Windows 10 Tweaks & Fixes

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by Zardoc, Jul 17, 2015.

  1. 12stones

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    How to fix not working Windows 10 Start Button ?

    One issue is related to its start button. Many users complained that start menu button not works in new version of Windows 10. After installing or upgrading the Windows 10 Technical preview, Windows start button failed to launch.

    According to latest discussions on Microsoft technical forum it is now known issue and solution of this issue is found. There is a registry key fix for this issue. You add one new Dword value in your registry and restart your computer, and this issue will be solved.

    In few cases this got fix by simply restarting the current running explorer process from task manager. Latest windows update has automatically fixed this issue. But if your problem still persist than you can apply below method.

    Follow following steps :

    1. Go to run (Windows + r)
    2. type regedit and press enter.
    3. click ok when notification window prompt.
    4. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Explorer>Advance
    5. Create a Dword with name ‘EnableXamlStartMenu’.
    6. Give it value 0
    7. Log off and login again.
    Your start menu should work now.
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    This looks pretty logical, taking in mind new profiles don't include this key at all...
     
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    Attaching a set of tweaks I use after clean installing Windows.
    Read description inside bat files.
     

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    Other possible solutions seem to be:
    - logging off and on again
    - deleting the folder C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
    To delete the folder use an emergency Linux on a stick. It's the most comfortable solution. Alternatively you can create a second admin account on the machine, log off your main account, log into the secondary and use it to delete the folder. I never tried this but constructive it should also work. In explorer you will have to select "show hidden items".
     
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    I've got most of those tweaks as .reg which I add to my Windows 10 installation using NTLite
     
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    So, that prevents Edge from loading on startup, YES!

    Question: seems that setting another browser as default also prevents that behavior, do you know what values in registry are changed when that happens?
     
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    This is a very good method, I will try it myself!
     
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    the link to the tweak to remove desktop shortcut arrows doesn't work/is missing
     
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    why would one want to remove arrows from desktop icons?
     
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    well for me desktop icons just make it very ugly, hmm I'd rather use Rocketdock since the times of beloved Windows XP :D:p
     
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    Can Anyone Tell Me What Does These Registry Tweaks Do?
    Code:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    
    [HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG]
    "Mystring"=dword:95242242
    
    [HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIGSystem]
    "Freemem"=dword:00000014
    "MaxLOMChannels"=dword:14500000
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEHARDWAREDESCRIPTIONSystemCentralProcessor]
    "MaxLOM_Channels"=dword:000030d4
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001Control]
    "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"
    
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USERNetwork]
    "Network_Bandwidth"=dword:00000200
    
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop]
    "AutoEndTasks"="1"
    "MenuShowDelay"="10"
    "WaitToKillAppTimeout"="10"
     
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    ^^
    yep It's what keeps snooping around all the websites lol :D