Still important. Try to get rid of Cortana for instance. MS is forcing that crap...

wtallis · on Sept 14, 2019

At the moment, if you set Windows 10 to not send every keystroke to Bing when you're searching for a start menu shortcut, the search process locks up and consumes an entire CPU core. Microsoft isn't serious about the privacy options they pretend to offer.

NullPrefix · on Sept 14, 2019

Wait what? This cannot be serious.

wtallis · on Sept 15, 2019

Apparently Microsoft did get a fix out earlier this week; I'd been avoiding my Windows machines waiting for this.

The patch that introduced the bug: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512941/windows-10-...

The patch that fixed the bug: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4515384/windows-10-...

Description and workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/cxmot9/windows_1...

It's still clear that Microsoft's QA procedures focus too highly on testing the default configurations rather than the sane configurations.