Windows is Taking Your Bandwidth | Let's Fix It! 

I remember this one going around on Steam a few years back (how to get better fps, how to explain they got fragged, &c) but really QOS is only for (IF I RECALL ...maybe things have changed!!!) local networks, to ensure there was always a little bandwidth set aside for things like VOIP, so the calls would always be clear. It really wasn't like, Redmond was swiping your internet. (For once.) MS programmed the OS of course, but it was to allow Servers to be able to handle something that _I think_ most routers handle way better now so it's just useless code? But I'd _guess_ that's why it's not in a Home version of an OS. IDK maybe it changed. But I think turning off Windows Updates and stopping all background apps (which people still really don't like to do) stops the biggest hunk of what Windows swipes. -assuming all the usual adware and win10 baddies are nuked. I just can't imagine that Quality of Service turned from LAN-only provision into an MS privacy thing, even though MS does suck. A network sniffer would tell the story, of course. I don't use those anymore much because it shows expensive paid desktop applications like Adobe's "Creative Cloud" hogging resources so bad that you try GIMP and all other "alternatives"... Adobe and the Office part of "Microsoft 365" 😡 have no excuse. NONE. What they do to bandwidth for NO reason and we PAY for it? I wish more people talked about THAT. THERE'S the problem: real applications we pay for *_bandwidth-raping_* nearly all of us. I'd like to know what I could kill-task with those apps without losing basic functionality of the sloppier-than-before-subscription-model app$

Chris, Did I understand correctly that you're adding this feature to that debloater script runner?

Is it an option in your debloat windows script?

@@jx9467 I figure we are just going to have to wait to find out because it seems a lot of people don't like to give answers to questions on this platform

@Chris Titus Tech to enable group policy editor open a cmd(admin) paste this FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" ) FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" ) then do a restart

LOL So True!

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@Saeed Habibi Done to the original post, and to yours! :)

Microsoft windows 10 is a Maze of failure.

This is inexact, if you compare the kernel alone, you don't want to use that, both side. If you compare a linux distribution, well, so many things to uninstall on a stock Ubuntu desktop that's it's the same boat.

wait till you get an iphone

Thats Apple youre talking about.. they own you and your devices when you bought them cash. And you are not allowed to customize- skins, themes etc. M$ dont do that.. My Windows are totally custom and I can do what I want.

damn you... now there will be alu foil shortage, cuz everyone will do it 😁

Some people just don't understand... What an underrated comment! 🤣

Put it on your head instead. Believe it or not radio signals can actually go through walls, ceilings, floors ... ect. You need a actual faraday cage around your router to block all radio signal traffic.

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How often do you baste? 🤔

I have that list :D

@@smalldeekgeorge we want that list!

I will make video about it. :)

Be sure to have a pen or notepad open : )

And that why I switch to Linux. Never be so Happy to work on my PC. Im 3D artist

I have seen this several times. He doesn't show whether his idea worked or not.

Updates do not take precedence on bandwidth. the BITS service (background intelligent transfer service) only uses unused/available bandwidth on the line. If this was true he'd show a before and after.

I was just thinking the exact same thing.

@@MohdHasan-mh7cl It's just because it doesn't. first of all , some system services need to have priority over user apps on some things, that's why this policy exist. second , why no one understands that, if windows was taking bandwidth and using it, the bandwidth usage would be always 100%, this graphics show the complete ethernet usage ...

Chris seems to move forward very quickly. He does do a lot of great stuff for us. Often he finds new stuff and shares it with us. Inevitably he forgets or does not get time to do all he would like, or check thoroughly. As far as I can tell, but I might be wrong, he never has implemented it into his Tool script, contrary to that he said he would in the video. This could be that he just forgot, or because of the reasons discussed here which are that it is a crap idea. Or it could be a combination of both. Or it could be that dammed out of control RU-vid comment checking Bot which does some crazy filtered shadow banning things and somehow regulates who gets to see what comments.

Window$ is like an expensive car; always needs complicated fixing. Many Linux versions are like everyday cars--some run for years with only basic maintenance done in minutes. I don't miss defrags and cleaning the registry when uninstallers leave all kinds of dreck behind in Window$. Linux has a registry, but it's nothing like the Window$ registry; it can't break your whole system from what I've read, and it doesn't need to be cleaned. Linux has a defrag command, but the file structures are set up different, for much less fragmentation, so I've never bothered to even try doing it. So I need far less SysAdmin time in Linux for my home/small office use.

This! Every operating system can be used by a novice, but mastery of each one takes years and dedication to learning all the ins and outs. I would never call one more complex than another. They are just different flavors, with different issues.

