Not sure where you got the impression I'm a "bleeding edge OS" girl, but I'm still on 1809. Nor have I installed any CUs on any production PCs since July. I've done some testing on 1903 but I've never had any intentions of rolling it out to the production PCs here. Too much work every 6 months. I was hoping to install 1909 in January over the Christmas break, but that doesn't look viable at this stage either. NVM... I get it.. Just because Microsoft says it's ready doesn't mean I, or anyone with some common sense, would believe them. I think Microsoft lost people's trust way back in Win8 days and it just gotten worse since then. I do, however, tend to agree that Windows 7 might be a safer bet. I'm just waiting to see if @MSMG can beat this "removed components get restored" issue. Anyway, as I was browsing here I noticed several posts abut NetFX3.5 and was just wondering if there is any relationship to the issues discussed here and the bugs with the recent CUs. If not, then that's great.
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/page-631#post-1549877 https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/page-632#post-1550045
I used to hope that I could do it every year. Indeed, the half-year update cycle is too fast, including my daily preview, and it is really too fast.Now I only hope that @MSMG will be able to solve the problem of the cumulative update recovery component in version 1903.Also, the corresponding removal can be extended to all language versions in the same period.
I agree, every six month updates is too fast for major updates to Windows. I do believe they are looking to reduce this to every twelve months, but I cannot find my source.
正义羊，JRJSheep=Just Righteous Justical Sheep. So,you may say me"JRJSheep".Coincidentally, I used Chinese characters as my MDL ID,not English letters.
Most want to remove the package to support all language.Because I use the zh-cn version of the operating system.Many Chinese users hope to remove the package to support the Chinese version of the system.
Bleeding edge os girl sounds better than bleeding girl at least. But well... win7 is a safer bet perhaps, but not a safe os. I've seen things nobody wants to see happen on win7. In any case, win10 isn't even the worst even without removals, there were times I had to simply disable components than remove. If we need to be very secure etc, i'd just switch to linux. I mean I already know how to use linux fairly well, but ya know....... people, including myself do want to game. Gamers tend to not really care that much about all the security and such details anyway.
Just monitoring the upcoming CU's to see if there are any difficulties with using the ToolKitHelper without updating too much. So far only few changes are required for each CU's and I'm adding automatic methods to detect and fix them. If everything goes fine then will add the support for all languages, just need someone to help me in preparing a MUI image so that I can speed up the process of adding the MUI data.
I'm a bit of a gamer (when I have the time), particularly Hearthstone. I think I must be in the minority.. I will not run my games on the main OS, always within a VM, using only an image created with this toolkit, nothing else installed and everything else disabled, and only on a VPN... ok, ok, so I'm a tad overdoing it If Linux had the gaming support of Windows I'd jump ship in an instant. <sigh> To some extent gaming and security are mutually exclusive.
When I don't have time, I still game, so you're at least doing better than me. Got me all envious. She's got self-control. I'm mostly curious what you're trying to secure however. Usually a firewall would suffice. + Remove telemetry. VPN.... yeah well, unless you're into doing funny stuff, I don't know what's to protect from. If you really want, you can just setup qemu+pcie passthrough (to access your gpu) and you'll be able to game at 95-97% performance in Windows with linux as your main OS. But please, don't fallback to win7 just because removals in win10 aren't ideal. Win7 is really insecure, not to mention slower than Win10.