Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
What antivirus and EDR do you use?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
All of them? That's how it feels.
BitDefender. Huntress. Some kinda of DNSAgent.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
Don't let them!
Can't entirely fault you for not knowing a reload always speeds things up if you get free regular new laptops. Also, it's more of a windows 3.1 and up trick. It's always been like that.
Oh, the other thing that will slow it down is catching back up on windows updates, unfortunately. But you should still see a decent net speed gain.
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
Once they throw their crap back on, it won't matter. That's the real culprit. I went through this a year ago with the same laptop.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
We use Trend Micro (well known for not being a resource hog) and Sentinel One. We get no reports of PCs slowing down. We also have Darktrace on our network.
Maybe hint to your team that the solutions they're using have too much of a negative impact on performance?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
This powershell script to declutter any fresh install.
https://www.xda-developers.com/this-pow ... s-install/
SInce it's topical.
https://www.xda-developers.com/this-pow ... s-install/
SInce it's topical.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
Added the Javascript toggle to my browser at work.
I love archive.is/, but this toggle makes getting to articles that much faster.
It turns the paywalls off.
I love archive.is/, but this toggle makes getting to articles that much faster.
It turns the paywalls off.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
Chrome browser.
Search the Google store for Javascript. You'll find the toggle extension.
Install it.
Hit a paywall? Hit the toggle.
Just remember to turn it off as it breaks other pages like this one. Well, you can read, you just can't use the buttons when posting.
Search the Google store for Javascript. You'll find the toggle extension.
Install it.
Hit a paywall? Hit the toggle.
Just remember to turn it off as it breaks other pages like this one. Well, you can read, you just can't use the buttons when posting.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Windows 10 & 11 Tips and Tricks
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... xt_sidebar This one I assume?Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:31 am Chrome browser.
Search the Google store for Javascript. You'll find the toggle extension.
Install it.
Hit a paywall? Hit the toggle.
Just remember to turn it off as it breaks other pages like this one. Well, you can read, you just can't use the buttons when posting.
Oh wow, that's like magic.
It's not me, it's someone else.