This is a Friday thing, but for your possible amusement ... I installed
Windows 10 retail (inside Parallels on a Mac) and I'm trying to use it in
anger for the first time. The first things I did were to disable Windows
Defender, uninstall Flash, unpin or uninstall weather, news, email,
contacts, store, photos, music, pictures (and others I forget). So after
using group policy editor, regedit, elevated command lines, etc I finally
stripped Windows 10 back to a typical development machine. Weirdly enough,
by the time I cleaned up the Start Menu of junk it was empty ... there are
no coloured tiles on my Start fly-out as they were all utterly useless.
What a shame, as I suppose whole departments of people went into designing
and implementing it -- *Greg*
