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so you've just updated Windows 10 and you want to get rid of all the crap and make this OS awesome well you've come to the right video so let's do it ladies and gentlemen welcome back to check es city this is brand coming back to you guys today with a Windows 10 optimization guide so we're going to make this windows more snappier we're also going to make it less invasive which we know Microsoft have done this time around with Windows 10 they're put in some of those privacy settings which make you feel a little uncomfortable so we're going to get on with that first without further adue and i'm going to be in the bottom right hand corner here guiding you guys through this whole process now the first thing you will want to do when you get on the desktop is left click down to search the web and windows and type in privacy now when we do that it says privacy settings so we can let's left-click that and then we want to go through here make sure all these settings are turned off in the first general tab here once we've done that we can then go to the next tab and we can make sure locations turned off and also choose the apps that can use your location just make sure they're all switched off anyway next is camera we can let apps use my camera I like to turn this off as well and then the next setting here microphone let apps use my microphone make sure that's turned off going down here you can also turn Cortana off here as you can see I've already turned it off but if you have it turned on you can actually turn it off here with a little button there I'd recommend taking that off as well now the next thing is account info let apps access my name I like to turn that off going down again you're going to see it's generally the same thing everything here is pretty much set to OFF so after you've turned off all these features you can then go down to feedback and diagnostics now you want to change this to never windows should ask for my feedback never I don't want it being invasive and then send your device data to Microsoft I like to turn this to basic so I mean we're gonna have to send Microsoft some information we wise we'll just make it as little as possible so when we put it to basic that's what that's doing background apps now you want to go here and make sure all these are turned off as I've done here and that way they're not sending data when you're doing things like playing games so anyway that's the first setting let's move on now to the next task so after you've done that the next thing you want to do is go down to the bottom-left search bar here and then type in display settings and then after we open that up so we left click that open that up we then go down to notifications and actions now show me tips about windows I like to turn this off I like to show app notifications I have to leave that on in case something gets installed and you don't know about it now all these others here you can turn them off show notifications when yep I really care I just like to leave show app notifications on moving down to apps and features now this is quite an important tab because this is where we're going to be uninstalling a lot of crap here so anything you I'll just actually go through with you guys so store and mail and calendar for some reason can't be uninstalled here but there is a way to manually uninstall it just I'm not going to do it because everything I'm doing today can be reversed so if you run into problems you can reverse the whole thing in your computer should work before you did this guide though if you do manually remove these with special kits it's hard to get them back on and it could potentially break your windows or make it work less than perfect so what we're going here we've found food and drink we'll just get rid of that so that's the first culprit today so we're just running through and just uninstalling anything we don't need health and fitness yep see you later going down to travel here I get rid of that so as you can see here I'm just getting rid of all the apps that I don't need so we're just going through money get rid of it news get rid of that to sport see you later alarms and clocks solitaire bye bye phone companion see you later reading app list app see you later and 3d builder get rid of that and of course get started so you guys can just feel free to uninstall the ones that I'm uninstalling personally I do like to leave calculator on and scan as I do take advantage of those ones and that's about it you can see that I've uninstalled the programs that I don't need now moving down here we'll just take a quick look at some of the features multi I like to leave all these on though in previous windows I did turn them off I like to leave snapping on because it actually works really well in Windows 10 tablet mode I don't even bother as I don't have a tablet power and sleep you can leave those settings are you don't have to really change those settings I found they're fine they're moving down here to offline maps one thing you will want to do is turn it off the automatically update maps so make sure that's turned off there now for default apps you will want to go Photo Viewer here and change it to Windows Photo Viewer so the default I think is photos but you want to change that to Windows Photo Viewer so the next thing we're going to look at is some of the services in Windows 10 and which one should we disable especially some of those ones that are in the background that could be invasive so what I want you guys to do is I want you to click on this taskbar here and type in services and then we're going to open that it's a desktop app and what we can do here is we can actually disable the services that we don't need some of those invasive services so what we're going to do is we're going to start from the bottom because I guess it's easier to start from the bottom so Xbox properties we click right click there so we want to click on these Xbox services if you have an Xbox and you use Xbox Live with your PC then you might not want to disable some of these features but if you like me and you don't have an ex bone around then you can just right click here click properties and then you can click on the startup type and you can click disabled so I'd like to disable some of these settings and I'm going to go through and disable the next Xbox so all these 3 Xbox settings you can just disable them and you see here disabled and then we can move up now because there's another pro there's another important one that you should disable and I think it's called DM V it's like a keylogger it's essentially what people call the keylogger in Windows 10 so we want to right click on this and we want to go to properties and we want to go to disabled so it's that DM WAP Push SCV so I'm disable that and we also want to disable Diagnostics tracking service right click that and click disabled see you later apply now some of the other ones you may wish to disable it okay so the next service you want to disable is Microsoft Windows SMS router to try click that click disabled ok and then after this you want to go to these hyper-v settings and right click all these hyper V's and just have them on disabled if you're just a desktop power user like me so as you can disable all them hyper-v disabled and go through and just disable all these hyper-v settings unless of course you use them and again with any of these services if you use them you may wish to keep them on or even at best if you're not certain about a certain service and you're like Brian I'm don't think you should be disabling that then what you can do is you can just turn it to manual so that's about it there's another one called retail demo service as well run a right-click that and just disable that as well so some of these I'm not too happy leaving on my computer to be