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/: >>105762187

>>105822033 (OP)
she's gonna get diabeetus

thanks for making a new one

where's cat

I love Windows!

what are some registry edits i should know about?
I already did
>DisableSearchBoxSuggestions

>>105822273

>>105822044
You're silly! :3

>>105822273
Cats are dumb and ugly! ;p

>>105822405
Just use a tool like ShutUp10 to mass set a bunch of registry entries like this.

>>105822446
I want to pet chicken boy...

>>105822571
>Cats are dumb and ugly

I respectfully disagree

>>105822446
why did that one anon hate kot
how can you hate chikin kot

How do i bypass bitlocker?

>>105822033 (OP)
Just installed windows 10 iot ltsc. Does anyone know what this default profile is on top of my regular use profile?

>>105823853
it's just a template windows uses to make new users
you can modify the default profile but there's no need to outside of corporate environments

Why do poojeets hate good simple and functional software? This was literally the only thing MS got right during the past decade and their poojeet CEO killed it in favor of a web-app.

>>105824613
Best you could get currently for a standalone mail program now is Thunderbird

>>105822033 (OP)
i like this gif :)

>>105798117
>>105800847
ty kings it worked
dog bless

is there any better uninstaller tool for windows? some shit programs leave files, some you can't uninstall at all, windows doesn't even see some things

>>105825744
SDIO always coming in clutch.

>>105825789
A popular one is Bulk Crap Uninstaller. There's also one called Uninstalr which is pretty powerful.

please help me uninstall an update
ever since i shut down the pc in the middle of an update the update is stuck
it prevents me from playing rpgmakermv games, because every time there was an audit failure the game display would freeze
i noticed this lowered in frequency of happening when pc was plugged in and completly stopped hapening if i uninstalled the windows upate
windows kept auto updating
i kept removing
but now the latest update won;t install and won't removed

how do i fix the update so its removed?
alt, how do i stop audit failures from freezing my games?

>>105826864
windows has a feature called "in-place upgrade". it upgrades/downgrades you to the exact version number of the iso as long as its the same edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOwN68AInE

>>105826893
its not gonna wipe my hardrive is it?

>>105826934
the opposite. it reinstalls windows (upgrades or downgrades) but keeps all your files.

>>105826942
so the toturial telling me to make backups is just to be on the safe side?

>>105826961
try hearing the video instead of just watching it

>>105826997
ok thanks
i guess i should go buy a large disk on key just in case

btw why do rpgmaker games freeze on audit failures?

>>105827014
probably permission related issue with windows. example: trying to access c:/ but no right.

>>105827069
what if only the graphics freeze? as in the content of the game window stop changing but i can still hear sounds when pressing bottuns and can still even save the game (on blind)

>>105827117
freeze could literally mean anything. need more info and i dont care to diagnose.

>>105827137
'i don't care' as in 'i have nothing better to do so dump what you got in event viewer' or 'i don't care' as in 'i have spoonfed you enough now go backup your files and don't return untill windows 12'?

>>105822033 (OP)
Former troonix convert here.
Is there any way to do proper GPU passthrough to WSL so I can use coomer diffusion?
rocminfo immediatly detects WSL, but doesn't see anything but my AyyMD CPU.

>>105827229
Why are you trying to use an SD web UI through WSL? Why not just set up Comfy in your actual Windows install so you don't need to worry about all the trouble you gotta get into when you want to use an AMD card for it.

why the fuck is this disabled

>>105827682
Problem is that AMD cards have better performance on Linux for some god forbidden reason. Rocm and all that.

what the fuck is happening

>>105825597
I like YOU! :3

>>105829463
>>105829537
>using AMD GPU trash
>2025
Not even once!

It feels good to be an AMD Ryzen/NVIDIA master race member!

>>105827682
What, with dogsh- DirectML? Does that work?

What's the current go to method to avoid having to sign onto a Microsoft account during setup? Apparently the spyware loving kikes have closed off even more of the bypasses.

>>105830271
Shift+F10 when it asks.
"start ms-cxh:localonly"

is there a recommended windows 10 software for creating ramdisks?

>>105830271
Have you tried this?

>>105830335
MS already closed the oobe/bypassnro work around like three months ago

>>105830316
Danke

For some reason pixiv isn't loading images on Firefox. Everything else on the site is there, but not a single image loads. Tried disabling extensions and enhanced tracking protection and it did nothing. It's up to date and I have not fiddled with settings recently, anyone had this happen to them?
I tested and it seems to work fine on Edge

big if tru

Stupid person here, how do I update from 7 to 10

>>105830841
you add 3

Can anyone help me think this through?
Want make a new restore image/backup for desktop.
>Going to restore it to original setup date. (Don't know specifically what version it is, but its from ~2020)
>Redo the windows activation
>Get 5.5 yrs of updates
>make new image / restore point
>Put on EXT hard-drives as extra backups.

Or

>Fresh install with W10 Ent IoT LTSC 2021
>Get whatever updates are required
>Debloat whatever needs it
>Make new external images/restore back up

Just want a reliable W10 desktop for internet-ing and games.
Then whenever it does something I don't like, just roll it back.

>>105830271
Just make a Microsoft account you silly boy, stop being so paranoid

>>105822033 (OP)
>IoT LTSC 2022: https://pastebin.com/rHcgvYS7
I tried with the one that and didn’t work for me so what’s stopping me from using it from the actual website
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10%5B1%5D

Is there a way to get gallery-dl to slow the fuck down so I don't get rate limited trying to download images from 4chan threads?

>>105822033 (OP)
how to make dark mode notepad in w10?

>>105830841
>>105831009
You boys are so cute and silly! :3

>>105832292
kys

Just joined the IoT LTSC 2021 gang

>>105831649
Read the docs, nigger:
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/options.md

I have an old desktop (newest component is a Ryzen 5 3600X from 2019) that requires a new OS. Gonna be used mostly for gaming, emulation, maybe some light work.
Is there any benefit for me to choose W11 IoT LTSC Entreprise? Sometimes I see people commenting that W11 is good for newer hardware compatibility, but other than that, is there any reason to go W11? Or I should be able to game in peace on W10 IoT LTSC Entreprise?

>>105832632
No you! ;p

>>105832670
Welcome to 4 years ago, lad!

