C in minitool, restarting to winre, nuking everything before C:\ then recreating ESR and MSR was faster lol. Didn't think to try minitool in WinRE but it wanted a subscription to make rescue media.

>>105669176
MiniTool is usually recommended before AOMEI I guess but glad it worked out

>>105664280
>i dunno if its steam or windows in general trying to utilize an igpu thats disabled at bios level

It's a Windows thing, the igpu shouldn't even be detected by Windows and shouldn't show up in Device Manager if it is disabled in the BIOS, but I've noticed from searching "igpu disabled in BIOS but still showing in Device Manager" that there are some additional steps needed in Windows after disabling in BIOS

IMO those steps shouldn't be needed, Windows should be smart enough to realise that the igpu is no longer there and should no longer attempt to load the driver or show in Device Manager, but here we are it seems

>>105665773
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
sudo mv windows.iso /mnt/usb
i mean it works with linux isos

>>105671941
Windows ISOs aren't hybrid like Linux ones are so this kind of flashing doesn't work. You need to either use the ISO with a Ventoy disk or manually make a FAT32 USB using wimlib to split the install.wim file into chunks.

What are some cool custom cursors and sounds that I can install?

>>105668612
Massgrave explains it

So I tried to slipstream Simplix's stuff on a Win 7 iso, enabled CSM and Precision Boost Overdrive, disabled the Resizable BAR and Precision Fmax thing (I have an Asus B550M board) but it still freezes/hangs during the this screen right before I can get to the installation setup

Currently on Floorp, a Firefox fork and I can't stand it anymore, too many websites I use don't work and force me to open Edge. What chromium browser should I migrate to?

>>105673453
I've been rocking this one for over 10 years, it just looks neat to me

wtf is this shit? how do I bypass this?

>>105674618

What's a good CBR/CBZ reader for Windows?
I tried YACReader, but it had a fatal flaw: you can't change pages with a single click, only with the keyboard.
Any recommendations?

The Powershell I see when I click pic related is different from the one I see when I Win+R "powershell"
Is this just me? Furthermore the new one is black/white like cmd and the old version is the cool fancy transparent blue

Look at this shit. How do I fix it
Is this just windows retardation that everyone has

>>105675384
>>105675398
Did you alias "pwsh" to "PowerShell" or something? WinR "pwsh" is normally what launches the one on the left.

>>105675405
WinR "pwsh" launches a third one kek, the one on left but with the blue fancy color this time
Idk what I did, but it's really annoying

>>105675452
Weird. Might just be the order of your path variables. PowerShell launches Windows PowerShell (5) and pwsh launches 7.x here.

>>105673548
Easiest way out: install Windows 8.1 (there have been update packs available for it in MyDigitalLife, just make sure you use the latest official ISO with Update 3 as a base), and slap a Win7 Aero visual style plus StartIsBack+, OldNewExplorer and glass8 (try finding a license or a crack for it - or hope that OpenGlass-legacy didn't completely drop support for 8.1). The TILEZ-based tablet UI is one of the biggest fuckups by microshart, although that can be ameliorated. Plus with 8 introducing native support for modern hardware standards (like USB3, NVMe, UEFI Class 3 support - including GOP support, HID over I2C, etc.), expect much less hardware-related fuckups.

But if you are still eager to install 7. Consider this:
>did you drag and drop the ISO to UpdatePack7R2's executable, and flashed the output ISO (Rufus, or maybe booting from the ISO image file with Ventoy?)
>Windows 7-era bootfiles and the setup engine doesn't really like your hardware; maybe it's best to transplant install.wim into a Windows 10 install ISO? - Enthousiast's MDL Win7 tool does this sort of trick
>or just use WinNTSetup to deploy Windows? (hell, you can even deploy Windows manually by yourself - make use of diskpart to prepare your drive and the right partition layout for GPT/MBR, use DISM to apply the system image to the Windows partition, then install the boot manager and make the system bootable with bcdboot)
>presumably your mobo's CSM implementation is actually fucking shite? In which case CSMWrap might help.

I hope you find the right drivers for the hardware, and whether that one chink modder offers them for your AyyMD mobo.

>>105675711
So it's a common thing to have multiple Powershells. That at least makes me feel a little better but man Powershell needs to get its shit together

>>105675869
"Windows PowerShell" 5.x comes installed with Windows and hasn't changed since 2016. 7.x is something you installed manually, has some new features, missing some older management ones that they're still adding back.
>Version 5.1 is the first to come in two editions of "Desktop" and "Core". The "Desktop" edition is the continuation product line that uses the .NET Framework, and the "Core" edition runs on .NET Core and is bundled with Windows Server 2016 Nano Server. In exchange for smaller footprint, the latter lacks some features such as the cmdlets to manage clipboard or join a computer to a domain, WMI version 1 cmdlets, Event Log cmdlets and profiles.[27] This was the final version exclusively for Windows. Version 5.1 remains pre-installed on Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022, while the .NET version needs to be installed separately and can run side-by-side with the .NET Framework version.[100][101]

>>105674537
do you have a webm of it in action

>>105676939
check the animations here
https://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/pulse-glass

I believe the place where I originally downloaded it it's gone but this one looks legit (even if other guy is claiming it kek)

