I'd always do a fresh install... Upgrading windows versions has never been good. It always leads to a buggy, bloated, and not a good system. Either Fresh Install or stay on Windows 10!

@@ChrisTitusTech Forgive me if this is a silly question, but can you do a fresh install while keeping stuff on hard drives that are not the boot drive?

@@proomsteryes, you choose which drive to install on and the others are left alone. Make sure you know which drive is the one you intend to install before you start to avoid accidentally erasing the wrong one.

@@ChrisTitusTech Have you talked to LTT yet?

@@ChrisTitusTech I did a fresh install of Windows 11 on my ThinkPad T460s and I am liking it....

I agree, I never used that before, but then again Windows OSes weren't filled with so much junk as Windows 11 does.

i don't see the option anymore.@@PhilipMarcYT

was literally thinking the same thing

i'm more curious the legend who discovered this first time... what was he thinking lol

what if i already installed windows with every bloat inside it? and not choose "World" Currency at the start?

You don't have to delete anything. It's actually not good to delete something that is deeply embedded in the system. Deblotting, in the sense of removing system-internal data, is nonsense and leads to a security risk. Either your PC can handle Windows 11 or not and you buy a new computer and install Windows 10 or even Windows 8.1 or you consider installing Linux. Either way, it's better than making a system worse and better.

Very true Puneet

@@GrigRP its Vineet.

it’s a perfectly usable browser tho, the meme made more sense before ms went chromium.

​@@SpacellaryMediaI only use Chrome because of the Google services integration, but I personally tried to use Edge very recently and it just looks and feels a lot more bloated than what Chrome looks by default, you can customise Edge to be minimal as well, but even then it wasn't as performant as Chrome was. I was using both Edge and Chrome in a VM though, so maybe the results will be different on a bare metal machine.

The only difference is who your giving your data to.

Thio Joe Did It Before

There is no "Windows community", only people who use it because they don't know any better

@@Carolina-gz8ugmore like people that use it because they are forced to.

If you can switch do it! I'd live in linux full time if I didn't need it for some hardware that is Windows only and a couple pieces of software. I enjoy my time so much more in Linux, but in Windows it is constantly evolving and a nasty game of cat and mouse with killing telemetry and many of the integrations that are terrible.

I switched back to Windows recently because instead of fighting Microsoft, I was fighting against making a simple dual monitor setup to properly work. Spoiler, you're never fully happy with all the random tweaks you find; Wayland, xrandr, you name it. And now I can use the HDR capabilities in my monitor too.

@@ChrisTitusTech This is my mantra also. I LOOOVE Linux (popOS! and Mint are my faves) but I have a ton of virtual instruments for my digital audio workstation I'd give up if I moved my studio computer to Linux.

I'm a similar situation. Even though I'm free from the shackles of Windows at home and run Linux, I still need to keep an eye on these topics so long as Windows is still run at work. Unfortunately, I still need to be aware of the latest BS Microsoft pulls in Windows....

​@@lindenreaper8683all of this for a couple of years left for you to live them knowing what you do ain't really that bad if u don't do something bad

I keep getting a error code? I downgraded back to windows 10, can you help me with the set ip

There's nothing else sadly.

@@Kpaxlol Fedora KDE.

this using sysprep?

Perhaps get yourself a imaging tool like acronis / macrium reflect etc. and do a full system backup before fiddling the crap out of M$ windows. On the other hand if your system is of the newer kind with lots of ram, plenty of cpu cores, more than one video card and monitor, motherboard with IOMMU support, you could go the Proxmox route and virtualize windows.

Pudiste solcuionar?

Are you having to install every quarter because you use debloat scripts? Then I'd advise you to not run anything and see. I haven't had to reinstall windows in like 8 years until windows 11.

I agree, for example - optimise for OFFICE only - no gaming - or Optimise for Gaming only! A preset for each would be amazing.

PowerToys can fix this

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED

I was wondering this as well

Hehe... To think in the 90s they were sued and LOST by bundling an Internet Explorer with Windows that could be uninstalled. Now they bundle Edge that is extremely difficult to remove and replace without a single government kicking up a fuss.

@@ChrisTitusTech from what I see, the difference is that IE was also the most popular browser at the time (and it was in Windows), so governments sued MS to allow people to choose their browser. Edge is forced upon you, but it isn’t the most popular browser…..

​​@@ChrisTitusTechYeah that's crazy... I mean, the ads, whatever, if you can easily remove them, it's like on Android with preinstalled apps and games, at least you can still uninstall them once you get the device. Here with Edge, you can't even do that without executing some hacking program, obviously compromising your freedom as a user, as if you didn't actually own your OS but only borrowed it from Microsoft. I'm definitely glad I switched to Linux to reclaim that power and freedom on my own OS and PC.

