ah hell naw

>Right click in file explorer
>Hourglass loading
Loser OS

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>be winchad
>DO LITERALLY NOTHING
>live rent free in every freetard permavirgin's head as they post 99% of windows related threads on /g/ and seethe every second of their incel lives at winchads simply existing
god it feels good making lincels seethe without lifting a finger

>>110087190
This webm is pedo-coded.

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Holy updoota

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>Install voidtools everything
>Do a file search
>It actually works and shows the file I want

Is Microsoft finished ? Why are they even hiring MIT / Stanford grads straight out of college on 150k a year to blow millions in Claude tokens. When some shitty 3rd party app is 10x more optimized than their own search bar and file explorer.

>>110087190
UOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>110087346
Loser specs

>>110087861
best part is when you make a config change to a game and don't want to go folder digging, just open everything and it'll be near the top

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>>110087190

>>110087190
That kiss broke me man wtf

>>110087190
I'm so lonely bros

>>110087242
What happened to your other eye, folder brother sama

>>110087346
>Celeron, passively cooled.

>>110087861
I mean Everything has existed for quite a while. Look into EverythingToolbar as well to completely replace Win+S search with it after disabling the search service.

>>110092086
It's even more baffling because in Windows 7 it was entirely OK. Everything app was better but I honestly didn't feel the need to replace it until 10 went absolutely FUBAR and gave web bing results and just missing entirely what I'm actually typing in.
Were they just THAT desperate to shove bing in everyone's face?

>>110092455
Originally yes. Because they were making actually acquiring 10 free, you became the product unless you knew what you were doing.

Sounds like you guys should just switch to Linux then like the rest of us did

I have installed Windows 11 on some dogshit ancient laptop with a HDD and it's a fucking miserable experience setting it up
Then again my dad is a fucking retard for buying this shitheap when he already has a perfectly working laptop I mounted an SSD in

>>110092554
10 with a HDD is hell enough, 11 must be even worse.
Maybe get another smaller SSD to replace it?

>>110092598
>get another smaller SSD
In this economy? Funny. I'm doing this just so he leaves me be and just to test out how a Tiny11 ISO fares. It had Win10 20H2 on it so it needed a format either way, if not 10 LTSC then 11. It's an officially unsupported machine so it's another fun thing to test.

>>110092625
I've installed IoT LTSC 2024 on an absolute shittop HP from the 8 era and it was surprisingly useable.

>>110092635
We'll see how it'll run once it gets all the newest updates and I run WinUtil tweaks on it.

>>110092469
What does "becoming the product" have to do with not finding what I'm searching for?

Am I retarded or was there no way to download Pro from Massgrave?

>>110092672
Consumer ISO. Enterprise ISO also has Pro on it.

>>110092672
Pro comes on either the consumer or business ISO, and honestly you might as well just get a business ISO and install Enterprise instead of Pro; You're just crippling yourself otherwise.

What is the best way to debloat win11? Is there any recommended programs or are the generic ones such as “Win11Debloat” sufficient enough?

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hey lads, been enjoying my new win10 iot LTSC install since i overhauled my rig two months ago.
But one thing irks me, i'm no longer able to connect my phone to transfer images and other files to the PC.
Is this some "feature" of one of the third party programs i ran after install, like Privacy.sexy, or does this version of win10 restrict something like that unlike the public version?

thanks for any help, lads

>>110087190
Fuck this suicide fuel.

>>110096236
What phone.

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>>110087190
>Install new Windows 10
>It's slow
>It thinks for around one second when I left click an item
>Realize right clicking has a "ask copilot" option
>uninstall copilot
>It now just think for half a second when I left click something
Anything else I can remove to sped up windows 10 on my old AM3+ desktop PC?

>>110096430
if you just installed then it's gonna stabilize after a day or two, it does a lot of background shit at the beginning

>>110096236
Just setup and use syncthing. Every single other method of file syncing between phone and PC is cucked and retarded in comparison.

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I recently rediscovered this bad boy. What a treat !

>>110096421

android zenfone

>>110096605

iunno, just plain drag and drop filesystem from one "HDD" to another worked fine in the past, but i'll try anything, thanks

>>110097355
Just setup a "sync-with-phone" directory on your PC and drag stuff into/out of it.
Done. Syncd.

I recently found a KDE Connect alternative called Sefirah, works way better and smoother. It links up my phone's file system as cloud sync directories.

>>110098940
Why?

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>>110087190
Lelnux lostered. How can they even compete at this point?

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>>110099102
Some retard being a retard

>>110087190
windows is for pedos?
I knew it!

>>110087190
>>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
Is it really still worth sticking with Win10? I've got a Dell xps 15 9560 which has an old outdated version of win11 on it so I was going to do a fresh install. Never noticed any major issues with Win11 over Win10.

>>110101643
>Is it really still worth sticking with Win10?
worth implies you give something up for it, the only thing exclusive to win11 that seems useful is wsl2, and at that point you can just install a linux partition instead

>>110101643
Even with ESU you're only getting a few years of additional security updates to Win10. After that you probably want/need to go to 11 or something else.
Unless something has changed since last I looked.

>>110102126
October 2028 is the final update that GAC 10 will ever get, after that you'll need to use IoT LTSC 2021 to stay on 10 until 2032. But by then the probably best version of 11 (IoT LTSC 2027) will be something that's actually worth changing to.

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Why have you not switched to it yet?

>>110102198
Because I use my computer, I don't spend time fighting it.

