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/fwt/ - Friendly Windows Threa(...) 10/19/25(Sun)04:19:21 No.106937136

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/fwt/ - Friendly Windows Thread Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:19:21 No.106937136

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Previously on /fwt/: >>106924258

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:26:50 No.106937165

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:26:50 No.106937165

>>106935820
You can try registering the DLLs
>regsvr32 InputService.dll
>regsvr32 msctf.dll

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:26:53 No.106937167

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:26:53 No.106937167

My OS might be corrupted because of incompatible RAM. Should I just wipe my drive and reinstall windows from scratch?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:30:41 No.106937192

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:30:41 No.106937192

>>106937167
Fix your ram first.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:32:32 No.106937203

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:32:32 No.106937203

>>106937192
Already did; made sure it was on my QVL list and it boots, but I can't get past seeing my username on Windows before an unresponsive black screen.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:34:57 No.106937215

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:34:57 No.106937215

>106935033
>show recommended files in start, recent files in file explorer, and items in jump lists

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:40:49 No.106937245

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:40:49 No.106937245

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The friendly local Microsoft rep told me to install Windows 11.
how do I get ram usage down to 1 GB and reduce background bloatware?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:42:29 No.106937255

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:42:29 No.106937255

uuh... why are those two girls kissing Ó_Ó

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:45:01 No.106937269

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:45:01 No.106937269

>>106937245
I found the pastebin with shutup10, privay.sey, chris titus. Which one would you recommend?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)04:53:45 No.106937318

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)04:53:45 No.106937318

>>106937269
NTA but I use ShutUp10 because it's the safest when it comes to disabling shit but also not breaking any Windows components.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:06:51 No.106937381

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:06:51 No.106937381

>>106937318
Looks like it just disables stuff, it doesn't delete anything. I'm looking to gut it as much as possible, functionality be damned.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:07:40 No.106937388

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:07:40 No.106937388

>>106937381
It doesn't delete anything, just tweaks the registry and/or disables services.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:20:03 No.106937443

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:20:03 No.106937443

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>>106937136
Just switched from W10 Home to Iot LTSC and ran all the updates but it's still at 21H2.
Do I have manually update the version?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:22:01 No.106937455

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:22:01 No.106937455

>>106937443
If you want IoT LTSC 2021 changed to 2022 you need to run the enablement package from the OP.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:33:20 No.106937518

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:33:20 No.106937518

do i still need to enable ESU on LTSC, or should i leave it as it is?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)05:38:19 No.106937547

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)05:38:19 No.106937547

>>106937518
You don't need ESU on LTSC because it already has the extended life by default.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:08:28 No.106937736

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:08:28 No.106937736

So, is there any solution to this >>106929796 or not?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:09:07 No.106937738

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:09:07 No.106937738

w10 or w11 if I want to play vidya on my dual boot

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:14:11 No.106937769

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:14:11 No.106937769

>>106937736
My bad, meant to post >>106929589 (my original question) but >>106929796 didn't help (>>106929872 >>106929944)

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:15:32 No.106937780

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:15:32 No.106937780

>>106937736
>VCRedist AIO installer
https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases/latest
>DirectX installer
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
You also need to install the .NET 8 desktop runtime
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:26:16 No.106937851

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:26:16 No.106937851

>>106937136
Lex Sesbian

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:29:00 No.106937869

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:29:00 No.106937869

>>106937136
sex
with shamiko

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)06:41:45 No.106937957

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)06:41:45 No.106937957

>>106937381
Just delect C:\Windows??

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:13:35 No.106938137

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:13:35 No.106938137

guys I think my windows 10 iot ltsc broke it can't install the latest update anymore

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:17:49 No.106938159

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:17:49 No.106938159

>>106938137
Follow the MAS guide. You need to delete the DWORD DisableOneSettingsDownloads (which ShutUp10 adds as a recommended toggle) and make sure you have the DWORD EnableActiveProbing set to 1. The guide says where they are in the registry.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:32:00 No.106938213

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:32:00 No.106938213

>>106938159
I looked at the registry and those were already deleted and set to 1... should I try an in-place repair upgrade?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:33:30 No.106938222

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:33:30 No.106938222

>>106938159
Forgot to add that I get 0x80071a2d as the error code

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:37:50 No.106938253

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>>106937381
Considering you're asking, you probably don't know exactly what you're doing and you'll break shit
Even the OP says:
>If you need to ask, then no.

