I made releases for two reasons. 1) Because MS wouldn't release updated versions of Win7/8/etc with the updated files included. They would make versions that had service packs included, but that's it. Those were often not good enough to have support for new internet technology or USB drivers that you would need, but that they would release updates for after the fact. 2) Sometimes I wanted to include kms activators or instructions on how to activate since it was TPB. It was interesting to me. It wasn't to make money or anything because I never made any amount of money ever from it. It was my hobby. I learned and enjoyed the learning. I'm pretty sure I was the first person to ever upload a self-activating win8 on the internet thanks to heldigard's little vm activator. That his name? God it's been years. I forget. I'm sorry if I forget his name. But my design philosophy behind the overall releases has been to keep the tweaks to a minimum. Leave nothing installed that the user wouldn't have installed by ms themselves. The only exceptions being of course the activator or the drivers required to make usb3 work on win7. Toward the end of the upload cycle I even stopped doing those because they felt unpure. I wanted the user to make those decisions for themselves. I included two different win7 final versions one with the usb3 drivers and one without. For the rest of the releases I included links to activators but didn't include them in the releases. My vision was always to be an updated OS that MS would provide with updates included, no tweaks or mods. Nothing removed. In fact my major regret is making a version with defender removed completely and I uploaded it. Not that I think it's super unstable. Defender is a garbage service. It just goes against my philosophy of not touching that stuff. Anyway to make this post on topic, what do you guys think they'll do with updates for win11? Do you think they'll continue with monthly rollupdates? Do you guys think they'll do any big changes to the way they handle CBS or do you think that's just too big of a change for something too close to release?
And that's why I still have and use a lot of your versions for various projects murphy78 - they were always my go-to for a solid, dependable, up to date release while keeping the basic OS as "default settings" as possible. Huge respect for your work!
The "win 11" iso is full consumer AIO, why all these (obsolete) actions? And online you should be able to switch licenses between pro<>all other pro+ sku's by running "slmgr -ipk <key>" or from home(sl) by changing productkey in settings >...> activation. @murphy78, HWID or KMS work fine, nothing changed.
oohhh i seee... Im new about this methods... so i can simple change the key and get the SKU that i Want? thanks about that
Memory's a bit hazy, but we had KMSMicro, KMSNano, KMPico. The last one still has a topic here on MDL. Just found KMSMicro VM 5.0.1 with the leaked CSVLK. Those were the times. The AIO I still have from you, however, seem to use AutoKMS from MTK.
If you install this 21996, will it remain in beta form? Or can it eventually get updated into a final version? (via Windows Update)
"Borgin, post: 1667983, member: 1056365"]If you install this 21996, will it remain in beta form? Or can it eventually get updated into a final version? (via Windows Update)[/QUOTE] My magic ball says....it is possible to upgrade...but it is possible you need to do a clean install
IMO it all comes down to the use case for the PC/VM you are testing it on. If its a test box or throw away VM then why not take a peek. If its the PC you use every day to do actual work, yeah, that's a terrible idea, even more terrible than official insider builds on a production machine.
I have found a couple of problems with files not returning space once they've been deleted. ~10-20Gb was showing as missing on an ssd partition that had no files on it (before some smartass starts... yes recycle bin was empty, no there weren't hidden/system files...). Would not show up again and had to reformat the space. Might be worth keeping an eye open for.
This happened to me with items on the desktop. I refresh and perform a Disk Cleanup, for the whole drive including the system files (choosing all). In fact, this way has helped solve a problem when after installing a pre-release application, the application kept crashing. Of course a bug is the first thing that comes to mind, but it was because temp file/s were not cleared fully. It is useful to perform a disk cleanup every now and then.
Windows 11 Insider builds to come next week Microsoft announced in a lead up to the Windows 11 event that Windows Insider builds will begin to drop "next week," and that the earliest of these builds will not contain everything you see today