As the title says. I’m just curious what’s triggering it. There is no MS Office installed. Happens as soon i start a windows10 pc and it’s “packed” into svchost. Any idea?
As the title says. I’m just curious what’s triggering it. There is no MS Office installed. Happens as soon i start a windows10 pc and it’s “packed” into svchost. Any idea?
Get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.
Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.
And you can permanently license it using Microsoft’s own scripts.
Scripts on Gituub.
O&O is good, can also look into privacy.sexy to generate a script with all the stuff you want to rid yourself of. They also have several levels of preconfigured scripts (all open source) that give you a good starting point which you can review and adjust as per your preferences
Nice, thanks for the alternative!
I like the option for scripting it.
Thank you! Do you know if the LTSC version is impacted by the October 2025 sundown date?
“Windows 10 GAC (General Availability Channel) (i.e. Home, Pro) will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. So, if your hardware doesn’t support Windows 11 then you might wanna use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 since its supported until Jan 13, 2032” from https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
Windows 11 LTSC 2024 soon:
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
No idea.
I’ve never cared about such things for home systems - I never use MS support, and I think updates are over emphasized for stability and security, as that ignores the other layers that are required.
If a system runs, does what I need it to do, I’m uninterested in making changes that run the risk of causing issues (for example, I have containers for things like Syncthing that don’t get auto updates - I need to know that it works the same all the time, as it keeps mobile devices syncing their data to home, which gets backed up). I check updates 2x/year, and manually update if I feel it’s useful (sometimes updates aren’t available for all systems, which can break things).
All my systems are properly secured, behind multiple layers of security (physical firewall, isolated vlans, VPN, with encryption enabled wherever it’s available, etc), I run in limited user accounts, my admin accounts aren’t obvious, with proper complex passwords, everything is encrypted, properly replicated and backed up.
My next phase is adding 2FA even for my home servers.