List of Windows 10 tweaks after clean installation
- Disable fade animations when opening windows (might affect
prefers-reduced-motion
setting) - Always show file extensions
- Show hidden files
- Don’t show recently/freq. used files in the Quick Access menu
- Don’t expand files in the Navigation Panel
- Clean up Quick Access (leave Desktop, PC, drives and hip-hop folders)
- Don’t collapse taskbar items
- Pin Calculator, Snip and Notepad to the Taskbar
- Collapse Search to icon only
- Enable Clipboard History (Windows+V)
- Adjust mouse sensitivity
- Disable Skype and Cortana in the Startup tab
- Add My Computer icon to the Desktop (settings -> personalization -> themes -> related settings -> desktop icon settings)
- Don’t show suggestions and most-used apps on the Start Menu
- Remove the Action Center icon
- Remove shit from the Lock Screen
- Don’t show a timeline in the Workspace view (Windows+Tab)
- Make list view default view for all folders
- Associate common files (images to IrfanView, videos to VLC, music to Winamp, PDF to Adobe, etc.)
- Delete
windows.old
using disk cleanup (after windows updates) - Never go to sleep while hooked on power (or increase to 1 hour)
- Block social sites and news portals in
hosts
file
App specific:
- Change the Chrome download path
- Change Winamp playlist font size and playlist icon
- Set Winamp to minimize to System Tray
- Change uTorrent download path, remove ads and set it to minimize to System Tray
- Set VLC language to English