00:20 Disable useless extra features 03:36 Cortana 07:30 Privacy settings 11:05 Minor performance settings 11:55 Power consumption 13:45 Services 16:00 More telemetry and data collection 19:35 O&O ShutUp
I’ve just updated my 10 year old HP laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 after watching your video instruction on how to do so. It went remarkably smooth. So the next thing I did was follow along this video with my tablet in one hand and make the changes on my laptop following your advice. I did everything you suggested from the beginning of this video all the way up to where you were showing us how to change the performance options. You suggested that we tick the box to adjust for best performance. I did that exactly as you suggested and then I stopped the video right there because I did not feel comfortable going further and doing things in the registry. So I rebooted my old laptop. All I can say is WOW!!! It started up way quicker! 😃 Am I ever happy that I followed your advice! It used to take forever for my laptop to boot up and to shut down. But not anymore! The way it responds now you might think that I’ve installed a SSD in there! LOL!! So thank you kind sir you have made my day and help me breathe a little new life into my old laptop.
Get shutdown win10. If you use PatchMyPC updater, it's on there. It's usually the first program I install on a fresh PC. as usual, do your research before taking advice from random strangers. Hope that helped.
Warning: removing Internet Explorer will cause your game shortcut (that use url link like uplay, steam, etc.) will lost it's image and connection as it require internet browser to work.
@@thepizzashaverisen5631 How because I have the same problem how to set default browser ? Guess till I know how to fix this I can't turn that one off.😒
@@jeremyswett616 Go to the shortcut icon of any game, right click, properties, then it says "URL". Select "internet browser". Changing your default browser is easy
Hard to say how useful this was. It was perfect, thank you. Microsoft should just offer a 'minimum communication' option. I hate the way their default is to scavenge all your data.
Great video. I love Windows 10 but this goes a long way to making it a better OS. I really wish Windows 10 had an option for a bare minimum install for people with low end systems and folks that are using the machine for very specific tasks like rending video and audio editing.
This was nicely presented. I've not experienced any slow down myself - I just don't like corporations looking over my shoulder the whole time. I didn't do all the steps, just knowing I can safely turn off all those switches in the settings was enough to put my mind at ease. You know what us normies are like - we don't want to fiddle with things we don't understand - because if we change something and can't work out how to put it back, we can get into a right pickle. But this is a nice, simple, step-by-step guide so it gets a big ol' thumbs up from me.
@@zochbuppet448 I don't care which way round I do it. It would be more to the point if UNCHECKING ' hover ' worked, which it doesn't. Please sort out this awful mistake
I just want to say thanks for the help. My Favourite laptop is 10 years old now and is really struggling with Windows 10 but after applying these techniques Its running a lot smoother now. It will never be a fast machine again but these tips have made it much more usable.
Was really impressed that Windows 10 doesn't support playing a DVD. But they thought I'd like to send a fax. Would any of their developers know what a fax is?
All that's missing is the Telex option. Used to have that on my desktop. But it was a dumb terminal to a "mini" somewhere centrally and it was about 40 years ago!
That bothered me honestly. The fact that Windows 10 doesn't read DVDs is pretty stupid... Like... the fuck? I want to pop in DVDs to my PC so I can watch movies, or play my older games from the discs!
@@mrsinn2642 Exactly, Microsoft is carrying an issue since years ago and is to give support to some institutions and small organizations due to those institutions refuse to update. Unlike different companies like Apple
The setting where you disabled the Powershell 2.0 or the Internet Explorer, not sure which one did it, but it caused some of my desktop shortcuts not to work. They were specifically the shortcuts to programs installed on my external hard drive. So i wouldn't recommend disabling those. You should probably be more specific as to exactly what can happen when disabling some of these things.
It wasn't always so, was it? I seem to remember that in the past, clicking OK would enable/disable something, but only for the current session. APPLY was necessary for a permanent setting. Am I right, or a victim of the Mandela Effect?! ;-]
@@robertcartier5088 Maybe in Windows 3.1 but it’s always been that ok does apply as well. The idea of Apply is to be able to stay on the page if testing different settings.
When you mentioned the Registry Editor, you forgot to mention the FIRST rule about the editor - NEVER make changes without having a backup of the registry!
Neat summary. I'd add disabling Windows updates to the list. There are tutorials here on TH-cam on how to do that. Also, msconfig is quite interesting as well, many things can be disabled there.
Then you wont get important security updates and its more vulnerable to hacking. Security updates are the only reason i moved to win10,,otherwise i would have stayed with win7.
Overall, what kind of decrease in background CPU usage would one expect if they implemented ALL of the changes in the video? And would it be noticeable during day to day tasks right up to video editing?
Brian - I am one of your Tech Fans, I've been using your videos to learn things. I've been having to waste a LOT of my Work time fixing what MS Updates screws up and changes. I LOSE SO MUCH TIME fixing what MS Updates screws up. I have been turning Updates Off, but I can only do it for a month at a time, and then I have to deal with it again. I run a Windows 10 Home version and wanted to find a way to SEE what was going to be downloaded and installed BEFORE it's done, which is the way it used to be. Now I see the Windows Install spinner and I am in FEAR of what it's doing, and if I'm going to be able to get any work done for the rest of that day!! MS UPDATES have been a nightmare and has crashed my laptop to the point where it is COMPLETELY unbootable. I watched another one of your videos to get files off using NotePad, but my laptop is still DEAD, unbootable and unuseable, I really need to have 2 computers working, and I don't have time to learn Linux or lose ALL my files on the laptop. I left you a comment today on that other video, I still need some help. As for this video, I spent Hours researching and found Group Policy Editor to turn off Updates, actually printed the instructions, but when I went to implement, the commands did not work. Obviously the site I got the instructions from did NOT SPECIFY that GPE ONLY Works on Windows Professional NOT Windows Home. So I'm back to square 1, FEARING MS UPDATES!! Can you PLEASE SHOW US WINDOWS 10 HOME users HOW TO Disable Windows 10 Feature updates!? I have uninstalled them only to have MS REINSTALL THEM the NEXT Day!! It's a nightmare! I really appreciate your help. Thanks.
