Programmer Humor

The fact that pressing spacebar during boot can accidentally upgrade your OS tells you everything about Microsoft's current priorities.

I accidentally "upgraded" a test machine by hitting Enter during a BIOS update prompt. The machine rebooted into Windows 11 setup, which then took 45 minutes and required a Microsoft account (or knowledge of the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick).

If you want to block the upgrade permanently:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v TargetReleaseVersionInfo /t REG_SZ /d "22H2" /f

Or just install Linux and never worry about it again.

Really pissed because about a year ago in february it upgraded without my informed consent and I never noticed until something else bad happened. You can only downgrade if you notice within a week.

It's real fuckin insidious, I had already reformatted my PC once too recently so I juuuust kinda toughed it out.

Anyways, they keep everything same-ish which prevents you from noticing they changed your whole OS which should be illegal.

"Your system does not support Windows 11".

Best error message I ever got!

great opportunity to try out bazzite or cachyos :P

ITT: people giving unasked for advice to a comic on a comedic community because they simply cannot help themselves.

Downgrade your PC to avoid having this issue. Follow me for more terrible tech tips you should never have to do in the first place.

My boss at work told it to download thinking that he would have a choice to install in when he wanted. Now he understands what a virus is.

Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. Most things still run on it, and that baby's got no user-facing slop and five more years of support in it. Mass Grave dot dev.

I have to use it, it's the corporate setup. Every day I envy plumbers who unclog toilets.

Damn, that never happens on my Arch Linux install.

I'm deeply sorry. If it's any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.

Or at least everybody that didn't see the light and adopt The Penguin... But let's leave religion to another time.

Thank god it requires enabling something my BIOS has disabled by default and I don't need it for anything, otherwise my install of 10 would have already been turned into 11 on its own.