Want to disable Windows Search but still find files quickly? See what Lookeen can do. While indexing speeds up the search process, it may take up a lot of system resources from your computer, so you may contemplate disabling Windows Search for this and maybe other reasons.
Continue reading to find out how to disable Windows Search in Windows 8 and To temporarily stop the service, right-click and select Stop —next time you start up your computer, it will start running once again.
If you want to re-enable the Windows Search Service, obviously searching for services. Here are a few ways to return to the Services window without searching for it:. Right click on any service and click Open Services. You can also disable Windows 7 search. It might be easier if you choose to view the icons within Control Panel in Large Icons View , and then click where it says Programs and Features.
Copy the files and folders to the clipboard. If prompted, replace the existing files. Overwrite the existing files. Microsoft Teams Prevent the per-user version of Teams from installing with Office aka Microsoft apps. The Machine-wide installer does not update itself. You must periodically download the latest version, uninstall the Machine-wide installer, and install the latest version. Extract the downloaded. Check the box next to I agree to the license terms and conditions and click Install.
In the Setup Successful page, click Restart. Here is some info on group policy configuration: The FSLogix. Copy these files to your PolicyDefinitions folder. The Profile Containers node lets you capture the entire profile and not just Office VHD Location is a machine setting that applies to all users that log into the machine. If you want different paths for different users, then configure the ObjectSpecific registry key as detailed at Microsoft Docs.
VHDLocations can have multiple values. Under Container and Directory Naming enable the setting Swap directory name components.
For Office Containers, back in the Office Containers node, review each of the Include settings and enable whichever data you want to include in the Office Container. Enable Store search database in Office container or Store search database in profile container. However, many people have reported problems with Windows Search. It might be possible to disable the new per-user search and instead enable FSLogix search roaming. On the right, enable the setting Enable search roaming and set it to Multi-user or Single-user.
You have to enable two different Search Roaming settings. If Office is already installed, then repair the Office installation after installing and starting the Windows Search Service. See Office Container Exclusions for details. See Adjust driver frxdrvvt altitude with UniDesk. Dale Scriven explains the per-machine Teams installer in more detail. Microsoft OneDrive — Install the sync client per machine instead of the normal per-user installer. Double-click the latest version.
Then open the adm folder. Right-click the OneDrive. Go back to the OneDrive files and copy OneDrive. Before September , this setting is Computer half only, which means it applies to all users, including administrators.
Teams Prevent the per-user version of Teams from installing with Office aka Microsoft apps. Windows Windows 8. On the right, open Local user name and password. Enable the setting. Check the top two boxes and click OK. Is there anything on the Start Menu or Desktop? Thanks for the quick reply. Will do further tests and maybe register to World of EUC. Computer script?
Or user script? Try doing a procmon during logon and search for that script to see the issue. FSLogix easily handles Outlook search index. But FSLogix needs disk space.
So here are the scenarios: 1. New VHDX, no redirections. Sign-out and sign-in, still works. Thank you Dash. The licensing information and activation without SCA is stored in the following directory:. You can configure Shared Computer Activation and the location of the roaming activation token using Group Policy, the local registry, or the configuration.
If you are using persistent VDI where users are assigned a desktop they are frequently using, shared computer activation is not necessary and does not need to be used. You can either modify and edit the Office configuration.
Using the Office Deployment Tool and the Office Customization Tool, you can customize your Office installation to your specific needs and requirements. Once you have a configuration. The configurations you use will vary depending on your VDI deployment type which I will get in to below. The behavior will match that of a typical workstation as far as software updates are concerned. Even if you are using persistent VDI, I highly recommend you read the notes below on installing Office on non-persistent VDI as you may want to incorporate that configuration in to your deployment.
To deploy Office with non-persistent VDI, things are a little different than with persistent. Using the Office installer for the above products will cause issues as the software gets installed in the user profile instead of the operating system itself. This is because these are not used in my environment. We also choose to accept the EULA for users so they are not prompted. Go ahead and download the MSI installers from below and follow the instructions below:.
In persistent VDI environments, the auto-update mechanism will be enabled and activated unless you chose to disable it , and Office will update as it does with normal windows instances.
In non-persistent VDI environments the updating mechanism will be disabled as per the XML configuration example above. Thanks for this, can you please explain how i can add windows 10 admx when already i have win 7 admx what i found. To create a Central Store for. You can download it here. Download NOW. VMware Workstation and other IT tutorials. Free IT tools. Home Lab Reviews — Virtualization Software and reviews, Disaster and backup recovery software reviews.