>>105677549
I wanted to see how the mouse looked moving over stuff but it looks like the uploader is brown so I think I'll pass

Why is it so hard to get a nice, simple install of Windows 11 without the bullshit, I thought even LTSC was supposed to be some magical promised land you people kept memeing at me, but it immediately started in with the exact same error spamming, unremovable App Control: Enforced and Code Integrity refreshing oj every boot even after it's been disabled, FullEventLogView listing a bunch of nonstop WMI bullshit errors and license checks and auto-updates trying to download to a store app I thought LTSC wasn't even supposed to have installed by default, and every single boot- actually, not even every boot, just ANY TIME Explorer.exe restarts, manually or after a crash, it re-autofires every single "Logon Task," even those already ran, still running or OOBE-only-and-shouldve-been-deleted material, and then there's fucking "App Control For Business" and all this Code Integrity that won't die and

christ 10 isnt enough i want XP back

>>105677841
>he fell for the "LTSC DOESN'T HAVE ANY UWP APPS AT ALL" meme
The user-scope ones that aren't necessary are removed, sure. The fundamental ones from %SystemRoot%\SystemApps that drive stuff like windows defender, lock screen, start menu experience etc. - not really. All part of what Microsoft deems as "user experience", so they're intact.
So don't be surprised that the UWP apps must still be yet serviced by the system.
>FullEventLogView listing a bunch of nonstop WMI bullshit errors and license checks
What a fucking nigger - don't be surprised that Event Viewer logs each and every event and shows it, including information-type ones (which i bet the "WMI bullshit" that you called is these, and I won't be surprised if it's some 3rd-party WMI provider, like from your NoVideo drivers).

Hopefully this serves you a lesson to learn how to use oflfine debloaters if you want to unnigger the fuck out of Windows with NTLite, MSMG Toolkit or DISMTools. Most of the time they're just your regular DISM wrappers, and their add-on packs are repurposed from FoD packages.

Directory Opus seems to mess up with Explorer memory usage? If I do some operations on a lot of files Explorer memory usage can skyrocket up to 10GB. Anyone got some idea?

Windows Restore Point has fucked me over 2 times now. What is a good alternative that is easy to use and can be used "live" on the OS?

>>105674890
I've always used SumatraPDF

>>105675744
How do I know that? I downloaded the 8.1_enterprise_with_update_x64_dvd_6054382 one

>>105657647
I mean you can do that, but why use that over GOG's various piracy sites? No DRM on those compared to having to crack Steam and possibly get account banned (if you're dumb and using your actual Steam account).

>>105680377
Well GOG only has the games it has. If the game you want is on GOG then use those sites to get an actual installer. Any other games you can get from sites like that. They come "pre-installed" so all you need to do is put the files in a exclusion folder tree and run it as admin so registry keys can be made. That site is one of the respected ones, among others.

>>105680323
>8.1_enterprise_with_update_x64_dvd_6054382
That's the one - although you should rather pick Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise, due to the longer update timecycle than what 8.1 baseline had.
I believe you can still piggyback from Server 2012 R2 updates, so that you can be up-to-date until 2026-ish, but then again you can just activate the ESU licenses with TSForge and you'll still be all set until next year.
As long as you get from massgrave's ISO download (all of the latest ISOs are based on 9600.17415 - which is Update 3), you should be fine.

I am the guy who updated IoT LTSC to 22H2 a month ago to fix kmode bluescreens.
It didn't work, I still occasionally get them. I tested my ram overnight with memtest86 and it passed. So I'm pretty sure some device on my system is still incompatible. I know my CPU (7800x3D) is supported in 22H2 but I have no clue for anything else.
I admit defeat and moving on to 11 IoT LTSC. It is most likely just a skill issue on my part, but I would anyways recommend that if you have post-2021 hardware then using newer non-LTSC Windows 10 Enterprise, debloating and ESUing it. It would probably be less of a headache.

>>105680746
Have you tried updating all of your drivers with SDIO? Windows update misses tons of drivers and I had to use SDIO to get Wi-Fi working on a machine and to get audio on another

>>105680849
An anon said last thread that one of the best things you can do is get a USB, load up SDIO, and have it download every single network driver it has, then put them on the USB to take around. It's only like a gig or so and would be stupid useful.

>>105673548
W7 doesn't support newer UEFI firmware. No amount of patches will help you.

>>105680880
Anon doesn't have a networking problem specifically though, so he should run SDIO in indexes mode to get every kind of driver updated

>>105680953
No it's just I got reminded by that anon when you mentioned wireless through it.

>>105680967
Oh, I see
Yeah, it would be really useful to have, especially with some laptops not even having an ethernet port these days so if the Wi-Fi isn't working you're fucked until you get drivers

>>105680849
>>105680880
I will try that. desu i hadn't used Windows for years and most of that time was using Linux which makes drivers a non-issue, so I have no clue how Windows handles drivers. I installed the chipset, audio, lan, wifi and bt drivers from my mobo manufacturer's website then gpu drivers and I thought that was enough.

>>105681017
If your shit is all working then it is enough

>mom found the bootloader

>>105657591 (OP)
How to definitely remove window rounded corners in 11?

