Hello
I am building a new system (Ryzen 3900x / 32 GB of 3600 MHz RAM), for general use, some gaming and video editing (Premiere) and most of all, audio production.
Not exactly delighted with Telemetry, Cortana, Microsoft Store, Candy Crush, Edge and the rest of Windows 10 bloatware, I was initially going to just install LTSC but I've decided that I want to be able to install *some* Windows updates if/when I fee like. Latest version is supposedly better optimized for Ryzen 9, there's the FLS limit fix (very important for audio) and as much as I dislike bloatware, I'd rather not being stuck in a version I will have to wait a lot before I get an update/feature I might want. So naturally I found NTLite.
And I've got a few questions:
1. Will creating a custom lightweight Windows installation with NTLite perform as well as LTSC?
2. When it comes to updates I guess I want more or less the Windows 7 experience. Getting pretty much every security update, getting important updates for important components and in general being given the choice to pick what I want to install or not. How can I do that?
3. It's the first PC I am putting together myself and I am reading that the first thing to after installing Windows is letting it update itself. Should I do that?
I think it's important to do so in order to receive crucial, important updates and find drivers for my hardware etc. but how do I make sure it doesn't download and reinstall bloatware I removed with NTLite effectively destroying my tidy, lightweight plan?
4. Is it possible to download the latest important updates and include them to my custom ISO so everything is up to date before I even install?
5. How do I remove Cortana without screwing windows search (bar) up? It seems like this wasn't possible in 2017. How about now?
6. I've seen other debloating tools report that by removing Internet Explorer and Media Player it may cause some games that rely on the libraries from them to not work. Is that the case with NTLite?
7. Is NTLite able to remove telemetry completely on Windows Pro or that's possible only with the Enterprise (not LTSC) version?
8. Since I am pretty new to this, is there a newbie guide with stuff it's safe/unsafe to remove? I wouldn't want a crippled installation...
I am building a new system (Ryzen 3900x / 32 GB of 3600 MHz RAM), for general use, some gaming and video editing (Premiere) and most of all, audio production.
Not exactly delighted with Telemetry, Cortana, Microsoft Store, Candy Crush, Edge and the rest of Windows 10 bloatware, I was initially going to just install LTSC but I've decided that I want to be able to install *some* Windows updates if/when I fee like. Latest version is supposedly better optimized for Ryzen 9, there's the FLS limit fix (very important for audio) and as much as I dislike bloatware, I'd rather not being stuck in a version I will have to wait a lot before I get an update/feature I might want. So naturally I found NTLite.
And I've got a few questions:
1. Will creating a custom lightweight Windows installation with NTLite perform as well as LTSC?
2. When it comes to updates I guess I want more or less the Windows 7 experience. Getting pretty much every security update, getting important updates for important components and in general being given the choice to pick what I want to install or not. How can I do that?
3. It's the first PC I am putting together myself and I am reading that the first thing to after installing Windows is letting it update itself. Should I do that?
I think it's important to do so in order to receive crucial, important updates and find drivers for my hardware etc. but how do I make sure it doesn't download and reinstall bloatware I removed with NTLite effectively destroying my tidy, lightweight plan?
4. Is it possible to download the latest important updates and include them to my custom ISO so everything is up to date before I even install?
5. How do I remove Cortana without screwing windows search (bar) up? It seems like this wasn't possible in 2017. How about now?
6. I've seen other debloating tools report that by removing Internet Explorer and Media Player it may cause some games that rely on the libraries from them to not work. Is that the case with NTLite?
7. Is NTLite able to remove telemetry completely on Windows Pro or that's possible only with the Enterprise (not LTSC) version?
8. Since I am pretty new to this, is there a newbie guide with stuff it's safe/unsafe to remove? I wouldn't want a crippled installation...