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Decrapify Windows 10 - remove most modern apps (appx) and disable telemetry and tighten privacy

Found a great script to run in audit mode when you install Windows 10 to decrapify the installation, by removing most modern apps (appx) and disable telemetry and tighten privacy. There is a group over at SpiceWorks for the script discussion and download: https://community.spiceworks.com/user-groups/windows-decrapifier-group Here is the link to the page that has all the links in one handy page:  https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2148595-links
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Enable Ultimate Performance Power Plan in any Windows 10 1803 Edition

Clean installed Windows 10 1803 Enterprise: C:\>powercfg /l Existing Power Schemes (* Active) ----------------------------------- Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced) * Enable Performance and Ultimate Performance power plan: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 Output example: C:\>powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c Power Scheme GUID: 5dc5b218-8720-4951-b027-1122a94f8ff8  (High performance) C:\>powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 Power Scheme GUID: 02a5d966-c934-4447-a62f-7de757a4240d  (Ultimate Performance) C:\>powercfg /l Existing Power Schemes (* Active) ----------------------------------- Power Scheme GUID: 02a5d966-c934-4447-a62f-7de757a4240d  (Ultimate Performance) Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced) * Power Scheme GUID: 5dc5b2...
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Typing @-character is delayed with Asus GPU TweakII and scandinavian keyboard layout (at least norwegian)

After I reinstalled my computer a while back, I noticed that one characters (the @-sign) had a long delay before showing up after I had hit the key on the keyboard. And I noticed it wasn't every time I had turned on my computer it was "slow". Imagine how frustrating it is to write your email address in a normal pace on the keyboard, just to find it spelled firstname1977gma@il.com instead of firstname1977@gmail.com ? Hitting ' @ 'had 0.5 to 1 second delay before it showed up on my screen, while the characters after displayed instantly. The computer in question runs english Windows 10 x64 with an NVidia GTX1070 card from Asus, and using a norwegian/scandinavian keyboard (Logitech G710+, but model isn't the problem). Throubleshooting led me to narrow the problem down to my ASUS GPU TweakII v1.4.0.8 (older version probably have the same problems). When I started the program, which was set to auto-start, I was suddenly no able to type @ as fast and often as ...
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Jorte Widget setup for weekly calendar

This is my setup for the weekly calendar using Jorte Calendar for Android. Just so I don't have to guess every time I install it on different devices :) Widget Type:        Weekly Periode of display: This week First Day Settings: Today Style:              Jorte White (sometimes Black) Background Image:   Show Transparancy of the background: 50% Keep the rest at defaults
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Intel Rapid Storage Technology (iRST) driver for Windows 10 on older chipsets (7-series and older)

My computer is still more than fast enough even though it's over 4 years old. It's a Intel Core i7-3770K with 32GB DDR4-1600 RAM on an Asus ROG Maximus V Gene mainboard. The chipset is Z77 and so it was more or less the best to get at the time being. I started with two Samsung SSD 830 in RAID-9 and later upgraded to a OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 PCIe SSD for my OS disk. Fast forward from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 (v1607) and Intel seems to not have released any Windows 10 supported SATA controller drivers for Z77. Or have they? It seems that as long as your BIOS has the Intel SATA controller set to AHCI-mode, Windows 10 will install and use the generic ' Standard SATA controller ' and trying to install the latest iRST driver v15.2.0.1020 (latest version as of 2016-12-15) on an AHCI configured Z77-system only gives you an error: Platform not supported The good news is that Intel does have driver support for some of the older chipsets; those that have RAID capabilities, whi...
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