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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

>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/: >>109741807
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where Sophie?
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>>109789331
If you're going to attach gachaslop at least use appealing fanart instead of esoteric shit that requires brain damage to appreciate.
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>>109789331
I still don't understand why /fwt/ is so interested in blue archive chibi. Literally SNCA
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>>109789517
>I still don't understand why /fwt/ is so interested in blue archive chibi
brown OP
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Hey /fwt/. I was verifying something and noticed that some of my group policies were different from how I set them up, so I set them up again and upon double-checking after a reboot it turns out that they sometimes just change by themselves. Is the interface just broken or is there something wrong with some group policies? Here's a list of the affected policies
>Can changes (not always) after rebooting
Allow Cloud Search > Enabled > Disable Cloud Search > Changes to Disabled
Choose drive encryption method and cipher strength > AES 256-bit > Changes to AES 128-bit with Diffuser
Let Windows apps run in the background > Enabled > Force Deny > Changes to User is in control
Set what information is shared in Search > Enabled > Anonymous info > Changes to User info and location
>Can also changes immediately if I configure another policy
Choose drive encryption method and cipher strength > AES 256-bit > Changes to AES 128-bit with Diffuser
Configure Default Consent > Enabled > Always ask before sending data > Changes to Not Configured
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>>109789801
i am assuming you are using Windows 11 aids edition.
ordered as in your post:
>this is correct. "Disabled" is the same as "Disable Cloud Search"
>there are 3 of these. the only one with a mention of Diffuser is "Supported on: Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista"
>idk about this one. if i remember to check ill keep up on it. applying pattern recognition tho. "Supported on: At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10". This is ambiguous in that it might not mean "At least Windows 10" instead meaning "Only Windows 10 and at least Windows Server 2016".
>"Not supported on Windows 10 or later"
>there are 3 of these. the only one with a mention of Diffuser is "Supported on: Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista"
>"Supported on: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista only"
>>
Thinking of giving win11 a try, any recommendations on programs or tips and tricks? Any order of operations stuff I should I know?
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>>109791109
>this is correct. "Disabled" is the same as "Disable Cloud Search"
Are you sure about that? I thought it'd be the same as not configured or fall back to the default behavior. Otherwise what's the point of having the "Disable Cloud Search" option in the drop-down menu when enabling it?
>>idk about this one.
I'm on 10 iot ltsc
>Supported on: Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista
>"Not supported on Windows 10 or later"
Oh damn even when copy pasting the policy it didn't occur to me that I was using the wrong one.
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What's a good partition management/formating program? Right now I use MiniTool Partition Wizard but wondering if anything is better
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has anyone tried some kind of tiling manager on windows? what are your thoughts?
something like
https://github.com/FancyWM/fancywm
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I bickered about with free Claude Code, Gemini and local Qwen 3.8 to shit out a piece of Powershell code that will change the Windows Terminal title bar if it "detects" that it's a Quake mode window, so that GlazeWM can ignore it. Because Microsoft is retarded, there's no way for you to filter out the Quake mode window with standard Win32 methods as it's virutally the same with the same "CASCADIA_HOSTING_WINDOW_CLASS" name and no one feels like changing it, so the workaround was to make Powershell rename the window depending on whether or not a titlebar is present, which isn't perfect and doesn't work if you always hide it, but it's good enough. I don't do tabbing with GlazeWM anyway so it's a non-issue for me but it could be a little better.
>>109792327
GlazeWM is a little janky and a bit unmaintained so I manually merged a few pull requests I deemed useful and it's alright
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The code snippet cuz 2 long
  if (-not ("TitleBarPresent.NativeMethods" -as [type])) {
$TitleBarPresent = Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class TitleBarPresent {
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "GetWindowLongPtr", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr GetWindowLongPtr(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex);

[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "GetWindowLong", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern int GetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex);

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();

public static bool HasCaption(IntPtr hWnd) {
long style = (IntPtr.Size == 8) ? (long)GetWindowLongPtr(hWnd, -16) : (long)GetWindowLong(hWnd, -16);
long WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000L;
return (style & WS_CAPTION) == WS_CAPTION;
}
}
"@ -PassThru
}

$hWnd = $TitleBarPresent::GetForegroundWindow()
$hasCaption = $TitleBarPresent::HasCaption($hWnd)

