The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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Moist Boys said:
How long are the Win7 ESUs good for? Is it truly dead now? I think Windows 10 IOT LTSC goes until 2027.
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They're done but Windows Server 2008 R2, which is for all purposes identical to Windows 7, is still getting " Premium Assurance" security updates until Jan 2026. You can download those and apply them manually if a real whopper shows up between now and then.

Edit: while looking into how to find them I noticed there is a tool someone developed to detect which KB fixes aren't applied and add them automatically: https://blog-simplix-info.translate.goog/updatepack7r2/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Please ignore the cringelord UA crap.
 
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Moist Boys said:
Linux autist here. I think I've used IceWM for 20 years, Openbox for a quite a while too as far as window managers requiring almost no resources. Mabox is Arch with Openbox. They run on a 12 year old Thinkpad gracefully. Linux Mint is the most intuitive, and is easiest to get going with great driver support if you are considering Lunix.

If you need gaming, Bazzite or Nobara are the bees knees. You still won't be able to play Fortnight or anything that requires kernel-level DRM. Everything else is golden.
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WOW

Its so crazy that some linux tranny wandering into anything that mentions windows and gives suggestions on which linux version their domtopstepdad would like them to use. Its really cool of you doing this, maybe you could tell everyone why other than some shitty free software you find in cereal boxes, fuck all runs on the tranny system that is linux.

WOW, its so amazing. WOW!
 
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Does anyone have any idea how I would go about debugging a program that uses win32s running on Windows 3.11 relying on share.exe without the answer being ‘use vshare.386’. I’m asking because theoretically this program should work without vshare.386 and I need to research this for historical purposes.
 
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George Lucas said:
Does anyone have any idea how I would go about debugging a program that uses win32s running on Windows 3.11 relying on share.exe without the answer being ‘use vshare.386’. I’m asking because theoretically this program should work without vshare.386 and I need to research this for historical purposes.
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I think I used Ollydebg back in the day.
 
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GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Bad enough i have to use W11 at work. But windows update won’t go away like a creepy crush or ex. I click on update tonight. And the damn thing still wants me to click a button to update now.

Fuck this gay ass OS.
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Update tonight doesn't seem to work on my work computer. I schedule it but it never installs.

I'm beginning to prefer using the DOS machine over windows
 
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Moist Boys said:
How long are the Win7 ESUs good for? Is it truly dead now? I think Windows 10 IOT LTSC goes until 2027.
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Friendly reminder for Windows 7 autists: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 will receive updates until January 2029 without any ESU bullshit. Even without debloating it's perfectly usable. This was the last LTSC edition with 10 years of support, starting with 2021, Pajeetsoft reduced it to 5 years o algo (except IoT)
ParasiteSteve said:
niagara-level clitty leak
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at what age have you been diagnosed?
 
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Seethan Ralph said:
(except IoT)
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Which you can get from Massgrave, or better yet, install regular LTSC 2021 and then install a different key to make it IoT and have Windows 10 updates until 2032. Functionally it's all Windows 10 21H2.
If you want to make sure that Massgrave's ISO's are clean, here's a way to get first party SHA256 hashes.
1. Go here, obviously you'll need a free MS account: https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads
2. Select "All Downloads"
3. Search for "windows 10 ltsc"
4. Select the desired ISO language and architecture
5. Press the :informative: icon in the "Info" column corresponding to your chosen ISO
6. Use something like 7-zip to do a SHA256 hash of the downloaded ISO and cross reference it with the hash from Microsoft.
If it's identical, it's a clean ISO, safe to install.
 
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Has anyone else found that Windows 11 completely ignores power settings on laptop?

Specifically things like sleep, close-lid settings etc. No matter what I select, Windows 11 just does whatever the fuck it wants completely at random like ignoring my inactivity setting and instead of just turning off the screen it goes into hibernation, when I close the lid sometimes it inexplicably stays on and drains the battery completely in a couple of hours.

The annoying thing is its all completely random - sometimes it does what its supposed to based on the settings but sometimes it just does whatever the fuck it wants.

If it wasn't for vidya and a couple of Windows programs I use on it I would have installed linux already.
 
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Stasi said:
Has anyone else found that Windows 11 completely ignores power settings on laptop?

Specifically things like sleep, close-lid settings etc. No matter what I select, Windows 11 just does whatever the fuck it wants completely at random like ignoring my inactivity setting and instead of just turning off the screen it goes into hibernation, when I close the lid sometimes it inexplicably stays on and drains the battery completely in a couple of hours.

The annoying thing is its all completely random - sometimes it does what its supposed to based on the settings but sometimes it just does whatever the fuck it wants.

If it wasn't for vidya and a couple of Windows programs I use on it I would have installed linux already.
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Have you got it set for both plugged-in and battery? If so, I'd try resetting the power plan back to default, then redo my preferred settings; see if that fixes it.
 
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Have you got it set for both plugged-in and battery? If so, I'd try resetting the power plan back to default, then redo my preferred settings; see if that fixes it.
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Yep, have it set up for both but something is clearly borked. I'll try resetting to defaults and see if that does anything.
 
I remember Windows 10 had an issue where Live Tiles would keep the computer from sleeping which was so stupid. There might be something running that keeps waking the computer.
 
Stasi said:
Has anyone else found that Windows 11 completely ignores power settings on laptop?

Specifically things like sleep, close-lid settings etc. No matter what I select, Windows 11 just does whatever the fuck it wants completely at random like ignoring my inactivity setting and instead of just turning off the screen it goes into hibernation, when I close the lid sometimes it inexplicably stays on and drains the battery completely in a couple of hours.

The annoying thing is its all completely random - sometimes it does what its supposed to based on the settings but sometimes it just does whatever the fuck it wants.

If it wasn't for vidya and a couple of Windows programs I use on it I would have installed linux already.
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An individual application can prevent your computer from going to sleep. Run "powercfg /requests." Sleep mode isn't absolute, mainly so that Windows Media Player won't go to sleep during a movie. But it's not a WMP exception, the operating system has general flags that anything can set to prevent sleep.

As far as I know, OSX has GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP mode that can't be overridden.
 
The Ugly One said:
OSX has GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP mode that can't be overridden
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Being able to close the lid while the system was running used to be a special toggle that could be enabled with a free "maintenance" tool called OnyX. I stopped using OSX when Yosemite rolled out, so I have no idea if this is still true.
 
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Microsoft is completely removing the bypassnro script. If you don't know, this is the main script everyone uses to skip setting up a Microsoft account to use Windows 11. Some users are pointing out that you can still use the net command to manually add a user and add it to the administrators group but we'll see how long that lasts. You can also apparently just add the registry key manually during install (lol lmao the absolute state of Wangblows in 2025).

Microsoft is not going to be satisfied until (You) make a Microsoft account and sign in with it on startup.

Miller said:
>Apple stops supporting the locked computer/phone after a couple of years
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MacOS hardware support cycles are probably longer than Windows ones at this point. Despite being five years into the ARM transition, they're still releasing new versions of MacOS for x86.
 
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