I installed Win 8.1 (mbr) on a CSM enabled computer, I know you can use programs like Easepartition to turn it into UEFI but can you disable CSM and turn on SecureBoot after that?

Is it possible to search images by hash on your system with something like Everything or am I gonna have to use antidupl?

>>105682335
Everything does have hash searching but it's disabled by default cause indexing all the hashes would take a while. There's also shit like dupeguru you could use.

>Avoid W11 at all costs
So I just stick to win 10 for my new pc?

>>105682637
Avoid new PCs that require W11

>>105682891
Is there already hardware that's incompatible with W10?

>>105682975
Anything with cuck cores. It will boot but performance is unpredictable.
Though even W11 has scheduler issues so it's sometimes recommended to only keep performance cores enabled.

>>105657591 (OP)
Why the sticky doesn't include stuff like ExplorerPatcher? It actually makes Windows 11 usable again.

>>105658478
Actually I used 7 until 3 years ago when my hardware was showing signs of wear, tried 10 for the last 2 years and fucking hate it, now I went to 8.1. So try again Patel

>>105683808
>using Windows 11 in the first place
Only 4 links are needed:
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
https://rufus.ie/en/
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-driver-installer-origin/

>>105684051
Microsoft Surface is awful on W10, 11 LTSC makes it bearable.

>>105675744
>Win7 Aero visual style plus StartIsBack+, OldNewExplorer and glass8
I am not sure which of these it was again but I can't get the Aero glass to work on a window, also StartIsBack (i think it's that one) doesn't seem to have a config or a way to change settings since I thought they meant something else with start screen (instead of going to that shitty win 8 tab screen)

>>105657591 (OP)
>You can also use Office.com if your needs are very minimal
How the fuck do I download office from office.com to then activate it with MAS? Do I need to download it from a third party to then activate it? I can't download it from microsoft without a key.

>>105684180
As usual, massgrave has everything:
https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media

>>105680377
>>105680406
The Steam RIP website actually has a lot of PC video games from the GOG anyway. Just search for "GOG" in the search bar in the Steam RIP website!

>>105684320
Thank you. I've said this other times I've come to this general but you guys REALLY need to update your OP. So many things there are either wrong or need to be fixed.

>>105684792
I mean, you're not wrong, but every time someone changes the OP, everyone goes apeshit

I have to use Windows 11 on my work computer and the tabs in File Explorer are wonderful. Is there a way I can get a file explorer with tabs in Windows 10?

>>105684792
Other anons have tried to change the OP many times but the self proclaimed in their mind "owner" of /fwt/ always changes it back if they make the next OP.

whats the best tool to download videos from any website

>>105687333
Any website?! Nani...

>>105687333
Just use the Firefox with the Video Download Helper, buster! :3

You're welcome!

>>105687333
yt-dlp has been the go-to video downloader for most sites

>>105657591 (OP)
I can't figure out how to activate office through ohook or whatever

>>105687348
What? It's not hard at all.
Install whatever Office you want, leave it off, then run MAS and run the Ohook activation. The Office install should then be activated.

>>105686808
For extra pettiness, that schizo always fails to backlink to these "heretical" /fwt/, too.

>>105687358

>>105687366
Yeah it's just so fucking petty.

>>105687385
I really can't make it simpler.

Even though I have disabled defender and updates, stopped services through usb mode, deleted schedules and don't see them in task manager they still seem to activate randomly in procmon. How is this shit even possible.

>>105687684
You can't win this fight.
Best way to deal with this is to accept how things are and use gpedit along with oosu/privacy.sexy and install a firewall such as Fort Firewall. Then add exceptions to Defender (essentially blocking it everywhere) and turn off unwanted features such as core isolation and so on.
With Fort I get 0/0 internet activity yet my Windows update still works if I want it to.
If you want complete and total control of your operating system, install Linux or BSD.

I am on ltsc 2021 and windows defender keeps turning itself on.
I disabled it via group policies, even turned off the anti-tamper protection, but it keeps turning itself on.
On my other pc just disabling it in the group policies was enough, why doesnt it work on this one?

This is so frustrating about modern windows, using it sometimes feels like a diceroll, your settings may or may not work, you never know until you try it.

>>105687865
I'm fighting with it too and it seems impossible. You have to disable a lot of different "unrelated" services. Some of the services will turn itself on and then turn Defender on. You have to disable updates because those will turn EVERYTHING on. You have to remove Scheduled tasks and change registry. Some registry can't be changed and you need to change it through some recovery mode with windows usb too. I have disabled like 100 things and the defender service is still there. I think I will just try to delete defender folders through safe mode next.

This is an honest question. I'm not trying to start flame wars. What do you guys think about the privacy community's anti Windows rhetoric/propaganda?

>>105688057
Whats frustrating is that it worked once without problems, but every other time I try it wont work.

>>105688134
They made it harder to disable with newer updates.

>>105688063
Well I mean obviously on the surface modern Windows basically shits on all their beliefs, so naturally they get mad.
Though they seemingly ignore using the Enterprise edition with MAS and ShutUp10 ran on it.

>>105688152
ShutUp10 doesn't even work properly anymore.

Is there a way on windows 10 to get ring 0 privilege so I can force kill the process of a piece of shit anticheat that runs on ring 0?

