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

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Tremolo said:
Out of morbid curiosity I really want to see the day to day of what a windows locked ecosystem type of PC user looks like in the modern day. When I say this I mean they use the dedicated modern microsoft programs provided for every single task they need to do. Groove music for music, outlook + the whole office suite, edge, microsoft clipchamp (LOL) + their amazing photo viewer, etc etc. Honestly I don't even know all the knew dedicated programs they've made for 11, as of recent there's a new terminal text editor of all things now

You really rarely if ever encounter people like this in the wild or see them documented. I know for a fact they exist, definitely not on youtube, but I'm confident they exist.
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People who use Windows Home edition exist.
 
Tremolo said:
Out of morbid curiosity I really want to see the day to day of what a windows locked ecosystem type of PC user looks like in the modern day. When I say this I mean they use the dedicated modern microsoft programs provided for every single task they need to do. Groove music for music, outlook + the whole office suite, edge, microsoft clipchamp (LOL) + their amazing photo viewer, etc etc. Honestly I don't even know all the knew dedicated programs they've made for 11, as of recent there's a new terminal text editor of all things now

You really rarely if ever encounter people like this in the wild or see them documented. I know for a fact they exist, definitely not on youtube, but I'm confident they exist.
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This is basically my work day. Office is the best at what it what it does, so is Outlook. Edge is fine enough that I can't be bothered to install another browser of the company app thing. I like OneNote quite a bit. Clipchamp is already for extracting a snippet of video.

They recently fucked up the media player, though, and viewing a PDF in a web browser makes me want to nuke India.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Who, in the year of our Lord 2025, is using Windows Media Player? Use VLC for videos. Winamp is for audio files since it really whoops the llama's ass.
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IDK man, I just click on an MP4 I extracted from a PowerPoint slide and "Media Player" comes up. However, they took away the ability to hide the control buttons.
 
Someone should make a "distro" based on latest NT kernel and libraries with shell from 7 with option to select classic themes and update it once a couple months for "muh security" crowd. I have 10 LTSC for some games because tinkering with Wine is making me want to pull my hair out sometimes.
 
jeff7989 said:
Someone should make a "distro" based on latest NT kernel and libraries with shell from 7 with option to select classic themes and update it once a couple months for "muh security" crowd. I have 10 LTSC for some games because tinkering with Wine is making me want to pull my hair out sometimes.
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I'm not sure how doable that is as Windows is closed source and a rats nest of spaghetti code.

What you're thinking of could be done with BlackBerry OS as the OS comprised of data blobs for each components where older or newer blobs were largely interchangeable, and was often used to get more stable components that were only released on one carrier, but I think there were limits to how much you could change things by
 
jeff7989 said:
Someone should make a "distro" based on latest NT kernel and libraries with shell from 7 with option to select classic themes and update it once a couple months for "muh security" crowd. I have 10 LTSC for some games because tinkering with Wine is making me want to pull my hair out sometimes.
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This sort of exists. There's a project that wrapped Win7 Explorer to run on windows8, 10 and 11. I haven't tried it out and I don't know if it's even active any more, but it's there.

e: Turns out it is still active.
 
Get Phobo said:
IoT editions (21H2) are currently reporting to not be receiving any more updates. Non-IoT ones (22H2) do not.

Allegedly, that's just a visual bug.
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Self-quoting because I found a way to solve it.

So, apparently, the message doesn't go away if you block Microsoft's telemetry servers, e.g., via your Windows' hosts file or a firewall blocklist. The solution is to temporarily re-enable/unblock telemetry (you may have to restart), search for updates again. The message should be gone now, and Windows Update should tell you that you're up to date. You can now block telemetry again, until next time when they fuck up again.

If it still doesn't go away, check in Regedit whether the DWORD (32-bit) value "DisableOneSettingsDownloads" under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection exists, and is set to 0. If it doesn't/isn't, then create it and/or set to 0.

One more thing: That message may also persist if you've used an ESU token hack on your device. In that case, you need to remove that token, typically using the same script you've used to install it. LTSC doesn't need any such tokens.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I'm not sure how doable that is as Windows is closed source and a rats nest of spaghetti code.

What you're thinking of could be done with BlackBerry OS as the OS comprised of data blobs for each components where older or newer blobs were largely interchangeable, and was often used to get more stable components that were only released on one carrier, but I think there were limits to how much you could change things by
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Are you talking about the old BBOS? The one that wasn't by definition really a full Operating System and was just a means of bootstrapping J2ME? That one?
 
Baraka Obama said:
Are you talking about the old BBOS? The one that wasn't by definition really a full Operating System and was just a means of bootstrapping J2ME? That one?
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I don't quite remember if it was the old version or BB10, but I think it was os 8 and 9
 
If someone wants to use Office/Word on their new Win11 laptop, should they just bite the bullet and create a Microsoft account to unlock the software (it's in read-only mode), or is there another way? I already bypassed the Microsoft account requirement during first startup and set up a local user account. This is a laptop I bought a few days ago and will be handing off to someone later.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
If someone wants to use Office/Word on their new Win11 laptop, should they just bite the bullet and create a Microsoft account to unlock the software (it's in read-only mode), or is there another way? I already bypassed the Microsoft account requirement during first startup and set up a local user account. This is a laptop I bought a few days ago and will be handing off to someone later.
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Massgrave
A Microsoft account will not unlock Office without a subscription
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
If someone wants to use Office/Word on their new Win11 laptop, should they just bite the bullet and create a Microsoft account to unlock the software (it's in read-only mode), or is there another way? I already bypassed the Microsoft account requirement during first startup and set up a local user account. This is a laptop I bought a few days ago and will be handing off to someone later.
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https://massgrave.dev/ they would have to use this to activate Office.
 
SpellforceFan said:
HELLO, HELLO GOOD SAAR, WINDOWS 11 BLOODY BASTARD BENCHOD FUCKUP HAS HAPPENED, PLEASE DO THE NEEDFUL AND DO NOT UPDATE!
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Crossposting from the Linux thread with more info:

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https://x.com/WindowsLatest/status/1979635547921646058
https://archive.ph/wip/sUBE9

They just straight up managed to break the entirety of WinRE in a stable branch.
 
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