I saw all the horror stories but I still couldn't believe Windows 11 was as bad as they all said. And then I tried it. They weren't even lying by far the worst windows I've ever used.

Shockingly awful

>>107390146
>Windows 11 was as bad as they all said.
Use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
It will get security updates until January 2032

>>107390146
>They weren't even lying by far the worst windows I've ever used.
Because the UI and the OS is written by jeets and faggots who can't even optimize their code

>>107390146
I'll give you mine
>New mission one hour from home in the country.
>Rent a place so I don't waste my life commuting for the next 6 months.
>Buy a new PC so I don't waste my life doing opioids for the rest of my life.
>Start the beast: "please saar login".
>Well my poo-in-the-loo I'm all by myself in Bumfuck Nowhere here so you'll have to give me a pass on that.
>"No saar you have to login!"
>Wtf? I doublecheck on my smartphone.
>It's fucking real.
>You can hack your way through though if you know the secret cmd.
>Hackerman.jpg
>"Welcome to double right click menu and double control panel OS saar".
>Wew lads.

Windows 11 is extremely bloated and pozzed
Don't upgrade from 10

Can you still upgrade windows 7 to 10 for free? I could get your beloved Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021 the way you guys recommend, but I don't want to steal. Instead I could buy a cheap Win7 key and upgrade it to a more expensive Win10 key.

>>107391652
The 7 to 10 free activation service was turned off around a year or two ago. If you want to use IoT LTSC 2021 you're gonna have to steal from daddy Microsoft :(

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how can I permanently get rid of this nigger from my life?

>>107389865
mama...

>>107369077
>the corporation just being able to see your screen at any time without your knowledge or consent is perfectly fine goy, stop worrying and get used to it

>>107391837
disable sata hot swap in bios

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Does it truly collect and send all this data? If yes then it's kinda insane, this fucking os lives its own life

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$formatter = {
    $args[0].ToString( "yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ssK" );
};
$now = [datetime]::UtcNow;
$start = & $formatter $now;
$end = & $formatter $now.AddDays( 7 );

$params = @{
    LiteralPath = 'Registry::HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings';
    Type = 'String';
    Force = $true;
};

Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseFeatureUpdatesStartTime' -Value $start;
Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseFeatureUpdatesEndTime' -Value $end;
Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseQualityUpdatesStartTime' -Value $start;
Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseQualityUpdatesEndTime' -Value $end;
Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseUpdatesStartTime' -Value $start;
Set-ItemProperty @params -Name 'PauseUpdatesExpiryTime' -Value $end;

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My desktop tower suddenly stopped working. I was running it for days and nights trying to encrypt some hard drives and it may have shut off while I was asleep. Won't power on when pressing the power button, even after removing power cables entirely. All I hear is a faint whine or beeping noise.

Anyone know what is responsible? I'll try to buy a replacement part this Cyber Monday

>>107395116
specs would be nice to know but if you hear a sound when you power it on. it sounds to me like it's just the power supply. you may or may not be lucky and the rest of it works.

>>107395138
Yeah I figured as much, maybe it burned out since I was keeping my PC on for days at a time. It's just a shitbox surplus PC from university they were tossing so I don't know the specs other than its mid tier.

I'm planning on building a powerful PC eventually, do I buy a PSU for that future PC that can also work for my shitty desktop? Or does the PSU have to be tailormade for my current tower's specs?

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>>107395172
if it's not some piece of shit oem box with a custom power supply and custom cables and pinouts you can just toss any old box in there be it 300w or 1600w. i would just get a high quality one with the right amount of power for your future build. if it's a pos office box with a proprietary power supply but it has the atx cables and the right pinout you can just have it externally power the pc.

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In win11, is there a way to return the old (full) context menu, but make it visually look like the new one?

>>107395287
Winaero Tweaker maybe?

I honestly don't understand all these "make it look like win10" addons. The visuals are the one good thing about win11 and a massive upgrade, why the fuck would you want win10's ugly squares back? Should be "make 10 look like 11" and not the other way around

>>107395881
the start menu is cancer. the context menu is also cancer.

Not sure if this is the right thread exactly, but I have a question. My current setup is a main 32' 1440p monitor and a 27' 1080p monitor, and because the 32 is so big I use 125% scaling in Windows. Is there a better way to do this? IE, through programs directly, or through the graphics card, or anything?

>>107395523
Asked GPT and it told me that making old menu use new menu's design is impossible and I should instead use Nilesoft Shell to just directly edit the new menu to have all the entries I want
I'll try out the Winaero Tweaker too but at a glance it doesn't look like it can do what I want, it merely allows you to disable the new menu

>>107395894
Functionally yes, but I was talking specifically about aesthetics. Win10 tiles (I think they called it Metro or something?) is just about the worst example of soulless corpodesign to ever be unleashed upon this world (well maybe only second to Corporate Memphis but that one is a fucking war crime), win11's acrylic glass is not perfect yet still a massive improvement. So you'd think people would want to make their functionally useful win10 look like aesthetically pleasing 11, but instead all I see is people updating to win11 then trying to make it look like win10 did

>Rainmeter
>Lively Wallpaper
>Sucrose Wallpaper Engine
>Wallpaper Engine in Steam
What's even the difference? If you are using one, which one and why?

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>>107395997
if you removed all the pins you had a really nice looking (forsted glass) and fast menu. if you disabled websearch it was even faster. i liked the windows 10 menu. the new one is just big, ugly, and slow.

>>107396046
>Wallpaper Engine in Steam
>If you are using one, which one and why?
porn

>>107395894
stuck in the mud. even the *nixfags have nicer looking UIs now.

>>107395997
W11 devs were surely looking over at the MacOS devices when they designed the UI to put on top of their massively shitty react native XAML parsing engine

>>107391652
Sorry you're feeling bad for the multibillion dollar corporation, anon.

>>107389865
child mommy! TuT

I switched to using File Pilot for my Windows 11 partition. Anyone else experiencing it crash whilst using mega to upload backups?

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I love Windows!

>>107398830
SOVL

>>107398830
I don't care if 9x was unstable, it had SOVL goddamnit

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>>107395116
blessed artist

Is WIndhawk safe to use? Holy shit there's so much good stuff there that I want to use

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Bought a new faster nvme. Should I install 10 or 11? I have been using Windows 11, but I find it more annoying than my previous 10 install. I use Windows Auto HDR sometimes.

To Win 11 fags, are you still keep up updooting?

>>107400111
Peru es clave

>>107400236
yes saar

>>107400111
That computer probably costs more than the entire neighborhood
Just install 10 LTSC unless you really need 11 for whatever reason

>>107400068
Windhawk is fine. I haven't heard anything about it being malicious in any way.

