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

Kosher Dill said:
I absolutely refuse to believe that as many as 1% of the global Windows userbase reinstalled their operating system in a single month. It's more likely that the Win11 users exited the Windows statistics altogether - just bought a Mac, or switched to using their smartphone for everything, or 41%ed themselves. But since the original data only provided percentages, not raw numbers, we can't really say if the absolute Win10 userbase increased, or just its relative share.

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I know someone personally that did it. They had worked with windows 11 for 6 months before finally giving up and switching back. It sounded like they just got out of prison.

In fact, when I bought a new laptop, I personally uninstalled the window 11 it came with for windows 10. I forgot I did because I didn't even for a moment consider using 11 and acted with the same mindset as if I was setting up an entirely blank computer.
 
I haven't had issues with Windows restarting on its own in years. I do remember having issues with it 5+ years ago but even then it was at night. If you're having serious issues with it I'd recommend looking into a tool like shutup 10 - that will usually let you disable obnoxious features being pushed out by MS.
 
There were lots of bumps with the auto-update rollout. There always are with new things. It turns out that letting users defer updates endlessly is a bad thing, precisely because of what happened. Users clicked whatever they needed to click to make a pop-up go away so they could do their work, and eventually, their computers said "NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY, WE'RE UPDATING AND REBOOTING NOW." This angered users, so they changed it to automatically look for times when users are known to not be on and update then.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I definitely don't appreciate all the ads Windows 11 has.
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It's a good thing so much crap that they implement is based on Edge. The funny thing that even without proper scripts, you could just... delete it's installation folder and Windows won't see anything wrong with it. It's not even super protected like the UWP installation folders. All the garbage additions you'd never use break, but the OS is just fine. :story:
 
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I was having issues with authenticsting for my OneDrive file vault and discovered that that have been dozens of failed login attempts a day on my Microsoft account. I tried setting my account to be passwordless, but they still happen. I know it's meaningless if they can't get past my 2fa but it skeeves me out still. Turns out I can set one of my email aliases as my login and disable logging in from other email addresses so hopefully that works. It's one I have never used for email
 
xXthrowawayaccountXx said:
In fact, when I bought a new laptop, I personally uninstalled the window 11 it came with for windows 10. I forgot I did because I didn't even for a moment consider using 11 and acted with the same mindset as if I was setting up an entirely blank computer.
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Reformatting your new computer is just good practice in general, getting rid of the OEM bloatware even if you do just reinstall the same OS it originally came with.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Exception is when the OEM does shady shit like imbedding bloatware installers in the driver autoinstaller in the firmware
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It's especially fun when it happens with ATX parts. My Gigabyte motherboard has that shit. On by default, so whenever my UEFI resets I have to make sure to uncheck it so that they won't inject that shit into my OS. And it already had a fucking security exploit. This should be prohibited by law.
 
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Slav Power said:
It's a good thing so much crap that they implement is based on Edge. The funny thing that even without proper scripts, you could just... delete it's installation folder and Windows won't see anything wrong with it. It's not even super protected like the UWP installation folders. All the garbage additions you'd never use break, but the OS is just fine. :story:
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I personally could only delete it in safe mode, don't know if I made life more complicated for myself or if it's the only way. I also edited a registry key to stop Windows from reinstalling Edge after an update.
 
Slav Power said:
It's especially fun when it happens with ATX parts. My Gigabyte motherboard has that shit. On by default, so whenever my UEFI resets I have to make sure to uncheck it so that they won't inject that shit into my OS. And it already had a fucking security exploit. This should be prohibited by law.
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Yep. I have an ASUS laptop with shitware that won't go away permanently. I can be as violent as "boot into linux and delete it from C:" and in the next monthly update cycle it's back. I already disabled Windows Update fetching OEM bullshit but there's nothing to disable in the UEFI.
I just gotta hold that L, every single month.
 
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Whelp, looks like I'll be switching my old computers to Linux Mint
 
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ZMOT said:
it absolutely restarts, that screen message is just the final warning. if you don't click it away the updates get installed. so if you run your machine over night, and the updates get installed in the "off-hours" (which usually is at night) you gonna wake up to a complete new session.

granted it gives you ample warning, most people will just click away tho like they do everything that nags them (see UAC being a fool's errant)
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So disable automatic updates? Windows 10 (not sure if this has been included since 1507 but it definitely exists since 1803) lets you disable them under a group policy setting.

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Configure Automatic Updates

It's beyond amusing to me to see Linux retards hold automatic updating as the "GOTCHA!!!!! LINUX DOESNT DO THIS!!!!!! I CAN LEAVE MY COMPUTER ON FOR 50 YEARS ON LINUX BUT YOU CANT WITH WINDOWS LMAO" when you can just fucking disable them. What a bunch of homosexuals, this shit can be discovered by doing a fucking google search.

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jeff7989 said:
That doesn't look like a thing available in home editions of windows you tard.
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Why the fuck are you using the home edition? And besides, the people who bitch about this are not the people who are going to be paying for Windows and are fine with using things like KMS AIO, so again, why the fuck are you using home edition?
 
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Why the fuck are you using the home edition? And besides, the people who bitch about this are not the people who are going to be paying for Windows and are fine with using things like KMS AIO, so again, why the fuck are you using home edition?
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I would presume because the computer came with Windows Home?
 
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