Thank you, Brian! I’ve just discovered your channel and your videos are top quality! I’ve been a long time Windows user as many other people and Windows 10 doesn’t quite appeal to me as much as 7 did but with these changes it is a lot more enjoyable now! Thank you!
Things you "NEED to disable RIGHT NOW"!!!!! Right from the 1st item: "Oh, it's optional, it's up to you." Uhh, "NEED to disable RIGHT NOW" and "optional" are kinda the opposite of one another. Just putting that out there.
@@Psandoval85 Which is why he stated he specifically was mentioning ways that could be reversed later. As well as ended with take things slow and easy and see how they go.
@@kevinfisher1345 If it is imperrative that this stuff be remvoed NOW, then how can you tell some0ne to also take things slowly and see how they go? That's conflicting directives. The title is pure click bait and that is the point.
@@heinzerbrew Maybe that is your interpretation of 'now'. The issue is not doing everything at once, this can still all be done now mate, just not all at one shot and go. Spend several hours or half day doing one or couple things, reboot, check how things are going. Do a couple more, rinse and repeat. That is all still now in my book, maybe not yours, but that again is your issue, perception and interpretation. The same with the take things slowly. Again that is up to you, maybe you don't have several hours to do this, so then take your time in however long you need, or it could simply mean do only one or couple things at time as in my example above by doing it all now ... just not all in one shot so that IF something messes up you do not know which of all those things you did was the cause.
@@kevinfisher1345 The title says "NEED" and "RIGHT NOW" the video says only if you don't need it and whenever you get to it. It's click bait BS. I use half the stuff on his list and yet I need to disable it all right now. The definition of now is pretty well defined in the dictionary by the way. It does not mean later.
I'm pretty sure IE is still used a wrapper when logging into OneDrive. If you use OneDrive and have the app installed, it will still work if you uninstall IE, but if your password ever changes you won't be able to log into it from the app. Also, it might be used for logging into Office 365 and other MS apps.
Happened to hit this session of yours on youtube a while ago and went thru it. Although watching it after a year since your posting herein, yet i found it very beneficial for my laptop that's still running on windows 10 (1809) duly serviced with all updates so far. I might be late in commenting, but it has definitely helped me in the run.
Thank you so much, i was going crazy with this piece of crap, i was so shocked how slow it is after my optimized 8.1. At first i couldn't even change settings, it was just reseting as soon as i closed any of them after changes. Oh my god it will take me a lot of time just to make this thing work, jeez... Huge thank you again mate you're doing gods work
Haven't watched your stuff in a long time but I'm glad your channel got much bigger and is still kicking, easily the best refresher of what to remove when you build a new windows 10 PC
I've just watched your video and I'm confused. I see what you've done and can possibly reproduce some of it (i'm on W10 Home) but am not sure WHY I should make some of the changes as the Computer I'm running on is not SuperWhizzey but runs fine. I don't want to turn something off that may cause me a problem months or years in the future and I've turned something off that I can't remember. Perhaps you should have a series of smaller videos that address certain aspects and explain the whys and wherefores in them. Sorry for being negative and I appreciate the recommendation of the O&O program so I guess I have picked up something from the Video. Tell you what I would appreciate is a way to uninstall all the crappy games that are on a small computer I have that only has 32 Gig of onboard storage and cannot update because of the lack of onboard room (the Disney one seems to take the most disc space!). Thanks for your time
So in summation: Your computer runs fine. You want an explanation from the video creator as to why you've decided to follow their advice despite your computer being fine. You don't want this video, you want a video about something else.
If you want to uninstall the games, you can right click on them in the start menu and in the menu that appears you can click on uninstall. If that doesn't work Windows key + S and search for control panel. Find programs and features, wait for it to load and find the games you want removed and uninstall them. Also, I have a 32gb PC and you need a USB flash drive or micro SD card to use as a cache for the downloads of the updates that'll install. Any recently made PC (2013, onward) will have a card reader slot on the 32gb systems. It's there because they know you'll need to expand storage.
I think the video did great already explaining the reasons for most features disabled. Using RegEdit is always dangerous, but other than that, all actions here are safe to do, and easy to reverse.
Thanks man. For the past 2 years a PC i bought in 2012 had problems immediately i upgraded from Windows 7 to 10. My PC would just restart in the middle of my work. I did most of the things on this video. I noticed some improvements on my PC... Most importantly i spent 6 hours playing games and my pc didn't shut down. Am surprised by that. Thanks alot. However am still monitoring it. So far so good
Good instructions in video. However, be aware that disabling some of these features may mess up your computer, as it did for me. Sometimes it is not apparent why this happens, and it took me a lot of work to find out what the problems were. As an example, the video recommends disabling Internet Explorer 11. Quite correctly, I am not using this, so I disabled it. Several days later, after restarting the PC, hyperlinks did not work in Outlook. After spending a lot of time trying to fix the problem, I found out that disabling Internet Explorer 11 disabled hyperlinks in Outlook, no matter which WEB browser was set up as default.
Other setting that needs to be disabled is SMBv3 Compression and Show thumbnails instead of icons. In microsoft portal they publish an vulnerability in adobe feature and recommended to disable the both.
Videos on : Tech Know-How Software tweaking Advanced Windows Applications Configuration & Settings. Operating systems & features Upcoming & Latest tech tools & Apps Windows & Mac OS Troubleshooting .......& lots more on tech stuff will be exciting
when i saw the vid, noticed that the amount of comments was exactly 666, so mine will make this thread less 'nefarious'-) btw, video contents, the most comprehensive i've seen so far..
Thank you for your great work! I had always disabled most of services (for example I had enabled only 14 services on Win 7 Ultimate) and background processes etc. on Windows 95, 98, NT, XP and 7. But just now I got Win 10 Pro and was devastated how big control this OS have over you and how many services and processes runs on this one (I am using Process Hacker 2 for processes monitoring and controlling). And then I found your video - it comes right on time for me! Have a great one and greetings from Estonia!
Thank you for this video, I just bought a new laptop with WIN10 Pro, and was amazed at its SLOWNESS !!! I will be applying some of the changes you suggested, “over time” to make sure I don’t get confused!
