Yet you have the Copilot ad embebed in the Windows search box.

From what I've heard you will be able to go into settings and turn off the Ads on that start menu, but I'm a lot salty on that myself.

@@spede1 In Microsoft foros, they're answering people asking on how to disable start menu ads that "there's not an official way to remove them", I read it myself.

@@TheForce_Productions not with the appropriate tools 😊 (O&O Shutup10, simplewall, etc)

@@gabe_0x Gonna check them!

They had it back in XP, Vista, and 7. It was removed in 8.

😅🤣

They were lazy because it really is just as easy to close the wifi menu and open it again. As far as "features that obviously need to exist in Windows" goes, that's not even small fry, it's micro fry.

@@teknixstuff True

Holy fuck they're the worst. Horrible humans truely

Huge Update = new context menu 🤪

Huge Update = Windows8, they remove the start menu

And ads

they need to ship Power Toys by default, and stop messing GPU drivers. Windows Suck on every level.

it is Huge Update. Microsoft bundled more spyware

Also adding back a feature they removed before is NOT an upgrade, it's a bugfix.

It's the Joe Biden of operating systems

Couldn't agree more - Now buying a PC with windows is like paying a one time fee to lease a pc in between windows updates - you have zero say in all the bull they might install in the OS - If they want you to be able to watch the inside of your smart fridge on the desktop 24/7 they'll install that 2GB program in windows 11 and you won't be able to uninstall without compromising overall functionality of win 11. If they decide they want every user to listen to howler moneys screaming every time they click their mouse, they're gonna listen to howler moneys screaming every time they click their mouse.

He's shilling for MS, what do you expect?

What are YOU talking about? I don't have ads and I do have Firefox in Win 11, free W10Privacy fixes most of the data collecting.

Thank You ❤

you man are doing god's work

Brought to us by AI?

there is no windows 12 so how do you no, lol, talkin our your ass its called

Windows 11 on Arm has beeen out for a while and runs perfectly fine on my M2 Pro Mac Mini.

I didn't know that. I just tested it on Windows 10. That's an amazing tip. Thanks. I'll add that one to my next tips video.

@@CyberCPU Awesome, glad I could help. I'm a keyboard short-cut nut, so I always watch your videos to find that one nugget that I didn't know. 😁

Just set it to always launch in admin mode by right clicking the icon and finding it in the settings. Or did they remove that too?

@@SevereMkII As far as I know, you'd have to create a shortcut to enable the feature of running as admin by default. Not a big deal on my computers, but I work on a lot of customer/family/friends computers, and rather than set that as default, for me, it was just easier to get used to using the ctrl+shift+click method.

@@aceenterprise right click on cmd > Open file location > from there right click again cmd > Properties > Shortcut tab > click Advanced > tick the Run as administrator and click OK and then check it afterwards.

This, not even joking. Microsoft is doing everything to prevent users from upgrading.

No way a 9 year old operating system that loses support in 2025 doesn't get any new features 🤯🤯🤯🤯

@@Donatas-zi6rk and then Microsoft proceeds to put copilot on it 😂

​@@noodlez7101 so you're mad that they did put a feature on it?

Its support is ending in 2023 and it's super old. Why would Microsoft give it features?

Not only that, they're blocking any exe files from downloads and compressed folders

I need Open Shell, I hate that "Metro Shell".

It's likely that something in Windows changed to make those programs not work. I'm sure they will be updated by the time 24H2 is released. I don't believe Microsoft is actually blocking them.

@@CyberCPU They all work fine, you just have to rename the setup before running it to evade the block. And make sure to uninstall it before upgrading to avoid another block. The blocks just make them pop up a dialog about "This app causes security or performance issues on Windows. Check for a version that is compatible with Windows.", but only if they have the standard installer names.

yes it will

It's not core coded in America. That's your first problem.A "hostile foreign nation" codes it.

unless we learn how to use group policy editor. :)

@@Hellraiser2956 And understand a foreign military intelligence unit core codes Windows. Unit 8200. What every single Microsoft commentator misses. MICROSOFT IS *NOT* CORE CODED IN AMERICA. If I name the country, the comment is flagged. The same for intel corporation.