>>105827229
proper gpu passthrough?
i don't know how it's changed since they've apparently open sourced WSL's runtime but it used to be getting the actual Hyper-V VM interfaces you'd need for stuff like that involved hacking on undocumented COM interfaces
you're probably just missing something you need to do the WSL2 compute passthrough thing CUDA and now ROCm support, you need WSL2 specific beta drivers for windows, probably best to only use the supported ubuntu versions and the WSL runtime from the windows store, and then you install and run the amdgpu installer package with at least the wsl and rocm usecases

is AI imagegen so far behind the times the shitty python UIs are still stuck only using pytorch directly for inference the same way they were when stable diffusion released?
wtf
AI on windows and AMD is a solved problem, and there are alternative and better performing tensor/ML libraries for that matter, like multiple at this point
GGML is probably the biggest alternative tensor library and only needs the HIP runtime + ROCm math libraries to run via the ROCm backend, which are supported on windows, or can also use AMD AI hardware via the vulkan backend and cooperative matrix support
there's got to be diffusion model support somewhere
i'm not sure how much of intel's SYCL based stack works on top of the HIP backend in general and on windows but even that might work

>>105833173
I was on Edu with ESU but I got paranoid and started believing I had some malware or something, I would have stayed on Edu otherwise. I just thought "If I'm gonna do a complete wipe I might as well install IoT LTSC 2021"

>can't install w11
>pc restarts during usb install as usual
>mobo can't find new boot sector in nvme and boots to usb again and asks if I'm upgrading
jfc this used to be foolproof

>>105825789
Revo Uninstaller, and this wizard that for some goddamned reason isn't included in the OS https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed-cca7d1b6-65a9-3d98-426b-e9f927e1eb4d

>wanted to try a linux distro
>installed on the same drive as my windows 10 assuming I would easily be able to dualboot
>trying to load windows instead leads to the diagnostic tool saying its unusable
>had to reinstall windows on my other drive because the one it was previously installed on turned to ext4 when I installed my distro, probably why it couldn't load
:(
I feel sad like I lost something even though all my data is on external drives I can just plug in

>>105833842
When this kind of shit happens I find updating the BIOS usually fixes it.

>>105830271
Turn the internet off?

>>105826997
kek

>>105830802
Wow

>>105834355
I don't suppose theres a way to fix this? maybe in the recovery partition of the original windows installation?

>>105832719
For newer components - Win 11.
For older lappies, Win 10 is king due to smaller CPU, space and memory imprint.

>>105830453
Keep in mind that all the bypassnro.cmd file did was run a reg command that added the DWORD BypassNRO to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE set to 1, then restarted the PC using the shutdown command.
Even if the .cmd file is gone you can still do it manually, or use that "start ms-cxh:localonly" command for as long as that works.

>>105834602
Is my 5.5 year old CPU considered a "newer" component? Or my 8 year old GPU AMD Vega 64?
I'm trying to evaluate if I get any benefit from W11, otherwise I will run W10

>>105834355
Windows needs a NTFS formatted partition to run. Can't you just create a separate partition for Linux on the same disk? I did that before and dual boot worked fine - on the same hard disk.

>>105833173
deepsex with deepseek-chan

>>105834627
Perhaps try some benchmark on the net, to compare potential performance on your components.
5,5 year should be fine on Win 11, while 8 year old would likely run better on Win 10.

>>105825744
Yep, SDIO is great
I always use it after a clean install

>>105830271
The absolute easiest method is to create your USB installer with Rufus, as it will give you options to disable all of that garbage (Rufus is also what Massgrave recommends)

>>105833271
>is AI imagegen so far behind the times the shitty python UIs are still stuck only using pytorch directly for inference the same way they were when stable diffusion released?
Yes they are, and thanks for confirming, I just wanted to try it to see what can be done through WSL2 now that I switched.
I don't work in the field nor particularly care about it to make an implementation, maybe I will if bored.

>>105830802
Will uninstalling the Xbox stuff fuck up support for my controllers?

>>105835720
You don't need an Xbox UWP installed for a generic Xbox-type controller to work like a F310 or something.

Can I get the new notepad with tabs and dark mode on 11 iot?

>>105835763
You'd just need to install it through winget's msstore source. You can install winget on IoT LTSC easily with asheroto's winget-install script.

>>105835768
what is the package id?

>>105835778
Looking on the MS Apps website, it's:
>9msmlrh6lzf3
for "Windows Notepad"

>>105835763
More reasonable question would be: why?!

>>105830271
>>105830316
>>105830453
>>105835353
You'd think after decades of falling for Reddit-tier clickbait articles, /g/ would learn.
But imagine my shock: no.

>>105835947
the most reasonable answer is to get tabs and dark mode

>>105835763
>>105836000
Nigga just install Notepad++ (and ignore the cringe political messages on the website, they don't affect the software)

>>105836013
I'm a heterosexual white male, I can't.

>>105836053
>white
Yet you're using jeetware and are asking for newer jeetware

>>105836089
wrong general

>>105836013
>trusting a politically obsessed goy to not install malware in a random spergout
the real solution is to install a windows build of Kate or Kwrite

>>105836089
Linux Techvolds taught us a LONG time ago that, just because a white write something, doesn't mean it's a good product.

>>105836131
It’s open source, just like kate or kwrite
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#

>>105836424
But the updates he pushes can be anything. You fully trust that one single person.
Kate has a developer community, their build is happening by a CI and commits need approval of multiple people. This is a huge difference.

Of course there are tons of other options. Since Kate mains Linux, you can't expect it to be without problems on Windows.

But you can just use VSCode or Sublime.
I think people are stuck with Notepad++ because they think that editors used for software development are too complicated for them.
Pic related is a 12MB install, a magnitude superior to Notepad++ and arguably easier to use, despite it being mainly used for software development.

>dad calls me because computer has stopped working
>okay what is it this time
>windows 11
>try to log in
>"your pin has stopped working"
>please reset your pin
>okay
>please confirm your e-mail we'll send a code
>confirm e-mail sends code to e-mail that my dad can only access from that PC which is locked out
>have to log in on my own seperate PC to his e-mail to get a code to then unlock and reset the pin

Holy fuck how are the jeets at microshit so fucking incompetent, if it was my dad on his own with no other PC he would have been screwed because he doesn't have e-mail on his phone and "your pin has stopped working" how the FUCK in this fucking year does your pin stop working passwords just fucking worked and somehow microshit have broken them. I do not miss windows at fucking all.

>>105837107
Like father, like son. It's EXACTLY the point: that you can use an account from multiple devices.

>>105837107
they expect you have multiple devices you can check your email on these days

>>105837107
>m-my dad has dementia
>this is microsoft's fault
Is it just me or are the brown's fantasy scenarios getting more and more insane.