Great video as always Brian. This video helped me alot with finding and disabled much of Win10 tracking things thx alot :) 7:36 - Just one friendly note, I highly recommend leaving 'Allow Windows to track app launches...' it's makes the Run (Win+R) command soo much more user friendly because it remembers your last ten typed commands.
I found your video really helpful. My computer, because I use heavy duty photo editing software sometimes - shall we say - breathes heavily! Having you guide me through the ins and outs of what to safely shut down was really nice. I would be interested if you have a video in exactly all the things you feel we can disable in services in addition to the ones mentioned herein. Thank you very much. I just joined - or at least think I did - your group. I clicked on Join but nothing happened.
@@brujo_millonario I guess I'm butt hurt over the title. NEED and NOW don't apply at all to the content of the video. The overall concept is to remove or disable anything you don't need and keep whatever you might need.
what do you think cortana accessing your email is doing? spying. most of these apps are spying and collect your data and sell it to China and other 3rd part sites..
Can't thank you enough Brian. Clear, easy to follow, by hitting pause button, cause I'm a little on the older side. But you got me through it. Thanks so very much. Yes, Following and subscribed.
And you didn't mention the most important things to disable what is a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe fonts update, has to be disabled! if there's not been a patch yet has there been a patch
Ya know I seen one on your clips in the last year and really enjoyed it , I really haven't been doing to too much on the computer ,, so today when I came across this. I looked up and saw that this was made a year ago I was wondering what I had missed to the point, so before watching the whole clip. I looked at what you had done.... Holy smokes! Thank you!! i got some binge watching for months, thanks again .. CHEERS!
Did you figure out how to fix it? Unfortunately I didn't see your warning before following this idiot's recommendations. I re-enabled Internet Explorer 11 to get the launch icons back, but the games still won't launch.
Windows 10 has just be a piss of shit for me. I downloaded Windows 10 on my Mac using Bootcamp because I want to play games, but now my display screen resolution is capped at 1280 x 800 resolution, 60hz on Windows, even though MacOS scales up to 4K. What can I do to fix this?
@@blair5475 I will suggest you to contact with a technesian. Cause they knows more than us and they are professional on it. It’s right that it will cost a little bit.But the most reliable solve for you.
Linux is a pain in the ass to use coming from windows ,I play alit of games and Linux is THE WORST for gaming I can't do it ,I tired but I can't do it .
At 17:48 - In the local group policy editor, you click on "Allow Telemetry" and say, "I'm just going to disable this", and then you proceed to enable it and set it for "Security - Enterprise Only". Am I missing something? What you are saying and what you are doing seem to contradict each other.
Without counting the opt outs you suggest, this just shows how much unnecessary garbage is contained in Windows. No wonder computers don't run any faster than they did 20 years ago.
Thank you so much for this great information. after shutting down laptop and restarting, it loaded in very little time. I would love to see more how to's on this myself, for the bloatware put in.
How safe is the software from O&O? I have uploaded the exe into the hybrid-analysis sandbox, and it detects indicators mapped to some attack techniques..
I also thought about this direction. Why woudnt be this program a tool from hackers or worse - a (non-explicit) tool from MS wanting to give us the impression we are safe using an outside tool resting and leaving the guard down then MS can do everything it wants :))
Wish you would explain some of these further. You spent time explaining Media player and then just removed other system components without explaining why or what they do.
Every issue fixing TH-camrs are like this. But the small ones who actually say what these do or others do,we can't find them. They are underrated.This is why I stopped following youtube fixes.
Thank you. I had addressed some of these but not all. Always good to get a bit more control. I would really like to see a similar video on Services. I will check the rest of your videos to see I'm not late to the party!
MS really dropped the ball when they "designed" Windows 10. Imagine having to spend an hour disabling, uninstalling and replacing default stuff, just to make the system safe and usable. ...Only to lose all your work every time a new update is pushed out.
@@skyblazeeterno You ain’t the boss of me. I’ll complain about the stinking OS if I want to and you’ll like it. I’ll use the stinking OS and I’ll complain about the stinking OS. Just because you’ll accept any stinking OS that come down the pipe doesn’t mean anyone else is going to accept the stinking OS. Microsoft fix this stinking OS or at least make it Windows 11
Absolutely first class video... you now have a new subscriber. There was a lot there so I intend to stagger implementation of the changes to allow me to easily reverse out of anything without being overwhelmed by the "what did I change to cause that?" scenario.
@@Drew1903SG Why shouldn't we go into the registry. I've been doing it for years according to online suggestions, and many times it's fixed my problem. I don't think I've ever ruined anything by doing so and though I know my way around a computer, I wouldn't consider myself to be an expert.
@@Drew1903SG Totally agree on Reg cleaners and the like, but this isn't the 80's. Many non-IT people under 50 know their way around a computer these days. And using other peoples knowledge to fix a simple registry problem, as well as turning off useless background apps and data collection resources you don't need, is a whole lot cheaper than paying someone to do it for you. Not to mention faster than having to figure it out from scratch, I'm done with that, I don't have time for it anymore. And if someone messes up there OS, so what! All the need to recover is their data which usually is not lost, all they have to do is just reinstall the OS and a few programs, it's a good learning experience. However, he did say this is reversible. I bet you work for MS don't you?
I followed your recommendations and my mouse is more responsive. I thought my mouse was starting to kick the bucket. I would sometimes have to unplug it and plug it back in to get it to move. Thanks for making this video!
I one the official, Slowest PC in the World. A Mini PC bought on Amazon for £80. Intel Atom CPU x5-Z8350, 1.44-1.92 GHz, 2 MB Cache ,4 cores, Intel HD Graphics, 200 MHz-500 MHz, Bluetooth, 2GB RAM, ROM:32GB, SD card slot Win 10 pro Already turned off and uninstalled the obvious. Your suggestions have made a huge difference. It's still really slow, but not as slow as it was! Please do make more videos like this. The challenge to make my £80 PC run better is an obscession.
You like Microsoft to collect data what you do and what you purchased windows 10 is a spy windows its design to collect data on people and spy on citizens
Nice video, i would wish that you explained a bit more of the things you disable after the media player tho, i wont turn stuff off that i dont know what it is, and what impact it will have on my system :D
All very interesting but you don't spend enough time explaining why you disable certain items or the consequences of disabling them. Ok for experienced users but not novices like myself.
