The installation was eerily fast. No Cortana. No "Hi, we're setting up a few things." No forced OneDrive backup. It booted straight to a clean, dark desktop with a black wallpaper and a single icon: This PC .
Click-clack. Click-clack. Pause. Click.
Then he noticed the clock. It was set to 4:44 AM. He’d installed it at 3:00 PM. microsoft.windows.10.pro.1903.lite.version.64 bit