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>>110102198
I use linux at work. At home I just want to play (h)games

>>110101828
>the only thing exclusive to win11 that seems useful is wsl2
Why are you posting complete lies and misinfo.
WSL2 was introduced in Windows 10 and it is still fully supported and available in Win10. Nothing about it is exclusive to win11.

>>110102198
>they're in every thread knocking at your door like the Jehova Witnesses
>Sir have you the time to hear about our lord and savior Linus Tech Tips?
>his bible called Linux is used by millions worldwide
Literally a cult

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>help grandma with PC (W11)
>she wants her computer to sign in automatically no password
>figure would be easy
>turns out have to jump hoops around in regedit and user policy
>still doesnt work after several solutions applied
what the fuck, this is like 2 clicks with any linux DE.

>>110102920
That can only truly work if you have an account that never had a password in the first place. With that it would literally just log in as you turn the computer on.

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>>110102920
it is easy though

>>110087190
cute and funny

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After recent update of Win 10 LTSC IoT I lost my LG monitor speakers driver or whatever...
Do I now need to install MS Store APPS for sound or what is that?!

>>110096236
Just use LocalSend

>>110103858
Don't the GPU drivers carry Audio shit for Monitors/TVs?

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>>110087190
So, Nvidia drops support for Win10 this month. Now what?

>>110104903
If you play modern slop, update, if you don't, who cares, you still get (((security))) updates going forward on W10.

So uhh is it illegal to pirate Windows 11 with MAS for a small office of 6-7 computers? Or should I just do https://windowsreport.com/install-windows-11-without-tpm/

>>110105213
>is it illegal to pirate Windows 11 with MAS
It technically always is. What really matters is if your business is big enough for MS to notice you and audit you

>>110105816
Its stupid small

>>110105181
I only play Genshin Impact, but I am looking forward for Capcom's releases, such as RE. Mainly I wonder if the new driver branch will install on W10.

>>110087190
*PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP*

I'm accessing my borked windows install from another windows install, but clicking on the drive gives access denied. CMD can navigate and read the files. How do I get explorer to quit being a retard and browse the drive?

I asked once in a previous /fwt/, but didn't get an answer. If I was going to install 10 LTSC on a USB 3.0 flash drive, should I go with 64 or 128 GB? The only thing I'll be using it for is updating my Steam and GOG backups on a external hard drive.

>>110106418
>I only play Genshin Impact
I think you'll be fine on Windows 10 for at least another year or two.

>>110107199
Portable windows installs on external USB devices haven't been officially supported since Windows 8.1.
Unofficially, you could probably still force it to work. 64Gb would technically be enough, but you should probably go with 128gb.

I don't understand your use case though, why do you need to update your Steam and GOG backups using a windows-to-go USB drive?

>>110087190
Why live ;~;

>>110104903
Oh fuck I forgot about this bullshit

>>110104903
>Now what?
Non-issue because the games that will need newer drivers probably also won't run on W10 in the first place

https://github.com/KhangHLe/glazewm
lol turns out there's been a fork of GlazeWM that had a bunch of fixes and improvements added (including built-in autodirection) and it's so much better now. Only needed to apply the per-monitor offsets for my personal use case and that's that.
It's really annoying that the main project is unmaintained and there's like at least four separate forks with different changes that are incompatible with each other, with the other two options being Komorebi with it's asinine licensing and Astur that is vibecoded and underbaked in many regards. Glaze is still the best i3-style TWM for Windows that I can find, but I have to manually apply patches from other people and build it myself.

whats wrong with KMS activation? If I reach the expiration year I can just change activation types right?

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>>110107887
Online KMS needs a renewal task installed so it lasts more than 180 days and doesn't work offline, so at that point HWID is better unless you change your hardware often
KMS4k doesn't persist between features upgrades

>>110107887
Nothing's wrong with it overall but it isn't as ironclad as HWID is ie how it's disabled by feature updates. If you're using KMS activation these days you're using KMS4k through TSforge.

>>110107887
sorry forgot to say for windows 10

>>110107887
Nothing. I always use it. I don't even have a task to automate it, all you have to do is just run the activator twice a year. If you ever forget to do so, you'll see the watermark on the corner, and once run again, it'll go away. I also prefer to just werk offline, so.

>>110106418
You'll be fine a few more years, my friend still plays MHW on W10 and it works fine despite it "dropping" support.
As for the driver stuff, well if a bug happens on a new release you will just have to deal with it, but I honestly think someone will randomly backport drivers as W11/10 are the same dogshit kernel.

>>110107539
I have a Thinkpad T460. I don't want to partition the SATA drive, even though it can accommodate it, and I can't use the WWAN slot for a second drive. That leaves me with either the USB ports or the SD card slot. I'm well aware there's better solutions for my needs, but until GOG releases a Linux native port of Galaxy, I'm going with this option. At least I can have Windows to dual boot.

>>110110730
I still don't understand the use case.
You have Linux installed on the T460 internal drive, but you need a Windows install... for backups?
I'm confused how backups would require windows.

>>110107887
KMS as in KMSpico is still a thing?

>>110108678
>If you're using KMS activation these days you're using KMS4k through TSforge.
Ratiborus isn't good enough anymore?

>>110112305
Minigalaxy is kinda shit when it comes to updating some games, and I really don't have experience with either Lutris or Heroic. I want to keep the file structure for in case my Windows 7 PC shits itself. My use case is retarded as is, and I just want another fucking drive to install a copy of 10. The recommendation for 128 GB is good enough. Unless you know how I can get Galaxy to update to 2.1 and solve a 'GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime' error on Steam for Windows 7 with VxKex-Next.

