Slimdown10 – turn Windows 10 22H2 or LTSC 2021 into classic/legacy Windows

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  1. hoak

    hoak MDL Senior Member

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    #3281 hoak, Jul 23, 2025 at 11:19
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  2. wuliyen

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    Typical telemetry-related documents:
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    \Windows\DiagTrack
    
    \Windows\System32\AggregatorHost.exe
    \Windows\System32\diagnosticdataquery.dll
    \Windows\System32\diagtrack.dll
    \Windows\System32\dtdump.exe
    \Windows\System32\runexehelper.exe
    \Windows\System32\UtcDecoderHost.exe
    \Windows\System32\Windows.System.Diagnostics.Telemetry.PlatformTelemetryClient.dll
    \Windows\System32\utcutil.dll
    
    \Windows\SysWOW64\diagnosticdataquery.dll
    \Windows\SysWOW64\dtdump.exe
    \Windows\SysWOW64\Windows.System.Diagnostics.Telemetry.PlatformTelemetryClient.dll
    
     
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    Why not working on LTSC 2019, who is far less "bloated" and lighter than 2021, for the same result, I mean a fast operating system
     
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    Then maybe we'll go back to the plow ?
    :thinking:
     
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    I don't want to offend you, but after reading what you wrote, it's not something to laugh about, but rather something to cry about. IMHO
     
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    Doesn't offend me one bit -- I think it's both hilarious and sad, I was a Windows FanBoy for decades -- but Windows 11 isn't even an Operating System anymore, it's more like Gamified Dystopian Monopoly Industrial Surveillance Malware... And literally so...
     
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    #3293 sainfo, Jul 23, 2025 at 22:05
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    Well, that's up to each individual. I've been a fan of Windows for decades and still am. Yes, Windows isn't perfect, but it's wonderful in its own way. Yes, there's a lot more junk in this system than we'd like, but that's a solvable problem. People who care come to our aid with their clever scripts. Personally, I've always been very interested in working with everything new and unknown. That's why I'm looking forward to Windows 12. I know that most likely nothing will change there, despite the fact that MS promised a new kernel written from scratch in this version. They're probably lying, as always, we'll see...
     
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    I'm NOT a gamer.

    My daily task is to run various scripts of python and excel macro. It’s my wish the running time should be as less as possible. I do upgrade to more powerful computers if needed.

    The problem is, new CPU/computer wouldn't take OS W7 any longer (such as my Dell 7070). Hence have to install OS W10/W11.

    Well, my testtime has shown the problem, I paid more $$$, using more powerful CPUs, but got slower test time on W11 than on W7. Evil Windows 11 is wasting CPU power and wasting my $$$. :)

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    siliconbeaver thanks you for posting this. While I do game on a PC, I primarily use Windows for audio and video post production, and it's the same thing that you and Gamers confront using Windows 11: a ridiculous (that should be ridiculed) performance hit in the form of added DPC latency, network latency, lower frame rates, lower 1% lows, longer compile times, and more anomalies and errors -- literally poorer performing everything.

    As you point out, this is not cheap; for a Gamer with a $2000 PC this can be a $400-600 performance hit just for using Windows 11, with more constrained and less expensive systems like laptops pay an even steeper price in terms of percentage, and on a DAW (a Digital Audio Workstation) where time is money, it's worse still...

    Adding insult to injury Windows 11 also suffers grotesque user interface regression, with more obtuse, incongruent and awkward interfaces that can require 4 to 11 times the amount of user input to accomplish the same thing, on top of that it mixes non-skeuomorphic and skeuomorphic user interface design that's not just an eye sore, it cases real eye strain.

    Contrary to the hype, and a gaslight minority of wishful thinkers: Windows 11 is not an improvement in terms of form, function or performance -- unless you're measuring those parameters in terms of helping Microsoft and it's 'Partners' make money literally selling you and your data as the product.
     
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    No need to search W11, but between LTSC 2019 and LTSC 2021
     
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    #3299 sainfo, Jul 25, 2025 at 04:00
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    Damn, you've already annoyed everyone with your Vista, you might as well bring up Win 3.1.
    I hope you know what order is - chatterbox!
     
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