sophieOP missing for the time being

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I love Windows!

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>>107912592
uni

friendly reminder:
if you have windows 10 drivers:
for usability out of the box / gaming: use windows 10 enterprise 22h2 with 3 year esu enabled in mas
for tinkerers and lean os enthusiasts: windows 10 iot enterprise ltsc 2021

if you don't have windows 10 drivers:
for gaming: windows 11 enterprise 25h2 (iot version if you don't have tpm/secure boot/uefi)
for 'stability': windows 11 enterprise iot ltsc 2024 (24h2 will lose mainstream support in october 2026 meaning stupid shit won't get backported after that)

why enterprise? group policy access to regain control

>>107912592
windows cat

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>need windows for work in two weeks
>try to install it on laptop
>"no device drivers were found"
>doesn't say which drivers. typical windows

It's a Dell laptop. I tried loading the IRST driver, also checked the BIOS, but it didn't work. I suspect it's something related to the .iso file since the same happens on my desktop. Tried using Ventoy, nothing.

Suggestions? I'm running out of options. Am I eternally soul bound to Linux?

>>107913450
i have a dell laptop with 10 ltsc, everything works and drivers are on their site

>>107913450
>eternally soul bound to
Yes. Also what version of windows, what laptop specs?

>Step 7 (Recommended): Partition system drive and move user folders to reinstall-proof your data
>By default, your user folder is stored in C:\Users\username, the problem with this is that if your install gets corrupted and you need to reinstall, all of your documents get wiped unless you have a spare computer to plug your drive into to pull the files first. Moving your user folders to a 2nd partition/drive avoids this problem.
Is this necessary? I have multiple computers so I don't think this will be an issue. Is there any other good reason to do this? Does it make moving to a new installation easier or anything? Since I might have to move to a newer 11LTSC I think.
Also the 100GB that it recommends seems quite small?

I don't know if I'm understanding everything surrounding this.

>>107914673
The guide says recommended but personally I think it's pretty optional.

Conversation with my mother
>anon can you install linux on my puter
>why
>trump will hack my puter
>pffft yeah right
>they will declare war on europe and bribe microsoft to hack my pc through updates
>i'll install linux if it happens
>IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK ANON
Should I encourage her in her paranoia and install linux and watch her rage against a machine that doesn't work? Could be fun

>>107915573
Sorry your mom is so brainrotted
>Treating her rot as a funny time
Hmm.

>get ms office and use word for the first time since 2006
>fucking thing wants me to sign in, only auto saves to the microshaft cloud, crashes every 5 minutes probably because I cut out a fuck ton of telemetry from win11
Jesus fucking Christ I hate microsoft

>>107916994
Huh?
Why would you not stick to Office 2010 forever?

>>107916994
This is why you activate it with Ohook via MAS so it lets you use it without being signed in.

Just switched over to Mint full time, just wanted to say it was an honor, microsloppers, but it's unironically time to move on, I'll still keep a secondary boot for gayms and windows exclusive applications but those are few and far between for me now.

>>107914673
Nah, if you care about those data that much. You should have already burnt them on DVD+DL.

>>107912592
quick question, I want windows 10 ltsc iot in spanish, what is the way? download windows 10 ltsc 2021 from massgrave and then MAS script? does it give the option to transform the normal ltsc to iot?

>>107917147
Use a Spanish LTSC 2021 ISO to install it, then activate it with HWID and MAS will automatically change the edition to IoT LTSC as well.

>>107917160
thank you comrade

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My wife bricked her laptop with bitdefender. Used a self destructing school email for her account.

The data is unrecoverable and she accepts that, but she still needs a functional device for work. I took out the m.2, formatted it, and put it back in with a USB boot. Starts up as expected. No Internet at the account prompt. Whatever, Skip and do limited setup.

Sill no Internet. Doesn't detect the wifi adapter now. Doesn't even show up in the device manager. I took it apart again to check for loose connections but I didn't find anything. Suggestions?

>>107918482
Look up her laptop's WiFi adapter and download a driver for it and use a USB drive to transfer it to and install it on her laptop

>>107913450
>>107913450

You have to match it to the generation, try 18, then 20, etc. If you knew your hardware, you wouldn't be complaining

>>107918482
Connect it to internet and wait for WU to install the driver
>muh no ethernet plug
Phone tethering

>>107919246
IMO everyone should have one of those USB to Ethernet adapters in their kit. Too useful.

>>107913450
don't dells have a product tag that you can search on their site for to find your exact product/build?

is fmhy the best piracy resource?

>>107919834
One of the best next to the one reddit's piracy community offers.

>>107915939
It's not only fun but also an opportunity to teach a valuable life lesson, the lesson being Linux bad

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user level retard here on win10 with extended support

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-13-2026-kb5073724-os-builds-19045-6809-and-19044-6809-bd960b49-050e-432f-a9d5-2454cb377fed
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-secure-boot-certificate-expiration-and-ca-updates-7ff40d33-95dc-4c3c-8725-a9b95457578e

new update drops with some texts about certificates expiring and needing to be updated in order to keep secure boot
now the issue is, i kinda need secure boot because i am a chinese slave who uses vanguard and it wouldn't function without it
i get all win10 updates still normally (extended support haxx from massgravel)
will win10 automatically update all that shit or do i have to manually update bios etc?

>>107921280
The cumulative updates should just update the certs as well.

>>107921378
thanks,hopefully

So how is there a public github repo that does that, why is Microsoft allowing this?

>>107921451
One, licenses activated by MAS barely blip as a "loss" on their earnings.
Two, open secret that MS techs use it to fix bullheaded activation issues.

>>107915573
post mom
>>107918482
buy an usb wifi adapter

can anyone post language packs for LTSC IoT Windows?

Any ideas how to fix a 0xc000007b error? It occurs when I try to play some video games. Today's round is peculiar because this is a game that worked in the past that I uninstalled and now cannot get to launch.

laughing at all the windows 11 retards
that's all

>I'll use XP until I die
>I'll use 7 until I die
>I'll use 10 until I die

>>107923982
>I'll use Windows 12 until I die

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>>107924088
W12 will almost certainly have even more AI in it than W11

>>107924132
he's fumbling so hard that I count on him getting fired in less than 3 years

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>>107912592
Uni

>>107924132
>YOU VILL USE AI TECH UND BE HAPPY!

