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Winaero
Personal blog · winaero.comsystemsproductivity
Winaero is a personal blog at winaero.com about systems and productivity. Since 2012, 77 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
At the edge of tweaking
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-windows-7-in-windows-10/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-06
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-29
- /blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-tracking-focus-follows-mouse-pointer-feature-in-windows-8-1-windows-8-and-windows-7/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-30
- WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 102 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- /get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-windows-7-in-windows-10/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-31
- /blog/how-to-permanently-stop-windows-10-reboots-after-installing-updates/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-03
- /download-winaero-tweaker/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01
- /blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
- /comment.php?comment.news.18362 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-07
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure what you mean by "beefy". Do you mean the "touch" density with the very large tabs and icons? I'm on "compact" and it's very similar to Chrome except for the right-angled tabs. You can switch between three levels of density: https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/firefox-...
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on “Firefox 57.0 Released”Submitted WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 as a story · 419 points
HN discussionWindows 10 is still too fresh in people's mind to gaslight people into thinking there were no ads in it. 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20121004004109/http://community.... 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151015182852/http://betanews.c... 2015: https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-solitaire-requires-a-subs... 2016: https://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-... 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/…
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on “GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation”Submitted Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025 as a story · 117 points
HN discussionI am very happy to have shared my thoughts here (and received good feedback and suggestions!), but the best is that it finally made me look into this need - and I am not the first (big surprise :-) It turns out that just very recently exactly what I need was made possible in Chrome (currently only "experimental") just set this flag [1]. I especially like that it's possible without the need of third party SW. This pa…
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on “TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem”Submitted Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop as a story · 91 points
HN discussion> The thing that annoys me most on Windows is Windows itself. After using Linuxes for almost two decades now, the notion of the OS taking tens of minutes to self update when all I wanted was to quickly reboot it is unbearable. This is definitely a problem especially considering that the shotgun approach to some Windows updates actually hurt the performance of some machines, even breaking Windows on occasion [0]. How…
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on “Microsoft's Linux Kernel”Submitted KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Build 16299 as a story · 64 points
HN discussionUse the old one, it’s better anyway: https://winaero.com/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-window...
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on “Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator”Submitted Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIt seems there's still an option on taskbar settings to move it onto left but new position seems to be default [1] - at least in the "leaked" build. [1] - https://winaero.com/how-to-disable-centered-taskbar-in-windo...
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on “Microsoft announces Windows 11”Submitted Chrome will require you to specify why you need to download a suspicious file as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIncorrect. There are in fact three ways to completely disable it. You can get the Enterprise edition [0] or modify your registry configuration [1] or by a third party tool [2]. Even if you don't want to do any of those for some reason, reading about the Basic level of telemetry - it's nothing. At least it's nothing that I care about. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/try [1] https://winaero.com/…
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on “MacOS High Sierra”Submitted Windows 11 Pro now requires a Microsoft Account and Internet during setup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVS Code isn't going to be able to read any files on the Linux side but it can execute Linux applications against your Windows working folder. So having VS code run Linux Python to test will work. If code-completion works by reading package source files installed in the Linux partition, it's not going to be able to do that. For my development needs (embedded C/C++) this is not an issue. > These are things that would…
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on “Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools”Submitted Microsoft says that Defender file download feature is not a risk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPart of setting up a Win 10 machine should include disabling telemetry, even though it's not easy. https://winaero.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collec... It probably won't be long before the Windows 11 version is here.
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on “Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?”Submitted How to Disable New Material UI in Chrome 69 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Windows-1... And now you have.
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on “Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising”Submitted Skype for Linux Drops AMD CPU Support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWith provisos it seems right, they have remote support by default, no: https://winaero.com/blog/disable-remote-assistance-windows-1... .
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on “Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry”Submitted Disable Line Wrapping Selection in Console in Windows 10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI haven't had any of these issues, this is what I did when setting up my Win 10. (The watermark still shows up 90% of the time, but with dual monitors I never notice it.) USB installed without a key Windows 10 Pro N, which comes with less bloatware - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 when installing do not sign up for an outlook.com account, create a local agent account Go into settings and…
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on “Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed”Submitted Firefox is adding a weather widget to the New Tab page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can use ESR[0] version of firefox the equivalent of LTSB windows. Or use a registry hack[1] to disable updates for regular firefox if you use Windows. 0. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.8.0esr/ 1. https://winaero.com/blog/disable-updates-firefox-63-above/
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on “Firefox 76”Submitted Rename Quick Access pinned folders in Windows 10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome of the buttons on the ads say "Open Office" [1]. I guess the intended meaning is "Click here to open Microsoft Office", but the wording is suspiciously close to OpenOffice. I'm sure that will account for some clicks from people vaguely aware that there's a thing out there called OpenOffice. [1] https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Wordpad-...
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on “WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10”Submitted Firefox 75 Strips HTTPS:// and www From Address Bar Results as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's not all in latest build 14971. Cortana supports to do list now Dial support for map app Bringing 3D to Everyone via the Paint 3D Preview app (RIP paint.exe, I am going to use picpick or paint.net from now on) Read EPUB books in Microsoft Edge Improved Typing Experience with Japanese and Chinese Input Method Editors New Get Office hub for Windows Insiders source: http://winaero.com/blog/microsoft-is-killing-th…
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on “Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build”Submitted Microsoft is working on a new file format for 3D documents as a story · 2 points
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