How do you show the date and time side by side in the taskbar with small icons? I saw a screenshot of a Windows 10 desktop that had it but I can't find anything about it.

Will 8gb flash drive br enough for W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021

>>100001485
>Windows/Office install guide
https://rentry.org/windowsinstallguide
Is this guide on how to install to usb from my laptop then to activate it on my new pc?

>>100001267
That's just it, I can't find the files / folder anywhere. Disk cleanup is just telling me there's 11gb of windows update files to clean, which won't go away, and updating gives me the error. I can't even do a system refresh / restore because "Something went wrong, undoing changes"

>>99999429
I still have my old T420 thinkpad rocking W7.

Is there a way to rename the files within a folder to a sequence of numbers (i.e. 01.jpg, 02.jpg, etc), but at random rather than the original order? I mean not manually, the point is not knowing myself which is which.

>>100001928
time to wipe it clean, fresh install and when installing windows again make a partition just for windows and another for everything else.

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this is the best os ever made. wow

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What's the best way to lock some folders on my different hard drives? Nephew will be at my home for a few days, I won't forbid him the use of my PC (I mean, he likes vidyas as much as I do), but I'd like to make sure he won't stumble onto my porn. Sure, I know all the kids these days have seen some porn, but still. And let's not delve into some of my JAV fetishes.
I know I could use Bitlocker, but it seems overkill, and I don't want to encrypt anything.

>>100002195
Just hit him with the \dontclick\ my dude. Or mark the directory as hidden like system data is.

How do I completely remove the lock screen in Windows 11 to avoid PINs or passwords? Old family members can't manage that level of barrier.

https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBELjaQgJ

Windows 11 taskbar align center or left? the default is center, i'm tempted to change it to left but not sure if it's just baby duck syndrome and i should give center a chance. i installed windows 11 just hours ago

>>100001982
I can't for the life of me figure out how though, anything I try it does not seem to want to recognize the USB bootable, or says the product key is invalid.

How do you download the latest adobe sets in the year of cloud subscription services scamming you out of hundreds of dollars a year?™ I would purchase if they were fairly priced. But they aren't. I'm also fine with downloading a previous version. From what I saw of the links in OP my options are signing up on Russian botnet sites to use their torrent links or the leddit link which seems to be more of a resource after the fact and doesn't give you the actual core files.

>>100003921
The releases by m0nkrus

>>100002084
??? I didn't know it existed for 11

>>100003533
left, along with not centering programs under a single icon or whatever it is called, so you still have the text in the task bar so you know what you're clicking on
glad i found that out relatively quick. i don't like to click to open a small menu to then select my search history when i can just click on my search history, or certain folders

So instead of doing optimize-offline I can just take a stroll through the policy editor and turn off anything that I pretty clearly don't want? And that stuff will be removed with the next reboot? I figured I'd start with private-secure-windows and then go through looking for bloat to remove (obviously referencing what it is and confirming that it can/should be removed). Will that miss anything that I'd have to actually uninstall instead of just turning off in policy? Is there a good list anywhere instead of it just all being bundled into scripts?

>>100005005
The RTM build of it leaked a little while ago and people got to try it. And from what they've said it seems like pretty much the best 11 variant, specifically the IoT version.

Is there a cpu usage metric in Hwinfo that doesnt rely on task manager, also i noticed that the sum of usage on task manager of the individual programs doesnt equal total cpu usage given by task manager, is this concerning or is it task manager being shit

>>100001485
Is that Three Sisters' Story?

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Where can I find older boomer software like pic related.

>>100006093
You just reminded me of educational software. Playing "Myst at home" to practice fractions and shit.

I have a very odd problem.
Every time when Windows temp folder files get deleted, every .exe file become 0 KB in size.
Let's say I download a 7zip.exe installer and install it. After deleting Windows temp folder files the installer 7zip.exe as well as 7zip.exe (the installed file inside the Program folder) become 0 KB. This somehow happens with most but not all programs.
I don't have a restore point before this problem. How to fix this without reinstalling Windows?
If this helps. It all started after I left the computer online, to download a large file, which caused the drive to become full before I returned. So the drive or Windows shit itself because of having 0 free space and now cause said problem.

>>100006256
IMO you should probably run a chkdks /f /r on your C:\ to see if it can find/fix any corruption in the disk cause it might've happened when you completely filled the thing up.

>>100007300
So the command will try to fix the damage? Will this cause trouble or affect any existing data?

>>100007359
chkdsk has been in Windows/MS-DOS since forever. It won't delete or change any data, just try to find and fix any bad or corrupted sectors/files in your disk.

>>100001485
>Three Sisters' Story
>>100005173
also curious what the sauce is on the OP image

>>100005173
yes, i think it is, that looks like Risa, and the message box is correct.

Whats up with the new KB5036893 update not wanting to install? Anyone else running into this issue?

windows niggers. literally using a closed source os

>>100008566
You tried installing the update via an update catalog installer?

Is there anything like Optimize-Offline for Windows 11? I know what the paste says, this is for a virtualized environment anyways so it doesn't matter much if shit ends up irreparably broken.

What's the best telemetry removal program that won't break shit?

>>100009144
ShutUp10++ has recommended settings that won't break anything. I think W10Privacy also does.
The private-secure-windows script also sets a safe amount of group policies by default based on some MS derived guides for enterprise IT when it comes to keeping Windows private in an Enterprise/Education setting.

>>100009194
Mainly looking for a program that only touches group policy and doesn't fuck with registry or run power shell script bullshit. Do those programs meet that criteria?

>>100009210
Group policy's whole deal is setting registry keys across one or multiple computers, anon. It's just a frontend to it like the other two I mentioned that aren't the script. And the script's whole deal like I said is enabling/disabling group policies.

>>100009233
Would you recommend privacy.sexy? Other than shutup10, the other programs seem to be abandoned.

>>100009367
W10Privacy got an update not too long ago though? ShutUp10++ hasn't had an update since October either. Like the only reason these tools would ever need to update is if there's new things to block and there hasn't been anything like that for a while, last being disabling Co-Pilot. The script doesn't really need to update because it just follows MS's own articles that haven't changed in a while.

So i had a noob question. i bought an asus laptop that contained win 11 home preinstalled. i tried to install win 10 ltsc but it cannot find drives in the installation menu. the IRST solution only shows up for win 11. is there another workaround for this? win11 really sucks.

>>100009844
IMO you should just use MAS to change it to Enterprise (and activate it again) and stick with what you have. Maybe in the future you could switch over to IoT LTSC 2024 when that rocks up.

>>100001485
what game is that? Is it what the other anon said?
I just played Truelove today because of the OP image on the last thread. not sure why but that game has this melancholy nostalgic feeling to it.

>>100001938
Couldn't you do this with a batch script or Python?

>>100009868
That doesnt work either. I used get targeted editions command and it showed iot enterprise as version that can be upgraded to. But when i tried that it didnt work. changepk.exe command didnt do anything at all and csscript.exe command gave an error saying "On a computer running windows non core edition"

>>100010127
You can't upgrade a Home install to LTSC natively. LTSC itself can't be upgraded to.

>>100009115
You could always just use NTLite to remove what you want to remove from a Windows 11 ISO.

>>100001485
What do you use for automated backups on Windows? Currently thinking about either:
- Acronis Cyber Protect
- automated robocopy jobs

This would be for incremental backups on to a separate disk. No network backups. Any alternatives?

>>100011909
FreeFileSync? Syncthing?

is there a way to boot an rst installed windows on a non rst machine? it just throws "inaccessible boot device" bsod at boot

How do I completely disable defender?

What can I use the Powershell for?

>>100009844
would be pretty simple to just change out the ssd and install whatever you want. just bite the bullet, spend another eighty bucks, and do it correctly.