>>105688228
stop cheating, faggot

>>105688163
What? It works fine.

>>105688232
I am not cheating on anything you stupid nigger.
This piece of shit anticheat crashes and doesn't let me reopen the game unless I do a full reboot, or find a way to kill the process that gets stuck.
To begin with I would expect the game to force close if I killed the EAC process with it running at all.
Dumbass.

>>105688242
enjoy your ban

I know this has been said a million times but Windows isn't a bad OS in anyway, other then software compatibility its as customizable as you productively need it to be.

One of the most underrated features of Windows is the using the Path variable. I have a folder named Scripts in my C: drive with useful batch files and I have C:\Scripts in the Path variables so I can call that batch file from wherever e.g. if I want to enable the Visual Studio developer console I have a batch script for it and I can run it from anywhere by typing the batch file name in cmd.

That being said fuck Microsoft.

>>105688228
Would help more if you actually named the game and the anti-cheat in use?
If it's something more than BattleEye or something, reinstalling is probably your only option but I'm only guessing here because you haven't said anything.

>>105688237
It doesn't disable updates. And then updates enable a lot of stuff that ShutUp10 disabled.

>>105688281
All of its other toggles work great though. Updates are just very hard to disable overall, and if you aren't you really should be using Enterprise so everything stays off.

>>105688370
I'm using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 and all the cancer like Defender and Updates are still there and impossible to remove.

>>105688273
Thanks for actually replying without being a retard.
It is EAC as this screenshot indicates >>105688242, common EAC error, but caused by different things.
The problem is exactly what I said, EAC crashes after 2 or 3 hours playing (this is besides the point, but my guess is some poor handling of it missing a call home/heartbeat request or whatever at some point and that leads to crashing).
And when that happens, the easyanticheat.exe process is stuck running (no, it is not an always running process), and since it has ring 0 privilege, I cannot end it with task manager.
Thus if I want to play ANY GAME with EAC again (there are multiple online games that I play that use this piece of shit), I cannot open it, since it fails invoking EAC on startup. Something with the way it is crashing makes it so it cannot start new instances of itself, as seen in the create file error.
I don't know what any more context I could give you.
I don't think reinstalling it is gonna solve anything, since it technically works, until it crashes.

>>105688401
Use ionottbara's Defender Remover to get rid of the MS Security suite.
You can also use Group Policy to highly delay updates, plus also make it that updates will only install when you let them (just notifying you)

>>105685611
QTTabBar

>>105688419
It seems like it's either related to physical write permissions or it's caused by defender settings (core isolation/memory integrity, exploit protection/control flow guard) - try checking out these if these are on turn them off.
I do remember that I needed to turn one of these off when I tried Valorant (that's a different anti-cheat) on my old machine couple of years ago. Yeah that's vague.

>>105688577
But again, before it crashes I have 0 issues, I can open and reopen, and even open multiple game clients that use EAC at once without any issue, my only problem is after the process hangs.

>>105675398
It's a you problem.

>>105688256
The PATH concept is not a Windows feature though, it is something both Linux and macOS uses extensively.

>have a folder with named pictures
>search for a picture that has a word present in my account name
>it shows all pictures because I'm the owner of those files
>no way to disable this other than disabling the index or always searching with "name:" prefix
>decide to make a script to just set the owner to Everyone
>access violation even with admin priveleges
>works if I replace D: with \\localhost\D$
This is so fucking stupid.

>>105688905
why isnt your account name gibberish?

>>105688905
Use Everything to search. Why would you ever use Windows search?

>>105688966
Because it's built into the file picker so I don't need to do drag and drop bullshit.

>>105687333
yt-dlp or any frontend for it like Parabolic

>not an unstable piece of shit like windows terminal
I'm sold
even if it's electron, I literally don't care, I just want a terminal in windows that works and doesn't have retarded defaults like tiny fonts and copy/paste being shift+insert/delete

>>105691836
Haven't heard of Tabby, seems alright though.

>>105687333
yt-dlp is great.

>>105691836
I'm currently using WezTerm.

Microsoft is offering a couple of free ways to extend Windows 10 updates for an extra year, until October 2026

Either sign up for Windows Backup for free (it backs up some Windows settings to your Microsoft account), or redeem 1,000 "Microsoft Rewards" points

The first option seems the easiest. But I guess you guys won't care because you probably hacked Windows 10 to be on some LTSC version that will get updates for another 10 years or whatever.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-secure-with-windows-11-copilot-pcs-and-windows-365-before-support-ends-for-windows-10/

>>105692421
>hacked Windows 10 to be on some LTSC version that will get updates for another 10 years or whatever.

Just download Windows 10 Iot LTSC and activate it with MAS or you can use MAS (TSforge) on a consumer edition to get 3 years of Extended Security Updates.

>>105692421
>But I guess you guys won't care because you probably hacked Windows 10 to be on some LTSC version that will get updates for another 10 years or whatever
yep, hit the nail on the head
as a bonus, you get to avoid whatever AI-enabled bullshit they're throwing into the non-enterprise editions

>system Bitlocker encrypted
>want auto unlock at boot but no TPM module
>use USB flash drive to auto unlock it instead

Is basically just a TPM substitute? As safe/'safe' as TPM? I.e. it will automatically unlock the system disk as long as it is still in that computer, but if you take the disk out, you won't be able to unlock it elsewhere, even with the USB?

