OS: Windows 10 installed onto 8GiB USB by Microsoft Media Creaton tool
USB drive with at least 8GiB, final image file size on flash drive is ~4.8 GiB.
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- Start > Edit Power Plan > Select High performance > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state: 99%
- File explorer Address bar: Navigate to Power options > Left side menu: Choose what the power buttons do > Change settings that are currently unavailable > Disable: Turn on fast startup; Enable sleep.
- View Advanced System Settings > Performance: Settings > Visual Effects > Select: Show windows content while dragging, Smooth edges of screen fonts
- Advanced > Automatically manage=DISABLE > Page file size: Initial=1024, Maximum=8192
- regedit change for auto login functionality ??
- Automatically hide scroll bars in windows -> Uncheck
NirSoft (FOSS) - Registry tools
Disable windows update in Registry (Set "start"=4)
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wuaserv
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\windefend ?
CMD: REGEDIT > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
- [Fax] Fax - Enables you to send and receive faxes, utilizing fax resources available on this computer or on the network
- [MapsBroker] Downloaded Maps Manager - application access to downloaded maps
- [DiagTrack] Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
- [CscService] Offline Files - performs maintenance activities on the Offline Files cache
- [PhoneSvc] Phone Service - Manages the telephony
- [RetailDemo] Retail Demo Service
- [wisvc] Windows Insider Service - infrastructure support for the Windows Insider Program
- [SmsRouter] Microsoft Windows SMS Router Service
- [XboxGipSvc] Xbox Accessory Management Service
- [XblAuthManager] Xbox Live Auth Manager
- [XboxNetApiSvc] Xbox Live Networking Service
- [XblGameSave] Xbox Live Game Save
- [lfsvc] Geolocation Service
- [irmon] Infrared monitor service
Search > Edit group policy admx GP wiki - Wiki for all group policy options Administrative Templates (Computers):
- Configure Automatic Updates = DISABLED | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
- Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation = DISABLED | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
Search > Windows Defender Firewall > Advanced Settings > Disable firewall rule for:
- Work or shool account
- Wi-FI Direct network discovery
- Wi-FI Direct Scan
- Wi-FI Direct Spooler
- Microsoft Lync (Inbound)
- Microsoft Lync UcMapi (Inbound)
- Microsoft family features (outbound)
Disable the following:
- Internet Explorer 11
- Work Folders Client
Enable the following:
- Hyper-V
- NET Framework 3.X
- NET Framework 4.X
- Task Scheduler > Disable Edge
Abbreviations:
- FOSS - Free and Open-Source Software
- Freeware - software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user
- Shareware - proprietary software which has trial use at little or no cost with usually limited functionality, but which can be upgraded upon payment
- Chocolatey (FOSS) - software management solution
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
- MPV - github (FOSS) - optimised and simple media player
choco install mpv
choco install ruby
- ffmpeg (FOSS) - command line multimedia framework (a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video)
choco install ffmpeg
- MKVToolNix (FOSS) - gui for working with Matroska files gitlab
choco install mkvtoolnix
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Clementine (FOSS) - a "winamp" style music player
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Greenshot (FOSS) - A screenshot tool, to use press "Prt Scr"
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qimgv (FOSS) - Image viewer
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KeePass 2 (FOSS) - light-weight password manager
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Notepad++ (FOSS) - multifunctional code/text editor
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Revo Uninstaller (Shareware) - advanced program uninstaller
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7-zip with Zstandard - file archiver with additional functions (eg. hash verification)
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Adobe Reader (Freeware) - Propriatery pdf reader
- Disable update service after install
- Chrome (Freeware) - made by Google, based on the Chromium engine
- Vivaldi (Freeware) - customisable browser, based on the Chromium engine
- UBlock Origin (FOSS) - An efficient (ad) blocker for Chromium and Firefox
- HTTPS Everywhere (FOSS) - encrypts your communications with many major websites
