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FAQ:
>How do I activate Windows?
HWID2 generates and registers a permanent legitimate license on MS's activation servers
github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Usage: paste this into Powershell, run.
irm https://get.activated.win | iex


>and Office?
Same link, select Ohook option
You can also use Office.com if your needs are very minimal
or try OnlyOffice/LibreOffice and set it to save in MSOffice file formats

>What version should I install?
>W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
Binary identical to Enterprise except no MS Store or apps
Preinstalled with: Edge & Win32 system apps
"IoT LTSC" supported until 2032, "LTSC" until 2027

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

>W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2027
Same as 2024 version except:
UI being rewritten in native WinUI
ETA: 2027H2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Previously on /fwt/: >>108806545
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>>108853163
me in the pic
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ltsc works fine
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>>108853163
dont do that ya slut
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>>108853997
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>>108836431
>Can Process Governor completely stop estrogen cores in hybrid processors?
Bump
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where Sophie?
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Is base 11 really as bad as everyone is saying?
I never had any problems with base 10 even though everyone back then despised it
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>>108855465
Both base 11 and base 10 are dogshit on the merit of having a whole bunch of superfluous bullshit included by default. It's something everyone moaning about Win11 loves to forget as it invalidates their eternal bitching.

Win10's OOBE is as bad as 11's. 10's OOBE coerces you into using an MS account much like 11's. 10 is shat up with useless programs and annoying bullshit like the taskbar weather widget, much like 11. So many complaints people have about 11 apply to 10, yet they memory hole that fact since actually remembering this shit and being objective is not the currently trendy thing to do. Endlessly kvetching about 11 and circlejerking about how Valve will kill Windows with SteamOS or whatever the fuck is.
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>>108855465
W10s gui at least isn't vibecoded jeet shit
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I love Windows!
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I love TPU's articles. For once, they write about a positive change in Windows rather than circlejerking about another non-issue. People in the comments still complain.

I swear these "people" want for Windows to simply evaporate overnight, but then they'd bitch about losing a thing to bitch about. Bitch bitch bitch, that's all people care about nowadays, endless bitching.
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>>108855918
remove the webui garbage
remove the big ass start menu
remove the shit ass taskbar
remove the control panel
remove the ads
remove the spyware
remove the default apps
remove the edge web runtime
remove the gaming overlay
remove the xbox game bar
remove the xbox connect thing
remove all the other web gpu acceleration crap from the gui
remove the wallpaper compression
remove the default start up apps
remove gpu driver updates from windows update
remove the account login from windows
remove the file association dialog
remove the new default apps page
remove onedriver
remove the notifications and pop ups
replace everything that got removed with a prior or better version that has been part of windows at some point already
add a windows 7 or 10 style menu
add a windows 7 or 10 style taskbar
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>>108855963
>go back to Windows 7
>I want to use Windows 7
>wtf what do you mean you're not regressing over fifteen years of code to satisfy my needs
>waaaaah microslop sucks 11 sucks linuxmasterrace also i wont switch to linux unless valve releases steamos
>bitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitchbitch
You can't win with retarded faggots.
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>>108855971
you can write new code to make a good looking and working start menu and taskbar. there is no rule that dictates that with new code you get a shit start menu and taskbar. are you retarded?
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>>108855979
That entire bitch list is asking for the impossible. Especially the eternal "remove the spyware". Yet no one who bitches about that points to what data is exactly harvested and sent despite it being more than possible to check.

Like, I don't know what to say, you'd think that you'd get the gist that we're not going back to 2009 no matter how hard we want to and we have to deal with compromises but no, people are this immature and still throw a temper tantrum over the world changing for the worse and refusing to accept that reality. The Windows division actually doing something positive despite the pressure from the top is still a huge plus yet clearly people will never be happy, so it's really fucking commendable of Microsoft for even trying when no matter what they'll do people'll want to see them fail.
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>>108856000
>That entire bitch list is asking for the impossible.
is a performant operating system that doesn't annoy the user lost tech now?
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>>108856000
>people'll want to see them fail
they gave enough people reasons for wanting that. it's a self made problem. you reap what you sow.
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>>108856007
If you truly gave a shit about that as the #1 priority you would've moved to Linux by now, compromises be damned. You'd accept that you need to debloat Windows, you'd accept that the telemetry is there to stay, and you'd swallow the bitter pill that you're not going back to pre-Nadella Windows. Yeah, Microsoft collects a fuckton of data about what you click to basically do QA testing in production. Don't like it, stay on 7/8.1 or again, there are other options if it's this important to you.

