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

The Ugly One said:
New laptop chips have it. Desktop chips still don't, but probably will next gen. New EPYCs don't, either. Not sure about Xeons.
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I'm certain that Intel's new ultra desktop chips have dedicated hardware for AI, and doesn't AMD's 9000 series have the same?
 
Betonhaus said:
What's the status of Windows 10 development? TikTok had a rumor that Microsoft was still committing to it and may release a 25h2 or 26h1 version.
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The only thing of the sort I read a few days back is that we may still get blessed with another LTSC release, based on 22h2. I don't remember the source, I think it was speculation of what Microsoft might be forced into doing given how much Win10 is still used.

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Jang Joo said:
The only thing of the sort I read a few days back is that we may still get blessed with another LTSC release, based on 22h2. I don't remember the source, I think it was speculation of what Microsoft might be forced into doing given how much Win10 is still used.

EDIT: wording, elaborated
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It will be like 7. They will try everything to scare people into "upgrading" but eventually will relent, put out one final patch and/or "officially" extend support another year or so. People don't like 11. They don't want to use 11. There's no compelling reason to upgrade to 11, unlike going from 7 to 10, which did have some benefits even for aging hardware.
 
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thejackal2 said:
There's no compelling reason to upgrade to 11
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Well, there is one potential reason: you want to use hardware that they don't make Win10 drivers for. Wireless cards supporting WiFi 6 and above are probably the most common example.
 
A bit of a rant and request for help.

I've just installed a new NVME and HDD and thus needed to reinstall windows 11. I avoided having to sign in during the installation (fuck you Kikerosoft) and now it says I have to activate windows before I can change my own desktop background picture. lol, lmao even.

What program/tinkering can I do to remove as much Kike from Kikerosoft? I want to strip as much bollocks out of it as possible. I've uninstalled Onedrive and Copilot, but I want Microsoft to have as little control as possible over my PC, and me give away as few details as possible. No, I don't want to create an account to just download shit from the internet.

FWIW: I do use Linux on my other computer, but I use my desktop PC rig for gaming, which is easier on Windows than Linux.

Thank you fellow Kiwis.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
A bit of a rant and request for help.

I've just installed a new NVME and HDD and thus needed to reinstall windows 11. I avoided having to sign in during the installation (fuck you Kikerosoft) and now it says I have to activate windows before I can change my own desktop background picture. lol, lmao even.

What program/tinkering can I do to remove as much Kike from Kikerosoft? I want to strip as much bollocks out of it as possible. I've uninstalled Onedrive and Copilot, but I want Microsoft to have as little control as possible over my PC, and me give away as few details as possible. No, I don't want to create an account to just download shit from the internet.

FWIW: I do use Linux on my other computer, but I use my desktop PC rig for gaming, which is easier on Windows than Linux.

Thank you fellow Kiwis.
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Look for a KMS activation script. There's about 30+ on Github.
I use a local KMS Server with py-kms to keep all my local windows activated, even though I have real licenses.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
A bit of a rant and request for help.

I've just installed a new NVME and HDD and thus needed to reinstall windows 11. I avoided having to sign in during the installation (fuck you Kikerosoft) and now it says I have to activate windows before I can change my own desktop background picture. lol, lmao even.

What program/tinkering can I do to remove as much Kike from Kikerosoft? I want to strip as much bollocks out of it as possible. I've uninstalled Onedrive and Copilot, but I want Microsoft to have as little control as possible over my PC, and me give away as few details as possible. No, I don't want to create an account to just download shit from the internet.

FWIW: I do use Linux on my other computer, but I use my desktop PC rig for gaming, which is easier on Windows than Linux.

Thank you fellow Kiwis.
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You go to settings and click through the Activate menu, assuming you had a legal copy to begin with.
 
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Reminder 1: https://massgrave.dev
Massgrave has links to LTSC ISO's as well as his Microsoft Activation Scripts, which, in case you don't trust, and rightfully so, are open source and all the activation methods are documented with step-by-step instructions on his website.

Reminder 2: https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads
Always verify your ISO's. To make sure whichever ISO you've gotten hasn't been tampered with, you can get the official SHA-256 checksums from here. A free Microsoft account is required.
Checksum lookup instructions
Windows 10 IoT LTSC will be supported until 2032, and chances are you won't be using anything where the frozen 22H2 NT kernel will become an issue by that point.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
What program/tinkering can I do to remove as much Kike from Kikerosoft? I want to strip as much bollocks out of it as possible. I've uninstalled Onedrive and Copilot, but I want Microsoft to have as little control as possible over my PC, and me give away as few details as possible. No, I don't want to create an account to just download shit from the internet.
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for future reference: if you're serious about the topic, i would recommend reading through the sticky on MDL:
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/windows-10.54/ or https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/windows-11.64/
it's been a while since i last visited the forum but KedarWolf and MSMG had really nice guides that were used in the creation of Chris Titus Tech toolkit iirc (irm christitus.com/win | iex)

the correct approach to lobotomizing winOS is by removing the packages and components from the .iso prior to the installation. once the OS is live it requires a certain degree of knowledge to remove those packages, services without fucking up dependencies. especially nowadays with the topic of "debloating" and "optimisation" being so popular, there are many copypaste scripts that lack any understanding of sys architecture.
 
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freund said:
for future reference: if you're serious about the topic, i would recommend reading through the sticky on MDL:
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/windows-10.54/ or https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/windows-11.64/
it's been a while since i last visited the forum but KedarWolf and MSMG had really nice guides that were used in the creation of Chris Titus Tech toolkit iirc (irm christitus.com/win | iex)

the correct approach to lobotomizing winOS is by removing the packages and components from the .iso prior to the installation. once the OS is live it requires a certain degree of knowledge to remove those packages, services without fucking up dependencies. especially nowadays with the topic of "debloating" and "optimisation" being so popular, there are many copypaste scripts that lack any understanding of sys architecture.
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or else this happens

im joking im just retarded when it comes to computers
 
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Mike Matei's Penis said:
Is the CoPilot/Recall shit coming to Windows 10? Hope not, I heard it recently got stealth added with Explorer to 11 in a recent update.
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Copilot has been rolled out for Windows 10, but I think it is hardware dependant, because every computer doesn't seem to have it. Recall is not coming out for Windows 10 afaik.
 
Never Scored said:
Copilot has been rolled out for Windows 10, but I think it is hardware dependant, because every computer doesn't seem to have it. Recall is not coming out for Windows 10 afaik.
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I think Copilot for Windows 10 is largely a Edge browser feature. It was supposed to have a detachable sidebar you kept on your monitor all the time but I think that got ditched
 
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installing last years version of windows didnt fix the blue screen issue. tf did they force on me?
 
Never Scored said:
Copilot has been rolled out for Windows 10, but I think it is hardware dependant, because every computer doesn't seem to have it. Recall is not coming out for Windows 10 afaik.
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My old 22H2 home edition laptop updated itself and installed copilot on the taskbar randomly. Doesn't have the machine specs to be able to do anything but that doesn't mean something worse than recall isn't coming out next year and will discreetly record my tender thoughts and moments with online friends.
 
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