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>infographic from 2013
time to refresh it a little isn't it
post software and services you use
>maintenance
>security
>file management
>media
>images
>communication
>utilities
I refuse to move to Win10 because of the bullshit it does, so instead i use Win8.1
What updates should i avoid installing and/or what updates should i delete if i've installed them?
utils:
imagemagick - batch image procesing
ahk / luascripts - macros and scripting
donotspy10 - under the hood toggles for w10
standard notes - note taking
Been using this, just right click it and run as admin
gist.github.com
And the stuff here is good too
ghacks.net
serval-chan
>ccleaner
>Cleans all areas of your computer
How exactly does this manage to clean my fans and heatsinks?
Bulk Crap Uninstaller.
None, but if you must, then use Immunet.
QTTabBar.
SMPlayer.
None. The default one on W7 is good enough, but use SumatraPDF for reading comics and opening a folder full of pictures.
None.
ClipX, Tixati, pngyu and pinga.
these threads are great keep em up
>This is NOT Windows vs any other OS thread.
well, obviously. if it was windows vs any other OS those niggers would be seething crying about "bullying"
sumatrapdf is based desu. -invert-color to get nightmode is absolutely based and better than adobe's shit
ccleaner is fucking malware, remove it
Had heard this too but wasn't sure
What's a good alternative?
Glarys, or bleachbit and autoruns?
I liked that ccleaner would let me keep cookies for the few sites I wanted to stay logged into but that's not a big deal
I just tried standard notes - I like it, but the gui is too big. you can zoom out but once you restart the program it changes back to big. why isn't there a setting for this, and is there an alternative to this program?
defrag.exe + little registry cleaner
...
installed 10 enterprise 2019 ltsc. pretty comfy, no cortana, no apps installed, not much of anything not even edge. feels like windows minus the shitty bloat. no store, so no forza 4me but whatever, i'll take it.
this shit is painfully out of date, let's make a new one
>graphics editor
paint.net, krita
>torrent
qbittorent
>text editor
vscode/codium, sublimetext
>mediaplayer
audacious, AIMP, auremo+mpd for windows
yeah. microsoft One Note which is free, standard notes is the open source clone of that
somewhat similar stuff but more oriented to coding could be Atom or Sublimetext
Who here chocolatey?
why use that shit over powershell packagemanagement
looks like the free version is kinda a gui for that
meant for
Are there any inexpensive 4:3 windows tablets besides the teclast x89 and Mytrix Singular C10Q? The x89 is only 8 inches and has shit battery life and it's basically impossible to buy the c10q.
Last night I asked you guys to help me speed up my 5 year old laptop. I took the advice and opened this bitch up, pic related. On a scale of 1-10 how bad was this really? What is this white shit?
I took a can of compressed air and cleaned it as best as I possibly could (unfortunitely I forgot to take after pics). Here's what I've noticed so far:
- idle temps are actually higher than before by about 5 degrees give or take
- programs start up faster
- screen does not flicker anymore (I knew this was a problem going in, and just another reason to open it up. I jiggled the wire and it seems to be okay for now).
- boot up time significantly reduced (was like 7 minutes).
I used Spybot and Malwarebytes to do a full scan and they both came up with nothing. Why are the temps so high? (are they that high?) pic below.
>maintenance
ccleaner/bleachbit/windows manager from yamicsoft
>security
VeraCrypt, MalwareBytes
>file management
fman, 7zip
>media
foobar2000, vlc
>images
Ifran View for viewing, pain.net for editing, shareX for sharing, SumatraPDF for pdf
>communication
pidgin, thunderbird
>utilities
VSCode, cmder, AutoHotkey
Replace the hard drive with an SSD. 64GB SSDs are available on amazon for under thirty bucks.