>>100014006
scripting
if you're frustrated with .bat files being too awful, it's a decent option.

>>100014006
You don't.

>>100001543
are 8gb flash drives even manufactured in current year? walmart has clearance sales for 32gb for like four bucks

Is there any program that will automatically sandbox any usb drive/sd card inserted into a Windows 10 machine? The tricky part is that it has to be under some licence that will allow me to use it freely and without charge on a company computer, since my boss is stingy when it comes to employee equipment. I need this kind of software since some of my customers are retarded and bring in infected drives - so far everything got blocked by windows defender but I have some files that I can't afford to lose and don't want to risk them because of some retard.

Should I get 10 LTSC? I don't know much about feature updates, currently on debloated education but 2025 is soon. What difference would I notice? Will it mess with games or software not having the feature updates?

>>100015853
I've never had an issue with 10 LTSC and compatibility with programs and games. I've been using it the last 4 years or so. I don't use UWP stuff or MS Store, so if I'm incompatible with Microsoft Store apps, then I'm in ignorant bliss about it.

is malwarebytes still good if i just need to run a quick scan of my pc?

>>99972227
>>99975563
Alright I solved it. If anyone has the same issue, some laptops have retarded "security" measures that prevent you from messing with stuff in the BIOS screen. So to boot HirenBootCD I had to revert legacy back to UEFI and boot Windows 10 normally, then on the login screen choose to restart while holding down shift. When I did that it gave me a direct option to do the USB boot and then it was easy to find the password reset tools.

...so is 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC actually out yet in beta or whatever or were those all just malware posts I've been seeing lately?
I have Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, is there any way to upgrade it to Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, if it is?

>got work PC
>Win10 was on some fucking 2021 image because corpo IT is worthless monkeys
>they also block the Microsoft Store and don't have WSL2 in the Company Portal
>attempted to install WSL2 the old fashioned way before updates were done
>this was apparently a mistake
>now WSL2 doesn't start with systemd like it should
Completely removing Virtual Machine Platform and WSL and rerunning

wsl --install

as admin should fix that, right?

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>want to play Fallout New Vegas
>game plays like dogshit + Havok Physics FPS bugs
>allegedly you're supposed to use NVSE + NVTF
>Visual Studio build system
FUCK

>find Win11 product key and iso from the depths of my unorganized ass.
>see this
What the absolute nigger dicks? I can't even install a fucking driver at this stage?
Who designed this shitware botnet OS?
I just want to build my gay C++ shitware mods.

>>100019223
honestly, if you are a wage slave and want WSL2 you should just go to Windows 11. Win11 has a lot of QoL fixes that you'll need if you deal with shitware VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect. Before Win11, I had to dig deep in windows ass just to ask it questions like, "How do I configure Host Compute Network? WSL2" and get https://github.com/skorhone/wsl2-custom-network

It's just assy. but, yes, you should be able to use admin to remove it all.

also for WSL enjoyers who aren't Ubuntu niggers: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

>>100019314
ok someone on Reddit says Shift + F10 and it opened a admin cmd. Fuck M$ btw.

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>>100019314
kek. how fucking kiked this OS is. Still tries to push you to "connect."

>>100019355
W11 is not supported yet or I'd consider that. I don't even have full local admin on this shitbox. Honestly if I had control over the machine I'd just use Linux natively. It's all Azure/O365/Atlassian stuff.

>>100013843
Use ionuttbara's Defender Remover or just remove Defender completely from an install ISO with NTLite.

>>100014711
Sandisk sell 5-packs of 8GB USBs still.

>>100018916
LTSC 2024's RTM build was leaked, yeah. It's officialy releasing in October, but the anons that've played with the leak all had great things to say.

>>100019810
based sandisk still somehow staying alive

>>100019967
They're a subsidiary of WD these days.

>>100020131
that makes sense. i was gonna say, i havent heard that name in a little bit

wait a minute i can download a clean iso from the microsoft website and run the activation script so there's no need for creepy pre-activated torrents anymore? it can't be that easy.

>>100020160
Really? I find their USBs still pretty ubiquitous in shops.

after building a new pc there's no money left to pay for a windows key.

>>100020417
It's been that easy for many, many years anon. Just download the multi-ISO, flash it to a USB and boot it, choose the edition you want (Education recommended), then when you get it all installed you can run the MAS script in the OP through the PS command and activate it via HWID. Easy peasy.

>>100019355
>>100019509
The uninstall/reinstall hokey pokey worked. Thanks.

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The offsite archive doesnt allow searching at the moment, so I've come to ask a simple question.

I need a program recommendation to read .epub files or to turn epubs into pdfs. Please and thank you.

>>100020558
epub to PDF is kind of cursed anon...
Just unzip the archive and use chrom(ium) to print to PDF.

>>100020573
I'll give that a shot. Thank you anon

How hungry is 10 compared to 7? Will 8 GB Ram be enough?
Also can I just update to 10 with the iso from the op instead of doing a clear install?

>>100020627
8GB of RAM is enough. And no, you can't update to 10 from 7 these days as the activation servers were turned off.

Which is the most reliable and safest Android emulator on Windows?

>>100020658
Android emulation (that works properly) is basically a chinese closed-source hellscape that you need to debloat/debotnet to stop them being awful. The two I hear good things about (sans the mentioned crap) are Nox, MEMu and LDPlayer,
and a guy on github wrote guides to debloat either of them.
https://gist.github.com/TameemS/72c4b92131977aced56e727d51599a48
Though according to a comment Nox read-only protects some files now the guide tells you to remove so you gotta use an android file explorer in-emulater that can overwrite read-only attributes.

>>100020627
don't ask if 8gb ram is enough, ask if (*your cpu*) is enough

>>100020558
https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows

>>100001485
How in the FUCK do I seriously stop windows 10 from ever updating again?

Things I have tried:
>gpedit.msc
>manually fucking with regkeys
>disabling the service and disabling the windows upgrade medic service
>deleting update content after it downloaded
>using hosts file to block all microsoft update domains

I've been trying to stop upgrading since they introduced this gay copilot shit. there has to be a way, but I can't seem to find it. i'm at my wit's end wiht this shit. when i google it, all i find are people still talking about disabling the services which CEALRY DOESNT FUCKING WORK

>>100022370
You can just disable Co-Pilot with group policy or manual registry editing, anon. Don't gotta be so dramatic about it.

>>100022394
It's not just about copilot dude, I want to stop windows from updating ever again. Copilot was just the last straw. It's infuriating, and there must be a way to disable it (windows update) permanently.

is it possible to install amd gpu drivers on windows server?
Ive a 6900 xt, no installer works...

>>100022404
>tfw on IoT LTSC so no new "features" get added during cumulative updates
Besides that Windows Backup thing for whatever reason...

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I just got a fucking full screen ad for "starting my journey with windows 11" for the second time in two days. Yesterday it literally crashed my computer, I came back to my machine and my mouse wasn't working and there was some windows 11 shit over the whole screen. I thought it was a virus, I was scared. Today it happened AGAIN and now I know it's just microsoft crossing the fucking line. I hate windows but I have to use it for my video editing setup.

Is anyone else getting these? Can I turn them off somehow?

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>>100006093
https://youtu.be/M3abiTNE_AA?si=GmKB30DR4RJAEk3D

>>100024061
You can turn them off in the settings. Just disable "suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows" in the notifications settings. The only notification setting that really should be enabled is "let notifications play sounds."

>>100024180
lol what the fuck that's a real setting. thanks, hope that stops it

>>100024195
It should. Those full screen things are derived from that toggle.
Same thing happens if you use a local account every three days (telling you to make an MS account) without turning it off.

>>100021654
I have i5-3470

>>100024257
That'll run 10 fine.
I once ran it on a 2nd gen i5 very comfortably.

