Windows 10: How do I stop all the useless bloatware in WIndows 10 Professional

I have 3 laptops sitting on a table around me.

They are ALL running Windows Professional, yes, I paid the extra money.


But I'm tired of MSFT just pushing unrelated unprofessional applets and unprofessional written **** to further MSFT desire to wear out my SSD, use power, use RAM to gather my information about my professional use of my computer including all my files, etc.


I have had a laptop siting basically idle for the last month. Between "Photos", XCrap Game Tavern, "Your now MSFT's too Phone", Calculator,, Porn & TV Wasteland and "Office", they have used 1 CPU hour in the last month. I don't have photos, don't play games, have no idea why Calculator needs a FULL CPU minute being idle. There are a bunch of other stuff that randomly runs that turn on the fans and doing Satan knows what. The system has 4 cores with a thermal rating of 45 watts. So that is 45 Watts / month that MSFT will report plus, let's say, another 45 watts doing whatever Let's add in the fans, RAM, SSD accesses, etc. I think we can get to a round number of 120 Watts


By MSFT numbers, there are 1,000,000,000 Window 10 users. So assuming each PC needs the same number of CPU cycles power to run the software, that is 48 Gigawatt of power/month. That is 166 MWHrs/month or almost 2 GigaWatts / year. And that is for doing NOTHING. NOTHING.


I don't want to be the next Alpha test for the next version of chkdsk.exe that is allowed into the wild. I don't want to learn any new things. My current setup is serving me just fine. I'm aware that they are about to push out some "new fangled stuff". The old fangled stuff works just fine and I don't want to wake up in the morning, something doesn't work and then have that useless Bing direct me to 2016 Windows server articles or take me the door of "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US". Sort of like wanting info on Quantum Mechanic and someone giving you directions to front door of the Library of Congress. But this all assumes that your problem isn't the network, in which case all of the Help might as well be on the Voyager I with a 42 hour round trip for question and pseudo answer.


So HOW do I stuff all the useless applets, all the useless indexing, all the diagnostic scans, all the telemetry network utilization and just assume that I an NOT on the Internet all the time, which is true.

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Yay or Nay? Bloatware removal tool for Windows 10

source: Microsoft Creates Tool For Removing Bloatware From Windows 10

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Yay or Nay? Bloatware removal tool for Windows 10

@jboydgolfer u might check if there's a Windows 10 Anniversary Edition where the bloatware tool is pre-sewn into the OS. Non Insider folks like me will only get it by around mid-June or end of June.