I'm considering this. thank you.
just buy a chink android tablet and install windows on it
There a good way to sort chink tabs to get the features I want like aspect ratio and screen resolution?
you may need to redo the thermal paste on your cpu
your place of work may need better airflow
>no way to filter for x86 tablets
>install 1803
>start menu fucking erases itself out of existence
>install 1809
>wipes your documents
is 1709 the last properly working update?
chuck testa
>installing updates
>at all
>not running everything on a windows 10 VM inside a windows 8.1 host machine
I wanted to get from LTSB 1607 to LTSC 1809
guess im rolling back
bump
friendly reminder to discontinue the use of chrome
is it still fucking unsafe to reboot
if so how can i restart my pc without updating
shut down
delete windows
turn it back on
Stop being a fucking sperg and install your security updates. It's retards like you that turned already fixed exploits like wannacry into international news.
low-test manlet detected
???
What updates are you afraid of?
so realistically how long will it take for a stable mostly bug free release since 1809 is fucked for now?
It's called LTSB 2016 and it will be stable, bug free, and getting security updates only until 2026.
do you need to activate it or can you use it like that indefinitely?
>maintenance
sysinternals, ccleaner, speccy for system information
>security
Windows Defender, Common Sense™
>file management
Everything
>media
vlc is god for all
>images
krita for painting
>communication
Hexchat
>utilities
Notepad++
Windows Subsystem for Linux
thanks a bunch, this is perfect
wtf does it have to do with anything
stupid anime poster
The absolute fucking state of Jow Forums.
A friendly windows thread.
What a complete joke. This belongs in >>/v/.
All you retarded winshits should be dragged into the street and shot.
>friendly
Cancer
Thanks for stating your most valuable opinions, you can go out now.
>ccleaner
posts malware like a fucking gentlemen, good job op. kill the windows menace
This thread is niggers. Stop trying to make shit happen when it's clearly not going to.
>friendly
>>>reddit
Imagine being this autistic.
don't you have some screenfetch thread to masturbate to?
No, all generals are cancer and this is just a reddit thread in disguise
>cookies
addons.mozilla.org
Replace:
CCleaner with BleachBit
HoneyView with Nomacs / ImageGlass
Foobar2k with Clementine
MPC-HC with VLC / mpv
Firefox Nightly with Firefox ESR
Chromium with Brave / unGoogled Chromium
TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt
Deluge with PicoTorrent
DuckDuckGo with Searx / Qwant
Remove everything under "security".
How do I use dconf?
>maintenance
robocopy
>security
-
>file management
explorer.exe
>media
foobar2000, mpc-hc
>images
irfanview
>communication
telegram
>utilities
open-shell, veracrypt, virtualbox, notepad++
clementine looks like zoomercore software
>>media
>vlc is god for all
But does vlc have Good deband ?????
Does vlc continue to dither 10bit content to 8bit or did they patch it ???
Does vlc have interpolation ???
why are you using a samsung processor line as your name
>Foobar2k with Clementine
you're kidding, right?
>DuckDuckGo with Searx / Qwant
whats wrong with duckduckgo? bang shortcuts are the comfiest
My opinion is valuable my darling mouthbreather.
Sweetie using windows in 2018 is autistic.
>2013
This is fucking old.
Reveals your search history
Is hosted in (((America)))
>Deluge with PicoTorrent
Pico Torrent can't deal with japanase characters.
that's why you use qBitTorrent
Seriously though, why is this shit allowed? An OS which has build-in ads should be free as in free beer. Ubuntu rightfully got some shit for their Amazon thing but this is even worse.
that picture is so fucking old jesus christ
>maintenance
default windows disk cleanup/storage is enough
>security
defender is enough but if you insists malwarebytes
windows firewall control - god tier firewall software
>file management
7zip if you dont mind ugly ui. winrar just works perfectly for me
>media
vlc, yes im not suggesting the shitty mpv meme
>images
microsoft office picture manager - this is probably the most underrated software of all time
infranview
>communication
pidgin i guess, although i suggest just use the browser
>utilities
literally everthing in nirsoft check it
ccmaker - adobe products
mp3tag - for editing mp3/flac metadata
icaros - webm thumbnails
handbrake - for converting webms
windows remote desktop manager - very handytool if you manage multiple window servers
ninite/chocolatey - its the package manager equivalent in windows
Is the latest update still fucked and deleting files?
I wouldn't keep anything in the Documents folder just to be sure.
Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 20 on CPU 1.
Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
what did they mean by this
I wish I could install qbtorrent daemon with webui like in linux.