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Why is the default sound volume after installing windows is set to 67? is this really a coincidence or someone at microsoft trolling us

>>110114697
Mine is on 50% every fresh install

>>110112809
Malware.
Use massgrave

>>110114717
I already use MAS, was just wondering if people legit use KMS/Spico/Whatever still.

>>110114742
Oldfags maybe

>Trying to find an all in one installer for a Windows XP or 7/Aero theme pack for my Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT
>"You actually need 17 random programs to install first"
Surely someone's done one that doesn't involve installing a custom ISO, right?

>>110114742
IIRC the guy behind KMS_VL_ALL stopped developing it to work full time with the MAS team. MAS is just the go-to for anyone now, old clunkier ways like KMSPico are just that.

>>110114697
6-7 has reached ironic meme status like hawk tuah before it.

>>110116475
KMS_VL_ALL is still maintained. Get the AIO version.

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I'm still at Windows 10 LTSC, is it finally time to move on to 11? Better earlier than later, no?

>>110117805
Like you can change to LTSC 2024 if you want, though a lot of anons seems to be waiting for LTSC 2027 because it'll include all the K2 fixes at the feature pack level.

>>110117822
I guess I can wait. I was just thinking if w11 was a smoother experience overall which would justify the change

>>110117805
I maintain that the jump from 10 to 11 isn't anything special and it's fine to do at this point, but if you want, you can wait.
11 added all the features I was missing, like the taskbar orientation, so there's nothing I find lacking on it now.

>>110117805
Nothing prevents you from going back to W10 if you don't like W11

>>110114697
Because it's 2/3rds (66.666%) rounded

>>110117839
W11 is a shittier experience overall. Nothing about it is smoother. It is stil a beta product. It did graduate out of alpha stage this year, so that's a positive I guess.

this is the true way

>>110114697
coincident with what?

I have a laptop with windows 10. Recently I can't get any updates. I guess the support has ended. Is there a way to get the IOT LTSC updates on my laptop without having to reinstall windows 10?

>>110119615
Use MAS to activate the commercial ESU licenses with TSforge so you can get updates until October 2028.

>>110118243
This is the correct answer. Fucking zoomers are retarded.

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>>110087190
Is this video available with sound?

>>110119633
thanks, I've done that but it still won't update

>>110119691
Have you restarted?

>>110119694
yes of course. maybe it's because it's windows 10 home

>>110119722
It should be working just fine so I dunno what's up with it. Should even work with Home.

>>110119727
I used MAS and switched to IoT Enterprise, activated the ESU licenses another time but it still won't update

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>>110087346
>Right click in linux
>Options instantly load
ngmi
I still don't know how Windows hasn't solved file search for over 40 years, it shouldn't take over a minute to search recursively through a few folders.
Meanwhile on Linux I can just go to my home directory, search for the name of a game's save file (which is a few subfolders down), then get the result in a few seconds.
I'm not aware how file search works, but why the fuck does windows struggle at basic shit like this?

>>110121882
Because the indexer and the GUI suck. Voidtools' Everything is much better, and what it uses to be so good is NTFS' MFT, a Windows specific feature. That and a Win32 UI that's lightweight and fast.

And it's not like XP's/7's search was anyehere close to Everything. It was also shit, but not as shit as 10/11.

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Is there a way to disable the ai image search feature on windows 11 copilot+ PCs?

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>>110087190
Source?

>>110122466
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
this fixed the issue

Finally bit the bullet and updated, RUFUS'd 26H2 into MAS into CTT and it's actually cozy as fuck, UI is jeeted but unironically comfier than W10.

>>110124527
>but unironically comfier than W10.
+15 izzat, saar.

>>110122466
Install gentoo

>>110124583
Whatever that's supposed to mean, I just like colors, man. Metro is suffering since 8.1.

*farts and shits*
Hello sirs, we are back.

>>110087190
Brehs... I didn't ask for this feel...

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can I fix this without a reinstall?

thoughts on tiny11? is it better than just downloading regular w11 and debloating it myself?

>>110127401
You just need to activate the commercial ESU licenses built into every Windows install using MAS and its TSforge module. Then you can get updates till October 2028.

>>110127430
Nah, it's better to just make an 11 install USB with Rufus and use its own built-in debloating option.

>>110092486

and if you want other than bash shell your choises are

>>110094817

there might not be simple msconfig just scroll thru firewall and services tick boxes

>>110102920

i do not remember that good
install with msaccount switch local account set autologin to desktop on

>>110122466

perhaps acquire hardware that do not reach copilot plus specification

Is there a guide on how to dual boot windows 7 and windows 10?

>>110131012
It's fairly easy to do, just comes down to what's already installed first. It makes it much easier if 7 is.
Mostly just comes down to shrinking the C:\ to create an unallocated space to install to in the other's setup.

>>110119659
>>110122767
>>>/gif/31324038

>>110131584
Thanks, time to rope

I'm upgrading my work laptop due to the recent unfortunate events. Upgrading everything.

>>110087190
Why are so many anons getting demoralized by this animation?

>>110132999
khhv

>>110102920
You can do that by switching to a local account and leaving the password field blank

>have a system monitoring sidebar
>want to reduce idle CPU usage
>turns out the two of the most idle CPU intensive processes are HWiNFO and Rainmeter
>the processes that build the sidebar
ironic

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>>110132999
Because it's a reminder of the things we will never have.
If you know, you know.