Dear sirs, it might be the most retarded question of the thread but hear me out. Does W10 work fine on HDD?

>>100024997
Works totally fine on a HDD for normal use.

>>100025008
Thank you kindly.
I`m considering getting meself Win10 to dualboot for office and some simple gaming purposes. Will be lurking moar into this.

What is a good alternative to AnyDesk? It has been acting up a lot lately and with the constant reminder to buy a license and limited connection time I'm done with it. Needs to be secure, fast and free.

Is there a program that rolls back a computer to a restore point after every reboot?
I'm sick of having to fix my dad's computer ever time he gets his hands on it. He's always downloading dirty programs he shouldn't be touching or messing with settings he shouldn't be and breaking stuff. He mainly ever uses it for Facebook YouTube and porn, so we wouldn't have to worry about losing anything important.

>>100025347
There's a FOSS one called Rustdesk which is apparently pretty good.

>>100025434
Educate him and set up an user account for him. You will retain the administrator rights and he's using the kiosk mode.
>https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.WindowsTools::RestrictApps

How does one get the win 10 style taskbar and start menu. I'm using explorer patcher as of now but I've heard it breaks on updates. Start11 costs money. Any alternatives?

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>>100001485
>Install W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
>It has Family features

>>100026123
Enterprise is basically the mother of all editions. Every other edition just takes things out of it with the least amount of features in Home. Ergo the family account stuff would just be there.

>>100019846
Would you happen to know where I can get it?

>>100026438
There was a link to it on Archive posted in a previous thread. Check back a bit.

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Sorry if this was asked before or there is some guide already explaining this.
What's the best way to create an image of a Windows install that works for installation in all situations: reinstall, drive was wiped clean, install on a different machine.
Basically I want to install of W10 IoT LTSC with some things configured/some apps installed in my own way and i want to use this installation as sort of a base install. Kind of like a restore point but I can use it on any machine. I just have an image of this install and I "flash" it on any machine, any drive and there it is. Maybe have more different such "base install images" to move around. What's the best way to achieve this?

>>100026570
You can use NTLite for that. Or DISM.
You can create an install.wim image of your current system and use that as the basis of a Windows installer install.wim file.

Is it possible to go from windows 11 (which is verified as a bought a varsity license) to that windows 10 enterprise from the OP? Is it difficult to do?

>>100027036
Won't work.

>>100025204
if you absolutely have to do so. old motherboard?

>>100027786
Not at all. I wanted to try dualbooting Linux and Win10 without spending an extra penny. Would it worth the trouble?

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>>100027960
i mean, no. i have a 4tb hdd for storing movies, tunes, and some old career records.

>>100020558
coolreader3

...do people seriously use anything else?

>>100022370
Install Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, and apply ReviOS playbook through Ameliorated.io's AME Wizard.

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hi anons, fix for this shit?

How long do you think it will be until Win 11 LTSC is out and actually worth using over 10?

>>100028161
i had a djvu file i really wanted to convert to pdf, and irfanview actually reads those files. took like three hours to convert and optimize the AMA medical glossary, like 1500 pages with complete diagrams.

the djvu file is like 100 mb, and the optimized converted pdf is over 500 mb. not an issue in current year, but holy shit its a big file. get creative, some programs can read file extensions youre not even aware of yet.

>Me
>Linux user for 4 years
>Want to play vidya again
>Lutris, wine, bottles, proton etc.
>Wasting days so I can play the pirated windows games I downloaded
>Fuck it
>Bye bye arch
>Install windows 10
>Ohhh shit, everything plays instantly
>Install firefox, gimp and some other programs
>Its so easy and fast to install everything and everything werks.
>Change wallpaper
>ngl windows are comfy

>>100029674
Linux sisters it`s not over for us yet...

can you make taskbar smaller even if i'm on 125% dpi scale? it's eating quite the screen size on my laptop and bugging me desu

>>100001485
How exactly does winget work when it comes to removing W11 "system" marked apps? You can uninstall xbox stuff or phone link easily with winget and it seems like absolutely nothing breaks unlike the third party uninstallers, and you can easily re-install it back with Store or Winget if needed for games or something. Is it just Remove-AppxPackage or different?

>>100029674
This is the reason why Linux will not take over any time soon.

>>100030306
Add normal office software and that`s an overkill. Very sad conclusion.

>>100030322
Not just office but overall software, alongside with specialised programs like Photoshop.
If all this shit worked I would've considered switching.

>>100001485
>*Has new CPU scheduler to support 12th+ gen Intel E-cores (its only redeeming feature)
>*Massive UI usability downgrades
cant agree
Win 11 has wslg and also has the best ui for seamlessly modding with stardock software due to the changes made to it. Some of the UI DOES SUCK but pretty much all of it is usable without bricking my pc unlike 10 and simple classic. it's unbelievable how much better it works. meanwhile cancelling updates has never worked on 10 for me, but using revios to do it in 11 does.

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>>100001485
I have 8 monitors connected basically to one pc, and then also 3-4 separate displays that sit at one desk and another 4 on the other. At the same time I want to use KM to switch between all of them flawlessly like barrier and multipllicity
The problem I ran into is that the topology management in windows sucks dick. The most ideal situation would be somehow turning my current PC into two separate PCs but I'm not sure how i'd go about accomplishing that on the cheap. any solution I come up with would mean new and expensive long wires for one gpu and the other, plus a new thin client. Trying to keep all of the monitors where they are and use some kind of trick to block the path between them while still having access to my multiplicity pcs on both sides seems impossible. Is there any fix for this?

>>100029674
Linux distribution home user oriented ecosystem will always be pretty cool to me, I obviously don't think it'll ever catch up to Windows or macOS or ChromeOS in their select categories, but just the idea is very fascinating of humans making a fully FOSS ecosystem that in theory completely respects privacy and security and allows you to use any sort of old hardware with it is really based. The only issue is that in reality it gets bitch slapped into the dirt because corpos will support and protect other corpos, MS Office doesn't work on it, Adobe Suite doesn't work on it, most popular online games don't work on it, and it's sadly too heavily focused on autistic programmers. Like trying to navigate any linux site is just a pain in the ass, and most of their distro installers are fucking awful. The only one I think that has any hope of being half decent are Ubuntu/Fedora because their sites/installers/first impressions arent comically bad compared to Apple/Microsoft/Google heavy hitters, but sadly the illusion of comfiness with linux instantly falls apart and disappears when you try interacting with actual PROGRAMS and not just the OS and linux bubble. You soon realize how restricted it is because nobody supports it and it's just tedium of having to pray every time you want to install anything if it'll work or not. Linux bros love to sell the idea of "bro you can make anything work on linux if you are smart enuff!!!!111" but in reality no, you just cannot, they are completely reliant on goodwill of companies that make software/programs/vidya.

So I'm scrolling through this service-disabling registry file from the rentry (the moderate version) and it seems possibly too aggressive (and yes, I am only checking entries with start code 4 for disable) but I can't really find good details (I am referring mainly to the "Guidance on disabling system services on Windows IoT Enterprise" MS article). Do I really just trust this?

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Which software should I use for monitoring a small network? One of the internal network is infected spamming ssh and I need to find which one it is

>>100030406
My opinion is that the guide is too opinionated and breaks too much stuff, I only attempted using it once and it did not work for my use cases. For me? It's just running a SHA checked, scanned, vanilla copy of W10/11 Education/Enterprise, installing it offline and locally, and then disabling everything I personally actually don't want in Desktop/Taskbar/Startmenu/Settings/Controlpanel/Services/TaskScheduler/GroupPolicy. That way I can 100% be aware of what's going on on my computer and what changes I made from vanilla so I can fix them if need be, keeping track of what things you disable in more deep/problematic parts like Services/TaskScheduler can be nice so you can fix it if there's an issue. I absolutely hate third party debloaters like OOSU10 or Winutil even though they are pretty sane/normal compared to most debloat scripts. It just tickles my autism wrong and always makes my installs feel dirty if I use that slop.