>>105837208
He doesn't have dementia the error message was literally "your pin has stopped working" not it has expired or you've entered it wrong too many times just it stopped working for some reason please reset it.

>>105837107
You had ONE chance to tell your dad that it is fucked and that you have to reinstall.
So you could install Windows 10 or 11 IoT LTSC with a local account and he wouldn't be able to whine about "my desktop isn't as much trashed as before anymore, i can't find things!"

I need to send my laptop for repair
When I get it back, I'm probably going to pirate W10 LTSC and put that on there.

But before that point, how do I back everything up? Not necessarily to restore it all, it might be better to start fresh, but more so just that it's there in case I ever need to grab some old stuff again?

>>105837768
Get an external hard drive and put everything on there?

>>105837807
Anon, if he's sending his machine in for repair, there's probably a reasonably large value of "machine doesn't work" in there.
Having said that, >>105837768, you do your backups BEFORE your machine fails, not after.

>>105830320
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aim-toolkit/
Made by the same author behind ImDisk Toolkit. It uses the Arsenal Image Mounter driver - made by the same author of ImDisk VDD.
>>105832271
Install Notepad3. Should fully adapt to the system's dark scheme.
Or get some custom dark-themed visual style from deviantArt. Make sure you have SecureUXTheme installed beforehand.

>>105837107
99% of the population has their email on their phone these days

>>105835957
I literally installed windows this week with this shit, neck yourself

>>105838824
email on the go/in the pocket was a major reason to get a pda/smartphone well before the iphone
now sure, anon's dad probably didn't get the telex for that, and for anyone who couldn't justify a pda/early smartphone, or just use email before those and never felt the need to get either at all, sure.
what i want to say is something else, why set up an account with a recovery email that can only be accessed on the very thing you might want to recover? but really, the idea of online windows accounts isn't something i'd use in the first place, so i do get it. i moved to linux well before that was even an optional thing (and i know it still is if you know what you're doing, but we're talking about what is probably a typical dad-of-an-adult here, maybe not quite elderly but certainly not a computer fag)
in their effort to make computers "easier to use" all they've really done is add more layers of complexity. window 95 was really as easy as it got. anything on top of that is just more complexity, and that's probably showing my own age

Hello friends, I've been around these threads since late 2019 and I've been using Win 10 LTSC on all of my computers and recently I decided to bite 11 LTSC and it was horrible. It made me reconsider and I actually went ahead and tried Linux Mint. It takes time adjusting to it, but a lot of features are now present. Last time I tried it was in 2017 and it was way more lacking than it is now. It's been a good ride, but without a doubt, Microshaft is going to ruin the computing experience for all of us. 10 LTSC still has a lot of time to go, however realistically speaking it's going to lose support from a lot of developers around 2028-2029 (would be actually great if they kept supporting 21H2 even after 2032, but only gods will do this). Anyways that's it for my blogpost, if you have any questions, go ahead. It took me a few days to migrate from NTFS partitions to ext4, but it was also a great time to sort my files and delete junk.

>>105836780
So this is all just based around thinking the dev will put malware in your PC literally just because he made his political stances public
Because you fags use all sorts of closed-source software but just because the Notepad++ dev posts political opinions that aren't "kill all kikes and niggers" you think he's going to hack you or some shit
Because if the website would say "MAGA" you'd all be saying it's based software

New blogpost by Massgrave
https://massgrave.dev/blog/pesky-ampersands

>>105840840
Kek

It's Patch Tuesday!

Let's give it up for Patch Tuesday

I just ran into an issue when trying to recover my PC from sleep. In terms of fans and rbg it seemed to wake up but my monitors didn't come back. They didn't "no signal" but they just never woke up. I tried hotkeys to reset the gpu driver and sleep the PC again but it didn't respond. I think this is the second time I've ever ran into this.

Is there anything I can do in such a situation to restore the PC without a hard reset? This time I hit the reset button and lost everything I had opened. I don't remember what I did the last time and how it went.

>>105837807
>>105838021
Thankfully my machine works, but sorry, this might be stupid but how do I actually do the backup
Do I just copy and paste the C: drive? I kinda want to keep everything just in case, but I also don't think copying and pasting the C: drive is all that viable a path kek

I was having issues with some sites being broken or having broken images, after checking around, I found that "http.referer.XOriginPolicy" and "network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy" were set to 1 and 2 in about:config, and putting both to 0 solved the issue with said sites, but the thing is I do not remember changing these settings ever and it seems like a security feature. Is it just superfluous and safe to leave at 0, or is there a way to bypass it for specific sites while leaving it on?

Is win11 education worth it like win10's was?

>>105832271
Take the plaintext pill, just use .md formatting styles in .txt

I’m using Windows 11 IoT LTSC, how can I get the default windows photos app AND HEIF/HEVC functionality? The store doesn’t exist on this version I installed.

>>105835957
What am I looking at?

>KB stalled at 100% install
>restart
>clean temp files/SoftWareDistribution/catroot2
>retry
>failed install
Noooooooooooooo

so i have a pc and a laptop. im sharing a folder from my pc on the local network (ethernet) so i can swap files with the laptop (wifi but same network, can ping locally) when i want to open the shared folder on the laptop its asking me for fucking credentials but literally no fucking combination is working. neither the ms email, nor the account name, nor the pc name, nor the windows hello pin, nor the ms password. what the fuck am i supposed to type in there to access the shared folder

>>105841782
It's the same as in W10: Edu is Enterprise but with ads turned off by default (not to be confused with Edu Pro which is shit and more like Pro)

>>105841909
>The store doesn’t exist on this version I installed
Open PowerShell as admin and enter:
wsreset -i
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

Update: it works now (after 3 attempts)
Fuck Jeetsoft

>>105841991
>what the fuck am i supposed to type in there to access the shared folder
You're supposed to input the credentials of the PC's account that has access privileges to the folder share.
Did you use the simple file sharing method with the fancy Aero wizard, or did you do it the good ol' way with folder properties -> sharing tab?

Either way, here's an idiot-proof guide in case you want to start it all over:
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/setup-network-file-sharing-in-windows/

It's very nice of windows to skip update cleanup almost every time. It's not like I could have used that 10GB of space it takes each time it updates.