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>W11 bug prevents computers from turning off
>released a patch for it
>wake up today
>computer restarts literally every time it goes to sleep, has already restarted five times today
Fucking kill every jeet at this company

>>107925037
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC does not have this problem.

>>107925037
that sounds like a video driver issue
try to complete uninstall everything related to video drivers and then install them again
if you dont want to do that then maybe either microsoft or the graphics card company will fix it if its an actual bug

>>107925078
Unfortunately the software I use for work only runs on W11 so my piece of shit incel chud freak life will have to continue to be agonizing

how much leaner is win10 ltsc compared to base 22h2 im seeing 8gb used just on firefox plus probably a shit ton of svchost.exe while my linux install only consumes 1.5gb

>>107925037
Disable hybrid sleep maybe?

>>107925078
windozws vista neithrt

>>107925125
10 tabs on firefox + two discords + telegram + steam and i'm on 9gb usage

>>107925125
sounds like a skill issue

what's the easiest way to share files between PC's in the same network? (home network, and wifi)

>>107926036
https://web.localsend.org/

>>107926036
LocalSend is pretty good.

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>>107912592
caturday?

>>107926267
blessed puss

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winpeeps, how to get wsl working on windows 10 iot ltsc
I want to play around with linux on my gayming pc

>>107926267
how do you sit? do you have to change position often?

>>107926536
>want to play around with linux on my
Wat exactly do you want to do in Linux on the Windows PC? Like GUI stuff or running containerds? For GUI stuff a bootable Linux USB something will be better.

Otherwise it's easy: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

>use epic debloat unattended installer script
>winget doesn't work
>%SystemRoot% not set somehow
I want to get off mr bones.

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hello CHADnons
I wanted to express gratitude for the guides in the op
I fucking despise windows 11 and windows' niggerlicious tendency to force updates on you no matter how many times you say no or disable the service
I fucking hate their """""feature updates""""" being a weighted coinflip into bricking something about your pc randomly if it feels like it
the audacity of them to at some point remove just normal shut down and give you the options shut down and update or restart and update is infuriating
forgetting and leaving my pc for 10 minutes to find out it used that window to sneak a cheeky update in makes me seethe like nothing else
I hate microSLOP and all its bullshit like you would not believe.

I got a new laptop and it came with SHITdows 11 so it had to be rectified immediately
thank you for helping me install win10 iot correctly and foolproofly (and for the program recommendations) with the rentries, I hadn't even known this ideal version of windows had existed beforehand, but I'm glad it does. it is what I have wanted for a long time. this is a relic of a better era clearly

also, I bought a rog ally recently as well, and I think upgrading to iot w10 from the w11 it ships with helps with its atrocious battery life

you are kings, I love you all


t.retarded techlet

>>107930590
All good bro enjoy your puter

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>>107930695
thanks man I really am
I couldn't have gotten the laptop at a better time, not just because of the price spikes, but shortly after I bought it, my old, now quite aged and degraded / starting to struggle laptop which I had just finally repaired was bricked because of a FUCKING forced update I can't revert
the brand new keyboard replacement started spazzing out on boot
trying to fix it somehow bricked it further where it wouldn't respond at all on some boots
then trying to fix it further took out the mousepad too
now it is random if either work on boot (usually it does not) and I'm just not optimistic about continuing trying to fix it
what the fuck man

I love my brand new debloated windows 10 laptop that doesn't fuck around with updates
it's so fast and will probably have better longevity without being forcefed crystallised cancer constantly
it's revitalised a spark back for enjoying technology, one less thing to constantly wrangle
I don't think I could have taken it if the old one was all I still had, happening right after a repair I had held off for ages

sorry for the blogpost I just really appreciate everything, this general is a lifesaver

>>107925849
retard

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>>107930590
based

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On Windows 10 (Home), how do I disable Defender so MsMpEng.exe will stop chewing up precious RAM and CPU cycles?
This is a low-end machine, and I want to squeeze the performance I can out of it. I would just run something like MX Linux or Mint XFCE but there's some things I use that I don't want to jump through the hoops of getting to work on lnux.

Best way to generate an autounattend to setup Windows with your preferred language, locale, time, keyboard etc on USB insertion?

>>107932693
use mas and switch edition to enterprise
then:
search for tamper protection > off
open gpedit
computer configuration > administrative templates > windows components > microsoft defender antivirus > turn off microsoft defender antivirus and switch to enabled
computer configuration > administrative templates > windows components > microsoft defender antivirus > allow antimalware service to remain running always and switch to disabled

>>107933167
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

new pc
win 11 ltsc
gotta reinstall stuff
mpv ytp ffmpeg etc etc etc

exe? winget? chocolately? scoop?
Which is best long term (and short term)
exe is already annoying me with adding PATH for just these two, so maybe not that unless you have a compelling argument for why

I dont know the differences between the others. AI says scoop though

>>107934524
Personally I use scoop and if the software isn't on scoop I'll try winget. I avoid chocolatey though. If the software I'm trying to get is portable but not on scoop, I'll write my own app manifest and upload it onto my personal scoop repo on GH and install it from there.
>exe
This is an executable file. Could be a manual install or just portable software
>winget
microsoft's package manager
>chocolatey
third party package manager
>scoop
third party package manager, with an emphasis on portable software. Most of the time there won't be a need to install the software from here so it has a smaller footprint. Also the best if you're doing development work.
>PATH
the package managers above will set path for you. Of course if you're installing exe manually then you'll set it manually yourself.

>>107936867
Ahahaha, oh wow! He's so crazy!

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So I did a fresh install of W10 LTSC on a new asus laptop. You niggers didn't tell me half the drivers would be missing

>>107936917
Try SDIO

>>107936917
>>107936940
Why recommend third party shit instead of just getting them from the manufacturer site?

>>107936956
It's easy and I trust it enough. Though if the other anon is on a new asus laptop then they'll probably have to get the drivers from the manufacturer since it may not be in SDIO's repo

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>>107936940
This is the exact ideal solution to my problem, thank you.

What other tools to use to streamline fresh installs? I know of Ninite and I used Rufus to create the install media, it worked flawlessly.

>>107937207
If you're comfy with the terminal, then scoop and winget for package management.
Ventoy: instead of using Rufus to flash a usb, ventoy is a simple drag-and-drop solution. It allows you to drop an iso file to your flash drive and boot from it. So, rather than using a usb stick to boot to one thing (windows, rescue image, etc), your one usb stick can boot from multiple ISOs.

