You right, I have got lost in all that quoting. :oops: Disk Clean-up performs a basic component cleanup, so it can take some time, if not done...
It depends, how well you maintain your PC (I do a manual cleanup/CCleaner/WiseCare). I have a very slow laptop and the restart took 5 minutes...
Ok, I have just checked, WU showed 780 MB update, but Windows downloaded only about 400 MB so I guess it is true. ;)
I use Driver Easy, it is really free, which is uncommon among driver updaters, and finds everything, no issues thus far.
I have tested driver updaters lately and Auslogics is the worst, Iobit hardly finds anything, but Auslogics recommends to install bad/wrong...
Maybe you have silent/gaming mode enabled? By the way, eventhough popups can not be disabled, they can be set to 1 sec in Free version, default is 20.
99% of time I do not look at desktop, so I do not really care, what is there. I use desktop as a download folder to quickly access files and get...
What in the name of ..., does a xbox task have to do with Windows Update and even preventing it from working? o_O MS has gone mad, I am telling...
Indeed, people can still buy even an unused packed XP these days. But they will eventually move to 10, simply because of the lack of a hardware...
And does portable version work? If yes, it might a corrupted profile, if not, it is something within Windows, a security software or something.
I do not see it with or without uBlock Origin, even with all extensions disabled. It seems more like a broken webpage. Portable Firefox displays...
There were many already, especially the one, which crippled Windows Update and in order to fix it, users had to download the fix manually. Luckily...
Well I have always seen it to download the whole thing, even with all previous updates installed. If I do not forget, I will use a bandwidth...
So they will keep selling AVG and Avast separately with their own GUI and such, but basically they will be the same underneath. A good idea,...
It about 1GB every 2 weeks, nothing surprising about it. Those updates are basically upgrades, so you can update an original release with those....
That is user dependent, so it can not be really recommended just like that. You can check my tweaks and pick, what you want.
Disabling WSH, just that alone increases Windows security enormously. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee198684.aspx
I use it since Windows 8 and no problems whatsoever. You can use this command to see, how much data can be removed. Dism /online /Cleanup-Image...
You can use all at once, those 2 require a consideration: vssadmin delete shadows - removes all system restore points as well as file backups...
It usually takes less than 5 mins, at least on my slow laptop, if it takes more, you should perform a maintenance. I run this after every...
Interestingly though, PDF-XChange Viewer still keeps being updated.
Well I do not use AV on my main computer, but I prefer to use AV from trusted vendors, that excludes any US made obviously, because of their...
An excellent article, thanks. I always un-check sending files to cloud and similar settings and I also generally avoid using cloud AVs. It seems,...
Of course, I could still disable half of my running services, but that would introduce some issues for me. It always depends on user's needs....
Well, I always disable everything, I keep only the bare minimum, to let 10 breathing just to keep it barely alive/working. :shifty:
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