You can turn almost all of that stuff reasonably easily - there are a variety of tweaking tools of varying degrees of completeness. It's a little bit easier wit

You can turn almost all of that stuff reasonably easily - there are a variety of tweaking tools of varying degrees of completeness. It's a little bit easier with the Pro version (in particular, disabling the automatic update + restart overnight that lost my data a couple of times). Combine it with Classic Shell, and it's really quite tolerable.