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

[Slav Power]

the spyware aspects and the insanely annoying update model

Funny, because that's the two main complaints people had about 10 back in 2015, but I guess people as a collective have the short span memory of a goldfish so they willingly forgot about that and happily used 10 until 11 came around, and now that the "spying" is more blatant with Recall, now people repeat the same talking points they had about 10. Yet 10 wasn't the breaking point that made them switch to something else, and the same will happen with 11. People will memory hole it and keep using 11, it already superseded 10 in market share.

By the way, I'm yet to see proof about Recall actually sending all of it's data to Microsoft/NSA/insert your preferred boogeyman here. The bigger issue is the fact that this sort of data is collected, catalogued and stored on your PC in the first place, and here the threat is not the government spying on you (they've been doing that since before 10 btw), but this data somehow being accessed by unauthorized people, be it people you know personally that hate you and managed to get access to your laptop, or a thief that stole it, or hackers since this will 100% become an attack vector and at some point a security flaw will be found that'll lead to data leaks. That's the actual issue with Recall, not this retarded "NSA watching me jack off spying on me Obama you fucking nigger" worry people had ever since 10 released a fucking decade ago.

Quite literally, this video will be 10 years old in September.

 

[The Ugly One]

My main complaint is taskbar icons randomly disappear for no reason, and sundry other basic usability bugs, like my mouse pointer sometimes being completely disabled when returning from sleep.

 

[Slav Power]

my mouse pointer sometimes being completely disabled when returning from sleep

I think I know that bug, it's like no matter where you click, it all goes to the desktop layer. I found that hitting Win+L and then logging back in manages to fix the issue, and it exists on Win10 as well.

 

[Jang Joo]

If I'm not mistaken, the Windows OS that introduced spyware was the beloved Windows 7. It wasn't there on release but it was added later via some update. Chris Titus talked about this years ago in some video I can't be assed to find, might not have even been the main subject.
What really offends me in Windows 11 is the basic tasks that take seven years to get going. Fucking soydevs. I'm not thrilled about the AI shitware that keeps gaining privileges in systems either. It's like they want to put a God in your computer. Except that God is both evil and stupid. Like the soydevs that put him there now that I think about it.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

If I'm not mistaken, the Windows OS that introduced spyware was the beloved Windows 7. It wasn't there on release but it was added later via some update. Chris Titus talked about this years ago in some video I can't be assed to find, might not have even been the main subject.

Telemetry features as you know it were introduced with Windows 10, and then backported to Windows 7 and 8.1 shortly after.
Windows 7 and 8/8.1 stock is completely spyware free.
Here's a list of updates to avoid if you care about that stuff.

 

[Gaddafi]

Sorry if this is annoying or the wrong thread, but how do you  completely delete all the useless bullshit on Windows? I uninstall programs, close shit in Task Manager, and for some godforsaken reason there is ALWAYS some bullshit. I literally only play normie games on Steam and draw on free software so it's not a malware thing.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Sorry if this is annoying or the wrong thread, but how do you  completely delete all the useless bullshit on Windows? I uninstall programs, close shit in Task Manager, and for some godforsaken reason there is ALWAYS some bullshit. I literally only play normie games on Steam and draw on free software so it's not a malware thing.

Run your Windows Powershell as an admin, paste this command: iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex , hit Enter. All the cool computer janitors use it to make Windows not suck.

 

[Hellwalker]

Sorry if this is annoying or the wrong thread, but how do you  completely delete all the useless bullshit on Windows? I uninstall programs, close shit in Task Manager, and for some godforsaken reason there is ALWAYS some bullshit. I literally only play normie games on Steam and draw on free software so it's not a malware thing.

The ones that I use all the time on a new Windows installation are Win11Debloat and privacy.sexy. On regular versions of Windows 10, both combined got rid of a ton junk but some functionality was broken. It wasn't anything important (It was shit that had different ways of accomplishing what the broken function could do) but it's just something that's gonna happen since Windows has been so fucked and everything depends on something else that depends on something else. There are a lot of things that privacy.sexy in particular could do that you probably don't want it to do so research and read the little information bubbles. There's some things that you can't revert.

I do run Windows 10 loT LTSC which already comes pre-disposed of a lot of the garbage so I just ran both to get rid of all the other useless stuff I didn't want and it has been a clean experience ever since. On loT LTSC, none of the functionality that was broken on regular versions of Windows has been broken here so that's a plus.

Also, if nothing else in the world can get rid of Microsoft Edge, this script works flawlessly

 

[Betonhaus]

What's the best way to get a Windows 8 style start menu on LTS 2025 IoT? I'm ordering a OPS module for my smartboard to use as a htpc (that's touchscreen)

 

[crowabunga]

Not only does the windows 11 UI lag, sometimes it just doesn't take input! Occasionally I'm unable to enter text into the start menu search bar for many seconds after login, despite the keyboard being functional for other text entry fields.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Run your Windows Powershell as an admin, paste this command: iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex , hit Enter. All the cool computer janitors use it to make Windows not suck.

The ones that I use all the time on a new Windows installation are Win11Debloat and privacy.sexy. On regular versions of Windows 10, both combined got rid of a ton junk but some functionality was broken. It wasn't anything important (It was shit that had different ways of accomplishing what the broken function could do) but it's just something that's gonna happen since Windows has been so fucked and everything depends on something else that depends on something else. There are a lot of things that privacy.sexy in particular could do that you probably don't want it to do so research and read the little information bubbles. There's some things that you can't revert.

I do run Windows 10 loT LTSC which already comes pre-disposed of a lot of the garbage so I just ran both to get rid of all the other useless stuff I didn't want and it has been a clean experience ever since. On loT LTSC, none of the functionality that was broken on regular versions of Windows has been broken here so that's a plus.

Also, if nothing else in the world can get rid of Microsoft Edge, this script works flawlessly

Should you still use these scripts if you are on Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC?

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Should you still use these scripts if you are on Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC?

No clue. I'm on 11Pro and it worked for me. Give it a try and if you bork your windows install let us know!

 

[StacticShock]

Should you still use these scripts if you are on Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC?

if your stuff breaks at best you will need to do the dism cleanup reinstall shit and the garbage will reinstall itself once windows updates anyway.

 

[Stasi]

Windows auto updates on my laptop and now my external monitors hooked up over USB-C don't work.

I hate this piece of shit OS so fucking much.

 

[George Lucas]

Mandatory Win 10 to Win 11 upgrades seem to be happening at a lot of different companies. A lot of these upgrades are failing. Microsoft can’t even make a working upgrade process even while they’re shoving this down everyone’s throats.

 

[Slav Power]

Assuming that's the same problem I had, unplug the power cable and hold the power button for around a full minute.

RAM flush? The way I do it is switch off the power supply, press the power button a few times and flip it back on. It's usually enough to discharge the system. I wouldn't doubt if the first hit is enough since that's when the leftover energy in the PSU jolts up the LED's and fans for a short second before going dead.

 

[Gog & Magog]

How come my Files Explorer often freeze and crash after scrolling through my music folder?

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

How come my Files Explorer often freeze and crash after scrolling through my music folder?

Get better music. What man has that many Taylor Swift albums? Seriously.

 

[Combustion Engine]

How come my Files Explorer often freeze and crash after scrolling through my music folder?

Explorer is a retarded piece of crap and it's opening each and every file in its entirety to grab metadata, generate previews and whatever. Most noticeable with large wav, flac files. Good luck trying to stop it.

 

[Betonhaus]

I'd like to convince my work to switch to something else but our timeclock software and DWG TrueView are windows only and the IT company we contract out to doesn't do Linux.