>>110132999
mixture of guilt and loneliness

>>110132999
It's more bittersweet when you realize there was no lock screen and she was just messing with you to give you a kiss... also girls with that personality type don't exist...

>>110132999
expect demoralization to scale linearly with waifu simulation quality

>>110087190
Where's the version with audio?

>>110135475
Thanks.

>>110087190
I like my windows 11 computer

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>>110087190
that webm really mindbroke this thread

Just finally upgraded from a (zero updates) win10 2023 ltsc I also got from here to the latest win11 pro.
It's pretty fine out of the box, expected something horrible not going to lie.
Didn't even debloat or anything just the rufus settings.

Question. What is the inetpub folder and do I need it? Google has been less than useful. It seems to be for something call IIS.
Same question for the "windows.old" folder.

Thanks.

>>110136414
it's a funny story because people did freak out about the inetpub folder when Microsoft introduced it even if you didn't have a server. turns out it's there as a security measure so you shouldn't remove it.

as for the windows.old, it's got files from your previous installation in case you want to rollback, i believe Windows gives you a limited time to rollback, after that the windows.old gets removed, or you can remove it manually or with the built-in cleanup tool

>>110136506
Thanks. Kinda lame that the folder is visible, yet useless. bothers me a bit

I am trying to install w10 on my godmother's new ideapad but the trackpad does not work due to lack of drivers. Lenovo does not support w10 anymore for newer models. Anyone know what I can do to get the thing working? The processor is the 13420h

>>110103460
or 'cunny', if you will. Brand new term feel free to use it.

>>110135754
>and plapping
Uh, surely this was a typo? You meant playing right?

>>110137714
Retard

Whats wrong with w11 again?

>>110137924
It was an absolute shitshow on release but it's actually usable now
There's still some dumb shit though, like having to do a registry edit to make the old right click menu the default one

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>did an arch upgrade today
>checked the arch website to make sure nothing impacts me prior to upgrade
>forgot about X11 getting dropped from KDE
>arch website didn't mention X11 getting dropped from KDE
>system bricks in the middle of pacman running
>had to chroot from a live USB to fix it and reinstall anything that pacman touched during the upgrade
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hate wayland. fuck kde too

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>>110138600
This is the Windows thread
But yeah, that's why the Arch wiki recommends upgrading only if you have some free time to fix broken shit, even if you've checked the website

>>110138683
i cant read because wayland sucks ass and my front rendering is fucked
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>110103858
Remember to always disable driver updates with windows update via the group policy editor, then you can keep updating windows safely without it messing your existing drivers. Your best bet now, is to just wipe the drivers from the driver store and device manager and just reinstall them again manually.

windows is still the only real desktop os

>>110138739
is this true?

>>110135754
One of those activities is not like the others...

>>110132999
because we'll never have kids

>>110131584
i knew it was going to be in japanese just from the subtitles

>>110087861
Anon, I hate to break it to you, but Microsoft does not develop winshit with users or usability in mind. They develop it with data gathering and surveilance in mind

>>110140361
Actually, virtually everything in the world is developed it with paying customers in mind. This is why nobody cares whether you live or die.

>>110138695
Windows doesn't have such issues :^)

>>110136181
it was all fun and games until we were reminded of how pathetic our lives were

>Windows 11 Home
>Google Chrome
>Google Search
>Gmail
>NVIDIA GPU + Intel CPU
It's just too giga

>>110141333
Now that I'm 30 and left my schizo arc behind me I've come to believe this 100%.
Still wondering where that "windows recall" even is. Got win11 pro and no such thing seems to exist.

>>110139271
might as well be, even mac is fucking itself up these days

>>110102198
i play lots of old games and use lots of old programs
also i have never had an issue with windows since the xp days

>>110117805
What's the point of ltsc if you can use pro and enable esu.
Anyway, did anyone got YOUR DEVICE MISSING CRITICAL SECURITY FIXES, even though im on KB5126657?
And somehow, the gpo was fucked, i disabled auto updates when first installing, tried to disable it now and all policies were set to Not Configured so i needed to purge the registry manually.

>>110099388

LIXSUN

x)

>>110119832
Any reason you're staying on windows 10? You should be able to make some changes to bypass checks and install windows 11?

Bros, I have an emergency

I tried starting up the PC and Windows doesn't even run. At first there was only a black screen after the manufacturer's logo showed up, and now it's remained a blue screen

There doesn't seem to be anything I can do through the BIOS, and I tried using an USB with a Windows 10 installation, but it crashes instantly

Is there anything else I can do? This shit happened after a power outage

>>110143105
Set BIOS values to default, maybe memory problem.

>>110143172
Nope, doesn't work

I should probably mention, I'm welcomed by the following whenever I forcefully shut it down:
>Invalid configuration information - please run SETUP program
And there was also a single time where it said it couldn't detect the hard drive, but running the BIOS diagnostics says everything is in order

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Hey I'm trying to fix a consistently lagging/unresponsive folder. It's only 4GB big and has 271 files, 129 of which are videos and the remainder a mix text, psd and ogg files. Scrolling through the folder is extremely slow. I tried different views and sorting options in explorer, clearing thumbnails' cache, disabling thumbnails altogether and changing the "optimize this folder for:" option (folder's properties>customize) from "video" to "general items", all in vain. The only thing that works is renaming every file from Japanese to Latin characters, but I have no desire to butcher titles with romaji considering that I can actually read them as is. Indexing is disabled and system locale is set to Japanese. Any idea on how to fix it?

