Funny but scary thing to think about

Microsoft is the most popular investor in OpenIA... and the consequences are showing. But that is another topic for another debate. You can shove in Windows 11 tons of AI stuff without breaking basic things.

BTW, for those who say Windows 11 works totally fine ( @Parasite-B , @BlackHawk ), these problems don't affect the majority of users. So it's a normal thing.
But there's a significant number of them affected.

 

Well, speaking of which...

MS themselves unleashed Copilot on their codebase... of .NET in regular expressions for fuck's sake. Not going to lie, it's fun watching the devs fighting idiotic PRs: https://www.reddit.com/r/Experience...new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

And Sadya Natella claimed 30% of Microsoft's new code is AI written: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_meta_autocoding/

 

fk, i just spent whole weekend building and installing my new pc, this time its dedicated audio pc. i was actually thinking of installing windows 10 instead of 11, finally i chose win 11 iot ltsc 24h2. i was using win x-lite 11 23h2. i hope it will be ok :D

OMFG
this can have huge consequences, im kinda scared

 

Yeah, I've heard about both.
It's surreal

 

As "bad" as vista was it was still miles better than Windows for WorKgroups, Win2.x, Win3.x, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, Win2K... I actually preferred WinXP over vista...

 

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Yeee... Co-Pilot... just say no... If I were doing a win11 build that would be the first thing to completely disable/remove. There was a relatively easy fix for CoPilot on win10 but win11 is a bit different.

So that's why the os's are full of spy/adware and privacy violating telemetry.. So Sadya now has a scapegoat - whenever someone accuses him of putting junkware into ms products he can just say "It wasn't me it was the AI!!"...

 

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I'm sure that AI will be blamed for some "oopsies" (as in "sorry not sorry, deal with it") further along the line.

I do feel for some MS engineers since they're forced to use Copilot and have to deal with it. I mean people implementing core .NET/CLR/regular expressions are not exactly junior coders. Imagine having to put up with automated "bugfixes" that do nothing of the sort. You know the saying that dealing with programmers is like herding cats... dealing with automated LLM bullshit is like herding mosquitoes or something.

 

It's not just the SE's that "have to use it". EVERYONE at ms that has work computer(s) assigned to them, laptop/desktop/devices ALL are forced to use whatever the current OS/device du jour is. If you're on the ms corpnet, it's all forced on - try turning anything off, like bitlocker or some other complete shit ms os "feature" and corpnet "big brother" (corporate security) will send you a nasty-gram email and turn the shit back on from remote. It's like working with the NAZI SS looking over your shoulder 8-18 hours @ day. EVERYTHING you do on the network is monitored (realtime with SMS) and you're on camera 24/7/365 as soon as you hit the campus. They should just put up guard posts, razor wire and patrol with the G. Shepherds. At least it would set the proper tone for working there...

 

I'm not installing windows updates ever, I only upgrade from time to time.
On win10/11 I use StopUpdates10 to disable WU completely - works like a charm.

As of my experience, Updates always made the system worse.
Once I couldn't play any media after an update, after another update explorer went into a
constant crash loop when clicking anywhere on the desktop, another update made the explorer
crash when clicking on audio files + disabled file preview for pictures and video files,...
In 2 cases it ended up in a boot loop and 1 case to not beeing able to login to my local account
anymore so I had to create a new one which on windows is like setting up a new installation of
the os but with all the issues still existing.

So I went into system image customization and started creating my own images with all the bloat, Ads,
AI, windows store, edge, etc. removed so I get a clean experience.

Every 2-3 years I create a new image to upgrade/reinstall my OS and the 1st thing I do after
installing always is: I disable updates. I tried it on virtual machines a lot.
Even if defender, edge, etc. is removed & disabled completely, there will be 1 update after a year or so,
that reinstalls all that crap and bloat again and this is prevented when updates are disabled.

Btw. I never ran into issues like I couldn't run the latest games/software anymore
or having problems with security or so. Only some apps/installers (from adobe for example) required
an OS update... so I simply unpacked the installers and moved the files manually and that worked.

 

Last edited: Nov 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Didn't happen to me yet. With StopUpdates10 it looks like this over here:

Seems like this tool completely disables the update processes successfully.

btw. I patched that tool to create an adfree version of it. If you need it, I can send it over.

 

Override MusNotification.exe with a debugging alias and never get annoying windows update / reboot popups again at no functionality loss. I've been using this method to kill off all sorts of nasty things - telemetry reporters, crash handlers, bug report senders, self-updaters (dropbox), Chrome software reporter tool etc.

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MusNotification.exe]
"Debugger"="cmd.exe /c echo %TIME% Reboot Alert >> D:\\Downloads\\blocked.log"

Just create an entry for every exe giving you headaches.

 

I bought a Premium version of StopUpdates for €24, and it was worth it.
Since December of last year, I've had peace and quiet from Microsoft updates. Lasts until the year 2099!

 

dude ........
Please stop to spam "StopUpdates". There has long been a free solution

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

 

Hey @Friendelek, calm down, the program is very good and, most importantly, it works.

StopUpdates10

Take your Control over Windows 11/10/8/7 updates with StopUpdates10 Free!
Version: 4.7.2025.0424 (Date: 04/24/2025 - April 24 2025)
Windows 11 24H2 is supported!

https://greatis.com/stopupdates10

 

Well they are consistent at least.

Anyone from the much older generation will remember how far back this kind of attention to fixing bugs goes...e.g...
"DOS 6 will be fixed in update 6.1, DOS 6.1 will be fixed in update 6.12, DOS 6.12 will be fixed in update 6.2, DOS 6.2 will be fixed in update 6.22".

As I mentioned, if nothing else, they are consistent for the last thirty years. Shame it is not in a good way.

 

Does is clip off the update-medic agent and all the taskhost stuff as well? I stopped the updating stuff by removing the services and tasks - problem is there are a few tasks (that cannot be removed) that will call up other "pieces" of the update process and attempt to make internet connections (which can be easily stopped via firewall or netlimiter) even though the services that are responsible for them aren't even engaged. It's like a chicken moving around with the head cut off...