Tips to Make Windows 10 Suck Less

Windows 10 has been pretty great so far.

WHY HAS NO ONE MENTIONED WORKSPACES?
I always heard Windows 10 hyped up as a marriage of Windows 8 and Windows 7. Sure, I heard that Win 10 was going to have a ‘package manager’, just-like-Linux, but no one mentioned the workspaces.
Sure, I still don’t know the shortcut keys. Apparently it’s Win + Ctrl + Left/Right to switch desktop. – Other keyboard shortcuts I wish I knew were “Move window to left/right desktop”, and for when I’m lucky enough to have multiple monitors, “Move window to left/right display”.
Scott Hansleman goes over command prompt hotkeys, also, which is nice.

Upgrade process? Well, for me, I did a fresh install of Win 8.1 Pro, then directly upgraded to Win 10 via the Windows Update.. doing that works really well. (“fresh install”, though.). And on my lab machine, I did a fresh install of Win 10 Education edition. (Which I blame for breaking my Linux installation, though I did play a bit with EasyBCD, so might be PEBKAC).

But the things that annoyed me most:

Family Settings

With Family Settings installed, I couldn’t use the internet.
On Internet Explorer (“Edge”), it wouldn’t show comments on some YouTube videos, and wouldn’t show some YouTube videos altogether. – I was left bemused as to why some videos were ‘taken down’ from my favourite channels.
Firefox was completely unusable with Win 10’s Family Settings enabled – It refused to acknowledge validity of the HTTPS certificates.

Instructions to turn off Microsoft Family settings, i.e. go to https://account.microsoft.com/family and you can remove yourself.

– On a side note, I faced issues like this when I first got a Windows Phone; it wouldn’t let me install Facebook or WhatsApp.

Chocolatey / OneGet

It’s hard to find resources for this.
Some are outdated, or incorrect. Scott Hanselman’s post is good, with the proviso:

• As Kerry’s comment says, Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass needs to be set to enable the scripts to execute.

• As various commenters indicate, PoSh should be run as Administrator to get the scripts to install correctly.

Instructions to install are in the post, but roughly all you need is then, e.g. install-package consolez or install-package -name consolez if the name is ambiguous. (Btw, yeah, use ConsoleZ or ConEmu rather than PoSh directly.).