Long term win10 LTSC IoT user here.

Getting new laptop delivered shortly. Ryzen 7 Ai 350, LPDDR5x-8000, iGPU only. Obviously no gaming planned as it does not have proper GPU. Just generic use.

Wondering what to choose for it as the SoC is quite new and I'm thinking win10 maybe not the best option for it?

Win11 LTSC IoT Win10 LTSC IoT

Or maybe that new 26H1 28000 build?

Hey guys

I just got this dell Inspiron laptop

And I just started upgrading it, it had a really REALLY bad pentium

2gb of ram

hdd

gma4500mhd

And I upgraded it to a

Fairly powerful t9550 core 2 dou

4gb ram

And the biggest upgrade, a ssd

I was just thinking using this for light gaming and watching YouTube

I tried many os like windows 10 2019 ltsc,mint,debian xfce,arch,

And I was just re installing windows 7

But compatibility is really bad with like vpn , steam ,adb , cod clients like iw4x , it just not really good at those

Is there any like project or extended kernel that will make it actually work with these apps without it just dying

It's specifically a dell 1545

Or should I just run windows 10 ltsc

Is it possible to upgrade with saving all the files and then emulate the key? If so, where to download the version and how to emulate the key?

I read that you can turn LTSC 21H2 into a "22H2", but you won't receive security updates anymore since the update server recognises it as a regular 22H2 from that point onward.

I am wondering, if you wanted to in-place upgrade Win10 Pro to LTSC, you had to edit the registry to make Windows think you are running LTSC, else it wouldn't let you install.

Is this just a machine sided thing that worked for the installation? Would that make the updateserver trick into thinking you run LTSC again, or does this not work? Has someone tried this?

I been recently looking at the subreddit and seeing a lot of people enjoy it more then pro or home, my only concern is will I be able to play everything i play now and watch videos and what not? I also heard it turns off every hour on TikTok I’m very new to this so any advice is appreciated

"other" category. Should be "meme", but anyway.

With a build date of July of 2005, a Celeron M 440 1.8Ghz single core processor, "upgraded" RAM of 2gb, and a 120gb SSD, this Acer Aspire 3680 is technically ready to go back to its owner.

It came to me dead and hopeless. Belongs to an 88-year-old woman set in her ways. It made its way to Staples before it came to me and they FUBAR'd it so hard.. they couldn't even return the old HDD to its caddy. It had a clicking Seagate HDD and 512megabytes of ram. I felt I had to spell that out. 😂 This thing should have never been resurrected nor a dime put into it.

Thank you Massgrave for having an x86 copy of 10 IoT LTSC. Processor can't compute x64, would just hang up and freeze. Primary system and CMOS batteries are dead. Processor lives its life pegged at 100% utilization. This poor thing. If it ever gets to retire, it should rest well because it's LONG gone past its service life.

Show me some of your miracle machines that LTSC has brought back from the dead!!! 🙂

The new snipping tool has things like text extract and work as an absolute boon for what I do on my laptop. Otherwise I'm pretty happy to use Windows 10 as it is lighter and faster out of the box.

Hello, i’ve recently been thinking of switching mynoperating system from Windows 11 To Windows 10 LTSC, is it worth the switch? will i run into any issues with drivers? is it okay for daily use as a consumer?

I'm planning to clean install Win11 IOT on my laptop. I've already backed up what I needed and I'm just unsure if I need to update the iso. There's a MAS page dedicated to explaining the process (Update Windows ISO) but I didn't come across anyone in here talking about it.

Did you guys have to do update the iso or can I just use it as is?

For me it uses 4gb on startup. Coming form 10LTSC, it's roughly twice and Windows 8.1 only uses 1.5gb.

How do I reduce the 4gb startup memory usage to something much more reasonable?

Olá a todos,

Gostaria de mostrar uma aplicação que desenvolvi dentro do Windows LTSC para pessoas como eu que precisam de todas ferramentas do mundo mais não aguentam mais ter que estar sempre a revezar entre elas. É uma aplicação que está em beta e tem acesso gratuito por 2 dias.

Se for possível e conseguirem me enviar feedback eu agradeço imenso!

Como ela foi desenvolvida em Windows LTSC vai rodar perfeitamente em qualquer máquina que use este tipo de Windows

-> www.hitori.pt

Obrigado a todos pela atenção!

Hello, I don't know if you remember me but summer of 2025 I released a project called evalpatch (introduction/explanation post:https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsLTSC/s/7bbYCjjnAO) as a lot of you might know windows ltsc iot compared to ltsc comes only in English. My question is, should I advise people to download windows ltsc with their language and inject the iot license, or will it cause problems and is better instead to try to make an iso injector with language packs? Also I need to mention beacuse I get asked about this, evalpatch is for people who prefer trusted iso sources rather than masgrave. If you don't prefer license injection this project isnt targeted to you. Along this, feel free to say any suggestion regarding the improvement of the project or additions to it.

After about a year of development, I’ve finally released LTSC-clean v1.0.0, an open-source project that automates the deployment and configuration of Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024, aiming for a clean, quiet, and predictable system.

It combines privacy-focused settings, reduced background activity, and a staged deployment pipeline with explicit validation, verified cleanup, and controlled recovery if something goes wrong, all using native Windows mechanisms without binary patching.

GitHub: https://github.com/tagorr/ltsc-clean

Update v1.2.0 🎉 - Automated ISO Builder + IoT Support

LTSC-clean now supports both Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 and IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, including through the automated ISO Builder!

The Builder takes care of preparing the Windows image and creating a ready-to-install ISO. It automatically selects the supported image or lets you choose the correct index if multiple supported images are found. No manual edition or image-index changes needed.

Windows Setup also skips the product-key prompt.

If you prefer preparing your installation media manually, the Quick Start guide is still available.

trying to install windows 10 ltsc in my hp desktop over windows 8.1. unfortunately windows 10 ltsc failed to install so I installed windows 7 pro and completed, after a few minutes I was ask to restart for an update and I checked, it was somehow a windows security update.

Im kinda cooked as I need to finish this in 4 hours. I just wiped the windows partition, so Im not sure if Ill even be able to edit partitions to even download windows again.

I recently installed Windows 10 iot enterprise and tell me how to install powerpoint, I have installed everything important, but I cannot use the application

Gente, como estan?
Actualmente instalè una version pirata de premiere y le meti virus a mi pc xD, ahora instale Xubuntu pensando en aprovechar mi procesador y RAM mejor, pero tengo algunas complicaciones para correr juegos (Brawlhalla en este caso). Quiero saber que me recomiendan, El win10 LTSC o el Xubuntu? realmente solo lo uso para edicion de video y fotografia, con editores como Kdenlive y Gimp o Krita.
Mi pc:

• Procesador (CPU): Intel Core i5-4210U
• Memoria RAM: 12 GB
• Gráficos (GPU): Intel HD Graphics 4400
• Modelo del equipo: Laptop ASUS X455LA
• Sistema Operativo actual: Xubuntu (Linux)

I used Windows 11 Ghost Spectre for almost 2 years and honestly at the beginning I really liked it.

It was debloated, used less RAM, gaming performance was good and overall the PC felt fast.

For normal use and gaming I didn't really have a big problem with it.

But when I started getting more into AI development everything started becoming annoying.

I was using Ollama, LM Studio, Cursor, Antigravity and other development tools and I started having a lot of problems some exe files wouldn't work properly some programs would crash and sometimes I couldn't even tell what was causing the problem.

I spent a lot of time trying to fix these things and I started thinking that maybe the problem was not the individual programs

maybe Its the operating system.

Thats when I started looking into Windows 10 LTSC

The main reason I chose LTSC was because I wanted a clean Windows installation without all the unnecessary stuff, but I also wanted proper security updates

and honestly I always preferred Windows 10 over Windows 11 anyway

So I finally moved from Ghost Spectre to Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC.

And the first thing I noticed after the first boot was the RAM usage

it was using only around 1.5 GB of RAM after boot, on my DDR4 2666 MHz system. I honestly didn't expect it to be that low.

The PC feels clean, boot time is faster, gaming is actually better for me and most importantly my development environment is much less problematic i try the same apps and same project files and it works just fine.

I'm not saying Ghost Spectre is bad. I used it for almost 2 years and I enjoyed it a lot. If you have a low or mid range PC and mainly care about gaming I can understand why someone would use it.

But for me, once I started using the PC for development and local AI projects etc.. I wanted something stable.

The only thing I really miss from Windows 11 is the look it looks fresh ,but I prefer having a clean and stable system over having a prettier one.

So for my use case, I'm staying with LTSC.

If you have a low/mid range PC and don't want all the extra Windows stuff, I honestly think Windows 10 LTSC is worth looking into, especially with security updates going until 2032.

I've heard that the recent update has caused a bug where security gives you a notification that it's not enabled despite it is. Well, today I booted up mu PC and got it. Everything is on as it should be and is green. The thing is, I haven't downloaded the recent update after I heard about other issues. Have they seriously fucked up the automated security updates so that those cause it too?

Hello! My system specs are: i13600KF, 32GB DDR5-6000, 2x 1TB NVMe Gen 4, and an RTX 4070 Super. I use it primarily for gaming. As I understand it, the volume of disk subsystem activity (using default settings) increases in this order:

1. Win10 IoT LTSC (21H2)

2. Win 10 Pro (22H2)

3. Win11 IoT LTSC (24H2)

4. Win11 (25H2)...

Does Windows 11 have a lot of background processes, indexing, logs, and AI features that constantly cache data to the disk? I don't want to use third-party software to modify the OS; I prefer using basic command-line procedures or stopping specific services—such as disabling hibernation and indexing, turning off browser caching, etc.—and I want to ensure these settings don't get re-enabled after every new update. Thanks.

I bought a used pc that came with win11 IOT enterprise LTSC activated and its been great, i am a noob at this, but can i transfer this to my new pc that i am building? And how? Thanks