$user = "$env:username@$env:computername"
$adminPrefix = if ($isAdmin) { "[ADMIN] " } else { "" }
$pwshWindowTitle ="$adminPrefix$user"

$Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = switch ($hasCaption) {
$false { "Quake Mode - $pwshWindowTitle" }
$true { $pwshWindowTitle }
default { $pwshWindowTitle }
}
if ($false -eq $hasCaption) {
Set-Location ~
}

The Set-Location bit is a workaround for the Quake mode window to not start in system32
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>>109791717
no im not :p. its group policy; it can be vague and what it actually disables is ambiguous. does cloud search work with it set to "Disabled"?
why does the encryption one set to diffuser anyway? thats not default, maybe its because it happens to be the first field in the drop down. idk. microsoft be microsoftin'
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>>109791699
everything search, ear trumpet, wiztree
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>>109794946
I feel it's mandatory to also use EverythingToolbar as well so you can fully replace Windows Search with it.
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>>109794786
neat
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>>109789331
>>W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2027
>Same as 2024 version except:
>UI being rewritten in native WinUI
is this a good thing? should
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Built a new pc, formatting a usb atm, if my main purpose is gaming, should i be going with some version of windows 11 for current and future windows 11 locked features
>DirectStorage, Auto HDR, and graphicsdriver should amd follow suit with Nvidia ending support this/next october
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>>109795675
Just use the latest ISO that includes 11 Enterprise or use IoT LTSC 2024.
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>>109795682
Are all of the enterprise editions ad free or just IoT LTSC?
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Trying out Win 11 for the first time, the issue i'm having is all the drivers from my motherboards manufacturers site will load up a box like then disappear. They aren't getting installed. What could be the cause of this?
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>>109795799
>drivers
Use Windows Update for that.
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>>109795855
So just install my GPU driver and let windows update handle the rest? I don't need to install chopset drivers or anything anymore?
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>>109789484
Arona teaching Plana not to give Sensei the good pulls. Shrimple as.
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>>109795788
IoT LTSC is an enterprise edition. And no the kind of stuff like that you'd see in Home or Pro isn't in enterprise editions.
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>>109795682
Downloaded the latest regular enterprise
>Usage: paste this into Powershell, run.
>all it does is reset the 90 day counter
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>>109796467
Did you get the evaluation version? Don't do that.
Gues the latest 11 Business ISO from the massgrave repo.
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>>109796497
Honestly not sure, grabbed it from the Microsoft website cuz I didnt see any links in op
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>>109796508
So yes you installed the evaluation version. Reinstall with a massgrave repo ISO.
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I installed those modded Solidigm NVMe drivers and I feel like my system is snappier? idk maybe now that it runs on a proper NVMe connection it is.
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how the fuck do i remove all windows telemetry, bloatware, spyware and other CIAshit easily on my fresh windows installation ?
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>>109797989
>Use a local account
>Use Enterprise/Education
>Use a tool like ShutUp10 to mass set group policy registry edits that disable a very vast majority of the telemetry (besides the kinds that lets Windows Update work)
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>>109797989
Disconnect from internet
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>>109798084
and bloatware ?
>>109798107
CIA doesn't own the internet.
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>>109798210
The "bloatware" that comes with Home/Pro doesn't come with Enterprise/Education, but you can still remove first party stuff with many tools.
You can also just use IoT LTSC 2021/2024 to basically install Windows with almost nothing included.
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>>109798236
and these things won't reappear after I update Windows ?
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>>109798258
It's rare when an update adds something, and you can usually remove it anyway if you care that much.
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https://github.com/ddeverill/SteamlessController
Neat, might grab one next year once they're in stock and I have some money to spend. Been looking for a nicer controller than the stock Xbox one that I have, all the chinkshit alternatives are meh and the one thing I hate about the Steam Controller is it's dependency on Steam running in the background. But now that there are software projects like this? I dunno, seems more appealing.
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>>109798290
I couldn't get into the steam controller, I need joysticks
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Switched to 11 from 10 IoT LTSC. 11 feels really snappy so far but it has a few UI things that are insane to me. Like, I cant remove the network and volume icons from the system tray? Also the screen capture tool seems overly complex compared to just copying the whole screen when you hit print screen like it did in 10.

