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that they're corporate systems have been hacked multiple times in the last year). Anyway, this feature is fucking
dumb and you can be sure that all mobo vendors are using this stupid shit. I don't blame them though since Microsoft
built this for them. There's no way to stop this from happening other than to disable the platform entirely.
* Run `disable-windows-platform-binary-table.reg` and reboot.
* Open `disable-windows-platform-binary-table.reg` and reboot.
**Make a system restore point before proceeding.**
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* Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Scheduler > Limit reservable bandwidth
* Enable it and set the % to 0.
* Disable auto folder type discovery to speed up opening folders with a lot of files
* Open `disable-folder-type-auto-discovery.reg` from this folder.
* Turn off drive indexing for all drives since we'll be using Everything app for search and it does its own indexing.
* Right-click a drive, under `General` tab uncheck `Allow files on this drive to have contents indiexed ...`
* Disable UAC screen dimming
* Open User Account Control settings
* Drag the slider down to the notch that doesn't dim the screen.
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* Windows settings -> System -> Multitasking -> uncheck "When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it"
* Restore classic Windows Photo Viewer app (the default Win10 photos app is fucking awful):
* Run photo_viewer.reg from this folder.
* Open `photo_viewer.reg` from this folder.
* You'll need to change the default app for the various image extensions. Don't change gif types
though because photo viewer doesn't support animations.
* Now run disable-are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-with-the-default-program-dialog.reg to stop it
* Open `disable-are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-with-the-default-program-dialog.reg` to stop it
from occasionally asking if you still want to use photo viewer.
* Add custom hosts file