What version of Word and Excel is the best if you don't want any online bullshit etc?

>>107937938
You can use 365ProPlus without an account if you activate with with MAS's Ohook module (which turns it into 365 Apps for Enterprise.)

>>107937938
>if you don't want any online bullshit etc?
Any version that's not Office 365
Check out the versions hosted on massgrave, as they can all be activated with MAS:
https://massgrave.dev/office_c2r_links

My gaming laptop I only use like twice a year is running cool and not making jet engine noises for the first time since I bought it two years ago and I haven't done anything with it.
Did microsoft accidentally fix Windows 11 recently?

how "agentic" will you let windows get before you abandon ship?

>>107938630
Anon I just turn all that shit off or never bother using it. Plus if you use a local account it's basically neutered.

>>107938644
ok but how long until they force it? how many wildly unpopular things have they forced in the past?

>>107938657
The more they force it the more people will start moving away from Windows. Out of all the LLMs out there, Copilot is without a doubt the one with the least actual fans.

>>107938669
i honestly don't think it has any

>>107938699
There's probably some office woman out there that uses the Copilot built into the work-payed-for Office suite she uses on a daily basis, and just thinks it's kinda neat, like a really normie adoration for the smart computer thing.

>>107912592
yes am going to paste some random command from 4chan to my PowerShell and pipe it to iex for sure yeah yeah

>>107938630
i switched to Linux some time ago. can't use this bullshit Microslop Losedowns 9/11

>2560x1440 monitor
>run a game in 2560x1080 (21:9 ratio) windowed mode
>it fills the width of my screen and has a titlebar and all is good
>run game in DX11 mode
>do the same
>it's scaled to like 95% width with visible gaps on the edges instead of filling the whole 2560 width
Why does this happen? Is this Windows to blame, or the game?

>>107938630
I use Windows, Mac and Linux. I only really use Windows for games so Windows can get 10x shitter for all I care. Only people who daily drive it will suffer.

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It amazes me in the year of your lord 2026 when you connect two windows pcs with an usb cable nothing happens. Ain't physical file transfer between two pcs supposed to be one of the most basic pc features?

>>107938924
i asked about this to ai the other day because i need to transfer files from laptop to pc and the laptop only has a 100Mbps ethernet port, so the speeds are restricted to 11MB/s so i was hoping i could use the usb 3.0 port instead

i really need to move away from brave because it has issues on my laptop, im pretty sure it is related to graphics
i tested edge and it was fine
so edge or firefox?

>>107939083
Firefox obviously if you're use to content blocking. Just install UBO as normal.

>>107938924
Yeah, honestly retarded.
I get the technical aspect but my god just implement something in windows to make it work already god dammit big tech is so shit.

Been so many years since we could trade pokemon from gameboy to gameboy with a cable, then they made it wireless with infrared, but Windows never could simply "just work" with simple file sharing the same way. It's absurd.

>>107938924
There's plenty of local sharing tools out there that work over local wireless though, like Localsend or Pairdrop.
Also you can actually use a USB to USB connection to connect two PCs and share shit between them, but you need a specialty USB transfer cable like the ones by the brand Pluggable on Amazon to actually do that.

>>107939083
>>107939117
Edge also has UBO as well.

>>107941112
Edge was fine back in the day, but now it's very unpredictable with how Microsoft is adding more and more bloat and telemetry to it, performance wise it's ok but imo you shouldn't rely on it

>>107941575
It's still fine now. I use shutup10 on a fresh install and it also disables stuff in Edge. User functionality not compromised. No bloat at all. You can hide copilot and sidebar and shutup10 will disable it. The rest is in the settings for you to customize. I also turn off everything in the new tab page so my Edge looks clean.

I actually kind of like the KDE Plasma start menu and wish that Windows 10 had something similar.

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So what exactly do people use this for? Isn't it better for me to just reformat? Do I have to use KMS upon reformat and install if I already did HWID activation on this machine before?

Does anyone have any idea why 10 Enterprise LTSC 21H2 makes my laptop run like absolute ass but my desktop is fine? All it took is updating. A fresh install of doesnt have this issue.

Anything that can automate the Windows 11 Out Of Box Experience through a USB other than Windows Configuration Designer? (It's kinda shit even on expert settings).
I got a previous reply with:
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
But it seems to be made for incorporating into a new wipe and install situation.

I simply need something to setup basic settings and policies to quickly skip the OOBE while retaining drivers and bloat. Formatting ruins that.

>time to reinstall windows 10 cause my system is a clusterfuck of dependencies and shit bloat startup programs I don't need
>it's been so long I don't even fucking remember all the tweaks and scripts and regedits and file edits and bullshit that I did to make it work as it did or to set it up as I did then
is this what being an arch user feels like? fuck

Aw man I'm at that point where I feel the pressure of a poo but I know if I go struggle on the toilet now I'm just gonna get nothing out of it other than maybe a couple weak ass farts, but I still have that "need to poo" uncomfortale pressure. Hate it.

>>107942627
try sfc /scannow, that'll help

Babe, it's time for your yearly reinstall of Windows!

>>107942888
not a thing since 7, i used to format xp every three months

>>107943236
How do you clear house in your Appdata folder and registry or start menu programs and other dependencies?

can I use ventoy to install windows

>>107943718
yes

>>107943718
You can use Ventoy to install most things. All Ventoy does is trick whatever computer you're running it on to interact with ISO files like they're actual disks being run in a disk reader.

i havent gotten an update for 365 apps in a month but i see there are new versions
anyone else has this issue?

>>107942888
Why would I do that? Do you not full shut down your PC every night?

What happened to windows media player. Trying to rip some old cds and it no longer will import album art and song titles. Better alternatives?

>>107944347
Are you Windows 11? In general I think MS has deprecated this functionality on the back end.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-media-players-find-album-information-functionality-has-been-removed-youll-have-to-find-other-software-for-playing-and-ripping-cds-with-relevant-track-information

>>107944107
>full shut down your PC every night
Wat? Sleep and resume work flawlessly on modern hardware. Even though my system boots to login in under 15 seconds, resume from sleep is ~2 seconds or less. OFC I'm also using a UPS so I don't worry so much about power outages.

>>107944449
Still using win10.