Excellent video thank you! I have Windows 10 Home Edition and Can't find any solutions on these 2 issues perhaps you can offer your expertise. 1. I always use a total of 2 accounts...1 Admin Account and 1 Local User account. The major problem I can't solve after endless efforts is figuring out how to copy the system settings from the Admin Account to the Local Account. This would save a ton of time not having to configure the settings for 2 different accounts. So much easier if I could just create the Admin Account, adjust all my settings the way I want them, then create a local account and copy all the settings over from the Admin Account. Is this possible and if so where can I find the instructions? 2. Is there a way to save the Admin Account system settings in windows 10 home edition to an external hard drive and/or back them up? All backup options I've read about do not offer the ability to backup settings. Rather it is documents, files, ect.. but not windows system settings.
mate, you are a legend. this sped up my laptop, and sorted out a lot of the sound problems with my blue tooth speaker. chrome still causes crackles and the odd drop out of sound, so i guess it's a memory allocation problem. anyway, thank you :)
Dude sounds like the Geico gecko. the whole time im imagining the Geico bloke standing on my desk next to me explaining haha. awesome video! thanks so much for taking the time to make this well thought out tutorial. cheers !
Hi, after disabling some of the features you mentioned in the first part of the video, when i restart, now my steam/uplay game shortcuts on my desktop show a blank icon and when i double click them it asks me to how to open the file with a check box saying always open this for .url file. but i cant choose an app to open.. help?
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Let me know what videos you want to see.
A video talking about if we should switch to Windows 8.1 or not. I have Windows 8.1 since 2015 and I'll never upgrading
Reviewing big windows updates (10)
Services: more on what they are, essential or not.
Predator 2. Watched the original last night - Bangin'.
any videos on recaptcha? i get error invalid API parameters try reloading the page ......i cant even pay my bills cause of this HELPPPPPPP
00:20 Disable useless extra features
03:36 Cortana
07:30 Privacy settings
11:05 Minor performance settings
11:55 Power consumption
13:45 Services
16:00 More telemetry and data collection
19:35 O&O ShutUp
quora needs to be joined to be uninstalled most evil background device ever
Thanks for adding the timestamps, I appreciate it
@@Britec09 no problem bro, thanks for the video
@Paguo man your a lifesaver tnxman
I’ve just updated my 10 year old HP laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 after watching your video instruction on how to do so. It went remarkably smooth. So the next thing I did was follow along this video with my tablet in one hand and make the changes on my laptop following your advice. I did everything you suggested from the beginning of this video all the way up to where you were showing us how to change the performance options. You suggested that we tick the box to adjust for best performance. I did that exactly as you suggested and then I stopped the video right there because I did not feel comfortable going further and doing things in the registry. So I rebooted my old laptop. All I can say is WOW!!! It started up way quicker! 😃 Am I ever happy that I followed your advice! It used to take forever for my laptop to boot up and to shut down. But not anymore! The way it responds now you might think that I’ve installed a SSD in there! LOL!! So thank you kind sir you have made my day and help me breathe a little new life into my old laptop.
So cool. You posted this..Thank you!
@@MalibuGlassMI So cool. You replied this.. Thank you!
Yes, would like an updated video on which services are safe to disable.
That time I started to watch a video thinking "What can I possibly learn from this?" and then ran home to implement all of the suggestions. *Humbled*
@Music Old Sorry to be picky, but for anyone reading, the command is sfc /scannow noting the space before the front slash.
More advanced stuff the better. Every update I feel like Windows just loves changing your settings
Get shutdown win10.
If you use PatchMyPC updater, it's on there.
It's usually the first program I install on a fresh PC.
as usual, do your research before taking advice from random strangers. Hope that helped.
@@SP-df1nm thanks for the suggestion. I have something similar to that (don't remember the name but works the same)
@@daviddou1408 No, internet randos are always right ;)
Especially TELeMEtry
@@SP-df1nm does it keep all ur programs auto updated?
Warning: removing Internet Explorer will cause your game shortcut (that use url link like uplay, steam, etc.) will lost it's image and connection as it require internet browser to work.
thanks man i was wondering what the hell was going on
Change ur default browser
@@thepizzashaverisen5631 How because I have the same problem how to set default browser ? Guess till I know how to fix this I can't turn that one off.😒
@@jeremyswett616 Go to the shortcut icon of any game, right click, properties, then it says "URL". Select "internet browser". Changing your default browser is easy
You just change the URL to "internet browser" and it's fixed.
Hard to say how useful this was. It was perfect, thank you.
Microsoft should just offer a 'minimum communication' option. I hate the way their default is to scavenge all your data.
Great video. I love Windows 10 but this goes a long way to making it a better OS. I really wish Windows 10 had an option for a bare minimum install for people with low end systems and folks that are using the machine for very specific tasks like rending video and audio editing.
One word, Tiny10
Would like to see a before and after benchmark video to see the impact of these changes.
Brian, thank you so much! Following your guidelines already made a difference in the speed of system.
Glad I could help
This was nicely presented. I've not experienced any slow down myself - I just don't like corporations looking over my shoulder the whole time. I didn't do all the steps, just knowing I can safely turn off all those switches in the settings was enough to put my mind at ease. You know what us normies are like - we don't want to fiddle with things we don't understand - because if we change something and can't work out how to put it back, we can get into a right pickle. But this is a nice, simple, step-by-step guide so it gets a big ol' thumbs up from me.
Subscribed mate. In this day and age, we need people sharing information like you more than ever. Thanks
Would love to see more things that can be tweaked in group policy editor . Great video once again here and keep them coming .
I didn't know there was an Ultimate Performance Plan until this video.
01:09 - if you disable that then your steam game icons wont be displayed, they will look blank
I like how you explain why the programs are being disabled so
that I have a choice, thanks Heaps Subscribed.
You do an exceptional job walking us through all these settings. Thanks so much, and keep up the good work!
Windows 10 - Hyperlinks not working in Outlook emails, Office, or Word.
