>>103865258
I remember the anon who'se PC-98 laptop that is, good times.

>>103865258
Boomers used to browse like THIS?

>>103865258
>last thread almost survived an entire week
holy shit the memes were real
is /g/ really dead?

>>103865490
>browse
that's 2hu

>>103865258
>need the new CPU scheduler
The fuck does this do?
I do have a 12th gen intel

WinBros, how to achieve this excellence?

>>103866029
Those low ram meme versions work like absolute dogshit in top of containing god knows which malware integrated

>>103865524
might seem like it because in the past 10 years 2023 was the peak of /g/'s activity, cuz ai hype and shit
the numbers for last month or so were still little less than average
I would attribute it to the fact that you can no longer post from phone if you dont want to sit like a little cuck for 15 minutes. so you can no longer post while on lunch break or driving in a bus or whatever
we have eliminated the phone poosters isnt this what you all wished for?

Anyone ran into this before?
I started booting a windows 10 IoT LTSC install on a separate (external) SSD for VR shit, since i failed to do my research and found the vive pro 2 doesn't have linux drivers. This install has whitelist-only based firewall rules, so nothing in or out except steam.
Very often, no matter what's going on (idle, gaming, watching a video), the keyboard input will suddenly freeze, and the keyboard itself becomes unresponsive. I'm forced to either wait indefinitely or unplug the keyboard.
This has only been an issue in windows 11, untested in w10 IoT LTSC.
Issue NEVER occurs in Linux. (Tested Fedora, Debian)

So what's up with the latest windows ltsc update installing a M$ pictures slideshow without my consent? I feel enriched right now

My step-dad told me Windows 10 is going end of support this year, couldn't believe it but I guess it is 10 years old now, yeesh.

He mentioned he can't upgrade two of their computers because they don't meet TPM requirements. I told him I can get around it for them using this pic rel method. Will they have any noticeable errors or anything though you think?

>>103865258
>W10/W11 Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise/Enterprise IoT
>>Preinstalled with: Edge, Win32 system apps, MS Store, UWP apps: Xbox, OneNote, OneDrive, Weather, Skype, Weather, Movies, Music, Disney+, Netflix, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, Spotify, ESPN, Facebook, Twitter, Candy Crush, PicsArt, LinkedIn, Photoshop Express, etc
>>1.5-3 years support
>>Forced version upgrades
Such bullshit, anyone even fact checks this shit or just accepts some headcanon as fact?

>>103867161
picrel looks good, you can also just install w11 iot-ltsc since it doesnt have any requirements by default
also added benefit of him not having to deal with updates other than security updates, staying on w10 ltsc is another option

>>103867238
You are on /g/

I need a w10 installation for dualboot (goyming only) that is as light as possible and has no automatic updates, recommend me which custom/regular image fits this purpose.

I love Windows!

>>103867487
IoT LTSC 2024

>>103868810
For modern gayming btw, if it's old shit then LTSC IoT 2021 would be enough

>>103866325
I browsed more during 2020-2022 than afterwards and it definitely feels more dead now than it's ever been
I don't really browse this board often at all, the post quality is shit and is basically nu-/pol/ with surface-level tech knowledge
but now there's not even discussion at all
other boards aren't quite so bad, post rate on /a/ and /v/ were hit by the new 15min timer but still have plenty of activity

>>103867242
actually completely disagree with this anon
once tried to onboard a normalfag friend to Win10 LTSC IoT and it went terribly
keep in mind that there's no video player/image viewer/Microsoft Store/video codecs installed out-of-the-box, and some drivers can be quirky
There's more I'm probably forgetting
I, like most non-subhumans, just find some fix by doing "windows 10 ltsc video codecs site:reddit.com" or similar and find some redditfag who's posted a powershell command you can copy+paste
but for normies it's instantly DoA if they have to grow a brain and critically analyze the problem
so basically, in place of all the slop they expect on Home OOTB, you'll be their personal tech support tasked with installing it
do not recommend...
nowadays I just advise normalfag friends to stick with standard 10/11 Home and that AI buttons and Recall and whatever other sludge are "ah that's just how computers are nowadays"

> be me
> torrent download and install partition manager to delete efi partition on my ssd and format it as ntfs to be more storage (windows built in doesn't let you delete EFI partitions)
> pressing shutdown now just logs back in and opens browser (which may be set to open on start up idk)

time to reinstall winglows
what do you think anons

>>103869106
> delete efi
> more storage
600MB?

Are you guys comfortable with using telemetry on level 0, or do you think the remaining connections are still a problem privacy-wise? And if you do, what do you do to get rid of those?

>>103869767
I currently have it on 0 + shutup10 recommended settings.

my personal preference is that I don't want my actual personal information be sent by Windows, anonymous info? sure, whatever, I use some slop apps anyway so it's not like I can do anything about it, but I appreciate to at least know that I have as much control as I can without losing my sanity going into the privacy rabbit hole.

In the end, you can't truly trust Windows even if you use all sorts of combinations, it's still corpo shit, if I were that into privacy I would've switched to Linux already. At least for me, this combo gives me enough peace of mind, but of course is always good to learn what other options are out there

>>103868909
Why are normalfags like this..

>>103870054
This pretty much. ShutUp10 recommended settings plus a local account while using a business edition like Enterprise is the most privacy respecting version of modern Windows you can use.

>>103870054
>>103871377
But ShutUp10 isn't open source, so can it truly still be trusted?

>>103871776
It doesn't do anything neferious, just set registry entries and services.
ShutUp10's been around since the start of 10 and hasn't had any controversies so I'd say it's safe.

>>103871776
probably not, after all it looks more like an ad to make their brand known, but so far nothing has been discovered, and there's always other options, privacy.sexy, winutil, just learning Group Policy and diy, Windows has such bad reputation that I think there will always be options for quick privacy settings, or at least I hope so.

>>103865535
It's called Touhou, you chump!

Spell it correctly next time!

>>103871776
I never trust any third party garbage.
HWID2 at least has the excuse of being open source so random autist would call them out.

