Windows 11

Rounded corners require GPU acceleration, since you need alpha channel blending to show what's under the corner.
No GPU in VM, no fancy corners.

EDIT - Turned on GPU accel in VMware, and rounded corners :cool:

File Picker is this dialog. UWP apps can choose to use UWP or classic File Picker libraries. I don't think any popular app uses them.
But then people complain Far Cry 6 needs text-to-speech /shrug.

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garlin said:
I blocked Teams from installing during OOBE, and had a clean desktop. Then I returned to find WU pushed Store to reinstall Teams while updating other apps. Will have to test if the regkey for Store autoupdate works or not :confused:

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Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer/Operational
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Date: 11/17/2021 9:51:43 PM
Event ID: 854
Task Category: (3)
Level: Information
Keywords: AppXDeploymentServer Keyword
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Description:
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EDIT - This seems to be a specific domain we can block:
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wait... just disable Teams this disable installing for ex instagram fb etc????
 
No, if you want to block Suggested Apps (3rd-party) then remove 'Content Delivery Manager'.

There are different app classes:
- 3rd-party Apps (remove Content Delivery Manager)
- MS Store Apps (disable Store app updates)
- Office Apps (pushed by WU), disabled by blocking in hosts file
 
Hi,

I have disabled the additional apps in all the usual places and yet apps like Instagram, TikTok, etc. are still present after installation. Likewise, the items under Recommended Apps cannot be disabled, the apps (e.g. NVIDIA Control Panel) remain shown.

I only have this problem with Windows 11.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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Marius83 said:
Hi,

I have disabled the additional apps in all the usual places and yet apps like Instagram, TikTok, etc. are still present after installation. Likewise, the items under Recommended Apps cannot be disabled, the apps (e.g. NVIDIA Control Panel) remain shown.

I only have this problem with Windows 11.

Any ideas? Thanks!
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hi remove content delivery component to remove them all.
 
Hi crypticus,

I already seached for it, but I can't find that. Maybe in german it have an another name. Can you tell me, where I can find it? It is in System or in Windows Apps?

EDIT: Found it, just switched to english in NTlite ;-)
 
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Easy trick for translating English component names to German (no switching):
Code: 
C:\Users\GARLIN>cd "\Program Files\NTLite\Lang"

C:\Program Files\NTLite\Lang>findstr "Content Delivery" Template.xml
                        <S1467>Delivery Optimization</S1467>
                        <S1405>Retail Demo Content</S1405>
                        <S2998>Content Delivery Manager</S2998>
                        <S2445>Targeted Content Service</S2445>

C:\Program Files\NTLite\Lang>findstr S2998 German.xml
                        <S2998>Manager f├╝r Inhaltslieferung</S2998>
 
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I am okay if it becomes default but "developers will soon see Windows Terminal if they attempt to launch the Command Prompt." i don't like this sentence. will they force it like they do everything else.... sad.

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The edit i did will become meaningless then......

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I wonder if you can remove terminal from new context menu? if you don't remove the component.
 
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I can't count how many times highlight stops working for CMD or PSH in default terminal. Good riddance!
 
New media player
If you are casually vieweing your captured media from your phone, or just watching a mp4 file etc it will be more than enough...

New notepad
 
Acho que teremos que conviver com UWP apps do Win11 pra frente, chegará um ponto que não será possível evita-los :(

I think we will have to live with UWP apps from Win11 going forward, there will come a point where it won't be possible to avoid them :(
 
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E eu acho que você esqueceu de escrever em inglês? Quase ninguém aqui fala português (Que eu saiba).

And I think you kind of forgot to write in English. Almost no one here speaks Portuguese (To my knowledge). ;D

Translation of his post for everyone else:

"I think we'll have to live with UWP apps in Win11 from now on, it'll get to a point it won't be possible to avoid them."
 
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Sorry corrected lol I forgot to use the translator. I was writing on a forum in portuguese at the same time and I got confused.
 
That happens (It sure happened to me in the past.)

As for UWP, its no worse than MSI or .NET, the Store is the real poison. If it was just a new format / runtime you could download and install and get your apps from wherever you wanted, then it would not be bad. The problem, as I see, its Microsoft going "No one uses the M$Store, how can I FORCE them to" and putting it as a requirement for everything nowadays, and making it download licenses from there so even if you have said apps pre/offline installed, you need to connect to the store(unless you have the XML license from somewhere).

I personally don't use notepad or even windows calculator apps, I use the Old calculator, ClassicPaint from WinAero, and Notepad++, and anything else Macro$hit turns into an app will be summarily removed from my images and replaced by the most suitable Win32/AMD64 app which can do the job.
 
u may replace calculator or paint or photos (even the old one) since they are standalone things. but you cannot remove notepad and getaway with it on win11.... open with notepad option cannot be changed to notepad++ or right click "edit" option won't work even tho u set notepad++ to default for those extensions.

try reg, bat, cmd, txt, ps1 extensions to see the problem. u may even open ntlite and right click on any preset and click edit. u will get error if you removed notepad.
 
PhsMu said:
its no worse than MSI or .NET
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I don't know if it's worse or not but I also don't like .msi installers and .NET (C#) applications but unfortunately these are the industry standards imposed by Microsoft and everyone gladly accepts, which I don't understand. Maybe everyone is too lazy to make good software since there is hardware these days to waste resources.

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.NET just can't be worse than java hahahaha
 
Runtimes are shortcuts, yes, at the cost of resources. The main problem on that front, is that programmers can't agree on a single programming language as a standard, they have a million different ones and come up with brand variants (how many Visual C libs do we need to run things again?!) every now and then.

But again, if UWP was just a runtime, and applications could be installed completely offline as long as you had the appx for your architecture (and it is possible, say hello to android, an app package that works with or without the store!), that would be no less annoying than an MSI package. But no, Microsoft not only made it a mandatory standard, but also locked all alternative installation methods to force people to use her shitty store. And when it failed, they made it mandatory for windows 11 installs.

They haven't learned that you don't convince people by forcing them, you offer benefits. And by doing that, they are slowly killing windows and empowering alternatives. I can only speak for my use case scenario, but most games I play already run on linux, only one device needs to be cracked so my note can run it flawlessly (and its the only one from 5 in my home which has any problem with it), and steam has been making a huge effort for their things to run well there. So yeah, Windows has a coffin with its name on it, and microsoft has been hammering the nails which are missing, one at a time.
 
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