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Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by Joeri »

gigel82 wrote: post #117

Generally, I don't think Windows 10's telemetry features are privacy-violating. Most of the telemetry (especially if you choose the "required only" option in setup) is just for crashes and basic usage data (they won't use it for advertising for example, like Google or Facebook); that said, I use pi-hole as my DNS which blocks a lot of the Microsoft URLs used by telemetry. However, my biggest issue is simply bloat. Wi…

Windows 2000 was bloatware compared to NT4, which ran comfortably in 32 MB of RAM and had basically no limits on 128 MB. (All of office, photoshop and visual basic multi tasking at the same time smoothly.)

I don’t understand why modern OS’s need multiple gigabytes of RAM just to boot. I get that they do more than NT4 and windows 2000 did, but still, why isn’t a gigabyte enough? I would like to read an OS engineer’s take on it.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by tomnipotent »

majkinetor wrote: post #146
tomnipotent wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yes, PC desktops commonly run AV which can impact certain common subsystems in their routine operations. This is true on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This is perfectly reasonable for the 99% of PC users that are not programmers and power users.

> it just has Defender on

It's unfortunate Defender would come pre-installed even on Server.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by vmception »

hestefisk wrote: post #120
vmception wrote: post #20

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I've seen disk images of windows on piracy sites that have all this stuff preconfigured you can get slim builds with chrome ready to go already, builds with all these cleanup scripts configured, and more sadly, they also know people in a rush are looking for this or prefer it, and they install backdoors or ways to steal your crypto on them and stuff I wouldn't even trust the scripts itself at this point, so I'm anoth…

As good as it sounds, I wouldn’t feel comfortable installing a modded Win10 install from a piracy site…. Maybe it’s just me.

Thats… what I said

as consensus has flipped multiple times since I posted it, it makes me wonder if other people misread my comment

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by majkinetor »

tomnipotent wrote: post #152
majkinetor wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yes, PC desktops commonly run AV which can impact certain common subsystems in their routine operations. This is true on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This is perfectly reasonable for the 99% of PC users that are not programmers and power users. > it just has Defender on It's unfortunate Defender would come pre-installed even on Server.

You are hilarious.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by OrvalWintermute »

rasz wrote: post #139
sumtechguy wrote: post #89

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In Vista RTM and sp1 turning off indexer was a great solution. It was monster on the drive and memory (5-10 min startups on computers that should be up in 30-60 seconds and were after you turned things like that off). They fixed it in sp2. Superfetch was just as bad as well as the windows defender. Most of that was fixed in win7. I now let all 3 of those services run. The issues were fixed... The problem is these 'so…

but why would you let indexer run at all when Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com ) runs faster, is more accurate, and is a small standalone executable?

In general I do not like Microsoft's integrated indexer because I noticed it really slowed down performance, and seemed to hog memory.

Appreciate the utility you pointed out, will happily look into it.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by ZFH »

stinos wrote: post #141
ZFH wrote: post #104

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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'…

Possibly misreading you, but updates behave differently in LTSC. It stays at the same level (1809 in LTSC) until the next major release and just auto-installs (very quickly, in between reboots and without forced prompts) security updates every couple of weeks or so.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by Ecstatify »

teddyh wrote: post #65
Ecstatify wrote: post #41

People need to speak with their wallet otherwise nothing will change.

Can you name a few consumer-level boycotts in, say, the last 50 years, which actually accomplished their goals?

Off the top of my head

(Nestlé boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

(Nike boycott) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

(South Africa boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike

Going into the registry is madness, especially when you're purchasing a license for the OS.

Personally I'm going to get a new mac when they get the ram up to 64GB with the new processors.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by duskwuff »

hnlmorg wrote: post #51
TimTheTinker wrote: post #46

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It sounds like you, sir or madam, need to get rid of Windows entirely. May I suggest macOS (and Parallels running Ubuntu Linux if you like WSL)?

macOS isn't any better in that regard. Some software takes 30+ seconds of Apple "verifying" before the application is even launched.

This usually comes up as a problem when you try running a large application from a compressed disk image.

Copy the application out of the disk image first. Verifying the application (and running it) will be much faster.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by fl0wenol »

hestefisk wrote: post #121
ZFH wrote: post #104

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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.

True. But it’s hard for home users to buy an enterprise license.

You can do it, you just have to know how.

Basically, tell an ISV (like Connection.com) that you want a small business relationship w.r.t. Microsoft Licensing and they'll set you up. You might have to buy a few random CALs to qualify, but it's totally possible and a godsend.

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