Or is it super unsecure, is it basically like having the entire encryption key on the USB stick, and if a person takes out the drive and takes it with him together with the USB stick, he can then go to another computer and unlock the drive using the USB?

>>105692421
>stay secure with copilot

hahahahahaha no copilot IS what I'm staying secure from

>>105692522
Isn't that just piracy if you're activating Windows without paying. I want to do things the legit way.

>>105692706
I presume you can probably disable unwanted Windows features in the registry

>>105692421
still doesn't make sense to go the legal way because you only get one year, there's still no confirmation that consumers will get the three years of ESU

Still, for normies the Windows backup option is reasonable, the Rewards one too but is obviously just a bait to that program

>>105692882
>Isn't that just piracy if you're activating Windows without paying
yeah, that's part of the point
why would you want to give microsoft money?

>>105693291
So I can legally obtain Windows, enabling me to play video games (many Windows games run on Linux with Proton, but not all of them do)

>>105693453
well, what you're trying to do can be done much more easily and cheaply if you just drop the "legally" part. I wouldn't worry too hard about one of the world's largest companies missing a few dollars

These have probably been asked a millions times already but
- There's no risk of software or hardware not working if I change my Windows 10 Pro installation to am Enterprise IoT LTSC one using the scripts, right? I know some of that depends on certain registry values to work. Dunno if shit breaking is just lies spread by microjeets to force people to W11 or not.
- Will I be able to upgrade to Windows 11 from that later if I feel like I need to?
- If I load an external backup of my current Windows installation and its registry after doing this, will it still stay activated?

hello i want more up to date emojis on win10 iot ltsc, how to?

https://github.com/Bladez1992/LTSConvert
anyone used this? did it work? no files deleted?

>>105694083
There could be some software that for some reason doesn't want to work with 21H2, mostly updooter stuff, but most programs work fine

yes, you can upgrade to IoT LTSC 2024 later

most likely it'll say activated, but if not you can just activate it again with MAS

>>105694688
>There could be some software that for some reason doesn't want to work with 21H2, mostly updooter stuff, but most programs work fine
I hate updooting all the time anyways so this should be good
>most likely it'll say activated, but if not you can just activate it again with MAS
My current Win10 copy is legit so I just didn't want to lose its license or whatever in case I need it later.

Thanks anon

Do modern AMD processors still work fine with W10?

I recall reading that the 7900x3d and 7950x3d had scheduling issues on windows 10 due to their power and needing two CCD dies, but that 8 core chips were fine

Is that still the case with like the Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, or AI 9 365, where 9 cores and above will have issues but 8 cores and belows will be fine? Or do some below-9-core ones have problems these days?

>>105692767
>but no TPM module
Of course you have a TPM. Everything made in the last 15 years has a dTPM. Everything made in the last 10 years has an fTPM. You just have it disabled for whatever reason.
>Is basically just a TPM substitute?
No. A real TPM has brute-force protection, makes it difficult to extract the key, and works hand-in-hand with Secure Boot to protect the bootloader, protect against rogue drivers etc. A simple keyfile on a UFD has none of that.

>Microsoft Word keeps opening 2880 pixels wide no matter what size or layout it is when I close it
One of those mildly infuriating things that would probably take longer to find a fix for than it would be to just change the window size every time I open it up.

With W11 LTSC, will that still use the older style of MSpaint, notepad, task manager, etc?

Will it still have wordpad?

>>105657591 (OP)
Can I just use the windows 10 media creation tool with an usb, then use HWID2 to get a full legit license of windows 10? On my new pc build.

>>105696654
You could do that, but you can also just get a 10 Business or IoT LTSC 2021 ISO from the massgrave repo (link in OP) and then flash that ISO to a USB with Rufus. Then yes after you get to your new desktop you can just run MAS to activate your system with HWID.

Need help with my computer. Im pretty sure my ssd that houses my windows took a shit. Problem is i tried putting a recovery file on my external drive but isnt reading it and keeps saying to pick a proper booting device. Im basically stuck in my BIOS trying to figure out how i can do the recovery. Any help would be appreciated. I have windows 10.

How do I turn off these notifications forever?

>>105696887
If you turned that external drive into a recovery drive you should be able to boot from it, assuming the drive has a boot partition and can physically be booted from.
If you just put the recovery file on the external drive, then you'll need a boot medium to use the recovery tool to restore it.
I'm assuming you have a USB drive with a Windows 10 ISO on it? If not you'll need to download the Win10 ISO then sacrifice a USB to turn it into a bootable one with either Microsoft's media creation tool or Rufus.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
https://rufus.ie/en/

>>105696672
How much of a difference is windows 10 business and LSTC versus windows 10 pro? My PC build is mainly for gaming.

>>105697183
Think of Enterprise (from the business ISO) as the 10/11 mother edition. All editions are birthed from it with certain things removed to make it less controllable, the worst being Home. LTSC/IoT LTSC is Enterprise with a minimal amount of included UWPs and a highly extended EoL date (in 2021's case the IoT version will get updates until 2032.)

