If I switch from free to paid, will I lose any data?

Recently got a new PC and have yet to purchase windows, simply installed the unlicensed version to get started sooner rather than later. I’ve downloaded some apps and logged into some accounts, now I’m wondering if I’ll have to start over fresh when I purchase a licensed version.

Will it just be like “congrats, you’re licensed, now you can change your wallpaper” or will it be like I freshly installed windows and won’t have any of my files?

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Ideas how to remove program form right click menu?

Hello, people!
I would like to know if there is a way to remove this program when I right click on a picture?


I've tried with regedit method - but this program doesn't appear in KEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell

I've tried also the programs you see on the screenshot as well. But still nothing works for me.
Any ideas?
Thank you!



https://preview.redd.it/qx1fgl0lxt6f1.jpg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f162ef668b9172cc69dd3099e19ca103fc384f20



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Why is Win 11 so bad at speech to text?

On other Apps, the Mike will pick up TV speech, but shouting at Win 11 does nothing . Just looking for a low$/ŕree app for speech to text. Everything enabled on Win 11.

https://redd.it/1lb0gco
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PSA: If you use a Windows OS downloaded from Windowstan, your OS is most likely compromized and modified at a system level.

Do NOT ever download any Windows OS from windowstan.com
Help me report the website.

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This is a copy and paste of my Initial post in r/computerviruses https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1lbcafx/whats\_the\_likelihood\_that\_my\_os\_was\_comprimised/
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I downloaded and used an OS ISO, specifically windows 10, from a non-official website. I wanted to use the older versions so I could disable the Windows Updates.

There was this one instance where I opened Chrome and It suddenly started opening multiple random websites. This has never happened before. So I started trying to find out anything that might tell me if I'm on a compromised device.

Antivirus such as Malwarebite couldn't find anything even with Rootkit Scan.

Here are some strange things which I found.

Autoruns showed multiple startup entries referencing non-existent files.

RasMan (Remote Access Connection Manager) was running despite not appearing in Autoruns or Event Viewer.

sc qc rasman returned nothing

When I tried to scan all event logs with powershell, it showed no last record, on all of them.

7036 Event ID in the system logs does not exist.

This was the result for checking the status and source for RasMan. I had never changed it into Autol, nor have I interacted with it.

State : Running

StartMode : Auto

StartName : localSystem

There is no service control manager in the Event Viewer.

When I checked for updates installed, using powershell, they were years apart and all of them were updated literally in the same hour, 12 am. Also, the KBs were made up, they were fake and not real ones.

Really what's the likelihood that the entire OS has been sophisticatedly modified? I just think if it had been so, there is no way any Anti virus would have noticed anything at all.

But also, why did they suddenly do something that would gain my attention even though they've done nothing for so long? Have they conluded that my computer, informations, and what I have been doing with OS provide no value to them whatsoever? So they just troll me because of that?

Another thing, I had windows update paused, and after, literally, I looked for anything I could do to figure out if my OS is compromised, and I was done and shut off my computer, it STARTED updating.

Were they watching and found amusement in what I was trying to do?

I mean they have info to my emails and passwords, but like, I have nothing especially important on any of them. I did login to Whatsapp, which is a bummer, since if I was compromised, that means, most likely they already have all of that information from my login sessions.

I'll be changing my passwords, that's for sure.

I just don't get it, if I really was compromised, they just did that one troll action and didn't do anything to my accounts.

I flashed my bios and wiped my harddisk clean, a full wipe, and now I'm on a fresh install.

What's the likelihood I'm still compromised, are RAM viruses a thing? Because that might be the only thing I haven't done anything to.

And how do I check to find out if they have inflitrated my home network?
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https://redd.it/1lbx30o
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PSA: If you use a Windows OS downloaded from Windowstan, your OS is most likely compromized and modified at a system level.

Do NOT ever download any Windows OS from windowstan.com
Help me report the website.


Check my post in in r/computerviruses https://www.reddit.com/r/computerviruses/comments/1lbcafx/whats\_the\_likelihood\_that\_my\_os\_was\_comprimised/ for details of my experience.


https://redd.it/1lbx4s3
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Today is Father’s Day, and Microsoft missed the mark by a country mile.

https://redd.it/1lbytpy
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NanaZip appreciation post - 7-Zip fork with Fluent Design
https://redd.it/1lbvvxq
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Windows Vista on a weighing scale
https://redd.it/1lbvouz
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Unofficial native Vulkan drivers for Windows ARM

I found a native Vulkan driver and so far it worked great.
https://driver1998.github.io/en/posts/vulkan-on-qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx/

I used Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer to check if the driver was actually recognised by the system and yes, it is.
https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Please note that this isn't an official driver nor WHQL-signed.

https://redd.it/1lc46yg
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Upgrade from 10 21H2

I’m a tech doing upgrades. Research suggests we can upgrade from 21H2 to 11 23H2 or 24H2. ( assuming TPM and other requirements met! ). Anyone think of anything I’m missing?

https://redd.it/1lc3o9y
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Tip of the Week: If you're using Command Prompt you can press F7 to see a list of your recent commands
https://redd.it/1lc81qe
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well, this pops up on the skype app now
https://redd.it/1lc7e75
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Anything exciting going with W11?

When W11 was released it was very interesting to follow W11 development as a lot of stuff was in the works (including the features that were in W10 but not in W11, haha). But it's been a while since I've really followed deeply what is going on with W11.

So are there are any exciting features in development for W11? Perhaps Windows 12 is on horizon or anything like that?

https://redd.it/1lc7720
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Windows Settings app shows ram speed at 2400 MHz although everything else (CPU-Z, Bios, Task Manager etc) shows 3600Mhz...
https://redd.it/1lc0wxl
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is there a program that stops programs running in the background?

I'd just like to have a program to stop programs running on the background without having to do it myself, you know?



https://redd.it/1lcci5d
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