Recent content by kosmo

New NTL member Ihadaface sent me a DM with info about certain services that may be involved in updating Root Certificates. (I've added it to the spreadsheet) But the DM included 2 program recommendations that i'm so impressed with that I want to pass it along. System Informer is a freeware...

Would you mind sharing WHY you've found this to be a superior method? Windoze 10/11 seems to have the ability to "heal itself" which, in practice, means that even after spending many hours configuring things as you like them the OS, due to it's superior wisdom, will silently "fix" your...

Thanks for replying. Well this is the core of my question: does Windows actually need these files that it scatters all over my drive? Does it use them in any way after they're written? Some of the files are protected from (normal) deletion so it would seem logical that M$ considers them...

I'm currently focused on reducing the .etl / .log file infestation on my W10 LTSC install. But my biggest problem, by far, is my profound ignorance about the usefulness of these files once they're written to the "disk". There's a ton of information out there on how to maim, kill and obliterate...

Thanks, once again, for coming to my rescue. I've solved my problem and the solution was quite unexpected. The answer was in your comments: This is easier to explain with an example. Let's say I want to disable "Bluetooth Support Service", both the system service and the corresponding user...

To disable any service in W10 I've been starting my reg editor as Trusted Installer and then simply importing reg files with this format: ;; Update Orchestrator Service for Windows was 2 > 4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsoSvc] "Start"=dword:00000004 This works...

Win Services & the Ghost of Black Viper One of the sources of advice that I used in building this worksheet was an archived version of Black Viper’s recommendations on W10 services. It was his last “Black Viper” Windows services project - posted back in 2019. I included it because if I...

Most of us who are attempting to turn Windoze into a useful & efficient tool that’s a pleasure to use will, sooner or later, attempt to reduce the number of services running in the background. In order to do this in a rational, logical manner it should be obvious that before we can decide...

Thank you both!

Ok, this is bizzare. I built a version of W10 LTSC_21 for my Lenovo Carbon X-1 5th gen laptop and i’ve been setting it up for a day. The Win features all seem to work as I expect them to but the Lenovo software doesn’t appear to work at all. Any of it! Her’s a rundown: (1) I installed 2...

So if I understand your quote correctly then changing my password back to it's original didn't actually set things "back to the way they were" but, instead, the OS - and now my browser - is considering this a new (admin) user account? And there's no "fixing" this? The damage is done and I just...

What “worries” me the most about modifying the OS is not the big blunders that make the system unbootable but the tiny “quirks” or inconsistencies are almost impossible to trace down. My modified copy of W10 LTSC-21 has been working perfectly for 5 weeks now. Or had been until 3 days ago when I...

Thanks, garlin I'll take my chances with IE - (which I know works) This email client is so old it's user interface is made of birch bark!

Hi garlin, I'm about to built another W10 ioT LTSC21 ISO (as I inadvertently just wiped the SSD on my laptop) As a matter of course I remove anything called "Edge" but leave in IE11. Not because I use the geriatric browser but because I have a very old school email client that needs the IE...

Certainly you didn't expect a newer M$ version to be smaller!! ;) Then you'd miss out on all of those improvements - like Hello Kitty & fullscreen commercials on your desktop!