Control Panel - Programs & features - Left pane “Turn features on and off”
Internet Explorer 11 “unchecked” will disable Hyperlinks
Little tips.
When you click on "Ok" instead of clicking on "Apply" and then "Ok", the "Ok" button implies the "Apply" button.
It depends on your age. If you are in your mid 20's or younger you wont understand the reason why people have a habit of doing that.
@@zochbuppet448 I don't care which way round I do it. It would be more to the point if UNCHECKING ' hover ' worked, which it doesn't. Please sort out this awful mistake
I just want to say thanks for the help. My Favourite laptop is 10 years old now and is really struggling with Windows 10 but after applying these techniques Its running a lot smoother now. It will never be a fast machine again but these tips have made it much more usable.
Was really impressed that Windows 10 doesn't support playing a DVD. But they thought I'd like to send a fax. Would any of their developers know what a fax is?
All that's missing is the Telex option. Used to have that on my desktop. But it was a dumb terminal to a "mini" somewhere centrally and it was about 40 years ago!
That bothered me honestly. The fact that Windows 10 doesn't read DVDs is pretty stupid... Like... the fuck? I want to pop in DVDs to my PC so I can watch movies, or play my older games from the discs!
Some institutions like hospitals still use fax machines
@@mrsinn2642 Exactly, Microsoft is carrying an issue since years ago and is to give support to some institutions and small organizations due to those institutions refuse to update. Unlike different companies like Apple
Trust me those instititions still running win9x
The setting where you disabled the Powershell 2.0 or the Internet Explorer, not sure which one did it, but it caused some of my desktop shortcuts not to work. They were specifically the shortcuts to programs installed on my external hard drive. So i wouldn't recommend disabling those. You should probably be more specific as to exactly what can happen when disabling some of these things.
Btw, you don’t need to click ‘apply’ if you are going to click ‘ok’. Clicking ‘ok’ does an ‘apply’ as well. Saves an unnecessary click each time
That is correct
It wasn't always so, was it? I seem to remember that in the past, clicking OK would enable/disable something, but only for the current session. APPLY was necessary for a permanent setting. Am I right, or a victim of the Mandela Effect?! ;-]
@@robertcartier5088 Maybe in Windows 3.1 but it’s always been that ok does apply as well. The idea of Apply is to be able to stay on the page if testing different settings.
Thank you so much. Over two years later and this video was still super helpful today.
When you mentioned the Registry Editor, you forgot to mention the FIRST rule about the editor - NEVER make changes without having a backup of the registry!
@Mogli Timme If you know what you're doing you always know to make a backup.
@Mogli Timme So you're saying that you're perfect and you NEVER EVER make changes by accident? smh It's your system.
@Mogli Timme FAMOUS LAST WORDS!
That's a preschooler rule. There is no point to making a backup if you make changes to a few registries like the Cortana one.
never bothered LOL
Neat summary. I'd add disabling Windows updates to the list. There are tutorials here on TH-cam on how to do that. Also, msconfig is quite interesting as well, many things can be disabled there.
but isn't there features which need your windows to be up to date for it to work?
@@big4headedGangster None that I've encountered, but I only use Windows 10 for a limited amount of things.
Then you wont get important security updates and its more vulnerable to hacking. Security updates are the only reason i moved to win10,,otherwise i would have stayed with win7.
Could you do a video going through the" turn windows apps features on or off' and what each thing does and is for...
Even now 2 years later this is still a fantastic video, subscribed, love to all.
Overall, what kind of decrease in background CPU usage would one expect if they implemented ALL of the changes in the video? And would it be noticeable during day to day tasks right up to video editing?
The decrease is in "tyrannical data collection by massive corporations" not so much CPU speeds etc..
Brian - I am one of your Tech Fans, I've been using your videos to learn things. I've been having to waste a LOT of my Work time fixing what MS Updates screws up and changes. I LOSE SO MUCH TIME fixing what MS Updates screws up. I have been turning Updates Off, but I can only do it for a month at a time, and then I have to deal with it again. I run a Windows 10 Home version and wanted to find a way to SEE what was going to be downloaded and installed BEFORE it's done, which is the way it used to be. Now I see the Windows Install spinner and I am in FEAR of what it's doing, and if I'm going to be able to get any work done for the rest of that day!! MS UPDATES have been a nightmare and has crashed my laptop to the point where it is COMPLETELY unbootable. I watched another one of your videos to get files off using NotePad, but my laptop is still DEAD, unbootable and unuseable, I really need to have 2 computers working, and I don't have time to learn Linux or lose ALL my files on the laptop. I left you a comment today on that other video, I still need some help. As for this video, I spent Hours researching and found Group Policy Editor to turn off Updates, actually printed the instructions, but when I went to implement, the commands did not work. Obviously the site I got the instructions from did NOT SPECIFY that GPE ONLY Works on Windows Professional NOT Windows Home. So I'm back to square 1, FEARING MS UPDATES!!
Can you PLEASE SHOW US WINDOWS 10 HOME users HOW TO Disable Windows 10 Feature updates!? I have uninstalled them only to have MS REINSTALL THEM the NEXT Day!! It's a nightmare! I really appreciate your help. Thanks.
Thank you, Brian! I’ve just discovered your channel and your videos are top quality! I’ve been a long time Windows user as many other people and Windows 10 doesn’t quite appeal to me as much as 7 did but with these changes it is a lot more enjoyable now! Thank you!
Hi Brian. A HUGE THANK YOU....This is by far the best TH-cam channel where Microsoft windows and a PC or notebook are concerned.... period.
Things you "NEED to disable RIGHT NOW"!!!!!
Right from the 1st item: "Oh, it's optional, it's up to you."
Uhh, "NEED to disable RIGHT NOW" and "optional" are kinda the opposite of one another. Just putting that out there.
Disabled 2 of the very first things he recommended and right away already caused a problem for me. Not the best advice here.
@@Psandoval85 Which is why he stated he specifically was mentioning ways that could be reversed later. As well as ended with take things slow and easy and see how they go.
@@kevinfisher1345 If it is imperrative that this stuff be remvoed NOW, then how can you tell some0ne to also take things slowly and see how they go? That's conflicting directives. The title is pure click bait and that is the point.
