Comment on Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs

Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• regbin_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you do this and then later you face some sort of issue with Windows, remember that it might not be Windows’ fault.

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• ultra@feddit.ro ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And people say Linux is complicated…

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine a world when instead of

  adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named AllowCortana with value 0 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search in registry editor,

  we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.

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  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.

    Remove-AppxPackage in Powershell

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    • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you need to use the command line on Windows afterall?

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      • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Remote Powershell is like the only way I interact with Windows.

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• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Better yet just fucking format the hard drive and install Linux

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve used Startup Delayer for ~15 years. Not perfect, but it really helps manage startup processes.

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• banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s plenty of powershell scripts to “reclaim windows” etc. I was a sysadmin in mixed environment for 15 years and Windows Enterprise you can disable all the creepy features on. This was critical infra environment with explicit firewall rules for everything and no traffic from the end user that didn’t go through our proxies.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like a great way to break your PC.

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