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Hey thread! I'm looking to upgrade my machine (Intel i9 13900k) and will actually be able to install Windows 11 now. My current machine won't let me for TPM reasons lol. I have a Visual Studio Ultimate subscription so I can license pretty much any version. and I really don't want to use a Microsoft account to log in or even have one tied to the O/S if I can help it. In other words, I want to use a product key if that's possible. What's the move here? should I keep the machine off the network like I did when I installed Windows 10? Should I be installing a "for workstations" edition? If all of the answers to these are obvious I'm sorry and ignore me... I haven't had a lot of time to research yet which isn't my normal MO but figured I'd just post first lol
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SwissArmyDruid posted:
This is intriguing to me… if you have time and inclination I’d appreciate more of your thoughts on it. I’ve often considered virtualizing everything but the only thing holding me back was virtualized windows video/3D performance. If that could be mitigated I’d install a Linux hyper visor on the bare metal in a second. I’d assumed we were close, but haven’t been following sadly.
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Jun 19, 2023 17:14
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biznatchio posted:The reason the registry exists is because of COM. That’s why it’s called the registry, because it’s where COM registrations lived. I have no idea if this is literally true since I haven’t looked it up… but having been a software dev for 20 years I’m pretty sure it is. COM was a huge deal (still is) and it was baked into the registry from the beginning. Regsvr32.exe can eat my rear end
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HalloKitty posted:Hey I'll have you know that I use it for copying and pasting Preach Plus you’d be surprised how many people use scroll lock
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Jan 4, 2024 21:05
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Quick question if anyone knows… is it still a free upgrade from 10 pro to 11 pro? I’ve got an msdn so, while I’m not strapped for licenses, I don’t want to use an 11 if I don’t have to since Microsoft is a lot more stingy than they used to be. The plan on this new machine was to install 10 pro as a key, log into a Microsoft account, then upgrade to 11 pro. Then maybe blow it away again by installing enterprise and logging in to activate 11 pro.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:00
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kirbysuperstar posted:10 and 11 licenses are still interchangeable yeah, you can just plug the 10 key in to the 11 installer and it'll be happy Hells yeah! Even better… thx
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Jan 6, 2024 05:35
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Yeah I like Chen but dang that’s a crappy blog post. It gives them a convenient excuse for their continued myopia of users wants. Satisfaction numbers are down! Just read Chens post on why! <Ignore the millions of reasonable requests that lead to dissatisfaction.> I keep meaning to write a better post but haven’t had time, so I’ll just say it: whoever it was that said to grab the win11 Enterprise install was spot on. I followed that advice and I love the result. I’m about a month and a few updates in and I haven’t had to uninstall any cruft from my start menu and I love it. Just install enterprise and then upgrade to pro from there. Or “pro for workstations” in my case Thanks random poster
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Jan 24, 2024 21:23
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The same thing all of the posts on this page so far are… MS is turning Windows into an Ad serving subscription selling platform. I can’t remember the specific thing it was referring to though
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Mar 17, 2024 16:47
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Lmao, gently caress I completely missed that. I’m dumb, op is brilliant. World keeps on spinnin
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Mar 17, 2024 19:11
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wikipedia posted:
I was speaking with a 16 year old the other day and he said he knew python. I asked him what IDE he used and he told me a website and then mentioned he hated Scratch. Nothing students do these days is local on a computer. Zip, zilch, nada I find it sad but don’t blame them at all. I just try to help open their eyes Textbooks aren’t even a thing in TX
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Mar 19, 2024 18:52
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Thanks for that… here’s hoping it works in “Windows 11 Professional for Workstations” that began its life as Enterprise but was upgraded with a product key.
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Mar 20, 2024 20:10
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Yep, that’s how I did my install and I’ve been fairly happy with to not have a lot of the major issues I see people have. Installing with enterprise and no internet is a good strat. Doesn’t mean you don’t have to go through edge and uncheck everything every once in a while though. I find ally set up a new Edge profile to try out… neither of them are linked to an ms account, but my lord there’s a lot of stuff to turn off in settings and they really make you check every option. You can really feel the effort they put in to make people give up turning off all of the crap
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Apr 7, 2024 04:10
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Them making it 100MB was for sure predatory to make it harder to dual boot another o/s This IS Microsoft we’re talking about
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Apr 18, 2024 20:56
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Ihmemies posted:Finally unfucked video player exists: MPC-HC with MPCVR: So, as someone who plays every video I ever watch on my pc either in a browser or VLC, what is this and why is it cool?
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Apr 22, 2024 23:59
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Meh, those .net frameworks are super deprecated. I’d be surprised if anything important uses them since everything earlier than 4.2 (I think??) is EOL. I think they’re still there only because MS doesn’t want to break some super old apps that are probably still being used by someone somewhere and it costs very little resources to just leave them there. They’ve always cared about backwards compatibility first and foremost up until recently
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Apr 28, 2024 06:49
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Windows doesn’t have anything built-in anymore that does that? I mean, it seems to me, that’s the easiest possible backup use case. 1) backup a non-system drive 2) differential backups with history Even windows backup in the 2000 days could do that I thought
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Ok thanks for the replies everyone… I don’t want to lead anyone astray and now I have good reasons to tell others to use third party software. And it totally makes sense that they would stop making it better in order to push everyone to onedrive
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