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Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
sorveltaja:
--- Quote from: Muzzerboy on August 09, 2024, 06:19:00 PM ---It's in "display and settings" - just type "brightness" in the start button to get there. On my laptop there are also brightness up/down keys, thankfully, so I don't have to dive into settings each time I start up. But it's bl00dy annoying that it resets brightness each time.
I take it you're familiar with this kind of install process?
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Ah ok, it's a laptop. I have two old Acer ones, which have similar feature, as well as volume adjustment. So far, I'm not sure what is involved with those functions, as they probably exist only in laptops and nowadays in other portable devices. Wild guess would be that it may depend on what kind of software different brands (Asus, Acer, HP or whatever) have pre-installed in their machines, as 'features'. I have never been fan of such, and therefore have removed that kind of bloat from my laptops, at the moment I got my paws on them.
So, if or when one looks for solution to such issue as you mentioned, there may not be only one way to skin the cat.
About the video you posted: No, I haven't got that far; no need for automation, as I only need to install one instance to my desktop pc.
There are, no doubt, other options available, but for me Msmg tool is enough to strip away all the excess and unnecessary bloat of the installation media.
sorveltaja:
This is not W10 related, but about Firefox, which keeps sometimes nagging about updates. In Waterfox, updates can be turned off totally in settings (so far), but not in FF.
These two registry entries can be used to disable and enable updating.
Updating off:
--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]
"DisableAppUpdate"=dword:00000001
--- End code ---
Updating back on:
--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]
"DisableAppUpdate"=dword:00000000
--- End code ---
After the updating is disabled, it looks like this:
sorveltaja:
There appears to be a significant difference in OpenGL test results between W7 and W10. If the benchmark at https://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/ is to be trusted, W10 with latest Nvidia driver has a score of almost five times to W7 in one of its tests:
As can be seen, W7 has much older driver, as there aren't new drivers for it (haven't checked, which is the latest version, that would work in W7, though).
sorveltaja:
Another, major annoyance: when searching something, for example on C drive, using term "png" or whatever, if/when there are results that show png files, and double-clicking one of the results to open it. All is well at that point.
But when the search is over, and one goes back to that folder's initial view, and minimize the window, it goes back to search mode. I use to do that a lot in W7, and haven't yet found what causes such behavior in W10.
Again, I'm using W10 21H2 Build 19044.1288 for testing. I've already disabled Focus and window snapping in settings. Anyone with more recent instance of W10? Does this issue still exist in newest version?
sorveltaja:
--- Quote from: sorveltaja on August 22, 2024, 02:01:10 PM ---Does this issue still exist in newest version?
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I tested latest W10 22H2 version, no. Neither do few other default versions of W10, that I've played with. So it was about debloating bit too much.
As I've used Msmg toolkit for cropping the installation media, I made yet another image, and looked for possible search-related things, like Cortana and such.
In system apps -section, there was 'search app' (number 32 on the list) which I had previously always disabled. So I left it enabled, and it looks like that issue is solved.
At this point, it seems that at least two W10 features/apps or whatever needs to be included in the customized image:
- Internet Explorer (for browsers like Opera to 'remember' user set volume levels)
- Search App (so that explorer doesn't stubbornly go back to search mode, as mentioned earlier)
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