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Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC (windowscentral.com)
Before Windows 10, a clean install of Windows only included the bare essentials a user would need to get started using their PC. With Windows 10, a clean install stays that way for about two minutes, because the second you hit the desktop, the Microsoft Store immediately starts trying to download third-party apps and games. Users have long complained about it, but it turns out Microsoft never put paid to it. Windows Central writes: And these apps keep trying to install themselves even after you cancel the downloads. There are six such apps, which is six too many. These apps are often random, but right now they include things like Candy Crush, Spotify, and Disney Magic Kingdoms. You should not see any of these apps on a fresh install of Windows 10, yet they are there every single time. There are policies you can set that disable these apps from automatically installing, but that's not the point. On a fresh, untouched, clean install of Windows 10, these apps will download themselves onto your PC. Even if you cancel the installation of these apps before they manage to complete the download, they will retry at a later date, without you even noticing. The only way I've found that gets rid of them permanently is to let them install initially, without canceling the download, and then uninstall the apps from the Start menu. If you cancel the initial download of the bloatware apps before they complete their first install, the Microsoft Store will just attempt to redownload them later and will keep doing so until that initial install is complete. This is not a good user experience, Microsoft.
Probably not, but we are investing heavily in creating custom scripts to remove all of this crap which we'll have to re-run after every feature update.
"Enterprise" edition my ass.
Easy fix for this. Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC.
I pirated an Enterprise copy because it's the only way I was able to figure out disabling all the crap I don't want. I own a copy of Windows 10 Pro, and I still need to pirate Windows just to disable to crap it comes with. I would buy Enterprise, but they won't sell me a single copy for home use, so instead I will never pay for Windows again. I think it's a win-win, because if Microsoft actually wanted me to buy Windows 10 they would make available a version that isn't bogged down with shit, so clearly this is the result they're aiming for.
Once you install Windows 10, you no longer own your computer. Microsoft can install what ever they want on it, and reboot it when ever they want. That also gives them the ability to remove anything they want from your computer.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Yes, put Win10 behind a firewall + proxy. Then only give the applications that need internet access the address/pw of the proxy and donot set the proxy of Windows itself. For Chrome you'll need FoxyProxy to set one without using the system settings.
You may also need software like Proxifier to have other application go through your proxy.
Net effect: Nothing has internet unless you allow it, resulting in a much more relaxing experience (apps donot download updates, and generally just donot do stuff behind your back without your knowledge). Windows cannot updates its tiles, nor download software, nor update itself. It's quite peaceful.
So there is this handy little utility called the MSMG Toolkit. You'll have to make a junk login for the forum but it's well worth it. https://forums.mydigitallife.n... Basically, you can modify your ISO so annoying things like Windows Store, Cortana, Edge, every single app, all kinds of things just aren't there when you do your clean install or upgrade from DVD. Not "disabled"...I mean not there at all. It's not the most user friendly thing in the world but there is a handy youtube video where the dude walks you through it. It's like of like that old utility nLite for windows XP except without a pretty GUI. Makes the new Windows 10 experience a lot more tolerable.
I don't understand tech people that still uses crap like Windoze...
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Windows is the most common platform out there- of course a large number of tech workers are still going to be using it.
It's interesting then that in my world, the windows using tech worker is an exception. Hundreds of devs and tech workers I work with all use *nix of one flavor or another. Why? Because everything they do pretty much interacts with a *nix server. In fact, I can't recall touching a windows "server" in at least 5 years at a multitude of clients big and small.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.