>>107944621
Microsoft Quietly Shut Down This Feature Millions Still Use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54hHTfWqQw

Yep, it's dead. You need to find some other ripping tool.

>>107942458
Just go into task manager and disable the startup shit you don't want? Uninstall the bloat that annoys you.
Reinstalling will never pay off unless your system is actually broken. Too many tweaks are required to get comfy again.

>>107944974
>Just go into task manager and
A little more than that, I think. Check all services for startup too. And don't use Task Manager, use Autoruns from the Sysinternals Suite, will show all scheduled tasks, services, startup items, etc.. and the changes can be undone (as long as you don't delete them, kek).

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>Just put linux on my Surface Pro recently to see how it runs
>After some distro hopping and tweaks, everything seems to be working okay, even games (touchscreen experience isn't as good as on windows, but the stylus works okay)
>No weird stepping issue when drawing diagonals in GIMP or Krita anymore, lines are smooth, and performance in drawing apps is better than those same apps on windows
>Just found out about a recent Windows update that prevented users from shutting down, and following emergency patches broke other stuff like Notepad being unable to close
>No more spying, co-pilot in MS-Paint or notifications to sign into my windows account
Man, I think I made it just in time. What the heck are they doing over there at Microsoft. This was just supposed to be a test run in preparation to dual-boot, but it's been going so well that maybe there's no need to dual-boot after all.

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>>107945124
/fwt/ is not worried.

>We know you'll be back.

>>107945137
Don't get me wrong, Windows still runs games better for the most part. And I still have it installed on my desktop back at home that I dual-boot with, and MS still makes the best controllers. But it's just kind of sad how fast Windows seems to be flushing itself down the toilet. I wonder what's going on over there in there offices. They have so much money but they can't seem to afford to test their own updates. Why are they suddenly breaking so much stuff so rapidly. Why couldn't they had just stopped at Windows 10, I would have used that OS forever.

>>107945191
>>107945124
>every technology literate person for the last half decade, that's five entire years, 365 days x 5, 260 weeks, has been saying w11 is shit, like every other version of windows always is
>all of them are still using the good version and post tons of guides and info and make it readily available to anyone capable of reading english
>drooling brain dead subhuman niggers ignore all warnings and install the bad version
>OOOMMMHG WHGT WANDRZ SO BAD I HAET U WANDERZ
How do drooling retards like you manage to breathe without assistance?

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Well.... what a fuck up
>damage laptop a while ago
>secondary hard drive disappears from windows
>order a replacement
>open up laptop to replace hard drive
>close it up, boot up
>windows does not see the new hard drive
>open up again, look closer
>cable connecting drive to motherboard is half ripped off
well shit... the original hard drive might be fine too... could just be the cable... also...
>notice battery puffed up like a god damn balloon
>removed that for safety
So now I have no extra hard drive, no battery, and a fucking explosive fire hazard on my desk

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>>107945249
friendly windows thread

>>107945286
damn did you smash it on the wall or something?

>>107945345
Something fell onto the keyboard and apparently hit just the right spot.
The funny thing is the keyboard works a lot better now that there's no puffed up battery behind it lol

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>>107945249
Anon, I >>107945137 am the epitome of a Windows fanboy, having made a living supporting Microsoft products for a lil bit (starting with Windows 3.0). Windows 11 reminds me of the Vista launch - a clusterfark of deeply embedded little flaws sprinkled with little droppings of AI enshittification. Underneath it all we know the Windows 10 core is still there. A properly debloated 11 system is as reliable as any W10 install. Whether or not they will ever be able to fix the flaws for 11 or just come out with 12 or whatever with fixes is something we will only know by waiting.

At the same time I'm also a Linux user and have been for many years, it's often the OS of choice in datacenter and lab environments. I have two MacOS devices as well. It's been great watching these OS choices grow and change over time.

My observation has been that ever since XP existed each time MS releases a new version of Windows the same kind of whining and moaning happens about it and then eventually it just fades away. Linux users have always warred over which distro is the Right One, and MacOS users only complain about OS updates when their precio$ hardware gets left behind.

>>107945327
Love ya, anon.

>>107945286
>battery puffed up
get that spicy pillow out of your house ASAP, and good luck getting your laptop back together.

>old but not on a ventilator yet.

>>107945363
imo the 11 hate won't fade anytime soon because it's tied to something bigger that the OS, AI. As long as MS keeps forcefully pushing AI people will keep hating it.

I agree that a debloated 11 is pretty ok, but right now Windows and MS as a whole are under massive changes in how they develop stuff, and W11 just feels like a warfare zone with how often they add bloat here, nuke stuff there and another thing breaks over there. I still think they'll come to their senses at some point but 11 is pretty much just a testing ground for them.

>>107945408
>11 is pretty much just a testing ground
I get that. I'm running a full retail version on my new build (because /fwt/ told me not to) really mostly because I want to see for myself how it evolves over time.

>also I ran into some driver issues using IoT 10 and 11, anons need to be aware this can happen with newer hardware.

I've noticed that with my work PC, the "committed" RAM is higher than my "actual" RAM. At one point it stayed at around 20GB committed RAM when the "actual" RAM is only 16GB. Is that what sometimes leads to a "bloated" pagefile? Is this a sign that the PC needs more "actual" RAM?

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Will drivers for this build work with Win 10 IoT LTSC?

>>107945450
You can check pagefile usage with HWinfo64. If it's being used it means you need more RAM.

>>107945450
In "committed" the second number is the sum of total RAM and the configured page file(s) sizes. If you have 16GB RAM and it shows something like 20/32GB then you have a 16GB pagefile of which 4GB is in use - or something like that. Memory management is a bear to understand.

Here, I did an googling for you: https://scorpiosoftware.net/2023/04/12/memory-information-in-task-manager/

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>>107945451
You will have to try it. You can install Windows 10 IoT on a USB with Rufus as a "Windows to Go" to test it with. You can do the same with Windows 11 IoT.

>all you W11curiousanons
>you can try it on a USB with Rufus and Windows to Go
>can install all drivers, /gaymes/ "muh benchmarkz", bubblegum-and-feet porn, whatever floats your boat
>test on USB3 NVMe adapter for maximum lulz
>a regular USB dick will be minimum lulz
>come back and shitpost on it
>make your own call on the UI
>trust me anons it just /werks/

>>107945451
What's the point of building a powerful machine if you absolutely want to stay on W10? Nvidia said they'll stop releasing W10 drivers in a year or two and more and more software won't support W10
I'm not saying nobody should use W10 IoT LTSC, it's just that the kind of software/games that actually need powerful modern hardware won't support W10 in a couple of years

>>107945522

>>107945363
>and then eventually it just fades away

is bcuninstaller the best uninstaller to remove left over trash?

