Advanced Plus Security Geminis3's Security Config 2020

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

I used builtbybel/privatezilla to disable telemetry and remove OneDrive along with Cortana (it's not available on my country but still eating resources in the background)

No tools needed. OneDrive can be uninstalled from windows programs and features menu.

Cortana was the start menu but got into own which doesn't do anything if not used

 

[bayasdev]

No tools needed. OneDrive can be uninstalled from windows programs and features menu.

No, OneDrive will keep reinstalling itself until you modify the registry and change a GPO

 

[bayasdev]

Finally replaced the low quality 256GB SSD that came with my laptop with a 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe, I also applied GC Extreme thermal paste and this thing now feels better than brand new. My CPU and GPU no longer exceed 80 degrees on heavy games and the fans are quieter than ever.

Old 256GB M2

New 1TB NVMe

Now I can say that Windows 10 requires a NVMe to work properly.

PD: I couldn't find a M2 to SATA adapter to replace my HDD with the old SSD and probably install Kubuntu on it.
PD2: Macrium backup refused to boot and gave me BSODs so I had to clean install Windows but fortunately you can access the content of the backup from Reflect and transfer data easily.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Now I can say that Windows 10 requires a NVMe to work properly

How did you come to this result?
I use it on normal SSD and it works

 

[bayasdev]

How did you come to this result?
I use it on normal SSD and it works

CPU usage it's very low with the NVMe, the most notable case it's Windows Defender whose performance impact it's very low on the new disk but it was quite high with the old one

 

[Nevi]

I use a normal Samsung Evo 860 SSD, and everything run like in butter. When I watch my desktop with everything closed and idle, it's on 0% CPU.

 

[bayasdev]

27/10/2020

• Added OSArmor

 

[FireHammer]

Hi, I have no advice, it is perfect, besides I do not love Microsoft Defender that much, I am a third party guy.

 

[oldschool]

Added OSArmor

Paid subscription?

 

[bayasdev]

Paid subscription?

Trial aka uninstall it after 30 days if I don't need it

 

[bayasdev]

Removed OSArmor, it blocked some non Steam games from launching

 

[bayasdev]

Sucessfully managed to dual boot Windows 10 and Kubuntu using different drives, all I did was disabling on the BIOS the port where the Windows NVMe is attached so the Kubuntu installer will only recognize a single disk and don't mess with the Windows 10 EFI partition.

To boot into Kubuntu with this method I use the F12 key to access the BIOS boot menu (I have Windows as first boot priority).

For this experiment I used my old HDD but I'm going to buy the cheapest 120GB SATA SSD the next week to get the best of both worlds (gaming on Windows and programming on Kubuntu).

 

[bayasdev]

I'm back to ISP's KIS

EDIT: I forgot to say that I switched to FF Beta as main browser, the new WARP javascript engine feels faster althrough it consumes more RAM than Chromium

 

[bayasdev]

Got my secondary 120GB SSD and installed Kubuntu 20.10 on it, IMO the most elegant and efficient distro as long as you don't install WINE on it (that's why I have Windows on the other drive ).

Also mounted my Data/Games partition to share files between both OS (Windows can't read EXT4) but I had to disable Windows 10 fast boot because it locks the entire drive and thus preventing Kubuntu from writing to it.

 

[bayasdev]

KIS 2021 builtin uninstaller broke Windows Firewall and had to reinstall, now using just Defender + Hardentools on my Windows disk.

 

[YuanJiawj]

KIS 2021 builtin uninstaller broke Windows Firewall and had to reinstall, now using just Defender + Hardentools on my Windows disk.

Defender + Hardentools un combo muy interesante
interesting, didn't know about that tool (Hardentools).

 

[bayasdev]

didn't know about that tool (Hardentools).

I got to know about it on a Mental Outlaw video (very good content but not suitable for all audiences)

 

[bayasdev]

13/12/2020 Clean installed 20H2 on NVMe

• Now using a standard user account as per Linux philosophy to avoid logging in as root for everyday computing
• Removed Brave due to suspicious behavior after uninstall
• Adobe Reader Touch as default PDF reader as per @Andy Ful recommendation (extra sandboxing)
• No extra tools to disable services, sticking to gpedit to disable Cortana and OneDrive
• Removed most UWP apps that can be uninstalled from system settings
• Dual boot with Arch Linux

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

13/12/2020 Clean installed 20H2 on NVMe

• Now using a standard user account as per Linux philosophy to avoid logging in as root for everyday computing
• Removed Brave due to suspicious behavior after uninstall
• Adobe Reader Touch as default PDF reader as per @Andy Ful recommendation (extra sandboxing)
• No extra tools to disable services, sticking to gpedit to disable Cortana and OneDrive
• Removed most UWP apps that can be uninstalled from system settings
• Dual boot with Arch Linux

Can you talk more about removed Brave due to suspicious behavior after uninstall?

 

[bayasdev]

Can you talk more about removed Brave due to suspicious behavior after uninstall?

Uninstall Brave and reboot, Brave Software updater keeps running on the background for like an hour after uninstalling Brave doing who knows what