@@heinzerbrew Maybe that is your interpretation of 'now'. The issue is not doing everything at once, this can still all be done now mate, just not all at one shot and go. Spend several hours or half day doing one or couple things, reboot, check how things are going. Do a couple more, rinse and repeat. That is all still now in my book, maybe not yours, but that again is your issue, perception and interpretation. The same with the take things slowly. Again that is up to you, maybe you don't have several hours to do this, so then take your time in however long you need, or it could simply mean do only one or couple things at time as in my example above by doing it all now ... just not all in one shot so that IF something messes up you do not know which of all those things you did was the cause.
@@kevinfisher1345 The title says "NEED" and "RIGHT NOW" the video says only if you don't need it and whenever you get to it. It's click bait BS. I use half the stuff on his list and yet I need to disable it all right now.
The definition of now is pretty well defined in the dictionary by the way. It does not mean later.
I'm pretty sure IE is still used a wrapper when logging into OneDrive. If you use OneDrive and have the app installed, it will still work if you uninstall IE, but if your password ever changes you won't be able to log into it from the app. Also, it might be used for logging into Office 365 and other MS apps.
Make a video called ‘things you should enable in windows 10 right now.’
Happened to hit this session of yours on youtube a while ago and went thru it. Although watching it after a year since your posting herein, yet i found it very beneficial for my laptop that's still running on windows 10 (1809) duly serviced with all updates so far.
I might be late in commenting, but it has definitely helped me in the run.
Thank you so much, i was going crazy with this piece of crap, i was so shocked how slow it is after my optimized 8.1. At first i couldn't even change settings, it was just reseting as soon as i closed any of them after changes. Oh my god it will take me a lot of time just to make this thing work, jeez... Huge thank you again mate you're doing gods work
Haven't watched your stuff in a long time but I'm glad your channel got much bigger and is still kicking, easily the best refresher of what to remove when you build a new windows 10 PC
Great stuff. Just wondering - will we have to go thru these same steps with every Windows Update ?
Yes
Just script it out
-disable drive indexing is a big performance jump in C drive
-disable using your pc uploading for updates
thank you so much my friend
Just want to say thanks your videos are superb!
I've just watched your video and I'm confused. I see what you've done and can possibly reproduce some of it (i'm on W10 Home) but am not sure WHY I should make some of the changes as the Computer I'm running on is not SuperWhizzey but runs fine. I don't want to turn something off that may cause me a problem months or years in the future and I've turned something off that I can't remember. Perhaps you should have a series of smaller videos that address certain aspects and explain the whys and wherefores in them. Sorry for being negative and I appreciate the recommendation of the O&O program so I guess I have picked up something from the Video. Tell you what I would appreciate is a way to uninstall all the crappy games that are on a small computer I have that only has 32 Gig of onboard storage and cannot update because of the lack of onboard room (the Disney one seems to take the most disc space!). Thanks for your time
So in summation:
Your computer runs fine.
You want an explanation from the video creator as to why you've decided to follow their advice despite your computer being fine.
You don't want this video, you want a video about something else.
Try Revo Uninstaller. I've always used the free version until recently that found it cheap in Humble Bundle. Does a great job.
If you want to uninstall the games, you can right click on them in the start menu and in the menu that appears you can click on uninstall. If that doesn't work Windows key + S and search for control panel. Find programs and features, wait for it to load and find the games you want removed and uninstall them.
Also, I have a 32gb PC and you need a USB flash drive or micro SD card to use as a cache for the downloads of the updates that'll install. Any recently made PC (2013, onward) will have a card reader slot on the 32gb systems. It's there because they know you'll need to expand storage.
I think the video did great already explaining the reasons for most features disabled. Using RegEdit is always dangerous, but other than that, all actions here are safe to do, and easy to reverse.
No need to fix what ain't broke, my guy.
Thanks man. For the past 2 years a PC i bought in 2012 had problems immediately i upgraded from Windows 7 to 10. My PC would just restart in the middle of my work. I did most of the things on this video. I noticed some improvements on my PC... Most importantly i spent 6 hours playing games and my pc didn't shut down. Am surprised by that. Thanks alot. However am still monitoring it. So far so good
I’m interested in seeing unneeded service’s
Try Blackbird. Disables many W10 bloat, however, read the commands because it might block things. Kills plenty services and tasks.
I'm interested too!!!
Count me in for disabling unnecessary services! If the video gets too long, maybe split it in two?
+1
Im in..anything that's really not required and bogs down performance and can be got rid off......
Thank you, Brian. I don't like shit spying on me and collecting my information either and this really put my mind at ease. Thank you!
Man, I miss Windows 7 so much.
yep…I can relate to that, but I do have a dual OS PC now👍
*Watched and followed the instructions to the end of the video. You are appreciated.*
Great advice, thank you! I made some changes and look forward to seeing the improvement. I'll be following you for more tips!
Good instructions in video. However, be aware that disabling some of these features may mess up your computer, as it did for me. Sometimes it is not apparent why this happens, and it took me a lot of work to find out what the problems were. As an example, the video recommends disabling Internet Explorer 11. Quite correctly, I am not using this, so I disabled it. Several days later, after restarting the PC, hyperlinks did not work in Outlook. After spending a lot of time trying to fix the problem, I found out that disabling Internet Explorer 11 disabled hyperlinks in Outlook, no matter which WEB browser was set up as default.
absolutely fantastic. trite, concise and to the point. well done BRITEC09.
Thanks Tom
Other setting that needs to be disabled is SMBv3 Compression and Show thumbnails instead of icons.
In microsoft portal they publish an vulnerability in adobe feature and recommended to disable the both.
Videos on :
Tech Know-How
Software tweaking
Advanced Windows Applications
Configuration & Settings.
Operating systems & features
Upcoming & Latest tech tools & Apps
Windows & Mac OS Troubleshooting
.......& lots more on tech stuff will be exciting
Idk why but your voice makes me calm
when i saw the vid, noticed that the amount of comments was exactly 666, so mine will make this thread less 'nefarious'-)
btw, video contents, the most comprehensive i've seen so far..
