*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***

I've got used to W11 now - I'm not a power user compared to most of you - but it seems fast, stable, and does what I need it to do. I use it for work (and personal) I throw a lot at it and it's responsive and honestly hasn't caused me any issues. I don't find it annoyingly different to use compared to trying to use a mac for example. However, I'm just a basic user and don't really care about tweaking all the settings unless for the ones that need to be done (like privacy and using chrome by default etc...).
 
Sorted out the HWINFO issue mentioned earlier. I was using the Portable version, and even though the driver it uses for polling components is the same, it seems Windows needs to have the app "installed" as opposed to being run from a folder as a portable tool for the driver to register properly against Core Isolation.
 
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Tiny11 is infected? :cry:

Tiny11 Has Problems

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That guy Chris Titus is an idiot! :o:mad:

Tiny11 is NOT INFECTED!!!

NTDEV replied to Beware: oscdimg.exe in this repo is not the original from Microsoft thread:



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Beware: oscdimg.exe in this repo is not the original from Microsoft · Issue #47 · ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

oscdimg.exe in this repo is likely modified. Original file from Microsoft ADK: 134.98 KB This file: 140.28 KB The original file from Microsoft has a valid cert chain all the way up to the root CA w...
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I went to MSMG Toolkit website but v13.2 was not there so I googled Toolkit_v13.2.7z and downloaded it then checked oscdimg.exe version 2.56.0.1010 SHA256 hash matched 5048a219b9dea36c489020889200456ce2d394b91a737a09753d9bfdb7461a87 modified 14 Jan 2023 03:43:14, file size is 140KB. That confirmed NTDEV claim that he is not the creator of modified oscdimg.exe so MSMG Toolkit developer is actually in fact the person who modified oscdimg.exe file.

It took me hours to find Windows 8 ADK as it was no longer available to download from Microsoft website.

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Windows 8.0 ADK 6.2.9200.16384 (ZIP) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Windows 8.0 ADK 6.2.9200.16384 (ZIP)
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I installed Windows 8 on VMWare VM then installed Windows 8 ADK and found the original oscdimg.exe version is same 2.56.0.1010 but SHA256 hash is different 89433ff17dfbdee1fabd0e1e552db0bc4e97701eadf8515a333c99f159c055db modified 25 Jul 2012 19:18:00, file size is 123KB.

I found Chris Titus made a video in 2021 about how to used MSMG Toolkit, weird he never NOTICED oscdimg.exe was modified!

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I googled to find the oldest MSMG Toolkit on internet, it was very difficult to find the first version 1.0 but found version 8.8's oscdimg.exe version 2.56.0.1010 SHA256 is different again 367ea9c2e99a38b2fa62708f4028319daf61e2d8e286d7bb3de8aa21c8601ac0 modified 4 Aug 2018 01:33:06, file size is 131KB.

it appeared that MSMG Toolkit developer modified oscdimg.exe everytime he released new MSMG Toolkit version since first version 1.0 back in 2013 but I cant believed NOBODY questioned developer why he modified oscdimg.exe rather than used Microsoft latest official version for every versions of MSMG Toolkit kept gone undetected for 10 YEARS!!! :eek:

MSMG Toolkit developer posted regularly ***elsewhere*** since 15 July 2011.

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I'm not sure what the big deal is with oscdimg.exe, as far as I can tell it's only used to create ISO images. But you don't have to create an ISO image with MSMG ToolKit, you can just copy your work directly to a USB stick (or wherever) which doesn't use the oscdimg.exe program.

If you check the script, you'll see that oscdimg.exe is only used in the "Building a DVD ISO Image" section and nowhere else. Mentions of it earlier in the script are when the environment variables are set and it tells you where oscdimg is located.
 
That guy's face is like he has just licked a lemon reaction :D

Anyway, another reason to use a start menu replacement, never see ads...
 
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Pretty bang on video, MS trying to be apple scummy, but less apple like, but much the same. If you're going to just sell out to advertisers, be an apple or google, just do it, stop pretending to not quite do it, Apple and Google just lean right on in.
 
t31os said:
Pretty bang on video, MS trying to be apple scummy, but less apple like, but much the same. If you're going to just sell out to advertisers, be an apple or google, just do it, stop pretending to not quite do it, Apple and Google just lean right on in.
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Google and the other data miners don’t charge for the software, MS charges us to be the product. This is what **** me off the most. If windows/office was free, then no one could complain but its not so should not have any adds/telemetry.
 
About to get a new rig up and running primarily for gaming and I was debating going with 11. I think in reality it's just going to annoy me since I use 10 daily in my job.
 
jaybee said:
About to get a new rig up and running primarily for gaming and I was debating going with 11. I think in reality it's just going to annoy me since I use 10 daily in my job.
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I would get W11 and just use Explorer Patcher to give you the look\features of W10.

I use this on my work laptop as well as my desktop and not had any issues.
 
I'm really liking Windows 11, for me it's almost perfect.

The one thing I can't beleive they haven't patched / updated yet is that you can't automatically always show all available system tray icons. Every time the nVidia drivers are updated, the 'nVidia container' gets hidden again and I have to unhide it manually.

Drives me potty.
 
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Hi guys,

Logged on to this today:

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So nothing in Windows Security to fix?!

Any ideas? - I'm wondering if it's anything to do with me disabling "kernel mode hardware enforced stack protection" at the weekend, only in order to try out Elden Ring, which was blocked by it by default.

I'm guessing a bug and that I need to wait and be patient for MS to fix etc. :D
 
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I'm really liking Windows 11, for me it's almost perfect.

The one thing I can't beleive they haven't patched / updated yet is that you can't automatically always show all available system tray icons. Every time the nVidia drivers are updated, the 'nVidia container' gets hidden again and I have to unhide it manually.

Drives me potty.
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Not sure how it works on 11 but on 10 you could just drag it from the popup to task bar to get it to stick if your manual way was to go to taskbar settings, if not then disregard :D
 
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