Unfortunately, in 2026 running markedly unsafe code is not for the novice and faint of heart. Like, my very second recommendation would be to set up and learn to use a virtual machine with KVM, Virtualbox, whatever. Since they’d already intend to run pirate software in the first place, running a whole Windows that you can undo and redo at your leisure provides extra safeties. This also compensates for safeties that running software on Windows directly can’t give you, such as Copilot snitching on you. It also provides you as the more tech-savy but also less readily available pringao a more even, more deterministic platform and circumstance on which to diagnose issues, even if the end result is “restore the startup snapshot and try from scratch again”.