I always thought there should be an inheritance structure to Windows. For some reason you have to install the generic one (with a lot of stuff you may not want or ever use) and remove stuff you don't need when a simple menu at the start of the install could solve it.
On Saturday, 8 August 2015, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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* >