Is there a good and safe way to change the window text color to white for Aero Glass themes on Win 8.1?

anyone got any recommendation for a violentmonkey script / extension to download videos from twitter. i could use cobalt but that's an extra step
i actually have a video downloader that works great, did work / still works in firefox, but for some reason in like the last two days, chrome is throwing up a type error..? i don't know how to fix that.
i could go to greasyfork obv and just download one of the one hundred chinese twitter downloaders, and i see an ok looking chrome extension, but you know. if someone has something they actually trust

>>105842780
I just use yt-dlp

>>105842423
Tips for cleaning up properly and for knowing if you even have leftover update data?

>>105831649
https://github.com/otacoo/Four-Batch-Downloader

>>105842854
type disk cleanup into your search bar. click the button that says clean up system files. you might not have to go that far, but it'll give you more options.
make sure your download folder is fucking unticked. i think that's the default now but you can't be too careful

>>105842780
Firefox + Video Download Helper = Prestigious Master Race!

>Twitter
It's called the X, you chumpy boy!

>>105842978
>>105842098
>>105841960
post a sound image with a train whistle noise

>installed windows 11, again
>auto HDR looks great
Thank you, windows!
Now help me convert HDR screenshots to SDR, so I can post them online

>>105843022
I have two Acer monitors that are supposedly HDR400, but when I turn on Windows HDR everything becomes extremely desaturated

the HDR mode is already enabled on the monitors

>>105843037
If it's non oled HDR then it's a meme.
Also, it only looks good on HDR content, games, videos. Auto HDR works on some SDR games, making them look like they're HDR.

>>105843065
yeah it's non-OLED
w/e
I dont really care
Ill use these two monitors until one of them breaks and then just buy two new OLEDs

>>105843069
I fell for this scam once too.

>>105842423
>>105842907
There is supposed to be a part at the end of an update, right before it goes to the logon screen, where it says cleaning up, and windows has been skipping this for me most of the time. Neither disk cleanup or storage settings can find anything for update cleanup unless I get the cleaning up message at the end, which I still get maybe every fourth update. I don't know if microsoft changed things or if my install is broken.

>>105842095
Okay now how can I get the HEIC/HEVC extension on the Photos app?

>>105841917
the bypassnro script is still there in main builds, the news about MS removing it were misinformation by clickbait pages and retarded youtubers because MS only removed it in dev builds.

It's likely that they'll remove it in main too, but for now it's still there and fine after three months

>>105843003
You're such a silly boy! :c

>>105838982
There are shorter ways of saying "I'm a fucking retard".

>>105840840
I like how many different ways they have of saying "you know that activation method we claimed was undetectable, perfect and unpatchable? Well, Microsoft detected our imperfections and patched it, reeeeeeee M$ sux."
Real "you're violating my god-given rights by not letting me climb in your window and steal your stereo and TV" energy going on here.

>>105843422
did you even read the thing

>>105840840
This is just a guess, but my theory is that this is MS just doing refactoring with AI without actually looking at the code, refactoring old ass code that doesn't need it so they can brag that their codebase is "written by AI" so they look for every tiny opportunity to rewrite shit, and as the article suggest, it's likely that it's not an actual patch to stop TSForge

>>105842780
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/397848-comic-looms

>>105843514
No, I read the last one, where Microsoft patched it, and the writers of TSforge bitched and moaned that Microsoft were ebil pajeets for breaking their "perfect, undetectable, unpatchable" product.
What reason do I have to believe that this is going to be any different? The say-so of a bunch of Redditors who get their tech opinions from YT clickbait channels? A pack of poojeets who also make Hyperloop-tier promises they can't keep, then blame someone else when they fail?

>>105840840
>All because a random dev put some &'s in some parts of the code they shouldn't have that hasn't been touched in over a decade that got through multiple branches into the June update because seemingly no one noticed
Welp, least the other TSforge methods work still. What a clown show.

>>105843915
cringe

Pic related is my pc i tried mint and its really meh and i already have win10 iot ltsc installed on my pain pc so the fuck should i install on this one ? (i want to game and download and watch anime i guess on this one so linux goes out of window cause FUCK downloading bunch of shit to play some simple games)

>>105844241
Steam is all you need to game on linux
>GTX 1050 Ti
>Gaming
you're in for pain regardless, LTSC should be fine tho

>>105844256
I will mostly just download gog games and older shit and yeah it would be fine but i feel it would be a waste to just put the same os on this system ya know ?
like i remember like a year ago there were custom windows builds but idk what happened to those

>>105844278
Im also on a verge of enditing it all i got Ryzen 7 5700x3d when some senpai frend tried to replace my rx580 he couldnt do it so after he went home i tried it and i bendt like half of the fucking needles (only 3 were major) so today im waiting from the response from the pc repair shop and hopefully they can fix it

>>105839454
you forgot that you're in the clown world aka best timeline and by 2030 Microsoft will take a wild turn and open source W10 and all legacy Windows so the community can keep these tools alive

>>105844373
I doubt they'll ever open source Windows since they always build it from the last one so technically even 3.1 is still an important secret

Maybe they'll open source 1.0 for the lulz just like they did with MS-DOS

Why don't I have thumbnails in file explorer for .webm and .mkv? I forgot how to get them the last time I did it a couple years ago. I recently reinstalled windows, trying to get them but I have the stupid VLC cone.

>>105844600
You need to install either Icaros, the Media Foundation codecs pack, or install the VP9 extensions through winget or the MS Store.

>>105844600
winget install icaros
This will get you thumbnails for literally every format and codec ever

uh...windows defender is prompting me to send files in to review everyday for a week now. I kinda just ignore it but it keep popping up what do bros. win 10 ltsc

>>105845096
>everyday
It happens once in a while for me but every single day would be strange

>>105845096
Disable "auto sample submission" in Defender's settings.

>>105845123
b-but what if i'm really pozzed...

>>105845126
Anon you should've disabled that and cloud protection ages ago so Defender isn't as much of a prissy bitch.

>>105844600
install icaros like the other anons said
it's an ffmpeg based thumbnailer, iirc the default config doesn't support all the formats that ffmpeg does so you can go through it and add a bunch more file extensions

just as a point of reference there's no point using non-ffmpeg audio/video stuff
there's a bunch of retarded gay shit like the klite codec pack, or those dumb windows store codecs but if's a codec that matters (and plenty that don't) it's included in ffmpeg and if it matters it uses ffmpeg as a library

for some reason things like media foundation, directshow, and those stupid windows store codecs haven't been taken back behind the shed and shot
i presume it's a real bitch and a half to make a backend covering all the ways that windows provides codecs, especially considering there is an ffmpeg directshow backend that isn't really maintained

Silly question from my side, but:

i'm setting up a new pc and want to install windows on it - How do i do that?