>>100030442
I am of a similar mind but I really don't feel like running through the entire list to figure out what I don't need, especially given that this will not be my primary operating system (I just want it free of aids when I do need it).

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i´m dogshit with tech, got a new pc and want to install windows on it from a usb stick. the order in BIOS is correct, its booting from the usb stick but it always says that no partitions can be found, so i cant progress.
i´ve been looking at possible solutions for hours , nothing works.

>>100030339
I still love Linups tho.

>>100030391
You said it right. I wish we could have a FOSS system, but companies don't make their software compatible with Linux. I will use proprietary software, but I will never pay for it. I will donate my money to open-source projects. Money is the only way to vote in this world, and I'm not giving it to these psychos who want to monitor me 24/7 and sell my data.

why does memory management suck compared to linux

>>100030493
If it's not your primary system and you don't care about it that much then go for something like OOSU/Winutil and apply the recommended desktop tweaks on them and call it a day. That's what I do when I'm installing systems for friends, ain't nobody got time for autistically tweaking everything like I do for myself.

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>>100030928
Just swallow the privacy pill. I pay for literally no software. Windows 11 Enterprise cracked with MAS. MS Office cracked by KMS/Ohook. I don't use the Adobe Suite. All vidya from gog-games/ovagames/torrminator/csrinru with qbitorrent/jd2, browser completely FOSS like Brave/Firefox with uBo to shit on adsense shills and remove tracking. All music from doubledouble and mpv, movies/anime/manga from streaming sites or nyaa. It just werks. You can enjoy the proprietary slop while shitting on the corpos and just leeching off them. FOSS/Linux would obviously be the best, but in reality it just doesn't fucking werk, not even piracy tools are focused for it. So I'll just use proprietary slop to steal. Fuck gonn corpo timmy do? Finna fuck Bill Gate's daughter if he acts up

>>100031062
kek based

Just tried installing all my programs as portable and I must say it's insane the difference there is in cpu and ram usage. I would normally be on 14-15 gb ram in use, but when portable they use only 9 gb ram and almost half cpu usage.
How come there is such a huge difference?

>>100031959
why would portable apps affect ram? also why tf are you using 15gb of ram? do you have some crazy amount of ram like 128 or some shit? im at 32gb and never go over 6 while having browser+steam+discord open 24/7 and usually like 5-10 tabs active

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>>100024061
>>100022370
Windows updates are basically a computer literacy test.

If you're too dumb, stupid, or technology illiterate to do a 30 second google to block the updates until you want to do them, you are exactly the type of braindead subhuman normie retard who can't be trusted to take care of a computer. You're the exact type of moron who would click "no" to security updates for months or years while installing 200 malware greeting card toolbar trojans on your PC while blaming "M$" for having "bad security." When people talk about how fucking stupid and clueless boomers/zoomers are with technology, they're talking about you.

YOU
SUBHUMAN
NIGGERS
HAVE
BEEN
CRYING
ABOUT
THIS
SHIT
FOR
OVER
A
DECADE
AND YOU STILL CANT FIGURE IT OUT
AN ENTIRE FUCKING DECADE
KIDS BORN AFTER THIS WAS A THING
HAVE FIGURED IT OUT BUT YOU CANT
YOU ARE SUBHUMAN NIGGER TRASH

If you cry about something this fucking simple, you are too fucking stupid to use a computer, you are too fucking stupid to even breathe without assistance and need to be put in assisted living since you clearly can't take care of yourself much less your computer. You are exactly the type of retard who should not have a choice to apply updates. The funniest part about this is that even with everything done for you, you subhuman niggers still manage to fuck up your PC by ignoring all warnings and still intentionally installing 219837387 viruses and 13952598 hobbyist system hacks that break your entire system and proceeding to blame MS and Windows for your own retardation. Forced updates on normie retards are the best thing to happen to computing, it protects braindead retard niggers like you from yourselves (usually), while having a net positive impact on computer literate users because we don't have to deal with most of your self inflicted retard problems anymore. If you need to ask how to turn it off, you don't have the IQ to maintain a computer without auto updates.

>>100032624
You seem to have quoted the wrong posts.

the more I've used windows professionally the more I'm convinced that the only way to make this OS somewhat reliable is to just use it as a bootloader for vscode and stay away from everything else as much as possible

>>100030372
have you looked into powertoys
it has a bunch of monitor/window management settings and hotkeys for positions, etc

>>100035403
>powertoys
this is just mouse without borders which is honestly pretty bad and hasnt been updated since 7. Some limitations I consider unacceptable:
Cant change the topology of the screens in more than 2 directions, only one of which can be up OR down.
Basically my set up has 1/2 3 4 in a U on one end, and an L of 1 2 34 on the other end. What this means is that pretty much all of my screens are length wise so having to go to one end means having to go through every screen to get to it. Only top and bottom are really usable. pretty much nothing solves this internal pc topology either. The moment I make my screen's lock via shifting half of them down one of the two connected pcs becomes unreachable. I also cantv virtually resize the displays freely to change which screen even gets access.

>>100029674
>be retard
>need retard baby OS
Big suprise!

>>100035403
>>100030372
Okay I found a solution thats half a solution with a tool called little mouse. My main need now is to find a way to hotkey control the display my mouse is on. if I can get it to automatically move to a particular display, I can bounce between the two.

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>>100001485
Why is the windows general thread posting pics from an NEC (not windows) PC as its OP pic?

When the lock screen picture is set to Windows Spotlight, how often is it supposed to change? Daily? Weekly? Or is it a bit more random?

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>>100036462
imagine being this retarded

>>100028537
Re-enable the WinRE recovery partition.

>>100036462
>Ragnarok Online
that shit comprised the entirety of my existence from 2003 to 2007...

>>100001485
two questions:
should i stay on 10 for as long as possible? (in my case that would probably mean until free updates stop)
what would be the easiest way to create and maintain a system backup which doesn't rely on proprietary software and could immediately be called into service as a fall back if the main drive failed? in theory i suppose i could just clone the entire drive every few weeks, but i'd prefer a more efficient approach, like just using rsync to update only the files that have changed.

can someone link me win 11 iot pls

>>100022404
You are a colossal retard

>tfw booting up my old Windows 7 computer after not touching it for several years
is there anything more cozy?

>>100038687
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw

Is hashtab still recommended or is there something better these days?

>>100039063
There's a fork of it called OpenHashtab now. Try that.

>>100037641
Just check the previous threads for the Archive link. It's there somewhere.

>>100001500
7+ Taskbar Tweaker

>>100039277
Winaero Tweaker would probably work too.

>>100001485
is there a way to play audio (music) only when no other programs are currently outputting audio? idc if the music program continues to play and is just muted when other things need audio.

Just got a t480s and it came with shit 11.
How should i go about installing 10 IoT?

>>100039708
If this is a brand new PC then IIRC a stock IoT LTSC 2021 ISO will actually not boot because the secure boot keys have changed. So you may have to turn secure boot off to initially install it, then you can turn secure boot back on if you want because the new keys would've been added during first updates. Besides that, just get the ISO, flash it to a USB with Rufus or Ventoy, boot into the ISO, go through all the usual shit and when you get to the disk select screen open up the shift+f10 cmd and run diskpart's clean command on the disk to wipe all formatting/partitioning data so you can install it to a clean unallocated disk. Should install fine. Also make sure if you use Rufus that the filesystem is FAT32.

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>>100001485
Could someone help me get a clear answer for this, the microshit forums seem very confused about this.

