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Reduce the cognitive load of Windows 10

How NOT to do it:
https://betanews.com/2016/06/03/disable-windows-10-live-tiles/

This one seems to get rid of some of the annoyance, but doesn’t fully remove the tiles like I wanted to:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3051121/remove-live-tiles-from-the-windows-10-start-menu.html

And if you want to reload the files, this might reinstall them:
https://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/windows-10/has-your-windows-10-start-menu-stopped-working-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532

This command was used in Powershell: I probably shouldn’t have used it – it was attempting to install files that were out of date

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}


Image of before (well part way through removing the tiles):

Part way through removing tiles

Final Start menu:

Final Start menu without any of the clutter

And there are the notes of what I did to get rid of the annoying extra tiles.

OptimizeWindowsWindows 10

John • 2019-04-09


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