The upgrade from 7 took me about an hour or two. It wasn’t very long.
Ever since I’ve upgraded to Win10 from 8.1 on my laptop, my connection occasionally craps out at times and I have to go on Troubleshoot Problems to fix it. It never happened when I was using 8.1. Anyone else have this problem or is it just my laptop?
Could be a laptop specific issue. Usually laptops have a specialized version of Windows running that has drivers for the built in features.
Got Windows 10, spent some time fixing it.
The explorer sidebar is a mess though.
I take it you found a way to shut down all the spyware crap.
this last update made the windows button useless. now it only gives a menu when you right click…pfft
Found several and got classic shell.
I kind of enjoy eradicating all the “features”.
What did you find? I am interested.
Scratch this. Turns out all I have to do is right-click on the taskbar to bring up the menu for a window. That fixes the problem of it not auto-hiding the mouse hover previews.
Why this is, I don’t know. And I don’t care to find out. Google searches never turned up anything related to this.
“Fast Startup”? Yeah, that’s not what it’s called. It’s called hibernation, and it’s existed in some form since Windows 95. It’s designed to be fast but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you really want to use it. The hiberfil.sys file can be GB in size depending on how much RAM you have (the actual RAM size and then compressed), and you’re writing to and reading from it each time you hibernate your system and then wake it up. I disabled it on my system and haven’t cared to put it back.
Links:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Windows_10
I did all of this, it’s not very organized. It comes from a lot of forum posts and conversations. Also worth mentioning that I couldn’t quite find some things so I’m guessing the scripts took care of it:
[details=Spoiler] remote registry services
Task Scheduler Library:
Everything under "Application Experience"
Everything under "Autochk"
Everything under "Customer Experience Improvement Program"
Under “Disk Diagnostic” only the "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector"
Under “Maintenance” “WinSAT”
“Media Center” and click the “status” column, then select all non-disabled entries and disable them.
sc delete DiagTrack - background dataminer
sc delete dmwappushservice - bult in keylogger
echo “” >C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\Diagtrack-Listener.etl
Group Policy:
Computer Configuration - Windows Components:
Application Compatibility - telemtry, Inventory Collector
Cloud Content - Microsoft Consumer Experiences
Game Explorer - Game Updates, Game Information
Maps - Automatic download and update of map data
Microsoft Edge - Do not track headers
OneDrive - Prevent storage
Search:
Set what info is shared
Prevent indexing on battery
Office outlook
Offline files cache
e-mail attachments
certain paths
Web search results
Store:
update to latest version of Windows
TUrn off automatic download nad install of updates
Sync your settings:
do not sync
Windows Defender:
Turn off Routine remediation
Auto send memory dump
in task scheduler disable every automatic scheduled shit set by microshit…just click through it and disable what you dont like
most important part is editing things in group policy
such as windows update > configure automatic update and disable it…it wont update your pc until you press check for update, before any update use wushowhide.diagcab (google it) to disable unwanted updates
and go through those lists and disable what you dislike
and i disabled internet connection to cortana, it stopped to work but search in file explorer works fine
To disable telemetry open Command Prompt as administrator by clicking right mouse button on Start button or by
pressing Win+X shortcut, and enter the following after each line press return:
sc delete DiagTrack
sc delete dmwappushservice
echo “” > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl
reg add “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection” /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f [/details]
Classic Shell: http://www.classicshell.net/
I did try out Windows 10 as is without this but I really didn’t like it. I’d search for things using their start button and it would never pull up anything but Classic Shell found things immediately.
so whats the newest news about “HAX” software having problem with windows 10? I was hoping to upgrade but I got all kinds of random stuff here and things need to stay working. I don’t mind buying but I use random softwares that aren’t even for sale(for work)
if I upgrade to win10, I can easily go back to 8.1 how I have it now? I can google but I know I will get like 20 pages of information out there… :xeye:
Thank you. I will have to read all this.
If I’m searching for something I just type into Cortana. Tends to work right.
Fuck Cortana. I don’t need to use my bandwidth to tell Microsoft what I’m looking for.
I don’t even use Google myself, gotta use DuckDuckGo.
Fast start up aka hiberboot (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power HiberbootEnabled) is dependent upon hibernation (managed via powercfg -h) but they are not the same.
Also, even if your hiber file is 6GB, it doesn’t get updated in its entirety and if you are utilizing only a small amount of memory hibernation just takes several seconds.
On a new laptop with Samsung SSD hibernation Windows 7 takes 1.9 seconds to restore from power off to desktop with my applications still running whereas Windows 10 takes 4 seconds to do the same.
I recommend not using fast start up since it leaves your hard drive in an inconsistent state. If you really need the speed then just use full hibernation since you can just hibernate in the middle of your work like an open Word document then get back to exactly where you were. You should have system restore enabled before using fast startup or hibernation.
Though I recommend more people should switch to Linux instead of continuing to support a company that doesn’t give a **** about any of you.
I want to know why you can’t set the touchpad to auto disable when you hook up a mouse. It’s BS.
Actually you can via task scheduler and trigger, checking device hardware ID of your mouse then via devcon disabling your touchpad via its hardware ID.
“If it’s not broke don’t fix it.”
Not sure how you feel about that quote but it seems appropriate.