>>110143786
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJ4yrEZZVE

>>110087190
I'll give her a facial she can recognize

>>110146926
they loev Sephora

How do I get calculator, and paint in Win10 IoT LTSC?
Or are there better apps for that? I really don't want to get the Windows Store.
I already replaced regular notepad with Notepad++

>>110143631

its perhaps utf-16 optimization issue

>>110147035
They both install with the system, just find them.

>>110143631
Explorer doesn't like non-human characters in filenames.
Just use latin1 and be done with it.

>>110147035
Win+R
`calc` for calculator
`mspaint` for paint
>Notepad++
enjoy your trannysoftware with security up to nafo standards

>>110143105
In BIOS does the drive you even boot from exist? Check it for disk errors maybe it's dying.

>>110136414
>Didn't even debloat or anything just the rufus settings.
Rufus solves most problems, debloating is a meme. Now just about the only thing you need to do is take a peek at task scheduler and see if any CPU hogging programs light up at certain time periods and reschedule or disable them.

>>110148130
>enjoy your trannysoftware with security up to nafo standards
And what's your alternative then?
>trannysoftware
And who fucking cares. I also hate brown people but I still decide to use Windows. You eventually stop caring as long as it works.

>>110148130
When will you subhumans learn that the only ones who have an issue with muh nafo are third worlder monkeys like you. Do you have no shame in exposing yourself as a street shitting vodka drinking balding third worlder?

why does it take 2 seconds to open explorer on win11 on recent hardware?

>>110149503
I don't use it but mine loads practically instantly, just a little faster compared to Total Commander. I'm on Alder Lake tho so everything's pretty snappy

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My MS Edge just informed me that it has been newly equipped with a groundbreaking feature called "form autofill".

Firefox is finished!

>>110150048
uwaaa sugoi

Anybody here have any experience with dual booting? I have a NVME SSD that I use for my Windows 11 Install, it's a local account, no bitlocker encryption, and no fast boot. I also have another Sata SSD and I thought I could use it to experiment with Linux, have some fun, and also play pirated games and avoid pozzing up my main OS and putting my data at risk. Can a virus from another OS hop onto my other drives and cause issues? Can installing linux cause issues to windows in general with updates? I don't really care if my linux install gets messed up, primarily worried about it touching my Windows install.

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>>110087190
Does anyone have the original, full quality version?

>>110150463
Just install the Linux OS to this other SATA SSD and tell the installer if graphical to create a dual boot with the Linux and Windows, or if you use something like Arch just set up your GRUB/systemd-boot to see the Windows install and add it to the bootloader list.

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>>110087190
>you can now make the taskbar small and move it to any edge of the screen
Holy fvark! Only took them half a decade to implement this. Probably vibecoded. Also interesting that they modified the LTSC branch so much since release.

>>110150544
I think arch is a bit too complicated, since I also would like to have Secure Boot enabled and get NVIDIA drivers that are signed for Secure Boot so I'll probably need to go for some more normalfag option like Ubuntu

>>110150566
>Holy fvark! Only took them half a decade to implement this
Something that was already working in XP lol

>>110150590
Sounds like something like Fedora or Bazzite would be to your taste.

>>110087190
>Same as 2024 version except:
>UI being rewritten in native WinUI
Sounds too good to be true. How will they fuck it up?

>>110150689
It's what Windows K2 is all about, really.

>>110150689
>How will they fuck it up?
Different interests interjecting. This has been happening since Windows 10

>>110150048
>no AI mention
Is this a pre-2022 screenshot?

>>110150463
>play pirated games
>Can a virus from another OS hop onto my other drives and cause issues?
my mans, viruses can perform their duties just fine on linux with wine, being on linux means shit
especially without an encrypted windows installation, a virus can easily mount your NVME and modify windows binaries and there'll be no windows defender or whatever running to stop it
>Can installing linux cause issues to windows in general with updates?
linux people are super careful about not breaking existing windows installations and in my memory no problems surfaced recently
it's usually windows who breaks linux

>>110154389
When it comes to pirated games these days it's best just to use pre-install loose files (work great with umu-launcher) or releases from like Fitgirl or something because they'll always be safe.

>>110150463
Do not auto mount your windows NTFS drive on linux and you should be fine unless the viral payload persists in RAM.

>>110154389
>my mans, viruses can perform their duties just fine on linux with wine
So use Bottles or flatpak your way through your pirated games. That way your actual wine isn't messed with.

>>110150610
It was a feature ever since the taskbar was introduced in Windows 95. Then with Win11 they nuked that entire codebase and made a new taskbar with missing features, and only now they're bringing it back, and even then it's half-assed as auto-hide only works when the taskbar is at the bottom, you can't expand it to be multi-row and the DeskBands are still missing.

At this point running RetroBar that hides the OS taskbar and shows it's own gives you a more authentic Windows experience than what Bharatsoft ships it with.

I just realized Bharatsoft added a simple little optimization. ShellExperienceHost.exe is the process responsible for the calendar and notification (Win+N) pop-up, and it auto-suspends whenever it's not activated. It still sits in RAM, or perhaps it gets offloaded to disk, but it doesn't use any CPU cycles when not needed. Clever.

>>110156992
>win11 shenanigans
I'm really glad I stayed on win7. Pajeets are a cancer upon Microsoft. Sooner or later an emudhra style mistake will land the company in hot water.