>>105697183
For the average user there shouldn't be much difference unless you're one of the few people who use Cortana and the Microsoft app store

After experimenting with Linux for a bit I can confidently say there is no more polished experience than windows.

Even if you use a "just works" distro like mint or fedora you spend so much time tinkertrooing just to have an inferior experience in most cases.

Software that worked well:
Firefox
MPV
Neovim

Software that didn't work well in WINE/FOSS alternatives sucked
Paint.NET (GIMP, Krita, Pinta, etc all sucked and took more effort to complete the same tasks)
Foobar2000 (Clementine/Strawberry ugly, deadbeef distorts when applying equalizer, fooyin doesn't have an equalizer plugin, audacious can't change preset equalizer values, kinda ass through wine, GUI elemtns dont always work and sometimes can't access network drive)

can anyone else on windows using firefox confirm if they also have this BITS job error?

I opened my event viewer and saw that there was an error which seems to be coming from firefox as seen from this image after using
bitsadmin.exe /list /allusers

pretty sure this will just reoccur if I cleared the list, and increasing the cap would just delay it from filling up with more firefox jobs. Its annoying to see and think about but am I able to just ignore this without it causing real issues in the future for my puter?

>>105697277
>paint.net schizo is STILL crying about it
el oh el

Posting this in case someone else has this issue. I ran into some directX errors and even after updating and installing the directx stuff from windows it still didn't work. The fix is to download the top DLL from this link.
https://www.dll-files.com/d3dx9_43.dll.html

And place it into C:/Windows/SysWOW64/
My computer already had the d3dx file so I copied it somewhere safe but so far it's been fine.

>>105695151
>Do modern AMD processors still work fine with W10?
>I recall reading that the 7900x3d and 7950x3d had scheduling issues on windows 10 due to their power and needing two CCD dies, but that 8 core chips were fine
Funnily, MSFT documentation declares these models as supported in 10 22H2.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-10-22h2-supported-amd-processors
But I guess theory can be different than practice.
>>105697636
Werks on my machine.
Then again, I used Abbodi's repack of DirectX redistributables. Though I don't see why it should fail with the offline redistributables either. Make sure you aren't using the web installer.

>>105697668
The problem games were nekopara after and tower of guns. I haven;t tried many more but just want this in the archive in case someone else has issues so they can search.

>I don't see why it should fail with the offline redistributables
It "failed" because I already had the file but the file had something wrong with it despite being the default in windows.

>>105697668
You mean his VCRedist pack?

>>105697700 (checked)
Nah, that's a whole different subject matter. I was talking about this one: https://github.com/stdin82/htfx/releases/download/v0.0.3/DirectX_Redist_Repack_x86_x64_v2.zip
It should also include the XAudio 2.9 redistributable (normally included separately in NuGet gallery), and properly handle Managed DirectX stuff.
And that's probably it for the difference between it and the official redistributable from June 2010.

im enjoying win11 with windhawk, a debloat tool, old snipping tool and a few registry tweaks

Is anyone in this thread using anything which is not Win10? Why?

>>105697743
>>105697730
this is me, im still tinkertrooning a little, it basically runs like win 10 but handles multimonitor monitor disabling and resolution switching (i play cs2 at 1280x960 stretched) much smoother

it seems to have kept my win 10 gpedit update policies but i have a feeling it will updoot me eventually

>>105697998
What is the story behind that resolution?

>>105697743
I'm finally running Windows 7 with supermium and it works fine, uses very little ram and Picasa 3 looks great... I'm also planning to do a new setup on my main PC, Linux with kvm and gpu pass through for keeping a windows 11 side OS just for gaming and Linux for programming

>>105699295
Does your new setup have two gpus?
Virtualization would be interesting but it's easier if you have a world class setup rather than some junk.

>>105697730
I'm using Windows 11 with ExplorerPatcher, WindHawk and ShutUp10++.

>>105699580
I have a similar setup - restored Explorer, without its forced toolbar etc.
What bothers me the most about my setup is the fact that when I click the audio control in the right corner it always opens up that big dialogue - and if my machine is running low on ram (I'm doing work) - it swaps in because the whole shit has been tied to multiple other things. I never had that in Windows 10.
Also - how to restore the old W10 style volume control - I like to see the volume number (i.e. 32 or something) before I click anything. I assume that's impossible in W11.

Also one of the funniest problems with freshly installed W11 IoT Enter...whatever is that whenever I click the language the main dialogue is bugging out like in the picture.
I have two languages (Ansi keyboard is so much easier to use than scandinavic) and I know I can switch them with windows+space.
Regardless of what I've been doing - rebooting clean - sometimes the language dialogue is in the left... or sometimes it's where it should be.

I just need to thank Microsoft for this.

>>105699692
If you're using ExplorerPatcher, you are able to configure it - it's located in its configuration properties. Right click on the taskbar and select "Properties".
I believe StartAllBack allows you to restore the older flyouts, too.

Also one of the funniest problems with freshly installed W11 IoT Enter...whatever is that whenever I click the language the main dialogue is bugging out like in the picture.
I have two languages (Ansi keyboard is so much easier to use than scandinavic) and I know I can switch them with windows+space.
Regardless of what I've been doing - rebooting clean - sometimes the language dialogue is in the left... or sometimes it's where it should be.

