The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets
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You don't need Paint while you're working. You only need Office365 products. Stop committing time theft from your employer.
But if you did actually need it for work, did you try asking CoPilot? That's what CoPilot is designed for. Please use CoPilot. Please...
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We know. CoPilot has reported your time theft to management. We have deducted 10 points from your Windows Credit Score.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
To be honest, the start menu is an obsolete concept. A keyboard launcher is a much better option. You already know the name of what you want to open, so why not search for it? If it's a long name, like "Adobe Photoshop", you can just look up "adph". Or you can quickly crunch some numbers. Or find a file. Or translate some words. Or convert currencies. Or switch between windows. Or adjust software volume. Or adjust monitor brightness. All from the same search bar. Your typing muscle memory is faster than targeting clickable UI elements with a mouse.
Flow Launcher is arguably the most robust option, but in a work environment you'll have a better time convincing IT to install Microsoft PowerToys that comes with Command Palette on top of other productivity features. Surely they can't say "no" to a first party Microsoft product, right?
To be honest, the start menu is an obsolete concept. A keyboard launcher is a much better option. You already know the name of what you want to open, so why not search for it? If it's a long name, like "Adobe Photoshop", you can just look up "adph". Or you can quickly crunch some numbers. Or find a file. Or translate some words. Or convert currencies. Or switch between windows. Or adjust software volume. Or adjust monitor brightness. All from the same search bar. Your typing muscle memory is faster than targeting clickable UI elements with a mouse.
Flow Launcher is arguably the most robust option, but in a work environment you'll have a better time convincing IT to install Microsoft PowerToys that comes with Command Palette on top of other productivity features. Surely they can't say "no" to a first party Microsoft product, right?
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This is what I mean by you're like a linux user but you use Windows. Obsolete or not, the UI for mouse usage should not be shit and/or sidelined with "but ackshually you could just use this totally sick hyper-optimization instead". NIGGA JUST MAKE THEN UI GOOD IT USED TO BE GOOD MAKE IT LIKE HOW IT WAS BEFORE WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT WHAT FUCKING PURPOSE ??????????????????????????? I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT YOUR GAY AND HOMOSEXUAL HYPER-OPTIMIZATION UHM ACKSHUALLY SHIT JUST FUCK OFF AND GIVE ME A GOOD FUNCTIONAL AND SEXY UI WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO DO THIS WE HAD THIS SHIT NAILED DOWN IN 2007 ALMOST 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.
In other news, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
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lol calm down
I already said I think the Win11 start menu is shit, as is the taskbar and context menu, and how little the Jeets had to do to make it not shit where 90% of people wouldn't complain about it. Feature parity of the taskbar with the old one, ripping off the start menu Windhawk mod, being able to do a single toggle to skip the new shitty context menu instead of an esoteric registry tweak. Plus, I daily drive 10 where the start menu isn't scuffed and I still don't use it. I even edited my RetroBar skin to get rid of the start button.
All I'm saying is that if you're not completely tech illiterate you're way better off with using a keyboard launcher. A single extra piece of software that completely changes the way you use your computer. In fact, I highly encourage people to go to AlternativeTo to find alternatives to any and all default Windows programs that they find annoying. Learned helplessness is gay and refusing to look for alternatives, instead relying on defaults you hate is exactly that. We've been doing this since Windows 3.11, if not MS-DOS days, so why stop now?
Also, I wish we could have the late 90's/early 2000's Microsoft brand of corpos. They were still corpos, but at least they went out of their way to seem human.
Shit, their products were more human focused back then than they were now. They were more human.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/11/04/m...n-bug-that-caused-windows-to-restart-instead/ (A)
I always thought I was crazy when I'd update and shutdown and have the PC just come back on again, in fact, I don't think it ever actually shut down once when I clicked the option, it'd always restart back to the lock screen. Its been like this for years too, I genuinely forgot that at some point something like that was supposed to work properly.
No W10 fix though, for obvious reasons.
I always thought I was crazy when I'd update and shutdown and have the PC just come back on again, in fact, I don't think it ever actually shut down once when I clicked the option, it'd always restart back to the lock screen. Its been like this for years too, I genuinely forgot that at some point something like that was supposed to work properly.
No W10 fix though, for obvious reasons.
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Actual Question:
Is there a non-hacky way to get a modern Windows (11) machine to do something after a new user logs in, and then never again for that user specifically? Most results I get for this specific activation no longer apply, or seem to be defunct even if some sort of registry exists.
The alternative is that I'm retarded, and overlooking it while it's right in front of me, which would be preferable to it not existing.
Is there a non-hacky way to get a modern Windows (11) machine to do something after a new user logs in, and then never again for that user specifically? Most results I get for this specific activation no longer apply, or seem to be defunct even if some sort of registry exists.
The alternative is that I'm retarded, and overlooking it while it's right in front of me, which would be preferable to it not existing.
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Two ways, both involving task scheduler
1. trigger it to run based on the user profile service creating a new profile using event logs
2. trigger it to run every time a user logs in but create a flag (either a file or a registry key) after the actions runs the first time so that the action just skips silently if run again.
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You are overestimating computer literacy of the lowest common user. Yesterday, I was watching TikTok slop and GenZ representative was confused about ethernet cord. Like he never used one. Imagine such guy trying to determine which computer holds which local IP address over the cable.