I also don't understand what's people issues with Win 11 search, seems to work the same way it did on 10 unless i'm missing a use case here.
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WTF, BROS. I just learned about Microsoft PowerTools, and it's so good! Why the fuck doesn't it come by default? Why isn't it more popular that I just learned about it now?
This thing has features to keep a window always on top, to do OCR, to show shortcut lists, to show a command palette, to show a colorpicker, and more.
Why doesn't Microsoft package it in all Windows ISOs by default?
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Whats the best way to fully fix task manager without nuking windows? sfc scannow and the dsim restore commands havent worked. Not sure what i did but certain parts of task manager are blanked out and empty. It's not too big of a deal but I don't know if something deeper is wrong. I've just left it alone for now and everything works.
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>>109801262
PowerToys*
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>>109801262
>>109801498
I asked AI and it told me because those basic features are for "power users" and the great majority "would never need it", even though they're features that come by default with Linux / KDE.
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>>109794957
I've been using Everything for years and only now found out about this because of you and I love it, thanks anon
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>>109801506
And it's true.
The great majority would never need it.
OCR? Just use Google Lens.
Always on top? Why would I ever need it.
Command palette? Never hear of that.
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I love Windows!
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I am going to try and get 10ltsc going, its the only way ill keep using windows for the next few years, im not buying a new pc to run 11 and desu i dont even want to rufus 11 at this point. 10 will do until my pc breaks of its own accord.
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>>109802397
Keep in mind that if you have modern parts you should probably be using IoT LTSC 2024 instead because modern parts don't really work with 10 much anymore, or at least soon.
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>>109802397
>>109802900
Yeah no point going 10 it's already EOL. It's like using Windows 8 when the world moved to 10.
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>>109803144
I mean GAC 10 isn't EoL yet because of ESU keeping it going until late 2028.
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>>109800971
Does 11 IoT have that copilot recall shit or is it not a thing in IoT? Does it take more space than 10 IoT after updates?
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Hello guys. Is BsoD really that bad? It just happened to me while I left my laptop on sleep and it running like 5 apps.
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>>109803281
Getting a BSOD just means that something went wrong. You can learn what it was via the error code.
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>>109802055
I do too, I just wish it wasn't riddled with spyware and poor UI decisions. If they produced something with the usability and aesthetics of WinXP I'd pay a lot of money for that. (and I've never given microsoft a dime)
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>>109802900
Source?
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>>109803347
It's just what I've been seeing/hearing. Nvidia cards for example won't get new drivers past a point if you're using 10 still.
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>>109803354
Yeah, that's true, but it's a choice they're making more than a necessity. Overall, it comes down to making more money, no matter how you look at it.
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>>109789331
Bros? The install guide has no pics?
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How the fuck have they not fixed the "Defender is off" notification bug?
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>>109803723
Is this an 11 bug? On 10 ESU and I haven't seen that.
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>>109803728
I'm getting it on 10 Enterprise ESU
Some Anons were getting it last month but I've only started seeing it after the latest monthly updoot
It's just a notification that pops once every time your boot Windows so it's not the end of the world, but it's still annoying
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>>109803750
I haven't updated in 3 months. Good reason to keep ignoring them then.
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>>109803750
I'm on 10 Enterprise ESU as well, so I wonder why it's never happened to me?
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Anons, what path should I install games to if I only have C drive? C:\Games? I'm sorry if it's a stupid question, I heard something about permission issues on system disks so I'm really not sure
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>>109804205
C:\Games is fine. If a game comes with an installer they will often default to C:\Program Files (or Program Files (x86)) but just make sure to run the installer as an administrator and nothing adverse really happens. Installers hang up or get stuck if you don't run as admin in Program Files, but you shouldn't have issues with just porting over games to C:\Games.