>>107396054
Sometimes I think that win10 and win11 are intentionally awful to force users to become powershell wizards... but then I remember that you only need powershits if you're a w1nd0ze lus3r in the first place.

phone link or kde connect

>>107401784
Phone Link needs an MS account, so if you don't want that use KDE Connect.

>>107401812
>>107392940
thank

>>107390146
i installed win11 a month or so ago and tried to get used to it but it's so fucking slow and clunky i'm going back to win10 iot

>>107402822
oddly dependent on hardware for the most part but yes, its pozzed in a lot of ways

>>107403026
which is suspicious in and of itself. yea im aware of amt and all that but still

>>107398830
thanks for that nostalgia drip, anon.

hey friendos
i have win 10 home on my old laptop, and the laptop doesn't support win 11 (don't really want win11 even if i could install it). is there a way for me to get extended security updates for windows 10 without signing in with an account? i dont have a microsoft account and i dont want to create one.

>>107403423
>Run the irm command in the OP in an admin powershell to run MAS
>Select the "change windows edition" option
>Choose Enterprise
>Computer will restart
>Run the command again and choose the HWID activation
>Select the TSforge option and choose ESU
>After that's done close MAS and the powershell and restart
>Now run Windows Update and you'll get the November ESU monthly update and beyond

>>107403511
thanks anon!

>>107401784
>>107401812
can kde connect remotely (over bluetooth) activate wifi tethering on the phone? I don't want to enable it on the phone manually every time multiple times per day.

>>107404026
KDE Connect uses local wifi connection to talk to your computer, not bluetooth.

scoop or chocolatey?

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How can I record the screen (Windows+shift+R) on Windows 10 LTSC 21H2?
The feature seems to be missing

>>107404805
Scoop these days.

Where Sophie?

>>107404885
Get something like ShareX instead to record your screen

>>107405317
thanks, shareX looks nice

>>107405703
It's pretty much the go-to screenshot/recording tool for most people. There's also OBS as a recorder as well.

I'm going to install soon Win 10 for first time and I have some questions
>Can I install another language pack in Win 10 LTSC IoT after installation, or do I need to install 10 LTSC in preferred language and the switch license to IoT?
>Should I still give entire disk to windows during installation, and then shrink the partition like the paste says?
>Which program/site with scripts is best today to remove all the telemetry etc.?

>>107406203
>Can I install another language pack in Win 10 LTSC IoT after installation, or do I need to install 10 LTSC in preferred language and the switch license to IoT?
No, you need to install LTSC with the language ISO you've chosen, then activate it with HWID (it'll automatically swap it to IoT LTSC.)
>Should I still give entire disk to windows during installation, and then shrink the partition like the paste says?
Yes, it gives the least headaches during initial install. Shrink the C:\ drive later on
>Which program/site with scripts is best today to remove all the telemetry etc.?
IMO either ShutUp10, Win10Privacy or Winhance

>>107406203
There are methods to change the language after installing, but it's not recommended
As the other Anon said, install the LTSC ISO of your preferred language, and simply activate it with HWID and MAS will automatically convert it to IoT LTSC

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why is the new context menu so fucking big?

>>107408819
UU
UU

>>107408819
It looks much more pleasant that way

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>>107389865
I love Momoka so much bros. How can any girl be so perfect?
To keep it thread relevant, is there any way to run an iOS app simulator on Windows 11?

>>107409149
>>107389865
ai slop

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>>107409160
AI is the future, old man.

>>107409160
since when can AI do proper anime solid tone shading instead of gradientslop?

>>107409337
It produces things faster, they aren't more desirable.

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>>107409394
>>107409337

>>107409436
Indians are incapable of understanding the elegance and maturity of Momoka. They prefer teases like Risa or boys like Haru.

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>>107409436
???

Is Windows 11 IoT LTSC also shit? Or is it tolerable? I'm building a new PC and debating whether this or Win10.

>>107411170
depends of what you don't like from GAC 11, it's almost the same thing

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>>107411170
>new PC
intel or amd?

intel needs the new scheduler
>inb4 processlassofaggots, GTFO with manual core assignment

otherwise 11 is new and improved and buggy, explorer can be - slow - underneath it's just Windows 10 with lipstick and you can tweak some of the bugs out of the UI

>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/

>>107389865
>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
what are the downsides of this?

>>107411934
none

>>107411975
then why are people buying keys if you can just activate windows like that without paying anything?

>>107412001
Because they somehow think they're doing something legal when OEM keys are also a shady market.

They also think that MAS is malware when to this day no one has proven that.

>>107412001
Some people are paranoid, but most are just retarded.
Keys bought on those key reselling sites are NOT legal proof of ownership for a business audit etc.
Might actually end up worse than outright piracy if the keys were reported as stolen.

>>107412001
>then why are people buying keys if you can just activate windows like that without paying anything?
People either don't know about MAS, or they don't trust it

Simplewall or Tinywall?

>>107412299
a thumb up your ass

>>107412001
my wife made me do it

>seriously she did
>was $40

I don't trust this shit
I'm gonna get a key for $10 instead

I'm getting a new nvme ssd tomorrow. I figure I should make it my main drive since my old one is significantly slower. Should I install Windows 10 or 11 on it? I have 10 right now. I'm mainly just wondering if there's any performance to be gained by switching to 11, with games or anything else. And which versions should I install? LTSC or a different one?

>>107412852
this only depends if you have a cpu that needs new scheduler or play games bound to xbox drm

>>107412852
yes, now you're in the right place.

anyway, you can test it from a USB to see if you like it
>>107411495

how do i install game bar on windows 10 iot to take advantage of my x3d cache?

no, i will not install windows 11, its slow.

>>107413241
First you install xbox app from msstore
Then you restore or repair or something inside the xbox app

>>107413262
is there any other way? i dont want to log in to a microsoft account (which the store app requires you to)

>>107412864
I doubt it, I have a Ryzen 2700X so I can't imagine it would need a new scheduler.

>>107412897
I might give this a try. I used it briefly last year after I bought someone a laptop and had to setup everything for them. I definitely didn't like it, but it was probably the Home version, whatever the laptop came with. I had to disable a lot of stuff and even go to the registry to make some tweaks. I don't really remember everything I did since it has been awhile though, are there any simple changes that I can make it more like the W10 UI?

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>>107413294
>which the store app requires you to
no it does not

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>>107413319
well damn

in windows 10 is microsoft ime for japanese only available if you install the japanese language pack? wondering if it'll be available if i straight up install iot.

>>107413399
Download the Japanese LTSC ISO then convert it to IoT LTSC via activating with HWID.

