Customize Windows Settings

System

Display

ms-settings:display

• 125% ← Scale # Scale & layout

Display > Night light

ms-settings:nightlight

• Schedule night light

Display > Graphics

ms-settings:display-advancedgraphics

• Let Minecraft’s JRE use an external graphics card
  • Desktop app ← Add an 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 # Notifications from apps and other senders

• Expand Additional settings

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

Power & sleep

ms-settings:powersleep

• Expand Screen and sleep
  • 10 minutes ← On battery power, turn off after
  • 20 minutes ← When plugged in, turn off after
  • 15 minutes ← On battery power, PC goes to sleep after
  • Never ← When plugged in, PC goes to sleep after

Storage

ms-settings:storagesense

• Storage sense
• Open Storage sense
  • 14 days ← Delete files in my Downloads folder if they haven’t been opened for more than:

Multitasking

ms-settings:multitasking

• Pressing Alt + Tab shows: Don’t show tabs

Clipboard

ms-settings:clipboard

• Clipboard history
• Sync across your devices
  • Manually sync text that I copy

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 # ELAN TrackPoint for Thinkpad
  • Middle click ← Middle Button Action

• Or setup old touchpad driver

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

Touchpad

ms-settings:devices-touchpad

• Expand Three-finger gestures in # Gestures & interaction

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

• Expand Four-finger gestures in # Gestures & interaction

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

Typing > Hardware keyboard

ms-settings:devicestyping-hwkbtextsuggestions

• Show text suggestions as I type on the physical keyboard

Personalization

Colors

ms-settings:personalization-colors

• Orange ← Accent color

Themes > Desktop icon settings

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• Recycle bin

Taskbar

ms-settings:taskbar

• Expand Taskbar items
  • Task view
  • Chat
• Expand Taskbar corner icon
  • Pen Menu
  • Touch keyboard
• Expand Other system tray icons
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • shortcutFox.exe
  • 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)

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

For developers

ms-settings:developers

• Windows Terminal ← Terminal

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