• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy, BUT ONLY if the first thing you do in a new PC with Windows, to spend an afternoon disabling and throwing out a ton of junk, trials, unnecessary services and functions and most of the telemetry. So if you have a fast and compliant OS. Luckily Windows allows all this, but naturally it requires an advanced user (registry and servicelists can be a comanche territory if you don’t exacly know what you do) and M$ does not offer much documentation and help on this topic either, of course. But in the new online subscription version they will naturally nip these possibilities in the bud.

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      Lol, I am viewed as an absolute Wizard by some of my friends in IT, because I am not at all afraid of RegEdit. Just don’t touch anything at all without triple checking that that is in fact the key you want to be playing with.

      I’ll have to remember “Comanche Territory”!

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        Use Winternals sysmon to suss out problem registry keys and file permissions and their minds will be blown.

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        Yes, no much problem with the cleartext software part, but the other where you see only numbers are not so easy, just easy to turn your PC into a Paperweight. This really isn’t very intuitive

        Easier the Services, although you can also screw up there

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      Windows is a good and stable OS with a reasonable privacy

      {Looks around confused}

      What the hell dimension did I walk into?!?

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        I mean, hes not wrong if hes talking about Windows 7.

        if hes talking about 10 or 11, then the dudes clearly on LSD.

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          At least W10 in this point isn`t different from W7, not sure in W11 and user intervencion with W12 and W365 online with subscription ends completely. Until now you can still gut Windows to your like, without LSD, maybe with some Tranxilium.

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        Read also the rest what is necessary to make Windows private and stable. Nothing new that Windows by default is a privacy nightmare, but you can change it, but how to do this is not in the Windows Helpfile.

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          If my OS installs broken by default. I’m just going to use something that’s not broken. Simple as that.