I think I may have solution to a dimmed screen on a Lenovo laptop. Read elsewhere that you need to go into the Lenovo Vantage settings and turn OFF 'Dynamic Brightness Control' in hardware settings....

Intermittently, but noticeably, my always mains connected laptop is coming out of sleep with the brightness adjusted to the level set by 'on battery' in power management. I have observed this...

You can auto login, Enable or Disable Secure Sign-in with Ctrl+Alt+Delete in Windows 10 Windows 10 Security System Tutorials .

I have the Cortana apps process showing in Task Manager, but the Windows Search icon on the taskbar. I have Cortana running for search and not as the assistant? That sounds plausible. Cheers.

I expected gpedit setting to kill the process, but it hasn't. Is this usual? Any other ways to stop it?

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I use cruelsister's config of Comodo Firewall except I do allow notifications. Video Review - Comodo Firewall 8 2 0 4508 Setup and Test Part 2 | MalwareTips.com Nice and light and no impact on...

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This works for killing Avira pop-ups.