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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by 0xDEEPFAC on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:03PM (#22112154)
Windows 10 LTSC is great - it doesn't have Cortana or the Windows Store and it even has a nifty search icon beneath the Start menu which says "Start typing to search..."

Not that I would recommend it but you can purchase LTSC on Ebay for about ~20 to 30$. That is where I got mine... Sketchy? Yes, but worth a chance in my book

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by justinclift on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:05PM (#22113185)
> but you can purchase LTSC on Ebay

Doesn't sound like you purchased it. It sounds like you gave some [random] place money for a pirated (and maybe backdoored) copy of Windows.

That's likely a very bad approach. ;)

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by 0xDEEPFAC on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:11PM (#22113216)
No problems yet...

Updates work just fine and are only performed at reasonable intervals

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by justinclift on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:14PM (#22113238)
Sure. The approach seems like it works for you (so far), and sounds like it worked out well for whoever got money out of you.

But, please don't encourage others to put themselves at risk. aka fall for a scam on Ebay

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by 0xDEEPFAC on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:50PM (#22113458)
I disagree, but I admit it is risky.
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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by blibble on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:03PM (#22113531)
the keys seem to be about $2

you could get scammed or have your key deactivated a hundred times and still be ahead

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by justinclift on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:00AM (#22118621)
That's assuming there aren't backdoors in the software. Not a safe bet to make.

At least, not without (at a minimum) having the SHA256 (or better) checksum of the ISO match that of the MSDN equivalent download.

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by blibble on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:08PM (#22123065)
MS provide the digests on MSDN if you have a login

and there's plenty of dumps of them kicking around if you don't

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by roozbeh18 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:25PM (#22113656)
Most are MSDN license which will invalided and deactivated sooner than later.
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