The average person barely knows how to use Windows, so they would have ZERO chance on Linux. The difference is that it is a lot easier to show/teach someone how to do something on Windows, since it is mostly just point and click, so chances are good they will also remember how to do it. Lets say, installing a custom gfx driver for example. go to website, click download, double click the file, install.. Doing the same on linux is extremely complicated by comparison and requires learning how to use command line and the required command/parameters. Even for an experienced IT person, this is a lot of effort if you have no previous Linux experience.

@@RussMichaels Exactly! Most of the stuff it's just point n' click on Windows, no, the average user is not gonna use the terminal like it's the 1990's...

I still hate Windows ofc, it's just that linux needs way more than just wine working flawlessly

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I agree with you more than I do not. But just a couple of points: _ I don't think Chris ever implemented this into his tool script. _ there have been some comments by seemingly qualified people that this was a crap idea, totally pointless and not worth doing. I tried to pass on a link to examples, but the comment got deleted (Chris may never have seen the comments. RU-vid has a crazy out of control comment checking Bot that is possibly organizing who sees what and when. I don't know for sure about that, there might be an innocent explanation, but I and a lot of others are experiencing some crazy things here currently as regards what is happening to comments)

on speedtest my ping went from 12 to 9 and then my download and upload speed doubled

@@rayjennings3637 "Welcome to Microsoft's BSD cable TV channel. BSD all day, all night, all the time. Don't bother changing channels. This is the only one you're allowed to have. Enjoy!"

They do. I had like 70$ bucks cut from my bank account. So I checked. Turns out when I bought my laptop, and they give you MS Office free for a year, it's still on automatic rebuy. If you have a bank account connected to it then it will autobuy MS OFFICE. What bullshittery. Idk who's at fault but I didn't fucking want Ms Office so why is it on autobuy

I was transferring close to a million files, so the spool time was likely causing the pricks. As a good showcase I should have transferred a single large file for comparison, but I was being lazy hehe.

@@ChrisTitusTech Please don't say You are lazy, datte hontou wa crazy

@@ChrisTitusTech Do a benchmark.

It definitely wasn't Windows downloading anything because then the total bandwidth shown by his graph would not have gone down at all, since it would have just been used by Windows instead which is then not visible on a total bandwidth graph. It is a classic misinterpretation of a graph. QoS is not exclusively used by Windows as well, it has its purpose to be there and prioritise traffic according to importance. Your router does that as well. So while you may get sometimes tiny speed advantages on data transfers, you will slow down other network functions, since they no longer get priority.

Thought the same of adding it to debloat according to pro version and home version

Don't forget to add 'Windows' to the registry path at the end. Look it up if you are not familiar with this. Have a good one.

Bc the difference is very minimal

@@meeks726 youd believe anything you read on the net

Because that graph doesn't actually show a difference. It only shows network usage, it doesn't care _what_ is using up bandwidth, including Windows itself so if those dips were created by Windows using up bandwidth there wouldn't be dips to begin with. I'm not saying this wouldn't make a difference in throughput of what you're actually looking to transfer necessarily (although I am fairly certain it won't make a huge amount of difference), but I am saying that graph doesn't prove what he claims it does.

@@ohkay8939 Might be safer on Windows home regedit to set the value at 10 or 20, otherwise in 6 months time when you've forgotten what this obscure registry key is and it all goes to sh1t and Windows 10 stops downloading the next major update, or my torrents or some other huge file keeps stalling - at least it'll download slowly and I won't be totally crippled researching the problem for a week.

Group Policys! I need to write down all the settings I do for my GPOs at my work. There are quite a few tweaks to be made, but once they are set any new PCs that join the domain get all these good settings.

@@ChrisTitusTech I was thinking Group Policy as well! In fact, it's gotten me curious to see if we already have it added to our group policies for our customers. I would probably wager that we don't!

I think I'm going to add this to my default domain policy tomorrow at work.

@@ChrisTitusTech Could you share all the tweaks in the Group Policy you do?

@@ChrisTitusTech it is policies, not policys...

You can just remove the broken mirror from the mirrorlist.

​@@ClifffSVK I can but I would like Pacman to do that automatically. When you usually have a download-'speed' (actually throughput) of 7 MBps then Pacman should detect that something is wrong when you download

@@peterjansen4826 Do you really think the Arch developers care about being user friendly?

​@@ClifffSVK Generally speaking Arch is quite user-friendly. It is just a screwup of the package-manager developers, that is all. They should have integrated a mirror-handling tool or have developed that separately so that the user can combine it. I guess it is a good incentive to try out NixOS and Slackware on another partition.

@@peterjansen4826 Have you checked if there's any pacman frontend with a built in mirrorlist manager? You can't be the only one that complained about this.

Isn't KDE lighter than Xfce now? It also scales better. Not sure if you were aware, just thought I'd share just in case. Cheers and God bless.

