Okay, so when I posted the idea of creating a list, I really wanted a LIST. Thanks for all the comments. I've gone through them 3 times and have picked out those suggestions that I thought were serious (compared to "format c: drive") and useful (vs. a mass of manual registry edits that only certain people can do). Below find a list of quotes from posts that I pulled to make the above. If you feel I've missed your serious suggestion, post a quote of it in the thread. Also feel free to add any others for consideration. Note, the general idea I'm trying for is a list of things MOST people should do in order make Windows 10 a general, overall, functioning Operating System. Most people aren't going to use Visual Studio (you geeks), and everyone prefers a different anti-virus. I'm mentioning Pale Moon because I'm promoting it. Everyone knows Firefox and Chrome exists. I think the basic idea I had for the browser was that the Windows Edge/Internet Explorer kind of sucks. Are they the same thing? Can this edge thing be made to be more functional? My latest horror story/example today was that putting a "Home Page" icon on that stupid Windows Edge thing was considered an "Advanced Setting". That's just f**king retarded, Microsoft.
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell] "UseWin32TrayClockExperience"=dword:00000001 Still works for me!
No longer uses wget, though you can probably install it easily enough Code: @echo off Echo Adding Chocolatey... Powershell -command "Get-Packageprovider chocolatey" Echo Chocolatey Added. Echo Installing Apps... Powershell -command Install-Package -Name VLC -Force echo VLC Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name Firefox -Force echo Firefox Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name Steam -Force echo Steam Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name Minecraft -Force echo Minecraft Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name notepadplusplus.install -Force echo Notepad++ Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name VisualStudio2013Ultimate -Force echo Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Installed Powershell -command Install-Package -Name google-chrome-x64 -Force echo Google Chrome Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name spotify -Force echo Spotify Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name qbittorrent -Force echo qBittorrent Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name skype -Force echo Skype Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name gimp -Force echo Gimp Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name dropbox -Force echo Dropbox Installed. Powershell -command Install-Package -Name OpenOffice -Force echo OpenOffice Installed. pause 'Tis a Batch file. Remove the "pause" and you can run it during windows setup as an unattended install if you want. To find more applications, run powershell, and do this: Find-Package -Name SearchTerm For example: Code: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> find-package -Name chrome Name Version Source Summary ---- ------- ------ ------- GoogleChrome 44.0.2403.89 chocolatey google-chrome-x64 44.0.2403.89 chocolatey GoogleChrome-AllUsers 26.0.1410.64 chocolatey Google Chrome Offline Installer- for all users adblockpluschrome 0.0.0.2 chocolatey GoogleChrome.Canary 28.0.1461.0 chocolatey Google Chrome Canary has the newest of the new Chro... ChromeDriver2 2.10 chocolatey ChromeDriver is a webdriver server for chrome GoogleChrome.Dev 27.0.1453.12 chocolatey Google Chrome Dev is released once or twice a week ... SeleniumChromeDriver2 0.9 chocolatey Selenium Chrome Driver 2 EthanBrown.ChromeDevExtensions 0.0.2 chocolatey Chrome extensions for web development. EthanBrown.ChromeCanaryDevE... 0.0.2 chocolatey Chrome Canary extensions for web development. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> In this case, I chose google-chome-x64.
Spoiler What All these do and is indeed no 3 a dangerus one to do? I can understand some of them, but can anyone clear these up? And does averyone agry with these?
What you're talking seems about the boundary of OEM Licenses which are differs quite a lot from the normal MS Licenses! Anyway, as long as we didn't know how exactly Microsoft will handle the transfer of the licenses from either Windows 7 and/or Windows 8/8.1 we could just speculate. Personally I think, the best would be that Microsoft will move the Licenses/Product Keys from the old OS Database to the new of Windows 10. That would be the most easy way for to avoid 'double' use of the same P-Keys for both the old OS and Windows 10! Phone activation will still be in place, me think! I could be wrong, it's just what I think will happen!
1. Upgrade 7 to 10 2. Format HDD clean install 10 3. Disable Page File 4. Disable System Restore 5. Turn off all minimize maximize animations 6. Turn off enhance pointer precision 8. Disable Windows Defender 9. Drivers and updates 10. Enjoy 10
The Remove Windows 10 Apps script does not work for me, the window disappear within 1 second. I'm creating my own script too and stuck on gaining administrator rights automatically, only open poweshell as admin manually and paste the commands work.
Looks like some of these don't actually work (Enterprise version). For example, even if you set: Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation -> DISABLED Configure Automatic Updates -> ENABLED; set to "Notify for download and notify for install" Turn on Software Notifications -> ENABLED Turn on recommended updates via Automatic Updates -> ENABLED If you then scan for updates, despite the fact that Windows Update shows you that it's set to "Notify to download", it will still automatically download and install immediately (I verified this by uninstalling an update and then rescanning with the settings above). I even tried rebooting before doing so, just in case the settings need a reboot to stick. Also, despite turning on recommended updates, Windows Update does not find the Silverlight download, while the tool MS provided to hide updates does find it.
pawX, BTW, the previous post has been updated with a new photo, as I configured some more settings, and added clarifications in red text. EDIT: After pressing "Check for updates ", if there's a definitions update for Windows Defender, it still downloads automatically, without asking me first. Guess I'm moving on to the Enterprise LTSB version.
During installation do not use "Express Settings" and answer no to all questions. Be especially sure to disable SmartScreen which is a spying feature. When running the Chrome Download App (Internet Explorer) be sure NEVER to click on "recommended settings" because it will re-enable spying KMS activate Create new a local account for day2day use Disable the M$ account (I will temporarily re-enable the M$ account if I want new insider builds. I'll keep it disabled, because M$ knows the password and can logon to my machine) In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System set LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy to DWORD 1 to allow access to C$ shares from other machines and EnableLinkedConnections to DWORD 1 to use my network shares from admin command prompts. Install Chrome (Note: Windows 10 has two Chrome Downloader apps: IE and EDGE) Remove Chrome Downloader App 2 (Spartan/Edge) from start menu Install Cygwin including sshd, gcc, MingW-w64 and cross-compilers for 32-bit cygwin and 32-bit MingW-w64 Install Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and 2015 Enterprise Install Eclipse CDT (IDE for gcc and gdb) Install Office 2016 preview Uninstall all cripple apps (aka Metro/Modern/Universal apps) like News, Weather, Bing, Stocks, .... (only fill up my start menu with garbage)
I think you should just stick with Windows 7, and disconnect from internet. You are way to paranoid to use a computer for anything other than the casual game of solitaire.
After getting my free Pro upgrade: 1. Shut PC down. 2. Swap my HDD once again. 3. Fire up my Win8.1.3, I love it...
Again the hilariousness of people against spying and pro privacy... who immediately install Google Chrome. Clearly wasting anything else they do by handing over all their data nice and directly to one of the NSA's friends. Thus why bother?
you need to disable windows defender through group policy. This will stop the updates from even showing up.