Thank you for your great work! I had always disabled most of services (for example I had enabled only 14 services on Win 7 Ultimate) and background processes etc. on Windows 95, 98, NT, XP and 7. But just now I got Win 10 Pro and was devastated how big control this OS have over you and how many services and processes runs on this one (I am using Process Hacker 2 for processes monitoring and controlling). And then I found your video - it comes right on time for me! Have a great one and greetings from Estonia!
Hey this was one of the most interesting Win 10 videos I have ever seen.. Thanks for the content and your time...GN
Thank you for this video, I just bought a new laptop with WIN10 Pro, and was amazed at its SLOWNESS !!!
I will be applying some of the changes you suggested, “over time” to make sure I don’t get confused!
Great video as always Brian. This video helped me alot with finding and disabled much of Win10 tracking things thx alot :)
7:36 - Just one friendly note, I highly recommend leaving 'Allow Windows to track app launches...' it's makes the Run (Win+R) command soo much more user friendly because it remembers your last ten typed commands.
The cache is full if you do this dont
I found your video really helpful. My computer, because I use heavy duty photo editing software sometimes - shall we say - breathes heavily! Having you guide me through the ins and outs of what to safely shut down was really nice. I would be interested if you have a video in exactly all the things you feel we can disable in services in addition to the ones mentioned herein. Thank you very much. I just joined - or at least think I did - your group. I clicked on Join but nothing happened.
Thanks, now I'm even happier for using Linux! This is very useful for when I go repairing a PC though. Great video.
Yes linux is very good.. 😃
I'm sure your clients will be glad to discover that you disabled stuff they need.
@@heinzerbrew LOL yes the video goes too far, but it has some good ideas.
@@brujo_millonario I guess I'm butt hurt over the title. NEED and NOW don't apply at all to the content of the video. The overall concept is to remove or disable anything you don't need and keep whatever you might need.
Followed most of this and the computer is x10 faster. Thanks man.
I wish you would have explained each one. I don't know what they are, therefore I don't know if I need them or not
what do you think cortana accessing your email is doing? spying. most of these apps are spying and collect your data and sell it to China and other 3rd part sites..
Can't thank you enough Brian. Clear, easy to follow, by hitting pause button, cause I'm a little on the older side. But you got me through it. Thanks so very much. Yes, Following and subscribed.
And you didn't mention the most important things to disable what is a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe fonts update, has to be disabled! if there's not been a patch yet has there been a patch
Ya know I seen one on your clips in the last year and really enjoyed it , I really haven't been doing to too much on the computer ,, so today when I came across this. I looked up and saw that this was made a year ago I was wondering what I had missed to the point, so before watching the whole clip. I looked at what you had done.... Holy smokes! Thank you!! i got some binge watching for months, thanks again
.. CHEERS!
Hi Brian, thanks for another great vid. I would like to see more about services.
You got it!
@@Britec09 i'd be for a video about services too Brian. Thanks.
Wow notice a huge difference in performance after applying just a few of these suggestions. Thanks very much. New subscriber.
I could stand longer videos from you. You are easy to listen to and make things simple for a "perma-noob" like myself. Thank you.
BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. Following this advice broke Steam from working on my computer.
Did you figure out how to fix it? Unfortunately I didn't see your warning before following this idiot's recommendations. I re-enabled Internet Explorer 11 to get the launch icons back, but the games still won't launch.
Contact Steam and ask what it needs to run
Windows 10 has just be a piss of shit for me. I downloaded Windows 10 on my Mac using Bootcamp because I want to play games, but now my display screen resolution is capped at 1280 x 800 resolution, 60hz on Windows, even though MacOS scales up to 4K. What can I do to fix this?
Steam didn't break on my machine and I did what he said in this video.
@@blair5475 I will suggest you to contact with a technesian.
Cause they knows more than us and they are professional on it.
It’s right that it will cost a little bit.But the most reliable solve for you.
Much better - using a 2g mini pc and this has made a huge difference (and I've only done the first 5 mins worth of the video's advice). Many thanks.
Will all these be safe to disable for gaming. I only use my pc for games
Proton is getting strong. This allows Windows games to run on a linux system running Steam.
Wonderfully useful! I would dearly like to see an indepth update on services that can be disabled, please.
first thing to know is: use linux and opensource software
Linux is a pain in the ass to use coming from windows ,I play alit of games and Linux is THE WORST for gaming I can't do it ,I tired but I can't do it .
@@locutz You better use macOS
@@yt_user1772 I have played a few apple games and they all suck.
I just found out I can completely edit PDFs in LibreOffice Draw, I thought it was literally a drawing program, but it's very powerful on PDFs !
@@locutz Why i have no changed over
At 17:48 - In the local group policy editor, you click on "Allow Telemetry" and say, "I'm just going to disable this", and then you proceed to enable it and set it for "Security - Enterprise Only". Am I missing something? What you are saying and what you are doing seem to contradict each other.
Yeah, was going to ask the same, I see no-one has replied to you. Hope we get an answer to that.
Without counting the opt outs you suggest, this just shows how much unnecessary garbage is contained in Windows. No wonder computers don't run any faster than they did 20 years ago.
Opting out of things that are not being used has zero effect!
Thank you so much for this great information. after shutting down laptop and restarting, it loaded in very little time. I would love to see more how to's on this myself, for the bloatware put in.
How safe is the software from O&O? I have uploaded the exe into the hybrid-analysis sandbox, and it detects indicators mapped to some attack techniques..
I also thought about this direction. Why woudnt be this program a tool from hackers or worse - a (non-explicit) tool from MS wanting to give us the impression we are safe using an outside tool resting and leaving the guard down then MS can do everything it wants :))
@Uncinematographable Screenshot Cinema what alternative there are?
I didnt even know about that ultimate performance thing, Easily subbed
Wish you would explain some of these further. You spent time explaining Media player and then just removed other system components without explaining why or what they do.
Every issue fixing TH-camrs are like this.
But the small ones who actually say what these do or others do,we can't find them.
They are underrated.This is why I stopped following youtube fixes.
Thank you. I had addressed some of these but not all. Always good to get a bit more control. I would really like to see a similar video on Services. I will check the rest of your videos to see I'm not late to the party!
