Windows 10

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Setup

Install Windows 10 offline, skip name/email/phone identification, decline personal info collection
Turn off Device encryption (Security group)
Deinstall spam offline (McAfee, MSOffice, MSOneDrive, Dropbox)
Deinstall built-in applications: login to a desired account, lunch Windows Power Shell, run Get-AppxPackage > C:/tmp/new.txt to get list of application names, then run Get-AppxPackage *name* | Remove-AppxPackage to delete them
.NET Framework 3.5 (includes 2.0) is required for older apps

About: name the computer
Apps and features: remove garbage
Background: set Desktop background color to (43,85,128)=#2B5580
Date and time: set time zone
Default apps: set your favorite file associations by manually patching Windows Registry, see my code here
Device Manager: check for malfunctioning devices
Desktop Icon Settings: remove everything, but Pin to Start Recycle Bin
Display: native resolution, 125% font size
Indexing Options: check
Language: add Ukrainian language and replace default keyboard layout with ukru (see layout), hide language bar (also in "Turn system icons on or off")
Mouse: adjust speed, wheel scrolls 1 line
Power and sleep: screen off after 5/15 min, sleep after 15/30 min, hibernate after 30/60 min; power button hibernates, closing the lid turns into sleep; low/critical battery level 6/2% (by Dell)
Printers and scanners: install printers including print-to-file printers
Region: change system locale to Russian if needed
System Properties: disable Remote Assistance; Environment Variables: add "C:\Sys" to PATH; Visual Effects: Show thumbnails, Show window contents, Smooth edges, Smooth-scroll
Taskbar: lock, auto-hide, use small icons, never combine; disable annoying icons in Notification Area; customize Start Menu (see table below)
Touchpad: disconnect when mouse is connected
Windows Update: automatically check for updates but let me choose whether to download them (not availabe in Windows 10)

Programs (all users)	Start Menu	Taskbar from Left	Taskbar from Right	Gadgets	Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+
Science Office System Accessories Multimedia Internet	AVSearch Mozilla Firefox Media Player Classic	Search Cortana Microsoft Edge File Explorer PSPad	Show desktop Time Network Battery Lingvo	Projects System Research Educational Science All CPU Meter Network Meter	Beyond Compare Cartes du Ciel Corel Draw Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google cHrome Inkscape Media pLayer Maple Adobe Photoshop (Q) Resource Monitor Registry Editor WinSCP VPN client Microsoft Word Microsoft eXcel

Create Restore Points on System Protection tab of System Properties
Clean up autorun programs in
- System Startup and User Startup
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- Task Scheduler
Use System File Checker regularly
Use Windows Performance Toolkit to pinpoint problems

To investigate performance run powercfg /option /output filename.html, where option is one of batteryreport, energy, sleepstudy.
In case of sleep problems, to disable Connected Standby set HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CsEnabled to 0.
Common battery drainers:
- Intel SST Audio Device – update driver, if doesn't help then use Auto Mute utility
- Intel AVStream Camera – update driver, if doesn't help then don't know

Trun off Delivery Optimization in Services and Windows Update
Turn off Microsoft Store in Services
Web Account Manager (TokenBroker) service can be stopped if Windows Update is not needed

Services switched to Manual start: Cisco AnyConnect, Windows Search, YandexBrowserService

Use WSL
Windows Desktop Gadgets (Windows Sidebar) is discontinued by Microsoft but can be found here
To fix a crazy printer restart Printer Spooler service
Install K-Lite codec pack from here
To fix blurry text override high DPI scaling in Compatibility, see here
Changing lock screen timeout
To tune Windows appearance backup your current settings by exporting HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop, edit WindowsMetrics.reg file and run it
To restart a malfunctioning device by a single click create a batch file with pnputil /disable-device "device instance ID" and pnputil /enable-device "device instance ID", create its shorcut, check "Run as admin" box, and asign a shortcut key.
Changing language for single-language version (original post):
1. Determine the name of your current language pack: dism /online /get-packages, e.g. Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~ru-RU~10.0.14393.0
2. Download the required language pack, e.g. lp_d17ad4e6831135935760d21e2c8689b667430d0b.cab
3. Install it: dism /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\path_to_cabfile\cabfile.cab then dism /online /get-packages
4. Remove the current pack: dism /online /remove-package /packagename:current_pack_name
To delete Windows Defender history remove all files in its Service folder.
To block web-parasites update your HOSTS file by MVPS list. For efficient browsing stop "DNS Client" service from automatic loading.

Convert to UTF-8: foreach($i in ls -recurse -filter "*.html") {$temp = Get-Content $i.fullname; Out-File -filepath $i.fullname -inputobject $temp -encoding utf8 -force}