I am currently running W10 Pro. Before the W11 shitshow begins next year, I want to do one of two things. 1) which is more desirable, is to move over to a fresh W0 IoT LTSC 2021. Forgetting that, then 2) go to a W11 IoT LTSC when it drops later this year.

Within the first option is where my question lies. If I make a backup using the W7 Backup and Restore tool that is still present in W10, can I use that in my new W10 IoT LTSC to back up and have everything as it was, except of course in the new channel? If not, could File History do this? I want this to be as same as possible as I have a lot of shit and it's not economically (work) feasible to do a fresh install and go through everything. Though, I can back everything up as I have enough HDD/SSD space for that.

For the 2nd option, would anyone recommend just waiting for that and doing a fresh install, and fuck it just doing things manually?

>>100039964
You could move to IoT LTSC 2021 right now and then move to IoT LTSC 2024 when it officially drops in October as LTSC releases can in-place upgrade to the next one. You'd just have to make sure to backup everything because LTSC needs to be cleanly installed, it can't be upgraded to from GAC/SAC editions. You could use something like FreeFileSync to move everything over to another drive like an external or something.

>>100039964
What is that? Sauce?

>>100040022
That's what I was thinking, ok thank you I'll do that and then do in place when W11 IoT LTSC drops.

As for the system as it is now, I have some shit installed like scripts, and some software from some dogshit companies that I need (for work) that cannot generate new keys on the fly for authorization. So, I'd like to basically do a copy and paste of this computer (W10 Pro) to a fresh install of W10 IoT LTSC. If I need a third party way I'll do it, but I am wondering if I can just do backup and restore (W7 tool that's still in W10). I am assuming that because they are on different channels, it might not be possible, would you know if that's true?

>>100040103
Looks like a The Office screenshot put through SD's i2i to make them look like strippers.

>>100040109
>>100040022
>>100039964
actually nvm, W10 IoT LTSC doesn't support 12th gen intel chips (fml) so I think I'll just wait for W11 IoT LTSC and just do a fresh install of that shit later this year, and just manually set my shit back up. what a pain in the ass, fucking microshit.

>>100040233
I'd say it doesn't "support" it because it's one of the ones that have e-cores in them, which 10 doesn't support (it treats them like p-cores so it can lead to chugs.)

>>100040103
>>100040126
pretty much. but google r34 wesssr for that specific creator.

>>100040256
is this also the case with W10 Pro right now? if so, then I guess I wouldn't even notice a difference.

>>100040404
Yeah, 10 doesn't support e-cores at all across any edition. If you haven't felt anything chug-worthy then I guess IoT LTSC 2021 would work fine.

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>>100040430
literally why even sell this fucking CPU lmao, whatever yeah I doubt I will notice.

besides just copying and pasting all my shit (non-image backup), is there anything else I could do to basically just copy over all my shit to a new W10 IoT LTSC? its looking like I should just bite the bullet. thanks anon for your help.

one last q - I have two NVME SSDs, and some internal HDDs and SSDs, will that be a problem when doing the clean install? i.e. once I boot up the ISO for W10 IoT LTSC, will it be an issue or can I just select that drive and do the boot there? thanks again!

>>100040681
Something you can do is use diskpart to set all your data drives to an offline state while keeping the original install drive online so you don't accidentally wipe them, though you'll know which one is the original system drive when it has a "system/reserved/primary" etc. set of partitions. Also a good idea to do this so no system files "accidentally" land on one of the data drives.

>>100040681
>literally why even sell this fucking CPU lmao
E-core CPUs were made with 11 in mind, which actually uses them properly. So that pretty much means when you move to IoT LTSC 2024 in the future your CPU will actually run as it should from then on.

>>100001485
>install 10 IoT LTSC on a thinkpad with a windows 8 pro license
>it activates just fine
But why tho? I thought pro licenses couldnt activate it. Was I just lucky or did the previous owner tinker with it (I bought it second hand)

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I installed photoshop from the monk. Are these supposed to be there? I turned off defender while installing just in case it was interfering but they are still there.

>>100040681
All women should have bodies like that and walk around in outfits like that doe.
>>100044338
Sadly yes, Adobe shit adds a bunch of services that are constantly in background and add input lag to your PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqOLJzwcuo

So if im using windows 10 after the end of support it means they no longer send security updates right and you are vulnerable to hackermans?

>>100044440
After October 2025 every 10 edition that isn't LTSC will stop receiving cumulative updates, though extended updates will exist like they did for 7. Some group out there will probably crack them and make them free just like with 7 I'm guessing too.

>>100044440
Windows 10 Home will be recieving security updates until October of 2025. After that point you will have to pay for a subscription if you want to still use Windows 10 despite it no longer being supported for mainstream home users. If you don't want to pay a subscription you can pirate Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC which will get security updates until 2032. Or you can just be normal and update to the new version, like you'd do on a android phone or a macos/ios/chromeos machine.

>>100044473
I could just get Windows 11 but it looks very confusing maybe i can just change some settings and it looks the same

>>100044501
11 isn't any more confusing then 10 is.
Just get the Enterprise or Education version and you'll be fine.

>>100044501
If you just update all of your settings will stick so you won't really need to do any tweaking or worry about anything. It's just a UI getting a new layer of paint and making some small changes. Moving the start menu button to the left and just continuing to use the same old programs you used before won't really change your computing at all. Keep in mind that most W11 hate comes from incredibly autistic manchildren that will move to it instantly the moment W12 comes out and they have something new to hate on and be contrarian about. So just don't worry about shit that doesn't matter and use your W10 PC until October 2025 and then update with a single click and don't worry until W12 comes out in 2030.

>>100044553
Though IoT LTSC 2024 is seemingly pretty damn nice from anon accounts from the RTM leak. Like 11 without any of its bullshit.

>>100044584
Wouldn't really suggest LTSC to someone who can't search up what windows 10's lifecycle is.

Bump

will the iot win10 work just fine with my new touchscreen laptop ? it also has an active stylus, shit is working fine on linux , my guess is that it should work ok on win unless the iot removes support for touchscreens ?

>>100025807
i haven't had explorerpatcher break in any way that restarting explorer one time didn't fix.

>>100001485
>-If you need MS Store run this in cmd: wsreset -i
Getting this error, and i don't see the store in the start menu:
'C:\Windows\system32\ClipRenew.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Error: 0x80070520

I need the Microsoft store itself. How can i get around this?

Windows 10. I just noticed that now if I click text the blinking bar shows up as if I can type, even when I go into stuff like the settings. Can I disable this? The bar is also showing up on pages of an online book I'm trying to read and it's rather annoying.

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>>100001485
What's the most sane "normie" Windows version I can install? I need it for University, all Microsoft software needs to work, from OneDrive to Store + Office packet. I just want it to have no bloatware like Solitaire or TikTok apps.

so what if I dont activate windows ? its not like something bad will happen right

>>100049383
She's gorgy

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Now that windows 10 is almost at its end-of-life can we all agree that this is the best window 10 wallpaper ever made? Aesthetically speaking it's sleek, simple, inoffensive. It has lasted the test of time. You never get bored of it and feel the need to change. It just werks. proofs me wrong.

also free pape for you bros

>>100001485
Good old Three Sisters' Story

Jesus christ dudes... i should have gone with windows 10. Spent about an hour already messing around with tweaks trying to get it looking decent

Does Focus Assist ever actually work because I'm sick and tired of dying in games because Vivaldi is sending me a notification and I've tried every fucking thing to make it stop and it will not and I make sure every game is in fullscreen and not bordered fullscreen.

i want to watch temps, just did a fresh install of iot win10 and the program i want to use needs .net 3.5, so then It pull up the window updates giving me to option to install from there, i downloaded the offline installer but running it still brings up the windows update offering me to download .net .3.5, wat do ? I dont want to connect to windows update

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I just bit the bullet bros... installed win10 after over a decade of win7. felt like saying goodbye to a good friend

I'll be buying a new PC soon, including new mobo and NVMe drive. So far I've been sticking with Windows 7 (installed on SATA II SSD) but I think it's finally time to move on to Windows 10.
What would be the best way of going about it?

