I haven't had any of these issues, this is what I did when setting up my Win 10. (The watermark still shows up 90% of the time, but with dual monitors I never n

I haven't had any of these issues, this is what I did when setting up my Win 10. (The watermark still shows up 90% of the time, but with dual monitors I never notice it.) USB installed without a key Windows 10 Pro N, which comes with less bloatware - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 when installing do not sign up for an outlook.com account, create a local agent account Go into settings and tweak as much privacy stuff as I saw - as found here https://fix10.isleaked.com/ https://fix10.isleaked.com/ & https://techlog360.com/stop-microsoft-spying-windows-10-private/ https://techlog360.com/stop-microsoft-spying-windows-10-priv... downloaded o&o shutup10 to tweak more privacy settings, could have probably done this without the reg edits - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 registry edits to -remove the activation watermark -https://www.techolac.com/computers/how-to-remove-activate-windows-10-watermark-permanently-2019/ https://www.techolac.com/computers/how-to-remove-activate-wi... wallpaper can be changed by right clicking on an image and setting it as background wallpaper - cool wallpaper site https://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/rating/any/ https://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/rating/any/ downloaded Open Shell for further customization https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ added show desktop to taskbar https://winaero.com/blog/add-the-show-desktop-button-next-to-start-in-windows-10/ https://winaero.com/blog/add-the-show-desktop-button-next-to...