^ Best solution I've found for family & friends computers, because the changes are meaningful and easily revertible. Hacky script from Nepalese GitHub account is a sure-fire way for your mom to permanently break her Windows installation.

 

My PC runs great with the Github without any problems and fast... !
What makes you think that this will damage your Windows? But I had made a backup of the entire hard disk beforehand.

 

Yeah, but I wasn't talking about the GitHub thing you linked or any other specific script hosted on GitHub at all.

Just praising the virtues of O&OSU for friends' and families' computers compared to the "Elite Force BEST!!! PowerShell Speed Boost 2025 Win7-Win12" shit scripts that regularly pop up by the dozens on GitHub because some 12 year old named xxX-hackLord.PH fancies himself an open source white hat hacker.

I don't like doing more tech support than the bare minimum for my tech illiterate mom / uncle / friends. Thus: avoid scripts making changes that require my mom / uncle / friends to reinstall.

 

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I do wonder, is there an easy way to batch adjust services for manual startup?
I feel like people are too obsessed about carving out stuff from OS and then complain about being left over with broken stuff, while in fact disabling automatic launch policies of components would be enough for 99% users

 

Yeah, I wrote a batch file I occasionally run to disable services and scheduled tasks that like to re-enable themselves:

Code:

sc config "NTKDaemonService" start= disabled
sc stop "NTKDaemonService"

sc config "UAHelperService" start= disabled
sc stop "UAHelperService"

sc config "ujaminstallationservice.exe" start= disabled
sc stop "ujaminstallationservice.exe"

schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\VisualStudio\Updates\BackgroundDownload"

schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\Office Automatic Updates 2.0"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\Office ClickToRun Service Monitor"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\Office Feature Updates"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\Office Feature Updates Logon"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\OfficeOsfInstaller"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\OfficeTelemetryAgentFallBack2016"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Office\OfficeTelemetryAgentLogOn2016"

schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\QueueReporting"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Flighting\FeatureConfig\UsageDataReporting"
schtasks /Change /Disable /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics\AnalyzeSystem"

The service name is the same as in the properties dialog in "Services". The space after "start= " is not an error. "start= demand" for manual start up. Save as whatever.cmd and run as admin.

- xxXhack-Lord.PH
github.com/uwu-hacker-ph

 

I want to thank everyone sharing their knowledge and opinions. I know there's no sure-fire way to build the ultimate system for music / audio production, but when one reads the discussion in this post surely they will learn about the paths that goes to the optimum system they need to make music. Cheers to everyone who answered