>>103869230
>600 MB
Windows only uses 100 MB for boot partition.

>>103872317
confused with the recovery partition

>>103871377
>>103871776
You can also use Winutil. I usually use it together with SU10.
https://github.com/christitustech/winutil

when is windows going to natively support VLAN's? and multiple network profiles for a single NIC?

like that was the sole reason why I had to switch back to loonix godammit and it was so comfy

>>103870620
It's 2025 and somehow their brains are getting flatter over time too.

Even fwt starter post holds the fucking solution 75% of the time. Yet they continue to be flat brained beyond belief. Curse of having basic common sense these days is having to deal with normalfags and their negative common sense / low iq slop.

>>103873239
>you dont need vlans for your 2 home computers autismo
yes I do, and that's not for my home you silly
>and you should kys for being a drooling retard doing vlans at the pc level instead of router level
VLAN's are configured at the router level but a trunk port can access multiple ones for management, hint: I manage

I kindly suggest to refrain posting low iq responses, thanks

>>103873326
Closed source bootlicker much?

I've been experimenting with this very new Windows 3.1 display driver recently and it's really impressive but it seems to choke hard at higher resolutions/bit depths.

>>103868909
but you are the subhuman, you can just install VLC and whatever image viewer no need for specific codecs, you think you are above them but don't know how video players work?

>>103873345
holy sovl

>>103873409
friendly windows thread

>>103865258
Reminds me of my first laptop.

I thought i got rid of these, why are they still here aaaaaaaaaa

>>103875102
Well you obviously haven't uninstalled OneDrive from the programs and features menu seemingly. And if you're using a local account OneDrive doesn't even do anything anyway cause it needs an MS account to work.

>>103865524
Do you genuinely enjoy being forcefed advertisement and 'sponsored content' all day long?
Most people-who-are-actual-people don't. So they left. Yes.

Tried going with Linux on a new rig, could flash the usb stick fine and install Linux with it.

Had it up my ass with constant issues on Linux (also maybe some hardware is causing problems, which is harder to tell on Linux), so took the same USB stick, went to my old rig, used rufus to flash it with an ISO I downloaded, all recommended / normal settings.

I format / erase data from my boot SSD with some Bios tool, then went to boot up the stick. Stick is recognized, but on both partitions it says "The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.".

Did formating the stick several times fuck it up, or what's the deal? I can't get a new stick for another couple days to try it again.

>>103876069
IMO you should probably run a diskpart clean on the USB before using Rufus on it again.

>>103876069
Hello, how are you?

I understand that you have startup issues on your Windows, I'm really sorry about that.

I'm a bit paranoid and usually run a quick scan after startup. I have a laptop that started to scan only 20k files instead of the usual 30k with the quick scan option after updating to 23H2. Didn't think much of it for a few weeks, but a few days ago, the same laptop wouldn't auto detect the most recent Firefox update and I had to manually install it.
Scans are clean and I didn't download anything sketchy or click e-mail links. DISM and sfc didn't detect any corrupted files, so I'm thinking it might be something messed up by one of the bigger windows updates.

>>103873345
>very new Windows 3.1 display driver
do you have a link? i remember the os/2 museum releasing one for windows 9x a few years ago, but i wasn't aware there was a modern one for 3.x

>>103873409
Obviously I know that faggot
I use VLC and nomacs, and will probably switch VLC to MPV next time I bother to reinstall windows to match my Linux systems
but when I installed VLC+nomacs for them, they said they "didn't like how it looked" and "wanted the old ones back" so I had to find the commands to install the MS Store to restore the bloated and sluggish stock media players again
and no, you do in fact need to install the extra codecs if you want hardware decoding to be supported in browsers (at least in Firefox, presumably Edge and maybe Chrome), which is what 90% of what normalfags use computers for
my point is normalfags YEARN for the sludge, and any attempts to strip it out will get them asking you to immediately add it back in
some of these people told me they wanted me to uninstall ub0 I installed on their browser, because "they like the ads"
hence, "subhuman"

Is there a (good) way to stop UAC from annoying me. I've had enough with clicking OK on every program I know before it actually starts. I dont think turning it off completely is a good thing, is it? Maybe I can add certain things to exceptions?

>>103875339
not surprising, I hardly used this board to begin with for similar reasons
unfiltered trolling and shitposting that was never punished
90% of posters know jack shit
console war faggotry
'jak/frog spam

on superior boards that behavior gets those fags instabanned immediately, quite literally in under a minute

>>103876356
You can set the UAC level in control panel. You can make it just not notify you ever if you want.

>>103876396
I guess I will have to deal with someone trying to run a program when I'm not looking then, like some chinese game is gonna run a rootkit without me able to say no huh

>>103876413
Well that's basically what you'd need to deal with if UAC annoys you like it does. Either have it on or not at all.

I installed W10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021in a virtual machine now how do i get wifi to work?

>>103877445
If you're using VirtualBox you should just be able to get internet directly through it acting like a direct connection off your own internet via NAT.

>>103877469
im using qemu sirs

>>103877702
I don't have experience with that sorry

>>103877709
when i installed it on my laptop without virtual machines i had to install some wifi drivers for it to work but it doesnt seem to work on the virtual machine

>>103869106
the efi also contained windows boot manager

>>103877748
Sir, you have overstayed your welcome here!

>>103877748
you need to install the virtio-win driver pack
surprised you managed to install Windows on qemu without it, considering the default thin-provisioned disk option needs the special drivers on Windows (you can get around it by using a "raw" disk though)
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/?C=M;O=D
download the latest pack (currently virtio-win-0.1.266-1) and choose either ISO (pass-through as a disk to the VM) or exe/msi (for running natively inside the VM)

>>103878172
using a non-raw disc image format doesn't require guest drivers, that's something qemu handles on the host, the guest doesn't know or care about that. it's the virtual interface that matters, like if you're using virtio for the interface, which is ideal, you need to install a driver for that first since windows doesn't ship with virtio support ootb

Everytime I boot my windows after having booted Linux the clock resets to gmt 0. Why?