>>107946129
One of the best, yes.

Guys I'm trying to install IoT LTSC 2021 from the links but it does not install the network adapter, what do?

>>107946459
If the generic adapter isn't working on your wireless card/ethernet adapter then download the driver from your mobo or laptop OEM's support page and put it in the computer via your phone or something and run the installer.

>>107946432

>>107945327

>>107946459
I literally have a $5 USB wifi adapter that plugs and plays for this scenario. Otherwise what >>107946465 said.

>>107946465
>>107946474
I'm currently reinstalling, will post back
It's weird because I'm trying to install dual boot on a new drive and I think on the original install on the other drive it didn't have this issue

>>107946465
>>107946474
IT WORKED AAA THANK YOU

Why does my bluetooth disappear for no reason on windows 11 pro? I looked at the solutions on Microsoft and none of them solve the permentantly. The only thing that works is to restart but from time to time it happens again.

I'm on 24H2 Pro and everything works, is it worth it to going to 11 LTSC IoT? I wouldn't mind less bullshit running and maybe getting a slightly snappier experience.

>>107948172
Well if you're already on 24H2 and you don't mind re-installing Windows you might as well just wipe it then install IoT LTSC 2024 and set it up again.

>>107915573
holy reddit

>>107938924
I know, what the fuck
on a similar note that I can't just plug in a HDMI cable from one laptop to use another laptop as a second monitor

So I cannot create a second user as local account in win 11 anymore? Or what the fuck is this bullshit? I got a new thinkpad for work stuff (freelancer) and I don't want to do work with my hotmail account that's the administrator. There is no option to create a local account for fuck's sake.

>>107949182
Ok found it, it was aggressively buried behind a non-sensical interface option. Why does microjeetshit hate local account users?

Is there a website or something that could inform you if it's safe to upgrade windows 11?

>>107949205
you WILL tie your microsoft onedrive to logging in to your pc and you will LIKE it

>>107949205
>hate local account users
I >>107945363 think it's because the average (not (you)) user is about a smart as a wet sack full of rocks which allows the designers of Windows to lure them into the cloud with promises of "safety" for their precious data (and thus lead them into a monetization schema when their camera roll grows to many GB of cat pictures).

Then again I may be a little cynical.

>>107949372
I've used gentoo for the last 10 years, I simply have zero patience for microshitjeet's bullshit.

>>107949255
yes, a small community called /fwt/

>>107949735
Well, I already did and it went fine. So I guess I'm lucky.

>>107949400
Enjoy your >>107949389

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>>107949811
I have to enjoy both threads now because I can't use linux on my work laptop. Sorry for the trouble. After all this bullshit windows 11 seems like it might be tolerable for work stuff, I installed WSL and configured all the AI-trash etc off and setup the task bar to look more like windows 10 and it's okay now.

>>107949839
>have to enjoy both threads now
Ja I'm >>107949372 mostly stuck in Windows even after retirement because of the tools I use to do stuff. Since I have a lot of experience it wasn't too bad for me to debloat 11 but it low-key disgusts me how much crap has been shoveled into it.

I just enabled bitlocker for my new win11 install and was left wondering why it didn't prompt for a passphrase. Well yeah it autodecrypts on boot to make it "seamless" - WELL FUCK. I don't want this, I wanted to encrypt with passphrase so that if someone steals my laptop they can't fucking boot it up and get decrypted drive contents. What the fuck is this, insane default behavior.

>>107950079
Well I'll just enable a startup PIN for the TPM chip and problem solved I guess.

>>107950079
- The person would have to be able to login as you to view the content.

-You can set a BIOS boot password on most modern machines as stated >>107950128

>>107950079
alternatively you could use Veracrypt

>>107950139
It's a work laptop, I don't care as long as I've done my besht at encrypting the drive. Effort matters, intention matters, if it gets stolen and a super-hackerman somehow decrypts it because bitlocker was ass, not my problem.

>>107949839
I can feel the tar in my lungs from this photo.

>>107945124
I also went back >>107945137 with my surface at some point. It was still too finicky with the touch-screen keeping track of the kernel updates, troubleshooting bugs blabla. I just ended up getting w10 again on my surface pro (2017). Recently enrolled in the ESU and will probably install LTSC once that runs out.

I wish that I could have program categories in my start menu like on the Linux distro application menus.
>>107945522
>more software won't support W10
That's kind of crazy considering W11 is essentially a reskin of Windows 10 in most areas outside of the AI slop they loaded it up with.

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>>107950672
same

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Thanks Microsoft, very cool, I could use a few more keyboard layouts I didn't ask for and can't remove now.

>>107951055
I always had this issue, I am from Finland but prefer to use US ANSI keyboard because it is so much easier to write with than the Scandinavian layout. Of course for some occasions I needed to have Scandinavian layout too.
My keyboard switcher would switch from US to FI on random basis and I would never understand why. This was on W11 iot LTSC.
The installation wasn't broken.

>>107951055
my fix was to install the one that gets listed and then remove it

What would happen if I were to go on diskpart on the command line and run the offline command on my C: drive?
To explain a bit my Windows went boom-boom and now I can only use the command line, I don't have any intention to fix and want to migrate over to Linux. Thing is, Windows got my drive by the balls(hibernating on it which prevents Linux from installing or interacting with the drive in any way) and as far as I can tell the only way to fix this in my situation where I can only use CMD is through diskpart, hence why I want to try this.
...Actually, I just thought of another way. Can't I just wipe the whole drive? Seems obvious, but I don't know if I even can do it through a live-boot of Linux, and I'm worried that the whole hibernation shit might survive a good wipe and require me to reinstall Windows to fix it before getting Linux.

>>107951619
You can find another computer to make a live Linux USB and examine the drive offline. Or just make an appropriate Windows install disk and try the repair from that.