>>107413296
>changes that I can make
yes there are things like winaero tweaker and more that can change annoying things about it.

i setup a dual boot with multiple hard drives last year and forced myself to use 11 until i was familiar with it, now i have a new AMD cpu system and i decided to go with 11 full retail just because it's a supported OS. i have already had one software that would not run under the Enterprise IoT LTSC but it was an unimportant utility for my monitor.

i did start with a UASP USB3 m.2 SATA enclosure to test 11, if you have any kind of external hard drive or external SSD it's *much* faster than a USB flash drive for Windows to Go, but a flash drive lets you mess with it without having to wipe your old drive.

Since you are getting a new SSD you could just keep the old drive aside and put 11 on the new one and try it for a couple of weeks to see if you end up liking it. if you use 11 for a bit you will find it really is just a new version of 10, of course there are a lot of small changes.

Rufus is giving a revoked UEFI error with W11 LTSC 24H2. I saw the reddit post with the dev saying it's an error with versions older than 2023 but what's up with this version also having the UEFI error?

>>107413565
Sounds like a case of MS changing the keys recently. I guess to make it simple all you gotta do is turn off secure boot before booting the USB then turning it back on after the install has gotten all its Windows Update shit done, if you want to that is.

>>107413475
Which version of W11 do you suggest? LTSC? I guess it makes the most sense to just install W11 since that'll have support for several more years and also stuff like drivers will be updated for it, which may not be the case with 10.

>>107413606
kek i bought an actual retail license for $40*

when testing I used the IoT LTSC but - it does not get automatic version updates, so new features don't come your way, though you can force them it's not /fwt/ approved -> you will be stuck with the buggy things

>*ok my wife bought it and made me use it

>>107413374
https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/games-apps/troubleshooting/gaming-services-repair-tool
go to "downloadable version" and run that, it will fix xbox identity provider which will fix your error and game bar not working

I currently have a w11 arm for my VM in my laptop. Is there a way to keep its storage usage as low as possible considering I will only use it for playing VNs? Like, are there windows features that I can safely uninstall?
Currently it uses ~30GB.

>don't use computers except for Mathematica and such for work (don't do a lot of office stuff)
>Inherit an excel spreadsheet from my coworker
>Every single Microsoft application on my work computer has a copilot button
>Hmm I wonder if I can use copilot to clean up this sheet
>Press the button
>Hey can you tell me how much x is in this?
>"I can't access the data on the sheet"
Why does the button exist in my toolbar? It's the same as the standalone application. Is this a work in progress?

>>107414060
I watched a video and learned I have to put the file in OneDrive first. I will try this tomorrow.

saars

>>107414158
always make a backup first in case office fucks you up

>>107413996
backup your vhd/vdi/vmdk/img/etc and experiment with https://privacy.sexy/

which version should i install if i'm using a 9950X and want to squeeze as much performance out of it as possible?

>>107414668
11 Enterprise.

>>107414677
why? also because of the scheduler like on Intel? doesn't that get updated with new chipset drivers when it comes to AMD?

>>107412750
why didn't you just pocket the cash & run the mas

>>107414687
I wouldn't use 10 with such a new CPU. It's easier to just use the latest Enterprise version of 11 with all the telemetry shut up with something like ShutUp10/Win10Privacy/Winhance. Or hell just use IoT LTSC 2024 if you don't want feature update packs and no real bloat.

>>107414695
the latter can still get the MS store and xbox stuff back, right?

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>>107414693
kek good idea

>but she got it using the employee discount
>got me Office and Viso too
>and a new 32" Dell U3225QE
>she works in Redmond
>kept man and all that
>you get the picture

>>107414710
You can install winget via asheroto's winget-install script to get access to the MS Store repos and download shit like the Xbox app. IIRC you can also get the MS Store through winget itself if you want, if you'd like a GUI.

>>107414769
hmmm. not that it would probably matter on a 32T but is w11's UI as bad as the op claims?

>>107414803
Not really. I just disabled the animations/transparency and it felt like 10. The OP is quite biased when it comes to 11.

>>107414818
asking just because i was getting the odd stutter on a 3570k on w10, spending this much money on an upgrade this colossal only to have the windows ui still stutter would be fucking hilarious (not)

>>107414710
you can do that on win 10 iot ltsc too

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kek'd

"After installing KB5070311, you might experience issues when opening File Explorer in dark mode. The window might briefly display a blank white screen before loading files and folders."

"This can also occur when you: Navigate to or from Home or Gallery (including launching to Home); Create a new tab; Turn the Details pane on or off; Select More details while copying files."

>>107414893
its all the vibe coding man
wait until windows 12, stay on 10 iot ltsc

>>107395997
The only way the Start menu could be bearable for me is if it had a sortable list view with small icons. I don't like Windows 10 Start, but at least you could sort the tiles and create named separators

>>107412803
You distrust a Microsoft tool hosted on Microsoft's code repo named Github? What?
But a $10 and legit consumer license off of Groupon is a reasonable option. A bit cuck, but reasonable.

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>>107414898
>wait until windows 12, stay on 10 iot ltsc
no

>>107414803
>old system: dual E5-2697 v4 Xeon workstation, HT off (so 36 "real" threads), PCIe3, 128gb slow RAM, Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drives, RTX 4070 Super
>new system: low-power 7945HX3D, PCIe5, 64gb 5600 DDR5, WD SN8100 drives, RTX 5070
>HP Spectre X360 laptop with i7-1165G7, some sort of Optane drive, shitty Iris XE iGPU
>W11 IoT LTSC on the old build with 25H2
>W11 forced update from W10 on the new build so 25H2
>W11 retail on the new build so 25H2
>two systems side by side at my /battlestation/, laptop nearby
>newest is much much better with 11, menus, Explorer, and of course load times from the SN8100 - all noticeably faster, even when i had the 4070 in it.
>actually removed half of the RAM (8 sticks) from the workstation to get the speed up to DDR4 2133 from 1866 and it made little difference on the W11 instance
>which is why i'm thinking single core performance is what makes the most difference for W11s "lag"
>i'm thinking that most of the issues where people are totally right about it being super laggy when doing ordinary things like using Explorer or the Start menu->settings etc. might be because they got a "free" forced upgrade to 11 on hardware that is mid or low spec with poor single-core stats, my old workstation is a compute beast that runs W10 smooth as silk but W11 lags, especially Explorer menus are noticeably annoying, where my HP Spectre X360 laptop with i7-1165G7 and a shitty Iris XE iGPU is better than the old workstation but still has the lag.
>thusly based on my sample of one user with 3 different crapcan systems the performance lag seems tied to the single-core performance more than anything else
>thanks for reading my blagpost, /fwt/gots

>>107415229
>>W11 forced update from W10 on the new build so 25H2
oops thats on the laptop

>>107411495
>intel needs the new scheduler
AMD also benefits from the core scheduler update
>Windows to Go
Shiggy

>>107412299
WFC

>>107415563
>also benefits from the core scheduler update
this is a topic i don't know much about, i thought the performance hit for AMD was less than for intel?

how bad is it for the AMD bros who want to stick with W10?

