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Want to improve Windows 10 without messing up your PC?
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Stop Windows 10
spying on you
As well as addressing
Microsofts telemetry
gathering, you might want to
take control of other details
Windows 10 records. The
Privacy section of Settings
contains lots of options that you can
enable or disable, but theyre spread
over numerous categories. This
confusing arrangement makes it much
harder to find everything, let alone work
out what you should be changing. For
total peace of mind, youll want to make
sure you dont miss anything important.
Thankfully, there are plenty of
third-party apps that gather all the
privacy settings together, making it
easier to find and disable those you
dont like. Try O&O ShutUp10 (bit.ly/
shutup407) or Windows 10 Privacy
Fixer (bit.ly/privfix407), both of which
list all the privacy options from across
Windows 10 in one place.
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Windows 10 gives you greater control
over the taskbar than ever before
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Disable Cortana
completely
Microsofts personal
assistant Cortana is
useful for lots of things,
such as searching the
web, setting reminders,
identifying a song thats
playing, performing
calculations and
checking the weather,
If you cant stand Cortana, disable it completely
but if you have no use for
it, or you prefer to search for things in
Group Policy Editor. This is available in
the more traditional way, you can
the professional versions of Windows
disable the feature. In the Anniversary
10 but not the Home edition.
Update, Microsoft made Cortana much
To curtail Cortana in the professional
harder to kill by removing the Off
versions, click Start, type gpedit.msc
switch in Cortana and search settings,
and hit enter. Navigate to Computer
but you can disable it anyway using the
Configuration, Administrative
Templates, Windows Components,
Search. Locate the Allow Cortana
option and double-click it. Select
Windows 10 comes bundled with some apps youre never likely to use, such as
Disabled, then click Apply and OK to
3D Builder, Groove Music, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Feedback Hub. To
turn off the feature.
remove any you dont want, go to Start, Settings, System and select Apps &
Windows 10 Home users will need to
features on the left. Select
apply a Registry tweak (the only one in
an unwanted app and click
this feature!) instead. Click Start, type
the Uninstall button for it.
regedit and press Enter. Navigate to
You can remove unwanted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
apps in bulk by using IObit
Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows
Uninstaller 6 (bit.ly/
Search. Right-click Windows Search and
uninstaller405). Select
select New, Dword (32-bit) Value. Call
Windows Apps on the left,
this AllowCortana, then double-click it.
then click the Windows Apps
Set its value to 0 and click OK.
heading and pick the ones
you dont want. Click
Hide the Windows Defender icon
Uninstall to remove them all.
Some users who upgrade to the
Well be taking a closer
Anniversary Edition report seeing a new
look at uninstalling
icon for Windows Defender appear in
Use IObit Uninstaller to get rid of any Windows 10
unwanted software in next
the System Tray. If you dont want it
apps you dont want
issues cover feature.
there you can get rid of it in one of two
ways. The first is to right-click the
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Microsofts figures
for June 2016 (Globally)
46%
39%
Windows 7
Windows 10
13%
Windows
8.1
2% Windows 8
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