Comment on what is my purpose rule

Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a good point:

  Disable copilot via regedit

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge] “HubsSidebarEnabled”=dword:00000000

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=dword:00000001

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=dword:00000001

  Reenable copilot via regedit

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=-

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=-

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge] “HubsSidebarEnabled”=-

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=-

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] “DisableSearchBoxSuggestions”=-

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta love Microsoft. “We need this to store either a 0 or a 1. How many bits should we take up, boss?”

    32.

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Using more than one bit for true/false isn’t just a microsoft thing, and not really as ridiculous as it sounds. If you have 32 bits in one memory address, you can either:

      • Do it like the example here. This is pretty normal.
      • Use bitfields: Pack multiple values into the same address, but “waste” more memory and cpu time for keeping track and checking which bit your bool is in. This is mostly useful when the data itself has to be really small.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bet the person who decided to store gender as a 32 bit value instead of a single bit is feeling utterly proud of his foresight right now.

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    • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks to be the smallest supported integer type: …microsoft.com/…/25cce700-7fcf-4bb6-a2f3-0f6d0843…

      I don’t know much about the registry file format or the Windows APIs, but it’s possible that smaller data types wouldn’t save space due to alignment requirements for the datastructures.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like other options of its ilk, this surely ultimately just sets a flag in the registry someplace, which anyone can do once we figure out what the path to that flag is.

  Incidentally, although I have had to do this in a long time, you can move a copy of the Group Policy Management snap-in (gpedit.msc) from a Windows 10 pro/enterprise/whatever machine over to a Win10 Home machine and run it, and it’ll Just Work.

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