>>103878172
pretty sure i installed it
>>103878355
>you need to install a driver for that first since windows doesn't ship with virtio support ootb
how do i do this

>>103878385
as the other guy said, you download virtio-win.iso, attach that to the vm, and use the installer contained in it. it covers many qemu devices, including virtio storage
naturally you have to install windows with the disc set to something else, like sata, then switch it after the driver is installed. i haven't checked if there's an "f6" driver you can use to install windows directly to a virtio disc

>>103878371
the reason is that windows by default sets the RTC (the physical clock hardware in your computer) to local-adjusted time, like the time you see in your taskbar itself
on linux however, the convention is to store GMT time in the RTC, regardless of the timezone you use
this can be annoying with dual booting, since each OS may set the RTC differently each time they're used, or they might not and just assume the RTC is set one way, and display the wrong time, since the RTC has no way to communicate what timezone it's storing

as for solutions, you can can either set linux to store the time in the RTC as local time (supported), or you can set windows to store time in the RTC as GMT time (unsupported, but there's a registry key for it). basically, configure one OS so they both treat the RTC the same way, and you won't have an issue

>>103878371
>>103878501
and if you're wondering why the RTC (Real Time Clock) can't store the timezone, it's a legacy PC thing, not sure why UEFI didn't fix this, guess it's just another example of the industry not caring as long as windows is happy, who has two OS's installed on the same computer anyway?

>>103865258
Waiting for the day that retro laptops make a return
>bulky plastic
>all the ports
>toolless battery swap
>dedicated buttons and sliders for random things like a light
>LEDs to indicate statuses for things you don't need to monitor
>LCDs also to indicate statuses for things you don't need to monitor

But of course modern components inside and practical ports (USB-C, A, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, 3.5mm)

I just wanna go back, I'm tired of all the thin aluminum laptops with just a couple USB-C ports.

>>103872104
>>103872211
>>103872774
Alright so it's either privacy.sexy or winutil (which I didn't know about), which one do you guys recommend?

>>103876341
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/thirty-years-later-the-windows-3-1-video-driver-you-needed/

>>103878807
mid-range gaming laptop

>LCDs also to indicate statuses for things you don't need to monitor
wtf? this probably very rare and rich option

>>103878903
>mid-range gaming laptop
Aside from the ports and being mostly plastic they don't really share much with pre-2010 laptops especially the aesthetics.

That and they're pretty much 15.6" or larger. The X220 was, to me, the last laptop I'd consider meeting the criteria I set out.

>wtf? this probably very rare and rich option
You're probably thinking of the same sort of LCD you'd find on a flat panel. Look at OP's image, that little bar in the middle between the hinges is technically an LCD ("segmented" LCD, where it doesn't drive pixels but pre-cut shapes) like the one you might find on "dumb" HVAC controllers or a digital watch among other things

>>103878462
>naturally you have to install windows with the disc set to something else, like sata, then switch it after the driver is installed. i haven't checked if there's an "f6" driver you can use to install windows directly to a virtio disc
you're able to load the drivers directly in the Windows Installer so you don't need to play hot-potato switching disk formats
there's a dedicated step for it, if memory serves there's some kind of a "load driver" button on the menu when you select which disk to use as the Windows install

>>103879944
yes, that is what i'm referring to as an "F6 driver", since that was a slang term for it in the XP days, owing to the fact you load them by hitting F6 when the installer says so
i don't know if "F6 driver" is what people call it now, i'm not a full-time windows user anymore

>>103881670
>noa wallpaper
based and cunnypilled

>>103881670
Where's Skype pre-installed in Win11 Enterprise?

I'm trying to get my Windows 10 tower PC to go into proper hibernate, not sleep, not hybrid sleep.

I want it to properly power off when I hit hibernate on the start menu. It currently turns back on when you press the keyboard/mouse (despite the latter being disabled in the wakeup-armed command in CMD)

I've enabled hibernation, I've disabled fast startup and hybrid sleep.

What the hell do I do?

does the GPU-Scheduler thing you can activate even do anything noticeable besides lets games use Nvidias fake frames? I feel like turning it off would be best so no game even thinks of Frame Generation

Thank you whoever is maintaining these thread bros

>>103878814
either is fine, you just make sure you understand what setting you're using and their effects, winuitl is a tool made by a youtuber called chris titus tech, he's worked as a sysadmin or something like that for a long time so he knows Windows a lot, he's a Linux shill as well

>>103883072
he's called Satya Nadella

>>103882002
disable sleep at all and just use hibernation without fast boot

If your PC is fairly modern, then it probably uses modern standby, which is the one that still keeps it running, and you can't customize it unless you use some hacky commands.

It also depends on your bios, some allows you to use the classic S3 sleep, but that depends on what your motherboard offers

>>103883552
Disable sleep? Is pic related sufficient?

Also, here's outputs from some commands:

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /a
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S3)
Hibernate
Hybrid Sleep

The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Fast Startup
This action is disabled in the current system policy.


C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
HID Keyboard Device
HID Keyboard Device (001)
HID Keyboard Device (002)
HID Keyboard Device (003)

>Windows 11 user (not the greatest out there, but I am content with it after they made some improvements to mimic Win7
>Dec 3, 2024
>Nvidia has a patch
>Install it since one of the games I wanna play is listed in it
>Very next day, get a random one-off bluescreen
>Annoyed, but that was it for like a week
>Slowly got worse until now I flipflop between "perfectly fine" and a bluescreen on every boot/2 minutes after loading desktop
>Been trying a wide variety of shit and nothing seems to work, system restore somehow lost all my restore backups and hasn't been making any others, can't install Win11 from the net because ???, no viruses, hardware is in perfect condition, just bluescreens all with a variety of error codes
I'm not expecting much, but does anyone have any possible idea what the hell is going on perchance?
GTX 3090, i9-10900K

I run a bunch of stuff out of Docker on Debian in a Hyper-V VM but I don't really like Hyper-V so I'm looking to move to a new VM platform. What's the best for this, VMware, Virtualbox, something else? I could never get pihole to run properly under Docker for Windows or WSL2 or I'd use those instead

>>103884167
Oh yeah and I did try rolling the Nvidia patch back.
The problem persisted.

