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
Latest actual hardware for Windows XP and Windows 7Windows XPLatest Intel CPU>4th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processor (2013)Latest AMD CPU>AMD FX-9590 (2013)Latest AMD GPU>Radeon HD 7000 (2011) and R9 200 (2013) seriesLatest NVIDIA GPU>NVIDIA GeForce 900 series (2014–2015)>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti - 6 GB / GDDR5 / 384 bitWindows 7Latest Intel CPU>7th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop ProcessorLatest AMD CPU>AMD Ryzen 5000 Series (Vermeer/Zen 3) processors, ranging from the 6-core 5500 to the 16-core 5950X>5800X3D and 5950X supportLatest AMD GPU>AMD Radeon RX 5000 series, launched in July 2019Latest NVIDIA GPU>NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 Series (Ampere) GPUs, released in 2020>Starting January 16th 2023, Microsoft is no longer accepting driver submissions for WHQL certification on Windows 7>The latest Windows 7 drivers are not WHQL-certified, thus Windows cannot verify the digital signature>Nvidia drivers as just one of many drivers that produce the code 52 error since microsoft decided to revoke the older certificates.RAM>Home Premium: 16 GB of RAM>Ultimate: 192 GB of RAM>To get the latest updates for your Windows 7 installation, you can use the Simplix Pack>Simply drag and drop existing Windows 7 ISO onto downloaded UpdatePack7R2 installer (~800MB), then it will generate a patched ISOhttps://blog.simplix.info/updatepack7r2/>Firefox ESR 115 in order to use Firefoxhttps://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/115.33.0/releasenotes/>Signed NVIDIA driver for Windows 7 — 8.1>Use this if you get code 52 errorhttps://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/228705/https://github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-WIn7-Win8-Signed-Driver/releases
I love Windows
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>>108390820I haven't loved Windows since 7 but after you learn how to make 10 not shit at least you have that.
>>108390831if you ever try out the other jeet trash options out there you'll love windows again
>>108388106>>108388139>>108388239>programs clutter your file system by dumping files in Documents, Downloads, the user home folder or any combination of them instead of AppDatais there no better way of fixing this than creating your own copies of said folders?I do this too but it doesn't solve the actual problem at hand, which is that the Documents folder, which is implied to be the appropriate folder for your personal spreadsheets and tax papers, is also the folder where games dump their non human readable database files and cachesit pisses me off so much that I'm genuinely considering writing my own minifilters to force program files into AppData. I've also considered running everything through Sandboxie.more appropriate solutions would be appreciated.
>>108390918Not exactly sure what you’re doing, but you could always map a folder as a ‘drive’, and turn your SSD into say a C and D.
everybody should use ltsc
why do i have this constant need of installing old versions of windows into my old as fuck shitboxes, even though i'm aware they're not supported anymore and barely anything works
>>108392781I guess you just like installing Windows using CDs? Like the challenge?
>>108392792That's irrelevant but it adds to the experience for sure, like the last time I installed XP (~1 year ago) had to get me a USB optical drive for burning the drive and installing it. Turns out months later the optical drive came in handyI guess it's the nostalgia of going back
>>108392781i have one laptop with xp that works with legacy shit and i don't need more
>>108392781i just install them as virtual machines or for 3.1 through dosbox
>>108393014vms are nice but running on bare metal is the real experience. I remember installing OS/2, BeOS and Win2k on my Pentium II shitbox.
Winhance is a masterpiece
Wow are your windows boxes doing anons? :3I just installed Win10 on a spare i7-7700 that I have. To my surprise it activated automatically but unfortunately it's the Pro version
I like the winutil.just>irm christitus.com/win | iexin the powershell
I love... Game Boy?
>>108390820based
>>108390800pedophile
>>108394201did it have chip's challenge?
is there any way I can make gifs play in windows photo viewer? the one from windows 7using windows 10 ltsc
>>108395476You should use FastStone Image Viewer.
