Windows 10 Tweaks

[R-T-B]

Im not sure if anyone has encountered this , but my "shut Down" button doesnt shut my win 10 down.It goes black, and then comes right back on...I read online that holding the Shift button would resolve this, and it Did, but id Really rather not have to hold it on every shut down.

Does anyone know of a fix?

Also, has anyone heard of people having trouble with Sleep mode? mine just wakes right back up.MS please.

Look under Power Options in Control panel, the button settings in particular. It's called something like "Fast startup" IIRC.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Look under Power Options in Control panel, the button settings in particular. It's called something like "Fast startup" IIRC.

Yup, that fixed the shut down problem . Thank You.. Now i Would like to resolve the sleep issue. I use sleep 95% of the time. The options for the most part seem very similar to win7, but I've had no luck.

 

[BumbleBee]

don't just set the monitor and sleep to "never" you have to change the power plan because things like "turn hard disk off: 20 minutes" are on by default.

 

[jboydgolfer]

don't just set the monitor and sleep to "never" you have to change the power plan because things like "turn hard disk off: 20 minutes" are on by default.

yeah i know...but none of those option have changed, from what i had them set to in Win 7, so im @ a loss

 

[t_ski]

I continually find that sleep or S3/S4 modes mess up more things than they help. I recently disabled hibernation on my PC and fixed a lot of weird things that were happening.

 

[Jetster]

Sleep is working perfect for me. Having a few issues with programs showing up after install.

 

[t_ski]

Did you choose the option to keep apps and files?

 

[AsRock]

@W1zzard looks like the hashing/version is different on some systems
this syntax works better
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *3d* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *bing* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *solit* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *people* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *zune* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *photos* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *phone* | Remove-AppxPackage"
powershell "Get-AppxPackage *communi* | Remove-AppxPackage"
someone already compiled all the tweaks listed into a handy choice driven .cmd file
you can get that from here
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/63498-Windows-10-TNBT-(The-next-big-tweak)-official-thread

I will have to agree, as when i upgraded the fixes work and now i am using a clean install none of them work except onedrive.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

When I try to load that calculator, it tells me I can't run it with UAC turned off.

It says that when you have it turned off in the registry which is the only way to really turn it off.

 

[Ahhzz]

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Launch the Store from your Start menu.
2. Click the user icon next to the search box.
3. Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
4. Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
5. When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

from Lifehacker

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Dunno if this has been said already but if you have a device that automatically gets bad drivers from Windows Update, rolling back the driver should prevent auto-update for the device.

Windows 10 was automatically installing Realtek HD Audio Manager. I hate it. I rolled back the driver to Microsoft's default driver then uninstalled the software. It's still using Microsoft's HD audio driver.

 

[RejZoR]

This is just better:
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/disable-automatic-driver-updating-in-windows-10/

Basically, install Win10, let it update everything, disable this driver updating crap and do with the drivers as you want it, without getting your selection of drivers overriden by stupid Windows Update...

 

[FordGT90Concept]

It's good to automatically update most drivers...except those that cause problems.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I've never had nvidia drivers update via windows successfully. I mean it'll happen, but it'll be mucked up somehow.

 

[Jetster]

Having an issue with my network. Connecting to another PC on my home group is about 50/50. Sometimes it will connect sometimes not. Anyone else having this issue?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

I've never had nvidia drivers update via windows successfully. I mean it'll happen, but it'll be mucked up somehow.

Mine have gone well minus the large cursor issue with the last drivers, but that's fixed now

 

[t_ski]

Having an issue with my network. Connecting to another PC on my home group is about 50/50. Sometimes it will connect sometimes not. Anyone else having this issue?

I'm not, but my two Windows 10 rigs are wired crunchers. Is this wired or wireless? Ruling out all normal network issues and assuming it is Windows 10, is it driver related?

 

[Random Murderer]

I vote for this being a sticky.

 

[R-T-B]

This is just better:
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/disable-automatic-driver-updating-in-windows-10/

Basically, install Win10, let it update everything, disable this driver updating crap and do with the drivers as you want it, without getting your selection of drivers overriden by stupid Windows Update...

Does that setting actually work now?

In RTM (day 1 RTM) it did not. I haven't tried it since.

 

[Pill Monster]

Not really a tweak as such, but if anyone wants to mess around with the power settings......go hard. I can upload the text file. .

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Ah wait that's for W7, I'll brb with W10 Power Options.

 

[bonehead123]

reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System /v DisableLogonBackgroundImage /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

How do you reverse this action ?

 

[Jetster]

I'm not, but my two Windows 10 rigs are wired crunchers. Is this wired or wireless? Ruling out all normal network issues and assuming it is Windows 10, is it driver related?

Wired...Ill check the network adapter driver. Whenit does this I just cancel and try again and it works

Edit: I switched fro the Intel adapter to the Killer Adapter. Same thing. Network discovery is on

 

[Pill Monster]

Wired...Ill check the network adapter driver. Whenit does this I just cancel and try again and it works

Edit: I switched fro the Intel adapter to the Killer Adapter. Same thing. Network discovery is on

This was a problem in Win7, do you have any W7 machines on the network? It's a permissions error.


If you do, try this:
Go to Control Panel/Credential Manager on each Windows 7 machine

Under Windows Credentials, type in the name of each machine, username and password


That's it.

 

[Jetster]

Never had an issue with 7. All pcs have 7 but one with 10. I try it

 

[W1zzard]

How do you reverse this action ?

Go to that key in regedit and set it to 0