>>107951656
>make a live Linux USB and examine the drive offline.
Yeah, I already have one. I can read but not write to the drive, since Windows is "possessing" it I suppose. I've already tried running the offline command on another drive and found out that it fixes this problem, I'm just wondering if the command would still work properly when I use it on the drive my system is located in, and whether there would be any damage to the drive. I could repair from an install disk but I'd rather not since I've already been planning to switch to Linux for a while.

>>107951674
probably the right thing to try if you really need the data is to disconnect and replace the drive with a clean Windows install. You can then later try to recover the old media. Or use Linux with help at >>>/g/fglt

>>107951694
I already copied the data over elsewhere. Just wondering how to best dispossess Windows of the disk so I can install Linux on it instead.

>>107951731
Oh thats dead simple. Linux will happily wipe your old disks.

Linux help at >>>/g/fglt, this is /fwt/ after all.

>old Atom 32 bit netbook with 1GB RAM
how retro can i go in windows with this? Atom netbooks are from a short period around 2007-2011 mostly so i assume an offline XP install is the best bet

and most importantly, where do i get trustworthy windows 98 and XP isos ?

>>107951989
nvm just saw it on the massgrave site
windows XP is the oldest they have tho
https://massgrave.dev/windows_xp_links

>>107951999
WinWorld has the older Windows versions, but yeah XP is probably the sweetspot for those shitters

>>107951999
If you want to go even earlier then XP you could look into WinWorldPC which has image files for everything before it.

>>107951055
>Installing foreign keyboard support out of nowhere.
Pwned by malware moment.

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apparently making a bootable winXP flash drive isnt as easy as just burning the image into a flash drive, and its a huge pain in the ass to do from linux

anyone know a simple tool that Just works(tm) for doing this?

>>107952212
Install Ventoy to a USB then put the XP install image on it.

>>107912592
Please do not bend

>>107952265
well shiet, ventoy doesnt run in the old ass laptop i want to put windows XP in to begin with!

>>107952301
Honestly it might be actually easier to just burn the image to a disk and install using a disk reader. Does the laptop still have a CD drive?

>>107952301
Does that laptop even support booting from USB? You should check the BIOS, you migth need to enable it here.

>>107952301
older systems might have a harder time with recognizing Ventoy, but it may as well be a BIOS setting. as the other anon said, use a CD or try with Rufus

im trying a program called WoeUSB meant to make windows installation media from linux, but it only officially supports Windows Vista and later officially
>>107952307
its a netbook, it only has usb2.0 ports, no disk reader. My main PC doesnt have a disk reader either so id have to set something up myself with an external disk reader somehow
>>107952317
Yes it does, i could boot up Lakka, antix linux, sparky linux, etc from USB, it just cant run ventoy or 64 bit stuff
>>107952320
rufus doesnt run on linux

Didn't realize there was a /fwt/ thread before posting on /sqt/. Where's some good resources for XP/7 compatible software and tweaks?

>RTX HDR needs windows 11
Fuck...

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Maybe I'm coping hard (i am) but windows follows a tick-tock release schedule: good release, bad release, good release etc. So maybe windows 12 isn't going to be an LLM coded crashfest with buggy wifi drivers, and we won't regret upgrading. Maybe.

>>107953780
With MS's current CEO still in the chair, we're gonna be seeing Copilot shoved into shit for the foreseeable future, with 12 most likely being advertised as a fully "agentic" OS. IoT LTSC 2024 will be an island for sane people in the future.

>>107953789
Not to play devil's advocate, but they also shoved cortana in our faces with windows 10 and that was completely dead by the end of it's release cycle. Remember, these interim releases (vista, 8, 11) are basically public experiments to see what can be pushed, people already hate copilot integration so the likelihood that they're going to dig their heels in is extremely unlikely. microsoft is retarded but they're not pants-on-head retarded.

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>>107951122
>>107951135
This always happens from time to time for some reason.
Coincidentally it also reset my power settings after upgrading my GPU making me think I got a defective card because the monitor was off (I disable that feature on my desktop).

>>107952123
I'm Bulgarian it's the two other English layouts that Windows decided to add on its own.

>>107953823
Though they didn't spend tens of billions of dollars on Cortana though, plus all the insider trading garbage the big AI pushers are doing amongst themselves to make it look valuable. Hell, NVIDIA was just caught using a very popular book pirating site downloading as much as they could of it to train their own LLM. As shown, it's fine when they do it because they can pay the large fine and just continue doing it. while probably getting that site shut down in the future because you never put so much attention on these sites like this.

is it possible to disable rounded corners on edge?

I just found out about donotspy11. How does it fare against shutup10?

>>107954101
edge://flags/#edge-rounded-containers

If I go from W10 IoT to W11 Enterprise LTSC 2024, can I upgrade to Windows 11 25H2 GAC or whatever later? Will the new features in GAC be included in the IoT LTSC 2027 version?

>>107954107
It's the same shit in another package.

>>107951055
Why do different English speaking countries have to have different keyboard layouts anyway?
Sometimes I can only get a US replacement but my muscle memory is still trained for a different one, it's very mildly annoying.

what's the go-to source for vanilla chromium builds?

>>107956053
https://chromium.woolyss.com/

>>107956071
nice.
i see one of the maintainers there is hibbiki, meaning the source i found in winget is okay to use.

>>107955373
UK layout is an abomination for some reason.

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I have the non-ltsc w11 enterprise and it's still in 24H2. What gives? Security updates work normally. I want the 25H2 because it gives the option to easily delete useless windows packages. Do I have to activate this update manually?

>>107956422
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/get-ready-for-windows-11-version-25h2/4426437
Please stop installing Windows versions that you don't fully comprehend how to use.

>>107945286
>the original hard drive might be fine too...
Update: i bought a portable enclosure so I can at least use my new hard drive. I also tested the old one and no it does not work... Now I need to find a way to wipe it before I dispose because I don't remember what's on it...
>>107945363
>get that spicy pillow out of your house ASAP,
Yeah, I got rid of it yesterday morning. Dropped it off in Home Depot's box. It wasn't leaking or anything, and I think it was actually puffed up for months, maybe years, so I don't think it was actually in imminent danger of blowing up.

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>>107956880
The 25H2 enablement package should've already arrived via windows update automatically when the "get the latest updates" is on.

