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I'm a big fan of reinstalling all of the default Microsoft online services and resetting your user preferences every time they feel like updating your computer.
by plorg 2y ago
I'm a big fan of reinstalling all of the default Microsoft online services and resetting your user preferences every time they feel like updating your computer.
If you want to feel real madness try reinstalling Win10 from even the latest installation media, checking for updates, finding none, and then finding your computer restarted the next day with a new iteration of the Bing search box on your taskbar, and repeating this experience at least 4 times.
- defrost 2y agoHere's a minimal -> maximal (choose your own adventure) windows 10 and|or 11 debloat | tweak | install | BYO install utility. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA The defaults are not at all extreme with the knife, it takes away all the advertorial ad-ons and shows how to disable more (including Edge and defaulting to Edge from system links). Also includes the ability to mod your own ISO to make a lean clean fast install | boot disk for later on or friends. It's "open" if you read powershell scripts, it's literally just a pipe from a readable GIT reposity to a powershell GUI that toggles scripts that can be read by clicking on [?]'s. If nothing else you can select the default recommended updates setting which is no new features just security updates.
- Spivak 2y agoI literally just did this for my partner and while the defaults of everything are ungodly user hostile they haven't yet reset the preferences I set and I've been watching them like a hawk. I don't love having to keep a loaded gun pointed at tower and constantly being on guard with supposedly above-board software but it seems to stay down.