This is my first post here! To celebrate losing my forum-virginity, I'm going to make it extra-long. If you're a person that hates to read or you use terms like TLDR this is especially dedicated to you. 
I decided to write this novel to share my story and profess my love and gratitude for NT Lite. I'm 41 and have been building computers all my life starting from DOS. NT Lite is the best money I have ever spent for software in my 4 decades on this planet. I never imagined that I would pay money for a product to remove things from a different product that I also spent money on. I already have a bond to everyone here, since we are sharing the same goal. You are all now my brothers. The changes in windows happened so slowly over the years that some went unnoticed, and others I just accepted. Little by little, inch by inch, windows kept doing shitty things but now I think it has finally transformed into the malware they keep saying they are protecting us from. They have built a monopoly on PC gaming (which I still do as an old man ) so there aren't great alternative operating systems available out there. Anything that starts getting traction they buy-out for millions (ie. Discord). Most of the best hardware is still designed with Windows in mind as well. This latest version of windows was the tipping point for me. Saying "security" is the basis for what they are implementing, is really insulting to my intelligence. They have zero concern about your security.
I'm not a tin-foil hat wearing crazy person worried about privacy and being paranoid. This all started innocently because I recently built a monster of a computer. I handpicked every component, tuned everything to perfection, but it wasn't performing the way I knew it should be. I paid for hardware, and I paid for the operating system to run the hardware. My only expectation from any computer I build is for it to compute what I tell it to compute. I don't feel like this requirement is unreasonable, am I losing my mind? In a programming class I took in college my teacher pointed out a mistake in my code and said, "A computer will do what you say, not what you want." Such a good line, and I still remember it all these years later. Computers follow instructions, and I was always able to fix a problem reviewing it logically. That consistency/logic is nonexistent in Windows. The design is intentionally layered, convoluted, and intertwined to discourage changes. The worst part is it's super bloated and all the advancements in hardware have been hamstrung by this crap. Blue screen errors in the past meant you had failing hardware or improper tuning, it usually only meant actual instability in the hardware. A BSOD today can happen for reasons not related to stability. If you use the software in a way they don't want, they will intentionally crash the whole thing down. Even something trivial/small. "Unstable" used to mean just that, today "unstable" can be swapped with "unapproved". Now they are adding TPM hardware to brute force compliance, and it truly boils my blood. It's un-American and makes me even more resolved in my mission. I'm worried it's only going to get worse with time.
My eureka moment was when I discovered that Microsoft was hiding things from the admin system monitoring tools. I can understand hiding things from users, but an admin? Then the audacity to call their hardware "Trusted Platform Module". This is the antithesis to trust. I'm embarrassed I didn't realize this sooner. I started using third party software, and finally saw what was being hidden from me behind the curtain. I saw everything, and the computer made logical sense again. For my next NT Lite ISO test build, I have removed almost everything. It's a skeleton. I think it was over 1600 items, something insane. I'm going to test it, and then slowly add back only the minimum items needed to keep it from intentionally crashing. Any additional tools/apps will be strictly non-Microsoft moving forward. I'm not even going to use their UI. I finally have control over my computer back, and I feel like a kid again tinkering with these installations. It's been really fun. NT Lite is doing God's work. I'm so happy I found this program, it's glorious and so well made.
I decided to write this novel to share my story and profess my love and gratitude for NT Lite. I'm 41 and have been building computers all my life starting from DOS. NT Lite is the best money I have ever spent for software in my 4 decades on this planet. I never imagined that I would pay money for a product to remove things from a different product that I also spent money on. I already have a bond to everyone here, since we are sharing the same goal. You are all now my brothers. The changes in windows happened so slowly over the years that some went unnoticed, and others I just accepted. Little by little, inch by inch, windows kept doing shitty things but now I think it has finally transformed into the malware they keep saying they are protecting us from. They have built a monopoly on PC gaming (which I still do as an old man ) so there aren't great alternative operating systems available out there. Anything that starts getting traction they buy-out for millions (ie. Discord). Most of the best hardware is still designed with Windows in mind as well. This latest version of windows was the tipping point for me. Saying "security" is the basis for what they are implementing, is really insulting to my intelligence. They have zero concern about your security.I'm not a tin-foil hat wearing crazy person worried about privacy and being paranoid. This all started innocently because I recently built a monster of a computer. I handpicked every component, tuned everything to perfection, but it wasn't performing the way I knew it should be. I paid for hardware, and I paid for the operating system to run the hardware. My only expectation from any computer I build is for it to compute what I tell it to compute. I don't feel like this requirement is unreasonable, am I losing my mind? In a programming class I took in college my teacher pointed out a mistake in my code and said, "A computer will do what you say, not what you want." Such a good line, and I still remember it all these years later. Computers follow instructions, and I was always able to fix a problem reviewing it logically. That consistency/logic is nonexistent in Windows. The design is intentionally layered, convoluted, and intertwined to discourage changes. The worst part is it's super bloated and all the advancements in hardware have been hamstrung by this crap. Blue screen errors in the past meant you had failing hardware or improper tuning, it usually only meant actual instability in the hardware. A BSOD today can happen for reasons not related to stability. If you use the software in a way they don't want, they will intentionally crash the whole thing down. Even something trivial/small. "Unstable" used to mean just that, today "unstable" can be swapped with "unapproved". Now they are adding TPM hardware to brute force compliance, and it truly boils my blood. It's un-American and makes me even more resolved in my mission. I'm worried it's only going to get worse with time.
My eureka moment was when I discovered that Microsoft was hiding things from the admin system monitoring tools. I can understand hiding things from users, but an admin? Then the audacity to call their hardware "Trusted Platform Module". This is the antithesis to trust. I'm embarrassed I didn't realize this sooner. I started using third party software, and finally saw what was being hidden from me behind the curtain. I saw everything, and the computer made logical sense again. For my next NT Lite ISO test build, I have removed almost everything. It's a skeleton. I think it was over 1600 items, something insane. I'm going to test it, and then slowly add back only the minimum items needed to keep it from intentionally crashing. Any additional tools/apps will be strictly non-Microsoft moving forward. I'm not even going to use their UI. I finally have control over my computer back, and I feel like a kid again tinkering with these installations. It's been really fun. NT Lite is doing God's work. I'm so happy I found this program, it's glorious and so well made.
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