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Outlook is bad enough without dragging Windows 11 into it.
The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets
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Not holding my breath, but that would definitely be an improvement over web shit.
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It really is.
I went back to Window 10 ioT LTSC after having Windows 11 ioT LTSC installed for over 3+ months and man, did I fucking miss how good it is compared to Win 11. Just everything about it is superior to Win 11. The File Explorer is the best part because I really didn't realize just how shitty Windows 11's File Explorer is compared to 10. Everything looks good (no unnecessary padding, weird focus outlines, good compactness and functional), going through it is a breeze with just how fast it is when 11's used to have a slight delay going through any folder. Even on ioT LTSC, there's still more bullshit I have to deal with on Win 11 that I just don't have to on 10, mostly just Win 11 being Win 11.
One thing that I really disliked in my tenure with 11 was having to "restore" functionality lost from the switch to 11 from 10 like the taskbar, alt+tab swithcher, volume flyout and others (you don't have to do this, obviously, but it's kinda necessary since the ones in 11 by default suck ass). I didn't really like having to use ExplorerPatcher even if it was a good program (having to restart explorer.exe every fucking time I needed to do something more advanced than just changing a setting in settings was fucking annoying as well. I rarely have to do it on 10 which is amazing). It feels great just to have these features native to the operating system. I just had to do more to get a result that on 10 takes me less time to achieve.
Maybe I'll go back to Windows 11 (ioT LTSC, fuck installing any other version) since I'm now more wiser than when I first installed it but that's probably gonna be a long time coming. For now, 10 ioT LTSC is the comfy spot I need to be in. Btw, I never even wanted to install Windows 11 in the first place. I initally loaded up Win 10 ioT LTSC first when I got my then new PC. However, I didn't have any internet access and I didn't know why. I later found out that there were no built-in drivers for my ethernet controller. I now know where to find a driver for them but at the time I just wanted to try out my new hardware as fast as possible so I conseeded with Win 11.
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That Xitter account is run by a retard. The start menu and File Explorer are already native WinUI 3 apps. As he never links to his sources, I can only assume he (or his unlinked source) is confused about the below tweets from Rudy Huyn and the MS blog post the other day that mentioned speeding up File Explorer.
ETA: Small correction, start menu is WinUI 2 and File Explorer is WinUI 3. Point still stands they're already both native apps.
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vinrock
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You can still bypass the TPM requirement during install.
When you get to the account creation screen, hit F10 and it will open a shell window. Enter "oobe\bypassnro" and hit enter. Device will reboot and when you're back at the account creaation screen it'll have the option to create a local account.
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I did that a few months ago and haven't touched any of it since. It's been 4 months, I don't know why I'd ever need to modify them again, I've restored features lost since Windows Vista and 7 and I'm done.
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The myth of Linux being for trannies and Windows being for Indians is just wrong
There are fucktons of Jeets on Linux and apparently India has a 16% adoption rate
fucking MASgrave who cracks LTSC is on some tranny shit, so that is gonna make me switch to Linux full time
There are fucktons of Jeets on Linux and apparently India has a 16% adoption rate
fucking MASgrave who cracks LTSC is on some tranny shit, so that is gonna make me switch to Linux full time
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All right, I guess I've fallen for bharat_nation's shitty reporting again. But isn't there still some UI elements that are web apps?
guiltyspark85
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There must be some WebView2 controls used through the Windows 11 interface. The Microsoft account login is definitely a web page, for instance.
A few pages back I looked into the start menu after it was claimed to be an Electron app:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-windows-os-thread.65307/post-23964425
I suspect widgets are WebView2 controls, but I've disabled them via WinUtil and can't seem to restore them for investigation.
But there are certainly Microsoft apps using web based interfaces. I understand New Outlook and Teams use WebView2 for their interfaces. They're definitely good candidates for rewriting as native apps. In fact New Outlook should be just nuked and the real Outlook improved. VS Code is an Electron app, but I'm not sure it would be feasible to rewrite as native while retaining backward compatible with existing extensions.