>>107413399
You sir are correct

>>107413996
Disable reserved storage. No components will save you much space at all.

>>107415579
Minimal especially when you factor in the jeetcode that is W11. The benefits you'd gain in the scheduler would be offset by overhead (and obviously the risk of increased breakage since W11 is jeetcoded).

>>107415815
aha so as i thought, it's the whole E-core thing that borks W10 on newer intels

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>>107415815
>W11 is
sitting on top of Windows 10

>it's not dead yet

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How do I stop windows from creating huge paging files and freezing for minutes when it decides to do anything with it? (apparently combing through 60GB of it as if it were RAM is still not all that fast even with an SSD)
Should I just specify a sane upper bound on the paging file?
Why does this happen in the first place?

>>107416223
Why does this happen in the first place?

->have you done any "tweaking" to the pagefile handling e.g leet-hacker-regedits <- you're on your own
->what version of windows? <- Winver
->are all your drivers up to date? <- Device Manager
->how much RAM does your system have? <- Task Manager
->how much of your RAM is in use? <- Resource Monitor
->what is using all the RAM? <- Resource Monitor
->is the pagefile on a hard disk or an SSD? <-google "defragment page file" if hard disk
->are you sure it's the page file that is thrashing? <- performance monitor
->>look in Start for Performance Monitor and open it. Expand Monitoring Tools and click on the Performance Monitor graph. Right-click in the graph on the right side and select Add Counters. From the available counters list, select Paging File. Click on the down-arrow icon to the right of Paging File and select "% Usage" then click the Add button to add the counter on the Added counters list. Click OK to close the Add Counters dialog.

->report back so we can give you bad advice

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>>107416372
no
26200.6899
probably
32Gigs
90%
firefox and LSPs
I already told you it's an SSD, nigger
yes, whenever it starts freezing I see 50% disk usage, which is 100% on the one of my two SSDs which has the pagefile
ok now I wait to see it spike when it happens again

note I already lowered the pagefile size upper limit to 8 gigs but I haven't restarted yet so I think it didn't apply it yet, I can undo it if you think that was a bad idea

>>107416416
What's your RAM usage look like?

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>>107416416
>32Gigs
the new baseline

>90%
yep you're thrashing the pagefile, is it on the OS drive?

>firefox and LSPs
as in deprecated winsock LSPs? and how much RAM is FF using? How much used without FF?

you may be boned by your use case and moar RAM may be the only solution, or whatever the LSPs are doing maybe leaking, does it get better if you restart the processes and worse as time goes by (you can watch "Avalable MBytes" from Memory in perfmon)

>nigger
pic related

Why do *nixtards try to pretend so hard that >everything is a file is so good but >everything is an object is fake and gay because they can't cat, ls, grep verbatim?
>inb4 everything is a file descriptor

>>107416472
Nvm I'm stupid..

>>107416537
we don't care about that here in /fwt/, try
>>>/sqt/

>>107416548
>we don't discuss NT kernel design in /fwt/
My bad. Is it really a stupid question thoughever?

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>>107416603
>Is it really
yes

>different strokes for different folks
>this is /fwt/ after all

>>107416533
>yep you're thrashing the pagefile, is it on the OS drive?
yes, should I move it to the other drive?
>as in deprecated winsock LSPs?
no I mean Language Server Providers, VS code

>>107417141 (Me)
shit am I going retarded? I think I got the terminology all wrong
LSP means language server PROTOCOL
the things taking up RAM are language *servers*
does anyone call them LSs? I don't think so
that should be right, right?

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>>107417141
>move it
costs only time to make the try if the other drive>=speed of current drive.

>I mean
kek it's your own code thats eating all the RAM right anon?

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>>107404936
>Scoop these days.
ok yea just tested it out. Seems to be more portable. Didn't know choco had a paid version nowadays.

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>>107417150

> kekking >>107417187 so hard right now
>anon is loading fat libraries into RAM
>his own AI is /consooming/
>has run up against physical RAM limit
>sorry for kekking but
>anon will cry in shekels to solve the problem

>>107416533
i already told
>the new baseline
>moar RAM

>>107417224
Choco is garbage these days, Scoop and Winget have 100% superseded it.

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>>107417187
>kek it's your own code thats eating all the RAM right anon?
don't think so

>>107417398
what does resmon say when the thrash is happening?

>>107417398
>Discord.exe

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>>107417466
yes, anon, shall we have a look at the servers you're active in?

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>>107417398
still thrashing, anon? did you try changing the pagefile location?

>pic from my dev box

>>107417609
>8GB in use, 120GB available
is that after a fresh restart, before any use?
in my experience RAM is like a gas, it expands to fill available space, no matter how much I expand it's always at 80%
I'm curious if you managed to debloat windows or something

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>>107414563
>>107415611
>manage to shrink it to ~16.6GB
Thank you based anon.

Software recommendation for FULL backup but without system files?

I've bought an external hdd to hold my files both in cold storage and as a transfer storage for my laptop. I wanna wipe my drives clean and install win10 IoT LTSC but first I need to back up everything I have, so basically what software can I/ should I use for it and please don't say to do it manually.

I have a 256gb ssd for OS and important-er files and a 1TB hdd for the rest if it matters.

>>107409337
it's already present

Any good text editor that doesn't shit itself when working with big files (~50MB). Sublime, Notepad, Notepad++, VS Code, all shit themselves

So I've just done a fresh install of 11 Pro on my new SN8100.
Finished fully updating and installing all drivers, everything is bueno.
Since I'm autistic as fuck, I decided to run the dism component cleanup, restorehealth, and then sfc /scannow commands.
the first two went like usual...but the sfc is SLOW AS ABSOLUTE FUCK
It just hit 50% after about an hour on a fast system.
When I checked task manager, I see Windows Modules Installer Worker (TiWorker.exe) using about 5% of CPU and ever so slowing filling up my RAM (it's at about 5 GB now)
What the actual FUCK is going on?
WHY is this shit taking so long on the fastest drive on the market?
It seems like its going to finish but by god if it gets to 100% and freezes there I'm going FLIP my SHIT

>>107418049
fresh reboot and a carefully tuned system is all

>>107424127
I ran sfc /scannow because of a problem I was having and it completed in 2-3 minutes. Very midrange drive. It didn't identify any problems. I ended up fixing it another way. These commands are kinda useless. No reason to run them unless as a last resort.

