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My builds spoof Win10 but do not spoof away from v86. My builds use - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

Again, I have never heard of an "accelerate discharge battery" option in Win10. Please provide why you think such a thing exists. You could just have a NEAR-DEAD battery and you are blaming Win10 when it is really your NEAR-DEAD battery.

Works for me. Did you disable your beloved uBO or try in Incognito before reporting?

Agreed. But I think Windows has a way to "restore" Registry edits that Windows itself doesn't think you should be editing. I could be thinking of only Windows Defender and not Windows Updates.

Not so sure that would work. Windows has a way of using its "system32" folder to bring back anything that Windows itself thinks you "didn't really intend to delete" even though you knew exactly why you were deleting it.

Ok. But that wasn't a "question", it ends with a "." and not a "?" But yes, if NTLite was part of MSFN, then I guess there is no reason that WinReducerEX can't be. Though it sounds like it was because the author of NTLite was an MSFN Member whereas the author of WinReducerEX is not.

What questions did I ask? I don't recall "asking" any.

One of my tricks, I will unpack ALL of my extensions and REMOVE the "description" line because I don't want it displayed on my chrome://extensions page, then repack them before drag-and-drop (Developer mode NOT needed, I've actually NEVER used "Developer mode"). This also CHANGES the extension's 32-digit "string" to something that would never match anything at CWS.

Nope, no plans to. People want something they can just download and run. They want the work done "for them". The process also takes some trial-and-error for drivers (especially for some laptop webcams) and MSFN Members do not have the patience for trial-and-error DIY that requires time on their end. There is also quite a bit of trial-and-error for .net framewoks and other things that Win10 doesn't install (or uninstall) by default until you go into Settings -> Programs and Features. My install does all of these installs (and unistalls [XPS Printer comes to mind]) right from the first install. There has been times where I will install a "hotfix update", but for the most part I do not believe in up-to-date OSs, the hype and propaganda for "security" is just that, hype and propaganda. The typical MSFN Member does not share that belief, they want auto-update, they want every hotfix that Win Update throws at them, they loose sleep if they run an OS from 2016 without any updates post-2016. The XP crowd is probably the exception - but even most of them want "stuff" like POSReady which I myself do not support.

Agreed. Doing some digging, my older versions of Win10 have Windows Updates intentionally broken. It will show up as a "service" but is disabled and the Settings -> Update status page is intentionally broken and no updates are ever installed "automatically" (I do update, but I update MANUALLY, never "automatically"). And it never turns itself back on (I do not recall if it did before all of my tweaks). And yes, you are seeing this correct - Win10 is quick, snappy, and responsive with only ONE GB RAM once you tweak the "crap" out of it. That said, Win10 2016 LTSB does show its age every once in a while and installers for some programs will not install unless on newer versions of Win10.

Try changing the https part of the update_url to hxxps. I've not tried it because I use ungoogled and disable the CWS API URL.

GPU-Z does seem to work in XP x64 on my GeForce GT 635. But it's pretty much always at 0% with a 1% blip very rarely. YouTube 1080p videos would bring it up to between 6 and 8%. Nothing seemed to bring it any higher than 8%.

Ungoogled does intentionally block extensions from auto-updating. I've seen some extensions that "phone home" to GitHub instead of Chrome Web Store.

I would look at the internal .js files BEFORE you drag-and-drop. My guess is the auto-update URL can be disabled via internal .js file.

Oh, forgot to check last night if my POP Peeper accesses my O365 email.

Hmmm. I was not an MSFN Member in 2018. NTLite does not seem to hit recent discussions so I guess I assumed that tools of that nature were discouraged.

I have never heard of a Win10 option that intentionally discharges the battery at an accelerated pace. Are you referring to things like your SCREEN BRIGHTNESS? Dimming your display will increase battery life. Also, do not use screensavers. Monitor your CPU percentage with a screen saver on versus using none, CPU percentages actually increases when using a screensaver.

My Win10 installs do not even have Windows Update capability. I intentionally remove this capability, I don't just disable it, the capability is not even installed alongside my Win10 installation. I will have to confirm from home. It's possible I may have intentionally "broken it". Unsure which direction I went. I use WinReducerEX but I am unsure if "how to" guides fall within MSFN allowed content.

That doesn't generally prevent a nagscreen popup or intrusive banner.

I've never needed to LOG IN just to download from mega.

BINGO! Norton "harms" your computer! McAfee "harms" your computer! They ALL have "CVE vulnerability" reports!

Get a file to download in a way that you know it works - observe time of download. Then go by the file timestamps to narrow down which files to delete.

Don't delete the whole Moonchild Productions folder but only delete the items insde that folder. Use a "loader" / "launcher" to launch your PM28 that automatically deletes these for you every time you exit or at every launch (some launchers can do one but not the other, the effect is actually the same).

Agreed. I've had to "defuse" that sort of thing on some software (and even browser extensions), though exact "how to" details are above the scope of MSFN. Hint: 30 days expressed in seconds is 2.592e+6. Very commonly programmed-in as a "time bomb".

I use POP Peeper.