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Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by windexh8er » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 12:38 AM UTC

SignalsFromBob wrote: post #7

Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.

The entire consumer oriented line of Windows 10 feels like a bad trip to a US strip mall. It's preinstalled with loads of junk you can't remove easily. For a while I spent some time putting together a small workflow to clean up Windows 10 builds for a project I was working on. If your hand is forced and you need a minimum amount of tools to get rid of as much bloat and telemetry there are two tools you need:

1) Geek Uninstaller [0] 2) O&O Shutup10 [1]

Both are free. Maybe there's better options now, but... They helped tremendously a short time ago.

[0] https://geekuninstaller.com/ [1] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by miles » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 12:40 AM UTC

Bender wrote: post #2

I agree with this article, but I think it can be summed up as, "People need the option to buy the LTSB release of Windows 10". Microsoft refuses to sell it to consumers. It is an enterprise only option (unless that has recently changed and I am not aware of it). I have one windows 7 machine for playing WoW and it will stay on 7 until I can get the LTSB release of Windows 10 and the ability to turn off 100% of the tel…

Anyone can buy LTSC for a few hundred dollars.

I cobbled together a post last year on acquiring it:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html

However, it does require a willingness to enter into a VL agreement with Microsoft.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by steve19 » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 12:50 AM UTC

miles wrote: post #12

Bender wrote: post #2

I agree with this article, but I think it can be summed up as, "People need the option to buy the LTSB release of Windows 10". Microsoft refuses to sell it to consumers. It is an enterprise only option (unless that has recently changed and I am not aware of it). I have one windows 7 machine for playing WoW and it will stay on 7 until I can get the LTSB release of Windows 10 and the ability to turn off 100% of the tel…

Anyone can buy LTSC for a few hundred dollars. I cobbled together a post last year on acquiring it: https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html However, it does require a willingness to enter into a VL agreement with Microsoft.

Can I buy from someone who went to all the hassle already? Or are those organizations not allowed to distribute keys?

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by jayalpha » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 12:55 AM UTC

windexh8er wrote: post #11

SignalsFromBob wrote: post #7

Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.

The entire consumer oriented line of Windows 10 feels like a bad trip to a US strip mall. It's preinstalled with loads of junk you can't remove easily. For a while I spent some time putting together a small workflow to clean up Windows 10 builds for a project I was working on. If your hand is forced and you need a minimum amount of tools to get rid of as much bloat and telemetry there are two tools you need: 1) Geek…

Great post. I don't use windows but my girl does. Her compi (Win 10, SSD, 8 GB Ram, i7) has become unusable slow. She does not much besides watching Movies, surfing and using Word. I installed a free reliable antivirus (Avira) when she got it. I will have to look into this problem soon.

Any further suggestion? I will definitely try your recommended programs.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by _trampeltier » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:01 AM UTC

Standart folders, does anybody really use them?

I upgradet one Notebook at home to from Win7 to Win10. Besides of other things I couldn't believe the added Candy Crash in my Start Menu. In a home edition maybe .. but on Win Pro, serious?

I played back on the Win7 image pretty quick.

I'm anyway mostly Linux, but I don't think I'll ever move any machine to Win10.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by orev » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:04 AM UTC

jayalpha wrote: post #14

windexh8er wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire consumer oriented line of Windows 10 feels like a bad trip to a US strip mall. It's preinstalled with loads of junk you can't remove easily. For a while I spent some time putting together a small workflow to clean up Windows 10 builds for a project I was working on. If your hand is forced and you need a minimum amount of tools to get rid of as much bloat and telemetry there are two tools you need: 1) Geek…

Great post. I don't use windows but my girl does. Her compi (Win 10, SSD, 8 GB Ram, i7) has become unusable slow. She does not much besides watching Movies, surfing and using Word. I installed a free reliable antivirus (Avira) when she got it. I will have to look into this problem soon. Any further suggestion? I will definitely try your recommended programs.

In many cases you can get by with the built-in Windows Defender. I’m not sure I trust the free AV vendors, seeing as everyone is jumping on the data-hoovering bandwagon.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by Nextgrid » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:08 AM UTC

zsrxx wrote: post #10

Bender wrote: post #2

I agree with this article, but I think it can be summed up as, "People need the option to buy the LTSB release of Windows 10". Microsoft refuses to sell it to consumers. It is an enterprise only option (unless that has recently changed and I am not aware of it). I have one windows 7 machine for playing WoW and it will stay on 7 until I can get the LTSB release of Windows 10 and the ability to turn off 100% of the tel…

Then pirate it. What do you care? This is like pirating a show they refuse to put on Netflix. They don't give you the option to conveniently buy what you want, so pirate it. Instructions on how to activate your installation of LTSC here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420337

Pirate KMS servers will go offline eventually right? Even if the legality isn’t a concern, the reliability and maintenance overhead is a problem. There are trust/malware concerns with client-side cracks as well.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by orev » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

I honestly think that the new tab/news/spam page in IE/Edge is (and has been, forever) the single biggest factor driving people to Chrome and Firefox. Every time you open it you’re greeted with all this complete junk, making the whole experience stuttering and slowing down your flow. I dread having to open IE on systems with no alternative just because it’s always so bad. Edge might actually be pretty good, but I will never know it because the initial experience is just so bad.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by projektfu » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:13 AM UTC

How about all the ways windows goes out of its way to hide the home folder, and then is now generating multiple places it calls “Documents”, “Pictures”, etc so you’re never really sure where anything is?

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by whamlastxmas » Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 1:17 AM UTC

In other news, I still cannot disable Windows update on the home edition. I've spent hours and hours and virtually every solution I can find other than giving MS more money to upgrade.

Updates keep failing on my machine, which means it just tried again the next day and forces a restart, closing everything I have. Fails day after day after day. I'm not sure why, I frankly don't care. Just ridiculous how impossible it is to disable.