Eventually though try to move your games and other major files to a spare internal D drive acting as a storage as it will help the performance of your main C drive significantly. I have a 1 TB SSD for C drive and a 4 TB SSD for D drive but you probably don't need that much storage unless you play a lot of big games, but for that your GPU and processor and RAM matter more too.
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Is there basically nothing you can optimize anymore in terms of shutting down processes if you already use shutup10? I tried doing the tecpview and wireshark thing and I didn't get how to use wireshark that much and in tcpview I found nothing really being sent
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>>109804865
Why do you care so much about shutting down processes?
Do you shutdown your PC more than once per day?
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>>109801262
half of those are covered by AHK or ShareX
cool that you're enjoying them but I question why they even exist at all
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>>109803723
happens on regular windows 11 as well
man windows 11 really has a lot of silly amateurish bugs
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>>109803366
it's pretty much to force people to stop using windows 10. they did the exact same thing with windows 7. the most annoying thing was making windows 7 borderline impossible to install on newer hardware. they're pretty much doing the same thing with windows 10 now, the intel rapid storage drivers don't seem to work when installing windows 10 now so you can't locate your drivers when installing the newest intel cpus/chipsets apparently
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>>109804328
Thank you!
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>>109803144
>Yeah no point going 10 it's already EOL. It's like using Windows 8 when the world moved to 10.
I'm probably going to use windows 10 iot ltsc at least to 2032, or until I have a program I need to use that won't work with windows 10. though I sorta doubt that'll happen
it's just ridiculous how much snappier and quicker windows 10 is compared to windows 11, especially on older hardware. it always surprises me when I use a pc with windows 10
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>>109801779
I use panel cleaner for ocr'ing manga, works great
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????
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>>109805349
Most patch/crack software KeyGens etc gives you a virus warning because it technically *is* a hacking tool. I never ran into programs with Windows Defender when using the PowerShell command
>irm https://get.activated.win | iex
this one
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And if you're paranoid just use Rufus to make a Windows To Go of the version you want, unplug your SSD, boot into Windows To Go, activate from there. No script ever run on your main machine or main drive and the activation persists
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>>109805349
The file you download from their website directly has a hash that's shot down by Defender. This is why they tell you to use the admin powershell command because it gives it a random hash that Defender won't get pissy at. If you want to use the manual zip then you need to disable Defender before running it.
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Is there a secret to make Night Light remember my settings? I have 3 monitors and everyday when I wake my computer from Hibernate at least 1 (at random) will not have Night Light applied. Going into the menu and turning the toggle off and back on fixes it, would be nice if it just worked. Windows 11 Pro 26200
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>>109806551
use flux
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>>109805359
>>109805437
yeah but i had that file on my pc for literal years and just now it gets flagged?
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>>109807397
The hash might've just been added to its database recently who knows?
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I'm tired of formatting and reinstalling but how else can I clean out old system files?
>>
Any alternatives to HDR calibration on W11 Enterprise?
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I'm thinking of installing win10 LTSC on a thinkpad with win11 I have.
Is that retarded ?
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>>109808436
The real question is why would you?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
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For hours I've had a high CPU usage in Microsoft Windows Search Indexer and Protocol Host, it's taking 20% of my CPU usage wether I'm doing something else or not. Even with everything else closed it's 40% of my ram usage. What is this?
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>>109810639
try doing: start >type indexing options > advanced > rebuild. you probably have corrupted index.
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>>109808436
disk cleanup, trim, StartComponentCleanup in cmd
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>>109808726
Games usually have a HDR calibration screen. I know Baldurs Gate 3 & Horizon have them. Neither have DRM. Use your eyes to adjust the settings until it looks good.
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>>109809105
They are basically the same OS except one has less features
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>>109810671
It's stuck at 659411 items
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>>109751820
fixed
>>109803645
updooted
https://pastebin.com/dpLNADgT
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>>109811742
Thanks bro... err kind of unrelated but my brother saw me doing the mumbo jumbo to activate Office and he wondered if that works for MAC or if there is a method like that. His notebook is a mac
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>>109811866
>mac
found your problem
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>>109811742
Cute pic but I always use MS Paint-Chan, including the classic and ribbon versions. She should be happy.
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>>109810639
>>109810671
I tried this, stopping the app, restarting it through "services", restarting the pc... It keeps doing it
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>>109789331
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABsMn5b9Lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABsMn5b9Lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABsMn5b9Lw
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>>109813374
Nothing stop you from using Windows 7 in 2032 let alone 10
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>>109789331
>fell for the 10 IoT LTSC meme
>21H2
>docker wants 22H2, can't install any programs that rely on docker
fuck you guys
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>>109814682
Wait really?
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>>109814682
use better docker
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>>109814682
But isn't WSL how most people use docker?
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>>109814756
>>109814769
docker dropped support for 21H2 years ago apparently.
I searched the web and found a way to get it installed nonetheless, it involves changing your windows version in the registry. I also had to install WSL from github and its components >wsl.exe --install --no-distribution
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>>109814769
I couldn't get Docker going no matter what because it kept fussing about something irrelevant. No such issues on my Proxmox box, it doesn't care it's double containerized or anything.
Windows just isn't a good platform for these sorts of things. It's great for many things but not for this.
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https://www.cablematters.com/pc-1177-137-usb-30-data-transfer-cable.aspx
Gonna be picking this up tomorrow. It's recommended by Christian Ghisler for use with Total Commander's USB port function so it should give me the ability to transfer files between two Windows computers completely offline, from Windows 95 to Windows 11. I do wonder if there's software that supports these types of cables between different operating systems though, it would be super handy to be able to connect a Windows machine and a Linux machine with this and have a hassle-free way of transferring files between two machines like that.
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Are there any applications that remember the position I was looking at when viewing images? For example I need to view large albums of images, but only look at the top third of the image, using the built-in image viewer in windows, when I change to the next image in the folder with my arrow keys the zoom level has reset. I need the zoom level, and ideally the position I have zoomed in on to remain between all images.
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Windows 11 is... A THIEF! I WANT MY BOOTLOADER!!!
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>>109819101
>Windows 11 is... A THIEF!
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>>109818629
Nomacs does that, but ONLY if the images you're switching between have the same exact resolution, or else the zoom resets
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>>109791699
use revios or atlas
use a custom shell like startdock.
the right clicks still make me mad as hell though
>>109805102
i might have to swap back to it in theory but in practice i wonder if i would be wasting my timne and should just move to linux. most of my hardware is newer though i do have a few older systems like a z240.