>>100048870
>How can i get around this?
Doin't install windows like a schizo

>>100048233
Windows Update will most likely grab the touchscreen driver. And if not, you can just get it from the laptop's driver/support page.

>>100052010
It just gets naggier and naggier about it a month after install. Though MAS is so easy to run why bother not activating.

>>100055432
If you wanna stick with 10 then you should use 10 IoT LTSC 2021. You can get an ISO for it from the OP pastebins.
Just flash it to a USB with Rufus with FAT32 formatting and then boot into it. The 10 setup is very similar to the 7 installer, though I recommend running diskpart through the shift+f10 cmd when reaching the disk select screen so you can use "clean" on the target drive before selection.

>>100048870
Install winget via winget-install. This gives you access to MS Store apps without the MS Store itself:
>Set-PSRepository -Name 'PSGallery' -InstallationPolicy Trusted
>Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
>Install-Script -Name winget-install -Force
>winget-install.ps1
Type those in a PS session. Then you can install MS Store apps via winget. Just get the name of the app you want from its web version or use winget's search feature to find what you need to type. Package names with spaces between then need to be typed inbetween quotes after typing winget install, which is most MS Store apps.

>>100049383
Doesn't your university give out free 11 Education licenses? Should do.
Education is a great edition with the same freedom of control that Enterprise gives you.

>>100056732
I... don't have an appropriate pendrive. Haven't needed one since school times but those were 4GB and smaller and can't be used for this.
Would external HDD work? Or should I buy new pendrive? If yes, can it be cheapest thing from nearby shop? I see there are some below 10 bucks.

>>100057617
Just get an 8GB USB from whatever store near you that sells them. They cost like 5 bucks.
Sandisk sells packs of five 8GB USBs for cheap too, which is a brand I recommend.

>>100056732
>>100057638
Thank you, noted down.

>>100032773
i think he just wanted to yell at somebody

>>100057708
It's just a copypasta. Uses the same pic and everything.

How to tell if a Windows (2000, XP, 7) copy on archiveorg or winworld is legit?
HASH only verifies the download but doesn't tell if the copy is legit and untouched.

How do I create a bootable USB from a ISO in Linux? I've tried multiple guides, but every time I attempt to boot it I get a "Missing operating system" error message.

is tiny11 any good or should i go with win10 ltsc instead

>>100058925
If you're on Linux you should use Ventoy. That just lets you put the ISO itself on the data partition it makes for the USB then you can just boot into it and boot the ISO directly.

>>100058941
I haven't used the very latest version of Tiny11 that NTDEV has made but IoT LTSC 2021 has been very good to me.
Last time I used it I thought it was kinda jank but NTDEV has said that the latest version is much smoother now. Guess all you can do is give it a shot. Don't like it? Move to IoT LTSC 2021.

>>100058891
Massgrave's index has links to publicly made available hash sites you can get to from the ISO download page.

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Win 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021 fresh install from USB stick. Tried to manually install Ethernet driver for my motherboard,says it fails to find Realtek ethernet controller. Troubleshooting and scanning devices for hardware changes didn't help either.

>NVIDIA
I'm getting 100% GPU utl in games but barely using any GPU memory at all. How do I fix this? I'm getting very poor performance in old games. This started recently.

>>100061076
Could try using SDIO (https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-driver-installer-origin/) while using your phone as a hotspot to see if it can get the driver installed for you. The LAN driver being installed from the mobo's support page and it still not working is a puzzle.

>>100061806
Thank you very much, but nevermind frienderino. I'll come back to Windows in a year. Just wanted to try it for a couple of months. I've switched back to Mint Cinnamon 21.3 and "it just works" again.

>>100062177
Maybe try coming back when LTSC 2024 releases in October. That'll be based on 11 24H2 so will most likely work with whatever whack Realtek driver your mobo has.

>>100057260
i wanted access to the MS store itself so i could enter a game voucher, not to install an app. but it turns out i can do that online. would still be nice to know how to actually install the ms store though.

>>100063013
From looking around, apparently typing this PS command in an admin PS session:
>Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsStore* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
will also re-install the MS Store if wsreset -i isn't working for you.

I'm aiming to test and remove things from a regular Windows install, what are some software that are decent to test with to see if stuff still works?
Aiming to test VM's(WSL,Ware,Box,droid etc), Python/Perl/etc, MSYS/Cyg, VPN(Open,Wire,shit provider made,etc), browsers, and Visual Studio/C++/net. Office?

>>100002084
how's the ram usage on idle?

Has anybody managed to run WSA on W10 21H2 LTSC? The installation works with no issues but the program just won't open. No logs or anything.
I'm using https://github.com/MustardChef/WSABuilds and already installed the KB5014032 and KB5022834 updates.

>>100002084
>>100005115
Is that the 25941.1000.230825-1352.rs_prerelease_CLIENT_ENTERPRISES_OEM_x64FRE_en-us one?

>>100001485
> boot up windows laptop running windows 10
> log in as usual
> suddenly not my desktop all my files are gone and there is a shitty blue MS background.
> restart log in again
> same shit
> repeat 5 times
> get back my old desktop and the files
what the fuck is the problem how does this even happen?

>>100058979
I'm trying, but the ventoy usb is just booting into grub.

>>100061159
Check your GPU clock and memory clock speeds under load. If you use MSI Afterburner, close it temporarily or reset your profile.

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What am I in for?

I am installing W10 to a disk that is to subsequently have linux installed (which will be the primary OS) and am doing so via ventoy on an older uefi ASUS motherboard. I can't seem to get the installer to launch as uefi, which is required to have an efi boot partition which is preferable or even necessary for the linux install. I can use diskpart to convert the disk to gpt and create an arbitrarily sized boot partition but windows will refuse to install to a gpt disk because the installer is booted in legacy bios. Websearching is getting me nowhere, neither regarding ventoy nor regarding the motherboard. What do?

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I've been getting this error when trying to install W10 IoT LTSC I got from the OP links. MAS scripts seem to assume I'm able to get past installation to activate later.

Some years ago I had an old XP VM on VMWare that suddenly stopped working, and it was a stripped down version that didn't have IE etc but seemed to still have access to the engine, aka some random software could act as the the browser and use the IE engine. Only tried the net using that alternate for like 5 min, then used the VM pretty much in an offline sense for months at least, but had online network access which was used for LAN transfer. Did some random bot later just get through it despite not running online stuff?

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sirs?

>>100069869
If you downloaded the evaluation ISO from Microsoft's website, which it sounds like you did, then do what it says there and download an ISO from massgrave and reinstall.

>>100070230
fuckkkkkkk

Does anyone ITT understand what the people over https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/windows-editions-reconstruction-project.80939/ are talking about?
On first sight I thought they were just making custom ISOs with leaked builds but... no one is sharing anything? Just screenshots of the things they've done? I really don't understand what's going on over there, and there's over 700 pages of that.

>>100001485
some great beat-off memories there, thanks

>Browse the internet and watch Youtube on Linux Mint.
>Use Photoshop and play Halo Infinite on Windows 11.
Man, if I had known dual-booting would be this comfy I would have started earlier. I'm starting to think those horror stories I've read are just tall tales.

>>100069051
bugs

>>100069869
Evaluation editions of Windows can't be activated.

>>100069216
Never seen this error before installing LTSC. How did you make the USB?

