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Windows Server 2025

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WINDOWS SERVER 2025 GUIDE

It’s actually been a legit experience. Has improved NVMe tech that Win11 does not yet have. I’ve found that using my Gen 5 SSD formatted in ReFS (as Dev Drive) has improved load times in like some of the sim games I play (Squad). Block cloning support, significant reduces I/O saturation and latency. (Win11 24H2 should have this also).

  • The desktop experience is what I wish Windows 11 had. Minimal and decluttered. They made subtle changes that I really like.

  • Now supports BT

  • Security baseline support with over 350 configurable security settings. OSConfig is the tool you use. Good for people who have an actual need for strict security on their desktop (such as me).

  • Huge improvements in security and performance with SMB (Excellent for Plex/Jellyfin NAS setups)

  • WiFi support now included as default

Idk what made me want to try, probably because it’s new and shiny. Idk what they did also to scheduling, but my 5700X loves this OS. No huge increase in FPS but holy moly is it smoother in CPU heavy games. RAM baseline is also pretty gnarly sitting at a nice 4GB with nothing else running.

If you want to try this here are some disclaimers: Nvidia drivers past May 2024 have this flickering issue. (Rough year for us NV users on non-mainstream OSs)

Lots of driver software won’t install so you have to manually update the driver ini from the installer package.

AMD Chipset drivers require manual installation from the C:\AMD folder (launch installer and let it fail).

AMD 3D VCache service requires using Powers hell to use SCreate to create a service for the executable to launch on startup.

So to conclude if you want to try it, don’t expect this next level gaming experience, but if you’re like me and like to have more extensive capabilities in tinkering this OS might be for you. It works, haven’t found a game it doesn’t like yet.

  • WINDOWS SERVER 2025 ACTIVATION
dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:TVRH6-WHNXV-R9WG3-9XRFY-MY832 /accepteula /NoRestart`
slmgr //B /skms kms.03k.org:1688
slmgr //B /ato

Run this in CMD as an Administrator

  • NVIDIA DRIVERS You can just download drivers as it is.

  • CONTROLLER SUPPORT For 8BitDo Controller Install XInput Install the Software and update the firmware

  • PRINTER SUPPORT

    • Go to Roles and Features and download the Printer and Document Service feature
    • For Scanner to work:
      • I don’t usually bother with these sites but since I seem to be the only person that knows the solution to the Error applying settings to driver with scanners I should share it. I went through three Microsoft techs and they were at a loss. They usually end up saying I installed a bad iso image and should download a new one and reinstall. But anywho the fix is… run your registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StillImage and delete the Stillimage key don’t worry it’ll be recreated with the proper key settings because the driver rewrites it and there you go no more scanner errors I should add I’m on win 10 x64 with a cannon mp280 printer but this should apply to windows 7 and up.

LOGITECH G29 SUPPORT

Yup, same issues here after a recent GHub update. I fixed it with a regedit… HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateProperties\Joystick\OEM\VID_046D&PID_C24F

Check the following keys have this data, and edit it if they dont

OEMName: “Logitech G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel USB” instead of “G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel”

OEMData: 43 00 08 10 19 00 00 00 instead of 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00"

  • INSTALL MICROSOFT STORE

    Change the Format from world to your country wsreset -i command in an administrator PowerShell or Terminal

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