One thing is for sure - you can always count on Windows getting worse then they are now. I'm still only using a cut down "superlite" w10 version on a lappy that is a side-computer for some stuff... nothing serious.

But what about Microsloth, in general??

For how many days you have turned it off? It will work again eventually 😅 I run windows only in VM if I really need to.

ditto

@@livemadseason Depends how you disable it. If you use settings to disable it, it will return in no time. If you use group policy, it will probably last for a good while. services.msc won't last very long. SC Delete will work pretty much forever but you can't easily re-enable it. StopUpdates10 works fine but it's third party software.

I have a folder with all my tools, mods, and settings backed up so I can easily restore them after a major update, which I've been doing since Windows 10. Lol.

@@KyanoAng3l0 I've got a script to do all my update specific tasks for me automatically on every update. Although LTSC 2021 doesn't very often get major updates.

I heard rumors that MS is going to flip a switch that will disable all windows 10, to "force" people to move to v11. Thank goodness I am on Linux via ProxMox. I only use windows via ProxMox only when I need to for certain games and softwares. But more and more sdoftwares and games are having linux versions, thank goodness on that. Its slow process from them, but its getting there. I stopped using windows as my daily driver since windows 10 release. My daily driver is Linux. I used to be on Manjaro but then moved to vanilla Debian.

Right? I agree, they're all really small changes but they add up to a lot of really cool additions to windows that I've been waiting for for a long time. Sudo alone is one of them.

Microsoft is working on rewriting a lot of legacy apps/shell components so they haven't included many features just yet

Let's equip turds with lasers so the kidz can call it "cool" 😂

I thought I was a little unclear on that. What I was actually referring to was The wizard that opens when you click that. That's what's changed.

@@CyberCPU No, the same wizard is present in 23H2

That's part of the wholesale changeover from Troubleshooters to the new "Get Help" system app for (most) anything that offered the Troubleshooting option in pre-24H2 (part of the Win 11 Insider Builds).

A reliable, safe, and constantly updated app -- "Explorer Patcher" does EXACTLY THAT. Have been using with Windows 11 (through multiple Win-11 "updates") for nearly a year. Bugfree and easy [and FREE -- though we were so grateful we sent the author $25. (HINT: change the setting in "Explorer Patcher" to "Windows 10 style taskbar." Not "rocket science.")

The lack of vertical bar is also the biggest deal breaker for me.

Dude Windows as a whole has existed for that purpose since their model switched from selling licenses, 11 is a genuine effort to make things better like it or not because they want u using it more & not converting to another OS

@@anthonytitone I've already switched to mint linux. I got my vertical task bars back.

@@northendtrooper that’s good, I’m just saying that Windows has been about ads & data for a long time, the lack of vertical task bar isn’t proof of that, in fact they’ll add it back if they think it’ll bring enough people like u back, not that u should if ur happy with Mint tho

Unfortunately Microsoft has been using the start menu for advertisements since Windows 10. Luckily it's always been a setting you can turn off. Blocking the customization apps I'm thinking is just an issue with the beta. It appears as if it's really easy to get around. All you have to do is rename the installer for the app and it installs just fine. I'm going to do some research on it and maybe do a video on it.

@@CyberCPU An OS should not have adverts. Period! It’s a shame that users accept it.

@@bosmankatechnically every os in existence has adverts. That being the preinstalled apps like browsers and stores. It takes a few minutes to remove every advert

I switched 8 years ago, and haven't looked back!

@@bosmanka Why not, adverts are everywhere ?

I wouldn't downgrade to Windows 11 anyway.

Well by making windows 11 more aggravating they're certainly having the opposite effect. Nobody's going to want to upgrade or downgrade to Windows 11.

Personally I think the same thing is going to happen with Windows 11 that happened with Windows 10. Everyone hated Windows 10 when it first came out and now that it's close to end of life everyone loves it. Someday we'll all be complaining when Windows 11 reaches end of life. If it does. I really hope Microsoft goes back to a rolling release. We will see.