A boot-usb stick i guess? But i simply download windows 11 (or 10?) on it and make sure it boots accordingly from it, right?

>>105845770
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

>>105845770
yes, use rufus to download windows and make the USB bootable, don't use the official microsoft tool

>>105845770
All you need to do is download a 10 or 11 ISO, flash it to a USB stick with Rufus (this allows you to do some neat things like make the install not need an MS account by default) then just boot into the stick and install Windows to this fresh PC.

>>105845898
>>105845900
thanks a bunch! Got rufus and downloaded it.
Gotta check how to activate windows now (im a little too paranoid to use that little script ontop; i might buy a cheap license somewhere)

but thanks!

I wanna upgrade my main nvme to a bigger one, would I be able to just migrate everything (windows installation included) from the old one to the new one? Or could that potentially cause some hard to detect at first issues that will be a pain in the ass later?
The new one is of course larger and gen 4 instead of 3. I haven't changed any other component.

I know I should just install a new copy of windows but it'd be a legit pain to reinstall everything

>>105845974
Don't worry about being paranoid about the script in the OP, it's 100% perfectly safe. Every community out there focused on Windows or its piracy laud it. Just use the HWID method after you run the irm command in an admin powershell window and you'll be activated forever.

>update and shutdown
>restarts without turning back off
Bullshit

>>105843395
Your post was one.

>>105846054
Update and Shut Down pretty much just means "install update, restart, get to the login page then shut down."

>>105846269
I waited for a minute after the restart to see if it would turn off, it didn't

>>105846280
Ugh, worst nightmare. I usually just do a restart then if I want to turn the computer off after I do it myself.

seriously there is no way to disable start menu recommended section on 11 iot?
all this shit recommends is uninstallers for programs wtf

>>105846774
>11
look at this nigger
look at this nigger and laugh

>>105846847
why would I use 10 when 11 works faster?

Is Win 11 good already?

>>105847155
11 25H2 is shaping up to be a very good version of it.

>>105847155
I had 0 problems with legit edu version

>>105846847
Seething poor

>>105840840
>>105840878
If I already activated Windows, it's going to stay activated right? right???

i am a microsoft fanboy. what is my mental condition?

>>105847155
I recently switched from 10 LTSC to 11 LTSC
It's a mixed bag. Multi monitor support is a LOT smoother than it was in 10, menus and UI are mostly improved (sans context menu) but you also have shit like the recommended section bloating the start menu that stays even when you turn recommendations off, folder thumbnails have their contents cut in half, shit like that. There really is about as many improvements as there are regressions.
Explorer in 11 is notably slower on my T480s laptop than it was in 10, while my modern Ryzen desktop sees no real difference.
If you already have a working 10 install then don't bother. If you need a new OS then 11 LTSC is mostly fine.

>>105847295
If you used the original TSforge method before the ampersand shit it's gonna stay activated.

>>105845987
You should probably be fine. Just clone the drive with Macrium and you should be free to go.
For edge cases where you migrate from a 512{e/n} drive to a 4K sector-native drive, it's not that simple.
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOWX/Incompatible+Disk+Selected

In which case you might just want to image the Windows partition (cut out the middleman and use DISM to image it from a WinPE)
dism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:"X:\Backup\WinBackup.wim" /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:"Windows Backup" /Description:"%DATE% %TIME% - to NVMe drive" /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity /Verify /EA
Tune the CaptureDir value if the Windows volume letter you want to backup is different (so, not C:), and set the ImageFile path to the external storage.
Prepare the right partition layout for your new drive with diskpart (a notorious change with 4Kn drives is that the EFI partition has to be 260MB - with the extra 4 megs for safe measure: 4KB sector times 65526 clusters for minimum FAT32 volume size).
Then you deploy the Windows image with the very same tool you made a capture of - DISM (but with the /Apply-Image switch: set the ApplyDir path accordingly.)
dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:"X:\Backup\WinBackup.wim" /Index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\ /CheckIntegrity /Verify /EA
After that you make the installation bootable with BCDBoot - it will deploy the Windows Boot Manager in the EFI system partition and set-up the BCD registry. Also configure the recovery partition with REAgentC.

Here's some neat MSFT documentation regarding manual deployment of Windows.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/capture-and-apply-windows-system-and-recovery-partitions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/capture-and-apply-windows-using-a-single-wim
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions

>>105847155
no

>>105847155
the answer to your question is the same as the answer to "was w95/me/vista/win8 ever good"

>>105847587
Yes/on the right hardware/on the right hardware/yes.

>>105798099
Funny thing, in all cases older Windows 7 drivers work without any issues or compatibility modes on Windows 10. But I'm talking about a lappy whose last drivers made specific for this model were for Windows 7 x64. The rest of drivers, Windows 10 managed to get without problems. Everything just werks.

>>105822033 (OP)
can ReFS be used on the boot drive on w11 ltsc somehow or is that only unlockable in the insider versions

>>105846774
Chris Titus Utility

Hey
How do i download a youtube playlist on windows?

>>105848242
Nah, Windows can only boot NTFS C:\ drives. You use ReFS as a server/backup filesystem on a NAS or external or something.

>>105848396
Use yt-dlp. Paste a playlist link and it'll try and download every video.

how do i disable this shit

>>105840878
Jeets can't even fix an exploit thats been there since the beginning. Lmao.

is there a tool for editing shortcuts (.lnk) files? the wscript vbasic shit is not very good and I feel like it's literal quoting hell to use it.

>July 8 Windows Cumulative Update KB5062554

Is this update good or nah?

>>105849205
It's just a patch tuesday update, nothing special.

>>105847461
Hey thanks a lot for the detailed response, you rule

>>105822571
>Cats are dumb and ugly

Package managers on windows, yay or nay?

>>105849616
I guess it's mostly a "why not" sorta thing. You don't need one on Windows but they're cool I guess.
winget for the stuff included within its repos, scoop or homebrew if you want to install things portably in your user folder.

>>105849616
required, unless you're homosexual. none of them are good though.
really the question I want answered is why shit like IIS, SQL Server, etc require patching and what not and why there isn't some M$ Service Package Manager thing baked into winshit server.

>>105849431
cats dont care

this stupid OS keeps switching to Spanish keyboard layout even though I have removed it from configuration AAAAAAAAAAA

>>105846224
>doubles down on being a liar
Imagine my shock.

>>105850106
Yet another problem solved by mass deportations.