I realized it has double issues:
If I have US keyboard and I click on the volume icon - when the thing opens the keyboard widget changes to FI.
If I have FI selected and click on the keyboard widget it opens in the far left of the screen.

I just need to thank Microsoft for this.
>>105699851
Thanks, I used ExplorerPatcher but then realized I didn't need much anything from it and uninstalled that one.

>>105699863
This is pajeet tier scripting issue, that's quite clear. Just funny.
They never thought that someone would have two separate languages and my locale (altough I live in Finland) is UK - that helps to avoid Finnish direct language in some places...

>>105699863
>>105699889
The whole language selector popout behaviour is entirely different from any other tray popouts.
It's actually a full screen overlay that blocks all mouse clicks until it is closed.
The other popups - settings, calendar/notifications, overflow - are mutually exclusive and switch between each other, only language is displayed on top of either.

>>105699946
I wish I had a video you can't explain this stuff.
You can't explain why the language selector is in the far left of the screen anyway because its original place is on the right.

>>105699946
What fucking full screen overlay? I have used Windows since 1995.

>>105699946
Like I said it would be easier to show a video.
What are you, MS worker? Please get to working then.

>>105699972
>I wish I had a video you can't explain this stuff.
Get the screen recorder running then, anon.
OBS, ScreenToGif, whatever.

Is Win 11 IoT doable compared to Win 10? It seems like with every new version windows is getting more cancerous but then I dont want to be stuck with operating system which is no longer being supported.

>>105700034
>zoomer needs his tiktok 10s

>>105700039
Basically if you want to use 11 just use IoT LTSC 2024. It's the cleanest version of 11 you could use without the bullshit.

>>105700034
Thanks honey... Here it is

>>105700122
I can imagine the reason for this feature - volume control applet was assigned its own locale and language during installation.

For people who don't switch languages it is not that visible.
Most normies prefer to use their own native language anyway.

>>105700122
thats fucking infuriating

How do I find with process accesses my idle disk when procmon doesn't show anything?

>>105700424
I think it could be because of Rufus too. I pretty much enabled everything.
It's not the end of the deal but I still find this pretty funny. Even infuriatingly funny.

Established industry standard OS should not have these things. Not 20 years ago, not today.

>>105700497
Rufus didn't do anything, anon.

>>105700528
That's fine. Most people only use one language/one locale.
Just tells how much they actually test these things out.

Is there ANY downside to switching to 10 iot LTSC?
I primarily use my desktop for gaming and I've hated windows 11 every single day since I switched to it.

>>105700689
Not really. You just need to do a bit of setup like installing abbodi's VCRedist AIO and the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime and then you shouldn't run into any programs not wanting to work.

>>105699985
Click on clock - it pops up calendar
Click on any other program - calendar hides AND the click does whatever you clicked on
Click on language - it pops up language selector menu
Click on any other program - language selector closes BUT the click is NOT registered by a program you clicked on
There is no reasonable explanation for this bullshit

>>105699985
>>105701285
Moreover, when language selector is open other programs cannot access cursor position at all.
For example firefox tabbar highlights tab under cursor or changes cursor to hand over links and does whatever mouseover javascript the page wants to do, even when firefox is NOT focused.
BUT if you have language selector open then firefox does fucking nothing on mouseover.

>>105701321
>>105701285
Your posts are written like some delusional lunatic.
I still don't understand - and I'm not fooling ya.
Windows 11 is scripted bullshit.
Doesn't bother me, because I still switch my layout with windows+space.
What bothers me more is the fact they ruined the volume control.
That's all.
Thank's for your attention.

>>105701508
Wait you think I'm defending 11 and/or arguing with you?
Are you autistic or drunk?
All I wanted to say is windows language selector is a broken mess that does not behave like the rest of taskbar.

>>105701549
Oh no I just couldn't understand your post.
Anyways language issues began with Windows 10 - if you have ever used Xbox App (you should not) - my menus would be in English as per OS's language but the content was in Finnish because they detected my IP was from Finland.
Great times.

>>105701549
Sorry for the trouble, friend.

happy birthday Windows 98!

>>105698590
it stretches enemies out so you have a wider target to shoot at and its easier to run so you get higher fps

downside is people move faster side to side and you have quite a lot less horizontal fov than native res users

>>105702120
>it stretches enemies out
It stretches everything out, including the gaps between enemies
The less retarded way to do this is just lowering your FOV. At least that way it doesn't look like ass

>>105693605
Would you still get security updates with a pirated version?

>>105702973
no if you try to download updates it asks for a credit card

>>105692882
>I want to do things the legit way
In that case you have to give Microsoft money and you'll be forced to switch to W11 this October if you want to keep getting security updates
By the way there is literally (as in literally literally) no difference between a legit activation and an HWID MAS activation. You can completely wipe your hard drive and re-install Windows with an ISO from Microsoft and it will auto-activate
The activation method is piracy
The actual activation afterwards is identical to a legit one

>>105702120
It's snake oil streamers are selling to you.
Just beacuse Vladimir has played 15 years with the same 4:3 screen does not make any sense for you.

