Tips & Tricks

Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

werty posted this registry edit to revert Windows Update back to Control Panel

Windows Update in Control panel

Confirmed after restart

Two reg files

• WU_cpl.reg -> Revert to Control Panel Windows Update
• WU_ux.reg -> Restore to UX Windows Update

Note: "UxOption"=dword:00000000, was zero on my test box, but I included it in the reg files in case MS changes the value in future builds

One Shortcut: WU_Cpl.zip
Unpack the shortcut and place it on your desktop.
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Slartybart said:

lehnerus2000 said:

Expecting people to learn arcane code words means the average user is not likely to benefit from the increased power.

A similar situation occurs with the Command Prompt, PowerShell and the Terminal in Linux.
For a lot of tasks, the CLI is far more powerful than the GUI.
OTOH, imagine how many people would still own PCs, tablets and phones, if they had to use a CLI instead of a GUI.

I agree, even using Boolean in Google search or the site: tag is difficult for some users. It's not necessarily that the user is computer illiterate, it's more that it's not exactly intuitive, or as you state ... arcane language.

For a moment there, I thought you were saying that people didn't understand what I write
- then I read the rest of your post

I definitely wasn't saying that. :)

Maybe that first sentence should have had a comma in it.

If you are often using some resource intense software, for example's sake let's say you keep editing massive 3D images with Photoshop or encoding videos or whatnot, and you would also like to browse the net while working but each additional browser tab is eating your resources and you'll notice that CPU is running on 80 to 100% all the time, there's a neat trick to reduce the CPU utilization.

Windows 10 Technical Preview comes shipped with Hyper-V virtualization. Set up a Hyper-V vm and install a copy of W10 32 bit using a local account on it, using dynamic RAM with these values: startup RAM 1,024 MB, minimum 512 MB, maximum 1,024 MB. Set this vm to boot with minimal configuration, only the essentials, removing all Google and Bing and Adobe and such stuff from Startup.

Now boot your host PC also with minimum configuration. Start the vm, do all your surfing on it. On host, do your video encoding and stuff. You will notice that the vm uses quite a little resources, clearly lots less than if the same browser you have running on the vm would be run on your host instead.

CON: 1 GB of your host RAM is all the time used by the vm.

PRO: The vm uses less host CPU resources than the same browser run on it would use if run on host.

Even if the memory demand of the vm would be more than the 1 GB you have allocated to it is not an issue. Windows can run and your browser open the pages even when the memory demand is constant:

At the same time the host Task Manager shows how much my surfing on the vm takes the host CPU resources, jumping between 0 and 4%: