general

yeah, I figured it might prompt you

if not, dw

doesn't disk encryption require the higher cost OS version?

I honestly don't know

probably

I've only ever used WinProfessional

Also wtf

that is the thinest most gangly power cord I've seen for a laptop

maybe it's just the camera, it just looks surprisingly thin, I'm impressed

i think there's some weird perspective in the photo

it is very thin

I think 1mm diameter

maybe 1.5

Is there stuff I should be careful about using this optimizer

don't want to accidentally brick my pc

no and really if you don't care you should only be turning off telemetry and any windows services you don't care about

I remember most of the settings being pretty straightforward

Well, I disabled telemitry and some misc stuff like cortana and copilot

I am just going to manually uninstall apps, I trust myself to do that more than using this

you should disable the new right click menu

I did

I hit most of the restore classic stuff

since I am mostly familiar with 7 and 10

in the second thing I linked you can disable the awful grouping mode in the file browser universally

are you talking about folder tabs Leg?

Uninstalling the pre packaged mcaffe lol

no I mean this

oh yeah, fuck that

windows 11 loves defaulting to this being enabled

with winsetview you set default folder settings

I do dislike how since Windows 7, it's been really hard to universally change sort defaults in explorer

Lmao at it trying to make me run things as apps

taskbar was full of apps to download via the microsoft store

yeah, don't fuck with anything from the Windows store

some things are fine

UWP versions are worse and often behind the normal version you get off the web

winget stuff is getting better, and some is ok

usually 1st party MS stuff is fine that way

like Power Toys

Almost done my uninstalls, then I can install the 3 or 4 things I actually need

What do you mean by tabs

No

pika there's (or was) a memory leak with the file browser that is exacerbated by having animation effects enabled so you might want to turn those off in settings

okay

I mean, I'd keep animations on

I think they're pretty useful

disabling animations is retarded

less useful than your pc locking up if you leave the file browser open over night

im on latest win11 and file explorer is always open

so

I think it might have been fixed at this point because I haven't noticed it lately

the only time ive had it lock int he past 6 months is from loading 100000000000000000000 thumbnails

I mostly cared about undoing what retarded changes they made from 10 I could, and removing bloat tbh

i dont even think most of win11 changes are that bad

right click menu is 90% of what I think is bad

you can easily change most other stuff in appearance settings

there's a few weird ones like taskbar in the middle, that are just instantly fixed by one option

i like middle task bar at this point

argubly, middle taskbar is better, but im used to icons on the left

the AI snapshopt thing they're relling out will be opt-in, and just disable telemetry in general

so theyll stay ont he left

Idk what the rightclick one is since I changed it before even checking, and taskbar left align was the first thing I did lol

though tbh i never even click icons i always alt tab

the right click menu is awful and it only benefits the lowest common denominator

there's some minor stuff that's worse, sound settings and volume mixer etc.

but it's not as big a deal

the default windows ones are still there tho

i just use those

yeah you still need to access the old sound settings dialog to make some changes which is weird

that was the same in win10 for a lot of stuff too

First time setting up a pc in 6 years lol

notepad is actually useful as a notepad now

i keep that open quite often

I kept notepad

fuck that, they had wordpad for that notepad should always be 100% basic

its barely any differnt spooky

all they did was add dark mode and tabs

thats literally it

it doesnt have formatting and weird stuff