>>103884131
tbqh that would look enough for me, are you still having issues?

>>103881670
>windows 10
>fucked HDR
>fucked ryzen performance
no thanks

>>103884178
the most straight forward one is Virtualbox, VMware is also very good and it's free now

Is it possible for me to copy the contents of my SSD over to another drive, write another installation of Windows to it, then remove that and copy my old directories back into it and boot once more?

>>103884734
>VMware is also very good and it's free now
Interesting, somehow missed that. Thanks anon.

>>103884734
Every OS I have ever virtualized VirtualBox has done it flawlessly and VMWare has tons of bugs with the same OS. I really hate to recommend Oracle products as a matter of principle but since QEMU performance without KVM is so dogshit it's really your best choice IMO.

>>103884723
HDR is useless meme, ryzen works perfectly on windows 10.

>>103885808
>HDR is useless meme
Says someone who never used proper HDR.

>ryzen works perfectly on windows 10.
7000 and 9000 series chips get up to a 10% boost with Win11 23H2 and 24H2.

>>103885821
>7000 and 9000 series chips get up to a 10% boost with Win11 23H2 and 24H2.
yeah, after losing 10% from downgrading to windows 11 22h2 from windows 10 21h2

>>103885897
Show me Win 11 Enterprise being 10% slower than Win 10 Enterprise.

>>103885821
>thinks there's a fucking difference
lol latest releases of 10 are based on the same exact code as 11
it's more of a simple reskin then xp was for 2000

Do you guys have any CLI software to recommend?

>>103886022
So you can't, okay.

>>103886099
11jeet cope

>>103886112
I accept your concession.

>>103886071
The only cli software I use quite often is yt-dlp. I also run mpv as a cli program when I want to watch web videos (using yt-dlp as well) and livestreams/IPTV.

>>103886071
yt-dlp and ffmpeg are a must if you handle any media like images &/or videos.

>>103886071
as in you don't care what the software does as long as you can run it in CLI?

>>103886071
Speedtest.
Streamlink.
yt-dlp.

>>103886198
I took the CLI pill and I realized I've been missing out on good software or software that's just faster to use with a CLI

>>103885981
11toddler cope
even after 24h2, 11 still loses in 90% of tests to w10
all 24h2 did was fix a launch bug in 11jeetdows that's now keeping it from losing in 100% of tests

>>103886175
>>103886193
>>103886202
Thanks. Was already using ffmpeg and yt-dlp but trying out streamlink and it's pretty cool

>>103886335
>Ryzen 5000
You're illiterate or something?

>>103886406
he's the 11 hater, he's been around a long time despite been exposed many times

>>103886390
git and python are good to have too if you want to dabble in AI stuff and clone repositories.

>>103886496
Well it's more like you -need- git and python 3.10.6 installed if you want to use SD web UIs.

>>103886679
All the more reason to get them!

Why isn't transparency working on my LTSC? I googled it and everyone says to downgrade the nvidia driver, did that and didn't work. I checked the archive and saw a lot of posts saying the same thing with no replies
It only works on my taskbar, and in powershell but doesn't work in Terminal

>>103884705
Yes, still wakes up on keyboard/mouse input (despite, again, the latter being completely disabled!). Those are just my current settings that either Windows or my computer seem to completely ignore.

>>103886071
Scoop is a great program to install if you want to get more into CLI programs. Something like ImageMagick is great for editing and converting image files from the CLI.

I don't know where else to post it but I remember the pastebin having a license for vmware when it was still paid software. Now it's free but they want you to sign in to download the installer first. While googling I found this directory with installers that bypasses the sign in request https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/

Why does BalenaEtcher recommend using Rufus if you try to flash a windows ISO on a USB stick?
Isn't the process of flashing an ISO literally just copying the data byte by byte, rewriting any partition schemes and filesystems? Like what the Linux tool 'dd' would do

this is a shill thread, the best windows is win7, you dont need more

>>103891994
Dx12 does not work on 7.

Speaking of, I'm trying to install a Japanese version of Windows 7 on an older laptop, but it isn't working
If I put GPT as the partition scheme in Rufus, I get stuck at starting windows, before the installer even does anything
If I go with MBR instead, I get a black screen
Any ideas? I've read that Windows might refuse to install if you have redundant disks connected, I have a DVD reader that's not in use, could that be the problem?

>>103891994
this but Windows 2000

>>103892429
This but NT 3.51 Workstation

Where was that thread discussing the news of massgrave or whoever breaking through and unlocking a whole bunch of MS products some weeks back?

Could Windows 7 be refusing to install, because there is currently a Linux OS installed on the hard drive? Should I try installing Windows 10 first, then Windows 7?

IT'S PATCH TUESDAY

LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR PATCH TUESDAY

>>103894253
Already updooted on everything.

>>103888431
could it be that your PC uses keyboard input as the wake up button by default?

I also noticed you still have sleep on for the "sleep button"

Any tips for cleaning out shit you don't need on your Windows installation? I got around 12tb of garbage either from old installers, programs, etc that I need to sort out and optimize.

Is there any method or program out there that can rearrange the "taskbar thumbnail preview" according to the window's positions?
7+ Taskbar Tweaker does have such a feature but you have to do it manually

Windows 10
The Win+Shift+Arrow button combo to move a window between monitors doesn't work
Has this feature been deleted or something?

I made a thread, but maybe I should have asked here. My bad.

I'm losing my fucking mind.
I'm trying to increase the size of the font for the menus in Windows file explorer, including the "save as" box and top tabs.
I've been troubleshooting with Claude for 3 hours.
I'm running Windows 10 LTSC via bootcamp on a 2015 macbook pro 15in with the AMD graphics card.
I tried the following: messing with regedit, trying to increase size of all text, trying different scaling than the bootcamp custom scaling, AMD control panel, all the different Windows control panels/settings menus.
This is what I get for buying this Macbook garbage for 150 bucks. I want to kill myself for being so fucking stupid. Fuck Apple Jeets for not fixing this in the BootCamp defaults.

