Windows 10, released on July 29, is Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system and now runs on more than 110 million devices. It comes with a host of useful new features, including an improved Start menu, digital assistant Cortana, and Action Center. In addition, the new operating system has substantial improvements in terms of functionality and performance. But many of the annoying things Microsoft has set up for Windows 10 machines are simply ridiculous. Here are those settings, along with a simple guide on how to fix them.
1) Stop automatic updates
When Microsoft released Windows 10, it didn’t offer Windows 10 Home users the ability to pause or skip any updates. Microsoft later made some changes to give home users the ability to stop automatic app updates, but it still hasn’t given users any option to pause or stop Windows Updates. However, there are some workarounds. For more information, see our step-by-step guide on how to disable automatic updates in Windows 10.
2) Stop automatic restart
If you don’t have any problems with automatic updates that Microsoft sends your way, you might still be grateful that your system doesn’t immediately reboot every time an update is installed on your computer. To reschedule an automatic restart, follow these steps:
- Open start menu and search Advanced updates and select Advanced Windows Update options.
- Below this, select Advanced options Then at the top change the settings to Notify schedule restart.
3) Disable keylogger
By default, in Windows 10, Microsoft watches what you type and say to your computer. It uses this as feedback to improve its services. If you’re too paranoid about this and concerned about potential security risks, there’s an easy way to disable this “keylogging” feature.
- Go to start menu and open set up.
- Click Privacy settingsand select General There are options inside.
- disable this option Send Microsoft information about how I write to help improve typing and writing in the future
- Once done, find Speech, inking, and typing menu and select the “Stop getting to know me” option and switch its setting to off.
4) Stop Windows 10 from consuming your bandwidth to deliver updates to others
Also by default, Microsoft shares your Internet connection to provide Windows updates to other users. The company does this on a peer-to-peer (P2P) basis. The good news is that this can also be prevented. You can do this:
- Open set up then click Updates and security.
- Open Windows Update section on the left and select Advanced options Link from the right.
- Click Choose an updated delivery methodand switch the switch below it to the off position.
If you wish, you can continue to share updates with other computers on your local network. To do this, hold the switch in the “on” position and select Computers in my local network options.
5) Disable Wi-Fi Sense
Send your network password to your Facebook and Skype friends, as well as your Outlook email contacts. If you don’t want to do this, you can easily turn it off by following these steps:
- Open start menuand search for Wireless network settings and select Change Wi-Fi settings options.
- In it, click Manage Wi-Fi settingsthen uncheck the options listed below (Skype Contacts, etc.) For a network of my choice, share it with my people.
6) Stop (select) notifications
Windows 10 comes with Action Center (often called Notification Center), which collects important updates from all your apps and systems to keep you up to date on everything that needs your attention. But like many users, you’re unlikely to be happy with app notifications. To turn it off, follow these steps:
- ignition start menu and search Notification and action settings.
- Down Notifications, find Show app notifications and turn the switch off.
Additionally, if you don’t want to receive notifications from selected apps, scrolling below the same settings page will give you the option under “Show notifications from these apps**” – For all apps you don’t want to receive notifications, toggle the toggle to Off.
7) Delete files to gain free space
If you’ve upgraded your computer from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, you might be surprised to find out how much space the new operating system takes up on your computer’s hard drive. This happens because for the first 30 days, Microsoft keeps the Windows files for your old operating system – just in case you want to switch back. If you decide that Windows 10 is right for you, you can delete it from the Windows.old folder C drive Requires approximately 20GB of free space on your computer. However, you cannot simply delete it. In order to remove it from your computer, you will need another built-in program.
Open start menu and search disk cleanup. Once completed, it will ask you to select the drive you want to scan. Choose to install the driver for Windows (usually C drive) and let it scan your computer.
When finished, click Clean system files on the next page. This will cause the application to scan your drive again. After you get the result, deselect except Previous Windows installation (Unless you know what you’re doing and want to keep them open) Click OK.
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