I was actually quite happy to pay for Windows all these years... it's when they went "free" that this BS started. Go back to a paid model and give us vanilla windows, please!
If they lose customers they'll just try to exploit the few they have left. As more people switch to another OS windows is going to get worse and worse.
I've been using Shut Up 10 by O&O Software for ages now. Turns off all recommended telemetry and you can go a step further and disable a ton of stuff, basically anything irksome that M$ pulls.
It's free as well. I haven't noted any negative issues with it. Also works on Win 11
I love ShutUp10. Like you, I have used it for years now with zero problems. It places many different settings and options into one single app. The same settings that Microsoft likes to hide from us by scattering arbitrarily it all over Settings, Control Panel, the registry, etc.
PSA: hotkey for screenshot in windows 10 is (windowsLogoKey)-shift-S
Then you click and drag to select a rectangle.
It’s basically a shortcut to the Snip program.
After you’ve captured the screenshot, you can:
just hit ctrl-V to paste it into any place that can accept a pasted image: email, some chat programs, google drive, Paint, etc
Click on the notification in the lower right. If the notification has already disappeared (it fades away after a few seconds), you can click on the Notifications icon (looks like cartoon chat bubble) in lower right and it’s in the list that shows.
If you click on it in notifications you get a whole window dedicated to editing the screenshot — drawing on it, cropping it, adding text — and then from there you can save it to a file or copy the newly edited image to your clipboard
Also works for win11.
And also i can recommand windows powertoys and devtoys for all kinds of nifty stuff like renaming multiple files, using one mouse and keyboard over multiple pcs and getting Text out of pictures.
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