i hate w10.

There is the Enterprise version of Windows 10 that has a lot more granular control over telemetry, updates Etc. This is sold to business customers under the terms of Multiple licensing, which is only really viable for quantities of hundreds or thousands of seats.

Enterprise is available to non corporate customers only as a part of the MSDN subscription.

There are some options to give more granular control of updates by default in Windows 10 Professional, the options for control of telemetry is the same as the home versions as far as I can see

Barman58 said:

There is the Enterprise version of Windows 10 that has a lot more granular control over telemetry, updates Etc. This is sold to business customers under the terms of Multiple licensing, which is only really viable for quantities of hundreds or thousands of seats.

Enterprise is available to non corporate customers only as a part of the MSDN subscription.

There are some options to give more granular control of updates by default in Windows 10 Professional, the options for control of telemetry is the same as the home versions as far as I can see

Even better than Windows 10 Enterprise is Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB - long term service branch. It's not what it's got, more what it hasn't - no Cortana, no Edge, no tiles, no Store, no Candy Crush, Groove Music, Money, Phone Companion etc (or any other nonsense) - in fact NO APPS ! LTSB doesn't have WMP or WMC, but there's a media pack available at MS for WMP,
I tried it in a VM and it was amazing, straight out of the box, to click the start menu and find it empty ie no placeholders/adverts or any other garbage. Also you only get security updates, with no sudden unexpected version changes + surprise restarts - you can choose when to get these.

Because this is the version of Windows 10 that people actually want, Microsoft have kept it well hidden - even from their business customers.

See snip of LTSB menu (or lack of it).



All I want from an OS is a platform to run my software. I don't want all the bells + whistles razzmatazz.

Sound like Win10 LTSB is a operating system that many would be willing to pay for.

It would be on my list of things to give a try and if I like it; buy it.

It's a shame one can't buy it without a volume licensing.



Jack

I stopped Windows Update of 10 on my laptop because it's already slow. Telemetry becomes an issue as well especially on those running with HDDs. I have to stop the Telemetry from task manager everytime the drive light is always on and not blinking that much.

But it's a great OS. You just have to stop too many services unfortunately :\

Hi,
10 media creation tool is utterly useless too and as far as I know is the only way to get an iso now to clean install the latest build other than the silly insider builds.

Hi,
I believe uefi bios is pretty cool
Now a pure uefi install is dubious seeing the most important part of it is bitlocker and most versions can not use it except ultimate and enterprise editions
There is secure boot but for the most part that is just a pain in the ass if you end up with booting issues.... just makes it tougher to get into the bios seems to me.