Windows 10 Tweaks and Fixes (Index post #1)

Stop Windows 10 spying on you using just Windows Firewall

After downloading the ZIP (Batch File), right click on add rules.cmd and choose Run As Administrator

A reboot is recommended after adding these rules to your Firewall.

 

Nice. Their own software can stop the virus to pump home info!!

 

I'd bet a new winblows10 update will patch the Firewall and undo it and turn it back on...It's M$, their homebrew apps are like thorns on the road, once you get a puncture if you decide to patch another will happen and tire would weaken ovetime, but replacing the whole tire would fix it (remove that defender haha) and if the car has the fault then what ? destroy it and buy a new one. Lol

Their continuous update style is made for this purpose and people are made to believe that new features are being added instead they are going to finish the Win10 as a crappy click bait OS like crApple with massive spyware and downgraded UI/OS/Choice, unless geeks would iron out all the stupid issues and polish it like a custom Android ROM

This is a good news meanwhile, straight to rekt the DX12 madness.

 

After adding these rules to my Firewall, I literally feel every page I browse to loads instantly, as if I upgraded my internet!

@Ethrem

 

Without Dx12 is Win Crap X a Os with telemetry, advertising and winDoze Store with no sales

 

Guys, i would not like to install windows 10 to my main drive, but i wonder would it be possible into a fast SD Card? My laptop is a Dell inspiron 7559.

 

This is a Tweaks thread. Please make a new thread about your question to get better help from us.

 

How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers

 

Thanks! This is really useful to stop once for all to have my Nvidia driver messed up by windows...

 

I did add this rules to my windows firewall, but now I cannot update windows 10 anymore.

Do you have the same problem?

 

nope, can you elaborate more please? What happens when you hit Windows updates? Screenshot + any event log errors please

 

The error I get is attached.

I have read in the comment of this link that there is a rule in the firewall which I must allow to get back the updates working, I did allow it but still it doesn't work:

http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/

I will look online when I have time, could be another issue since your updates working.

 

Like now, when I check for updates, it does it normally then tells me my device is up to date:

Just formatted and the first thing I did is installed those Firewall rules, then installed all drivers, then ran Windows Update. Results:

 

Wow, that's a lot of trouble!

I guess something else must be the culprit then, I will search the error code online when I have time and report back.

Thanks for your help Phoenix.

 

Well I recently switched my WLAN card from a Killer AC 1535 to the Intel AC 8260 and didn't format, so when you said this I thought, hey, might as well format now

 

Funny enough, I bought a new intel 7260 wireless card too, and I wanted to repaste my CPU.

I might as well format my laptop then...

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I believe I've been able to avoid Windows 10 updates by simply changing the event task handler properties in Administrative Tools.

 

Hi Mr Fox,
I ran the Destroy Windows Spying tool which is fantastic, thanks.
I now have an issue where I cant turn on my location which i need for my BT Sport app (all choices are greyed out).
Is there a way to turn this back on without performig a system restore?

Thanks

Perrin.

 

I do the same thing through NTLite. I'm working on a new one with the copy before they force Cortana on everyone always baked deeper in this pile.


You get a finer grain control over components to remove permanently! Including a lot of the remote options that, at least I feel, are not needed. This includes removal of the asimov telemetry components.

 

I don't know. I don't use that "feature" and I've actually completely removed that functionality from Windows by removing it from the ISO. If you look in Settings > Privacy > Location, is that where they are grayed out? If so, use System Restore then re-run DWS in the advanced/professional mode and leave the feature for location enabled on the middle tab with all of the check boxes.

 

To show how much can be tweaked, I screenshot the following to show the components that can be removed. Where it says locked for compatibility, you can turn off that compatibility in the upper left hand tab saying compatibility, then remove the component. If it says live, it means you have to have the image installed and active to remove the component. After this, you can turn your live install into an image for future installs. This is only the components menu, you can tweak installed features, what services are automatic, manual, disabled, local machine settings, slipstream updates, drivers, or tweak the registry, and set up for certain slips to run post-setup, whether installing a program or driver, etc. If you cannot find some crap windows runs in the background that contributes to overhead... PS - I left off the components in Accessories, Drivers, Hardware support, and localization, but these can all be changed as well!

The last two images:


Don't forget to get rid of server self healing, which is how M$ reinstalls components in the background!!! If you leave that in place, you wind up having components you got rid of reinstalled. M$ server insurance policy that they can continue to "provide" you a "quality experience."

Edit: @Mr. Fox - if you try this way, you can remove performance monitor and system resource usage monitoring services, among others, that may have a slight impact on performance. (I have not done a comparison yet and haven't tried a live deployment of my current tweaks outside of a VM environment, so I couldn't give an adequate account as of yet). These are found under Remoting and Privacy.

 

I done the system restore but the original settings never restored. No big deal I suppose, I can always log on line rather than using the sport app.
Thanks anyway dude.
+2 for the information on the original thread.

 

How to Install and Use the Linux Bash Shell on Windows 10

 

Say what you will about Windows 8.1, once you installed Classic Shell it worked fairly well.

