Slimdown10_v2.0.2 (continued)

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by SunLion, Sep 1, 2024.

  1. hoak

    hoak MDL Senior Member

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    Well eventually I will, but this is something you can do very easily yourself, and bench the applications or games that matter to you most. While it's very easy, it's very, very time consuming and I don't have a lot to spare... I personally don't like synthetic benchmarks, as they're heavily skewed by all kinds of insalubrious deals between Microsoft, hardware, software, and game developers and vendors. Worse everyone ends up optimizing their drivers to look better on the synthetic benchmark and it ends up being useless for anything but some kind of vague raw performance comparison that can be totally upside down for a specific application, game or hardware configuration...

    If you DIY you can measure real performance differences of whatever matters to you most: 4 or even 8k video render and frame drops, frame rates and 1% lows in specific game engines or games, post production and model render times in various media and 3d editors, latency like DPC latency... The challenge is that Microsoft is constantly adding to and changing Windows 11, many of these changes like 'feature updates' are features without benefits that degrade performance, and the next update will attempt to ameliorate some of that making Windows 11 a moving target. As well hardware manufacturers are constantly updating their drivers to keep up.

    I primarily want my target OS platforms to be mature, and robust -- if things don't work, crash, freeze or break, and are constantly updating added new unknowns -- all the performance difference in the world doesn't matter; just like having the fastest car in the world if it doesn't run or is in the shop all the time is pretty useless. The performance differences here are mostly small, and the exceptions like DPC latency always favor Windows 10. Also I don't like my data leaking all over the place and being sold, and Windows 11, even IoT leaks like a colander, with new holes added or opened back up with every update.

    So it takes a major something to get me interested in chasing Windows 11 again, I thought there might be that something in terms of performance from Ghost Spectre's previous benchmarks to his most recent update, and there wasn't... It's a dud...
     
  2. SunLion

    SunLion MDL Addicted

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    I'll download it again and do a step-by-step guide.
     
  3. ashish1989

    ashish1989 MDL Addicted

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    HostVersion ==> Windows_10_IoTEnterpriseS_amd64

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    Found the following images in ISO/DVD:

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    * Choose image index and press Enter:

    The above problem is coming, no image index is found and when I press 1 and enter, it automatically closes and deletes some files in the folder
     
  4. SunLion

    SunLion MDL Addicted

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    Here is a simple tutorial on how to convert ESD to ISO.
     

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  5. SunLion

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    See the post above. ISO images must have "CLIENTBUSINESS" - "CLIENTCONSUMER" or "windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021" in their name for the script to identify them.
     
  6. Krunge

    Krunge MDL Novice

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    Hi, thanks for your support, but I have tried everything and still the same error.
    I have disabled all the window defender stuff.
    Try diferent brosers.
    I have tried on different pc's and the same error keeps coming back again and again. I have never had anything like this happen before.
    Are you sure that the upload is not corrupted?
    The password works and unzips all but one file. And it says
    1- Unsupported compression method: wrong password? SD10_Renewed_1.3.1\Addons\Win32calc\Win32Calc\3\Windows\System32\win32calc.exe
    That file is inside 7z but it can,t be unzip.
    Can somebody check again this for me, please? I feel like an idiot with this stupid error.
    Thank you :)
     
  7. dyfi

    dyfi MDL Novice

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    You need to update 7zip to v2409
     
  8. ashish1989

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    All went well and smooth, chose default mode, just 1 thing is missing it didn't ask to enable/disable chromium and firefox related rules
     
  9. Krunge

    Krunge MDL Novice

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    Finally! this update makes sense. i had 1900 installed. Thank you very much, this was driving me crazy.
     
  10. Mavericks Choice

    Mavericks Choice MDL Guru

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    #330 Mavericks Choice, Feb 7, 2025
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    I used the link you provided with 19045.1826.220707-2303.22h2_release_svc_refresh_clientbusiness_vol_x64fre_en-us_b35bf56e4b0ec11190f301b887302964d88c3468

    Though when I open the converter it shows ed version?
    Is the link incorrect?

    Abb Conv Ed.jpg

    EDIT: Found the error in my way! Was due to not having esd-decrypter-wimlib-63.7z, I was using an earlier ver of Abbodi's script. Thanks @SunLion
     
  11. Mavericks Choice

    Mavericks Choice MDL Guru

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    @SunLion Just tested in VirtualBox found the basic calculator was selected, though does not work!
    Also can the context menu tweaks have an option for english?
    See image & log attached.
     

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  12. SunLion

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    These codes have been removed from the script.

    You can create them separately and add them to the PersonalTweaks\CMDTweaks folder.
     
  13. Mavericks Choice

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    Fixed the std calc, removed updated the calc from uwp dir, now working as expected.
     
  14. dyfi

    dyfi MDL Novice

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    @SunLion - Tested 10IoTx86 in VMware with default/adjustable settings. Script completed successfully but a couple observations - surprised script didn't ask to make iso, however fixed with create iso.cmd also automatic openshell results in a mix of Portuguese & English, easily fixed by changing open shell language and reboot. Noted no issues with classic calculator. Great job:)
     

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  15. SunLion

    SunLion MDL Addicted

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    Edited the Context Menu to English.

    In tests Classic Calculator works without errors.
     
  16. egalerst

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    From the comments i would say points 3 and from a quick look point 4 are still valid. didnt check the others
     
  17. Mavericks Choice

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    @SunLion to use firefox with SD, is there only one line required for the reg file in the personal tweaks dir?
     
  18. SunLion

    SunLion MDL Addicted

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    No.

    All the code from the original wkeller script is required.

    I will edit and publish it for anyone who wants to use it.
     
  19. hoak

    hoak MDL Senior Member

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  20. BonesJones

    BonesJones MDL Novice

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    This may be an ignorant question but please forgive my ignorance.

    Can we use "custom" iso's from uupdump.net for SlimDown?

    I am building a new system (9800X3D) and was going to throw Win11 on there and try to slim it down as much as I could but after reading some of hoak's posts... I think I'm just gonna stick with Windows 10 + SD. I had read that Win11 has better optimizations for the X3D chips... but I'm unsure about that.

    Really the only advantage for gaming in W11 is DirectStorage 1.1, which is direct GPU compression and Windows 10 does not have that, it has a simpler form of DirectStorage 1.0. Now... only a very small (literally) handful of games actually employ DirectStorage, the most notable one being Diablo 4.