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i cannot put gif on desktop my attempts result in artifacts
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(("$framework\*\PresentationFramework.dll" | Resolve-Path).ToString())[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
>> [void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
>> $img = [System.Drawing.Image]::Fromfile("353969641ad3eb25aab2d37b701199580ed481fc9f2323b9830a09a32af5da00.gif");
>> [System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles();
>> $form = new-object Windows.Forms.Form
>> $form.Width = $img.Size.Width;
>> $form.Height = $img.Size.Height;
>> $form.TopMost = $false
>> $form.FormBorderStyle = [System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle]::None;
>> $Form.ControlBox = $False
>> $pictureBox = new-object Windows.Forms.PictureBox
>> $pictureBox.Width = $img.Size.Width;
>> $pictureBox.Height = $img.Size.Height;
>> $pictureBox.Image = $img;
>> $form.controls.add($pictureBox)
>> $form.Add_Shown( { $form.Activate() } )
>> $form.Show()
>>
>> 1..9 | %{"Continue program {0}" -f $_}
>>
>> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(("$framework\System.Drawing.dll" | Resolve-Path).ToString())
>> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(("$framework\System.Windows.Forms.dll" | Resolve-Path).ToString())
>> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(("$framework\Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" | Resolve-Path).ToString())
>> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(("$framework\*\PresentationFramework.dll" | Resolve-Path).ToString())

>>100065907
Ventoy's whole deal is booting to a GRUB menu and then select the ISO from the list.

I got W10 LTSC installed and ran through all the advised privacy and whatnot. Gotta say I was not expecting to immdiately get blocked by comical default defender settings. I thought I would easily set it to do nothing automatically and just be on hand to manually scan a particular item but instead I'm having to crawl through group policy just to be allowed to configure anything. This is fucking stupid.

>>100073221
Yeah, but it wasn’t ventoy’s screen where you choose from a list of installed isos. Just the bare black screen grub command line. Anyways I found issues on GitHub saying the mono might not find the efi partition if your usb is to large, so I shrunk down ventoys part and now its working

>>100059569
>Massgrave's index
massgrave dot dev
This one?

>>100073492
Yes that one. It's linked in the OP.

>>100073485
Really? Interesting.
Guess that must be with 256GB USBs? Cause I've had a 128GB Ventoy for ages now that's booted properly on many computers.

>>100073620
Yep, 256. Also chinkware from Temu which might’ve been a factor.

>>100073948
If it was a cheap ass USB from a chinese junk site then yeah it was probably a factor. I always just aim to use Sandisks cause I know they just werk.

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Do virtual machines solve every problem? say I want to install Valorant's notorious anti-cheat on a VM, is my host PC unaffected?

>>100074211
I have a feeling that Vanguard won't start if it notices that it's running on a VM.

>>100074211
If that's intentional, that's disgusting

>>100074264
Probably sees using a VM as a form of cheating. But you could probably just try and see if it works, it is just a VM after all.

>>100074211
most kernel level anticheats are extremely anal about VMs

>>100072691
I'm the ventoy anon trying to install LTSC from Loonix >>100073485

>>100074923
They're extremely anal about many stupid things. They barely work half the time anyway because people are still able to make cheats for games that use them, now it's just that there's a ring-0 basically rootkit on your computer that who knows if it'll get compromised at whatever point in the future.

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uhh can someone help me get my missing drive to show up?

>>100077526
Does it show up in diskpart when you run "list disk?" If so you could try selecting it then assigning it a letter to it to see if it becomes accessible.

Is Windows Blinds the only way to get my Windows 10 LTSC to look like XP? Or is there another FOSS program?

>>100077686
I guess if there's a good/working XP theme out there you could use that with SecureUXTheme? But otherwise yeah it seems that Windows Blinds is the only other choice really for a full XP look/feel. You could use RetroBar to get an XP taskbar and OpenShell to get an XP Start Menu but the explorer will still look 10-esque.

>>100077526
Looks like you just need to assign it a letter

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>>100070830
Why are retards like you allowed to post here? Do you not know how internet forums work? If you don't have an account most of the time direct links and attachments are hidden. They are sharing.
This should be named as
/The Stupid Fuck General/ instead of /Friendly Windows General/

>>100065213
check the health of your boot drive mate
>>100069051
how is it? I got an invite now too

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>>100055368
same boat here. been on win7 since 2011.
installing win10 today.
I considered building a frame or shrine for my old i5-2500k, but a friend wanted to buy the old rig for his daughter to play minecraft.
almost feels wrong to hand that CPU over to someone innocent after all the deprived shit I've made it render for me over the years.

>>100079324
Tell us your experience anon. I'm waiting for paycheck + tax refund to buy new PC and switch to win10. Could be next week, could be in a month.

>>100079474
NTA but I was a 7 diehard until I got a hand-me-down gaming PC from a friend which has 10 Home on it, way before I knew anything about Windows that I know now. It was kinda difficult to acclimate but after a couple months I started to get fairly use to it, plus I knew of at least Privatezilla from this thread so I ran that on it, even though I know now that the telemetry wasn't completely turned off because I was using Home. If I had the knowledge I do now I would've probably just used MAS to turn the system into an Enterprise one then used ShutUp10++ instead.

>>100078930
I am logged in, that is not a link.
They're remaking every single build by using a (often) leaked base then manually updating using UUP dumps and NOT sharing their results, just the 100 steps it takes to modify them to their linking.
Maybe you're right, maybe we should change the name to the stupid fuck general, you'd fit right in.

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>>100079474
win7 has been "almost" smooth sailing since 2011. it's been on 24/7. the day I decided to update and check my drives health to see what to keep my boot drive had exactly 12 years and 1 day of runtime.
I had an issue where the PC bluescreened every other day for about half a year but I didn't have any spare parts to troubleshoot with. I just lived with it and eventually the issue just disappeared lol
The PC has had a few minor issues though, like it will always bluescreen if I run any kind of HW monitor program lol
>>100079922
I like how transparent privacy.sexy is about what their script does and all the breakdowns offered

Well boys, I'm finally ready. Feels like shutting down my second brain. See you on the other side.

>>100078930
lmao you need anger mgmt m8

>>100080599
Of course it's not a link but it refers to a previously shared link.
Passive aggressive little anime fans like you should do the 41%.

>>100080725
>Passive aggressive
Nigger you're calling me a retard while having ZERO idea about what you're talking about. Try reading my question again before making a fool of yourself for the third time.

I'm so fucking tired of W11
Saving one pdf as excel took me 10 fucking minutes because it decided it want to crashes everytime I try to
Fuck this shit
t. work laptop with it

>>100081146
>Saving one pdf as excel
one excel as pdf**

>>100081146
>MS office
>spreadsheets
>good chance the pdf exporter is a windows printer driver if it's the builtin save-to-pdf
>pdfs
i mean you could just not do something so goofy
the fuck you need an immutable rendered essentially digitally printed version of a file from a shitty program that badly tries to combine a gui over relational databases and data visualization toolkits for?