>>105849431
>>105849863
You boys are so cute when you're butt hurt! :3

>>105850212
bring back Uni

>>105850122
Not an answer.

>>105850373
>>105835957 was the answer. Hilariously, before you even "asked".
You really are a stupid piece of shit, aren't you?

>>105850390
When did I say OOBE didn't work?
Prove my command doesn't work.

>>105850413
>tell someone to "n-neck yourself" (logically, for being right)
>wonder why i get called a tard
Hope your brain damage clears up, anon.

>>105850431
>calls me a liar for providing one liner which works thus me not being a liar.
>somehow now larps as rational negro

>>105822033 (OP)
>10 years of windows 10
its time to sleep blue bitch

After trying Linux out for a week and spending 80% of that week trying to solve issues and being frustrated that many issues are "features" I'm back to win11.

Win11 LTSC IoT + debloat is literally the best system out there. Fuck I feel so dumb for trying to use win10 out again or using incelux.

>>105851020
based

>>105851020
>Fuck I feel so dumb for trying to use win10
what is the problem with Windows 10?
I'm not sure why anyone would migrate to Windows 11 at the moment. seems like there's little benefit unless you have a very new machine?

why cant faggots in this general read?
>doesnt read OP
>doesnt read massgrave
>asks retarded question
>tech support cucks provide an answer in 0.1 seconds (mostly shit answers where the problem can be solved much faster and simpler)
just shut it down already

>>105851097
chill friend, this is the friendly windows thread

>>105851073
Win10 isn't bad, but I think win11 looks nicer. My PC is modern enough where I see no performance difference between them so I go with looks.

LTSC + debloat is necessary though, regular win11 is a bloated, spyware-filled mess.

What the hell is this always on top thing

>>105851097
if it weren't for stupid questions this entire board would be dead desu

>>105847295
You shouldn't use TSforge to activate Windows, only ESU
HWID is the best activation method

>>105850106
>remove taco keyboard layout
>go to administrative language settings
>Copy settings...
>...to system and new user accounts
>???
>PROFIT!!!!

>>105851134
>>105851020
you and I are like the same person
I bet we have similar hardware too
I'm on 9070 XT + 9800x3D

>>105850458
Be ready for 12 years more!

>>105851020
Spread the gospel anon, I’ve been saying the same shit, works on my 7600x 3080 machine perfectly

>>105851097
Yeah, I end to search massgrave before I ask anything specific. I'm still kinda confused on two things:
- after reading their guide, it seems Office 365 is the more useful version to install (custom installation page), am I right?
- what happened to OneDrive? I remembered about it after Windows Photos asked for a sync and I definitely had some stuff on there I"d like to recover. However, there's no mention of it on the Windows Store, while Internet has some third-party pages allegedly containing the install , but I'm not too quick to trust that, so I'll ask you guys - is OneDrive even alive at this point?

>>105851097
One of the most commonly asked question (where codec) is still absent in the OP.
If anything, OP is a fag.

>>105853191
Yeah, it should be added how to get HEVC, AV1 and HEIF. The first one requires some tinkering (as it is listed as a paid extension), the rest you can winget (you need to have the Windows Store and another MS small app to use winget, as those two are its dependiencies.
Or, you can simply download and install what you want without PowerShell autism if you're a good goy like me and have a Microsoft Account.

>>105853171
office 365 is the web and enterprise subscription version of office
the yearly releases of office are the one you want unless you're on linux because unlike the yearly releases it actually works there
not that easy to get even legitimately which is why you didn't find a link to them, normally i think scripts download them from some internal MS urls or something
activating office does have to use malware like techniques which trip defender in order for an activation server to run on your local machine because normally that's banned
if that concerns you all you need to do is run a KMS server (that's the activation protocol, there's multiple open source implementations) on a second device on the network, including on androids with termux
and you should be able to just point the activation at that
>what happened to OneDrive?
there's a client deeply built into windows now, i think into file explorer, never actually used it
that has caused a fair amount of issues because they try to push cloud by default for stuff like my documents and have actually messed up handling sync before and deleted a bunch of people's shit
if you actually want to use a cloud provider like onedrive as a backup option do it through rclone, the synchronization library it uses is much more robust than whatever MS was doing, you have 50 other backend options, and it still supports mounting cloud storage as a filesystem

I figured out why the windows 11 right click menu lags. You have to delete all the shortcuts under "Send To".
>C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

>>105854190
No, you've figured out why disabling Windows Search as a matter of course is a bad idea: now every time it has to build a menu by enumerating files in a folder, it has to actually hit the file system, instead of just looking up its (likely cached) index.
Common NPC "I know how Windows works better than the shell does - um actually I don't, w-why is everything so slow" L.

>>105854356
What are you talking about? I didn't disable windows search.

>>105854379
Of course, this is a lie. You know those "privacy" scripts you run every time you install because you fell for a moral panic? Guess what one of the first things it does is. Proof:
>run regedit
>press ctrl+f
>type "AllowCortana"
>find a dword with a value of 0
Which disables Windows Search funnily enough, because when Windows 10 came out, Windows Search was called Cortana, and it still obeys those registry values.
Again, common NPC L.

>>105841778
Why are you asking that in this thread? Anyways, Im sure that if you touched the tracking protection options those parameters got toggled or something.
I don't know if you can make exception for specific sites but here's what I did. Just create another firefox profile where both "http.referer.XOriginPolicy" and "network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy" are set to 0 and exclusively use those sites in it. I don't know exactly what they do it seems to be related to tracking.

>>105850106
Just get an spanish keyboard retard.

>>105823853
>default
IIRC it contains shortcuts that are displayed for each new user. Plus some system files. It's like /etc/skel for Windows except it's not copied over but parsed on each logon to add items to each user's profile.

>>105851020
7700X and 7800XT reporting in, 11 24H2 gave a noticeable performance improvement over my ageing 10 install.

>>105856031
I seem to recall, confusingly, the "Default User" profile in sysdm.cpl is actually the LocalSystem profile (hiding deep in system32 these days), not the "Default User Template" (which hangs out in C:\Users\Default).

>>105855514
sugoi

>>105855514
why did he do it

>>105853191
>>105853382
install mpv or vlc. they have all codecs

>>105858380
mpv has codecs for basically everything via ffmpeg being installed with it but thumbnails for certain things still don't work properly for shit like webms so you need those Media Foundation codecs or Icaros still.

windows is becoming retarded
so just because i havent received any notification from it for a while, that supposedly means i never want notifications from it when the time actually comes for it to give me notifications??
and it's a microsoft product itself, part of windows, not even like a 3rd party program i installed

pajeets will destroy the world

If I'm on 24h2, should I upgrade to 25h2? Is it worth it?