- ClearUrls (FOSS) - based on the new WebExtensions technology, automatically removes tracking elements from URLs
- Intel's gpu driver (Freeware) - For the specific gpu line
- Anaconda3 - package / environment manager, Python3 distribution with 1,500+ open source packages
- VirtualBox - x86 AMD64/Intel64 full virtualization
- Visual Studio Code (FOSS) - JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js (C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET, Unity)
- PuTTY (FOSS ?) - SSH, Telnet, and SFTP client, typically used for remote access to server computers over a network using the SSH protocol along with an xterm terminal emulator
- ImDIsk (FOSS) - virtual disk driver
- DeepL (Freeware) - Auto translate tool
- Freeplane (FOSS) - Tools for mind mapping
- PowerToys (Microsoft) - Usefull windows tools
- HWmonitor (Shareware) - general purpose hardware monitoring program
- Go to the Last Active window with a single click / Switch to last opened window
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Right-click on Advanced> New> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Rename it to LastActiveClick Double click on LastActiveClick and change its value to 1
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Advanced entry is selected, right-click on the white space in the right panel and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. LastActiveClick = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace add minus infront of -{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}
- Disable Action Center (Optional)
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Right-click on Windows> New> Key. Rename it to Explorer. Right-click on Explorer> New> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Rename it to DisableNotificationCenter. Double-click on DisableNotificationCenter and change the value to 1.
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WinTweaker (Freeware) - Windows settings tweaker
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Enable verbose status messages
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System System entry and then right-click on the white space in the right panel and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. verbosestatus = 1
- Apps in the context menu GeekFlare
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell
Start Menu > Services > Windows Update > Disable the following:
- autotimesvc
- DiagTrack
- dmwappushservice
- FrameServer
- icssvc
- InstallService
- MapsBroker
- PhoneSvc
- RasMan
- RemoteAccess
- RemoteRegistry
- SessionEnv
- SysMain ?
- UevAgentService
- UmRdpService
- WalletService
- WbioSrvc
- wisvc
- WMPNetworkSvc
- WpcMonSvc
- WSearch
- ALG ?
- AppReadiness ?
- BITS
- Microsoft (R) Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service (diagnosticshub.standardcollector.service)
- Enterprise App Management Service (EntAppSvc)
- MicrosoftEdgeElevationService
- MixedRealityOpenXRSvc
- Windows Perception Simulation Service (perceptionsimulation)
- Performance Logs & Alerts (pla)
- RetailDemo
- Windows Backup (SDRSVC)
- Radio Management Service (RmSvc)
- Spatial Data Service (SharedRealitySvc)
- Smart Card Removal Policy (SCPolicySvc)
- Microsoft Storage Spaces SMP (smphost)
- ??? Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Service (Sense)
- Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider (swprv)
- Telephony (TapiSrv)
- Remote Desktop Services (TermService)
- ?????? Web Account Manager (TokenBroker)
- Volume Shadow Copy (VSS)
- Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSvc) //added in update 1803 //Computer Configuration \ Preferences \ Windows Settings \ Registry //HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc //value name is Start and please set the value to 4. // Source technet
- BitLocker Drive Encryption Service (BDESVC)
- Offline Files (CscService)
- Microsoft Edge Update Service (edgeupdatem)
- IP Translation Configuration Service (IpxlatCfgSvc)
- Geolocation Service (lfsvc)
- Microsoft Passport (NgcSvc)
- Microsoft Passport Container (NgcCtnrSvc)
- Windows PushToInstall Service (PushToInstall)
- Microsoft Windows SMS Router Service (SmsRouter)
- Windows Perception Service (spectrum)
- Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service (TabletInputService)
- Microsoft Account Sign-in Assistant (wlidsvc)
- Windows Update (wuauserv)
- Waifu2x Caffe (FOSS) - image denoiser & upscaler (slow, best used with Nvidia GPU's)
- Waifu2x Extension GUI video & image denoiser & upscaler with multiple algorithms
- other_video_transcoding (FOSS) - highly efficient transcoding cli for h.264 to h.265
- Dandere2x (FOSS) - efficient video upscaler that uses waifu2x and video compression technology