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Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by eumoria »

mnadkvlb wrote: post #3

I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…

Long time windows user: you can disable windows update in the services menu. Open run --> services.msc

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by DanBC »

nhxu wrote: post #13
becarefulyo wrote: post #2

Careful, by default this disables the lock screen.

No it doesn't. At least on Anniversary Update but is anyone else running an earlier version of Windows? The NoLockScreen hack does not work in Anniversary Update. It's even described in the gist and the Anniversary workaround is commented out.

> but is anyone else running an earlier version of Windows?

Anyone who has one of the new netbooks that have 32 GB drives, because it's hard to get 16 GB free to install the update.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by dade_ »

airencracken wrote: post #38

Rather than continuing to struggle against these features which will continue to be added, why not use an operating system that respects your freedom?

Tell that to my employer! Sometimes we don't get to choose our OS, but my personal PC is running Ubuntu. This script is a treasure trove of commands that just killed off over a dozen annoying and undesirable Windows behaviours that I haven't had the time to hunt down.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by Godel_unicode »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #40
KirinDave wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…

"Everything just works" should be interpreted as an asynchronous piece of code, because there are no guarantees that everything will work "today".

Desktop Linux is eventually consistent?

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by Aldo_MX »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #53
MrVitaliy wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true. Install and run wireshark then dial all you want, there will always be traffic every other minute or so to one of Redmond's servers from just idling.

I did just that, cannot reproduce. Did you actually try this or is this based on one of those articles about the open beta of Windows 10 that had a lot more telemetry you couldn't disable?

I'll be the devil's advocate this time.

As you can see in gpedit, Cortana and Web Search is disabled. Why does explorer.exe need to access akamai or search.msn?

http://imgur.com/a/yiIxn

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

MrVitaliy wrote: post #59
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did just that, cannot reproduce. Did you actually try this or is this based on one of those articles about the open beta of Windows 10 that had a lot more telemetry you couldn't disable?

The only thing I didn't do is to block MS servers in System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. This is useless in my opinion, MS can always change them or add new ones.

That didn't answer my question at all.

You said above:

> That's not true. Install and run wireshark then dial all you want, there will always be traffic every other minute or so to one of Redmond's servers from just idling.

I literally did exactly what you said. Shutdown all third party applications on a Windows 10 Pro machine, loaded Wireshark 2.2.3, filtered out all LAN traffic/broadcast traffic/etc and watched. Didn't see any traffic at all going to Microsoft nor anyone else, it is still running now and not a peep.

Now I have no doubt that if I waited long enough I would, since I have Windows Update enabled, use Microsoft for time synchronisation, and a handful of other things. But it definitely isn't "every other minute." I cannot reproduce that.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by andrei_says_ »

mnadkvlb wrote: post #3

I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…

If you do any creative work, Linux is pretty much a desert. Adobe software doesn't run on Linux, capture one doesn't either, so as a photographer I have no choice but windows (cheap hardware and malware os) or OS X (hyper expensive old generation hardware with passable os).

Davinci resolve seems to have a Linux version but not enough for someone who does more than video.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by EasyTiger_ »

MrVitaliy wrote: post #59
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did just that, cannot reproduce. Did you actually try this or is this based on one of those articles about the open beta of Windows 10 that had a lot more telemetry you couldn't disable?

The only thing I didn't do is to block MS servers in System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. This is useless in my opinion, MS can always change them or add new ones.

Didn't they 'hack' it so it ignores MS servers listed in hosts file?

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by powers_hell »

cwyers wrote: post #57

I seriously doubt that Windows 10 is doing anything so grave as to require you to run some arbitrary PowerShell script you found on the Internet with elevated privileges. If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.

Pah! This kind of thinking might scare off non-technical dweebs on some video game forum, where everyone plays Halo, and stares blankly back at you, when you pose questions like:

  Is it "normal" to supply
  incremental payments of $60
  for every opaque DRM locked-in
  game that appears on the 
  shelves at Game Stop?
Here at HN, no such Jedi Mind Trick shall deter us.

We are not weaklings, to be tricked into voting with our wallets, or telling you our life histories down to our favorite color.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by NuDinNou »

KirinDave wrote: post #26
eli wrote: post #21

If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS

Which one? An essentially unsupported Linux distribution? Canonical does telemetry as well. Apple has been doing this for years an yet we still don't sweat wrathful spate of headlines over it. Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity. So you'll need to avoid those. Browsers keep updating and the vast…

Bullshit. I've had a better experience with Ubuntu than with Windows 10. And since Ubuntu 16.04 the telementary thing you were talking about is desabled by default. Or you could use other Ubuntu derivate, like Xubuntu.
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