>>105860330
25H2 is shaping up to seemingly be a bugfix and smoothing out feature pack. Anons that have used it via insider previews say it felt really good to use.

Jesus christ why doesn't windows 11 installer recognize this nvme drive that I can use perfectly fine as 'storage space' on windows 10? None of these AMD chipset drivers are helping the installer see my drive. In fact the only time when the installer has seen this drive is when win 10 has already set it up as a 'virtual disk' storage space thing which is apparently different from a simple partition so I deleted it. I guess this is a sign to stay on win10 on my old drive

Just curious, what's wrong with W10 LTSC IoT exactly that people feel the need to use W11?

>>105841526
Just capture the drive to a .WIM image with DISM's /Capture-Image (preferably from Windows PE rescue media, unless you want to mess with capturing from a shadow copy snapshot in the running OS)
See this post for an example: >>105847461
>of course you can change the CaptureDir path, e.g. you want to backup your %UserProfile% with all the subfolders and files

WIM captures are file-based (and single-instance, so redudant data are once stored.)
You can cherrypick files to restore from the .WIM if you open it in 7-Zip (and can't be arsed to mount the image with DISM.)
You can also compress it (like in the example) and append a yet another capture to the same image (which combined with the single-instancing, the size won't drastically change if the data is almost the same.)

>>105860593
Might be a setting in your BIOS that's doing this?

>>105860647
Nothing's wrong with IoT LTSC 2021 but if you have new parts from like the past couple years you'll have a better time with IoT LTSC 2024.

>>105860647
W11 IoT LTSC + debloats just works.
>Terrible performance!!! UI written in React!!!11

I'm literally using a PC from 2016, that W11 techinically do not support, without any issues whatsoever. Zero. No lag while moving things around, taskbar etc all perfect.

>Looks like shit though
Install Startallback, then you can have all the good things about the UI of both systems by picking exactly what you want. They have a 100 day trial that you can reset by reinstalling windows and it's cheap as fuck. Not hard to find a crack for it if you can't afford a 5$ lifetime license.

>>105860593
storage spaces are modern windows software "raid" which use the hyper v virtual disk infrastructure and it's possible to boot from a vhdi so maybe that's why it's showing up then and only then

>>105860867
I think the so called support was instigated because of some hardware security features.
I have noticed that W11 LTSC is lighter in some ways on my hobo-tier machine and sometimes there's more free memory too.

>>105861043
Yeah it's all because of the security features like Core Isolation being enabled by default that 11 even has the requirements. The 8th gen and above can use it properly because they're built with it in mind.
IoT LTSC 2024 doesn't have it enabled by default like in all 10 editions.

With the last windows update I can't search windows emojis anymore ( win + . ), google solutions didn't help at all

do i need this "print management console" thing if i'm just using a basic ass inkjet over my wifi? will it break printing if i remove it?

How 2 get word 4 free? am brainlet

bump73

>>105862083
Installers:
https://gravesoft.dev/office_c2r_links

Once installed, activate with MAS using the Ohook option:
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

How can i get this shit for free? Or get HEIC functionality in the default windows Photos app?

>>105845722
>klite codec pack
this uses the icaros thumbnailer

>>105863047
Anon I love you, I've been trying to figure this out for weeks

What's the best way to get a windows 11 key? All the cheaper options seem shady as fuck.

>>105863729
>Buying a key
I'm guessing you're new to this thread
Just activate with MAS using the HWID option:
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

The windows terminal is so fucking slow, is there a better way to get a working terminal on Windows? maybe a third party terminal emulator or something?

>>105863783
That seems really shady. I've heard it has back doors.

>>105863859
If you're going to be this retarded then buy a key directly from Microsoft. That way you'll be safe
Don't forget to link your install to a Microsoft account too

>>105863992
I just want to be sure it's safe dude.

I wasn't even thinking about buying it becasue I heard that colleges give it out for free but my shit ass community college doesn't.

>>105864043
Massgrave has been the most trusted group in the MS community for years now, plus MAS is completely open source so they can't hide anything in it
People also get their LTSC ISOs from them because you can't get them directly from MS as a consumer

>>105864082
It just seems shady and Indian to me. I mean, just look it up on YouTube, it's a bunch of Indians talking about it

Is there a way to transfer my activation code form one pc to another?

Anons, Windows server 2025 is a good option for gaming / music production? Or just stick with pro version?

Just installed this
>W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
Thanks for the useful info anons. Upgraded from my W11 home install. I only really use Windows for VR nowadays anyway, so having something more stable seems like an obvious choice. Plus W11 was incredibly buggy throughout the year or so I used it.

>Got an "official" copy of Windows 11 Pro free in a bundle
>Comes with a thumb drive with all the stuff required and an activation key
>Instructions are simple: Stick the thumb drive in, configure it to boot from the drive, follow on-screen instructions
>Got an MSI X870E Motherboard, runs MSI Click Bios X, specifically this chrome version (most of the tutorials online are dark red)
>Absolutely will not detect the thumb drive no matter what I do
>Change the slot being used to one directly connected to the motherboard
>Nothing
>Go to 'boot order' to see if I can select a thumb drive that appears there, as they magically appear in the tutorials
>lol not there
>Change the boot order so that it prioritizes USB keys first (as suggested by online tutorials)
>Nothing
>Enable the MSI driver utility installer and fTPM 2.0, as suggested by online tutorials
>Nothing
>Mash "f11" on the boot screen to open up a menu that will manually select a boot device
>Only 1 option, 'enter setup'
>lol back to the bios you go
>Clearly not an issue with a bad connector in the motherboard since it can see my USB mouse & keyboard just fine
>Not an issue with the USB drive since my other computer reads it just fine
>Bios is likely up to date, last update was June 25th
>Eventually give up using the included thumb drive & decide to just make my own W11 boot stick using 1 of my own USB sticks
>Follow the tutorials I see online, FULLY format the drive, download the media creation tool, run it & install it all on the drive, put it in the new drive, start it up and mash f11 so that I could select it manually
>Might not be the "pro" version, but would be way easier to install after the fact
>nothing
>Look it up, apparently boot drives should be formatted as fat32, not NTFS. Not what the tutorial said, but oh well, time to format my drive and start all over again
>Nothing
>Only other thing I can think of is that the BIOS's boot mode is UEFI but lel no way to change it, greyed out

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG

>>105864794
>11
found your problem

>>105864794
you might need to disable secure boot and tpm.