Is there any kind anon who can tell me how to fix this. I tried my best. I'm an absolute retard, both for buying the old Macbook and running Windows; I know this.
Linux has too many driver issues with stuff like closing lid to sleep. I tried man distros already.

If some kind anon could spoonfeed me the solution to this issue, I would be eternally grateful. I never ask /g/ for tech support unless I have failed on my own. I have failed. Please, help me.

What's the most complete Windows 10 rice out there? Have those guys from WinClassic made anything particular?

>>103890047
Yeah, I use scoop as much as I can since it doesn't bloat PATH, doesn't bother me with UAC popups, and avoids GUI installers
Only thing is it doesn't remove old versions of software automatically when you update so you gotta remember to run:

scoop cleanup *

>>103865258
Does the activator listed here activate older versions of windows as well? I'm running 7 professional sp1 and after a hardware change it started giving me the "not genuine windows" popups telling me to click this button to re-activate it online, except of course those systems are all shut down now. I've tried running the activator and it says its activated but then the popup appears again.

>>103894253
Monthly updates have been so smooth recently. It's gud.

>>103897276
It counts on your edition. 7 Enterprise can be KMS activated using MAS's KMS methods or using KMS_VL_ALL by aboddi.
If it's not Enterprise (or Pro) you can use EzWindSLIC if you installed it to a GPT partitioned driver, otherwise if it's MBR partitioned you can use DAZ Loader.

>>103891974
byte-for-byte copies like what dd does works for "hybrid" isos, like basically anything except windows isos
the issue is that cd's have their own extension for booting them, while hdd's have a different one, and in this context, "hdd" includes ssd's and flash drives, since they're all booted like a hdd is. basically, linux and most non-windows os iso's have both cd-style and hdd-style boot information in them, so they can be booted from a cd or a flash drive as-is. windows only has the cd boot information, so when attempting to boot it like a hdd, it won't work. that's where tools like rufus come in, they add hdd boot information to the flash drive
why microsoft doesn't make their isos hybrid i have no clue

More like Windows ToT

b

>>103865258
is there any difference between w11 iot ltsc 2021 scheduler and the 2024 one. i saw someone complaining. does it even matter at all

>>103886071
I've been fucking around in CLI recently and I gotta say, someone should have told me what DOSKEY does sooner.

>>103895364
Werks on my machine. Some programs might block input of the Win key, sorry I can't be more helpful.

>>103901216
Well LTSC 2021 uses 10 21H2 while LTSC 2024 uses 11 24H2.
11's scheduler can deal with e-core CPUs correctly while 10's can't because it doesn't know what to do (and MS also want people to move to 11.)

Bros, I use two Windows installations, one is Win11 LTSC for general stuff and the other one is Win10 LTSC for games only. When I start the PC the Win11 is the default OS, it starts automatically, but when I select the Win10 the PC restarts, IOS screen, loading again and I'm in the Win10. Question: is there any way to bypass this restart and load immediately the system I chose? Or do I have to install the second OS to a different drive and just choose it from the BIOS boot menu?

>>103901303
I hate Microsoft

>>103865258
I only care about gaming
Is Windows 10 IoT LTSC still the way to go, or will modern anti cheats fuck me?

>>103901909
Modern anti-cheats haven't been found to not run on 21H2 yet, but certain AAA games if you play those want 22H2 at most for whatever reason. If you mostly just play single player games then it's whatever.

>>103901909
for me 11 was always more stuttery than 10, even if you gain some more FPS with 11, 10 run things smoother with better frame pacing.

Windows 10 LTSC is the last good thing made by Microsoft.

>>103902310
Well lucky for you that you can stay on it until 2032 when probably even the next version of Windows will be out. Hopefully all your programs are still working with it by then.

>>103899205
Windows: Cunny Edition when?

>>103901543
you could just install a generic UEFI bootloader and chainload the proper Windows bootloader based on user selection
I've done similar with rEFInd before

>>103902548
Thanks, however I'd avoid any 3rd party tool or loader. I just want to know if it's even possible to to select the second OS without a restart in dual boot. I may get a second SSD for the game OS to store my game files and installations to be completely separate from my other OS.

I debloated a W10 ISO in 2021 and have been running that shit ever since, and I will continue to run it if W11 is as garbage as it appears to be.
The only question is if I should bother to learn the process of debloating W11, or if it's so completely unusable that I'll stick to W10 until W12 or until kingdom come.

What say you?

>>103902886
Debloating 11 is exactly the same as debloating 10. It really isn't that different at all in the backend.

>>103902892
So OO and MSMG still work?

>>103902947
ShutUp10 has worked with 11 for a long time. Dunno about MSMG though, I don't think that works properly anymore. But really you don't need it.

>>103902957
>ShutUp10
When I wrote OO I meant "optimize offline". I want the image to be debloated from the start, nothing running in the background.

>>103902986
I'd say if you really wanna debloat like that just use NTLite

>>103902992
No need to. NtLite is only good for removing first-party drivers, which I can already do.

>>103903008
Why not just use an autounattend.xml file to clean out/pre-setup an install? This generator makes it super easy to make one.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

>>103903043
Because I like to see stuff in real time. Who knows if Windows won't silently ignore or reset stuff it doesn't want me to configure.

I have 3 monitors. is there a way for windows to detect when 1 monitor is off and when I open a program it will load on one my monitors that is still on?

so that when I open a program I don't have to turn on my 3rd monitor and drag it over to the monitor I will be using.

thx 4chin

>>103903087
Anon stop being paranoid. You're already using an Enterprise edition.

>>103903165
>stop being paranoid
Lol no. If life has taught me anything I'm not paranoid enough.

>>103876352
>I use VLC
as i suspected from the beginning of reading your nonsense yapping, you are indeed huge retard.

i installed w10 iot ltsc to my old pc and gave it to my family, nobody has a problem with that and nobody in my family knows fuck all about computers.

if you can't work out setting default programs and setting the enterprise windows so everything is in it just werks mode you are indeed stupid and in no place to call anyone clueless or a normie

>>103902540
such a good -tan wasted on a dogshit OS revision

>>103886071
spotdl
GNU utils (install git and you get them)
7zip

Is conemu/cmder still the go-to for CLI or did everyone move over to Windows Terminal?