>>107424127
>TiWorker.exe
That's why its taking so long

I do PC repair for a living. Not too long ago, had the idea to have copies of Winre.wim and that other file in case I need to restore the recovery partition on a client's PC, including a few older Windows 11 builds.

But now I'm questioning if it's worth it to keep the files for Windows 11 23H2, seeing as it went EOL recently. Apparently Windows reconstructs the recovery partition on its own during certain updates? But how often does it actually do so?

>>107419859
Marium Reflect. It even offers some flexibility when it comes to copying to another drive.

>>107426592
Bleh, meant to say Macrium Reflect

Whats the best way to unbloat Win11 and remove unnecessary telemetry without breaking anything?

>>107427247
ShutUp10, Win10Privacy or Winhance. Either will do what you want.
Winhance is open source if you like that.

should I just put on my big girl panties and install windows 11? is it really that bad? my girlfriend uses it and it looks fine to me

>>107427734
OP is bias. 11 is fine.

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>>107427734
11 is fine, just tweak it the way you want it as >>107427270 says

>also plz no post pic of you in panties

>>107427270
Have you used any of those? Which one works the best and safest?

>>107428400
They all do the same thing i.e. set registry entries and disable services via command line, using the GUI as a frontend. I've used all three, they work as I expect.

>>107427734
There's really no fucking reason to use it unless you need hardware support from 11

>>107427734
no, i recently switched to win 10 iot ltsc, win 11 is absolute shit compared to win 10 i am using. holy fuck win 11 really broke me especially past 6 months. it got so shit its actually surreal. fucking notepad has copilot now.

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Anyone fiddle with Core Isolation settings?

Do you need Memory Integrity or Kernel Stack Protection?

I heard this substantially affects performance

>>107428593
Core Isolation being on by default in 11 is the reason why those "requirements" exist. And no you don't really need it if you aren't a stupid grandma that downloads viruses from download.com or whatever.

>>107428593
i was going to rant but this anon already explained
>>107428750


For example, i turn off TPM and all that bullshit before i reinstall so all my programs loads INSTANTLY.

>>107428750
>>107428889
What's TPM?

So turning off Core Isolation and VMP is completely fine?

>>107427745
>>107427779
>>107428478
>>107428501
thanks, I'll stay with 10 then

>>107428984
something on your motherboard that does encryption stuff that bitlocker uses to lock your drives

Install Potplayer or clsid2/MPC to replace Windows Media Player?

>>107426592
Depends on your clients. 23H2 Enterprise and Education is still supported for another 12 months.
Recent editions rebuilt it when an update introduces a change, so its always up to date. That can be during a monthly cumulative update but obviously not all of them. IIRC the support page will list if WinRE had any changes.

>>107429135
for me, i use potplayer via scoop

>>107412001
clinically retarded idiots that think buying stolen OEM keys is somehow more legitimate than using the official (official as in inner workings and server authentication) MS method for activating all keys

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>at work
>use excel file with macro
>save it on shared drive
>reopen it
>macro disabled for security reason
Oh fuck you, can't even get the macro to work now, even checked the gay boxes to allow it but same shit
Other excel macro files work fine except mine, what the hell is this

>>107424009
what is it? databases?

wtf is this brave update?
they added window border with rounded corners that shows even when maximized wtf

>>107389865
>>107395116
>>107399196
>>107409149
>>107409337
>Anal sexo with Momoka

>>107389865
>Have program I need running
>Program crashes periodically / needs to be reset
>I'm also playing a game while doing this crap
>Sometimes program "starts" but hangs before opening a window and needs the process killed in manager before being restarted again
Is there a way I can create a .bat or simple script that will kill / restart the program and make sure it's actually running? It's a pain in the ass troubleshooting shit on the fly while in the middle of a multiplayer game.

>Use another program
Looking into it but don't want to.

>>107431336
find out whats making it crash silly

What's a good lightweight image viewer to use if you don't like the new Windows Photos?

is w11 still a bad idea even with decent hardware
I just built a new computer and it has an nvme + r9 9900x and I cant decide

>>107431531
VoidImageViewer, from the Everything search tool guy.

>>107431569
yes. avoid it.

>>107431569
eh its good enough to deal with the jeetcode its a shame to use such a new cpu without the new scheduler
just use iot ltsc

>>107431360
It's not actually outright crashing though, certain parts of it just stop working which requires a reset. Not like I'd know what to do with a crash dump anyways unless it's something super obvious.

>>107431569
im using 9800x3d with win 10 iot ltsc and it works fine
dont fall for the scheduler memes, they are shills

>>107425938
Yeah but WHY
It's barely using any processing power for some retarded reason
Btw it did actually finish, said it "found" corruptions on my fresh install and fixed them. Rebooting and ran sfc again and it finished under a minute with no corruptions found, so...win?

>>107432340
Oh and this was using the latest official windows 11 iso from Microsoft loaded onto a USB using rufus, would that have anything to do with it finding "corruptions"?

what's the current meta on pirating lightroom for windows?
do i have to use one of the old-ass versions from 10 years ago, or can i get one of the recent ones without a ransomware package deal?

>>107431569
if you have amd gpu linux is much faster than windows. the proof is microsofts own xbox handheld running worse on windows 11 than steamos or bazzite.

>>107433020
>microsofts own xbox handheld
?

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So I built a new PC including a new nvme. I want to fully swap PCs and don't mind a fresh install. How do I best transfer my Windows (key I assume) between the two nvmes?

>>107433588
Anon just use MAS to activate it. You don't need a key.

>>107433599
that's illigul

>>107433477
microsoft surface and asus xbox under microsoft brand runs worse on microsoft os than steamos

>>107433599
Why would I do that when I have my own key?

>>107431569
>>107433633
okay man go have fun trying to figure that out

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>he has his own key
lmao

What do people talk about in a windows general?

>>10743372
Windows, generally...

>>107433735
>>107433725
FDUCK!@!

>>107389865
Windows 11 sucks and the jeets that created it deserve to be tortured to death, by being forced to use their own products for eternity.

using mullvad browser, installed with scoop. Should i consider any other browser preinstalled with ad blocker? Was considering helium and brave? But first is too new, and the latter is bloaty.

>>107433852
Brave is great after a settings sweep. And really you should only be using Mullvad Browser if you're using a VPN with it.

