Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
from gsa32@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.ml on 02 Aug 2023 20:13
https://lemmy.world/post/2540737

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[deleted] on 02 Aug 2023 20:18 next collapse

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Ack@lemmy.ca on 02 Aug 2023 20:33 collapse

I was thinking it would be better if you could use the tool to disable windows features.

[deleted] on 02 Aug 2023 21:03 collapse

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 03 Aug 2023 14:20 collapse

Now that is a tool I’d be excited to see leaked.

O god o no I’m leaking again aaaaaaaa

github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

knobbysideup@lemm.ee on 02 Aug 2023 20:34 next collapse

“accidentally”

Your platform is not exciting Microsoft. It’s also a royal pain to manage or fix.

A “leak” of tools that should just be out there to begin with is lame.

Noodlez@programming.dev on 02 Aug 2023 20:56 next collapse

BetaWiki is gonna go wild with this.

construct_@lemmy.ca on 02 Aug 2023 20:58 next collapse

Where can I find the tool?

Noodlez@programming.dev on 02 Aug 2023 21:06 next collapse

Probably omitted as “an exercise for the reader” since it’s legally grey. And a difficult exercise. I cannot find it at all

kautau@lemmy.world on 04 Aug 2023 09:31 collapse

There is a link to it from this article:

mspoweruser.com/how-to-use-staging-tool/

duncesplayed@lemmy.one on 04 Aug 2023 04:35 collapse

Not the exact StagingTool, but the GitHub project mach2 that’s linked to in the article supposedly supports many of the same features as StagingTool, I guess kind of an open source clone.

Edit: to add more detail. If you look in the project for some files that have been updated recently, such as this one, the feature list includes some numeric codes at the top, which are the same ones StagingTool uses. The ones without any symbolic name at all, I believe, are ones that have not been determined yet what they do.

bignuts700@pawb.social on 03 Aug 2023 01:40 collapse

Wow this site is ass, they’re putting ads on the top and bottom of the screen, in the middle of the article, and pop-ups on images???

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 03 Aug 2023 02:10 collapse

Use an ad blocker. I don’t see any ads or popups.

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 04 Aug 2023 09:03 collapse

More specifically I would recommend adnauseam since it’s extra punishing to aggressive advertisers by clicking the ads automatically.

trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 Aug 2023 10:13 collapse

I thought Adnauseam was only to screw over the tracking by clicking every ad, as clicking ads generates revenue for the site?

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2023 09:49 collapse

I’ve heard that it’s considered click fraud and that the advertisers sometimes Force the site to pay them back possibly a little bit extra as a fine.

Not too sure though. Personally I don’t really use it because the adblocking structure I have set up isn’t really compatible because it has multiple layers. I block the ads over the network through a network-wide firewall, I also block them through portmaster on my computer, and finally I have uBlock Origin in my browser. I also have adnauseam alongside of it and I turn off ublock origin for the sites that I want to autoclick ads on but almost none make it through the multilevel network filtering.