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Customize Windows Settings

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System

Display

ms-settings:display
  • Scale in Scale & layout: 125%

Display > Night light

ms-settings:nightlight
  • Schedule night light: true

Display > Graphics

ms-settings:display-advancedgraphics
  • Let Minecraft’s JRE use an external graphics card
    • Add an app: Desktop app
    • Click Browse and open folder %userprofile%\curseforge\minecraft\Install\runtime\
    • Set the following applications to High Performance
java-runtime-alpha\windows-x64\java-runtime-alpha\bin\java.exe
java-runtime-alpha\windows-x64\java-runtime-alpha\bin\javaw.exe
java-runtime-beta\windows-x64\java-runtime-beta\bin\java.exe
java-runtime-beta\windows-x64\java-runtime-beta\bin\javaw.exe
jre-legacy\windows-x64\jre-legacy\bin\java.exe
jre-legacy\windows-x64\jre-legacy\bin\javaw.exe
jre-x64\bin\java.exe
jre-x64\bin\javaw.exe

Notif‌ications & actions

ms-settings:notifications

  • Snipping Tool in Notifications from apps and other senders: false

  • Expand Additional settings

    • Show the Windows welcome experience after updates and when signed in to show what’s new: false and suggested
    • Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and finish setting up this device: false
    • Get tips and suggestions when using Windows: false

Power & sleep

ms-settings:powersleep
  • Expand Screen and sleep
    • On battery power, turn off after: 10 minutes
    • When plugged in, turn off after: 20 minutes
    • On battery power, PC goes to sleep after: 15 minutes
    • When plugged in, PC goes to sleep after: Never

Storage

ms-settings:storagesense
  • Storage sense: true
  • Open Storage sense
    • Delete files in my Downloads folder if they haven’t been opened for more than: 14 days

Multitasking

ms-settings:multitasking
  • Pressing Alt + Tab shows: Don’t show tabs

Clipboard

ms-settings:clipboard
  • Clipboard history: true
  • Sync across your devices: true
    • Manually sync text that I copy: true

About

ms-settings:about
  • Rename your PC to a suitable name

Bluetooth & devices

Mouse > TrackPoint settings

  1. Modern touchpad driver
ms-settings:mousetouchpad

  • Setup modern touchpad driver

    • Click TrackPoint settings in ELAN TrackPoint for Thinkpad
    • Middle Button Action: Middle click

  • Or setup old touchpad driver

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    • Open ThinkPad tab
    • Middle mouse click: Use as middle click

Touchpad

ms-settings:devices-touchpad

  • Expand Three-finger gestures in Gestures & interaction

    • Swipes: Switch apps and show desktop
    • Taps: Middle mouse button

  • Expand Four-finger gestures in Gestures & interaction

    • Swipes: Change audio and volume
    • Taps: Play/pause

Typing > Hardware keyboard

ms-settings:devicestyping-hwkbtextsuggestions
  • Show text suggestions as I type on the physical keyboard: true

Personalization

Colors

ms-settings:personalization-colors
  • Accent color: Orange

Themes > Desktop icon settings

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  • Recycle bin: false

Taskbar

ms-settings:taskbar
  • Expand Taskbar items
    • Task view: false
    • Chat: false
  • Expand Taskbar corner icon
    • Pen Menu: false
    • Touch keyboard: false
  • Expand Other system tray icons
    • Microsoft OneDrive: true
    • shortcutFox.exe: true
    • Disable everything else

Pin apps to taskbar

  • Unpin all application
  • Pin Microsoft Edge
  • Pin Visual Studio Code
    • Open the following folder in VS Code and trust their parent folder
    • D:\WIKI\doc
    • D:\WIKI\Setup-Computer
    • D:\DEV\shortcutFox
    • D:\LATEX\LaTeX.equations
    • D:\LATEX\LaTeX.cleanSyntax
    • Right-click VS Code in the taskbar and pin the folders to the list
  • Pin OneNote for Windows 10
  • Pin File Explorer
  • Pin Calendar
  • Pin Mail

Apps

Video playback

ms-settings:videoplayback
  • Process video automatically to enhance it (depends on your device hardware): true

Time & language

Typing > Advanced keyboard settings

ms-settings:typing

Hide the language swapper icon in the taskbbar

  • Open Advanced keyboard settings
    • Use desktop language bar when it’s available: true
    • Right-click the language bar in the upper-left corner of the screen
      • Click Close the Language bar and confirm the dialog
    • Open Language bar options > Advanced Key Settings
      • Set all sequences to Not Assigned

Region > Additional date, time & regional settings

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  • Format: English (United States)
  • Click Additional settings…
    • Open Numbers tab
      • Decimal symbol: .
      • Digit grouping symbol: ,
      • List separator: ,
    • Open Date tab
      • Short date: yyyy-MM-dd
    • Click Apply and OK
  • Open Administrative tab
    • Click Copy settings… and confirm dialog
    • Welcome screen and system accounts: true
    • New user accounts: true
    • Click OK

Privacy & security

Windows Security > Open Windows Security

windowsdefender:
  • Open Settings in the bottom-left corner
  • Open Manage notifications
  • Recent activity and scan results: false

For developers

ms-settings:developers
  • Terminal: Windows Terminal

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