Seriously, if you're still daily driving Windows only to bitch and moan about how bad it is and refusing to move to an alternative, you're just a mindbroken masochist.

>>108856030
Sure, but at this point I do believe people are completely deranged and are desperate to see blood. No matter what the Windows division does now to rectify their fuckups, as late as they're doing them, people'll still hate them and brag about how Linux is so much superior, while either a) still using Windows despite claiming Linux is so much better or b) using Linux and still religiously following Windows news despite the supposed superiority. I don't know, I think after the COVID lockdowns people just went fully insane and need a 24/7 feed of hate to feel alive.
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>>108856038
>If you truly gave a shit about that as the #1 priority you would've moved to Linux by now, compromises be damned. You'd accept that you need to debloat Windows, you'd accept that the telemetry is there to stay, and you'd swallow the bitter pill that you're not going back to pre-Nadella Windows. Yeah, Microsoft collects a fuckton of data about what you click to basically do QA testing in production. Don't like it, stay on 7/8.1 or again, there are other options if it's this important to you.
>
>Seriously, if you're still daily driving Windows only to bitch and moan about how bad it is and refusing to move to an alternative, you're just a mindbroken masochist.
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>>108856038
>Sure, but at this point I do believe people are completely deranged and are desperate to see blood. No matter what the Windows division does now to rectify their fuckups, as late as they're doing them, people'll still hate them and brag about how Linux is so much superior, while either a) still using Windows despite claiming Linux is so much better or b) using Linux and still religiously following Windows news despite the supposed superiority. I don't know, I think after the COVID lockdowns people just went fully insane and need a 24/7 feed of hate to feel alive.
if they made those changes >>108855963 (maybe reduce the telemtry and give you a toggle that goes from a bit to just send everything). everyone would love them. windows 11 runs faster on old machines with this kb4206969 update? we love microsoft now! new and better ui that doesn't take all of your vram on your 8gb gpu? we love microsoft! those are all low hanging fruits since those are all the changes they do with every new windows version. they can clearly make those changes without breaking anything.
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>>108856055
>Linuxfag daily driving Fedora
>residing in /fwt/ bitching about Windows
Thanks for proving my point. People who bitch about Windows the most are people who use it the least, and only do so because they have a need to feel mad about something 24/7.

