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Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by stinos »

ZFH wrote: post #104
alberth wrote: post #91

Doesn't running Windows 10 LTSC [0] solve like 90% of what these scripts try to accomplish but do so in an officially supported way. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/

This, a thousand times this. It's strange it's still somewhat under the radar, it should be much more widely known. They call it LTSC, but it's really Windows As It Should Be.

Just asked this a day ago but got no reply, so here it goes again: it looks like there could be strings attached, possibly due to my ignorance though - can this be licensed to a single user? Recently I was working on a machine with an LTSC release (not mine, acquired by another company) and it didn't seem possible to apply updates, just saying 'contact your system administrator to update'. So I told the company they'd need to sort that out eventually but they also had no clue, and they called the shop wehere they got it but there also no sane response. This is just one data point of course, but does make me wonder: if you as a normal non-enterprise customer get this problem, what's the way to deal with this issue?

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by tomnipotent »

majkinetor wrote: post #135
DeliriumTrigger wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You complain about nonsense and than go forward and spread some on your own. You saying that SmartScreen and Defender slows down a Windows machine by a factor of 2 just makes you a nonsense clown.

Yes, I was wrong - its not by a factor of 2, more like a factor or 3 to 5. The best way to make your computer age 10 years in a second is to enable ANY antivirus. There are so many places that you can check that out if you didn't experience it, or u need me to LMGTFY ?

So you decide to double down on your wrongness? Windows Defender has a marginal impact on performance, such that for most users and most tasks it's not even perceptible.

> need me to LMGTFY

You've provided zero evidence to the contrary. The burden of proof is on you.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

#143

Post by fragileone »

criddell wrote: post #132
fsflover wrote: post #53

> This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things Aren't people tired of fighting with their own computers? I abandoned Windows, installed Linux and can't be happier now.

Who cares about operating systems any more? That seems like a solved problem and frankly all the major ones are fine these days. Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating system…

> all the major ones are fine these days.

I think the very point of this thread is that is not the case and many users are very unhappy with Windows telemetry.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

#144

Post by skneko »

blibble wrote: post #124
mattowen_uk wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know what SmartScreen is. It's also useful to keep on as it's a cloud anti-malware service. It does not send your personal files to MS. Stop with the lies, please. No they haven't removed the quarantine restoration option. You can mark any file it quarantines as safe, and it gets restored and never flagged again.

> It does not send your personal files to MS. Stop with the lies, please. what does this option do then? https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_599... and of course: it's enabled by default

This does not send personal files to MS, no. It sends executables that have been already flagged as a virus through other methods (e.g. heuristics). Also this is part of Defender, not of SmartScreen.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

#146

Post by majkinetor »

tomnipotent wrote: post #142
majkinetor wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I was wrong - its not by a factor of 2, more like a factor or 3 to 5. The best way to make your computer age 10 years in a second is to enable ANY antivirus. There are so many places that you can check that out if you didn't experience it, or u need me to LMGTFY ?

So you decide to double down on your wrongness? Windows Defender has a marginal impact on performance, such that for most users and most tasks it's not even perceptible. > need me to LMGTFY You've provided zero evidence to the contrary. The burden of proof is on you.

Here is 1 for you:

> As far as I can tell, as long as Windows Defender (and presumably other A/V scanners) are running, there's no way to make the Windows I/O APIs consistently fast.

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/

This is really even a common knowledge - if you did ANY IT work, you should already know it. I can't count the number of times when server wasn't working correctly when it turns out it just has Defender on.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

#147

Post by teh_klev »

majkinetor wrote: post #135
DeliriumTrigger wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You complain about nonsense and than go forward and spread some on your own. You saying that SmartScreen and Defender slows down a Windows machine by a factor of 2 just makes you a nonsense clown.

Yes, I was wrong - its not by a factor of 2, more like a factor or 3 to 5. The best way to make your computer age 10 years in a second is to enable ANY antivirus. There are so many places that you can check that out if you didn't experience it, or u need me to LMGTFY ?

This is utter nonsense.

It's maybe the case if you're running a 15+ year old PC with the slowest spinning rust disk and 1GB of RAM.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by [deleted] »

teh_klev wrote: post #147
majkinetor wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I was wrong - its not by a factor of 2, more like a factor or 3 to 5. The best way to make your computer age 10 years in a second is to enable ANY antivirus. There are so many places that you can check that out if you didn't experience it, or u need me to LMGTFY ?

This is utter nonsense. It's maybe the case if you're running a 15+ year old PC with the slowest spinning rust disk and 1GB of RAM.

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Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by squarefoot »

marcodiego wrote: post #55
userbinator wrote: post #3

I started using Windows in the 3.x days, and the amount of crap I have to "fix" every time I make a new install increases with each successive version... and to think I used to be mildly annoyed at having to enable file extensions and showing full paths back in the 9x/2k days.

It is interesting to think how the incentives grew to make developers create applications which are more attention grabbing with time. In the msdos days, an app was installed to a directory. In the win 3.x days, an app was installed to a directory, created a program group OR shortcut on the desktop. In the win95 days, an app was installed to a directory, created a program group AND shortcut on the desktop. In the win…

You forgot to mention that huge abominable single point of failure called registry.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

#150

Post by criddell »

fragileone wrote: post #143
criddell wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares about operating systems any more? That seems like a solved problem and frankly all the major ones are fine these days. Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating system…

> all the major ones are fine these days. I think the very point of this thread is that is not the case and many users are very unhappy with Windows telemetry.

Many users? I'd be surprised if it's even 1%.
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