WhatNitrous
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I did the exact opposite and added all my basic component software INTO my Windows installation...but it backfired when I realized I still had to update them all every single timeMe I had windows installation it came with the notebook, I just debloated manually all the crap software, then when I had that disk problem, I installed a clean Win10 with a the disk image downloaded from Microsoft website. I had to download all notebook drivers but at the end I have a very clean Os.
Can I get a dunce hat for this moment in time please?
It still gave me basic control and all the warnings an stuff, but I wasn't doing it every version of any of the 4-5 default software programs got an upgrade.
Now I just keep an offline installer of the most recent (and a few back in case) for Win 7/10 and Linux in some cases.
But, I never bothered stripping one down for some reason, probably should have....I was always more annoyed by installations. Vista with all the service packs and upgrading IE enough to even download Chrome actually pissed me off so bad i made an auto installer with both service packs, all the msi packages for IE and even my programming languages--just made it customizable through an old INI file to drag and drop over, run the program and walk away for like an hour
These days I can modify Win RE by hand to add my own programs and launch them without even starting a Windows Installation...which is a real bastard when I added my disk clones drive locking code into the mix and made it so Windows couldn't even install because it couldn't locate a hard drive

Thats one way to fuck up somebody's day royally, even more of a bastard move to load the Istall and run a program in the background to prevent the options from working while destroying all the data except the recovery part

I mean...who would do that to someone...umm, as I was saying. Its pretty easy to use imaging tools to modify the installation...keeping tabs on all the little hidey holes where files go that windows adds is more of the annoyance
Your kind of forced too for the over provisioning, even leaving the space plain empty doesn't have the same affect from what they say...I didn't get to the point of digging into the differences between SSD and HDD for my clone program before all hell broke loose in my life--quite a few times now haha.I've still installed Samsung Magician but I disabled the autostart. When I need it I open it manually.
On a side note, Magician is pretty low profile--unless your online, that thing is a data miner from hell, once you connect it basically never stops using your internet to some extent, iCUE is the only program I've seen thats actually worse--it does it ALL the time, it keeps adding my GPU and CPU to its monitoring without permission or even telling me...I don't need programs fighting over control of shit they don't control

Cortana instead is a must to silence![]()
The blue queen you say?CoolI didn't know about the blue screen.


Blah, fuck that shit...Windows store shit list. My Windows 10 isn't nearly as clean, I keep a shortcut to the classic control panel and services console in my quick launch along with an auto-admin dos prompt and my fucking media player I can't stand the design so much...I honestly almost grabbed the classic shell program to make a whip version of it just for the simple fact I wanted a normal design on the start menu aloneI use more the search bar to find fast the program I want to start, if I don't have the shortcut ready.