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>Everything Toolbar doesn't support OpenShell's custom taskbar texture
I'm gonna crash out

Any reason why Win11 randomly freaks out when playing youtube videos or webms? It'll stop playing halfway through and the browser window will freeze for a sec and go all black or white and then recover.

>>110157137
>Win11 randomly freaks out when playing youtube videos or webms
Works on my machine
t. Firefox and mpv user

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IoT Enterprise n' chill

>>110157299
That's it. Never think about EoLs for the foreseeable future.

where Sophie?

>>110157137
Edge and AMD?

>>110157394
firefox

>>110087190
so is it time to migrate to windows 11 or should i wait till 2027

>>110157409
Really just comes down to if your PC has parts that would work at their best if you used 11 at this point. If so you could just use IoT LTSC 2024 then upgrade to 2027 when that comes out.

>>110157409
I think it's pretty much the perfect time to move over, I personally moved over at beginning of this month too. It's in a good state now, I configured it in like 25 minutes after a fresh install and it's very snappy and just worky. I'm trying to also limit myself to not using the terminal at all, or being OCD about maintenance and simply allowing Windows to handle everything, which it seems to do very well now.
>26H2 isos just shipped
>NVIDIA drivers just ended on W10
It's time to come home.

>>110157766
>26H2
trash

>>110157988
There's effectively no sane reason to be staying on an outdated build.
>Worse performance
>Worse compatibility with software/hardware
>In many cases even less secure or private, if it doesn't recieve all K2 changes
Microsoft treats LTS like a meme, literally zero testing or effort put into it, just some internet vibe coding security and even often times half-baked feature patches to an old build and praying it works. Same critique towards LTS from Linux applies in Windows too. It's not sustainable, it's retarded, it's in every way worse. Funniest shit is LTS retards being offered to upgrade to 26H2 and bricking themselves from updates

>>110158014
LTSC gets the K2 changes.

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>>110150566
>>you can now make the taskbar small and move it to any edge of the screen
this is cartoonish af

>>110158078
I tried out having it on the left or on top, but it always feels weird and like the bottom of my screen is too empty and missing something. If it's on the left it feels like the screen and opened programs are off-center, and if it's on top if you maximize the program it feels clunky to interact with taskbar immediatly next to minimize/maximize/close buttons or browser tabs. Microsoft just knows best, I kneel and apologize for doubting the genius of Bill Gates.

>>110158125
this is why macos has its min/max/close buttons on the left side.
macos wastes a lot of screen's real state for looking "good" for normies.

>>110158125
Top only really works if you run something like GlazeWM, but then it makes more sense to use YASB instead and rice your shit that way. Bottom really is the best option for standard usage.

>>110158180
I always feel like I'm the odd one out or taking crazy pills when people say macOS/iOS looks good or has really good human respecting interfaces. That might've been the case like over a decade ago, but I'd go as far to say that both modern Windows and Pixel OS have a better aesthetic direction that liquid ass gas that they ship with Apple slop now. Even their new wallpapers, changed cursor, etc all feel completely soulless and like there's very little attention to detail compared to even Microsoft's skeumorphic or Google's Material design. I just wish MS would stop being lazy greedy fucks and actually get everything in W11 changed instead of having so many things looking completely out of place.

>>110157766
>>110157580
Kill yourself Shi11s, windows 11 still sucks.
Is it better than it was last year? Yes.
Is it good yet? Absolutely not.
Recommending Win11 just exposes you as either being:
A. knuckledragging retards who genuinely can't tell how sluggish the UI is
B. gaymoids who need to play their bingbingwahoos at +1fps

i installed w10 iot ltsc
now what? what other bullshit do i need to do?

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>>110159609

>>110159609
>uses moids unironically
>thinks "your PC can do more stuff than mine" is a valid diss
tranny melty

>>110159942
First thing you should do system-wise is install a VCRedist AIO (like the one Aboddi offers on their github) and the latest LTS .NET desktop runtime. Those two things will make sure pretty much any program will run.

>>110160007
sounds like a virus, but i'll trust you

>>110159959
>>110159985
Can't believe you 11iggers are still here trying to trick people into downgrading their experience. No one wants to use your gay unfinished pre-alpha-OS.

>>110160044
https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0
Download the x86_64 version of the vcredist installer, then the .NET Desktop Runtime x64 setup download link.

As long as my games still run I won't switch to 11. I know GPU drivers stopped Win10 support, but if the last driver still works then it still works.

>>110160097
uh oh, i downloaded the one in softpedia

>>110160112
baka anon
delete that one and install those instead

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>>110160108

>>110160112
>Softpedia
It's already over for your install. Reformat and start over.

>>110160128
it was me, i asked

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>>110160163
>it was me, i asked

>>110160168
literally me

>>110160060
>meanwhile, in reality, win11 has the largest usage share and anon is stuck in the past

>>110160200
Wow! appealing to
>usage share
Is really all you guys have left eh?
Surprise surprise, when Microsoft forcibly auto-updates the world's PCs to Win11 and artificially drops support for non-LTSC versions of Win10 complete normalfags are forced onto Win11 whether they like it or not.

>>110087190
>reinstalled motherboard
>end up spending 2 hours arguing with Microsoft about getting my Windows reactivated
>fuck it, surely /g/ has a better solution
>done in <1 minute

>>110158078
It's legit too small on anything past 1080p @ 100% scale.

>>110160313
My win11 experience has been the same as with 10. I'd argue the way updates work now is better than what it used to be. The only element of 10 that I'd say was better is that some context menus were snappier.

