The cleanest Windows 10 version and it's not a custom ISO

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Chris Titus Tech made a video himself about it:



I have been using it since 2020 (if I remember correctly) and very happy as it has none of the bloatware that the user commercial versions have, but if you like the bloatware/features of those versions then they won't be here.

If you'd like to download this Windows 10 ISO, here's the link:

aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvUjQ4akhUNFIjdUJQbUdxLUtyVWtmQ3E1RjVGRy14NmtQdElTOXZRcW11LW1VNFdYcy1OMA==

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Strange that such a clean and straightforward edition of Windows 10 is only intended for businesses while the home versions are bundled with garbage I'd rather avoid at all costs.
 

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Hell Microsoft even encourage custom made isos and give tools to customize them.
It's smart, less hosting costs for them with the ISOs as well. I think theirs plenty on archvie.org if you don't want to go via Mega.
wait they do? i know there's official (unsupported) tools to heavily customize an already installed copy of windows, didn't know that microsoft had their own version of ntlite
 

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If you are going to download some random Windows ISO off Mega be sure the SHA1 of the ISO matches the official ISO for that Windows edition, that way you can be 100% sure no one has tampered with it.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021:

British English:

ISO: en-gb_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_7fe51fe8.iso
SHA1: 91c2f0fdfd00d75e999440789ee101a03334e1c4

American English:
ISO: en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_d289cf96.iso
SHA1: 2fb2897373c4f71b06f4490943b3d564b0f0fd6d
 

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If you are going to download some random Windows ISO off Mega be sure the SHA1 of the ISO matches the official ISO for that Windows edition, that way you can be 100% sure no one has tampered with it.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021:

British English:

ISO: en-gb_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_7fe51fe8.iso
SHA1: 91c2f0fdfd00d75e999440789ee101a03334e1c4

American English:
ISO: en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_d289cf96.iso
SHA1: 2fb2897373c4f71b06f4490943b3d564b0f0fd6d
This is the 2019 version.

SHA1:
0b8476eff31f957590ade6fe671f16161037d3f6
 

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Chris Titus Tech made a video himself about it:



I have been using it since 2020 (if I remember correctly) and very happy as it has none of the bloatware that the user commercial versions have, but if you like the bloatware/features of those versions then they won't be here.

If you'd like to download this Windows 10 ISO, here's the link:

aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvUjQ4akhUNFIjdUJQbUdxLUtyVWtmQ3E1RjVGRy14NmtQdElTOXZRcW11LW1VNFdYcy1OMA==

(Decode via Base64)

Strange that such a clean and straightforward edition of Windows 10 is only intended for businesses while the home versions are bundled with garbage I'd rather avoid at all costs.

It's not strange at all, Microsoft makes money on bundled bloatware (Office 365, Windows Store, etc., all that stuff is just there to display ads and convince you to buy stuff)
That is how they are able to give us free upgrades.
Enterprise versions of Windows cost a lot more, so you are paying for the privilege of not having ads and bloatware served to you.
 
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Main issue I found with my copy of Enterprise (legit from uni) was that because of the delayed updates I had to manually force updates by jumping through some hoops.

This was an issue for me IIRC because of some features on newer versions/MS Store games.

Obviously not an issue for everyone but just something to note.

Also try to keep relatively up to date with the isos when clean installing because significant jumps between updates also caused me problems.
 
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Main issue I found with my copy of Enterprise (legit from uni) was that because of the delayed updates I had to manually force updates by jumping through some hoops.

This was an issue for me IIRC because of some features on newer versions/MS Store games.

Obviously not an issue for everyone but just something to note.

Also try to keep relatively up to date with the isos when clean installing because significant jumps between updates also caused me problems.
Enterprise updates are slower because if they release patch that breaks a lot... it will be expensive for the company and look bad for microsoft.
 

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Enterprise updates are slower because if they release patch that breaks a lot... it will be expensive for the company and look bad for microsoft.

I wasn’t complaining, just making sure people were aware of the potential problems by using LTSC depending on their usage.
 

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It's not strange at all, Microsoft makes money on bundled bloatware (Office 365, Windows Store, etc., all that stuff is just there to display ads and convince you to buy stuff)
That is how they are able to give us free upgrades.
Enterprise versions of Windows cost a lot more, so you are paying for the privilege of not having ads and bloatware served to you.
That makes sense, but Windows OS for me is preferable to have little to no ads, clean, and customizable.

I fear this might be one of the last editions MS has released that's clean as possible. Will a "Windows 11 LTSC" be as good? Doubt it.

I'm honestly more interested on news about Windows 12 at this point.
 

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Sorry OP, but there's only room for ONE Chris Titus 'round these parts... The real OG:
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Is it smaller than Tiny10 though?
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I don't care much for size (though I'd prefer to minimize it) but it'd be nice for it to be around tiny10's footprint.
Phoenix Lite Windows 10 Pro is. So when I heard about "Tiny10", I thought it was a joke, as Phoenix Lite is even smaller.
 

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That makes sense, but Windows OS for me is preferable to have little to no ads, clean, and customizable.

I fear this might be one of the last editions MS has released that's clean as possible. Will a "Windows 11 LTSC" be as good? Doubt it.

I'm honestly more interested on news about Windows 12 at this point.
It will certainly be better than stock Windows 11, but it's still Windows 11, it still has the same annoying changes. Should still be free of bloatware at least.
 

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