There's no magical thing that makes W11 take XP-tier resources with no real downsides

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:43:57 No.106938280

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:43:57 No.106938280

>>106938222
I'd try a dism/sfc run first and restarting. If that doesn't do anything then maybe try stopping and restarting the Windows Update services (wuauserv, cryptSvc, bits, msiserver) and restart again. If that doesn't work, maybe try repair upgrading.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)07:55:03 No.106938341

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)07:55:03 No.106938341

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>latest W11 update breaks localhost

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)08:20:59 No.106938464

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)08:20:59 No.106938464

>>106937780
Thanks man! o7

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)08:52:26 No.106938621

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)08:52:26 No.106938621

>>106938280
none of these worked either i'm switching to linux and reinstalling windows a few weeks later after i notice some of my programs aren't working

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)09:20:40 No.106938745

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)09:20:40 No.106938745

Finally made the jump to W11 on my own PC last night/this morning. Turns out it fixed that thing I had where there was a minute or so of black screen between the Windows logo and seeing the login screen.

The funny thing is that I once upgraded a client's PC that also had that thing (and didn't fit the system requirements) and IIRC it did NOT fix it there

Now if only I could do something about the long "spinny circle" phase. Though I guess that's from when I turned off hibernation or something and don't remember why. Though turning it back on would fill up 30-something gigs of drive space (because this PC has 32 GB RAM

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)09:25:19 No.106938780

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)09:25:19 No.106938780

TIL that despite MSDN claiming that you don't need to HideCaret and ShowCaret when responding to a WM_PAINT message, you do. At least with Direct2D, perhaps GDI does handle it for you automatically.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)09:45:22 No.106938929

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)09:45:22 No.106938929

>>106926460
Kek Ive been using Cheat Engine to speed up my dailies and 3 run in just an hour and 10 mins

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:28:29 No.106939191

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:28:29 No.106939191

asking again, can you use recall on non-copilot+ machines?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:29:17 No.106939198

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:29:17 No.106939198

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>>106937136
You guys are starting to go too far. This is not the y/u/ri board, kek

>>106937245
>>106937381
So little RAM won't happen with 10 or 11.
Heck, could Winhoes 8 be brought down to use so little RAM like Winhoes 7?
But if you still want to be insistent, I strongly recommend switching over to Ubuntu instead of trying to mutilate modern Winhoes to see if it won hardly any RAM like 7 and XP.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:30:18 No.106939214

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:30:18 No.106939214

>>106939191
Why didn't you just ask Copilot?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:32:42 No.106939230

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:32:42 No.106939230

>>106939198
>to see if it won hardly any RAM like 7 and XP
wtf
*to see if it will run on hardly any RAM like 7 and XP.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:33:54 No.106939239

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:33:54 No.106939239

>>106939214
i can't believe it actually answered my question.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:38:04 No.106939273

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:38:04 No.106939273

>>106939239
Like Google with Gemini, MS is putting a lot of fucking money into Copilot to make it feel worth using (and in Google's case it seems to be working because Gemini Pro is always topping leaderboards.)

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:39:10 No.106939282

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:39:10 No.106939282

>>106937136
This is a horrible OP image

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:41:38 No.106939297

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:41:38 No.106939297

>>106939282
cute girls doing cute things to each other is the purest form of justice

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:42:32 No.106939301

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:42:32 No.106939301

>>106939297
No it isn't. It's pedophaelic homosexuality.

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:45:33 No.106939315

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:45:33 No.106939315

>>106939198
I already wiped the win11 and installed windows10 and ran Compact.exe CompactOS:always
I use linux too, I have another drive for that

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)10:52:51 No.106939361

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)10:52:51 No.106939361

>>106937245
>4GB
I'm probably the top 3 poorest guys in this thread and I'm on 16GB, why are you doing this to yourself?

Anonymous
10/19/25(Sun)11:07:40 No.106939454

Anonymous 10/19/25(Sun)11:07:40 No.106939454

>>106939361
You really think a 2W intel celeron with a combined multi thread performance of 0.5 haswell cores is my only PC?

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