this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
793 points (97.7% liked)

Greentext

6131 readers
1322 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

there is a program that makes windows 11 exactly like windows 7, it’s called StartAllBack:
https://www.xda-developers.com/startallback-review/

i switched to windows 11 recently, spent about a week battling all the bullshit, then found StartAllBack and it’s been beautiful.

i also recommend MalwareBytes “Windows Firewall Control”, which is actually free without pirating it… which i’m sure no one on here would ever do… but it lets you control exactly what programs can access the internet….
like, every time i open the file manager, explorer.exe tries to access the internet, i’ve been manually denying it for a while and it works exactly the same, so now i can just permanently disable it from going online….

but, StartAllBack is amazing, and everyone should have it… or really there should be an open source version by now….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

lol, no… the link i posted is to a review about it.

i do love it, though….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Do you get a licensing cut or a referral link?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like Glasswire i think it was? And Tinywall. That category is called application firewall.