>>107954141
you can always 'upgrade' between these with registry tweaks
yeah everything will be in 27h2, ms will even backport some from 28h2 like they are doing with 24h2 and 25h2 right now
>>107954141
https://eclipse.cx/links
https://eclipse.cx/projects
>>107956422
use windows 11 enterprise general availability channel, ltsc by design stays on one version

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>>107953780
It's going to be a tock-tock release schedule until Satya Nadella is gone and replaced by a white guy.

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So is it not possible to install Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 24H2 with Secure Boot enabled? Do I need to wait for a new .iso from Microsoft for Secure Boot?

>>107958138
it is possible, that Rufus warning comes up because MS bundled a bootloader that gets flagged, but you should be able to install it with no problem

>>107938924
last time i used windows (around 7), you could plug an ethernet cable between two compiters, and it would automatically assign an APIPA address to each, and you could share files with the Homegroup feature. is that no longer an option?

>>107960730
No you can still use Ethernet to connect two PCs together then just set up sharing after Windows gives them static IPs. There's also shit like Localsend and Pairdrop as well which lets you share shit over local wireless.

>>107912592
Kitty :D

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If I refuse to upgrade to Windows 11, then should I upgrade to Linux?
If so, when?
I just really like 10, and I hate the idea of 11. I just don’t like it.
Also I basically just watch YouTube, play games and make music.

>>107961724
If you wanna stay on 10 then just use MAS to activate the ESU licenses on your PC to get updates until late 2028. Or if you want updates until 2032 and still be on 10 then use IoT LTSC 2021, which you'll need to clean wipe your current install to do.

>>107961739
Clean wipe is ideal, but he doesn't need to:
https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol
https://github.com/Bladez1992/LTSConvert

>>107962011
I forgot about LTSConvert, it's basically just the manual method that the massgrave blog talks about but it does it all automatically for you.

>>107961724
im swapping to linux when things start yelling at me for still using windows 10. idk what distro to use though, i just use my computer to play games and watch youtube

>>107962129
any distro is fine, actually linus cringe tips made a video about it just now, pretty much most distros work the same for games so you can use any that you find attractive

>>107962166
i'll have to figure out what makes distros attractive, all i really kind of know about is desktop environments but you can use any of them on any distro last i checked

>>107962166
not that anon, but I just read that a couple games I have don’t work (Battlefield 1 for example), because of anticheat or something.
What’s up with this?

>>107962294
some anticheats work on linux, but it's up to the discretion of the individual game to allow it on linux or not. some other ones (kernel anticheats) won't work on linux at all because they install a driver, those won't even work on windows if you have driver signing or secure boot disabled (like to install your own drivers not signed by microsoft). and yes, that does mean such anticheats have complete access to your computer at all times

>>107962422
So is there any way to get around this?

>>107962558
There is; read OP and use Windows

>>107962558
avoid games that depend on spyware and/or don't respect your choice in os

>A new update is aviable
>All right, Windows, schedule it for the 13:00 of today
>Update scheduled for the 13:00 of today
And then the hour comes and the update is not there, what the fuck is wrong with this OS? Can't even schedule a fucking update.

>>107962558
Dualboot Windows

is it true that windows will force all local accounts to log it to microsoft in the future to store encryption keys on their servers?
if that's the case then it's a vaild reason to switch to linux

>>107913266
>tinkerers and lean os enthusiasts: windows 10 iot enterprise ltsc 2021
I've been using 10 LTSC IoT for half a year and I didn't have to tinker any more than with 10 Pro. Maybe some 2025 shit gaymes won't work out of the box but I couldn't care less.

>Windows 10
>yesterday
>CPU in my old laptop is being throttled for some reason, a game on emulator runs like absolute shit
>thought a dormant virus woke up, a silent Windows update fucked up or Microsoft Edge is doing shit without not being even launched
>turns out something fucked up the battery settings and it went into power-saving mode
>battery was changed a week ago
>Settings for power disappeared, including the slider you can find in task bar
>had to get into Windows Mobility Center and turn back the high performance mode
>laptop works normally again
I'm beyond confused. Was it that caused by some current spike when plugging in the laptop or what?
Also, sometimes I lose options for internet settings on task bar, leaving only the airplane mode button. That's an old problem, relaunching computer fixes it.

>>107963839
Sounds like FUD to me

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Why not?

>>107964128
Because all Windows PCs already have a built-in account called Administrator, along with SYSTEM.

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>Apply KB5078127
>vmmemCmFirstBoot uses an insane amount of CPU/RAM for 15 minutes at each startup
>can't even launch the Sandbox
>have to remove the feature (again) because they broke it for like, the 5th time
Install is like 10 days old, Total Microjeet death.

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Decided to try an installation of Windows with my router connected for the first time, big mistake. Somehow I don't remember the TPM being enabled or all my BIOS settings being reset... it's like running XP with no firewall.

Does the "last delete request" actually go through to Microsoft if you have diagnostics off to begin with? I hate the idea that if I hit that button I'll have to reinstall so it doesn't go through as soon as I go online.

>>107963839
i block microsoft accounts in group policy

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>>107912592
why do the link that I added to the taskbar take forever to resolve?
win10

>>107963839
If you use a ms account and store your bitlocker recovery keys to your ms acc, obviously ms will be forced to comply with governments and give your keys away if you're a suspected criminal by the gov. That isn't the case with local accs, where ms has no way of seeing your rec keys, but in that case just like in case of using LUKS, if you really are a criminal or gov wants your info you will have a bunch of masked gov thugs come into your room, backhand you, choke you out and drag you into a torture room and torture you until you give them the password. The encryption is there to protect you from random street thugs stealing your laptop in McDonalds, not to defend you from governments. Hope that helps.

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>>107965204

>>107951055
The iso that you use for installing windows, has a language, like for example en-us iso, so that means windows will always reinstall the en-us keyboard if you uninstall it, but if you for example install using the de-de iso it shouldn't reinstall en-us keyboard ever, or install it in general, unless you're playing a game that asks for it, some games will prompt a en-us keyboard and windows will install it in the background for them. Hope that helps.

>>107961724
Installing linux, because you don't want to move away to W11 from W10, because you like W10 makes no sense, because linux is not W10. But W11 is overall superior, it has better performance in games, better compatibility with software/games, and is optimized for newer hardware. You can use linux but it's essentially a hack solution, like instead of buying an iPhone, you buy a fake phone made by some random basement slaves in India that's called Aeiphon, but it's FOSS or something something. Hope that helps.

