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Through the YouTube channel and website of Chris Titus I found this freeware tool to debloat Windows l0. Basically, you just run this command in an elevated Powershell:

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://git.io/debloat'))

This will load the tool and open it in a separate window. The tool itself can be loaded from it’s GitHub page, where additional information is available. Windows 10 Debloater is free software licensed under the MIT License (Copyright (c) 2017 Richard Newton)

There is also another freeware tool by O&O Software, O&O ShutUp10, which you can use additionally to debloat Windows 10. It has got some nice toggle switches and predefined recommended settings. Custom preferences can be saved to a file. Additionally, after an Update, ShutUp10 can check if anything got changed back by windows update and correct this.

Here are the links to Chris Titus’ website with additional information worth a read:

https://christitus.com/clean-up-windows-10/

https://christitus.com/debloat-windows-10-2020/

Like every other admin, I sometimes have to use the command line in Windows. The feature I missed the most (from using macOS) in cmd.exe is the automatic completion of commands and filenames with tab.

After some digging I found the perfect tool: clink.

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I don’t put tape over my webcams, neither on my MacBooks, iOS Devices nor on my Windows machines. I refuse to be like that. If someone was honestly suspecting a malicious attacker would spy on them using their webcam, then I would argue that these people, if they were consistent, would also need to rip out the microphones of their devices.
On the other hand, I’m not that naive to think that there is no risk involved using such input devices.

Continue reading “Easy Way of Disabling Webcams and other devices in Windows”

Sometimes, on my Windows 10 gaming pc, the screen refuses to turn off. After checking every obvious power option I suspected that this had something to do with timers. After searching some more I eventually found the issue: video wake lock.

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