After some tweaking on my old PC, I had finally managed to find the perfect IconSpacing and VerticalIconSpacing settings for my desktop so I had them written down. Now I'm using those same exact...

You won't see any appreciable performance difference, that's the point. But having indexing turned on lowers the total amount of available space on your SSD.

Why would it be a nonsense? SSDs with DRAM are like completely indexed at all time since they got a chip with the map stored in it. DRAM-less SATA SSDs have a great penalty because of this, and may...

Turning off indexing has no impact at all on an SSD, expecially if it's an NVMe drive. They're so fast that it just doesn't matter if there is an index; besides, if your SSD has DRAM, it already has...

I've recently found an old to-do list of things to optimize an SSD. Some of them are definitely not needed anymore, while I'm not totally sure about others, so I'm going to list those where I got...

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, I've learned some new things. Yet, I think I'll stick to manually apply the registry edit for those few times I decide to clean up my system.

I created a .reg file to disable all the CCleaner bloatware. The problem is that the software is able to auto-edit the registry back to its original values after a while, even if I blocked it from...

There was never a store in the first place, since I'm using LTSC version, and I DO NOT want the Microsoft Store installed. What I'm trying to understand is why I could install HP Smart app without...

It doesn't return me anything, so I guess I don't have it installed? It's interesting, because I was able to install HP Smart on this PC from "Devices and Printers", while I can't reproduce that on...

As title says, I'd like to know if there is such command.

That dropdown has 4 options for me, but not the one you said: "Disable app suggestions", "Show app suggestions", "Warn me before installing apps from outside the Store" and "Allow apps from the Store...

I don't get it... I managed to install HP Smart app on one PC with W10 N LTSC 2019, but I can't seem to replicate the action (maybe I forgot some steps). I remember I simply connected the printer to...

Actually you don't need to keep the .exe, the .dll works by itself wherever it is, so I chose to put it inside the Windows folder.

I've tryed Open Shell, StartIsBack++ and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, and I find StartIsBack++ to be the best. I guess I'll install OldNewExplorer as I suggested myself in OP since it's from the same dev. I...

Damn, I guess you're right. I even disabled all phoning home stuff in the registry, but apparently it still wasn't enough... It's unbelievable how bad Avast can be at ruining softwares.

I was thinking: would it be possible to separate the "Devices and Drives" of W10 back to "Hard Disk Drives" and "Devices with Removable Storage" of W7? Basically what I want to do is split the W10...

So, I created a reg file to remove all CCleaner bloatware automatically after installing it, but from time to time, I notice that CCleaner automatically reverts to the default settings. How is that...

Is there an option to disable the auto quarantine? I'd rather have a dialog box asking me every time what to do rather than seeing my files go into quarantine automatically.

Open Shell dev apparently forgot to put an option for "Categories" view also when using "Windows 7 style", so I just temporarily selected "Classic style" and then switched back to "Windows 7 style"....

Strangely enough, my Open Shell looks different. Anyway, try to double click on the "Control Panel" item and you should get a window like this:
https://i.imgur.com/qYE5pjG.png

EDIT: I found out...

https://i.imgur.com/GJGvQXm.png

Can you tell me what value you have in "Customize Start Menu"->"Control Panel"->"Command"? I have "control_panel", and read on Open Shell forum you should be able...

I have the same version, yes.

Why I don't have that "Special Items" tab?

I tryed Option 5 here, but it does nothing (programs still open at 125% scaling). Bullet point #2 of the guide has wrong path btw.

The more I browse through the forum posts searching for a...

Apparently the problem is well-known, and hasn't been fixed in 5 years. Basically if you have a big monitor (or worse, a tv) you are quite fu***d, because if you use 100% scaling you get crazy small...