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• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/CscfGradImageNotes

Privacy settings

• Setting your preferences for Windows 10 services
• Change privacy settings in Windows 10
• Windows 10 speech, inking, typing, and privacy: FAQ
• Configure telemetry and other settings in your organization
• Windows 10 telemetry secrets: Where, when, and why Microsoft collects your data

Windows 10 Update paths

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/upgrade/windows-10-edition-upgrades

Windows 10 Downloads and Activation

• See https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/WindowsActivation#Where%20to%20Get%20Windows%2010

Fixing Windows Update if the Windows update Troubleshooted does NOT work

• See: https://blog.pcrisk.com/windows/13032-potential-windows-update-database-error-detected
• Start an elevated command prompt: Search -> cmd -> right click on cmd.exe -> Run as Administrator
• Enter the following command and reboot afterwards - recheck windows updates

      net stop wuauserv 
      net stop cryptSvc 
      net stop bits 
      net stop msiserver 
      Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old 
      Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old 
      net start wuauserv 
      net start cryptSvc 
      net start bits 
      net start msiserver 
      Ren C:\Windows\Logs\CBS CBS.old
      

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Background Apps

• Disable Background Apps look under under Privacy in Settings (in the search bar type Privacy Settings)
• Runtime Broker high CPU usage

Sysprep

• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SysPrep#Windows_10
  • Windows 10 Specific notes

Removing provisioned (built-in) apps in Windows 10

• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SysPrep#Remove_provisioned_built_in_apps
  • You MUST do these steps or sysprep will not work

Windows 10 Image links for Clonezilla and VMware

• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/CscfGradImageNotes
• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/VMwareWorkstation#Windows_10_Enterprise_and_Applic

Windows 10 Observations

• There are rather large number of privacy concerns in the default privacy configuration settings. Some of the issues are not fully disclosed.
• If you disable the search assistant web lookup feature it frequently resets to default after updates.
• Some apps and settings revert after updates.
• There are a large number of apps that can run in the background - bad for laptop users.
• Apps are provisioned by default at initial login. There is no uninstall that works for all of them - removal options are up to each app - many will not allow uninstall.. Only a good knowledge of power shell can remove them all as that is the only way Microsoft documents for app removal.
• Windows 10 can not be imaged for deployment without removing provisioned apps first - see last comment. However these apps are installed as the final step of a clean install as the installer logs you into the Admin account you just created.

• Windows Updates can cause a computer to reboot by default. You can not disable autoreboot as you can with 7. You can only schedule an update if you are lucky to be around when it asks for a very short window of time. Microsoft can install updates and reboot even if updates are disabled - if they deem it important enough - bad for a machine running a critical tasks..
• Windows 10 interoperability - 10 uses an updated version of SMB protocol - only available in bleeding edge release for Linux Samba - result is Windows 10 clients will experience very long delays connecting to a Linux servers the first time - but will eventually recover.