MOMoka

>>107433588
>>107433633
was windows preinstalled on your PC? there's a way to "extract" the key from your OS, and then you can try to use that same key on your new install. it will either work on the first try or you will have to contact microjeet support, who will instruct you to use MAS to activate your windows.

>>107434299
I went from win 8 key to win 10 (don't remember how), then upgraded to 11 via windows update or whatever. I don't think I actually have a key anymore, just a digital license

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>>107417440
is this bad?

>>107434305
there should be a "key" somewhere attached to your install.

you can use the command prompt and type `wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey` to get the key.

If you have a digital license instead of a product key, you can check it in the Settings app under Update & Security > Activation. A digital license is a way of activating Windows 10 without entering a product key, usually when you upgrade from an older version of Windows or buy a new device with Windows 10 pre-installed.

>>107429911
Base64 files

>>107434347
it means you are out of RAM and lots of paging to/from disk is happening

>you need moar RAM

>>107434712
How do I see which processes are using 60GB of virtual memory? All the metrics I tried give me far too small numbers

>>107389865
who is this loli

Installed Photoshop & Illustrator normally through the CC desktop app on fresh Win10 LTSC, both work just fine. I thought they weren't supposed to?

No manual KB-updates or anything besides a vc_redist AIO (and whatever comes with Visual Studio Professional I guess)

>>107434762
it's ai slop

>>107434771
damn

>>107434762
Momoka Sakurai from Idolmaster U149.

>>107434809
>Momoka Sakurai

Thanks my dude

>>107434741
sysinternals process explorer maybe, IDK, you can add a column for page faults in there

>you need moar RAM

Why am I getting connection error messages everytime I download Windows 10/7 ISOs from Massgrave? Windows 11 ISO downloaded just fine.

>>107434974
thats why i just use aria2c

>>107389865
Why does 21H2 get updates over 22H2? I don't get it

>>107435260
because it's an ltsc release and it maybe a way to fuck with cosumers running ltsc on their desktops

can you change the icons or cursors on windows?

>>107435476
yes

>>107435476
there are some built-in ones you can change to

>i use CursorFX but it isn't freeware, not aware of freeware apps that do this, maybe some anons know?
>windows 11 lets you individually add images as cursors

>>107435539
>>107435524
pretty cool, so you need a third-party app to change? im guessing it is the same for icons?
how about window decorations? do they let you change it?
>why ask
i was messing around with cursors for xfce and i was surprised to find that most cursors available out there were actually ported from windows, but i never saw a windows user using a custom cursor before, or icons for that matter. very interesting, its been a while since i used w10 and i didn't know any of that.

>>107435736

"skinning" windows is possible but i know of no freeware that does this, "window blinds" by Object Desktop is the only one I ever used
for windows you can google "free mouse pointer bitmap"
in settings you can choose images for the mouse pointers
win10 lets you assign images to the mouse as well (.ani, .cur files)

>>107435736
>but i never saw a windows user using a custom cursor before
Are you a zoomer or a Linux native? Custom Windows cursors were all the rage in the 00s. Glitter, afterimages, people used all sorts of fancy effects.

>>107401642
Knowing systems you prefer not to use can be very useful if you need specialty software. For example I edit GM LS ECU .bin files then flash them back to the ECU. No Linux option exists but OS are free so I use Windows on one of my spare machines in a Windows To Go hard drive install I can boot and run anywhere.

OS are not just gaymer teentard tois, they can be very useful tools.

Ugh, wtf is this shit.

Why is there not an app installer included with Windows 10 LTSC?
I have the MS Store installed now, but I cannot find any app that opens MSIX files or bundles.

Followed

https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/750/109825750/att_1293366/v1/Readme_DesktopAppInstaller_4_Windows_10_LTSC.pdf

"App Installer" now shows up in the context menu, but trying to install anything I get

>App package parse failed

FUCKING FUCK Microsoft
This shit is worse than Android by miles, how the fuck is it so complicated to install appx files or msix files?

>>107436399
After recovering msstore you need to install app installer (winget) using direct store link or recovery script.
Or if you install UniGetUI it has builtin winget recovery that does not require msstore.

>>107429520
Can I ask why? I've tried to like PotPlayer but I just haven't found the appeal yet.
Is it their funny quite customisable UI and skin support?

>>107434984
You use a browser extension to pass it to the aria2c server?

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>>107436399
I don't know who told you to follow this guide
I followed Massgrave's guide and it worked perfectly:
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

>>107416223
Well I guess I found the culprit

haskell-language-server-9.12.2~2.11.0.0.exe: getMBlocks: VirtualAlloc MEM_COMMIT failed: The paging file is too small for this operation to complete.

This happened after I limited the paging file to what should be a very reasonable 8 GB.
Remember that I have 32 GB of RAM.
I'm trying to load a Haskell project that has 1 source file and 10 dependencies.
This is insane.

>>107438318
most excellent job on troubleshooting

>you need moar RAM
>keep tellin ya
>32GB is the new minimum

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>>107438318
>This happened after I limited the paging file to what should be a very reasonable 8 GB.
Now you know why people recommend page file = ram size.
There's some retarded fukcery happening every time software tries to allocate a single continuous chunk of ram that is bigger than entire swap size but smaller than free physical ram.

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if you're paging to disk, you are out of RAM

>>107438318
are you a linux user?
because a lot of those retards dont undertand how swap works and you dont need it
now you found out you actually need it
get more ram or deal with swap
retard

>>107439047
If you are out of RAM you are paging to disk. If you are out of page file windows starts killing userspace processes. At random, not necessarily the ones using most RAM first.
Also disabling swap can rarely cause another retarded fuckery, specifically applications doing lots of separate memory allocations and garbage collections tend to allocate and forget to deallocate much more RAM than they would with enabled swap.

>>107439047
>>107439212
>software is in such a bad state these days you need 128gb of ram just for garbage collection
grim

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>>107439212
yep should not ordinarily disable ram

>>107439047 is carefully tuned special purpose devbox and has only run out of RAM once and it was a user error. did not screenshot, it was FUBAR and a hard shutdown was the only solution.
>was surprised to find could get 11 down to ~8gb at boot idle as my W10 boot on the same system is also ~8gb

>>107439289
no you are just retarded

>>107433837
But the Jeets are already used to eating and worshipping their own shit.

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>>107439500

>>107439622
sometimes I wonder how much 4chan would change if they'd actually enforce their rules lmao they never do it so when they actually warn or ban you it feels arbitrary

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>>107439622

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>>107439672
the mods do respond if they get enough complaints, it's a blue board after all

>been banned, am naughty person. here have a pic

>>107439755
kek >>107439622 didn't report (but not sayin' it wouldn't be Righteous to do so, anons)

"friendly windows thread"
so piss off with all that noise kthxbye

>>107439622
>>107439755
See >>107439622
Oh wait... DUMBASS!