>security
>AV
The default shit on W10 and bit defender free on W7.
>anti-malware
KVT or malwarebytes. Also a sucessor of EMET would be nice.
>Firewall
The default shit on W10 and tinywall on W7.
>crypto
Bitlocker in W10 (because of aes 128) and Veracrypt in W7 (because of simplicity of password)
install windows 7 and use simplix update pack
then disable windows update
I plan on buying a new laptop, but the CPU doesn't have Windows 7 drivers, is it possible to install win 7 on it anyway? If so then how?
Because it's taking shit from me and handle it like hurd
Oh shit, I didn't know you could do this. Fuck yeah! (What I actually did was go in advanced options and edit the hexadecimal color codes under page ui.) Absolutely based. Fuck adobe.
The updates break more shit than they help, and every time it updates it resets all my settings, including privacy settings. Fuck updates.
Only retards ever get viruses.
I forget all the shit I did but I'm running win10 and it doesn't update now. You can look into third party software to get the job done. OOSU10. Dunno if it's Jow Forums approved but it does seem to work. I did some other fixes using powershell. I don't see any hint of cortana or edge existing now. Also using classic shell to get rid of the metro cancer.
Alright I'm a bit fucked up with this.
Supposedly Windows 10 1809 is getting a fuckload of bugs. I have not yet experienced any of those with a clean installation when it was still available (I guess now it isn't because it's mad broken) but let's say that I still think I did a dumb thing and maybe I should have just kept 1803 or went elsewhere.
However, I don't know if it's my GPU (Intel 4600 HD so you know what to expect) but basically with newer games that I can still play at low settings it just shits the bed on 8.1 for some reason. 2D graphics look fucked up in some games. Doesn't happen with Windows 10, but 10 does have more recent drivers.
So... should I still go back to 8.1 or 1809? I have had more issues with Windows 7, mind you, which is why I'm not even considering it at all. Maybe the 8.1 thing is something I must have missed or an update I either skipped or installed when I shouldn't.
>Foobar2k with Clementine
Musicbee works best. Foobar is shit, not sure about clementine. VLC is garbage. Chrome is shit in all its forms.
It's hyper-normie bloatware. Most of them fucking love it because all they do is play xbawks and run twatter and netfucks. Just decrapify it like normal, though winjews made decrapification more difficult. A few powershell commands can clear it all out.
is 1803 safe
>microsoft can't fathom why users don't want to update their pc
It's a great mystery.
Something really is bugging me about win10 and that's the fucking start menu. it's SLOW as fuck and cortana is starting to piss me up. I just want a simple and fast start menu...
OpenShell
Thanks I'll try it out. I hope this fixes the shithole that is called windows 10.
How does it compare to classicshell?
It's literally ClassicShell open sourced because the original creator wanted to pursue other things.
anime website
Using Linux made me appreciate Windows even more.
Linux not having thumnbnails is sad, but what's even more sad is that you can't have different view types for folders, they all must be the same.
So if you set thumbnail view on the file browser to drag and drop, all other folders like your documents must also be in thumbnail view.
What a joke.
Fucking BASED.
Let's beat those GNU/Virgins. Windows users actually have work to do, so no time to maintain a shitpost thread regularly.
So go back to appropriate boards, fag.
Chocolatey was window's saving grace when I still used windows.
OP BTFO
And you're all faggots and retards.
if its not x86-based, no
>use windows
>try setting up internet connection
>plug in usb, that's it
>forget about it for months
>use linux
>something goes wrong
>lets check
>no internet
>try using the other connector
>still no luck
>boot back to windows, search for drivers to install
>download them
>boot to linux (kde neon, not some "hardcore" super convoluted distro, the one "aimed at normal people")
>there are several scripts within the folder, 99 page manual with micron-sized text will tell you all about them!
>find the suitable solution
>activate the script as stated
>???
>wait
>repeat
>repeat a few more times
>INTERNET CONNECTION, FUCKING FINALLY
>next day
>boot back to linux
>no connection again
>resort to re-launching the same script with about 4% success rate each time
CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
>CCcleaner
>Essentials
kys retard