"A media driver your computer needs is missing"
answers.microsoft.com is useless
iot ltsc 10 uk edition
HELP ME i just want windows on my pc. ubuntu live boot works btw (2024 on ventoy) but using rufus on another pc and windows iso in ventoy and dd on linux all get different ways of being unable to install windows.

>>103907428
windows installation media to install 10 home/ 10 pro works might go with that I don't plan on using my pc often anyways

>>103903167
then use Troonix

>>103907588
I will once their graphics stack is unfucked, which will probably be never.

>>103906651
Those are still lighter then Terminal in the case you want speed above all else

>>103903155
plz

A couple of the rentry installation guides tell me to use Rufus while another tells me to use Ventoy

>>103909165
You could use either because Windows ISOs boot properly on USBs made with both programs

>>103903155
>>103908672
I'm not sure it's all that helpful for your usecase but there was a program I tried called MultiMonitorTool (Nirsoft) which you could check out. It's probably not the solution, as far as I know there's nothing really robust like that in Windows. Also the program felt just a bit glitchy but maybe I wasn't using it correctly.

Does Windows from Vista onwards perform disk checks and defragging automatically or was this introduced in Windows 10?

Can you Windows To-Go on a IoT Enterprise LTSC edition?

>>103909900
I remember it being a function of Windows 7, it's at least that old.

>>103909900
It was either Vista or 7, where most things used in 10/11 come from.

>>103911628
Rufus can make a Windows To Go USB out of any Windows version IIRC.

>>103909165
both are fine, the benefit of Ventoy is that you can put multiple isos in one drive, while the only benefit of Rufus is that it comes with options to bypass the W11 requirements and online account

Where's my package manager? Linux has APT, DNF, Pacman, etc. macOS has Homebrew. Windows has? Do you just sit in Visual Studio all day?

>>103912699
>your package manager
Sorry, we like backwards compatibility here.

>>103912699
>package manager
winget, scoop, chocolatey

>>103912554
You need rufus to bypass online account? Are you able to use an iso tickled with MSMG Toolkit i Rufus?

>Avoid W11 at all costs
If you say so boss.

>>103912802
no there are other options for that, it's just a quick way to do it

>>103912699
Windows has winget as its package manager if you want to deal with Windows in this way. You can also install the third party package manager Scoop if you'd like.

>>103912699
>Linux has APT, DNF, Pacman, etc.
If you're looking for a Linux style package manager on Windows you will never find one. Every single component on a Linux system is a package right down to the very kernel itself and it is tightly integrated into the base system in a way that is impossible to remove. There is a central repository of signed packages that are compiled from source and packaged maintained all by the distro's own maintainers rather than the people who write the software themselves. Completely different philosophy, Windows just can't compete because even Winget/Scoop/Chocolatey are not integrated into the system the same way.

Does 14th gen intel CPUs really need ECore support?

>>103913235
Strictly speaking, no, only if you want to use your CPU the "intended" way, you might see some gains and power saving here and there, but you have to be really picky to consider that as worth it.

I feel like W10 is going to actually start falling behind once it reaches EOL, since it'll still get security updates, but no performance updates at all

>>103913331
And by falling behind I mean for new CPUs, not the ones that are already out

Updated the guide with new tricks, and better method to disable WU.

>>103913990
concisewin10?

>>103914007
/LTSC

>>103914017
Oh neato, Nice to see the guides housekept.

>>103912975
You could probably make nix/guix/flatpak work, no? The grapheneOS people made android with optional google play services.

Hey guys
I just installed Win10 LTSC IoT onto a new drive and my ethernet isn't working
I still have my other drive and booted into that and it works so idk what's up
Any tips?

>>103914900
You just need to install the LAN driver for your mobo/OEM make. Just go to the support site and the driver section and it should be easy going.

>>103914900
Have you tried checking the device manager?

>>103914908
Will check out tyty
>>103914924
Yeah I'm seeing realtek PCIe... as ethernet and it says cable unplugged
When I go look for LAN drivers I'm gonna see if it shows up the same on my other install

>>103914955
Ok yeah I need the drivers lol
I have an Intel ethernet device showing up in control panel
Thanks guys

>>103914970
Always how it goes. Also keep in a mind a good thing to do would be to export the drivers from your old Windows install connected to that mobo to a folder on a USB then direct the devices that don't work correctly to the driver folder so Device Manager can pick the correct driver to use.

My cpu fans are quiet usually and the cpu is at 45c. But today when I left the pc on idle it started sounding like a jet engine. I ran over to check but immediately when I touched my mouse it stopped. I did this two more times with temps open and the cpu would go to 80c after I'd leave it for a bit and immediately cool down if I moved my mouse even a little. Is someone mining bitcoin on this thing?

>>103915346
Yes.
And there's nothing you can do about it.

>>103915346
Task Manager > App History

Or just leave the task manager open and don't touch the computer to see what it's doing

Do an MRT scan just in case (Start Menu, search for MRT, do a scan).

Is W11 Edu still based on Enterprise? Been using W10 Edu as a middle ground and hoping W11 is the same
Also can Recall still be uninstalled with DISM on a live install? Or did they kill that?

>>103915955
Yeah, Education is still just Enterprise pretty much. Though with how easy it is to get Enterprise these days you might as well just use that.
And Recall only works fully on computers with ARM64 NPU CPUs. You can turn it off in the settings or disable it in the features menu, as it's treated like a togglable feature, like WSL or something.

using windows 11 ltsc 24h2, i have the "WSearch" service disabled but SearchHost still runs in the background.
does anyone else encounter this issue, and are there any known fixes?

