Recent content by SpacemanSam


  1. Time and Language Change Country or Region Geographic Location (GeoID) in Windows 11

    I can't find any of them either. Maybe you could try "Get-Realm" to find out where you currently are, then "Set-Realm" to go to the one you want. <Trying "Get-Realm"> Oops, that didn't work. How about "Get-Universe"? <Trying "Get-Universe"> Nope, that didn't work either. Shucks. Maybe if...
  2. Disable Tracking

    I've been writing my own tweaking program for about a decade now (a lot of it taken from this forum -- Thanks, Brink!) and the only part that doesn't work on Win.11 is the Start Menu builder -- Micro$lop changed the start menu building procedure so much so much that the Win.10 code simply...
  3. how to uninstall new "Windows Backup" bloat app?

    There is NO SUCH THING as a "cloud" - it's really just an obfuscatory name for "Someone Else's computer." And when you put your files on Someone Else's computer, they aren't your files anymore, they become that Someone Else's files, and that Someone Else is totally free to do whatever he/she/it...
  4. General Remove "Your searches might be slow because the index is not running. Click to turn on the index." in Windows 11

    On a hunch I set this value in HKLM instead of HKCU and... it works there too! :-) Do you know a registry setting (or anything else) to eliminate the similar (and equally annoying) message from the taskbar search?
  5. Apps Enable or Disable Allow Windows Terminal Run in Background in Windows 11

    How can I enable or disable this from a script (batch, PowerShell, etc.)?
  6. System Enable or Disable Experimental Agentic Features in Windows 11

    I agree totally. Check out "Remove Windows AI" on GitHub GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 I've added it to a Scheduled Task that runs after each Windows Update on all my computers, to fix the things that Micro$$$haft breaks with each update.
  7. Devices Enable or Disable Windows Studio Effects for Camera in Windows 11

    How do I disable this using a batch file, .reg file, PowerShell script, etc?
  8. Apps Enable or Disable Auto Image Categorization in Photos app on Windows 11

    How can I turn this feature off from a batch file, Regedit command or PowerShell script?
  9. The things I can't unsee - Microsoft's deception (A LONG but insightful rant)

    Please share the rest of what you've discovered, so the rest of us can benefit from your research. What registry keys to modify? What services to disable or delete? What other tweaks do you recommend? I would especially appreciate a PowerShell or batch file to apply these tweaks, as I have...
  10. Apps Uninstall and Reinstall OneDrive in Windows 11

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but there's no such thing as "the cloud" - it's just an obfuscatory name for "someone else's computer." When you store something "in the cloud", you're really uploading it to someone else's computer, and when you do so, the owner / legal operator of that computer now...
  11. Apps Change Storage Location of Offline Maps in Windows 11

    How do I do this from a batch file?
  12. Apps Enable or Disable Announcements from Feeds on Widgets Taskbar Icon in Windows 11

    That certainly makes it more difficult, but not necessarily impossible. PowerShell has some cmdlets to manipulate these types of files, and I've sometimes been able to determine what needs to be changed. Do you know the path/file where these settings are stored?
  13. Apps Enable or Disable Announcements from Feeds on Widgets Taskbar Icon in Windows 11

    I appreciate that. You've saved me a lot of work! Thanks. Well thank you Micro$oft (NOT). Certainly the settings must be saved somewhere or they wouldn't survive a reboot. I was hoping you knew where so I wouldn't have to go searching myself. Maybe Procmon can tell me.
  14. Apps Change Where New Apps will Save to in Windows 11

    Can this be done from a batch file?
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