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>>107440920
yes, i must be a dumbass for hanging around here to see if i can actually help people with Windows

>you'd think i would get bored of this after 30+ years of it

my bf was having issues with his base w11 home install cause it was bloated to all shit with garbage he has accumulated and from the person he bought it from

i said fuck it and nuked his C drive and installed 11 IoT LTSC cause he's an average joe and all he really does is game and browse the web so i figured it'd be best to have him on something he both already understood GUI wise - and to have something relatively stable that wouldnt accumulate microsoft copilot AI slop constantly

not to mention he has a 12th gen intel chip so i didnt rly have much of a choice not keeping him on 11

outside of the obvious like shutup10 and a windhawk mod to get rid of the aids nu-context menu it's working fine - i shouldnt rly expect him to have any issues being on the LTSC branch should I?

>>107441207
kek all that work and a few minutes with winhance would have solved the problem

>>107441207
Not really. All his games and shit should work fine.

>>107441217
im an auntie and have ptsd from 3rd party "debloating" software during the windows xp/7 days always breaking shit horribly and generally avoid that kinda shit now out of habit and just nuke a windows install every like 2 or 3 years these days if i need to i've automated most of it cause of it and it only takes me like at most an hour or two of work

>>107441218
sweet, i got tired of his bitching about something destroying his performance in like fortnite or whatever

Install any Windows version you're curious about as a VM then you can decide for yourself. Doing multiple installs should be seen as a good training opportunity since the learning curve is quick. I also test live Windows, WinPE, WinRE, Strelec PE custom remasters and similar, and Linux .isos in VMs after downloading, then dump them on a Ventoy'ed USB fob or Ventoy'ed SSD.

>>107411495
Windows To Go works fine on old smol SSD and is worth keeping as a bootable tool kit. Everyone should have multiple ways to boot a full OS if their installed OS shits the bed.

I use cheap Startech USB/SATA adapters and very simple 3D printed cases but the cases aren't really needed. It's well worth studying live OS. You can use live WinPE etc to install Windows tool, giving you more tools than the stock media.

>>107412001
Retardation. When men were men and the sheep were nervous the first thing to learn after basic PC operation was safe piracy. This is not hard for anyone actually interested, but tech-illiterate fearfags don't qualify.

>>107441303
Using Windows in VMs was the main way I even learned about how Windows works at deeper levels plus installing it. Like it's obviously best practice to just bring up diskpart when at the target disk select menu to use clean on the target and make the other disks offline if there's others connected.

>>107419859
Having one copy of something isn't really "backup" so consider ways to save file that really matter in more than one location. Rule of Threes is a place to start.

When I change OS I replace the drive and do a clean install on a much larger OS drive. The handiest backup is a bootable complete install because everything will be familiar. If I'm going to bother reinstalling there is zero downside to more storage.

If I liked an old install I make a VM from it which can live on external media. Then I can run the old install in one window and the new install in the other which makes setting up the new install easy as could be. That's the true lazy man's way.

>>107389865
I was thinking of getting a 285k, but checking Microsoft's official site, it doesn't seem to support W10 E IoT. Did I maybe overlook something? I really don't want to use 11 if I can help it. Is IoT 11 not that bad?

>>107441320
I have more fun with it in my VMs for similar reasons. I can't break anything rebooting a VM into any snapshot I felt like taking won't fix perfectly.

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Doing a Windows reinstall

What are some essential apps for a fresh PC?

Media player
Pdf viewer
Basic video editor and webm maker
Photo viewer
Notepad replacement
others?

I'm trying to integrate stuff like other languages to my offline image, I tried doing something like this in my script.

$cabFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path "$PSScriptRoot\cabs" -Recurse -Include *.cab, *.esd
foreach ($cab in $cabFiles) {
    Write-Host "Installing $($cab.Name)..."
    & dism.exe /English `
      "/Image:$tempFolder" `
      /Add-Package `
      "/PackagePath:$($cab.FullName)" 
}

I got the cab files from uupdump

── Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package-amd64-fr-FR.esd
── Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-fr-fr-Package-amd64.cab
── Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Handwriting-fr-fr-Package-amd64.cab
── Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-OCR-fr-fr-Package-amd64.cab
── Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Speech-fr-fr-Package-amd64.cab
── microsoft-windows-netfx3-ondemand-package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab

But when I run my script I get "The source files could not be found. Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. Error: 0x800f081f"
What am I doing wrong?

>>107441229
i'm >>107441204 a grandpa and winhance is an excellent open-source tool for debloating windows, it does all the stuff needed using standard microsoft methods as we would use from the command line, you should have a look, you moved from the retail version of windows (rapid bug fixes and new feature enhancements) to IoT (stuck in the mud, still gets critical bugfixes).

>i run them both on different systems, both work.

>>107441783
7z

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>>107441303
>Everyone should have multiple ways to
yess i >>107411495 use multiple hard disks and a dedicated devbox with >>107439047 a lot of RAM and multiple NVME boot disks, each OS has it's own boot schema and I use the bios boot menu to choose as needed. admittedly i may be some sort of actual basement-dwelling sperglord.

>>107441745
>285k
the 285k has e-cores and the W10 scheduler does not know what the hell those are so it will try to assign work to them that the e-core is not good for. thats why the O.P. stickies >>107389865
>W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024
>Use only if you fell for the 12th+ gen Intel meme and need the new CPU scheduler

>>107441783
whatever you need to get your compute on
7zip is my default zipfile manager
Everything for search (Search Anywhere)
IrfanView to look at my colleaction of, uh, important memes
your favorite browser
your favorite debloating tool

>>107441783
>mpv
>SumatraPDF
>mpv with webm making plugins/Kdenlive (or pirated Premier)
>nomacs/JPEGView/IrfanView
>Notepad++
Just a couple from those points.

>buying cuck cores
i mean you kind of deserve to be forced into w11 slavery if you did

>>107441783
Enjoy the feeling of a fresh install without bloatware and don't add stuff you don't actually need. Any new app is an additional attack surface and maintenance task. I personally usually do the opposite, make sure to disable Gigabyte App Center in UEFI, and delete Realtek Audio Console, so there's no third party bloatware and only first party MS apps. Then I grab the latest GPU drivers, and the latest x64 and x86 C++ redist so I can uninstall the AMD Install Manager and make sure it's only the drivers installed. Then I grab a browser of choice, usually a coinflip between Chrome or Firefox on how I'm feeling, and Steam/GOG.