PLEASE REsPOND_alice.jpg!!!!!
does anyone here have trouble with microphone attenuation in discord (volume changes). it happens even when I disable all windows attenuation, all discord attenuation, and set the registry. theres fucking nothing I can seemingly do to fix this, sloppa programs just decide to set my listening volume to my music to whatever I want.l the source audio is usually youtube if that matters
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>>109811742
MS paint is shit now and automatically gets nuked whenever I want to try to save anything, taking hwatever i was working on with it. I actually use ms paint religiously before this. and its the only program that does this. I can only assume that my shell modifications messes with glownigger tracking of my image manipulations and the dogshit gracelessly crashes every time. maybe if ms paint-nigger wants me to continue using her bitter drawing program she could consider hiring someone white to program its prism algorithm instead of having actually indians do it.
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>>109819101
im pretty sure this happens because you have some kind of secure boot system on during your uefi settings
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>>109816429
that sounds amazing, I am actually on windows 11 for two reasons. the shell is easier to modify and docker/wsl
would be nice if they back ported all of it. i still have horror remembering how unstable classic shell and such was for 10 and it also forces you to use curtains too which was awful.
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>>109819581
>tinkertranny intentionally breaks system
>blames system
just 41% already
ywnbaw
>>
I have not used Windows for a long time so I have some questions, sorry if some of these are stupid but I have to ask them because I think I need to swap back to Windows as I've had a complete shit experience trying to make linux as a desktop work for the past couple of years.