@@CyberCPU I am not that great with my pc😅, so after I got used to a windows, it takes month or years, and if I get a new windows you have to start all over...I would l;ike the stick to something and just make it better witout change all the layout.

went from 7 to 11 - Frankly considering changing to 10

Glad you enjoyed it

I hear you, bro. ;) Linux equals peace of mind. 11 years of it and counting. Having a good laugh every time new Windows come out, and MacOS, for that matter. It's a bit better but still you're at their mercy.

And XP, and Vista, and Win7...

My hardware firewall takes care of that. 😁

If you're using tech, everybody knows where you are and what you're doing. Stop listening to the marketing from all the privacy fakes. There is no privacy.

@@no_handle_required I just gave one example. There are a lot of customizing apps.

@@no_handle_required There's literally no reason for them to invade your desktop privacy. Expecting privacy on the internet is goffy, but there's NO reason for this trash OS to call home for anything.

Lmfao...wow...so it is true...microCRAP...IS..becoming just like crapple...a bunch of software nazis

Nexuslite and forget original MS products.

They're learning! Maybe they asked Bing Chat for the answer.

That has become rather unlikely ever since Windows 10 and the increasing double down on bloat.

That’s what XP users said during vista

Exactly. Which is why I still use it.

The only reason to run Windows instead of Linux nowadays is for games, and a lot of new games at this point drop support for Windows 7. That's the only reason I upgraded to Windows 10.

@@gamechannel1271I used to keep windows for that, but last year I have jumped to linux and all the steam titles I play work without any issues.

My windows 3.1 is still running gud

I've been using Windows since Windows 3.0. I even remember when the 3.1 upgrade came out. I was at the Windows XP roadshow on September 11th 2001. I didn't find out about the terrorist attack until later that evening when I got back. Everyone at the computer store I worked at was huddled around a TV and we had no idea what was going on.

@@CyberCPU My mother called us from New York to tell us about it. We were asleep but turned on the TV just in time to see what happened. They told us all to work from home that day if possible. I remember that they cancelled the New Year's celebration that year.

same here

must be dark inside your house..

@@groenevinger3893 , I run Linux on everything but my one gaming PC. Guess which BS OS keep f**king s**t up? Guess which one needs fixes a couple times a year? I've run the bleeding edge kernel updates on several machines for years, and have not once had any issues... Windows is a f**king virus!!! It's also slower than all my other machines for most operations. Here's wishing DirectX would burn down, and be gone forever!!! Microsoft is a plague. Welcome to the world of enshittification.

And yet you're still watching Windows related videos on UKposts. Priceless! 🙄

Whaaat?!

You can also just disable tpm in the bios if you don't use harddrive encryption through bitocker and it prevents upgrade as well

Unfortunately that doesn't work. You can still install Windows 11 without secure boot. Your system just has to be capable of using secure boot. It doesn't have to be enabled. A better way would be disabling TPM.

I'm sorry to break this to you but whether or not you have secure Boot and enabled makes no difference if Windows 10 is installed and your booted from it and you're connecting online for any reasonable amount of time any day of the week. Microsoft has been able to execute whatever code they want even since technically the XP days let alone Windows 8 days as long as your PC is connected online when they are trying to execute that code on what is supposed to be your computer

​@@VitisCZI would disable that stupid TPM nonsense anyway. All it does is try to lock down the computer from being able to use other operating systems which is asinine

My daughters PC downgraded to winblowz 11 a few weeks ago and I noticed it a day or so later and was like NOPE!!!!, reverted it to winblowz 10. The thing is I'd swear I had the registry setting sin place to stop the downgrade, but it did it anyway. The reason why we're FORCED to take 10 and 11 is because of the egg they got on their face with 8 and 8.1 where no one wanted to get PCs with them and stayed on Windows 7. They pulled some strong-arm tactics and forced hardware manufacturers to no longer make drivers for anything prior to 10 for new hardware. Up until that point, there was a bunch of new and reasonably recent hardware that you could still get win2000 and winXP drivers for!

That would be mission impossible to maintain it with all those HW changes, advances and requirements.

Source???

LOL They are working on Windows 12

@@UmVtCg There is no official announcement that Windows 12 is a thing. That is why I don't listen to speculation. Until it is officially announced it does not exist.

