New Windows installation best practices for BI

[Chuck C]

Sorry if this exists already but I've been all through the wiki and searched the forums and couldn't find any defacto guides. I've run BI for years with a VM on a rather beefy machine and recently got a free to me Dell Optiplex that will do nicely to let me run on bare metal instead and repurpose the beefy machine for other stuff. I'm setting it up and just wonder what folks commonly do with various Windows 10 settings to trim out all the typical junk that comes along with the default installation. I will only use this machine for BI so don't need anything else running. Does anyone slim down their Windows by disabling things or do you just run with all the defaults?

 

[wittaj]

Use the media creation tool to install a non bloatware windows.

De-register BI and then load up BI on the new computer.

 

[Chuck C]

I did use the media creation tool and fresh installed, I don't necessarily mean like Dell bloatware or whatever, I mean shutting off unused Windows features/services/etc.

 

[wittaj]

Oh OK. Then yeah start disabling stuff you don't need like indexing, scanners, etc. And hope you don't shut off something that is needed lol.

 

[samplenhold]

One thing to turn off is the auto defragmenting of your drives. If you don't, then you will really have a slow machine.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Disable Win10/Pro updates

What Is Windows Update Medic Service and How to Disable It? - MiniTool

What is the Windows Update Medic Service? How to disable Windows Update Medic Service? This post shows you the solutions.

www.minitool.com

 

[Alaska Country]

Took a look on the above "Update Medic Services" to use the registary to make the change.

"Open it and then navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc path and then set its value data to 4. After that, the Windows Update Medic Service is disabled. "

However, did not find an entry that displayed "path". Only ImagePath. Suggestions?

 

[Chuck C]

Took a look on the above "Update Medic Services" to use the registary to make the change.

"Open it and then navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc path and then set its value data to 4. After that, the Windows Update Medic Service is disabled. "

However, did not find an entry that displayed "path". Only ImagePath. Suggestions?


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I just looked this up, you change the Start key value to 4 then reboot to take effect. Just did it and verified it works.

 

[Chuck C]

One thing to turn off is the auto defragmenting of your drives. If you don't, then you will really have a slow machine.

Thanks for the idea! Just for the sake of helping others, here's a quick how to: Windows 10 disable automatic defragmentation

 

[Alaska Country]

I just looked this up, you change the Start key value to 4 then reboot to take effect. Just did it and verified it works.

Made the change. Appreciate your research in locating the correct name and key.