1. Does anyone use Emacs on windows? Is it as passable as any other OS?
2. Can you easily rebind keys? As in say I want to rebind my control keys, can I do that without registry edits or whatever it is?
3. When I last used Windows, EVERYTHING was flagged as a virus. That's with using the default MS defender or whatever it's called now, which I thought for a while was the goto thing to use but I really don't know. Is there still a false positive problem? Also do you guys run antivirus software at all??? Malwarebytes or anything? And no I'm not really slow, I know not to run song_03.mp3.exe but surely some exe's can still be dangerous.
4. Is there any easy ways of sandboxing your own apps? Say I want to run an exe and have it unable to access the internet or any of my files except for a set folder on my computer, can I do that?
5. What would you say Windows excels at that other operating systems don't? Why do you use windows?
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>>109820187
>Why do you use windows?
Because it just werks.
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>>109820187
>1. Does anyone use Emacs on windows? Is it as passable as any other OS?
the fuck is an emac? a new burger from mcdonalds?
>2. Can you easily rebind keys? As in say I want to rebind my control keys, can I do that without registry edits or whatever it is?
no, why the fuck would you want to do this shit. best youre going to get is ahk.
>3. When I last used Windows, EVERYTHING was flagged as a virus. That's with using the default MS defender or whatever it's called now, which I thought for a while was the goto thing to use but I really don't know. Is there still a false positive problem? Also do you guys run antivirus software at all??? Malwarebytes or anything? And no I'm not really slow, I know not to run song_03.mp3.exe but surely some exe's can still be dangerous.
false positives still exists. i dont use an anti virus other than the built in windows defender.
>4. Is there any easy ways of sandboxing your own apps? Say I want to run an exe and have it unable to access the internet or any of my files except for a set folder on my computer, can I do that?
yeah. use sandbox or make a vm and run it there if you're really paranoid
>5. What would you say Windows excels at that other operating systems don't? Why do you use windows?
games just work
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>>109820151
>urr shell program bwoke because you modification
no jeetard your vibe coded updates broke it.
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>>109808436
bleachbit for starters
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>>109820187
1. Don't know, but I use vim on windows
2. Yes, you can use third party. For example I changed my layout using autohotkey
3. Yup, it happens and will happen again.
4. There was, but knowing windows dev they put them behind paywall
5. Gaming mostly, office software, support for most subscription based software
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>>109820187
>Is it as passable as any other OS?
It's decent, but it needs a better text editor. :^)
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Oh shit yeah it's the third Thursday of the month so I should be getting the newest Patch Tuesday on my machine now. Couldn't care less for the "new" taskbar options, but the updated throbber five years after 11 was released is a nice touch I'd like.
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>>109822209
>third Thursday
Third Tuesday I meant ofc lol
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>>109819586
I think it's because I had Windows 11 installed while my Windows 10 SSD was still connected
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>>109803723
man I dunno what crack they're smoking these days
a few weeks ago whatever the fuck they did broke restart for me, and it's still broken
have to power off and on manually for updates
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>>109803728
I installed W11 IoT and left updates enabled and haven't gotten it yet, had it on 10 IoT though
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This has to be vibecoded to hell and back, but I wonder how well it actually works.
https://github.com/LMLK-seal/PortableXE
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>>109823082
>mfw it's an automated PortableApps.com creator
Well that sucks, I was wondering if there was some software suite like that VMware one that could package a program into a single EXE and handle redirecting config paths and whatnot, think AppImage but for Windows.
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>>109823109
The way .exe works in Windows makes it impossible to create a portable program, unless the program itself wants to be portable.
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>>109823323
You know, as a compromise I'd like to see some form of launcher executable that not only sets environment variables, but also redirects specific file paths and runs a virtual registry hive. PortableApps.com approach is very hacky, where it'll let the program make directories, files and registry keys in the system, only to then back them up and delete form the host system upon closing. I'd like to see a framework that lets you set it up so that the program never touches the host system.
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader
Ultimate ASI Loader proves that you could at least force an executable to look at completely different file paths and essentially run in it's own sandbox where it isn't even aware it's doing so. For example, I'd like to have a way to run Neovim without it ever touching the host system, where in case of nvim I can just set the right environment variables on launch. But let's say that I want to run something like Sims 2, that uses My Documents, that can't be redirected with an environment variable, and it needs registry keys telling it where to look for it's own files to run. So if I wanted to make that portable, I'm SOL, and PortableApps approach is, again, hacky, and involves moving everything back and forth every launch. I'm yet to see someone design something open source that cleanly and seamlessly tricks the process into keeping it's shit with itself.
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>>109823356
>cleanly and seamlessly tricks the process into keeping it's shit with itself.
That's basically an impossible task.
It's like creating a single emulator for every gaming machine in the world.
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>>109823387
Technically it's possible. Every EXE interacts with the file system and registry the same way, so you absolutely could make a universal launcher like that. Just like PortableApps managed to make one and how Ultimate ASI Loader can "overload" game files in any game. You just have to hijack the correct functions of the process and you've achieved a self-contained program.
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>>109823414
PortableApps aren't even real portable.
It's just good enough for general users.
Exanple: Google Chrome Portable
At first glance, it seems to work well. But if you move to a different PC, you lose your profile data, because Chrome encrypts it based on user ID and hardware ID. PortableApps can't do anything about that.
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>>109820187
>Can you easily rebind keys
I use "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator " to make a custom keyboard layout and make certain keys on my type of keyboard output characters I want, it's kindof buggy but can be made to work. There's autohotkey someone else mentioned, it can do more than just rebind keys, but I think that's a software hook layer or something and thus should have worse performance.
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>>109820187
>Why do you use windows?
because I never used linux before, don't want to bother learning, especially since all programs I know only run on windows there are probably similar ones for linux but you'd have to learn 100s of new programs. it's as simple as that.
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>>109823497
Chrome is an exception to the norm, and the norm is that software use standardized API paths to do their shit.
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I can't find a way to integrate languages offline that doesn't cause this yellow message. It also keeps trying to download additional language-related stuff when I get online.
Is there anything I can do to disable the attempts? I'm pretty sure I have everything integrated but it keeps trying.
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>>109823775
You will never know if a softwave want to use standardized API or not without analyzing it first, that's the problem if you want to seamlessly automated the process.
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>>109820187
>Can you easily rebind keys?
Yes. You can do it in registry, but frankly it's a bit excessive. Get accustomed to just installing the software you need instead of expecting that Microsoft did everything for you, that's a very bad mentality to have as much like on Linux, Windows is an operating system, and there's likely a third party package that'll do whatever it is that you need doing. That's been the case even back in MS-DOS days, whoever enforced this stigma that "it either ships by default or it's shit" needs to suckstart a shotgun.