>>110160313
I don't care about windows but you'll still never pass as a woman

>>110159942
Those are the main tasks I do after a fresh install:
- run DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
- run sfc /scannow
- install >>110160097
- install drivers
- configure scheduled tasks
- import group policies
- configure windows settings (notably privacy and network settings)
- run windows update

And personal preferences:
- disable search indexing
- disable audio enhancement / sound effects
- configure explorer options
- remove edge

>>110160518
why the fuck do i want to be a woman?
lol
lmao

>>110160524
Thanks. Got questions though.
- Why bother running sfc /scannow ?
- What kind of scheduled tasks should I add? All I really care about is the SSD defragmenting but I think that's in there by default.
- What kind of group policies?
- Why run windows update? Just for security updates?

>>110131584
Why the hell is the quality so much worse compared to the OP's?

>>110160518
LMAO you 11iggers are hilarious, accusing anyone who doesn't like your half-baked beta OS of being trannies is some next level schizophrenia.
>>110160511
>my win11 experience has been the same as with 10
>oh except it's slower
The updates work exactly the same as on Windows 10.

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I tried to back up my windows 10 installation the other day with the built in backup and restore tool. It seems to have failed because during the backup the computer detected bad clusters on the disk, subsequently event log is continuously logging hundreds of event id 7 (This device... has a bad block). See attached. It's still bootable and working well (i am posting from the system right now)
Is there any way to recover from this? I'd like to still have a full image backup and restore to another disk if possible. Also crystal disk info is reporting the disk as healthy. Its an ssd. I have a feeling running chkdsk at this point will probably kill it for good. Should I boot into linux and try to take a image backup that way, or are there any things you guys recommend?

>>110160848
Do you know how much of your data was missed during the initial backup?
Can't you just try to copy the data out to an external disk manually rather than using the backup tool?
Just ask a clanker to write you a powershell script that calls robocopy to backup whichever directories you want preserved.

>>110160832
>uses moid terminology
>not a tranny
you're fooling 0 people

>>110160832
Yeah, the slower bit is the right click menu, which at this point must be some millisecond difference. Win10 software support is slowly going to fade out, so I may as well use 11.

>>110160914
gaymer
'oid
Gaymoid
That's you. Willing to downgrade your PC to an inferior unfinished perpetual-beta OS written in HTML, all so that you can collect your koopa coins with 0.5% higher framerates. Nevermind the fact that loading the game and using the OS is slower, at least the in game framerate is higher! (Ignoring the fact it was actually lower than win10 for the first 3 full years of Windows11s life)

>>110160906
Well according to the log it's only 25~mb of data. Thing is I want a complete, bootable image of the system, but a bad block prevents the image backup from completing. I just cba setting everything back up since there's hundreds of applications I have installed on this thing, as I've been using this system for the past 11 years. I have an old backup somewhere but yeah.

>>110158125
I like it on the bottom because it feels like the floor.

>>110160609
>Why bother running sfc /scannow ?
Because it somehow always finds things to repair on new installations.
>What kind of scheduled tasks should I add?
I don't add anything, just disable the one listed here https://rentry.org/LTSC#task-scheduler
>What kind of group policies?
I have 87 configured policies. It's a mix from different sources that don't necessarily fall under the same category and some are probably redundant. I can upload my list if you're interested. Otherwise there are lists in OP's guides.
>Why run windows update? Just for security updates?
Yep.

>>110161351
thanks.
i already connected to the internet and updated before doing the group policy stuff.
guess i'll do a fresh install.

>>110160969
Do you enjoy being a weird autist?

>>110161760
yes

>>110161760
Sure I'm a weird autistic who advises other people to use a stable responsive OS like IoT LTSC 2021.
(You) are a 11igger who wants to subject everyone to a constantly changing beta-test OS.
When Windows 11 finally stabilizes in 2028 or 2029 maybe it'll be worth changing to, but using it at this point is just deranged.

>>110161920
based retard

I've been using Windows for my entire life now, but I don't feel like I really understand the OS like I do with Linux. Are there any books out there similar to books you'd find on on the latter?

b

What third-party file explorers do you guys use or recommend?

>>110165239
trvke nvkem

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>>110165271
I just use the native one, and if I have to search for a file I use Everything

hello, is there ever a need to factory reset a pc with ssd, to keep it running as best as possible?
i remember as a kid with ye olde hhd i was told to do it once a year, but is it necessary with a ssd?

>>110165946
You never needed to do a clean install every year, but for a lot of people including myself, it's a good way to get rid of garbage you don't use anymore, as you'll only re-install stuff you still actively use

>>110166005
that was probably mostly it, will keep in mind

I'm still troubleshooting this, but I think I've discovered one of the issues responsible for my high CPU temps as of late is that after I either run an intensive search across hundreds of gigabytes of folders/files in the Windows Explorer folder viewer, AND/OR after opening 5-6 videos at once in MPC-HC, my CPU temps remain in a 70-80c range even after I shut the folder windows and close out MPC-HC, even 10+ minutes after both of those are closed

Killing or restarting the Explorer.exe process in the task manager brings the temps back down, but that also means all my windows and open files in notepad and whatever get re-arranged in the taskbar, and while that seems like not a big deal, I have like 50 different notepad docs open and it actually is a pain in the ass to re-sort those after every large scale search I preform

Anybody have an idea of what I can to do fix this or what's going on here? The obvious conclusion is that maybe after I shut the window for the search, Windows is actually still running the search in the background for some reason. Is there something I can to do force that to stop if that's what's going on, without shutting the entire Explorer.exe process?

