Question Windows 10 PRO running a zillion startups and solution

winr

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I gravitated to Windows 10 PRO and noticed their are tons of stuff running I am not sure I need

Windows 10 browser also has seemed to sync my entire life to everything on the internet

Advice as how I may perhaps slim down some things ??

EDIT: I get all kinds of pop ups, adds an such even watching movies on my PC

Ricky.
 

C1

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There is really no "one" place to turn off or stop reporting & notifications. You will need to do that in both the OS & the browser plus use even one or more add-on(s).

(That's why when after I have installed an OS it takes me literally a couple hours to configure the system by having to go thru so many different settings/screens mostly to disable things.)

In the OS, you will want to turn off notifications & auto reporting and possibly even auto updates. Just go thru the many screens in Windows System settings to find them.

Same in the browser that you are using. For example, disable all the search engines, auto reporting, auto updating and notifications and alerts in the settings section of the browser.(You'll need to go thru all the tabs and associated screens.) I also install the free "ADBLOCKER Plus" to help squelch live streaming ads.

You might also want to consider using the free "Winaero Tweaker" as it will allow you to disable certain OS automated notification & reporting processes otherwise not easily disable(able).

Particularly If you are using a laptop, "Winaero Tweaker"
( https://winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/ ) is helpful to control such things as Icon and Windows title bar fonts & sizes as well as Windows border sizes as straight forward control of those features/capabilities have been removed from Windows 10 on.

Good Luck


BTW, things only get lots worse with Windows 11. (In today's news.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...1&cvid=cc38f24fa15349f880fd1d4a7302dfa7&ei=22
 
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WelshBloke

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I'm very much considering using either steamOS or a stripped down version of win11 (tiny11 or the like) as my main PC operating system soon.
Can you use steam OS as a general operating system (does it have a browser and can it run VMs)?
 
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WelshBloke

Lifer
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https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown is build on Debian 8, which is a bit old. Don't know if it comes with a browser.

Just get Linux Mint (based on Ubunta) or LMDE6 (based on Debian)
I got the impression that steam OS is fairly heavily tweaked by valve to run the steam catalogue well and, tbh, the main heavy use of my PC is gaming. Pretty much everything else I do on it isn't demanding (email, internet, etc)
 
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