​@@ChrisTitusTechWas the license for Windows different back then? I always figured the reason they are able to do things like this with Windows is because end users don't own Windows, Microsoft does. Even though you *paid* money for it and it's installed on *your* hardware, it's still just a lease, and Microsoft has ultimate control over it. Was this not the case in the 90s?

@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah, lucky companies like Apple don't bundle a browser and make it impossible to uninstall, or they might get sued too...

I'm a linux gamer, with a gamer pc, I use EndeavourOS and rn I'm full on linux since almost all my games are on Steam and works out of the box, but if I do happen to want to play a game that I can't make it to work on linux what I do is open a VM with GPU passtrough and half of my cpu. That way I can run Windows in a VM as if it was not in a VM. And I don't need to keep rebooting everytime I want to switch systems. Other advantage is to use Windows just with the bare minimum you need there and keep everything else on your main linux device.

@@rocstar3000 May i ask what's ur pc spec? Im planning on doing the same but using proxmox intead, since i don't think mine is beefy enough to run windows inside of linux distro like endeavors (i5 6th gen, 8gb) The thing i like about VM (vs dual boot) is that we could just do one windows fresh install, duplicate it and using the duplicate. We can just make another duplicate of the fresh installed one instead of reinstalling windows if one day microsoft decided to broke windows (again) 😅

​@@rocstar3000how is the vm gaming experience though? Don't you get worse response times and other issues?

@@prntm926 well, rn I upgraded my computer so I have an i9-12th gen, 64gb ram, rtx 4090. But to have a good experience in a VM I think that you'll need a CPU with at least 8 cores and at least 16gb ram. That way you can put half your cores and ram at the VM and still have your main system running smoothly, never tryed with less than this. Also if your processor dont come with an internal GPU (if your intel CPU has the F in it it doesnt come with a built in GPU) you'll also need to have a 2nd gpu to run the system, since when you do GPU passtrough your gpu will be used by the VM exclusively. Any low profile GPU is enough btw, you dont need an expensive GPU to run your linux. Also, depending on how many things you'll want running on your linux meanwhile you're with your VM you may be able to have less cores and ram in your main system since linux dont consume much, you'll figure out the right good enough ammount in your system to make it run both at the same time without problem in a lower price PC.

Btw Mental Outlaw have a video on how to gpu passthrough if you don't know how to do.

I wish there was a way to do that as well. All the Xbox stuff as well.

Yep, i upgraded to windows 11 a while ago and hated it so reinstalled windows 10 and then loved it and then went back to windows 11 because i thought it would’ve gotten better but now i regret it and am considering going back to windows 10 or linux full time

you can turn off script detection in bitdefender by going to protections - open atntivirus - advanced tab - and turn off scan scripts.

im not gonna lie, i doubt deleting the calculator app will help with that preformance

@@xythrr xDD same for me, I only need Steam, browser, Msi Afterburner, Discord and Explorer

@@xythrr xD true. that would be going way too far

That's because by definition, it's what it's gonna do and it does it well, removing a present edge installation, it doesn't say it's gonna set up a service to remove Edge every time it gets installed...

I hope that's not true because it's already a while and it still don't come back on my system luckily.

Yes. Same goes for quite a few of the things a debloat script does too. There's no going around it really, other than just running the script again after every update, or whenever Edge comes back.

@@georgeindestructible It should at least make it so it's not installed via WU. I'm sure there is a policy for that.

@@Jakiyyyyy All we can do is hope that it's not going to happen, ever.

LTSC is solid and recommended as well. For a business machine, I'd go that route.

​@@ChrisTitusTechYeah my home computer is a business critical machine 😉😉

​@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah I use it in my business laptop 😅

i can use ur app in w10?@@ChrisTitusTech

About the same effort imo

@@ForceGamerrr Setting your region to World is likely to break/make unavailable other apps you may want if you are in the United States. YMMV

@@JelliedInfant also don't have to mess around with locale/region settings

G2A are ok source of W11 keys

Any place that accepts paypal. It will protect you incase the keys are bad and the site won't refund you. Paypal always sides with the buyers.

@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks Chris

@@Phuizour thanks

You are not the only one. I feel the same.

"Open-Shell Menu" is a free StartMenu replacer that works well in Win10+11. It allows you to replace the default (annoying!!) Win10/11 menu with a more functional WinXP/Win7 style one 👍

The tweaks take care of that after and during the install those toggles only switch telemetry to Basic not the lowest level.

Thanks. Maybe not so pro tip. Add all your programs to the task bar, or at least the ones you want - point and click. No typing required.

I think you can do both if you encounter problems just do the other option You can get the driver's afterwards or beforehand

I would install the drivers first, and then anything else is secondary.

Just goes to show you can learn stuff from anyone. When I saw his post... I said, "That can't work... right?". Tried it and was surprised that not only did it work, but even did a feature upgrade without extra start menu links popping up.

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how?