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I had exactly the same issue. The solution is Windows LTSC (long term service package). It has no Cortana, teams, or Windows store, no Telemetry, and only updat
by zakary 5y ago
I had exactly the same issue. The solution is Windows LTSC (long term service package). It has no Cortana, teams, or Windows store, no Telemetry, and only update about once a month and it never updates automatically, only when you allow it to. It’s designed for applications where a computer has to be stable for a long time.
A copy can be a pain to get a hold of because Microsoft only want to licence it to corporate clients, so it’s usually not possible for individuals to buy a licence at any price. Microsoft really don’t want regular people to have access to it.
but if you look on your favourite piracy site you should see it. Then use a Windows keygen and presto it’s activated.
- imposterr 5y agoHow can you be sure these copies of Windows haven't been tampered with?
- sslayer 5y agoI honestly think you could run a cryptominer on it and wouldn't be any worse than all the other shitware MS bloats it with
- blibble 5y agoyou can verify the sha256sum against MS official list
- imposterr 5y agoWhere is this official list? A quick google search just returns forums which seem to conclude that these are no longer published by MS.
- poplan 5y agoThere are some dumps online like https://www.heidoc.net/php/myvsdump.php https://www.heidoc.net/php/myvsdump.php or https://sha1.rg-adguard.net/ https://sha1.rg-adguard.net/
- IA21 5y agoThe issue about verification still remains. We have no way of knowing if these haven't been tampered with as well. If a malicious actor is tampering with ISOs on a large scale, they will make sure their tampered copies have the most seeds and their fake checksum lists will be at the top of search results.
- blibble 5y agofind a friend with MSDN access (or whatever it's called this week), the digests are all in there (they used to be public)
- xfer 5y agoThe images(wim/esd format) are downloaded from Microsoft servers. There is no tampering.
- mycall 5y agohttps://my.visualstudio.com https://my.visualstudio.com includes Windows LTSC for MSDN subscribers. There is even an IoT edition.