>>105702251
the best esports players in the world disagree

>gaps between enemies

that doesnt matter

>>105704603
>best esports players in the world
All cheaters, especially in CS

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but a coworker wants to play NFS MW during the shift (we're both graveyard shift), problem is, DX isn't installed and we don't have admin access. Is there any way to manually add the dll(s) so the game can use it?

Is it better for Win 8.1 to keep the mobo on UEFI or CSM-UEFI? HDD has already being installed as GPT

>>105705466
it wouldn't make a difference because CSM is for older OSs, so it's better left as UEFI

>>105705612
And Win 8 isn't considered old?

>>105705618
old in the context of UEFI, Windows 8 was the first version to fully support UEFI, so in this case, Windows 7 and older are the 'old' OSs

>trying to install a windows partition to see if my wifi hardware works (it's not even showing up in Linux Mint, regardless of drivers)
>like a brainlet, grab an official windows install off of their stupid website
>use their official software to create an installation on a USB stick
>plug in USB stick and go to boot up new system
>it boots into Mint as usual
>go and check USB on old PC
>"setup.exe"
would it kill these niggers to just give me an iso
what use is a setup.exe
fuck you microsoft

this is what I get for not just coming here to begin with and grabbing the LTSC ISO

>>105705927
I know this is basically a tech support thread but jesus fuck anon...

>>105705927
oh and after doing that, my 500gb flash drive now only holds 32 gb
this persists through reformatting it
what the fuck

>>105706016
whatever

>>105705927
It wouldn't help you to give you an ISO. You'd "burn" it to a USB using dd or something rarted, then bitch when it doesn't work.
Protip: that is clearly a bootable Windows Setup (note both the BOOTMGR and BOOTMGR.EFI there). If it's not booting, that's (You)r computer's fault, not the contents of the UFD.

>>105706069
>note both the BOOTMGR and BOOTMGR.EFI there). If it's not booting, that's (You)r computer's fault, not the contents of the UFD.
thanks babe

>>105706030
that's easily solvable in disk manager, remove all partitions and create the volume again

also >>105705927
the reason it didn't boot is because your bios is configured to go straight to mint, you have to press whatever key you need to enter the boot drive menu and then choose to boot from USB

>>105706113
>that's easily solvable in disk manager, remove all partitions and create the volume again
yeah I just did that
never had to that before, but now I know

>the reason it didn't boot is because your bios is configured to go straight to mint, you have to press whatever key you need to enter the boot drive menu and then choose to boot from USB
whoops
I had gone to BIOS and changed boot priority to boot from a USB first, but I didn't realize I needed to actually tell it to boot from the USB

thanks bro

>>105705927
Setup.exe in ISO root directory is for in-
place upgrade
for bootable, it loads efi first, then load boot.wim

>>105706177
oh ok
I thought I had been gypped and it had only installed the stuff necessary to upgrade an already active windows installation
>ummmm goyim you're not supposed to have anything but windows installed in the first place
>of course it's not going to work if you have a gentile operating system like linux installed on your computer

>>105706030
>>105706138
If you ever have any problem where a drive is fucked up to the point where you can't even do anything in disk management, look up diskpart clean. It's a built-in command that you can even use from a bootable Windows USB installer and it basically erases absolutely everything on a drive including any volume or partition. I personally always use it when I want to wipe a drive because you're 100% sure absolutely everything is removed. After that you can just use Disk Management to initialize it (or install Windows on it and in that case it will automatically partition and format it)
TL;DR it unfucks drives (but also erases everything on it)

>>105706216
>freetard pretends hes a victim of the huge m$ conspiracy
>turns out hes a retard who doesnt even know how to push f11
must be a day ending in "y"

>>105706420
yeah more like you're gay ending y

>>105657591 (OP)
debloated windows 11 with a local account sign-in is actual quite nice. was expecting much worse after having Linux on my main machine for years but this is genuinely not bad.

>>105706520
The 10 DNA within 11 is still there so overall there isn't any real deeper difference to an average anon.

>>105706541
very true. only concern is the telemetry, would like to know what's being collected and if disabling any of it would cause issues. it is ridiculous taht you have to run an oobe command and disconnect internet on W11 installation to bypass microsoft account sign-in though.

>>105706520
Which debloater are you using? The one I got bricked my fucking OS

>>105706623
this one, I did it on a fresh install and have had 0 issues so far, it's been about ~3 weeks.
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
It removes telemetry as well btu I was curious to see what W11 was collecting prior.

>>105706628
Does the windows update function work? Can you update your windows without issue? I can't update my windows after a debloat

>>105706548
Just use a tool like ShutUp10 to set all the registry keys that disable the worst telemetry and adjacent stuff. Make sure you're running Enterprise though so they stick.

>>105706623
Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC
Chris Titus Utility
There is literally no reason to use anything else. Don't fall for meme ISO or other scripts/commands

there was a script here i saw that made it easy to install winget on windows 10 ltsc iot without installing the ms store. anyone have it?

>>105707144
Asheroto's winget-install script

>>105706826
You misspelled his name
Christ Titus

>>105707153
thank you friendo

>>105707358
>>105707358
>>105707358

>>105707168
cringe