Back in the days you are reffering to, computers were used by skilled computer literate user who knew what is a file system, how to configure PC and so on. The blinking prompt was sufficient deterrent for idiot trying to do task on the computer. And so programs were tailored for those who could manage things and had at least a glimpse how to use the said machine.
As for myself, I am longing for the time when DOS was more than enough for daily tasks and handful of people were designated to work on computers. Nowadays, Windows configure all the stuff you have installed on PC. There's no need for juggling the diskettes or CD's to install proper drivers for GPU, sound card, chipset etc. Everything is done by Microsoft because they have figured out that most of the issues people were having with their systems were due to wrong drivers or lack of them. So, if you delete the lowest denominator of issues on your system you get rid of 80% of problems reported over the boards and other places.
Check system indexing 'coz it sounds like the search is corrupted.
On PC in my office I had a issue with search option in Outlook (but also in Start Menu). I couldn't get the Search to work properly despite many attempts to resolve this issue. In the end I went with Windows 11 update and ever since Search is working flawlessly. I don't know what was changed or what is going exactly under the hood but it seems they revamped the Search thing in Win11.
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Yes. A few ways. One way is to assign a logon script to that user. There's actually a standard way of doing this. Assuming local user account, you'd add a script as per:
You can actually do this manually in the UI:
though I imagine you're rather create one via Powershell.
Set-GPLogonScript -Identity "YourGPOName" -ScriptName "YourLogonScript.ps1"The logon script can just be whatever Powershell you want. It will run under the same privileges as the user logging in. If you wanted something else it would have to trigger UAC or use some authentication method of your own choice. Or you could use Startup Scripts which are something else and based around the computer not the user.
Worth also noting that you can do all this but with Group Policy logon scripts which on a hunch is probably more what you're looking for.
Once run, you're likely back to @Delta Integrale 's approach of manually setting a flag. In case you're thinking of creating some sort of flag file somewhere, the by the book approach to something like this would be to set a registry flag. Just have the script read/set this registry key appropriately.
Or you can do closer to what @Delta Integrale says and use Task Scheduler. But rather than use a flag, I'd be tempted to have the task remove itself entirely. Tasks can be created in Powershell with flags like DeleteAfterRunning and you can set triggers for logging on.
Which of these two broad approaches are best, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I don't know what your script is meant to do. Either can work.
EDIT: This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me say Windows is far easier to manage in the Enterprise than the pile of hacks and Bash I have too often seen with Linux or Macs.
EDIT EDIT: You could also just be lazy and slap your script in
C:\Users\Default and put it in the Startup folder under AppData\Roaming\ . That gets copied to new user profiles at first login. Simple and straight-forward. Combine with the registry key flag to ensure it runs only once.
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In the developed world, I'd expect pretty big gains for MacOS.
In the developing world, I expect a lot of unsecured Windows 10 systems to continue existing.
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Soooooon... the Indoniggers will be no more.
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Windows: 0%
macOS: 0%
Linux: 100%
I inspect element StatCounter every day to this and masturbate vigorously.
In all seriousness, StatCounter autists are cancer. Way too many "people" religiously follow it to watch the Windows percentage go down and the Linux percentage go up, and constantly using it as an argument or a proof of anything. StatCounter doesn't even account for which exact versions of Windows 10 were around for all those years, it's just "Windows 10", but it's like saying "Debian" and clumping together Stretch, Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm and Trixie into a single statistic. Just how many machines are still stuck on something ancient like 1709 and were an active vulnerability long before the EoL of GAC 22H2?
Here's the main issue with market share arguments: they're all based on StatCounter, but StatCounter is extremely inaccurate. First, it only harvests the data needed for the stats from websites that add it, so by default it excludes any and all machines that don't do web browsing, but may be connected to the Internet. Second, if you use tracking protection, it will block StatCounter telemetry. Third, StatCounter only relies on data given by the web browser, and the only bit of data that your browser sends that can be used to define the OS you're using is the user agent. In case of Windows 10, it doesn't differentiate the exact build so all you get is Windows NT 10.0. Fourth, your user agent can be easily spoofed and you could report your browser to be running something antiquated like Opera 5 on Windows 98. Granted, most modern websites will just default to telling you to upgrade your browser, but still, you could say you're running Windows 7 and StatCounter would consider you a Windows 7 user even if you're on Linux. Which also means you could manipulate StatCounter if you really wanted to with ease.
For all we know, there could be way more Windows XP machines, or Windows machines in the wild in general than StatCounter may report, which would completely skew the total market share statistics. Ergo, they are a useless metric. In the same way, Steam Survey is also a very limited statistic, as it will only show people who are using Steam, and the Steam Deck skews the amount of Linux users on those stats, where the Steam Deck shouldn't be taken into consideration as SteamOS that's tailored to one hardware configuration and pre-installed on a commercial product is not the same as one of the bajilion distros that's expected to work on bajilion hardware configurations.
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Has anyone else had microsoft store results in the start menu search, I have web results disabled and yet the ms store results still remain is there any workaround for this?
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I've got a bit of a general question. What do people use for backup systems on Windows? I'm not wholly happy with the software I use and am looking for recommendations. Alternately I'm tempted to just write my own backup script, with the main blocker being that I'd want to write something incremental which is a little more complex.
Moist Boys
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I use DiskGenius in Windows proper and Clonezilla for general use. It fits my needs, so YMMV based on features you require.
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Macrium Reflect running in a Windows RE I boot into.
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Does anyone currently use Windows 10? I'm debating wether or not I should return to 10 or 11 after trying Linux Mint for a few days.