>>107946129
once I accidentally uninstalled bcininstaller with bcuninstaller
I felt like a very confused ouroboros

but yes, it's good

>>107964556
Hard to tell, but in case it goes through you are just asking to delete stuff that's not existant so nothing will happen, or it doesn't go through at all. But setting Allow Diagnostic Data to 0 through regedit or gpedit on Home/Pro/Edu/Ent and other builds does cripple diagnostic very hard to the point of ms really seething at it and saying they can't help push new secure boot keys etc to users with diagnostic data set to 0, and there were tests done by german feds that with cooperation of ms saw that there's practically no telemetry after using that and disabling the connected user experiences and telemetry service. Now obviously that's just windows, if you use microsoft edge, or microsoft store apps, or security's cloud features that are oriented around sending samples or hashes to ms for them to work you are still technically sending data. Albeit it's anonymized and not profiled to a specific user with a specific ms account so ms avoids getting sued. Hope that helps.

>>107912592
>Wait for IoT LTSC 2027 if you can
Why?

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EMERGENCY UPDATE DAY

LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR EMERGENCY UPDATE DAY

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what happened?

Good morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtB2L-6buww
this dude gotta be fearmongering

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>>107963192
Does dual booting windows come with any downsides? Like lower frames, more latency, etc?

>>107912592
what's a good place/resource to learn about making batch files?

>>107967330
No real downsides.

>>107967477
https://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchstart.php

what's the reg fix to download images as their original format?

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...did they remove this wtf

>>107966382
Typical MS treating 11 like beta software and making something break.

why does csrss.exe just keep consuming memory? if the pc has just been started it uses about 1mb but after a while it climbs to 3gb and just keeps going

>>107966604
Certain tech youtubers love hearing about certain monthly updates not playing well with certain computers because they get to make videos like this and just FUD it up for content.

I have a 2tb M2 that I'm intending to install Windows on. Is it better to partition it into 2x 1tb, using one for OS install and one for heavy software (Adobe etc) or just leave it as a single partition?

>>107969118
Let Windows have the whole thing during setup then partition the C:\ out as you want after it's installed.

>>107969118
Leave it as one. I did the split meme and regretted it. Too many things want to install or put files on C:.
My idea was to put only portable installs on D: but lots of things are only semi-portable and will either involve the registry or record their own paths in config somewhere, leading them to break if you ever need to merge the partitions again. And you can't symlink drive letters so I had to hack the DOSDevices registry key to keep the paths the same. Don't make my mistake.

>>107962129
my laptop is not compatible with windows 11 so i will probably do the same and make linux my main os but i will probably never fully leave windows because some things just dont work on linux and have some issues with games

>>107938924
You could use an Ethernet cable from one PC to another and then enable SMB. You need third party software for USB to USB from what I remember.

These captchas are horrendous!

I ahve 2 windows installations on my single SSD:
one Win10
other Win11

Win11 has been unused for the last 2 years and I want to delete that partition to regain used space, but I am afraid if I just straight up delete the Win11 partition my bootloader will fuck up and I won't be able to boot into my everyday Win10 partition.

Is it safe to just delete Win11 partition while I am using Win10 and it will be fine?

>>107971202
ya just set your default boot first.

>>107961739
>2032
I remember hoping 10 would be fixed by the time 2008r2 went eol. We're just gonna have to stop using computers in a few more years aren't we

>>107971254
10's been fine since like 2020/2021.

What's your privacy.sexy setup that's strictly oriented around removing as much network traffic to Microsoft as possible without having to use the hostfile?

Is there a way to get local autocorrect on Windows 10 that doesn't send network data?

>>107973032
Looking around, Powertoys includes local autocorrect that doesn't send network data. And with Powertoys being open source these days you can check that it doesn't too.

>>107973032
You can use the built in autocorrect. Usual privacy toggle tools include the options to disable the "Inking & typing personalization" shit, plus usual telemetry crap.

>use fiddler to further analyze network traffic bro, you gotta have it
>load up fiddler
>wireshark shows it quering google analytics, api.getfiddler, on startup
Seriously?

>>107924132
no, fuckwit.
YOU GET OUT

>>107973032
Disable Connected Devices Platform (Usr) Service and DiagTrack service, and block all outbound connections for anything M$ related with Simplewall.

>>107945451
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-X870E-P-WIFI/support#driver

chipset, audio, lan and raid drivers are available for that specific board, if you are using windows 10 x64.
so you should be good.

>>107945522
>nooo goyim you must update
>it will stop working there’s no way to bypass it
>you can’t enjoy things for just 2 years nooo

>>107912592
Just a heads up to the OP.

In the useful programs pastebin, the links in the Adobe section do not work. I hope someone fixes it and updates the link or just deletes it

Update on January 13th
Update on January 17th
Update on January 24th
What the fuck are they on?
Each of these updates are like 4 gigabytes too for one simple fix
Just what the fuck

What's the best personal booru for tagging media?

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>i7 3rd gen
>want to use w11 (iot)
be honest with me, should i go forward? is it safe to use even though it says it's not compatible?

>>107976233
>safe to use
Yes, have used both W10 and W11 IoT on old hardware with no ill effects.

>>107975942
I'll be honest with you, I don't even know if OP has access to the pastebins kek

>>107976080
something fucky is happening in Redmond, I can feel it, it's not just AI, they are really fucking things up and it's not gonna take long until shareholders start asking for Satya's head

>>107976424
Should just copy what's in the old pastebin and make a new one with all the updated links

>>107976233
IoT LTSC 2024's whole deal is that it can be run even on 64-bit BIOS machines.

>>107976080
11's development is probably full of vibe coding now

>>107978247
All these claims of suing Microsoft for loss of profit due to updates bricking systems is just bs isn't it?
How else would they get away with potentially vibe coding shit if it costs them billions in legal fees and claims when Windows shits itself?

>>107980087
> All these claims of suing Microsoft for loss of profit due to updates bricking systems is just bs isn't it?
yes lol because they signed away their rights to claim when they accepted the EULA. at least, in America they did

Why does using Windows 11 Home with a local account feel so gemmy? It's like a shining gemerald of a OS that just werks and has no gotchas

>>107981226
>Home
Change to Enterprise with MAS.

totally noobs question here, how do you monitor cpu and gpu temps? both one time peek and constant monitoring

>>107981749
https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor if you want something constant.
There's also HWINFO and CPU-Z for single checks.

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