As for rebinding keys, there's Microsoft PowerToys, a semi-official software suite, as it's more or less an experiment playground for MS so they don't ship it by default even though they should and it's not like it's any more broken than Win11 is, and in there you have a very good remapping tool that works better than AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey's real power is writing macros or other automation scripts, makes your life very easy. As for disabling stock shortcuts you're not going to use, there are Windhawk mods that'll patch those out, worth checking it out.

>Why do you use windows?
I grew up with it, as a teenager I've learned how to poke around in it's internals, and nowadays it's the comfiest OS for me to use. I know how I want to use it, I know what I want to use it with, and I know how to deal with issues if they arise. I don't have the same knowledge of Linux so that runs on a Proxmox box in my case.
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>>109817039
I got the cable and gave it a quick test with my laptop and the ol' trusty Total Commander. When you plug it in, it shows a USB storage device with the PClinq5 software for Windows and Mac, so it's a nice touch. But I didn't use that, and with TC you have to decalre which PC is the "server" and which is the
client". The "server" will expose all available drives to the "client", and from there you can just navigate to wherever and do whatever. For a test I copied over a 2.65GB ISO of Fedora. It ran at ~60MB/s, so I must've gotten a USB2 bottleneck, maybe on the front panel connector. Next time I'll try connecting directly to the motherboard but it works flawlessly so it'll be a good-to-have in my collection.
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Hi /g/

When I play Capcom games with "DTS Virtual:X for Speakers" enabled, the sound gets muffled. It's happening right now in Dragon's Dogma 2 and it happened in Ghost Trick. Disabling or using "Windows Sonic for Headphones" is the only workaround I know of.

My system is a laptop and I'm talking about the built-in speakers for the laptop.

Does anyone know of an actual fix for this? Thank you!
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Im gonna bite the bullet and go for W11 25h2 but only because im getting an NVME M.2 so a fresh install feels about right. I do however have multiple drives and the guide mentions to wipe any EFI partitions but looking into it with Minitool i dont seem to have any on these secondary drives (?) only a single one in my system drive is, which is irrelevant in this case i asume, so everything should go well. Besides that, anything else i should be on the lookout for, any "must-do"s?
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>>109826825
Linus could never
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Oh my god what a headache, am I going to have to redo the EFI partition for both my Windows 10 and 11 install drives?
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>>109827214
not only that, nothing you do is going to help or work, you will still have to smash F12 on boot and have to select correct partition and make sure to guess which one since they will have the same name, so it might take a while while you continuously restart your computer to figure out which it is, since it will push last one picked first
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I shutdown my laptop while windows was resetting since it was still at 1% after 30 minutes. What will happen tomorrow once I start it again?
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>>109827453
best case scenario, it will boot normally. Worst case scenario, you're fucked
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WTF
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>>109828512
cursed
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>>109805359
This,
I basically turn off windows defender and smart screen because it is super sensitive to everything that I download, people don't really hack accounts like in the old days, most hackers will just run a quiet service on your computer to mine crypto for them.

And even then, you can you resource monitor and sysinternals suite to track them down...

AND even then, just don't do banking or super sensitive tasks on your pc. So even if they do hack and crack into your system, there is nothing to steal.
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>>109820187
Yes—Windows is quite viable for a Linux/Unix-oriented power user now.

