On 8/15/2020 10:45 PM, VanguardLH wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

A lot of these may be available in Winaero Tweaker.

Be careful with tweakers, like this. They make you think you changed a
setting in the registry, but it may not work. I forget what the setting
was for, but it was for a policy. All policies are registry entries, so
you can use the policy editor (gpedit.msc) or edit the registry. The
problem is that some policies are not honored on Home editions of
Windows, only in Pro and Enterprise editions. You can use the tweaker
to change a policy setting, but it may not be used in the Home edition.
A tweaker would have to check for which edition of Windows on which it
was used. Haven't seen one that does that.

I haven't encountered the tweaker-makes-change-not-effective-on-Home
problem with WinAero Tweaker, but then I have not used it to change
every setting it encompasses,


I haven't used it to change every setting either, but on those I have
used, it's worked fine.


plus there are many I would NOT use. I
came across the policy-not-honored-on-Home problem with O&O's Shutup10.
Even for something like disabling telemetry in Windows, registry
settings may get ignored; however, you won't know unless you were deeply
involved in network traffic monitoring and recording before and after
the telemetry registry change.



--
Ken