Also if Linux was truly this superior you wouldn't have a need to shit up Friendly Windows Thread like this. You wouldn't have a need to think about Windows at all. If you're already using a superior OS, why would you think about the inferior options at all? Let alone continuously start flamewars in threads about them? That's just subhuman behavior.
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>>108856067
i use both nigga.
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>>108856071
Actually, (You) being a Kraut explains everything. You just have a need to be butthurt about everything all the time. Butthurt about Windows. Butthurt about Russia. Butthurt about Poland. Butthurt about your own country. Eternal butthurt defines your nation, hence your need to do this shit.
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>>108856075
so you are just projecting now?
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>>108856078
No, I'm coming to a conclusion I'm wasting my time on an Untermensch ape that's still butthurt over losing two world wars.
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>>108856088
yeah sure. first you say
>>108856038
>If you truly gave a shit about that as the #1 priority you would've moved to Linux by now, compromises be damned. You'd accept that you need to debloat Windows, you'd accept that the telemetry is there to stay, and you'd swallow the bitter pill that you're not going back to pre-Nadella Windows. Yeah, Microsoft collects a fuckton of data about what you click to basically do QA testing in production. Don't like it, stay on 7/8.1 or again, there are other options if it's this important to you.
and then you start coping when i actually use both linux and windows. i just saw your post while i was scrolling the catalog. just because someone always shits up the fwt doesn't mean that it is me all the time. could just mean that people don't really like windows and all the changes that have been made for the worse.
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>>108856110
>could just mean that people don't really like windows and all the changes that have been made for the worse
But then bitching whenever they do even the modicum of positive change is perfectly normal, yes? Credit where credit's due, even if it's not much at least it's a sign that they want to improve rather than perpetually circle the drain. Only people like (You) who have a need to be eternally mad would bitch about that.
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>>108856120
so they made some good changes but they didn't fix anything that people have been complaining about since windows 10 got released? oh why would people be still salty about that? how come? if they want any tips to implement right now they can just look into the comments section of those articles to see what else everyone wants instead of just closing their ears and acting like it's not a problem. they still reap what they sow. like they don't even acknowledge the issues or complaints they are getting. they implement changes that they think are important and then complain when the users don't care about those.
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>>108856120
>Only people like (You) who have a need to be eternally mad would bitch about that.
i didn't bitch about windows xp or 7 so that can't be it. geat something new.
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>>108855971
>go back to Windows 7
The wise among us never left.
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>>108856038
>I don't know, I think after the COVID lockdowns people just went fully insane and need a 24/7 feed of hate to feel alive.
I don't agree with anything else you said, but I think you're onto something here.
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>>108855457
yes i personally redirect background apps and some services to E cores and everything else to P
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How to hack Windows 10 to use WiFi 7?
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>>108856786
If there was a "hack" to do that it would be very well known, so no that doesn't exist.
You want WiFi 7 you need to install 11. Use IoT LTSC 2024.
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>>108856786
Windows 10 doesn't even fully support Wifi 6E, it falls back to WiFi 6 speed.
Don't think about it.
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I like how light Edge is. I would keep using LibreWolf but it's ass when even watching streams. Is there anything like Edge but open sourced?
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Woooooo, one more thing nobody asked for that you cannot uninstall by default.
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>>108857372
It's a thing that UWPs use.
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>>108857381
Well, first time I see it in the Store/Installed Apps section, instantly nuked it and everything UWP related seems to work fine.
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man remember win10 2015?
>fast as fuck, core2 could easily run it
>no ms account requirement
I used to say: "if only ms took win8's tile ui and make it truly desktop centered, that'd be awesome"
and that's exactly what they did
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>wanting more tiles unironically
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I bet Microsoft is furious that people still have an expectation of privacy and ownership over Windows. They look on at Android and iOS, locked down platforms that disallow you from putting anything else on that hardware and how everything you do on them is beamed home, and think it's unfair that people give those a free pass but Microsoft gets flack for trying to do the same thing on PC.
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>>108858331
They set the precedent.
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>>108856524
What works better, E cores or HT on the P cores?
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>>108855462
Miss S!
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>>108858566
i don't have a good grasp on how task schedulers work and how it handles hyper-threading but intrinsically i felt like it'd give less interruptions and load to P cores. E cores are performant enough [even by latency (emprically)] and plenty so i assign tasks with low priority to them.
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How do I remove the 256 character limit for folder addresses and PATH variables in Win10?
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>>108858841
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
>Change the DWORD LongPathsEnabled to 1 (if it's not there, add it.)
>Restart
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>>108858750
Do I have to intentionally assign tasks to the E cores?
Wouldn't additional threads just flow over to them once the P cores become occupied or are you saying that they'd try and stack onto the SMT of the P cores and erode their thermal envelope and memory bandwidth?

How does a Windows 7 virtual machine address hybrid processors?
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>>108858870
Windows 7 doesn't know what an e-core is so they're just treated like p-cores.
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>>108858857
It already exists and already is at 1
FUCK
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>>108858956
That's one fucking long filename you wanna use, anon-chan
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>>108853163
>>108856038
>>108856055
What is it about Windows that makes NVIDIA be able to write >= decent drivers for it but the linux ones completely suck ass and make a 5090 stutter worse than an intel gpu a tenth the price?
Else anyone knows how to profile/debug/reverse linux drivers? Finding no answer for that question when it is the #1 current technical reason people won't use linux(the others being even worse than windows' HDR support and the shitty debugger tools and GNU's reliance on satanic AT&T syntax)
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>>108859048
makes me wonder why things are this way
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>>108858886
Can I use Process Governor to force the VM software to use only P cores?
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>>108858870
>Wouldn't additional threads just flow over to them once the P cores become occupied..
i noticed that windows can achieve steering of cores pretty well on ms apps and browsers but for desktop apps i've seen a lot issues reported. i believe it's because it has to profile the behavior of the software first

>or are you saying that they'd try and stack onto the SMT of the P cores and erode their thermal envelope and memory bandwidth?
i don't data to support this claim but i think it is sensible to think that