>>107442071
>W10 scheduler does not know what the hell those are
22H2 knows what they are perfectly fine and it can even use the CPUs thread director, its just not that good at it.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000091284/processors.html

>>107441207
>https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
>TL;DR if you're uncertain, avoid LTSC and choose the general availability channel and its editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, etc).
>This is not the main servicing channel and other software and games usually don't follow this channel's life cycle. For example, browsers and games might not provide support for 10 years on same build.
You might like LTSC, you might use LTSC, Microsoft itself doesn't like LTSC (for most things), and 99% of software makers treat it as if it rightfully doesn't exist. Just off top of my head, stuff you already won't have access to at latest 10 LTSC is Riot Vidya protected by Vanguard, and some of the MS codecs like JPGXL or AVC. Also you'll lose access to new GPU drivers in 2026 and if you set telemetry to 0 won't get the new secure boot key either, making even more software inaccessible. Same thing will hit 11 LTSC sooner or later too, and updooting, verifying it's clean, and activating a new LTSC every 3 years at this point is more tedious and risky than just normally updating on GAC through the GUI or delaying updates by a year. There's only two editions MS intends for normal users, that's the ones they directly have on their media creation tool, official isos, and on the ms site under windows category. Home -> Pro

>>107442761
Steve? That you? Ballmer my guy, hows things been?

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Question for people who know more than I.
Is there a way to...link 2 firefox windows together in the middle?
I am on a windows 10 laptop and quite often have 2 windows open at the same time. One on the right and one on the left. I also often make one larger and the other smaller for a short time, then change the sizes back by taking the edge of one window and sliding it smaller, then the edge of the other window and sliding it larger.
Linking them together in the center so I only have to grab the divider to change both window widths at the same time would be awesome.
Is this a thing that exists?

>>107442781
I need some fucking DEVELOPERS

>>107442795
>Linking them together in the center so I only have to grab the divider to change both window widths at the same time would be awesome.
this is default functionality is it not?

just drag window to the side of the screen and it will do a see through preview of how the window is going to move and then on the other side it's gonna show all the programs you have open and you click on one and then they are linked

>>107442965

My set up does not do this. If there is a setting to do this I dont know what it is or if I have changed it.

Huh..I did a google to find and check settings, checked settings and saw they were enabled. I played around with it and I think I figured out why I've never noticed this before. You and google say to move the window to the side to make this happen, and yes, this is correct, but it does not activate until the entire window is almost completely moved off the screen. Not something I would ever think to do.

>>107438835
Damn...
I guess I can increase the paging file to 32GB then.
The thrashing usually only happens after it grows beyond 60GB anyway, lets hope it's going to fine now.

>>107443001
I recall powertoys has an option to change window snapping, do you have that on?

>>107442795
Have a look into FancyWM. Seems to do what you want.

>>107443070
if you have a second drive that is as fast as the primary drive or enough space on the primary you can let Windows manage the pagefile for a while and keep an eye on the size to give an idea of what you really need to allocate

>but you still need moar RAM, anon
>or a dedicated >>107442071 devbox with lots of it

>>107442795
That's a native windows feature since forever but it's been buggy since forever.
Firefox draws its own window borders often confusing window snapper.
Also if you move a maximized window into a snap area it also resizes but does not snap.
In both cases you need to snap a window twice and select the corresponding linked window from the list, not just snap it to the other side, then it works.

>>107443078
Powertoys Fancyzones does not allow linking multiple windows (but does not disable native snap either)

Something like a console window keeps popping up for a millisecond before closing and it's driving me insane.
How do I see what's causing it?
"Process Create" events in Process Monitor show nothing
I couldn't find a working tool for tracing overall desktop events like window creation, destruction, resizing

>>107443132
Tried Nirsoft's WinLister? Lists windows that open up and it could catch the console event as well.

>>107442071
Thanks, I was wondering if the 22H2 thing was included in that or not, my bad for not mentioning it since I forgot to add it.

>>107442734
Thanks for providing this link. I looked it up but this didn't come up when I tried checking if 22H2 was compatible or not, maybe I used bad search terms. I wonder how much more inefficient it is and if it's something I can just eat. I'm planing on using VMs and specific software though, so maybe that'll cause more problems than it's worth. Thanks again

>>107443115
>let Windows manage the pagefile for a while
That's how I got a 150GB page file on a 500GB HDD several years ago
I had a real fun time tracking down the cause of sudden random non-responsiveness for the first time, seeing the disk usage suddenly turn red was a real surprise too.
Experience from that incident is why I immediately went to look at the pagefile when I started thrashing two days ago.
Letting Windows manage it is what got me to 60GB two days ago. Are you staying that's fine and that normal systems shouldn't thrash even with so much paging, so I should look for the deeper cause instead?

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>>107443196
>normal systems
no such thing exists

>look for the deeper cause instead
imma say again, chief. You need moar RAM for your AI waifu project. probably a lot more, maybe more even than what i have on my shitty old devbox IDK. /gaymers/ do not need 64 or 96 or 128 or 256 or 512GB or even a terabyte or two of RAM. developers of Big New Things and scientists, however, do often find themselves in need of such shedloads of RAM, and typically they need the ECC kind because cosmic rays and all that. they do not give a shit about optimizing memory usage when working at the bleeding edge, that shit happens much later in the dev cycle, when the <whatever the teledildonics prototype is> is actually assigned to resources to debug and clean it up so the suits can sell it.

>know this because i spent decades supporting devs and scientists doing Critical Things at a huge globohomo corp, pic related, honest injun, ended up doing systems integration work for those nerds at the end which is how i ended up with a 10 year old system that could support 2TB of RAM if i had it.
>you will cry many shekels to solve this with todays RAM pricing unless you are working for The Man and can get your boss to unclench the purse strings
>or you can just let Windows have its way and give it a lot of space for a pagefile
>do hope you can get it working reasonably well at least with paging going on

>>107443532
>You need moar RAM for your AI waifu project
I have no such thing, all I have is 50 tabs of firefox, vs code, and a few small idle docker containers
I just wish I could trick processes into believing they're on a 4GB RAM machine, because I know they could work fine on one, but they give in to the temptation of filling up all 100GB of my virtual memory

>>107443857
you need moar RAM and lots of it

>off to bed, best of luck all y'all

>>107443869
Who are you quoting?

>>107443159
It removes windows when they're closed, doesn't help me catch something that lasts one blink of an eye

>>107443545
>>107443545
>>107443545

>>107441783
For me, pirated Photoshop is essential. I always end up needing it at some point after a reinstall
I use Nomacs as my image viewer (install the beta version. The stable release is over 5 years old)

W10 IoT LTSC is great and all but after four years of usage I discovered something annoying about it; it does not support Miracast