On 12 May 2016 at 19:51, 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel < mpir-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Probably if you get a brand new Windows machine and turn off system backup, > virus scanning, all resident programs, make sure it is up-to-date with > patches and disconnect it from the internet, etc., etc., you might get it > to quiet down enough to give it a go. I remember Jason Moxham spent days > trying to get a Windows machine to quieten down enough. I don't think he > was ever successful. > I don't know whether the following has been tried. The standard way to temporarily have a minimalist system (no defender, internet etc etc) is to boot into "Safe Mode". Cortana stiil shows up as a service (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), but now it's just the (disk) search front end. I'm sure a quick duckduckgo will turn up a solution to shutting cortana as well. The simplest way to do this is to use the msconfig option listed in this link <http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10>. This option gives you fine-grained control over the boot process. I don't know whether that satisfies your requirements, but it does give you a usable minimalist OS, without f'in it up. Reverse changes when for bootting normally. degski -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
