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00:00:00 – 00:10:39
The video tutorial thoroughly explains how to disable the "News and Interests" feature on Windows 10 to improve system performance for some users. It covers downloading and installing administrative templates from Microsoft's official site, updating Group Policy settings, and configuring new policies via the Group Policy Management Console. Key steps include navigating computer configurations, updating administrative templates, applying necessary changes, and ensuring that the proper group policies are linked and activated. The presenter repeatedly emphasizes the importance of restarting the computer to apply changes immediately, although policies typically refresh every 90 minutes. The tutorial highlights the potential impact on login speed due to this feature and concludes by ensuring the viewers' changes take effect post-restart. This method helps streamline the taskbar to enhance user experience and system efficiency.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on demonstrating how to disable the news and interest feature on Windows 10. The presenter explains that this feature can slow down systems for some users and shows how to turn it off using group policy. They navigate to the domain controller and group policy management console, then highlight the need to download administrative templates from Microsoft’s official site. After showing that they have already downloaded and installed the necessary MSI file, they guide viewers on how to locate and copy the .admx files to the Group Policy definitions folder to update and apply the settings.
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In this part of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to update templates for Windows 10. They focus on configuring Group Policy to disable the news and interests feature on the taskbar. The steps include updating the location for the en US code, accessing Group Policy Management, creating a new GPO, and editing it by navigating to Computer Configurations and Administrative Templates. The speaker then expands Windows components, locates the news and interests option, and disables it by applying the changes. They also ensure that only the computer configuration is applied without affecting the user configuration, by adjusting the GPO properties and disabling the user configuration.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to disable a link and set a specific group policy on Windows 10 computers. They emphasize going into the computer settings, disabling the news feature, and ensuring the policy is linked properly. The process involves restarting the computer to apply the group policy changes immediately, although they note that policies typically apply every 90 minutes. The segment concludes with the computer restarting and logging back in to confirm the changes.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the process of enabling or disabling news and interests on a computer’s taskbar. They point out that there was no news and interests option appearing in the taskbar menu initially. They explain the steps of applying a group policy and restarting the computer to ensure that the feature is either enabled or disabled. The speaker notes that this setting can impact the speed of logging into the computer.