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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features

www.windowscentral.com Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features

StagingTool can enable hidden and unannounced features in Windows 11 preview builds.

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"accidentally"

Your platform is not exciting Microsoft. It's also a royal pain to manage or fix.

A "leak" of tools that should just be out there to begin with is lame.

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Lmao. There was a time back when I used windows that this would be super cool though.

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- I was thinking it would be better if you could use the tool to disable windows features.
  
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  Now that is a tool I'd be excited to see leaked. Probably would only disable useful features though...
  
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Wow this site is ass, they're putting ads on the top and bottom of the screen, in the middle of the article, and pop-ups on images???

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- Use an ad blocker. I don't see any ads or popups.
  
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  More specifically I would recommend adnauseam since it's extra punishing to aggressive advertisers by clicking the ads automatically.
  
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Where can I find the tool?

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- Probably omitted as "an exercise for the reader" since it's legally grey. And a difficult exercise. I cannot find it at all
  
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  There is a link to it from this article:
  
  https://mspoweruser.com/how-to-use-staging-tool/
  
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- Not the exact StagingTool, but the GitHub project mach2 that's linked to in the article supposedly supports many of the same features as StagingTool, I guess kind of an open source clone.
  
  Edit: to add more detail. If you look in the project for some files that have been updated recently, such as this one, the feature list includes some numeric codes at the top, which are the same ones StagingTool uses. The ones without any symbolic name at all, I believe, are ones that have not been determined yet what they do.
  
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BetaWiki is gonna go wild with this.

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