# Best windows settings for privacy?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-windows-settings-for-privacy/34336
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** please-eli5
**Created:** 2025-12-31T16:37:16Z
**Posts:** 13
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## Post 9 by @anon12918199 — 2025-12-31T20:58:41Z

> [@Poll: Windows users, what edition do you use?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/poll-windows-users-what-edition-do-you-use/27378/8):
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> **Reasons to avoid using LTSC:**
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> - You might miss new features added in GAC that aren’t available in LTSC.

Interesting as that’s one of my main reasons for using LTSC over GAC. I didn’t have ads in the start menu, cortana, copilot or recall. Windows releases anti-features, not features.

> [@Poll: Windows users, what edition do you use?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/poll-windows-users-what-edition-do-you-use/27378/8):
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> Games might not work out of the box and you will manually need to install store and Xbox apps.

I liked that it didn’t automatically bundle things that I might not need (arch user btw).

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