Daily Archives: July 29, 2015

Classic Shell – Start menu and other Windows enhancements

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Classic Shell™ is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are:

Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins
Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs
Find programs, settings, files and documents
Start button for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer
Caption and status bar for Internet Explorer

Source: Classic Shell – Start menu and other Windows enhancements

How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 10, even after free upgrade

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Windows 10 is finally here, and your computer will automatically prompt you to upgrade. But if you’d rather start fresh, you can do a clean install—you just need to follow a few steps in the right order.http://lifehacker.com/5983652/how-to… How to Do a Clean Install of Windows Without Losing Your Files, Settings, and Tweaks How to Do a Clean Install of Windows Without Losing Your Files, Settings, and Tweaks How to Do a Clean Install of Windows Without Losin There’s nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost:… Read more Read more

Source: How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 10

This works with a free upgrade too, because Microsoft just “knows” your machine and says it’s ok. How does this work then? A bit creepy!

Behavioral Profiling: The password you can’t change. Your identity through how you type

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You can be identified by how you type, even behind proxies and Tor. Protect yourself with KeyboardPrivacy.

Source: Behavioral Profiling: The password you can’t change.

Some websites are storing your typing patterns and it turns out that after some training, systems can identify who is in a system by the way in which passwords are typed. You can then be identified on other websites using the same underlying system. Paul Moore has created a proof-of-concept Chrome extension which changes the output of your typing to the website by randomising the rate at which the browser sends it to the website.

Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates – if you know they exist

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Windows 10 auto-downloads and auto-installs updates. This is mostly a Good Thing for general security, but becomes a Bad Thing when said update installs a glitchy graphics driver that breaks your desktop. There is a way to disable auto-updates, but it’s not pretty.

Source: Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates

Auto updating is an incredibly bad idea – downloading consumes bandwidth (most annoying if you’re on a public wifi), installing causes HD IO and CPU useage (consuming battery and making your laptop hot) and then there is that dreaded auto reboot, where the document or spreadsheet you’ve been working on suddenly disappears in a flash of rebooting now messages.

Please get rid of this, Microsoft! I understand you have auto-update on by default, it’s a good idea for many users, but really, give us a choice!