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They also reposted this on their BlueSky:
Oh, and this it what you immediately see when you go to their official subreddit:
I can guess why they're doing this shit, since at least one of the devs on GitHub seems suspicious.
Unfortunately, there's no good alternative to MAS (and in particular TSforge and HWID activation), so personally I will reluctantly continue using it if I need to activate Windows.
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autopico.exe -> run as admin -> bip bip "program complete"
I've yet to see anyone mention KMSPico in this thread. Is there anything wrong with it that no one considers it? Activating Windows has been a non-issue for me for years.
Remember to disable Defender before unzipping.
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If you're ragequitting Windows over an activation script author being a tranny then you definitely shouldn't look too hard into Linux software devs.
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I have another bitch about Nu Windows. Up until it got Jeetified, when you wanted to move a file from one drive to another, you just clicked it and moved it into the new window. Easy peasy. For reasons known only to Microsoft they changed this. Now the default is you will COPY the file in one drive, and copy it over to other. Taking infinitely more time.
Yes, I know you can avoid this by holding shift, but I have been moving fucking files around on windows for decades now and I am having to retrain my brain in real time. Its another, pointless and unnecessary aggravation!
Yes, I know you can avoid this by holding shift, but I have been moving fucking files around on windows for decades now and I am having to retrain my brain in real time. Its another, pointless and unnecessary aggravation!
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'ello mein niggers,
Any of y'all still fuck with Windows XP? Trynna build a Windows XP VM and was wondering what kinds of "best practices" exist for XP in the year of our Lord 2026.
Any of y'all still fuck with Windows XP? Trynna build a Windows XP VM and was wondering what kinds of "best practices" exist for XP in the year of our Lord 2026.
Gossip Avoider
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That was already the case with Windows 10.
You can change the default behavior in:
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*
In case it's not there already:
- Create a Dword 32bit
- Name it DefaultDropEffect
- Set the value to either 1=copy, 2=move or 4=link
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What do you mean by best practices? Besides, what does it matter when you're going to install it on a VM? It's a contained space to let you do whatever. So do whatever you want, nigga.
Hell, you can even go pump it full of viruses, that kinda thing used to be entertaining actually:
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I mean that I am rusty as hell with XP, as it's been a long time. I was wondering if anyone has eg. lists of potential footguns, awareness of up-to-date packages of XP as it is no longer supported, et cetera. Often, for popular, old, no-longer-supported software like this, there are niche communities maintaining specific packages of the OS and whatnot. I do not know these things as I ditched XP "for good" with pre-releases of Vista and did not really look back... until the last day or two.
https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3IE20190615 -- For example, this is an "up-to-date" package of XP from 2019 and the one I installed, but 2019 is seven years ago now. Figured if anyone had any notions of "better" community releases, etc. it would be this thread.
I guess I'm not even communicating my desire here adequately, but I'm not sure even how to frame this such that I get the results I want.
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So you want to have the most up to date version of Windows XP and make is as daily driveable as possible. That's simple enough. You can go ahead and use that ISO (assuming you trust whoever made that image to not trickle in a rat) or install Legacy Update after installing the OS from untouched original ISO. There are no updates past summer 2019, don't even bother finding them. For browser use Supermium or MyPal. For any other programs use whatever you like, and if there's no options to use these programs on XP - use One Core API, which in my personal experience managed to make the latest version of Steam work just fine, but your mileage may vary.
toe_schnitzel6969
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Ah, the Windows Destruction series takes me back. Tech peaked when viruses were toolbars and wacky desktop pets.
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Since we've left this thread hanging on using XP in current day, I'm curious - do we have farmers here who some retards from 4cuck's /g/ like to call "baby ducks"? As in, people who still use Windows 7/8.1 to this day. I'm really interested to learn about your experience using an "outdated" OS in this day and age.