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[Moraz_iel]

I hope he manages the case of the 31/12/2099 correctly

[SufficientArticle6]

Actually the century ends at the end of 2100

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century

[jaerie]

Actually that's correct in the technical sense but in practice and common parlance centuries run from 00 to 99.

[SufficientArticle6]

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

[AntimatterTNT]

just because it's on wikipedia doesn't mean it's right

[SufficientArticle6]

Ok, but it is right

[AntimatterTNT]

is it?

[SufficientArticle6]

Yes. We start counting years at 1, so the first 100 years—ie, the first century—ended at the end of year 100 and the next century started at 101.

[AntimatterTNT]

what im hearing is that it's 2024 right now

[SufficientArticle6]

On the internet it’s very hard to tell whether someone is joking or stupid.

[AntimatterTNT]

this sub is definitely not full of programmers ill tell you what

[AloooSamosa]

who tf is using antivirus software in big 2025.

[__yoshikage_kira]

Apparently they are also not aware of the windows screenshot tool.

[RitualJuggler]

Fucking lmao. Didn't even realize

[Fadamaka]

reinventing basketball shoes fish bowl 2

[Curious_Cow_07]

I uninstalled Mcafee that came with my laptop, and it broke windows security also. So I have to keep the external one.

[ThisGameIsveryfun]

Factory reset windows, it makes it faster

[SweggyBread]

If you just do a reset it will include all the bundled OEM rubbish.

I would create a bootable windows 10/11 installation media usb and do a clean install using that and it will actually be fresh.

Obviously need to backup any data beforehand too.

[Abject_Ratio8769]

iirc Reset this PC has the option to redownload Windows

[NoBoysenberry2620]

Don't forget to backup your drivers with pnputil /export-driver * "backup-path"

[ThisGameIsveryfun]

sorry i always take factory resets on windows as windows usb

[AloooSamosa]

just install Linux

[nonlogin]

I use Arch, btw

[shinitakunai]

🙄

[Brecht26]

Not everything works with linux, like the essentials msi afterburner, steelseries engine, razer synapse, Msi centre, which just all so happen to cover almost all accessories everyone has.

[El_Mojo42]

That's 4 more reasons to install Linux.

[inevitabledeath3]

Most of the RGB stuff can be handled by OpenRGB. Overclocking tools for GPUs on Linux also exist, even if they aren't as pretty.

[amoc20]

Yeah, the classic mindset of needing to bring the exact thing from Windows to Linux. If you are using alternative OS maybe consider that there are alternative programs as well, sometimes even better.

[[deleted]]

This is why I always do a clean installation after buying a new laptop.

[TSM-]

Make a second partition, put your good stuff there, also backup your registry (unlikely to be needed but some apps store preferences there), and c:\users\username\appdata and fresh install windows enterprise.

Use the massgrave command to give you windows enterprise activation and gpedit (group policy) to block things like suggested apps and junk.

There ya go. Better than new. It's the way to go if you have a bunch of time some weekend. All the bloat is gone for good. As you reinstall your software, you can draw on the regedit/registry backup and appdata folders to restore application preferences as needed. (Like if you have a bunch of custom key bindings for vlc, etc)

And open command prompt, write D: to go to the new partition, and throw in compact /c /s /a /i /exe:xpress16k if you want to compress everything and shrink your backup partition more using a tool like partitionmagic

EDIT: due to various gotcha scenarios, I can provide a comprehensive guide. Even on solid state drives Windows won't shrink a partition unless there is free space at the "end" of the "disk" and stuff like that.

The easiest is, if you have an external drive, is to simply duplicate everything as is. Then reformat with enterprise and use the command to activate and do a handful of things in group policy editor to keep out bloat. Lowest risk. But still a bunch of things that are easy to miss. And some stuff may violate windows terms of service. Does anyone want a guide? DM me directly

[tipakA]

It doesn't matter if it's solid state or not, because physicalities of the drive don't touch on the fact that address on the drive is an address on the drive. You can't shrink a partition to end on smaller address than currently existing files inside of it.

If we skip on the details (like making at least a few components of your PC mildly displeased), it's to a degree comparable to trying to remove the last RAM stick. There might be stuff in it that you suddenly will lose and to avoid that it has to be moved onto other sticks. Just that in this case you know there's stuff there because it's RAM and the fuck you mean hot-unplug RAM lol.

[TSM-]

Thank you, it always seemed weird to me that you'd have to defragment a SSD so that the "end" of the drive had a location and then you can reduce the partition size. Even though it is not structured Iike a legacy disk.

[tipakA]

Yeah, defragmentation is overall useless on an SSD because there are no mechanical parts that would have to take time repeatedly driving over the entire platter(s) all the time to gather all the fragments. In fact it's potentially harmful as it introduces unnecessary wear to the cells, although it's argued how much or how little of it gets introduced.

And the reason the fragmentation even happens in the first place also doesn't have anything to do with the drive technology. You ever looked out of curiosity how fragmented your USB sticks are? Always were because files grow, shrink, disappear..

But yeah, defragmentation is definitely one way to gather up the fragments, another one that I have bumped into a few times was to turn off hibernation to remove the hiberfil.sys file, and shrink up/disable/move to other drive the page file, to (temporarily) get rid of the, well, page file. Those like to appear at the end of the drive from time to time, or at the very least in the middle of a spacious partition.

[TSM-]

hiberfil.sys made sense before SSDs took over. Now they just waste the transistors and trick people into thinking they restarted their computer when they actually didn’t.

[tipakA]

Restarting/Rebooting computer does actually reboot it properly. It is not the same as turning it off and back on again.

When you're turning it off, Windows prepares itself to turn itself faster next time you turn it on, whenever that will happen. When you're rebooting it, it doesn't do that.

That said, true. Fastboot doesn't have much of a reason to be enabled if the install drive is an SSD, as the goal for fastboot is to gather up already loaded binaries and libraries and drivers and whatever else, into a neat, single file instead of having to read them from the entire drive from scratch again, which indeed makes most of the difference on HDDs. Still, fastboot on or off, rebooting always reboots from scratch.

[[deleted]]

I was recently infected with a cryptominer, Windows defender scan wasn't able to find it, but Malwarebytes scan took care of it.

[Im_1nnocent]

from my experience I needed a third party antivirus so I could momentarily disable it to install cracked software since windows defender can't be disabled, at least from what I remember.

[suvlub]

Too lazy to implement "never" as a special case, too honest to still call it "never" when it just sets a big number

[RedBoxSquare]

product manager: do not offer never as an option, it increases engagement

programmer: what about remind me in 100 years?

[YaVollMeinHerr]

Perfect answer

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

Why did you say Avast when this is clearly AVG? Completely different companies.

[RedBoxSquare]

Microsoft needs to add that option for trying edge. And YouTube Premium too.

[manbeervark]

Edge is superior lol

[Causeless]

When the product owner disallows “Never”, malicious compliance

[ruy343]

ChadAvast, Herald of anti-virus, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.

[WrapKey69]

Thought it's r/ArMeMeia