Emacs: Yes. Native Windows Emacs is well-supported and works fine. The main difference is surrounding Unix tooling; WSL can provide a normal Linux environment alongside it.

Key rebinding: Yes. PowerToys Keyboard Manager handles normal remapping through a GUI. AutoHotkey is available for more sophisticated/custom behavior. No registry editing required for ordinary use.

Antivirus: Microsoft Defender is generally good enough as the default. False positives still happen, especially with obscure/unsigned or unusual executables, but it's nowhere near the "everything is a virus" experience you remember. I'd generally use Defender + Firewall + SmartScreen rather than installing multiple real-time AV products. Malwarebytes is useful as an occasional second-opinion scanner.

Sandboxing: Yes, although there's no perfect built-in "run this EXE with access only to X folder" button. Windows Sandbox gives you a disposable isolated Windows environment. Windows Firewall can block an individual executable's network access. For genuinely untrusted software, a VM is the safer/easier-to-reason-about boundary.

Why Windows? Its biggest strength is ecosystem compatibility:

Games and anti-cheat

Proprietary/professional software

Hardware and peripheral support

Weird niche applications

Enterprise software

Generally excellent compatibility with old software

The particularly attractive option for someone coming from Linux is Windows + WSL. You can have:

Windows desktop/games/hardware WSL essentially your normal Linux development environment

So you don't necessarily have to give up the Unix environment you like just because you're fed up with maintaining a Linux desktop.
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>>109789331
>>What version should I install?
>>W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
Is this the best one to use for Virtual Machines? I only need it for Visual Novel games (RenPy broke compatibility with 7)
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>>109829911
Personally I'd go for just normal LTSC 2021 using the Japanese ISO for a VN focused VM, but yes it would work great.
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>>109829966
Thanks anon
>Personally I'd go for just normal LTSC 2021
Any particular reason why? I do not actually know the difference.
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>>109829978
Less hassle for you, and I expect you aren't gonna update it/connect it to the internet so it doesn't really matter.
Also IoT LTSC 2021 only comes in English, plus LTSC and IoT LTSC are the same besides IoT getting five more years of updates compared (which doesn't matter to you seemingly.)
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>>109829991
>IoT LTSC 2021 only comes in English, plus LTSC and IoT LTSC are the same besides IoT getting five more years of updates
Activating any non-IoT LTSC install with MAS HWID automatically turns it into IoT anyway, so it doesn't matter, all languages can be IoT
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>>109829991
Thanks have a good one man
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>>109830004
I wouldn't bother connecting an LTSC VM to the internet so you could HWID activate it, I'd just use TSforge via the manual script.
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This is my 10th reinstall guys. Wish me luck.
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>>109830067
What the fuck are you doing to your installs that you've had to re-install up to ten times?
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>>109830072
He's addicted to it.
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>>109830072
Nothing. Just ocd of having to do everything perfect.
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i wanna switch back to windows, i fucking hate linux, but i also don't wanna deal with shitty AMD GPU drivers. Wtf do I do?
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>>109832506
I thought AMD is the perfect GPU for Linux though? I have Nvidia and I switched back to Windows since driver support for Nvidia GPU in Linux sucks right now.
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>>109832506
Use 11 via the Enterprise or Education edition with a local account? Windows is easy.
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it is but I just don't like linux, i feel like ever since switching to linux I don't play as much games as I use to because the games I did play all have to be run on wine, and wine is just not fucking perfected as people say it is. I also hate having to find the fucking install paths when I do install a new game because it always changes for some awful reason. I just have been getting nothing but headaches from this shit.
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>>109832536
He's retarded. Nvidia drivers suck ass on Windows & Linux. AMD is much better today.
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>>109832545
yea but again the issue is windows AMD GPU Drivers are ass. When I had windows do ammount of times my fucking computer with freeze and then I had to turn it off completely was once a week. Ever since I switched to linux i've had no retarded freezes like that. I hate it so much.
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>>109832618
then why did my computer crash all the time with windows? has crashed 0 times with linux.
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>>109832699
Skill issue. The only problem I've ever had with AMD on windows is that Adrenalin sucks ass for tweaking shit.
>t. dual booooter
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>>109832953
if it was a skill issue then linux also would have problems, but it doesn't. The only restarts i've done are after updates 0 crashes like I said. You probably have a newer card then I do, i'm on an xfx 6750 XT
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>>109830067
you can do it Anon!



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