First post, by FFXIhealer
I just installed it today. I found a few minor hiccups that I had to deal with immediately, but otherwise it was fairly smooth and the same. The issues are:
1. Cortana cannot easily be turned off anymore like it used to be.
If you're like me, you don't like having everything in your room recorded by your always-on microphone, sent across the internet to some Microsoft server, having it parsed into a command structure, then sent back to your PC all to do some kind of simple search. You ALSO don't like that this service ONLY uses the shitty BING search engine and NEVER opens any browser other than Edge. No, seriously, you can't get Cortana to open Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, OR Firefox. It simply won't do it. F*** you, Cortana.
How to fix:
- Open up regedt32.exe.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
- Add a new KEY here called "Windows Search" without the quotation marks.
- Now enter that key. You should now be in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
- Add a new REG_DWORD (32-bit) entry called "AllowCortana" without the quotation marks.
- Make sure this value is set to 0 (off).
- Log out and log back into your account....or restart your PC.
Voila, no more Cortana. Shut that useless Microsoft-centric piece of sh** off.
2. Windows 10 Anniversary update messed up my initial keyboard settings so that NumLock isn't automatically turned on anymore for me to put my security pin in.
How to fix:
- Do the same thing you did before to get the Num Lock to automatically turn on during system boot and the login screen. There are pages on how to do this. Just revisit the registry keys you had to set to 2 instead of 2328904714986 or whatever the hell garbage number it had/has. Here's the article I used: http://www.howtogeek.com/244606/how-to-enable … computer-boots/
I'll have to look around, but I had to go back to Settings > Privacy and turn off stuff again from running in the background.
3. It screwed up my Windows 7 games for Windows 10 install. None of the EXE files ported over and my old installer didn't work anymore. I had to re-download the updated installer to get it to work properly. Welcome back Freecell, Solitaire, Chess, Mahjongg. (Freecell is my JAM when I'm bored.) Here's the link: http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/