I'm on Windows 11

>>110165271
Total Commander. But it truly becomes good once you readjust to use it with the keyboard. That, and get into configuring it.

>>110165271
>>110165388
>>110167190
I'm >>110167048

Do any of you have a suggestion for one that still has image/video thumbnail previews, and can be set up in such a way that if a folder has my search term in it's folder name, that all of it's contents will also show up in the search results even if none of those files have the search term in their filenames?

Ideally I want to be able to enable/disable that last feature via something I can include in the search string

>Total Commander
I use this as a copying utility, since it handles files/folders with path lengths and filename lengths that go past window's normal limits well, which teracopy etc sometimes struggles with; but I can't imagine using it for general folder/file viewing. Also it's fucking stupid how you have to jump through like 5 hoops to get it to preserve the created, modified etc dates of files when copying them, and in fact you have to set that in MULTIPLE locations, even if you check the box that makes it LOOK like it'll do that, you then have to go into the config file and do extra shit on top of that

Fucking insane, I backed up 20tb+ of data and lost most of their date metadata as a result of that shit, I'm gonna have to re-copy everything eventually and I have no fucking clue how I'll handle that since a bunch of the files I've edited or renamed since anyways

>>110167805
>copying utility
Isn't windows' built-in robocopy enough? Personally I never needed more.

>>110167998
Yeah robocopy is sick. It's pretty much all I use if I need to move tons of shit around.

>>110167805
>but I can't imagine using it for general folder/file viewing
It's what it's meant for and it's really comfy. It's just that it has a learning curve to get comfy with it.
https://www.ghisler.com/screenshots_new/en_dark/
The screenshots are a good preview of what it can do. The built-in manual has plenty of info as well. Plug-ins do a lot to make it do just about everything you want it to do.

>>110158014
LTSC 21H2 works the same in 2026 as it did in 2021 and it will still work the same in 2032. It is repeatably reliable. A known quantity.
Meanwhile GAC works today, breaks tomorrow, works next month, breaks next year

Props to MS they actually fixed the start menu, I made it so that only my pinned apps and app folders show up, and hid the All list completely, and disabled any recommendations/suggestions/ads as well as online/bing search. Only big issues that are still bugging me is Photos app refusing to remember if you collapse the sidebar, as well as Microsoft Edge's updates being decoupled from Microsoft Store or Windows Update. Would be really good if they make it so that you can just check for update in settings and it does Edge, Store, Redistributables, everything.

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>>110167998
>>110168005
>robocopy

>>110169320
That's not how computers work. If you used LTSC 2021 in a vacuum, and installed literally nothing on it except apps stuck in time that last recieved updates around time of november 2021 or whenever LTSC 2021 released, then you'd have a close to perfectly reliable/stable tried experience. In reality LTSC constantly retrieves backported fixes and often times features too, like how updates would show teams icon in taskbar or download Outlook app or change the weird new About page in W10 Settings, but it'll be 100% vibe coded and untested to work on that release. You are also running a outdated kernel and setup that not a single other software/hardware tests for, so you are recieving for example NVIDIA drivers built for featureset and bugs of GAC October 2026 25H2/26H2 and using them in an untested environment in 21H2 that's at this point over 5 years of changes and oddities. While computers are so complex that updoots often times just break shit in games like GTA SA specific cars just disappearing after updoots, so imagine how many oddities LTSC faces that nobody knows about because it's userbase and testers are like 100K people compared to 1.5 BILLION people on GAC. Here's an interesting read if you want.
https://gordonmessmer.codeberg.page/dev-blog/2026/10/19/security-showdown.html

>>110169418
if it werks it werks, none of what you said is presenting any problems for me on 21H2

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>>110087190
why are you doing this?

>>110169418
>That's not how it works
>Okay it actually does work that way
>But heres a whole paragraph arguing against things you never said
LTSC 21H2 works the same in 2026 as it did in 2021. No more and no less.

>>110170604
Based retard

>>110169418
>imagine how many oddities LTSC faces that nobody knows about because it's userbase and testers are like 100K people compared to 1.5 BILLION people on GAC
I will trust the knowledge of 100k autists using the same build since 2021, over the knowledge of 1.5 billion NPCs using the same build since September 2026.

>>110170634
Cringe pseud

>>110170677
The percentage of high IQ autists interested in stuff will always be bigger in the GAC pool just by huge pop disparity. Realistically most LTSC users are boomers with lead brain damage, random companies with one autistic IT guy managing them who just puts them on so that old farts working there can use the one program they need without any change, or random indonesian trannies on a vietnamese crop harvesting imageboard that have OCD and autism and reinstall their PC every month and only use it for porn games and genshin impact that they play in their tiny shack with a metal "roof" that gives them a sun stroke and turns them into barely functioning vegetables.

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>>110170719
Everything after your first sentence was wrong and dumb and gay

>>110170783
>lets ai do the thinking for him
most intelligent LTS-GAWD

actually you know, for a special person like you that's a bit on the slower side, a slower special branch like LTS fits just right. have fun anon, you just go on your own pace, the world is scary and not everyone can adapt to things at the same pace and learn at the same pace. Just like Special Education exists, LTSC has too as well. You'll always be mommy's special little boy

>>110170798
No I let it do the thinking for YOU. I already thought about all this years ago, I just have trouble articulating myself in a way that retards can comprehend.