Hellbovine
Well-Known Member
Can you show me an example of this? I've never heard of this happening, and I've used this image on my gaming desktop, and 2 laptops for over a year now, without issue (on Nvidia and Intel cards). In fact, toggling this off fixes issues for people, it's why I found it to begin with because my wife's programs on her unmodified Windows work laptop kept bugging out until this was toggled off. I know people like LTSC because it's more stripped out, but that version was also never intended to be used for gaming, and I have a feeling the issue you're having with Nvidia is more than likely due to LTSC or some other tweak. I'll gladly investigate this further though if you can show me what's happening.
Did you mean to post a reg key here? I don't think any of the personalization options are a big deal, like I said you can modify them before integrating, delete them, or change them post-install. However, my defaults are definitely a better starting point than Microsoft's, because the default Aero theme causes issues since it overrides a lot of settings, so by stopping it from installing it allows users to more freely change personalization settings to their preferences, without worrying about the Aero theme overwriting things during user-provisioning.
This one is confusing. What does the linux command have to do with Windows? Can you elaborate this one more thoroughly please, so I can learn what the issue is? This reg key is simply toggled by turning off the automated syncing of time with the Windows servers. This is a minor bandwidth saver, as well as a security tweak too. If you were around during the XP era, you'll know that this is how many people got infected with malware because at one point the Microsoft servers were infected, and then everyone that automatically synced time got infected. Also, keep in mind you can manually sync time on that same settings page too.
I've never had a problem in 30 years of gaming with these settings over every OS they were included in. In fact the opposite was true, many times I've been kicked out of games because I accidentally activated these shortcuts which is beyond frustrating. Can you show me an example of what breaks or where you sourced that information? I think you're confusing this with something else, because these are Accessibility shortcuts, it has nothing to do with activating the microphone through Steam or anything like that.
This is super easy to toggle if a user needs it, and the access error even appears in the action center if an app needs access, so it's not hidden from the users. If you are experiencing otherwise, could you elaborate? Again, this could be more of an LTSC issue or from other tweaks, so I need to verify what's going on before I change settings based on 1 report.
I think you are right about the microphone being better to be enabled by default though, I even enable it after I install this image, and many gamers will too, so I should probably update that in the next version I release.
I think you are right about the microphone being better to be enabled by default though, I even enable it after I install this image, and many gamers will too, so I should probably update that in the next version I release.
Most people actually prefer this, because the XP era setup was far more popular than the Vista and above groupings. Using large icons objectively makes things easier to find for most users, because it greatly reduces the number of clicks to find what you need. That's a proven, basic 101 principle of Website and UX design, and the internet vehemently supports this, it's one of the most complained about things (Microsoft changing the control panel/file explorer/start menu). But, again it's super easy to change through Windows, or by modifying the key or deleting it.
This is unfortunately not true. A lot of businesses/agencies, including work laptops people bring home, still require IE because countless programs use it since they refuse to update their code. A colossal number of government agencies still use IE for example. I've worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher, and my wife is a social worker, and both agencies rely on IE (in multiple states), including other outdated crap like Java. This tweak is really no big deal, you're nitpicking on this one 
Also, Bing/MSN is worse than Google for searching, really most places are better than Bing/MSN, so I don't agree with it being a problem to include this tweak. On a related note, parts of Windows actually still rely on the \Internet Explorer\ keys, believe it or not, and so tweaking them in general does make a difference. All of these reasons are why it's been so hard for Microsoft to get rid of IE, because it's thoroughly integrated into the OS as a dependency for so many things, as well as being used by countless 3rd parties.
Also, Bing/MSN is worse than Google for searching, really most places are better than Bing/MSN, so I don't agree with it being a problem to include this tweak. On a related note, parts of Windows actually still rely on the \Internet Explorer\ keys, believe it or not, and so tweaking them in general does make a difference. All of these reasons are why it's been so hard for Microsoft to get rid of IE, because it's thoroughly integrated into the OS as a dependency for so many things, as well as being used by countless 3rd parties.
Thank you for the feedback! Please know I'm keeping an open mind, but quite a few of these I need more information on before I act on them.
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