>>108395476just use nomacs
Win 10 ltsc won’t have problems with running stuff right? I’m planning on completely getting rid off win11 from my pc and I would try this one as a replacement.
>>108395899as long as you aren't on a 12th gen or newer intel cpu it does not currently have issues running anything, although if you want uwp functionality you need to set it up via a script that i believe is somewhere in the op.long-term, you will probably see new programs and devices that do not have baked in windows 10 support similar to the situation with windows 7. but it hasn't happened yet.
>>108395899Depends on the software itself, eventually software will drop W10 support, so you should check if that scenario is possible in your case.Some software like browsers will keep supporting it for a long time but other stuff is more annoying with it, some even require W10 22H2 so you can't use LTSC because it's stuck on 21H2
Accidentally deleted my boot partition, what do?
>>108396064get windows installation on usb stick, and you can repair it from the boot menu
>>108396090Thanks. Months ago, I made the mistake of installing Windows on a different drive after installing Linux on another drive, and Windows decided to put the boot partition on the main drive. Wasn't an issue until I just reinstalled the main OS drive. Wonder if I should disable that nvme slot in the bios before I try to fix it
>>108394250homosexual
I never should have installed Windows.
In chrome, when I play a youtube video and right click on the video player, it appears that the color shifted a bit. I thought I fucked up some color profile shit but my laptop has the same problem as well.Is this a bug?
>>108397266Do you have HDR turned on?
>>108390818AMD's RX 6000 GPUs have Windows 7 drivers.
>>108390800the amount of bondage and rape she deserves...
Thank you guys, i just installed W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021 after wiping win11 pro from my dual boot PC, now windows is not tedious to use when i need it. Much love.
>>108401874glad it's working well for you
What is the likelihood that age verification crap is backported to W10 IoT LTSC?
>>1084023690, because it's an Enterprise product, it's not the same as the consumer version
>>108401874Good for you anon. There's a chance that a certain program you use might want 22H2 instead which 2021 doesn't have (it has 21H2) but you can easily just change to 2024 if so.
>>1084040892024 would be win11
>>108404204How the cookie crumbles if you wanna use LTSC and sometimes things don't want to run on 21H2.
>>108404218just pointing it out for him
Have a few HDDs filled a lot of duplicate files. How can i sort and delete the duplicates to free up space? I hope i don't have to buy some software to solve this issue.
>>108404632https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
>>108404640Thank you.
>>108399984Nope but this happens on both non-HDR and HDR.
>>108390800uoh
>>108404632Ask gemini to generate a bash script for this scenario.
I work with a lot of files open on W10Could any anon can tell me how to reduce the file bar height so that I can fit in more of them on the screen without Windows forcing me to use the scroll at the top and bottom of the list?
Is telemetry disabled by default on win 10 ltsc? how's kernel protection on 10 compared to 11?
>>108406754No it isn't, you still need to turn it off in the registry or otherwise.11 has more kernel related protections. It's like one of the reasons it has those hardware "requirements."
>>108406754>Is telemetry disabled by default on win 10 ltsc?Nopedo this https://gist.github.com/ave9858/a2153957afb053f7d0e7ffdd6c3dcb89
I have R7 5700X and a RX 7600 should I use Win 10 or W11? I just bought a new mobo and just backed up my files but now I realized I can make a choice on the matter
>>10840693211. Just use IoT LTSC 2024.
Did something change in diskpart defaults recently?It used to set 1024 KB unallocated space at the end of the drive couple years ago but now defaults to full drive.Should I re-partition my older drives too if the new behaviour is better?
How the fuck do I disable a Task in Win10 Scheduler if the system won't let me? I got no premissions no matter what I do.
>>108390800Unironically, what is the use case for thighhigh socks?
>>108407209i'm pretty sure the 1024kb is for alignment purposes and is actually at the front of the drive. it's useful for ssds but doesn't matter for hdds. it's possible the other disks are improperly aligned or something else is going on. either way i would not try to "fix" it on the other disks, it's probably there intentionally. either way it's just one megabyte.
