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True, it’s entirely my opinion. I still can’t get windows 10 to stop turning down the brightness on my screen or keep my ssh sessions open if I undock with a c

True, it’s entirely my opinion. I still can’t get windows 10 to stop turning down the brightness on my screen or keep my ssh sessions open if I undock with a closed lid though, and this is on two different laptops. As for use outside of an enterprise setup, I really dislike how it auto installs installers for free2play Facebook styled games. I don’t want my operation system to do anything remotely like that.

pjmlp 8y ago
I wonder how these W10 auto-install software. My W10 Pro copies surely don't.
opencl 8y ago
All you have to do to get it to stop automatically installing random games without your permission is set a DWORD to 0 in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager\SilentInstalledAppsEnabled. And people say that Linux is the OS that requires bizarre incantations to do basic things.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  I never needed to do that on my W10 Pro copies.
  - opencl 8y ago
    Well lucky you. It clearly happens to a lot of people's Windows 10 Pro copies as evidenced by all the people complaining about it. It certainly happened to mine, on multiple computers, until I made the registry edit. Did you disable the Windows Store entirely or something? I've gotten my copy of W10 Pro to behaving in a semi-sane way but it took an obnoxious number of group policy edits, registry edits, and random obscure powershell commands to get that way. Do your W10 Pro copies also include a way to disable Bing in the start menu search bar without multiple registry edits? I would love that. It was by far the most obnoxious change in the 1803 update.
    - pjmlp 8y ago
      Plain W10 Pro OEM releases. I just removed all the tiles from the status bar, reverting to a plain old start menu. Also I only use standard Windows accounts, with a special one for testing UWP and store related stuff.

pjmlp 8y ago

I wonder how these W10 auto-install software. My W10 Pro copies surely don't.

opencl 8y ago

All you have to do to get it to stop automatically installing random games without your permission is set a DWORD to 0 in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager\SilentInstalledAppsEnabled. And people say that Linux is the OS that requires bizarre incantations to do basic things.

pjmlp 8y ago
I never needed to do that on my W10 Pro copies.
- opencl 8y ago
  Well lucky you. It clearly happens to a lot of people's Windows 10 Pro copies as evidenced by all the people complaining about it. It certainly happened to mine, on multiple computers, until I made the registry edit. Did you disable the Windows Store entirely or something? I've gotten my copy of W10 Pro to behaving in a semi-sane way but it took an obnoxious number of group policy edits, registry edits, and random obscure powershell commands to get that way. Do your W10 Pro copies also include a way to disable Bing in the start menu search bar without multiple registry edits? I would love that. It was by far the most obnoxious change in the 1803 update.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    Plain W10 Pro OEM releases. I just removed all the tiles from the status bar, reverting to a plain old start menu. Also I only use standard Windows accounts, with a special one for testing UWP and store related stuff.