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The privacy controls of Windows 10 are insufficient. In order to make Windows 10 usable, at least by Windows 7 standards, for people who actually care (you soun

by Jach 8y ago

The privacy controls of Windows 10 are insufficient. In order to make Windows 10 usable, at least by Windows 7 standards, for people who actually care (you sound content with MS's worldview, that's fine for you), this is the latest version of all the crap you have to do: https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy

wffurr 8y ago
Why does that guide have you delete all the preinstalled UWP apps and Windows Defender? I naturally did the first steps in the setup process they suggested, and also did some work to get regular system search instead of Cortana, but deleting sticky notes seems excessive.
- Jach 8y ago
  Maybe you missed CVE-2018-0986 (https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0986 https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...) and other related notices for Defender and other products, but it's not a great idea these days to let poor quality (remember, MS fired its QA) highly privileged software like Windows Defender or other antiviruses run and automatically scan every file (or worse as some newer systems are doing attach themselves to every process and scan their memory) since that software is itself vulnerable to exploits. Admittedly the link I posted goes a bit beyond what's strictly needed, but it captures the spirit of the classic Windows setup. It used to be, you buy a new machine, first thing you do is wipe the pre-installed Windows (and all the crap the machine's seller put on there), hope there's not a rootkit (Lenovo, Sony), then install vanilla Windows, then install your graphics drivers... Now it's wipe the pre-installed Windows Home, go buy Windows Professional and then install that, go through the above link to vanilla-ize it and get rid of the pre-installed crap plus take back control of your privacy and machine behavior, then you're ready to download graphics drivers and so on...
worble 8y ago
I also highly recommend using this http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html to fully manage your installation in the first place. This'll get rid of a lot of the crud Microsoft tries to force on you before it even gets installed on your pc. It also has the added benefit of significantly lowering the size of the image and speeding up the install times. Of course I also highly recommend just rolling your favourite linux distribution where possible, but sometimes it's just not possible for certain professions.

by Jach 8y ago

wffurr 8y ago

Why does that guide have you delete all the preinstalled UWP apps and Windows Defender? I naturally did the first steps in the setup process they suggested, and also did some work to get regular system search instead of Cortana, but deleting sticky notes seems excessive.

Jach 8y ago
Maybe you missed CVE-2018-0986 (https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0986 https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...) and other related notices for Defender and other products, but it's not a great idea these days to let poor quality (remember, MS fired its QA) highly privileged software like Windows Defender or other antiviruses run and automatically scan every file (or worse as some newer systems are doing attach themselves to every process and scan their memory) since that software is itself vulnerable to exploits. Admittedly the link I posted goes a bit beyond what's strictly needed, but it captures the spirit of the classic Windows setup. It used to be, you buy a new machine, first thing you do is wipe the pre-installed Windows (and all the crap the machine's seller put on there), hope there's not a rootkit (Lenovo, Sony), then install vanilla Windows, then install your graphics drivers... Now it's wipe the pre-installed Windows Home, go buy Windows Professional and then install that, go through the above link to vanilla-ize it and get rid of the pre-installed crap plus take back control of your privacy and machine behavior, then you're ready to download graphics drivers and so on...

worble 8y ago

I also highly recommend using this http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html to fully manage your installation in the first place. This'll get rid of a lot of the crud Microsoft tries to force on you before it even gets installed on your pc. It also has the added benefit of significantly lowering the size of the image and speeding up the install times. Of course I also highly recommend just rolling your favourite linux distribution where possible, but sometimes it's just not possible for certain professions.