Slimdown11 – turn Windows 11 or LTSC 2024 into classic/legacy Windows

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...

 

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 $$$, using more powerful CPUs, but got slower test time on W11 than on W7. Evil Windows 11 is wasting CPU power and wasting my $$$.

 

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

 

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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My test of the last 24H2_Integrator_12.6 script, slim version, passed on VM.

Do I have to manually add ClassicPaint_for_Win11/snipping after install? or they are available only for Default version?
My version is slim. And I couldn’t see them after install. however, they exist in "\24H2_Integrator_12.6\OEM\$OEM$\$$\Setup\APP\"

 

SunLion,
Hello, could you please tell me how to move the install.wim file from the “Temp” folder (after it has been processed by the script) back to the “DVD\sources” folder?

The “Wim” folder is located in the main folder, and the “Data\Temp” folder is located in its (temporary folder) subfolder.
That is:
c:\Integrator\Wim\install.wim c:\Integrator\Data\Temp\ ??? >>> c:\Integrator\DVD\sources

 

Got it, thanks! But that's not what I was asking about. Moving or copying a file within the same folder (24H2_GamerOS) is very easy. But I needed to copy the install.wim file from the main folder (24H2_GamerOS\Wim) to a subfolder at (24H2_GamerOS\Data\Temp), where it is processed by a script, and after processing, I needed to return the install.wim file back to the main folder at the path 24H2_GamerOS\DVD\sources. If the Created.cmd and Start.cmd files are in the same (main) folder 24H2_GamerOS, this operation is very simple. But I would like to place the Start.cmd file in the main folder - 24H2_GamerOS, and the Created.cmd file is in the subfolder - Data. I tried to perform this operation in various ways, but so far I have not been able to do it. Perhaps I should just give up on this idea and leave the Created.cmd and Start.cmd files in the same (main) folder 24H2_GamerOS. In this case, everything works fine.

Apparently, you can't always get what you want.

 

Thank you! The idea was to remove Created.cmd to the Data folder. So that it wouldn't be an eyesore. Maybe it was my stupid idea, but I wanted to...

Actually, after moving the Created.cmd file to the Data folder, the script works fine. The only problem is that I can't move everything I need to move from the Data folder to the DVD folder while the script is running.

 

No, you're not talking about that again. Apparently the online translator distorts my thoughts so much that it's very difficult for you to understand what I needed. Okay, let's move on, forget about it, I'll figure it out myself. What you wrote down, I do like this:

Spoiler

Code:

echo.
echo ============================================================
echo === Creating Mount Folders and Temporary Folders ===
echo === Export wim file to temporary folder ===
echo ============================================================
echo.
if exist "%~dp0Mount" (rmdir /q /s "%~dp0Mount")
if exist "%~dp0Temp" (rmdir /q /s "%~dp0Temp")
if exist Log\*.* (del /q /s Log\*.*)
mkdir "%~dp0Mount" >NUL 2>&1
mkdir "%~dp0Temp" >NUL 2>&1
copy /y "%~dp0Wim\install.wim" "%~dp0Temp"

echo.
echo ============================================================
echo === Mount the install.wim image ===
echo ============================================================
echo.
"%DISM%" /english /Mount-Wim /WimFile:"%~dp0Temp\install.wim" /index:1 /MountDir:"%~dp0Mount"

 

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