@@s8wc3 Source it yourself. People always having to question everything, by asking for evidence. Get off your arse and look.

USB 4 released??

@@luhgarlicbread My Asus x670e Hero mobo has USB 4 port, and I use one USB4 port with with an ethernet adapter that also has a few USB 3 ports build in.

Only to push more Cable sales for China.

still on 21h1 no need to update

I'm in Windows 10 and don't need to downgrade to Windows 11.

@@TheForce_Productions What are your end-of-support plans?

@@mopeybloke That would be the definitive Microsoft's improve perse, since no support = no buggy updates anymore.

No, you should be able to stay on 23H2 until 2026.

No unfortunately they are still forcing you to use the task bar at the bottom. I'm starting to think that feature is never coming back.

It's been left-justifiable since 21H2. Right justification probably won't come for a very long time though.

@@CyberCPU I guess I'll stick with ExplorerPatcher (another great tool you introduced to me) it works GREAT!

@@teknixstuff do you mean left-bottom (start menu on the left) or are you saying that you can actually move the entire taskbar to the left?

@@awesomeferret You can move it left-bottom from settings easily. You can fully move it to the left or right or top via regedit, but it's very glitchy on the left or right unless you apply another tweak to restore the Windows 10 taskbar.

Good. So you are finally had what Dave Ramsey would call quote I've had it quote moment Now the question you should ask yourself is quote am I just bull crapping myself or others, or am I finally ready finally have enough anger to get off my once complacent ass and do something about it and actually take steps towards moving to Linux?" If yes...sincerely.. no bs, I will be happy to help you every step of the way that I possibly can and we're talking baby steps like an intelligent saying human being should do not canning balling into the Linux ocean 1. List all the software and games whatever it is applicable that you normally deal with on a daily or weekly basis in windows. See if those same suffering games have native Linux versions. For those that don't look up cross-platform alternatives. 2. Practice using those cross-platform alternative software applications and games within windows. Once you feel perfectly confident enough that you are comfy with those new cross form Alternatives then that's over half the battle of being able to truly live comfortably in the Linux world and it's not the crazy dark Wild West that it used to be decades ago much has improved in fact many say using mini Linux operating systems is just as easy if not easier than dealing with Windows these days 3. Within Windows desktop, disable fast startup AKA quick startup AKA fast start AKA fast boot as well as the same named useless setting in your UEFI bios menu. Then properly power cycle that PC at least once boot into windows and then properly shut the PC down the normal way so that way it guarantees this idiotic useless setting does not interfere with your Hardware's ability to work full power full speed in the Linux world. 4. Unetbootin is a free software tool ideas for more than 9:00 within Windows to Prep properly a USB thumb drive with a Linux operating system to use it as installation media just searched for it it's easily found. Format any USB 3.0 or better thumb drive to fat32.... I've been using Linux Mint cinnamon since late 2010 and full-time since July 28th 2020 and it has been the most gentle and rock-solid simple stable sensible experience I have ever dealt with in the Linux world since transitioning from Windows and I highly recommend it. Thus we're going to use that as an example Visit Lenox mint.com and download Linux Mint cinnamon from anyone of the mirror sites within that main site AKA domain which you'll be downloading a ISO image file that is your installer file and that is what you can use Unetbootin to write yo thr thumb drive and make bootable easily. 5. Properly power down that PC and disconnect all drives except for that meant prepped thumb drive and the SSD you want to install Linux Mint cinnamon into. Please do not install it into the same drive that Windows already lives in. That is a beginner's mistake that so many Linux beginners make thinking they're safe dual booting and in the end it just presents a rabbit hole or a plethora of possible problems to deal with that can be avoided otherwise by keeping Linux and windows on separate ssds. Plug in your mint thumb drive and connect only that Target SSD, power on the system and boot into that thumb drive. Note, there's a reasonable chance in your boot device options if you have to revisit that to select to boot to the thumb drive that it may say something like quote Ubuntu quote and that's normal because Linux Mint and Ubuntu use the same bootloader 6. Once you will see eventually a black background screen with options at the top select the very top option which is simply Linux Mint cinnamon. Now if you have an Nvidia graphics card, and you go through that top option and you find out your booty to a black screen you may have to start over reboot back to that black background screen and select the compatibility mode option. Once you reach a graphical mint desktop a few chunk of seconds later there will be an obvious icon towards the top left area launch it don't do anything out of the ordinary don't worry about lvm or encryption we want to keep things simple. The installation process is very self-explanatory and actually easier than Windows you will find. And you can tell it to Auto login if you want. At the end of the installation wizard you'll be told and option of either continue testing or restart or reboot now. If you select reboot now it should present you with a message on screen eventually that says remove installation media and press enter to reboot. If you do not see that message for whatever reason go through the whole process again and this time select continue testing then you can easily just like you can in Windows use gooey buttons to shut Down AKA power off that pc. Wait until it's fully shut down and you can remove the thumb drive then power it back on 7. After you have successfully booted back into a graphical Mint desktop, now you can properly shut it down again and reconnect your windows drive and now you have a true safe enough but still dual booting Operating Systems computer in which will let you easily switch back and forth from Windows and Linux Mint and Linux Mint to Windows as needed because you're not going to learn the way Linux Works overnight remember you didn't learn how Windows worked overnight or even over the course of a single week either so make sure you give yourself the same patience and Linux Mint Cinnamon the same respect and patience for a decent bit. It's not hurting anything to have Linux Mint installed on a separate drive that you hardly ever boot into if it takes you awhile to become comfortable and learn how it works. And there is no shame in that baby steps matter because they are still steps it is still progress and that's how I did it Sorry for the long-winded comment but I just wanted to be forthcoming and generous and helpful and if you need any further help feel welcome to reach out to me I am also on forums. Linux mint.com and there are easily a dozen or more people I see on their daily who are far more experienced and knowledgeable than I am such as smg, Rene, xenopeek, moem, sleeper12, all41, AndyMH ( head Foxclone dev...whose software I HIGHLY recommend you use for system image backups ans drive clones) Pjotr, and many more. Cheers