>>100081310
>good chance the pdf exporter is a windows printer driver if it's the builtin save-to-pdf
I use the "save as" and choose pdf from there, not the printer thingy
>the fuck you need an immutable rendered essentially digitally printed version of a file from a shitty program that badly tries to combine a gui over relational databases and data visualization toolkits for?
Bank reconciliation
I do my export on excel then save as pdf so it can be signed by my superior to confirm our bank has been properly entered for the month
t. accountant

hello i have an msi gaming laptop (gf 75 thin) and my nvidia GEforce needs to update my driver but there are options for other updates. do i need them? i try and take very good care of it cause im poor i dont install anything that isnt important like driver updates or games,

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>>100081353
oops forgot pic

>>100081353
>>100081366
Hd driver audio is for HDMI/DP audio
As for usb c i don't know what's that for
But it causes no harm to have them
But only update geforce if you need to, there's no point otherwise except wasting time and having to rebuild your shader cache in games

>>100081349
oh god finance that explains everything, that's actually quite clever
they really ought to come up with a database that has some kind of signed transaction based chain of custody system
>I use the "save as" and choose pdf from there, not the printer thingy
it might still be using printer drivers to make the pdf, pdfs are basically digitally printed postscript (printer language) i think they shove that shit everywhere these days

>>100081455
*i think MS shoves that shit everywhere
they're quite proud of their little printer driver

>>100081455
>>100081469
and the reason why i assume it's that is cause adobe made the original save to pdf and made it nonfree
iirc word didn't have a pdf exporter for a while, then MS came out with that driver

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>>100081432
thank you. ill admit im a bit of a boomer, just opening the back of my laptop to air dust it out about caused me to have a heart attack. but its still not helping my heating issue. how much do you think is an acceptable amount to charge someone to repaste their cpu and gpu (those are the only 2 things that need thermal paste right?)

>>100001938
Yes there are ways to handle the File System/Manager from the Command Line, I wouldn't know how to though I've just done it before after being shown by some guy obsessed with Linux trying to "Make Windows more Bearable".

>>100081455
Apparently there'll be big changes in my company but that's years away
I think some other entities to it automatically (I'm guessing, saw some monthly bank statement that were 50+ pages, they want manually control it every month like I do for the small one I manage)
>>100081515
>how much do you think is an acceptable amount to charge someone to repaste their cpu and gpu (those are the only 2 things that need thermal paste right?)
Dépend how much you're willing to pay the guy
Thermal paste is 10 bucks

>>100081583
i dont know how prices are, so this is either too little and laughable or too much and also laughable. assuming i go to a professional that has insurance and stuff like that. if i buy the thermal paste and only pay him for labor, 60-80$ sounds fair to me. but again i dont know enough about the hardware part of tech to know how much people charge for shit like that. im aware its super easy to do, putting on thermal paste, but i would easily pay that much and mabey more to just not have the stress of trying to do it myself. i seen someone take apart my model of laptop it gave me second hand stress just watching him pull the whole gpu cpg attached to the copper off. like no fucking way this laptop has to last me i cant afford to do something stupid when i could just pay a fee and have it done for me. im a coward.

>>100007674
That is indeed 3 Sister's story. one of the first jap softcore games i ever played back in 2002

>>100081674
Well if you have the money you could go ask a tech guy in your area
Ask him to show you how it's done so you can learn more about this stuff

i only come to this board when i have a question and i know you guys are alwayse pretty nice. im trying to find tech youtubers to follow (i dont know if this board hates that kind of thing) but what do you guys think of JayzTwoCents and ETA Prime. especially prime i love handhelds its nice to see how powerful they can go.

>>100082337
most of the tech people who i follow are either generic news sources i put on in the background
don't even know their names aside from linus and that's because he gets made fun of
i went through my subscriptions list and couldn't figure it out
or programming/math people like george hotz or 3blue1brown or lowlevellearning
though that's more niche

eta prime does actually look like a fairly interesting twist on a hardware reviewer

I bought a laptop last year that came with Windows 11 and it has been a nonstop nightmare. Constant blue screens on startup, things breaking all the time. I have narrowed the issue (maybe) to AMD drivers corrupting Windows 11. I hate this fucking thing so much. Meanwhile, my 8 year old laptop that runs Windows 10 has had almost no issues throughout its lifetime. I hate Microsoft.

>>100084129
Just install Linux on the laptop then.

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how do i stop my keyboard language from switching at random?

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>>100082337
If I'm watching a HW video, it almost always about retro gear.

Damn, I thought I could just paste %localdata%\Microsoft\Edge into a new installation but it seems that the fucking extensions get ERASED by the new Edge instance. All other settings load properly but after running Edge it erases all extensions inside Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions
This is so fucking stupid.

>>100085861
Here's the fix: https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php?threads/how-to-apply-edge-profile-including-search-engine-preferences-and-extensions.3064/
The worst part is that it's fucking intentional, so fucking absurd.

Be honest, how much would you pay for this advanced operating system?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ

Fresh W10. Updates configured to notify via policy but still automatically proceed when I check for updates. Windows Update Manager (wumgr) simply restores the W7 functionality of being shown what is available and selecting which (if any) packages to install?

I'd like to keep Defender on hand to individually scan arbitrary files. I can pull a script from privacy.sexy to restrict it so that it doesn't get in the way? I didn't see straightforward policy options and not fully disabling it immediately blocked me from running an unsigned exe (the 7zip installer, for fucks sake) with no ability to adjust settings outside of policy.

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>>100001485
>>Useful programs for a new install
>>>Image Viewers
>https://imageglass.org/
maybe it should be removed?

>>100085861
use sync next time

>>100087206
There won't be a next time lmao.

>>100087067
Anon why do you constantly do this? no matter how many times well tell you this got reversed you bring it up week after week

>>100087994
Don't give attention to autists.

>>100087994
Regardless of reversal, that happened at all is disgusting.

>>100088269
>he says in the Windows thread
>knowing the past of Microsoft and Windows
hypocrite

>>100088293
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but you know that the conglomerate producer of a collected package of operating system and software suite is incomparable to an individual program, right?

>>100088293
This thread is mostly about using the resources given by Microsoft in Windows to turn off all their shit. And it's shit that is within the scope of what they do even if offensive. I sincerely doubt the image viewer could be configured to not do the thing that no one would ever conceive of an image viewer trying to do other than just blocking it at the firewall after incidentally discovering it.

>>100088454
again, hypocrisy
You want me to recognize your nuance of "big corp vs one person"
but you completely disregard my nuance of "the creator already apologized, forked the project into one with spider and one without, AND even after that the spider fork has since been discontinued, so all that remains is the spiderless branch"

Fuck off with that, you weren't trying to show any nuance here >>100087067, you just want to push a narrative based in incomplete information.

>>100088529
>I sincerely doubt the image viewer could be configured to not do the thing that no one would ever conceive of an image viewer trying to do other than just blocking it at the firewall after incidentally discovering it.
It can/could, it was split into two different branches, but anon NEVER mentions the spiderless version, which is actually the only version that exists now, because that whole thing went down two years ago and isn't current.

>>100088579
>>100088608
I am not responsible for the autist, Anon. I will not use software that tried to pull a ludicrous out-of-left-field trick even if in a separate fork.

>>100088657
okay, I am not even telling you to use it. I just think people who use logic like "one mistake, means its bad for ever" are fucking retarded if they continue to Windows despite its many mistakes.

I have windows 10-Home.

I want to upgrade to Professional so I can start using the Hypervisor-Plattform and tools.

I tried using Oracle VM, but the install is so borked that not even a reinstall can save it.

Any help?

>>100089033
use MAS in the OP, it'll let you switch editions, and after a restart you'll be good to go

>>100089081
Thank you very much.
Extremely appreciated.

>>100089095
You might as well switch to Enterprise while you're there too.

>>100089156
Why that?
Asking since Copilot didn't give me a sufficient enough answer.

Just because Higher => Better?

>>100089191
The most control over what your computer does, like switching off telemetry and it staying off between updates.

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>>100001485
Prior to this evening I haven't installed windows in over a decade.
So, I've reinstalled win 10 ltsc iot two times today. Each time without being connected to the internet. The setup process gives me the option to continue with limited setup without a key or internet.
It never asks me to sign in, but to simply create a local account. I never see the option to join a local domain.
It did ask me how much personal data I wanted to send to MS in a series of questions.
Am I good? I'm in the OOBE now.

>>100089263
Installing it offline with a local account is how you do it, yes. You don't even need to add a password to the account yet either if you want. Turn everything off in the privacy screen and you'll be at the desktop shortly.