"pyotr filipivich" wrote

| I wish I had the skills to "hack" Windows to get it out of my way.
| But my serious nerding days are long past, I have other things I wish
| to master.

It's also getting much harder as Windows turns into
a kiosk-style system. MS have been systematically
moving that way for years. For instance, on XP you
can uinstall to FAT32 or NTFS. If you install to NTFS
you can be an admin or not. On Vista/7 it's NTFS-only.
And if you want to be a *real* admin you have to
find a secret IT trick, and then can only use the user
name Administrator.
Similarly, I was able to get rid of one of the nags
when I put in a USB stick but never figured out the
other.
Another example: The already broken folder settings
for Explorer were broken "differently" in Vista/7. After
much research I figured out the new system, somewhat.
But it turns out the new system isn't as configurable
as the old system.

To some extent I feel like you do: I'm too old to
waste so much time on this nonsense. But also,
there are diminishing returns in doing the research.

That's my big hesitation with Win10. I expect it to
be far less configurable than Win7. MS even says
so in their terms. You have no choice about some
of the data sent to them. That means you can't
truly control online access. That's a radical change.