Comment Re:Windows 8? Seek help. (Score 1) 103
Oh if you want to fuck around with custom scrips just install Windows 11 and do the same thing. No need to be a complete masochist and than back out when the dominatrix shows up.
There are other things wrong with Windows 11, but most importantly for this conversation, the telemetry isn't added by updates so you can't remove it so trivially.
I have windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 in VMs and bring them up on a non-routed network. I then mostly ruin this by allowing them access to the web via a proxy, but I can turn that off if I wish. I scarcely ever use any of them, but that's OK, I have plenty of disk space.
If I were running Windows on the metal, it would be Windows 10 LTSC, and I would be using that script to remove the added telemetry "updates", which is what I was doing with Windows 7 and 8. But now I do not boot Windows on any machine. I'm done kicking that can.