NTlite is a program that facilitates in doing all this for you in a GUI. But I like tlo know how things work and you explained to me what NTLite is doing in the background. Thank You
It concerns me that the website simply redirects me to a TH-cam channel. If I'm going to use something created by somebody else, I want to know EXACTLY what has been done--and ideally, I want to use that process myself to replicate their work, rather than take it on trust. Windows is opaque enough as it is. If I'm going to modify it, I want to be able to start from an official download from Microsoft and then do the modifications myself, so I know exactly what has been done and what (if anything) has been added. That's just my personal preference, though. I'm sure lots of people have had nothing but good experiences with it, but I haven't had experience with it at all, good or bad! Most of my work focuses on cleaning up Windows 10/11 for a business environment, which is a different target. I need stability, support from Microsoft, and the ability to be able to enable telemetry for business purposes if needed; I can't afford to strip everything out like some of those builds do. (I just need to learn to control it.)
Think of a business application, developed and written in-house rather than purchased. A new update to the application is pushed out, and people start to report that it crashes sometimes. But it doesn't crash all the time, and it doesn't crash on every machine, so troubleshooting it is taking some time... Or, think of pushing out a critical security update. It installs properly on most machines, but it's failing on a few machines here and there. What's different about the machines where it fails? Maybe your business pays for some very expensive applications, and you'd like to know which application(s) you should focus on trying to eliminate--which departments use which applications, and how often? Telemetry is useful for these kinds of problems. If there's a crash, Windows error reporting can log it and send some of the details needed to help fix the issue. If an update fails, diagnostic data can help shed light on what's different about the hardware or software on the problem PCs, so you can adjust the details of which machines are assigned which updates--or which machines you might need to fix in another fashion. Microsoft's telemetry functions are primarily intended to help spot issues like these, particularly as Windows grows more complex. But Microsoft also has settings to allow the business to store the telemetry data for their own in-house reporting needs, in which case Microsoft only collects and forwards the data. You can also turn off Windows error reporting completely without having to remove it--there's a setting for that. (Microsoft used to have a service that allowed businesses to examine and use the telemetry from the Windows PCs in their own fleet, but a lot of the data is now available through the use of Intune or other such agents, some of which still use the built-in data collection functionality in order to provide the needed information.)
"different version of onenote" hit me hard lol great stuff man
Interesting! Can’t wait until the next video. Thanks
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Very well explained, thank you.
NTlite is a program that facilitates in doing all this for you in a GUI. But I like tlo know how things work and you explained to me what NTLite is doing in the background. Thank You
Do you believe in the spectre/lite versions? Or too dangerous?
It concerns me that the website simply redirects me to a TH-cam channel. If I'm going to use something created by somebody else, I want to know EXACTLY what has been done--and ideally, I want to use that process myself to replicate their work, rather than take it on trust. Windows is opaque enough as it is. If I'm going to modify it, I want to be able to start from an official download from Microsoft and then do the modifications myself, so I know exactly what has been done and what (if anything) has been added.
That's just my personal preference, though. I'm sure lots of people have had nothing but good experiences with it, but I haven't had experience with it at all, good or bad! Most of my work focuses on cleaning up Windows 10/11 for a business environment, which is a different target. I need stability, support from Microsoft, and the ability to be able to enable telemetry for business purposes if needed; I can't afford to strip everything out like some of those builds do. (I just need to learn to control it.)
@@NextDoorNetAdmin what kind of telemetry is useful for business
Think of a business application, developed and written in-house rather than purchased. A new update to the application is pushed out, and people start to report that it crashes sometimes. But it doesn't crash all the time, and it doesn't crash on every machine, so troubleshooting it is taking some time... Or, think of pushing out a critical security update. It installs properly on most machines, but it's failing on a few machines here and there. What's different about the machines where it fails? Maybe your business pays for some very expensive applications, and you'd like to know which application(s) you should focus on trying to eliminate--which departments use which applications, and how often?
Telemetry is useful for these kinds of problems. If there's a crash, Windows error reporting can log it and send some of the details needed to help fix the issue. If an update fails, diagnostic data can help shed light on what's different about the hardware or software on the problem PCs, so you can adjust the details of which machines are assigned which updates--or which machines you might need to fix in another fashion.
Microsoft's telemetry functions are primarily intended to help spot issues like these, particularly as Windows grows more complex. But Microsoft also has settings to allow the business to store the telemetry data for their own in-house reporting needs, in which case Microsoft only collects and forwards the data. You can also turn off Windows error reporting completely without having to remove it--there's a setting for that. (Microsoft used to have a service that allowed businesses to examine and use the telemetry from the Windows PCs in their own fleet, but a lot of the data is now available through the use of Intune or other such agents, some of which still use the built-in data collection functionality in order to provide the needed information.)