Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs
Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs
Users say that the HP Smart app is being automatically installed on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. Here's what's happening.
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Just regedit delete all programs that run at startup besides the default page file.
If you do this and then later you face some sort of issue with Windows, remember that it might not be Windows' fault.
And people say Linux is complicated...
Imagine a world when instead of
adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named
AllowCortanawith value 0 toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Searchin registry editor,we could do "sudo dnf remove cortana".
we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.
Remove-AppxPackage in Powershell
So you need to use the command line on Windows afterall?
Remote Powershell is like the only way I interact with Windows.
For me it's deleting the Windows partition and then installing Linux. That's just me though.
Oh you mean for personal use... I manage a mixed environment with about a thousand Windows workstations and 300 Windows Servers, about the same amount of Linux servers.
At home I only run Windows for Ableton Live cause VST plugins don't work on Linux :(.
Well, at my last job we were a 100% Microsoft free company. And at my current company I got the company to implement a policy to allow Mac and Linux workstations. I've managed thousands of Windows systems and server before also. I don't miss it.
Unfortunately a lot of our core tools don't have supported linux client software, SCADA clients and power flow/transmission grid simulation etc, but we also aren't a business so it's more about what gets the job done since we're basically mandated to do what we do.
That's a perfect application for VMs. But either way, both Windows and Linux are just tools. For what I do, Linux is a better fit 95% of the time, and the last 5% I find alternative solutions. I don't want to be bothered to maintain another OS for some edge cases when I can get by with alternatives. The only thing I use Windows for right now (personally or professionally) is BlueIris, and even that is really wearing thin. Both the Windows OS is causing issues and BlueIris is just... bad.
We run virtual workstations and terminal servers for specific purposes, but a lot of our decisions are guided by NERC CIP standards and where certain things fall within that framework. The Windows workstations are probably the easiest part of this whole environment to manage though. It's realtime data and all the applications linked to that where the complicated stuff is. If it was up to me we'd be a Kubernetes shop.
Better yet just fucking format the hard drive and install Linux
I've used Startup Delayer for ~15 years. Not perfect, but it really helps manage startup processes.
Sounds like a great way to break your PC.
There's plenty of powershell scripts to "reclaim windows" etc. I was a sysadmin in mixed environment for 15 years and Windows Enterprise you can disable all the creepy features on. This was critical infra environment with explicit firewall rules for everything and no traffic from the end user that didn't go through our proxies.