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

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No, stalker children, Windows is not broken. You bloody behenchode bastards will enjoy prison. :tomlinson:
Windows at least has an RE, and one that even a noob can navigate. Most Linux distros only leave you with chroot.

BTW, I recommend a Macrium Reflect recovery drive for offline backup and restore as well as simple offline filesystem repairs. It literally is a Windows RE, but one that doesn't get screwed up by updates because it's never updated in the first place.
 
Windows at least has an RE, and one that even a noob can navigate. Most Linux distros only leave you with chroot.
I don't get it, we didn't have a recovery system in Windows for the longest time and now it's an essential feature?

If someone is too dumb to figure out safe mode IMO they're too dumb to understand a recovery screen.

Linux's equivalent of "safe mode" being a fullscreen terminal or a live CD has always been a bigger issue.
 
Windows at least has an RE, and one that even a noob can navigate.
It never solved any issue with broken Windows installation in my case. Most of results combine some DCIM shit command that is useless and doesn't find the problem with boot option.

Windows, how about you start to add a debug during Safe Mode boot so I could determine what is fucked up, huh? I ain't looking for boot log left somewhere inbetween Windows path.
 
The last two cumulative Windows updates have

1 - fried SSDS
2 - broken USB support for external peripherals

Jesus Christ, is this that elite human talent from India corpos keep sperging over?
 
You'll still have to get the update 2026 chuddie.You VVILL be happy with it as well.

I am honestly surprised Microsoft has not shut down that site and exploits. Maybe cause most people do not use it and pay?
Like 90% of Microsoft is Indian, or relies on Indian labor. Not only do they appreciate the scam, they probably heavily rely on the scam for their business partners.
 
The only reason why Windows has Windows RE anyways is because most users are unlikely to have the installation disk or usb drive with all the recovery tools handy, or are unable to make one. I think I still have rescutux on my ventoy drive and that's far more useful then Windows RE
 
I am honestly surprised Microsoft has not shut down that site and exploits.
What teriyakiburns said and also they still make a buck off of data collection on those illegitimate copies. MAS is the highest starred PowerShell project on GitHub which belongs to Microsoft and they don't give a shit. I've heard rumors that internally Microsoft also sometimes uses MAS simply because it's convenient.

Don't forget that those free ISO's you can get from Microsoft's website only need activation if you want to customize the visuals and get rid of that watermark, otherwise Windows 10/11 is an infinite trial and that's been their business model for many years now. All things considered, the activators are just a cosmetic change to what Microsoft already offers and they still make the bulk of the licensing money on OEM installs and enterprise customers.
 
The only reason why Windows has Windows RE anyways is because most users are unlikely to have the installation disk or usb drive with all the recovery tools handy, or are unable to make one. I think I still have rescutux on my ventoy drive and that's far more useful then Windows RE
So is Windows To Go.
 
Does that not fall in line with Windows 11's entire motto of "It doesn't matter if your PC can run it, if we say it can't it can't" and that's one of the many things we hate it for?

Of course I watched it, I'm still going to laugh at how Microsoft was able to have this happen.
Dude every single piece of information I found told me that I needed to buy a hardware TPM to install Windows 11 because I have a 7th gen Intel processor and it's unsupported

But 7th gen Intel supports firmware TPM as an option in the bios. It's supposedly not enabled by default but most boards seem to enable it by default anyways

So.... why the fuck are 7th gen processors unsupported again? It's purposefully ambiguous Jewish lawyer nonsense
 
And who has a Windows To Go stick handy? In fact is it even possible to make one if you're current system won't boot and your other systems don't run Windows?
I have several SSDs with it, and it's a selectable option in Rufus. You probably can put it as an image on a Ventoy, but I haven't tested that yet. (What you definitely can do is set up a VM with a Windows installation and boot the VHD via Ventoy, albeit without Secure Boot.)

You normally create such systems from within a functioning system, just like you would with a Linux bootstick or SSD. If your system happens to not run Windows, you probably will have some different software that hopefully supports imaging Windows To Go. A quick Google search outputs WoeUSB as an option, but I haven't tested it.
 
The last two cumulative Windows updates have

1 - fried SSDS
2 - broken USB support for external peripherals

Jesus Christ, is this that elite human talent from India corpos keep sperging over?
More reasons not to update.

It's like they're not trying anymore to hide it.
 
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.
I need to quote myself again, because there is an even easier and more straightforward way to fix the issue. It works without even having to reboot.

1. Open the file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\OneSettings\UsoSettings.json (in your root drive, e.g., C) with a text editor with admin rights.
2. Position the cursor after the comma preceding "DISABLEIMAGESONTOASTS" (last option).
3. Insert "ESODATESTRING":"2055-10-15T00:00:00",.

That's literally all. Found it in the comments at the BornCity blog (German).
 
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Dude every single piece of information I found told me that I needed to buy a hardware TPM to install Windows 11 because I have a 7th gen Intel processor and it's unsupported

But 7th gen Intel supports firmware TPM as an option in the bios. It's supposedly not enabled by default but most boards seem to enable it by default anyways

So.... why the fuck are 7th gen processors unsupported again? It's purposefully ambiguous Jewish lawyer nonsense
I have a 7th Gen Intel Cpu and had to do the workaround to get Windows 11 going and wondered the same thing. Copilot says this:

While many 7th Gen Intel CPUs (like the i7-7500U or i7-7600U) do support TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, Microsoft’s compatibility criteria go beyond those basics:

- Virtualization-Based Security (VBS): Microsoft required hardware support for MBEC (Mode-Based Execution Control), which improves memory isolation and is better implemented in 8th Gen and newer CPUs.
- Driver support and reliability: Microsoft ran telemetry on crash rates, driver stability, and performance across CPU generations. 7th Gen chips reportedly showed higher failure rates under Windows 11 workloads.
- Instruction set enhancements: 8th Gen CPUs introduced improved instruction pipelines and cache logic that better support Windows 11’s multitasking and security demands.
So in other words, their reasons are retarded.
 
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