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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 will follow me down the rabbit hole and I'll meet you on the other side the master Keys Pro keyboard lineup from Coolermaster is available in three sizes each in white or RGB flavours check them out at the link below now Microsoft's official reasoning for not releasing Windows 9 was that seven eight nine oh but we know better meet Windows nine and unofficial custom-built 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 any point one 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 dialog and task manager secure boot and perhaps most importantly to enthusiasts native support for USB 3 so that shiny new Z 270 board will be able to install windows 9 without worrying about slipstreaming drivers for those of us who keep our optical as in a bin rather than in our box well that all sounds great - 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 virtually 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 9.5 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 Windows 7 styled theme for Windows 10 by deviantART users say guripa ok I don't know next we installed Aero glass a free tool that does what it says on the tin 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 + taskbar Tweaker to make our show desktop button look right and then while we're at it we'll do Explorer does a great job of restoring the windows 7 style Explorer look finally you exile Community Edition unlocks the theme we installed earlier to complete the look all it took from there were a couple registry tweaks a wallah 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 forums linked below so how do we know we've succeeded well we use our RGB test bench and three separate Kingston KC 400 one terabyte SSDs each one was secured erased then loaded with Windows 7 Windows 9 and Windows 10 so we could perform the best possible apples to apples 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 - okay moving on to Deus Ex 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 9 but otherwise our results were basically the same city skylines showed off better CPU performance in 10 and 9.5 with a tangible boost of 5 to 6 frames per second likely down to support for Intel Speedshift technology on our kb lake platform and then rounding out our gaming tests Crysis 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 Gigabit LAN 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 size files PC mark however tells a very different story Windows 7 was blown away by all our other operating systems with 9 sandwiched in the middle interestingly that trend continued through our final at Ohio benchmark where 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 labyrinths and depths of deviantART 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 our does $1000 Windows perform better the video we did back in late January the difference between editions 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 nine and a half let us know in the comments down below crunchyroll was created by a bunch of anime fans who needed somewhere to go and get their anime fix and then they were like oh yeah I guess other people probably want this too so you can sign up they offer the most current episodes of shows straight from Japan like Dragon Ball super and twin star exorcists and all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled our link gives you a whole month a free anime completely ad free and if you enjoy the many benefits of a premium membership like 1080p streaming new episodes of shows straight from Japan within an hour of their premiere and being able to stream to any like your phone tablet or game console you can continue your premium membership for just seven bucks a month so head over at crunchyroll.com / - 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