what if I told you there exists a version of Windows that you can't find
anywhere on Microsoft's website one that won't track your online activities one
that's optimized for Speed and reliability and that performs better
than Windows 7 or Windows
10 well follow me down the rabbit hole
and I'll meet you on the other side
the master keys Pro keyboard lineup from Cooler Master is available in three
sizes each in white or RGB flavors check
them out at the link below now Microsoft's official reasoning
for not releasing Windows 9 was that
789 but we know better meet Windows 9 an
unofficial custombuilt OS based on Windows 8.1 embedded industry Pro of all
things that applies this extensive list
of tweaks to look and feel like Windows
7 because it's an embedded OS intended
for use in payment terminals digital
signage or other industrial applications
8.1 industry Pro lacks Telemetry and
tracking and is considerably leaner than
your standard copy of 8.1 with fewer Services running by
default despite its looks it's still
Windows 8.1 under the hood which by the
way is a good thing you get newer features like smb3 dism recovery tools
better memory management the newer file copy dialogue and task manager secure
Boot and perhaps most importantly to enthusiasts native support for USB 3 so
that shiny new z270 board will be able to install Windows 9 without worrying
about slipstreaming drivers for those of us who keep our Optical drives in a bin
rather than in our box well that all sounds great lonus what's the catch well
first of all you're trusting some dude on the internet who's providing you a
modded version of Windows and second
it's virtu truly impossible to get a legit license for Windows 8.1 embedded
industry Pro since it's only sold as part of an embedded system that means
that you're probably going to be limited to a trial install which obviously isn't
ideal so what can we do about it we're
going to make our own so we're going to take one part legitimate widely
available OS add two parts modification and tweaks and boom Windows 9 point five
while it's not going to replicate Windows 9 exactly it's going to bring us
pretty close and we are able to use Windows 10 to do it so we start with a
fresh install of Windows 10 only the updates and Benchmark tools that we'll
need for later first order of business make Windows 10 look the part this was
not trivial but with the help of a few free tools and resources we made it work
the first of these was a window 7 styled theme for Windows 10 by Deviant Art user
SE okay I don't know next we installed
AOG glass a free tool that does what it says on the tin ooh shiny we followed
that with Classic Shell a well-known alternative start menu and theme utility
which with a few tweaks to its settings and a couple of community provided
textures gives us our Windows 7 start button start menu and taskbar mostly
then we still needed 7 plus taskbar tweaker to make our show desktop button
look right and then while we're at it old new Explorer does a great job of
restoring the Windows 7 style Explorer look finally ux style Community Edition
unlocks the theme we installed earlier to complete the look all it took from
there were a couple registry tweaks he voila Windows 7 of course Windows 9 is
more than just a pretty face it also disables Windows phone home
functionality some services and some other miscellaneous nonsense so we
followed their lead and disabled the same items now while we can't guarantee
that our Windows 9.5 has all of the
tweaks Windows 9 does the key ones are all in there you can find the full
details of the registry and Telemetry tweaks in the blog post on our Forum
linked below so how do we know we've succeeded
well we used our RGB test bench and three separate Kingston KC 400 1 TB ssds
each one was secur erased then loaded with Windows 7 Windows 9 and Windows 10
so we could perform the best possible Apple's to Apple's comparison then we
ran our tests multiple times on each
Windows and our own 9.5 mod the results
honestly weren't quite what we were expecting in Rise of the Tomb Raider we
can see that compared to Windows 7 Windows 9 scored almost identically on
average while Windows 10 and 9.5 were
basically identical too okay moving on
to DSX mankind divided we can see that Windows 9 actually flunked the test yeah
no matter what we did Square enix's DRM triggered every time on nine but
otherwise our results were basically the same City's skylines showed off better
CP puu performance in 10 and 9.5 with a
tangible boost of 5 to 6 frames per second likely down to support for
Intel's speedshift technology on our KB Lake platform and then rounding out our
gaming tests Crisis 3 brings us back to
basically a wash across the OS is tested
today this is starting to feel like a workshop video next we tested system
performance starting with a networked file transfer over 10 gbit land
this one was actually pretty surprising because Windows 7 held its own against
our newer operating systems in spite of SMB 3.0 even when testing with groups of
smaller and mixed siiz files PC Mark
however tells a very different story Windows 7 was blown away by all our
other operating systems with nine sandwiched in the middle interestingly
that Trend continued through our final Ado IO Benchmark where when Windows 7
was handily beaten by everything else
the Windows 10 Edge over 9 wasn't something we'd expected to see going
into these tests today but there it is so then is it worth tracking down the
Unicorn license for 8.1 embedded or
navigating the Labyrinth and depths of Deviant Art the short answer by the
numbers is no even Windows 9 didn't
perform as well as we expected it to the long answer though has a lot in common
with with our does $11,000 Windows
perform better the video we did back in late January the difference between
additions of Windows just doesn't seem to matter much even across
Generations while there are some cases where drivers or support for Hardware
features like Speed Shift can make or break a certain workload it really just
boils down to user experience privacy
features and support and that is where
mods like Windows 9 or 9.5 shine but
what do you guys think did you expect the numbers we got are you going to run
Windows 9 or go to the effort of making your own 9 and a half let us know in the
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