>>103916139
Disable indexing on C:\

>>103916187
same issue occurs desu,
also disabled it on my 4 other drives

>>103915984
You mean Enterprise IoT LTSC? Or a more "regular" Enterprise from the business ISO?
I get that it doesn't fully work, but I also don't want it on the system if possible. If DISM works, great, otherwise I'll just GPO it away.

>>103916434
Enterprise is Enterprise. LTSC isn't special besides the longer life cycle and no vestigial UWP crap.

>>103916434
Disabling the Recall feature toggle and disabling it in DISM is the same thing.

>>103916441
>>103916450
Fair enough.
What's the benefit to use Enterprise over Education then?

>>103916598
There's not really a "benefit" really. They're both the same overall.
People used Education because it was easier to acquire a couple years ago. Now it's trivial to get Enterprise.

>>103916619
Ah, thanks bro. I'll make the decision while putting together the new build; seems like I can't go wrong either way.

What causes the black background when typing text on the windows terminal with acrylic on?

>>103866029
The less RAM you have, the less RAM it uses.

>>103873345
But why? Doesn't everything from that era just run on DOS?

>>103917806
Protected mode and DOS don't mix.

According to a schizoposter on the Acer forums, their laptops artificially block installation of any Windows version older than Win10
Go fuck yourself Acer, I want my windows 7 installation

>>103866029
the last version I saw Windows taking less than 1GB was in Windows 8

>>103865258
>Use only if you fell for the 12th+ gen Intel meme and need the new CPU scheduler
does this matter if I have a 12th gen CPU without E-cores (12400)?

>>103920192
no, honey

>>103920228
nigga dont call me honey

>Windows 11 media keys don't work when app is unfocused
Why this shit is so bad

>>103920513
Pajeetware, 10 is the last version where white men still worked on in some capacity. All the old guard MS engineers (people with actual skills and knowledge) have now retired.

>>103920513
it's more of a driver issue, some manufacturers just don't give a shit

Any tips to prevent image retention on my laptop screen? It only started happening after I updated to the new version of Windows 11 with power saving options.

>>103921282
Use dark theme and darker colors on everything in personalization.

>>103885981
not him but actually tested the differences myself on a 16 core zen4 and 10 iot ltsc was faster in cpu related tasks compared to 11 iot ltsc
the talks about 11 being some incredible performance boost for modern high core count cpu's is a myth. only things 11 performs better is file unpacking and the branch prediction stuff. both are irrelevant though and the UI is slow as shit.

How extensive are the conversions provided on the WinClassic forums?

>>103921616
uhuhh

>>103865258
>fwt
>pc9801
i dont get it but I would love for us to close up shop for one thread and have a thread dedicated to pc98.

DAMNATION!!!!

>>103865836
old windblows cant handle cuck cores from intel or something, the energy saving ones.

>>103922054
>win11
>22h2
>revios
>stardock
>select classic mode
it just werks

>>103922054
>DownloadDataInternal
Jesus, what a fuckup.

>>103896370
this is a windows problem that was introduced in 10 and why so many people stuck with 7. Personally i dont let it bother me, but for a while I did try to hack every text to use undertales font for fun, in short, if you want to do anything at all, you are better off either using the latest (but not fully upgraded) windows 11 due to it being a broken mess thats easy to shatter, or a much older version of windows. I use stardock for all my ricing needs. you wont get the autistic conformity anymore though which is why so many people are fucking nuclear mad at computers these days. taking away task bars, taking away menus, busted right clicking, improperly formatted edges. its all jeetware.

>>103886335
what even is win24h2. I use 22h2 through revios. nothing breaks. it seems like most windows functions I want to add like WSA are able to be added through repo right?

>>103886071
for the love of god get a new terminal

>>103886022
i use stardock. it has a searchbar powered by everything.exe
i can literally search all files at light speed

>>103922085
I thought it might have been due to me having simplewall, turned that off, same shit, unless something in the hostfile would be blocking something
iot ltsc 21h2
unless
>Windows Defender still flags this version of SCT as malware. This is only because SCT uses a library that interfaces with low-level system API's, which normal programs do not interface. This is required to enable Classic Theme.
but I get no alerts

>>103922157
simple classic theme is a trashfire and why i switched to 11 and stardock. i do not recommend troubleshooting it, it is not worth the time you are losing

>sct
>windows 10 22h2
works on my machine

>>103922182
>simple classic theme is a trashfire
unless I fucked up something again I can indeed confirm xdxd
I deselected the other addons to be installed and it went further, but the result was a failed abortion
time to see how I can unfuck this lmao

>>103922241
just use stardock. if you refuse then find whoever did the sct you want and PAY THEM to configure your pc from a fresh install. then lock it down like an immutable operating system. theres genuinely no other way imho. its worth it just to not have to deal with it, but if you are already paying some autist you may as well pay the company who occasionally updates and fixes breaks.

>>103922209
>werks
so heres your patsy
get this guy to do it for like 50 bucks.

So what's the deal with C++ packages when it comes to reinstall-proofing? Should I just grab offline versions to have on-hand in the case I need to start over? I've got no idea where half of these are from at this point or what depends on them.

>>103922241
This is why you test stuff on your VM first

>>103922517
ain't no one got time for that

>>103922645
but then you'll taint your virgin OS drive and you'll have to wipe and reformat

>>103922014
>2% better on average
>didn't pinpoint why
>not enterprise
>not iot ltsc build
>microsoft store bloat installed
>didn't test actual cpu tasks
also
>HUB aka bad and good windows installs lololo

>>103922645
If you don't use VMs in 2025 you're NGMI

>>103922443
> I've got no idea where half of these are from
probably your steam games

>>103915346
What happens if you disconnect it from the internet?

>>103865535
ye I'm browsing reimu's armpits alright

I copy-pasted a game install from one drive to a different drive, and now I cannot save in the game. How do I redirect the save to the new save path location?

>>103923590
Not being able to save in the game means folder with saves is probably in read only mode.
You need to remove read only in properties of the save folder.

>>103922151
>for the love of god get a new terminal
Like?

>>103923681
It had no problem saving before.

>>103922802
up to 9%

>>103923863
anything that isn't UWP app

>>103924728
such as?

