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A comment on Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security.

Re:Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and sec... by kipchak on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:18PM (#31044530)
It's funny, on a fresh W10 install there's a toggle for weather telemetry for "Location", which the description describes as being used for weather data.

Even if it's un-toggled the weather feature in the taskbar works fine. At this point I've given up, need Edge unfortunately so can't use LTSC.

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Re:Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and sec... by JoeMamaAME on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:11PM (#31048064)
Give Windows Ameliorated a shot man, it truly does get rid of the BS. Not just with some registry edits and cosmetic settings options, but it actually gets rid of the spyware on an executable level, meaning the functionality of the spyware is not just disabled, but completely removed.

My whole family and I have been running AME as a daily driver for awhile now, and haven't run into any significant issues (funnily enough, I've had less issues with Windows Ameliorated than I have with Windows). From my experience it really is stable, and IMO even more stable than stock Windows.

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