>>108859171
yes you can but as a heads up note that E cores don't have hyperthreading just in case you accidentally assign P cores.
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>>108859048
impossible, nouveau is the best attempt and they're failing at it, nvidia doesn't care about gaymers or the linux desktop, only cares about gpgpu and ai sloppa because that's what give them moneys
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>>108859450
>yes you can but as a heads up note that E cores don't have hyperthreading just in case you accidentally assign P cores
I don't understand.
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>>108859171
idk but at worst you can disable cores(or more technically accurately never use them) in msconfig(but it's only sequential from 0) or use software like Process Lasso to manage cores instead of Windows itself.
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>>108859478
sorry wrong context it's the other way around but do make sure you don't omit P cores
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>>108859478
What that anon means is that since p-cores have hyper threading then 1 p-core is listed as 2, contrary to the e-core which is listed as 1
>Ex.: 4 p-cores, 4 e-cores
If you assign core number 5 then you're effectively assigning the first thread of the third p-core
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>>108859495
How much more power do idling E cores consume than an 11th gen hexacore?

>>108859541
Oh, I get it.
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So what the most lightweight win10 you can realistically get by cutting off as many apps and services as possible while still maintaining functionality?
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>>108859632
when turned off via OS or motherboard(same outcome) they just end up in a permanent HALT state, i would assume the CPU then automatically goes through the c-states cascade until the lowest power state possible but i'm not aware of any official proof of this
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>>108859812
for clarification, idling cores are in the HALT state by the way.
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Can I repair my Windows 10 installation that got broken (can't go past mobo manufacturer screen on boot before getting "IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED") by faulty RAM and BSODs with a bootable Windows installation USB drive or should I just format/install windows on a different drive and just move my stuff there?
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>>108860017
Boot up with one ram stick only?
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>>108860029
No no, I didn't explain myself clearly, my bad. The RAM is fixed now, it's just that the windows install got corrupted before so now even though the hardware is fine I can't boot into it, I tried the default recovery options but of course they didn't work. I still have the original Windows install drive I used so I was wondering if maybe I could use that to repair it
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>>108860066
The windows install can repair the win32 folder but your personal files are outside of there are gone
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>>108860110
That's formatting right? I was wondering if there was a way to just repair the installation without deleting the personal files. Isn't that an option? I'm not too tech savvy in this regard, I'm not quite getting it
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>>108858331
that why Gates still hates Balmer for fumbling Windows Phone
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>>108853163
>Azure Linux 4.o
Ok, /g/, what am I in for?
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>>108860151
Pick Keep my files, as I said windows can repair itself. But if you truly had ram corruption then your personal files are donezo cant trust those files.
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>>108860371
>Pick Keep my files
Do you know which of "my files" does it keep? First time doing this
>personal files are donezo
Oh no, the files other than windows are a OK, I can access them just fine in the hard drive from a different OS install. I think I got really lucky
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>>108860017
you can follow these tutorials:
1) https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html
2) https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7808-use-dism-repair-windows-10-image.html#option1s6
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>>108860956
Thank you, I'll give this all a read, I am assuming I don't need to be able to boot into windows right? Because right now I can't
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>>108860973
yep you can use the command prompt included in that installation medium for the 2nd tutorial
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>>108860984
Thank you, so hopefully not all is lost, I will not format the drive then, and I'll play some vidya with my other Windows install while I learn how to do this, I really REALLY don't want to mess it up. You got any other general tips you wanna give me bro?
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>>108861249
well it is usually a very straightforward process and i'm pretty sure it can't mess anything up as long as the source media is good

worst case scenario is that you have to make another user profile in case the registry is fucked up
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>>108855465
Kinda? If you use a Microsoft account you'll get some ads in the settings menu
There are some third party ads in the start menu (links to ms store, for me it was whatsapp, linkedin and insta)
There's also ms copilot
Otherwise it's like ltsc

The only thing missing is some gpo policies, like the telemetry gpo, disabling telemetry only works with enterprise and edu editions
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>>108861353
Ok thank you, I'm kind of retarded but very thorough when looking these things up, so I don't do anything unless I am 100% sure. Hopefully it's easy to not mess up
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>>108859812
Does that mean due to SpeedStep that they sit at 100MHz?
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How the fuck do I clean this shit up?
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>>108862085
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/clean-up-the-winsxs-folder?view=windows-11
>From an elevated command prompt, run:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase

>Cleans up the superseded components and reduces the size of the component store. Use /ResetBase to reset the base of superseded components, which can further reduce the component store size. Installed Windows updates can’t be uninstalled after running /StartComponentCleanup with the /ResetBase option



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