>>103924728
It's always funny when a someone hates and tries to avoid anything made by MS but uses their fucking operating system

>>103924783
Yeah sorry, I will quickly write my own OS and switch to it

>>103924843
So which terminal do you use?

>>103924728
UWPs as a binary format aren't completely evil, anon. Though I would prefer if there was a more normal binary version of Windows Terminal anyway.
But if anyone wants an alternative Windows terminal there's always cmder, which can do command prompt and Powershell windows as well as having git-for-windows built into it if you get the full package.

>>103924843
He's right though. What is it about UWP that makes you so worried? If it's about it always running in the background, is that not what you want your Terminal to do anyway? By not posting an alternative you come off as someone overly concerned what a bunch of neckbeards in a friendly thread think of your preferred software, and it's quite unhelpful at the very least.

>>103924975
cmder is great
I was reading about someone who set up cygwin under mintty in cmder, but I don't really understand what you gain from that if you have the tools from the git install. Maybe I'm not ready for this knowledge yet, but if anyone can explain why someone might want this I'd be interested in knowing what it's used for.

>>103925048
Well for one it means you don't need to install Git system-wide to your PC I guess for people wanting to keep their Windows more lean while still working on Git projects. Also allowing you to clone Git code as well.

ents, is there any way to get past XP activation in the current year like with W7? Decided to check up on my boyhood Compaq to see if it still worked after almost a decade, got an XP Professional license but with no way to use it afaik assuming activation servers are killed by now.

About to start burning an SP3 iso unless I want to do it by USB with a custom image instead. This thing has the wrong CD installed, albeit a genuine copy.

Loudest pc speaker ever, good god. Just about woke everyone up. Probably ought to buy a boatload of thermal paste cause this thing is already spinning its fans in BIOS, likely never being opened up before.

>>103925292
To activate XP these days easily you need to install the volume version of XP Pro SP3, which has a product key that'll always activate it in the OOBE.

>>103925292
Everything you need:
https://massgrave.dev/windows_xp_links

>>103925335
god I miss when PC were unnecessarily loud.

considering it's a Celeron no wonder it spins the fans right away, but yeah, it might need a good cleanup

>>103925292
Try this m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtB0g3BlXFg

>>103925335
>Loudest pc speaker ever, good god. Just about woke everyone up.
I was using a laptop I forgot made huge noises like that, nearly had a heart attack doing this at the dead of night, I swear to fuck the chirping of the speaker was at 200% of what the max volume normally is. I actually got so annoyed with it that I opened it up and disconnected the speakers entirely from the board so I would never deal with it again. I use headphones anyway! (it ignored them)

>>103925350
>volume version of xp pro sp3
Is this actually out there, and is it any of these?
https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=174
https://archive.org/details/win-xp-pro-sp-3-x-86

>>103925462
Got pills here >>103925358
Actually it looks like the file is the exact same as the one hosted on archive.org https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86 though that one shows a different key
Man it's nice not having to look under desks to steal product keys off physical machines anymore

I would use a flash drive but I don't have a spare on hand and I got plenty of DVD-RW's @4.7GB so as much as I'd want to use a 700MB CD-R for this purpose that I do have I don't feel like spending the morning searching for a smaller DVD-RW right now and I need to test to make sure it works first.

>>103925449
This fake phone activation method must be such a boon for XP archivists.

>>103865258
A friend told me windows forced a bios update on him, what's with that?
I dont remember them being forced on people, plus I checked his motherboard's page and not a single bios update in sight

>>103925657
Could've been a firmware update passed through Windows Update by the manufacturer?

>>103925672
maybe? it was an asus board, booted straight to the ezflash bios utility.
personally Ive had asus boards before but this is news to me

>>103925672
plus it's a 3yo board. I thought they stopped updating them by the second year.
Im not a windows 11 user so that's why im asking, it all seemed pretty weird to me

>>103925364
God, I miss when laptops were designed with full servicability in mind. Honestly I was quite shocked to open this up and discover it uses two 512MB Samsung PC2 modules, so I could literally take my DDR2 modules from other laptops and put them in. The age of this system is clearly not as old as I thought. Gives me hope the HDD will be SATA and not IDE.

Actually screw that, the drive doesn't want to budge at all. I might have to take the loss.

Is it enough to just plug in a hard drive containing a Windows installation via USB and just manually copy over all the files to another disk and boot off that or do I need to use a proper cloning utility?

>>103926142
No, you should use a proper cloning utility like Macrium Reflect 7 Free, which you can get from the OP pastebins.

>>103926142
use dd on leenucks.

>>103926202
It's been said plenty of times that dd doesn't work properly with Windows installs or ISOs.

I *AM* the administrator...

>>103926208
It does though, since I've done it many times and I also use the leenucks.
It was a pain back in the MBR days, but since uefi it's been straightforward. save the partition the esp partition and the destired windows partition, write both back to a new disk - make sure to set the esp partition as esp.
If you've got another disk with windows bootloader on it, you don't even need to bother with the esp partition.

New thread!
>>103926380
>>103926380
>>103926380

>>103926385
Still don't understand just waiting until the current threat hits bump limit before posting a new one, but you have your own inner reasons I guess.

>>103926404
Yeah, baking early is a little cringy, isn't it?

>>103926404
>>103926419
Some Anons get a dopamine hit from the thread being theirs

>>103926437
I'd say certain anons that "run" /fwt/ feel like that, especially when the OP text needs to be like they want and will delete anything added/changed that they don't like.

>>103915265
Late as hell but that's smart
I'll do that, thanks!

>>103865258
The more people spam this, the more the likelihood it gets taken down. MS own GitHub and It does break many laws in many countries targeting "facilitating piracy".

>>103925292
A simple registry edit will do it.

>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents
>OOBETimer -> FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD
>Permissions -> System -> Deny

>>103926594
You can use DISM to do it
>dism /online /export-driver /destination:x:\path\to\folder
You can also do this easily with an offline install via using HirenBootCD and just copying all the folders in the offline system's \system32\DriverStore\FileRepository folder.