proxo and newer windows

[ProxRocks]

"recant", of sorts...

while 90+ percent positive that i was able to thwart (&/or "break") all of Win10's telemetry crap, i have reverted back to my beloved WinXP Pro x64 for the home office...

the deal-breaker is that i use a file manager with a "preview" window and it would lock up on .flv and .mp4 files despite having up-to-date codecs...

i am still being forced by corporate policy to use Win10 at the office-office...
but i was able to demonstrate to the rest of the team on how much better/faster my install works over theirs...

now i'm updating all of their installs to match mine (and i'm not in the IT department) -
no metro apps of any kind
no Cortana
no Windows Defender
no Security Center
no "toast" notifications of any kind
no McAfee bloatware (company has been duped into this for years!)
no shadows/animations/visual effects
no "file indexing"
no software "compatibility" checks (we have CAD programs that grind the hard drive for 20 seconds just because Win10 runs these!)
end-of-day file syncs as opposed to at system-startup (was like pulling teeth, but finally convinced the team)
et cetera