FAQ:>How do I activate Windows?HWID2 generates and registers a permanent legitimate license on MS's activation serversgithub.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-ScriptsUsage: paste this into Powershell, run.irm https://get.activated.win | iex>and Office?Same link, select Ohook optionYou can also use Office.com if your needs are very minimalor try OnlyOffice/LibreOffice and set it to save in MSOffice file formats>What version should I install?>W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021Binary identical to Enterprise except no MS Store or appsPreinstalled with: Edge & Win32 system apps10 years support on "IoT LTSC", 5 for "LTSC"Manual version upgrades>W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024Same as W10 version except:UI written in React Native aka JavaScript including: Start, Taskbar and Explorer that lags even on i9sUse only if you fell for the 12th+ gen Intel meme and need the new CPU schedulerWait for IoT LTSC 2027 if you can>Installing apps on LTSCUse WinGet/Scoop or install MS Store in CMD with: wsreset -i>W11 Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise/Enterprise IoTPreinstalled with: Edge, Win32 system apps, MS Store, OneDrive, Weather, Movies, Music, Candy Crush, etcAuto-reinstalls apps on feature updates1.5-3 years supportForced version upgrades>ISOs:Windows IoT LTSC https://pastebin.com/ywkasnhMWindows https://pastebin.com/nUMgAr0bOffice 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-proofinghttps://pastebin.com/Zh7WSbJ2>Useful programs (new installs, essentials, utilities, adobe, etc)https://pastebin.com/hN8nnwns>I miss Windows##OpenShell/RetroBar/WinClassic/StartIsBack>LTSC Install Guideshttps://rentry.org/windowsinstallguidehttps://rentry.org/concisewin10https://rentry.org/ltschttps://rentry.org/fwtarchivePreviously on /fwt/: >>108263189
set configure windows updates to 2 - notify before downloading and installing any updates and display options for update notifications set to 2 – turn off all notifications, including restart warnings and picrel in task scheduler so defender still updates on its ownnow windows wont update unless you do it yourself
is there a good resource to see all of the settings and stuff that I should enable, disable, and change, on a fresh w11 install to get as minimally shit of an experience as possible?
I really can't decide if I should move to Linux or stay on Windows. Both are cool, both have pros and cons. Linux is such a hassle to maintain and do things, and everything feels like it's going to fall apart at any moment, but at least nobody pushes anything onto my system without my consent. Suddenly there is an "AI actions" option in my context menu on windows. It seems I can't get rid of this. Does someone have this on LTSC? I'm using Windows 11 Education.
>>108326108Disabling the cancerous context menu is the first thing I do on a fresh Windows 11 install so I haven't seen it
How can I make it look like windows98
>>108326454The winclassic.net autists are your friends
whats the best way to make sure i dont get virus from pirated software/games on winXP? rn im using the latest clamwin antivirus database to scan everything before i install it
>>108326108>Does someone have this on LTSC?I don't even have that on W11 Pro.
>>108326716don't install anything super new, browse the comments for the download. there's no panacea here, if you're using warez on xp be prepared to potentially get infected. if you are insistent on using xp it's better to have an alternate, ideally airgapped computer that hosts any data you actually care about, like banking account passwords or tax documents or whatever.
I wish I had known of these programs 20 years ago
>>108326970I would expect that FastCopy is most likely a GUI frontend for the native command prompt tool robocopy.
>>108325666based
>>108326716Use reputable sites? There's plenty of lists out there that say which are trustworthy.
My laptop is nearly a decade old and windows update decided to automatically install a bunch of driver updates that were all several years old but still newer than what I had installed. I don't know why it waited until now to do it.
i installed all of the microsoft media foundation codecs and there is an mkv video with av1 codec that doesnt get a thumbnailweird because i do have the av1 microsoft codec installed
>>108328294Might as well just install Icaros and stop thinking about it.
>>108328299do you use icaros?i was using the k-lite codec pack that includes icaros and i decided to stop using because i believe it was causing issues with the thumbnialsit was like the thumbnails would regnerate every time i accessed a folder
>>108326716Double check your sources and what you're downloading or torrenting. There's always a non-zero chance even the ones you trust might suddenly go schizo, however unlikely that might be, but as long as you aren't blindly clicking every ruski crack or whatever then you should be fine.