And now look at all the crap I have to go through to get Win10 to be non-retarded.

 

after using the DWS ( Destroy Windows 10 Spying) I notice some loading problems with youtube videos (I have 50mbps so I think is enough speed) Any idea why this could happen? In the firewall now I have many IPs blocked..

 

I don't use DWS, this is what I use:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...xes-index-post-1.779394/page-21#post-10293420

 

How to Remove "3D Print with 3D Builder" Context Menu entry from image files

Even if you have 3D Builder uninstalled from your apps and don't even have a 3D Printer for that matter , the right click context menu that appears when you right click on an image file now has this new entry.....

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To remove it, download 3D Builder Removal *.ZIP file which contains 2 files, one to remove the right click context menu for 3D Builder and the other is to restore it.

To do this manually, copy/paste the following text into a notepad text file then save it as

To remove the context menu entry for 3D Builder

3d-builder-entry-remove.reg

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.png\Shell\T3D Print]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\T3D Print]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.bmp\Shell\T3D Print]

To restore the context menu entry for 3D Builder

3d-builder-entry-add.reg

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.png\Shell\T3D Print]
@="@%SystemRoot%\\\\system32\\\\PrintDialogs3D.dll,-5039"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.png\Shell\T3D Print\Command]
"DelegateExecute"="{1A68CF90-753A-4523-A4A4-40CAB4BC6EFF}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\T3D Print]
@="@%SystemRoot%\\\\system32\\\\PrintDialogs3D.dll,-5039"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\T3D Print\Command]
"DelegateExecute"="{1A68CF90-753A-4523-A4A4-40CAB4BC6EFF}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.bmp\Shell\T3D Print]
@="@%SystemRoot%\\\\system32\\\\PrintDialogs3D.dll,-5039"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.bmp\Shell\T3D Print\Command]
"DelegateExecute"="{1A68CF90-753A-4523-A4A4-40CAB4BC6EFF}"

PS: @Papusan @bloodhawk @TANWare @Ethrem @toughasnails @Mr. Fox , just another one of the hundreds of things to do before we can look at this pile of garbage of an OS.

 

Hmm, i dont see that for some reason.

 

Are you sure you are right clicking on images such as JPEG?

 

Yep.

 

Classical Micro$h4ft Swiss cheese, appears for some and doesn't for others

Are you sure you are on the latest 1607 build with all Windows updates installed?

 

I think. Windows installed some updates yesterday morning. Nothing after that.
Haven't checked the build.

 

Type winver in an elevated command prompt then post a screen shot pls

 

I don't see that either on any standard 2d images.

Also, isn't 3D builder is an uninstallable windows app?
it could should be removable via Remove-AppxPackage or through window store.

....
Oddly, I don't see it on my 1607 and 1511 builds
Edit: Ah my home domain policy removed it for me. Doh.

 

At work now, will do it later tonight.
But does the Anniversary update install automatically ?

 

I never do upgrades, the moment the new updated ISO came out I formatted then did a clean install

 

NO go bro. Cant do a clean install. Too much stuff and so less time.

But till the time things are running fine , i guess im good. Ill make a backup image just in case.

 

My understanding was it could be disabled prior to the Anniversary Update but after the update is installed all you can do is sign out of the app - hopefully a quick fix will be forthcoming.

 

Before the anniversary update, there were ways to remove it before install. After, they made it so you cannot get rid of it without getting rid of Windows search in the process...

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Cortana can still be disabled via GPO or registry.
See here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

 

Thank you. And although that is helpful, I prefer to eviscerate Cortana. I have no need and do not want it on my machine at all...

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Windows 7 Calculator updated to the latest version for compatibility on the latest Windows 10 build

 

Bro @Phoenix Works all tweaks in the thread with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update? Eg Disable Task Scheduler Privacy Related tasks-W10.bat

 

I don't understand your post

 

Sorry.., Function all tweaks in this thread for latest Win CRAP 10 as in previous Crap versions from the Redmond Morons?

Eg can this tweak Disable Task Scheduler Privacy Related tasks-W10.bat work in latest (os - beta build 14393.0)? + all other tweaks in this thread?

 

@Phoenix Does not work anymore with Autoruns.exe. Win Crap X (Anniversary Update) just created a new one. Delete the tweaks.

 

That is called server self-healing module. Until you gut that, m$ acts like an IT supervisor with your antivirus and firewall settings, they reset them, even if you set them higher than what the IT person did. That module is how m$ has been undoing all tweaks the entire time!!!

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Guys, I was having a big slowdown in my internet speed lately, down form 100 mbps to 50 mbps, I then did this tweak to disable the Windows Auto Tuning of connections and rebooted, Then the speed went up to 117 MBPS right away!

• Find out if Windows 10 is limiting your Internet speed

Find out if Windows 10 is limiting your Internet speed

 

is there any tool to disable the services/processes that are not strictly necessary in windows 10 for improving battery life in latops?

 

You're welcome http://www.sordum.org/8637/easy-service-optimizer-v1-2/ and
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx aka Autoruns.exe