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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Windows 10 update misery. Help on simple stuff? | |
I was going to run some Capture One testing on my PC. It's a box which fortunately I have a removable SSD drive bay in and so if I need to use the nuclear option, I won't feel much pain, but ...
After hitting the power button, windows did one of those updates we can't stop, even by begging, and it went through several re-boots. I hate that but such is life with windows 10. But this time, it re-set all those things I had customised for myself. It was not as bad as a whole new instsall, but so many settings were set back to spyware like status and also to send me notifications. Now, I HATE notifications. It's like a bad drunk at a party always wanting to give me a suggestion. I turn them off and feel better for it.
But now, it must be some hard to discover secret. I used to work in IT, but I no longer do, so I don't really want to enjoy fixing problems now. I don't even want to keep up with all the changes. I just want to use my blasted Raw developer.
So these two questions are probably obvious and so I hope very easy.
1) in notifications & actions, every item has been set back to defaults. But this time a bunch of things are greyed out. Without resorting to registry hacks, how can I get ALL notifications turned off? All but one drive are greyed out now.
2) many windows apps that I had deleted in making my windows experience somewhat my own and uncluttered have been put back. This time I can't delete even more of Microsofts choices and that's fine. But I'd like to get rid of the thirty or so shortcuts in my START menu. It is "my" desktop right? Well, I can't. And it drives me NUTS! I have to scroll through 24 items like a shortcut like View 3D, Sticky Notes, voice recorder Cortana and more. I will never use these, how please can I delete them from cluttered menu? I suspect it's really obvious, but not to me after this latest. Someone please help. Registry hacks are fine on this one btw. I'm rusty but willing.
Burger King lets me have it my way. Am I expecting too much from windows 10? If I get this set up to where I enjoy using it again, I shall unplug this box from the internet. Seriously. I'll use removable drives to move my files around or slide in my Windows 8.1 or maybe even Win 7 back in the tray. But how long will the programs such as Photomechanic and Capture one run on Win 7, I wonder?
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