GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

• Windows 11, version 21H2: EOS
• Windows 11 version 22H2: EOS
• Windows 11, version 23H2: KB5093998 (OS Build 22631.7219)
• Windows 11, version 24H2 / 25H2: KB5094126 (OS Builds 26200.8655 and 26100.8655)
• Windows 11, version 26H1: KB5095051 (OS Build 28000.2269)

The reason I want it gone is it hides information that I need.

You're seeing two taskbars because I'm viewing a remote desktop session.

In the above example, I hovered over firefox in the gray taskbar, and it popped up a preview window, hiding the info I need to see in the remote desktop session. It's highlighted in red

This project includes a new USB Audio Class 2 (UAC2) driver, optimized for low-latency musician scenarios. It also includes an ASIO interface to the UAC2 driver to support applications which use the ASIO standard. This driver, and its supporting components, will be shipped in Windows.

There is no public release of the driver, yet. This section will be updated with the Windows Insider Build information once the driver preview ships in Windows.

• Windows 11, version 21H2: EOS
• Windows 11 version 22H2: EOS
• Windows 11, version 23H2: KB5087420 (OS Build 22631.7079)
• Windows 11, version 24H2 / 25H2: KB5089549 (OS Builds 26200.8457 and 26100.8457)

Our investigation revealed it’s an AI-slop report based on fewer than five complaints on forums.

• Windows 11, version 21H2: EOS.
• Windows 11 version 22H2: EOS
• Windows 11, version 23H2: KB5082052 (OS Build 22631.6936)
• Windows 11, version 24H2 / 25H2: KB5083769 (OS Builds 26200.8246 and 26100.8246)

Hi Windows folks. I'm setting up a new laptop for a family member and it'll have to be Windows 11. The salesperson at the store obviously wanted to upsell us their security software, but I told him we'd just use Defender.

Is that still the go-to? Back in the day I used Malwarebytes, is that any good these days?

Any other debloat tips for Windows I might want to know? Thanks gang!

We bought a HP omen 16, has a ryzen ai 9 hx 375 and a laptop rtx 5080 with 32 go of ram.

The USB controller is broken or something, if two slots are used, one of them wigs out and spams the controller with fake devices, meaning it fills the controller and no USB devices work.

The second account can run gtav legacy at a whopping 40 fps and medium settings with tons of stutter while using the gpu. Main account at 200+ at highest possible setting while on a fivem server. The second account is my wife's, and she will be using it more than me.

Tons of little issues, like the network settings getting corrupted at one point. Bluetooth turning off randomly. Audio devices disabling once unplugged and not reenabling when plugged back in. Updates failing without logs.

I wish so badly to install linux onto this but cannot because the games my wife plays requires a real windows account. (Gta, battlefield, ect.)

I did a little digging and found very little help regarding these issues. Anyone else have these problems?

Edit: A friend helped me out. We Uninstaller the USB drivers, updated the bios and swapped the bios graphics to discrete mode and it runs flawlessly. Seems so simple but how in the heck could a multi thousand dollar laptop ship in a near unusable state like this? Cooperation are wack yo.

Each time I get my hands on a windows device I will try to stop as many unnecessary services as possible, to get the total processes as low as possible. I have just thrown out windows 10 and with that around 100 processes in total. Now with Windows 11 its more like 150. How low can you go? And still have all essentials working? Have a great weekend!