@Badlands’s optimization preferences
There’s no one-size-fits-all config: it depends on the PC, the games, the person. Here’s what they chose to turn on, and what they left as is.
75settings turned on out of 85
Privacy19/20
- Voice activation
- Background apps
- Windows Hello biometrics
- Search highlights
- Local search history
- Web language list
- Notifications and recent documents
- Typing and inking personalization
- Ads and suggestions in Edge
- Start menu account reminders
- Start menu recommendations
- Online speech recognition
- Web results in Windows Search
- Feedback and error reporting
- Location services
- App suggestions
- Clipboard sync
- TelemetryRisk
- Windows Spotlight (desktop)
- Sensitive app permissionsleft as is
Performance16/18
- NTFS long paths
- Turn off mouse acceleration
- Turn off the first sign-in animation
- Turn off touch keyboard correction
- Turn off Narrator
- Turn off Power Throttling
- Blue screen without auto restart
- Limit Edge preloading
- Windows Game Mode
- Stop timestamping every file read
- Windowed game optimizations
- Recommended power plan
- Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS)
- Exclusive fullscreen (FSE)
- CPU priority for the foreground app
- Responsive mouse in the background
- Turn off Xbox Game Barleft as is
- Turn off Multiplane Overlay (MPO)left as is
Maintenance10/13
- Block drivers from Windows UpdateRisk
- Remote Desktop
- Turn off fast startup
- Detailed blue screen
- AutoPlay
- Shared experiences
- Clipboard history
- Delivery Optimization (P2P)
- DiagTrack telemetry serviceRisk
- WAP push service (dmwappushservice)
- Block Windows UpdateHigh riskleft as is
- Updates: manual downloadleft as is
- Pause updates (one year)High riskleft as is
Interface9/9
- “End task” in the taskbar
- Full path in the tab
- Turn off accessibility shortcuts
- Visual effects: performance
- Hide Home and Gallery (File Explorer)
- Hide the Store in “Open with”
- Hide notifications on the lock screen
- Hide OneDrive ads in File Explorer
- Classic context menu
AI8/8
- Turn off Click to Do
- Turn off Copilot
- Turn off the Settings AI agent
- Turn off AI in Paint
- Turn off AI in Notepad
- Turn off AI and Copilot in Edge
- Turn off Recall
- Lock Recall (enabling and export)
System7/8
- Turn off the lock screen
- Turn off auto sign-in after restart
- Turn off the F1 key
- Detailed startup messages
- Num Lock at startup
- Sound scheme: No Sounds
- Separate Windows services
- Remove the EN-US keyboardleft as is
Security4/7
- Remote Assistance
- .NET strong cryptography
- Automatic network device install
- F8 boot menu
- Block firmware injections (WPBT)left as is
- Turn off Startup RepairHigh riskleft as is
- Core isolation (memory integrity)left as is
Memory2/2
- Turn off the UWP swap fileRisk
- Turn off SysMain (Superfetch)