honest there's also some sensor services right click these disabled not going to use them so that sensor monitoring service sensor service and sensor data service these are three that I'm going to disable as well so I will put a description of all the services that I am disabling in the comment section below also the last one is FAQs since we're in a digital age I'm not going to need this service regardless so that's about it for services let's move on now to the next part of this guide so for this part we just go again to our trusty little search bar down here and type in system and then we go to system control panel left click on that once we're in here we can then go to advanced system settings then click on performance settings and what you want to do here is you just want to copy my settings if you like it fast and snappy more in particular slide opened combo boxes so if you do this you'll notice if you hit your Windows key it'll just come up really quickly as opposed and same with notifications so things will just pop out I really like it it makes it feel more snappy oh so you press ok there you can then go down to startup and recovery left click on settings and then we can go here time to display list of operating systems take that off that's just a little tweak that I like to do after you done with that you can then click on the system protection tab and what we're going to do here is we're going to turn off system protection now if you've updated your Windows to Windows 10 which you most likely have since you're watching this guide your Windows 10 will now be activated from your Windows 7 or 8 key and so this means that you can use a Windows 10 disc to legitimately install Windows 10 on your PC from here in so for me I like to just turn this off free up some space so I now click on configure and disable system protection but also I like to click delete there continue and then apply it there's lots of confirmations there but that's going to free up a little bit of space and then after that we want to go over to the remote tab here just click advanced take that off click OK take off allow remote assistant connections to this computer and then we're virtually done there so we've done a little bit of twiddling around there but one last week to free up some precious SSD space is to go down to our search bar here type in command right click on that and click run as administrator left click there and then we go ok now what we want to do here is we want to type in power CFG /h off and what this will do this will turn off hibernation and it will free up some more space on your SSD now if you use hibernation which is especially a good thing for laptops you manage to keep this on so just for me I'm a desktop power user that's an extra thing that I like to do so let's move on to the final parts of this guide so for this next part we're just going to customize things and make your desktop look like mine which is awesome so what we're going to do here is right-click on the taskbar and take off this show task View button because essentially it's just alt tab 4 lazy people I like the low I like to alt tab myself and then I like to right-click on properties and then go to never combine and what that does is split all your different applications or do different tasks into individual bars so I find this a lot easier to multitask so that's what I like to do with the task bar there then after we're done with that we can then left-click on Microsoft edge which I actually do like it's actually a decent browser so far especially some of the settings you can turn off and on here so once you're opened it up there you can click on the right corner there go to settings and then once you're in here you can go down to view advanced settings and then what we're going to do is turn off use Adobe Flash Player and then offer to safe passwords and save form entry so we're going to turn that all off and then we're going to choose Google as our default search engine so that's another good thing there so we're also going to turn off show suggestions as you type and let sites save protective media licenses on my device so after you've done with that you can close it down go back to the desktop right click here and go down to personalize so once you're on the desktop right click there left click on personalize and when we're in here we can go through background and you can choose a picture if you like we want to get out of colors and this is what you can do here is you can change the color of your taskbar I like to use a dark grey and I like to show that color on the actual taskbar so it's easier for me to just navigate when I'm using the windows and then unlock screen one thing we're going to do is turn off get fun facts facts tips and tricks on your lockscreen I like to turn that off also there I like to occasionally show suggestions that start in the start tab here and then you can show recently but that's about it so just occasionally show suggestions and start we can turn that off so now for this last bit I want you to open whatever web browser you're using I'm using edge here so I want you to go up the top here and type in a website called nain nain comm and now what this site does it'll give you all the applications you need in just one little package and it's really good I think my brother using the internet because it's really slow at the moment but here we go here we click on Skype messaging since I need Skype I need VLC I need winamp I need Java I need Silverlight and then over here I need reader DC and cube BitTorrent and that's about it that's all I need from this so after I'm done with that I just go get Installer and it pretty much just starts downloading an installer now for this last bit you want to go on the bottom right corner here and go onedrive right click on that click settings and then over here we can go to I think it's performance improved upload speed by uploading in files and batches you can left click that off since you don't want to use Microsoft onedrive anyway if you're a power user so here in general we can go start onedrive automatically when I sign into Windows we want to take uncheck that make sure that's unchecked and click OK now every time you start up your PC onedrive should not turn on and if it does you can just go to the task menu and take it and actually take it off anyway so now the last thing you can do here is go to your Start menu and you can just start uninstalling things that weren't previously uninstalled or you can just unpin them from the Start menu so as you can see here I'm just going through and I'm pinning anything I don't need and then I can go hang if there's things to be uninstalled as well I can uninstall them so as you see here everything that can be taken off the Start menu is taken off the Start menu so that's a good thing so we got here camera and maps and so this will just leave us with a pretty clean Start menu now so that's about it for today guys your windows should now be snappier it should also have a little bit more room freed up on your disk drives and also you should be sending less information to Microsoft which is always a good thing especially if you're a gamer and you don't like any clutter on your OS without being said though the OS is looking really good some of the features built in are pretty handy so it is a good thing to upgrade to Windows 10 if you can and that being said guys if you enjoyed this video then please give it a big thumbs up it took me a little while to research all this and make it the way I like it but that being said it's probably the best guide out there so if you appreciate videos like these and be sure to subscribe to tech ESC as well and as always if you have any questions or comments then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you guys as soon as I can peace out for now bye