>>108407209>>108407897actually it seems like alignment might not be needed for gpt disks, which is most disks. it's possible the ones that have the reserved space are using mbr instead of gpt. older versions of windows might have set them as mbr automatically. supposedly (according to llms, take with a grain of salt) gpt doesn't require this.
>>108407543run mmc as admin and add the snap-in that way. sometimes mmc snapins like task scheduler have issues acquiring admin permissions if they are run directly. i assume that's probably what's happening.
>>108407935It just says that I have no permissions even as admin. Even tried to use PsExec to run it but that tool just keep throwing errors and won't work either. Tried to delete tasks from regedit too but they just magically reappear after restart. This shit is worse than malware.
>>108408006if admin doesn't work it probably has trustedinstaller privileges and you'd need to search for how to reassign them or how to gain that privilege yourself. typically this is done for things that microsoft thinks will damage your system if you change but considering their track record lately use your own judgment.
>>108407916Yea seems to be something about MBR compatibility, even in GPT modeI tried switching to MBR and back to GPT and it created a partition with 1024KB free spaceThen I CLEANed the drive and created full partition againMaybe some compatbility flags are being set on conversion that are not set when creating pure GPT
>>108407624absolute zones, duh
Hey guys. I'm trying to switch from Nobara to Win10 LTSC. I used Ventoy to make a bootable USB. I got an error message. Can anyone help me out? .Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."3. Click "Repair your computer"If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.File: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCDStatus: 0xc000014cInfo: the Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.
>>108404632Another option is dupeguru, which has more options. For something simple, you can use WizTree. Just select what you want to compare, and view duplicates in the file tab.
>>108410733Dupeguru and czkawka are pretty much always recommended together when it comes to dupe finding programs.
>>108392781i do not have beige box carage
I imagine this would be a shitty question, but I'll try... what web browser do you guys use in 2026?I used to surf with Firefox since I was a teen, then it went to shit and I started using Chrome, but fuck Google so after years I went back to Mozilla, but it always crashes on me.I started using Edge at work, not really bad overall imho but I'm not sure concerning privacy.I'm trying DuckDuckGo browser, is it good or do people generally prefer Brave over it?What do (You) use?Thanks...
>>108413000To add, which one of the bunch has better built in adblocking that actually works (mandatory for youtube)?
>>108413000Firefox is still the one to go with if you want to truly own your web browsing. The best current chromium browser you should use is Brave with its very powerful in-built content blocker (which you can even add UBO to if you want from their own servers.) It's either/or IMO, Don't ever think about using Chrome or Edge if you don't want to feel like a product.
Do I need to close Chrome, Firefox, Spotify and other few programs before I start a game?
>>108413089Do you have like no RAM at all?
>>108413121I have 32 GB basterd bitch.
>>108413127Then no you don't need to turn off programs to play a game, "basterd bitch"
>>108413130What about CPU? Don't Chrome and Firefox use a lot of CPU?
>>108401432Elaborate, post sauce
>>108413000every browser sucks to some degree, firefox (despite mozilla's best efforts) sucks the least. the main problem with firefox is them adding shit nobody wants or removing/rearranging ui shit to make it worse.
>>108413000if you want something chromium-based, i'd recommend ungoogled chromium combined combined with something like chrlauncher (or whatever solution you prefer) to get auto updates and the chromium web store extension since ungoogled disables those features by default (and i think they're useful).
>>108413000firefox with betterfox's user.js and ublock origin is pretty much the best browsing experience you can have right now
I just bought a lenovo thinkbook 16 G9 AHP and installed windows 10 on it using media creation tool from my old pc. It doesn't have wifi drivers, and the lenovo website only lists downloads for windows 11. What do I do? Device manager says the adapter is realtek.
>>108413848to start with, try the windows 11 ones and see if they work anyway
>>108413878This. Try the 11 drivers first. If they work, great. If not, you'll need to use 11 to actually use wifi properly on that laptop.
