Folks, yesterday afternoon I decided to "clean up" my brand new Windows 10 development box. Using sysinternals tools I found dozens of services and auto-start things that I disabled. I cleared the start tiles, uninstalled some OS features, etc. It all went quite well, but I haven't defeated and removed Flash yet!! I took thinks a step further and followed the hints in these pages to clear junk folders out of the Windows Explorer tree and to remove all the Universal apps that I will never use:
http://www.askvg.com/tip-remove-6-extra-folders-from-windows-10-explorer-this-pc/ http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/ This all worked beautifully, but this morning when I booted I got a weird screen telling me "Windows has installed updates and all of your files are exactly where you left them". My screen background was black, and absolutely everything I uninstalled or altered yesterday was undone. Everything is back, folders, apps, everything. This makes me very angry. Who owns this PC? *Greg K*