Good move.

Linux would be best, but it seems like everything is built for Windows.

@Birdboxed023 yeah yeah because for many decades Windows has been all so many people have known and the vast majority of them have chosen to know about. So this certain business deals certain connections are naturally going to be done with Microsoft first because they're always advertising

Windows is more convenient OS

I agree.

Yeh, rolling downhill.

Yep, rolling it right downhill into the garbage dump.

And every CPU since the Core 2 Duo has had it. 😂🤣

I guess there were people who eagerly wanted to use Vista and Win 7 on Pentium III Coppermine...

My ASUS Zenbook pre 2018 has it and I've just upgraded from Win10 to Win11 using Rufus bypass and all is well.

That's the deal breaker for me. My non-SSE4.2 machine runs 23H2 quite well but 24H2 is out of the question. Looks like Linux is in my future.

@@will89687 Hm, the total cost of my desktop hardware upgrade from C2Duo to Sandy Bridge MB, I5 and 16Gb RAM was a walk to a PC-shop electronic waste dumpster.

Speak for yourself, there are people who find Copilot useful. 😉

It's never been a setting that I've used. I've always hidden file extensions because it makes renaming files easier. If I need to change a file extension for whatever reason I enable it temporarily and then turn it off when I'm done. It's just a personal preference.

@@CyberCPU Not displaying file extensions is actually a very serious security issue on the WIndows platform. It's embarrassing that Microsoft had changed from displaying the file extensions by default. Plenty of people getting hacked by PDFs that are actually executable screen saver executables...among other issues. Linux doesn't usually suffer from this deficiency because you generally need explicitly declare a downloaded file as executable.

Skip windows then and install your favorite distro

I've been trying. I'm retired and after about half an hour looking at different versions and the hoops you have to jump through to install and use I just tell myself maybe I'll just keep using 10 until none of the apps I use on it don't work any more. I will definitely not be going to 11.

Awesome! Thank you!

