3771

Sorry, PowerShell not DISM. Reverting to Redstone 4, the old 1803 release candidate.

3772

It looks like my install went without a hitch.

Edit: Or maybe not. It’s looking to restart again today. We shall see.

3773

1803 seems fine to me. I disabled the timeline and no other new features of note.

3774

Do not forget.

1998 - Oh, an optional update, lets read the KB articles and find out what it does before installing it.
2017+ - Oh, a forced change, I see there’s a list of files that have been changed but no information (well, they added that after about 6 months (?) of complaints…) of what it contains.

After I managed to fix the 4TB drive that I’m pretty sure Windows10 hozed during chkdsk I’m afraid to boot it up again.

3775

Also go into the privacy controls and you can adjust a lot more than before. And you can switch diagnostic data between Basic and Full.

3776

Yeah I turned all that stuff off.

Telemetry could always be switched to Basic, but they still won’t allow you to turn it off.

Reportedly the new group policy to disable web search no longer works in Pro and Home, so every time you search locally it sends your search to Bing. However the registry edits still work, and Shutup10 will do them for you.

3777

Or maybe they are just faking it and changing the settings has zero effect? How can we know?

3778

As of 1803, you can look through all the telemetry the OS sends back to Microsoft yourself, in complete detail including payloads.

What you can’t do, is turn it off.

3779

I just noticed that in the Windows 10 default mail program, I get a notice of premium options down at the bottom on the left hand pane. Is there any way to get rid of that?

3780

Bah. Tried Skip Ahead 17655 and still no joy with Xbox apps.

3781

Since there is strangely no way to sign out of the Xbox app without it I need to restore and sign out before I redo the upgrade.

3782

I was going through my settings when I decided to click on gaming. I can turn Game bar, Game DVR and TruePlay off, but I can’t turn off or disable Game mode and Xbox Networking. I’m not too concerned about Game Mode because it appears that you have to open the Game bar to turn it on, however every time I click on Xbox Networking it immediately goes online to check my internet connection. How do I disable this? I don’t have an xbox or play any multiplayer games. I don’t even have a xbox account. I have a Microsoft account, but I only log into that account once or twice a year. If I remember correctly I have only logged into that account 4 or 5 times total since Win 10 has come out. Again is there any way to disable xbox networking? All services that have xbox in its’ name are off except XboxNetApiSvc and every time I turn it of it restarts on its own. Any advice?

3783

nope. signing out of xbox app before applying spring update didn’t work either.

3784

No one else having issues with W10 Xbox app?

3785

Here’s what’s happening now. I stop XboxNetApiSvc and it appears to stay stopped, but if I click on Xbox Networking in the gaming settings it turns itself back on. Which makes me wonder what else might turn that service back on.

3786

Can you disable the service after stopping it? It shouldn’t start at all if it’s disabled.

3787

I disabled all services that had xbox in the title except for one XblGameSave. Access was denied for that one. Clicked on Xbox Networking again and it connected to the internet and the service is stopped. It’s funny I have never had a Xbox live subscription, never used any win 10 gaming settings haven’t bought a game from the windows store and yet XblGameSave keeps connecting to something on the internet. I assume it’s a microsoft server of some sort. I just wonder what programs might use this to connect to the internet without me knowing. I bet if anybody here actually clicked on Xbox Networking with all xbox services disabled it would still connect to the internet. It’s beginning to look like I need to don my tin foil hat. ;)

3788

You know what my biggest beef right now with the latest (Fall, I think) update is? They removed the native Reader app. I really liked it for .pdf files- you could ink on it and save, the full screen mode was nice, good touch controls, etc. Now they’ve completely disabled it, and .pdf files open in Edge browser. I hate it.

3789

I’ve used Foxit forever. It’s free.

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

3790

I stopped using FoxIt when they started putting adware in the installer. Switched to Sumatra for a while, now I open PDF’s in Edge.