>>105864794
>Change the slot being used to one directly connected to the motherboard
Have you tried ALL of the motherboard ports?

>>105865523
I tried three different USB 2.0 ports and the 5G flash bios port (which made my computer not... start.) I'll try the red 10G ones and the 5G port that's not connected to the flash bios. Weirdly no 3.0 ports, at least in the back (the case has them, I tried those already.)

I'll also try disabling secure boot.

If that doesn't work, guess i'm SOL until payday where I'll have to get someone else to do it for me

>>105864868
fpbp

Anyone able to help? I installed the recommended Win10, but VRR is acting funky. Specifically in windowed applications, freesync isn't working like it does on Wayland and Windows 11. Not sure what the fix is and I've tried bunches of fixes. Game I'm having the issue with is windowed Minecraft. Mind you, f11 fixes this, but I wanna play windowed lol.

Hey Microsoft, where the fuck is my ESU enrolment?

>>105865841
Dude, just activate it with TSforge
Isn't the one they give away only 1 year too? TSforge gives you 3 years

>>105866216
They're giving away the one extra year if you're logged into an MS account and have enough reward points or something.
Just running TSforge on Enterprise is way easier.

>>105864153
Indians talk about anything in tech, btw Linus also talked about it

What version of microsoft office do you guys use? isn't 365's main thing that it has online a.i. stuff? doesn't phoning home invalidate your office install?

>>105866647
The AI stuff doesn't work if you don't use an account with it (which you shouldn't be using.)
The way that Ohook activates 365 makes it that you can use it without any net connections, though you should probably use Office 2024 instead.

The drive I'm trying to connect to is formatted as ext4.
Virtual Machine Platform, Windows Hypervisor Platform, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (in Windows Features) are turned on (and rebooted).
Installed WSL (which auto-installed Ubuntu) through the terminal as Windows Administrator.
Currently in the terminal as an adminstrator.

Have tried installing Ubuntu as an app through the Microsoft Store (which also installs WSL) and tried connecting to the drive the same way, but get the same results. Every time I made sure to fully uninstall any distros, WSL, and even unchecked the Windows Features above and redid the process from scratch, rebooting as needed, before attempting a new installation.

On a fresh Windows 11 installation (only a few days old), 24H2, all Windows Updates installed. But my 6th gen Intel CPU is officially unsupported so I had to do the command prompt workarounds during installation. I couldn't find any specific virtualization options in my BIOS like 'Intel Virtualization Technology' or 'Vt-X' even after updating the BIOS to the latest version, but anything that looked like it could affect virtualization I made sure to turn on. If it helps, I have Linux Mint installed on a separate SSD from the Windows installation, and I can run Windows 11 24H2 in Virtual Box without any issues. So I think I have virtualization support.

In my original setup, I had Windows 11 as the main OS and the HDD formatted as NTFS, which the Linux Mint install could read and share files with. But now I have Linux Mint as my main OS and I want the bigger storage drive to be formatted in ext4 primarily for Linux, and have Windows 11 as the backup OS that would be able to read/pull files from the storage drive if needed. I guess I could go back to the old setup if all else fails, but it would be nice if I could get this to work. I've seen other options like paid third party software and some open source alternatives, but I'm trying to do it through WSL first.

>>105866216
>>105866407
Don't I need to reinstall to get Enterprise?

>>105867042
first thing i see is that it's not actually properly referring to the disk, you can tell cause you've only got 1 slash in the error which means it's being interpreted as escaping a character and you need to double up
wsl.exe --mount \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE1 --bare
quoting might have also worked, i don't remember what differences in quoting rules windows powershell has vs real powershell

i assume you know have to turn the disk offline in disk management same as if you'd intended on attaching it to a normal VM

>>105867262
No, you've been able to switch between editions without re-installing since WIndows 8. You can use MAS to change a Home/Pro install into Enterprise in a couple keyboard presses then re-activate.

>>105867262
>Don't I need to reinstall to get Enterprise?
No. You only have to re-install when you switch from GAC to LTSC (but even then there's an unsupported method to do it without re-installing)
MAS has a function that lets you switch editions easily. You just switch then restart your machine

>>105866655
How big of a difference is the 365 vs office 2024? Anything notable?

I've wasted so much time trying to use WSL for ComfyUI over the last 2 days. I'm about to just give up. An RTX 3060 would be more useful to me than this piece of shit RX 9070

>>105867513
It's the same thing. Every modern Office is basically just a live service version of Office 2016 and every yearly release is a more stable snapshot.

>>105867687
Yes that's usually the way with doing SD or LLM stuff on a PC IE using a NVIDIA card.

>>105867687
i really don't understand why you'd think you should be trying to run the latest release of ROCm, one which needs a custom version of pytorch from AMD's repos and potentially a patch to one of its libs, through 2 different beta proprietary drivers either side of the VM
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/radeon/en/latest/docs/compatibility/wsl/wsl_compatibility.html
it just it seems like a pain and very easy to fuck up

>>105867042
What are you trying to connect to the drive for exactly? Sharing files? Is it connected via USB?

>>105867294
>you've only got 1 slash in the error which means it's being interpreted as escaping a character and you need to double up
Ah, that was it. Adding a single open and close quote around the drive path fixed it. I can now read/write files to the drive and share them with my linux install.
Thanks, anon. Seems like such a silly error, now that I think about it. I normally quote drive paths by default in native linux. Dunno how I missed that.

>>105868835
Just for storage. It's an internal HDD connected by SATA. In my old setup, I had it formatted to NTFS when Windows was my main OS, and my backup Linux OS could still read and write to the drive. Now that Windows is my backup OS, I wanted the drive to be formatted to something Linux could use more efficiently but still let Windows be able to read/write to it if needed. This new setup works perfect now.

>>105870415
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>>105870439
diabeetus edition

>>105869815
umount it and format it with gparted

>>105869815
>I wanted the drive to be formatted to something Linux could use more efficiently but still let Windows be able to read/write to it if needed
exfat
hasn't been encumbered by IP for a long while
highish performance large capacity formattable and mountable by windows, linux (although WSL might need you do build a newer WSL kernel, and/or one built with exfat enabled) and android

>>105870439
Bump limit is 310 on /g/

>>105872578
Reminder that we still haven't hit the bump limit here

>>105873791
are you sure about that?