>>108325150It doesn't look good at all when the anime face doesn't match the style of the rest of the picture. Looks like the face was pasted in from a wildly different image. Jarring and janky.
>>108328398Anime-based image models are usually pretty sloppy like if nothing is prompted to give it another style or something besides quality tags.
Bless you legends. Saved me so many time I'm forever grateful.
>>108329098no prob enjoy your puter
Anyone knows why Massgrave removed their W7 and XP ISOs?W7 support ending doesn't make sense since they also provided XP ISOs
>>108329157I mean you could just ask on their discord
>latest update killed my computer againFucking hell why is windows so fucking shit
>>108329208As someone that's never had that kind of an issue with a Windows update, I have no idea what you're doing.
>>108329213Literally nothing just had it update and restart and it wouldn’t let my keyboard work. Then it got stuck in an infinite repair loop again. Am I just unlucky or something
>>108329208>latest updatefirst mistake was not turning off automatic updates and doing them manually every few months.
>>108326108If you want stability long term just switch to Linux. It gets some used to but once it works, it works.Windows will probably work short term but you'll have to change version eventually or Microshart will push a new cancerous update.
One of my disk readers on winXP is constantly falling back to PIO mode and making my computer pretty much unusable while it reads disks, what do>>108327126well the unstoppable copier is still quite useful to recover hard to read data from old DVDs, probably works for hard drives
>>108328398im rather amused someone's willing to push their oc donut steel this hard every 300 posts
>>108326108linux makes no sense as long as ltsc still is being offered
I'm using a dasharo motherboard and when I install w10 iot ltsc 2021 it doesn't come with the network drivers so even when I'm using a ethernet cable I don't have internet. How do I fix this? I was able to transfer the drivers and install them in w11 and w10 home, but I have no success with this specific iso.
>>108330151I think it's suppose to be the main character from Tonari no Kyuketsuki-san, a 360 year old vampire loli NEET.
>>108330930wow that’s even worse
>>108330870I mean 2019 version, not 2021.
>>108329208just roll it back
>>108329157a lot of their links went to official or officially partnered distributors, at a guess i'd assume microsoft probably just stopped distributing them through the main channels
>>108331280Actually could be it.
>>108330870download them on a different computer and transfer them with a flash drive. if it's not working you probably don't have the right drivers. you only need to get either the lan or wireless drivers working to get the other one to work via windows update so try both and you'll probably get lucky with one or the other.
I love Windows!
>>108331275Won’t let me
I still have the old USB stick I used to install Windows 10 Education on my current PC back in 2022.Just bought a new PC with Win 11 Home that I want replaced with Win 10.Is it worth the effort to redo to get Win 10 Enterprise like is recommended?Or should I just do the same Win 10 Education install off the same USB stick?
>>10833389610 education will be eol even with esus in a couple years so you might want to consider ltsc iot enterprise
Been trying real hard to find AHCI drivers for my winXP without any success, any oldheads can give me advice on this? ive already consulted the LLM oracles>Asus P5B (old i know)>Installed windows XP on an IDE drive>decided to ditch the IDE drive for a SATA one so i cloned it to the SATA drive>now it will only boot if i set SATA mode to IDE rather than AHCI>cant figure out how to find the ahci drivers for this thing, LLM said the ahci support may be partial or non existant on this board but i think its hallucinating
>>108333896education with commercial esu (eol oct 2028)iot enterprise ltsc (eol in jan 2032, might have its own esu so +3 years)
>>108333896>>108333934>>108334071Okay, I will be installing Win 10 IoT LTSC Enterprise like suggested.Double checking, it seems it's the only one that supports my processor anyway.
>>108334068it looks like asus still hosts all the drivers on their website, just make sure you set category to windows xp and install anything relevant like chipset, raid, etc
>>108331380MS packaging use to have so much soul...
It's Patch Tuesday. Predict what they're gonna break this time.
>>108338414Something on 11 will do -something- stupid probably. The ESU 10 update will literally just be more security fixes, a fix for WinRE and more work on getting the secure boot keys ready to change.
why do indians have to ruin everything they touch?