I can't tell if you're joking or are that ignorant. Part of the charm of that era is how diverse (AKA the exact opposite of what you claim) UIs were. All the wildest UIs and skins came out of the late 90s and early 2000s. It's really weird to think that anyone who lived through that era would even consider saying "it had a consistent UI". Windows 10 actually had a consistent UI, and that's a big part of why it was hated when it came out. In the early days of XP, you had plenty of overlap with older Win9X apps (which would have been the case for the vast majority of apps you'd use for the first few years of XP). If you want to ignore my comment, then boot up Windows XP in a VM and play around with it for ten minutes, and that will debunk your comment too.

@@awesomeferret Not joking. Look at how all the programs have ditched the Menu/File drop downs for hieroglyphic 3 dots. There is no consistency in the programs like there was with XP and Win 7.

@@awesomeferret Why do you immediately go to insulting me as ignorant. Not very nice.

@@DM-ei6oo I asked if you were. You were the one who assumed that you were. You're also the one who assumed that calling someone ignorant is insulting them (I feel sorry for you if you actually have that worldview). To be ignorant simply means that you are unaware of something, yet you took that possible label as an insult. If you call me ignorant, I will ask why, and if you convince me that I was ignorant, then I will thank you, because you helped me become less ignorant. I encourage you to consider such a worldview. Because of your response, I still don't understand why you perceive Windows XP, an OS from an era of the most experimental and goofy looking UIs (the opposite of uniform and standard) to be more uniform than something like Windows 10, as OS from an era that was criticized for the design being TOO UNIFORM AND BLAND). Again, these are very commonly known things, hence my question about if you were joking or not.

@@awesomeferret Spare me the sanctimony and diatribe. Your opinion of Win XP is fine but I don't agree that Win 10 is consistent at all.

The real reason this update matters.

I'm using InControl to only allow security updates. It's free.

People use to say that about Windows XP.....

They succeeded in doing so until mid Windows 7. Likely they stayed on 7 until midway through 10 as well. There was hype for a Windows 12 version because of this trend which traces back to the beginning of Windows. Every other version is a P.I.T.A.

@@quintrapnell3605 Bruh I'm still on Windows 7.

Same here. I'm going to use Windows 10 LTSC 2021 with my Windows 7 theme for a long time.

No, the last good version of Windows is 7. Microsoft introduced shit like advertisements on the lock screen and the start menu in Windows 10. You are just choosing to ignore all the horrible things about the OS. The "every other Windows is good" trend haa been broken.

I honestly didn't even look at that. Are you sure it's not driver related?

That makes absolutely no sense. Why should a wind turd major update excite you if you're already happy and comfortable in the Linux world?

24h2 is the .5 year of the linux desktop

Same.

That'll be the market share up to what, 4% after what, 30 odd years? I suppose it's the plethora of distros and whatever that make Linux such a simple option. I've always wondered tho', why users of the great Linux spend so much time on Windows articles?

@@cadelepski5161 I'm here because I enjoy the man's content. He covers a wide variety of topics and does it well.

@@cadelepski5161 Linux is great, but also not perfect, just like every other OS & I like to watch Windows News, I want to be up2date, I don't hate Windows, I'm just not happy with some of the descisions and the ppl behind it. So yea I'm watching news about Win, Linux and Mac! And sometimes even BSD.

@@cadelepski5161 Because we enjoy trolling the Microsoft Fanboys? See, it worked again!

Before you go Linux, try a couple of different distros. It's easy, just have an extra/external drive available for it. I've been on Debian for 11 years now. Perfect. Used Windows since 3.11... Windows 8 persuaded me to go Linux. Then I saw 8.1, 10, 11... they look just the way I thought - less and less user control. I hate not having control over my OS.

Copilot is basically just Cortana 2 lol

How do you lock down win 10?

@@GIRGHGH Stop Windows Update service. It's not exactly a great idea as Windows is the most targeted OS for hackers, but it's the only way to stop Microsoft from hosing your system. You can still download and update with critical updates, though, but manually.

For phone users that never used windows

It’s a free download and I’m not rich. If you buy the cheapest prebuilt it’s still on there simply by the fact companies don’t sell pre builds with parts from 5 years ago.

@@quintrapnell3605 Windows 11 is really for anyone who's rich enough to not pirate LTSC but poor enough to not buy LTSC.