MS really dropped the ball when they "designed" Windows 10.
Imagine having to spend an hour disabling, uninstalling and replacing default stuff, just to make the system safe and usable.
...Only to lose all your work every time a new update is pushed out.
not at all Windows 10 is bloated but goddamn stable...if you dont like the OS just use a different one
@@skyblazeeterno
You ain’t the boss of me.
I’ll complain about the stinking OS if I want to
and you’ll like it. I’ll use the stinking OS and I’ll complain about the stinking OS. Just because you’ll accept any stinking OS that come down the pipe doesn’t mean anyone else is going to accept the stinking OS.
Microsoft fix this stinking OS or at least make it Windows 11
If anything has put me off from setting up my own Windows 10, it is this video. I don't know what he is talking about most of the time.
the more i use win 10 the more i miss win 7.
Darío B ......me too, mate!.
Same here.I would like to revert to Windows 8.1 but I can't.If anybody Can help,I will be very grareful
@@30ramsfan wasn’t windows 8 far worse than 7 or 10
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Absolutely first class video... you now have a new subscriber. There was a lot there so I intend to stagger implementation of the changes to allow me to easily reverse out of anything without being overwhelmed by the "what did I change to cause that?" scenario.
I don't have "Windows search" in registry.
same im confused af, also if i just disable cortana is that not the same as going into the registry?
Me neither! It's not there.
@@Drew1903SG Thanks mom, what advice next, don't run with sissors?
@@Drew1903SG Why shouldn't we go into the registry. I've been doing it for years according to online suggestions, and many times it's fixed my problem. I don't think I've ever ruined anything by doing so and though I know my way around a computer, I wouldn't consider myself to be an expert.
@@Drew1903SG Totally agree on Reg cleaners and the like, but this isn't the 80's. Many non-IT people under 50 know their way around a computer these days. And using other peoples knowledge to fix a simple registry problem, as well as turning off useless background apps and data collection resources you don't need, is a whole lot cheaper than paying someone to do it for you. Not to mention faster than having to figure it out from scratch, I'm done with that, I don't have time for it anymore. And if someone messes up there OS, so what! All the need to recover is their data which usually is not lost, all they have to do is just reinstall the OS and a few programs, it's a good learning experience. However, he did say this is reversible. I bet you work for MS don't you?
I followed your recommendations and my mouse is more responsive. I thought my mouse was starting to kick the bucket. I would sometimes have to unplug it and plug it back in to get it to move. Thanks for making this video!
Clean youre registry also, and are you on a hdd or ssd?
Jeeese you go thru that so fast, have to pause every other second, lol.
I thought it was only me!!! haha
I one the official, Slowest PC in the World.
A Mini PC bought on Amazon for £80. Intel Atom CPU x5-Z8350, 1.44-1.92 GHz, 2 MB Cache ,4 cores, Intel HD Graphics, 200 MHz-500 MHz, Bluetooth, 2GB RAM, ROM:32GB, SD card slot Win 10 pro
Already turned off and uninstalled the obvious. Your suggestions have made a huge difference.
It's still really slow, but not as slow as it was!
Please do make more videos like this. The challenge to make my £80 PC run better is an obscession.
All those options in Windows 10 shall always remain.
You like Microsoft to collect data what you do and what you purchased windows 10 is a spy windows its design to collect data on people and spy on citizens
@@Melo_Alienware how wierd it is to "buy" a program that spys on you when there are free OS that's way more optimized and values privacy.
Windows Ltsc built the right way uses up as much as a moderate linux build. And why not have a virtual build for science lol
Nice video, i would wish that you explained a bit more of the things you disable after the media player tho, i wont turn stuff off that i dont know what it is, and what impact it will have on my system :D
All very interesting but you don't spend enough time explaining why you disable certain items or the consequences of disabling them. Ok for experienced users but not novices like myself.
I understand David. If i spent that amount of time explaining every tweak, the video would be way to long. But I try and cover a little info.
Britec09 ... understand wanting to not make it long so split into several videos and spend time on why and what the results will be. Thank you
Excellent video thank you!
I have Windows 10 Home Edition and Can't find any solutions on these 2 issues perhaps you can offer your expertise.
1. I always use a total of 2 accounts...1 Admin Account and 1 Local User account. The major problem I can't solve after endless efforts is figuring out how to copy the system settings from the Admin Account to the Local Account. This would save a ton of time not having to configure the settings for 2 different accounts. So much easier if I could just create the Admin Account, adjust all my settings the way I want them, then create a local account and copy all the settings over from the Admin Account. Is this possible and if so where can I find the instructions?
2. Is there a way to save the Admin Account system settings in windows 10 home edition to an external hard drive and/or back them up? All backup options I've read about do not offer the ability to backup settings. Rather it is documents, files, ect.. but not windows system settings.
imagine: "things you need to disable in Arch Linux right now?"
What about that annoying script that inserts “
(I use Arch btw)” after everything you post?
mate, you are a legend. this sped up my laptop, and sorted out a lot of the sound problems with my blue tooth speaker. chrome still causes crackles and the odd drop out of sound, so i guess it's a memory allocation problem. anyway, thank you :)
Personally I'd just disable Windows 10.
Personally I’m not a noob at youtube and I have a profile pic
@@foxxy2098 Personally I think profile picture does not change anything lol
I assume your a Linux user well done.
Just go full on Linux.
then why do you still watch this video? quit trolling.
Dude sounds like the Geico gecko. the whole time im imagining the Geico bloke standing on my desk next to me explaining haha. awesome video! thanks so much for taking the time to make this well thought out tutorial. cheers !
Dude, ALL Brits sound like the Geico Gecko Commercial
Hi, after disabling some of the features you mentioned in the first part of the video, when i restart, now my steam/uplay game shortcuts on my desktop show a blank icon and when i double click them it asks me to how to open the file with a check box saying always open this for .url file. but i cant choose an app to open.. help?
Maybe Media Player
did you solve this i have same problem...?
@@Britec09 its not media player i didnt change that bcs i cant record in game if this is off
Same problem here.
I have this as well, any idea on a fix please?
1. activate the administrator account to allow logins (use a password) and disable admin rights for your personal account(s).
Excellent point!