>>108338414i'm on 11 23h2 and it's been a long time since anything has broken for me. i'll have to move to 24h2 in like november though.
IT'S PATCH TUESDAYLET'S GIVE IT UP FOR PATCH TUESDAY
>install 11 LTSC>install a game>open it>"We can't open this 'ms-gamingoverlay' link" pops upHow do I get rid of this?
>>108340133install the xbox and xbox game bar apps from microsoft store. you might need to install microsoft store first.
>>108340133
>>108340239nta but ty
>>108340211>>108340239Thanks but found out about https://aka.ms/GamingRepairTool and installing it removed the issue for me
fun
love oopdating
turned off updates. dont care, will only updoot whenever i feel like it
just updooted
>>108339983Oh shit, you're right
i hate that thing
They are not calling it Cumulative Update in windows 11.Update Tuesday ruined.
Windows Key + Period KeyDo it now
>.webp wallpaper support
March ESU update done. Restarted twice, so I expect it's something to do with the new secure boot keys or whateverLove how quick these updates are.
>>108342435Yeah they've been called just security updates in 11 for a while now
>>108342471Yes, I've been using that for a long time
>>108342471(◕‿◕)
>>108342557>Stop trying to make webp happen it's not going to happen
>>108342680I would happily buy a 4chan pass if it meant we got AV1 support.
I need some help. Which setting ensures Num Lock stays on? I installed Iot LTSC and it repeatedly turns it off whenever Windows enters rest mode or something like that
>>108344941Looking around it seems to be a registry value you change to make NumLock stay on through boots.>HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard>Change the value of the DWORD InitialKeyboardIndicators and set the value to 2>Change the same DWORD in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\KeyboardAlso make sure that fast boot's turned off.
>>108344972Alright I did setup InitialKeyboard to 2 but I didn’t do this DWORD thing. As soon as I get home I’ll try
Damn it feels good to be on Windows 10 Enterprise 64bit LTSC IoT 21H2 completely stripped down, de-bloated further, no Microshit account, ShutUp10++ running for de-telemtry and network blocking AND updates both security and cumulative until 2032. No AI in ANY SHAPE AND FORM whatsoever as well.Just wanted to remind doomerposters what they're missing out on.
>>108345206IoT LTSC 2021 is great for a majority of things, though I have noticed that a small selection of programs don't want to run on 21H2 for whatever reason and want 22H2 at least, but it's rare.
is KB5078885 the monthly update for windows 10?
>>108345363Yes, it's the March 2026 update.
So I've built an Asus A520M + 5600GT PC yesterday and while I was sure it didn't have support for Windows 7, enabling CSM on the BIOS allowed it to simply boot into it. USB devices don't work but somehow it's working through VGA. Is there any way to fix the USB drivers for it and somehow salvage the OS a full reinstall? Do I need a PS/2 device to use it?
>>108344941>>108344997Check BIOS/UEFI settings first.
>>108325150what is the least bothersome way to>download video from YouTube >convert said video to Midi audioI don't want to register/use token bullshit just something simple
>>108345952Downloading the audio of a video with yt-dlp and converting it to MIDI using Audacity?
>>108345975>yt-dlpsomething with GUI and something that works preferablyit just throws errors despite having latest version
>>108346077You also need the program Deno alongside it so it can decode the java strings to actually download video from Youtube properly anymore.
>>108346104I already had it bundled, for some reason it needed a system restartso now unto audacity, there is no midi option, reading comments people say Audacity is not exactly designed for this
>>108346139Huh, swear it could.There's some AI-powered sites out there that do it if you wanna check that out, otherwise you don't have much else seemingly.
How do you expect random ass audio to be turned into MIDI? No shot. Even if there is something it probably has terrible results.
>>108346139>convert to midithat's not really a thing. midi is sequenced and is generally created by hand. an automated program trying to do it would probably do a poor job. except maybe some ai thing, i guess that could possibly work.
