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Might stop another one of these threads every few hours now with spooky spooky 4chan links.
Maybe.
Probably not.
It it worth it to upgrade from 8.1 yet? Are there any REAL benefits?
Given a lot of the stuff is getting pushed back to win 7/8 there's increasingly less reason to not bother imo more so from 8.1
These are the droids you're looking for: https://teksyndicate.com/teksupport
@rand0mpcstuffs If you want DX12 then unfortunately you have to go with Win10, otherwise yeah, Win8.1 + Classic Shell FTW. That or dual boot with Linux.
Indeed. We have our own Tek Support system, but we are launching a paetreon soon. The goal is to improve production quality and content quality by removing our need for marketing loot. The Tek Support members and paetreon members will receive the same benefits.
I do but honestly, I'll put windows on to play H1Z1 or something then sorta forget about it, not good really.
I am already a tek support member, but I much prefer patreon as I support a few other artists there. I'd rather get one bill rather than two.
WDDM 2.0 and DirectX12. That's about it. And it is unlikely that any of that will be back-ported to 8.1 even.
Unfortuntely MS said a while back that the gamer good stuff is Win10 exclusive: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/43041/microsoft-announces-directx-12-exclusive-windows-10/index.html
Someone posted these update on Youtube, to be removed from win7/8.
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Here's another link to check out
I wish i found this before i spent hours with netstat and blocking windows manually through firewall....
Kickass.
What about creating a .iso file of w10 with everything tweaked and uninstalled?
Hi Fellas:
Thanks for this great tutorial. you should also check your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc 'host' file. i smell something fishy there. They are some fixes for the "host' file going around but i don't trust the sources putting them out.
Thanks.
interessting.
i exaly checked the KB updates that are named in the pcworld article.
And exaly non of those are installed on my Windows 7 system.
But they are offered due Windows update so becarefull.
i allways install updates manualy.
These 4 do exist on my system, but these are not adressed in the article of pcworld.
I will google what those are doing.
i think that these 4 updates are related to OS update advisors, for updating to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 but im not fully sure.
Hey guys cool piece with good info however I have a questions. If your not using Bing what are you using? Google is actually worse at grabbing your data in Search, Email and browser. What are you suggesting for these three areas that is free and keeps your privacy?
Anyway awesome and very usefull video.
I think we should make a good documentation thread about this, once you got everything worked out..
Then make it a wiki.
i Agreed.
So just an fyi after uninstalling some of those default apps, after reboot they will be reinstalled automatically. Not sure what needs to be blocked to prevent that.