@@Amos_Huclkeberry teach me master. I reslly want to get into limux

@@Amos_Huclkeberry I tried both kde and xfce, from my experience xfce is the lightest than kde and I loved it with it minimalist look and layout plus the customisation on xfce blew my mind. Kde is on another level tho

@@Amos_Huclkeberry KDE is not as light as XFCE unless you only focus on RAM. CPU/GPU is used more on the KDE side. And even in RAM, if you do a minimal Arch install of XFCE and one with KDE, XFCE will be considerably lighter.

@@Amos_Huclkeberry And what exactly do you mean by scaling better? :/ It is easier to begin configuring KDE cuz all settings are in one place but KDE is more limited in configuration (the default panels are terribly limited compared to xfce4-panel).

@@alexch3672 nice sent us the link please so we check it out

I made the folder like he said should i change to what you did or just add another folder with same changes?

@@shayeladshayelad2416 Delete that folder and make a new one in the listed directory (in Windows) with the same changes as in the video. That was what I did.

@@theerrantwanderer There are two locations - one for USER specific and then machine. User is the over ride here.

@@dfabeagle718 maybe. But all sources I've checked list Local Machine as where you would put the changes. If you want it to be user specific, than sure, put it in Current User. Doesn't matter too much.

Reformat every 6 months or so and you'll be alright

@@Coolie-ds4tu but it clears the data?

Grant your self full access to windows 10 files delete them then set it up so windows dosnt have premision to create new files

Yeah I went In file to delete microsoft edge in files,but it keeps coming back. Microsoft edge just won't leave me alone.

. you need to grany full control then remove there right to right to the file ( leave the folder but block them from writing to it)

And how would I do that? If my computer skills were at that kind of level, I would be using Linux.

@@StarlasAiko i mean i just watch a vedio on it and did it

So metered connection stops auto updates really??? Does it effect speed cause I really want to disable auto updates because the 20H0 update screwed my computer up and I had to do a reinstall as system restore removed the spot I made for others down the line

@@dnakatomiuk Maaaan you reinstalled Windows to remove the 20H2 update? Nooo that sucks! I uninstalled it myself, but you didn’t have to do all that! You just had to go to Control Panel (the legacy app) > Programs > View installed updates, and then right-click the 20H2 update there and uninstall it! And yeah! Setting your connection as metered (which doesn’t affect much at all apart from updates) disables auto-downloads of updates and makes it so you have to manually click a ‘Download’ button to update. It’s a simple fix but every Linux user who says there’s no way to disable them seems to not know this trick

Setting up a metered connection does not disable auto updates. It will disable most auto updates but no critical ones. The qos and the reserved Bandwidth are for priority transfers, disabling it will disable the priority feature. Qos is not exclusively used by Windows and also not just for updates. Therefore: no, setting up a metered connection will not do the same as disabling qos bandwidth.

Follow the regedit method

Probably you are using windows 10 home where you can access gpedit.msc, so you have to follow the regedit method

maybe its windows like linux 🤣🤣

Shutdown the Macbook😂

you have the basic version of windows with has less features no bitlocker, it have almost everything but a few bits here and there (usually targeted for either company or advanced users missing)

bruh he got timestamps

This guy is the reason why I, an enterprise IT admin lock down permissions. He's just clicking buttons and calling it a fix without understanding what any of it is..

After looking at some of the comments in the meantime, and the fact that it does not appear that Chris ever implemented this in his tool, I expect he noticed something one day, had a quick idea about what it might be, did a quick video, realized later he was wrong and it was a waste of time, but left the video as it gets views and is monetarized etc.

It’s about sharing the bandwidth with other people so he said if it at 0 then everyone will get equal amount of speed so I put 100% so my device gets all the internet speed that is something I thought about after hearing him say about it lol let me see how my game feels now as my connection normally shit and I did have mine on 0% limit. Wish me luck

Thanks man!

@@ChrisTitusTech You're Awesome! And You're Welcome :P

I use temple os the alpha of operating systems

*cries in south-american*

If wasn’t for CAD software I have, I would move to Linux.

Apple are pure evil, don't even.

iam guessing it works in windows 8.1 pro as well?

@@rallyscoot yes it does work as well.

When I did this trick just now, the dialog box says it works all the way back to XP.

I'm using Debian-lxqt for my personal use, it's awesome 👏 For video editing and software development ❤️works superbly with just 4gb ram.

Its only using 350mb of ram And super nice for virtualization for software development. Windows 10 was horrible and full of spyware.

SatelliteOffice ubuntu had a lot of versions such As LUBUNTU, KUBUNTU, XUBUNTU

@SatelliteOffice Linux Mint and OpenSuse Tumbleweed are my 2 favourite distro's.

can i play apex legend on linux?

@Saeed HabibiI heard World of Warcraft works on linux

@@minhajuddin4638 Not yet