>>108346171automatic conversion to midi has been a thing for a long time, i remember using programs for this nearly 30 years ago, the results were of course quite mixed, and usually required either inputs with clean, single-instrument compositions, or manual cleanup afterwardsi imagine there is better software to do it now, but it's a pretty niche thing so i haven't looked into what progress may have been made. naturally i stopped looking into it once i was able to download/store mp3's or better, as i'm not interested in music editing/production
When installing Windows 10 IoT LTSC, is it possible to add other keyboard types besides US after installing the US version, or is it better to install regular LTSC in my primary language, then change it to IoT and swap it to US english? I'm used to having my system in english but I don't have an US QWERTY keyboard on-hand.
>>108346411Just add a second keyboard language to your English language.on edit language and keyboard options.
>>108345861Or rather, how do I turn my entire W7 OS into an image file before reinstalling? It's about 20Gb worth of data.
>>108346551Ok thanks
>>108346578>how do I turn my entire W7 OS into an image file before reinstalling?wimcapture
I'll be using W10 until the day it becomes entirely unsustainable, however I really like the multimedia controls on the notification bar in W11.What's a good third party alternative?
>>108346898Is it better than Macrium Reflect?
>>108334383i did ! still nothing...the JMicron controller is just for the eSata port on the motherboard afaik, which i wont use Also the onboard LAN doesnt work for some reason, ive checked both windows XP and linux so im pretty sure its a hardware problem on the ASUS P5B mobo itself
>>108347505i haven't used that so i couldn't say
>>108347545could maybe try a bios update. could also see if it works in a linux live environment or a newer windows environment just for testing purposes.
I keep trying to fully commit to Linux because I like it, but 10 LTSC just werks so well it's hard to move away from it.I guess I'll just use it until it either stops working for my use cases or I upgrade my hardware.
How do I reliably disable Windows Update after getting security patches on IoT LTSC 10? Do I need to disable them or do they automatically postpone themselves for months or a year?
>>108348381first post itt
>>108348381the local group policy editor has a large section for windows updates under computer config > admin templates > windows components and for the most part however you want updates to be handled can be configured there
>>108344972Fuck
>>108345919My BIOS is different than yours. I succeeded ib turning off fast boost but
>>108345919>>108348923Not much else
>>108348930Registry edit is probably the only solution then. Not sure why you turned off Fast Boot as that won't help you with anything.
>>108348923>>108348930check every menu, sometimes they put it in a weird place.
>>108349257Okay I’ll turn fast boot again on then>>108349320Okay
>>108349332>Okay I’ll turn fast boot again on theni mean honestly it's probably better to have it off, all it ever does is cause issues when you change hardware. but other guy is right, it's unrelated to num lock.
>>108349354Alright it will stay offBut here is one thing I’m thinking about: the Num Lock is on on startup. I can go through password normally.The issue is that it gets automatically turned off ass soon as I go through that password or when it enters rest mode, stuff like that. As if the Windows defaults to turning it off.
>>108349405afaik you can only configure the post-login behavior for numlock in windows. anything pre-login has to be configured at the bios level and if it's not available in your bios you're out of luck. i'm not 100% sure about this but i had a similar problem with a very old mini-laptop i own.
>>108349424Well those already give me pointers, thanks
>>108349257>>108349320>>108349354>>108349424It's working now perfectly, thanks. I think the Fast Book was somehow glitching it, cause now after fully turning off and on it's working. Restarting wasn't making the configs go through.
What image viewer do you use? I have Irfanview set up like this. It works fine for the most part except for two things, one of which is browsing WebP files (even with the plugin, I have to manually load them. They don't appear when I'm using the arrow keys) and the images don't look as sharp as other viewers. On the other hand, those other viewers also have their issues. ImageGlass used 300-400MB of RAM while loading the same image as Irfanview, and the UI was also sluggish. I found another one called QView but it doesn't have some of the Irfanview features I use. And so on...
>>108350843nomacs dev
>>108350843Seconding nomacs dev/beta.
>>108350843nomacs
>>108350864>>108350854>>108350849yeah, seems fine for now. Thanks anons
>>108349664Lesson learned: Fast Boot ruins everything.
Is 7zip safe to download now?
>>108352638Never mind, apparently it was a fake 7zip site that was serving malware.
>>108352638If 7zip has a link hijack then I'd say it's save to download again as I don't remember the last time I heard that was a thing.