Virtual infrastructure monitoring software review. Comments Super duper useful compared to the Microsoft Technet article!!! If you disable this setting, the Microsoft Compatibility List isn't used during browser navigation.
Directs Edge to open with blank content when a new tab is opened. Disables autofill on address bar. If you enable this setting, Do Not Track requests are always sent to websites asking for tracking info.
If you disable this setting, employees can't use Password Manager to save their passwords locally. Users can't see search suggestions in the Address bar of Microsoft Edge. If you enable this setting, you can configure one or more Start pages.
Windows Defender SmartScreen is turned off and employees can't turn it on. NOTE: Consider this setting within the environment.
If not connected to the Internet, this will prevent the computers from trying to contact Microsoft for SmartScreen information. Users won't see the First Run page when opening Microsoft Edge for the first time.
Enable this setting to prevent the OneDrive sync client OneDrive. Unless OneDrive is used on- or off-premises. If you enable this policy setting, the ability to synchronize feeds and Web Slices in the background is turned off. When Cortana is off, users will still be able to use search to find things on the device. If you enable this policy setting, queries won't be performed on the web and web results won't be displayed when a user performs a query in Search.
Share usage information but don't share search history, Microsoft account info or specific location. Enabling this setting prevents this computer from sending data to Microsoft regarding its activation state. Will not periodically check for updated speech models. If you enable this setting, the automatic download and installation of app updates is turned off. If you enable this setting, the automatic download of app updates is turned off. If you enable this policy setting, "sync your settings" will be turned off, and none of the "sync your setting" groups will be synced on this device.
Only if not opted-in for MAPS diagnostic data. If you enable this setting, Windows Defender Antivirus enhanced notifications will not display on clients. If you enable this setting, definition update sources will be contacted in the order specified.
Once definition updates have been successfully downloaded from one specified source, the remaining sources in the list will not be contacted. Enabling this policy will disable that functionality, and might cause connection to public services such as the Windows Store to stop working. NOTE: This policy applies only when this device is configured to connect to an intranet update service using the "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" policy.
Selecting Disable preview builds will prevent preview builds from installing on the device. Disables preview builds. Enable this policy to specify the level of Preview Build or feature updates to receive, and when. Enable this setting if you would like to prevent the OneDrive sync client OneDrive. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender will not send notifications with critical information about the health and security of your device.
The system does not conduct the final drive search. It just displays a message explaining that the file is not found. The people icon will be removed from the taskbar, the corresponding settings toggle is removed from the taskbar settings page, and users will not be able to pin people to the taskbar.
Start Menu and Taskbar Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications Enabled. Users cannot pin the Store app to the Taskbar.
If the Store app is already pinned to the Taskbar, it will be removed from the Taskbar on next sign in. If your environment does not connect to the Internet at all, or connects indirectly, you can set a group policy setting to remove the Network icon from the Taskbar.
The reason you might want to remove the Network icon from the Taskbar is if you turn off Internet connectivity checks, there will be a yellow flag on the Network icon, even though the network might be functioning normally.
If you would like to remove the network icon as a group policy setting, you can find that in this location:. If you're considering disabling your system services to conserve resources, great care should be taken that the service being considered isn't in some way a component of some other service.
Note that some services are not in the list because they can't be disabled in a supported manner. Most of these recommendations mirror recommendations for Windows Server , installed with the Desktop Experience in Guidance on disabling system services on Windows Server with Desktop Experience.
Many services that might seem like good candidates to disable are set to manual service start type. This means that the service won't automatically start and isn't started unless a process or event triggers a request to the service being considered for disabling.
Services that are already set to start type Manual are usually not listed here. You can enumerate running services with this PowerShell sample code, outputting only the service short name:.
Per-user services are services that are created when a user signs into Windows or Windows Server and are stopped and deleted when that user signs out. These services run in the security context of the user account - this provides better resource management than the previous approach of running these kinds of services in Explorer, associated with a preconfigured account, or as tasks.
Per-user services in Windows 10 and Windows Server. If you intend to change a service start value, the preferred method is to open an elevated. For more information on using 'Sc. The following list of tasks are those that perform optimizations or data collections on computers that maintain their state across reboots. When a VDI VM task reboots and discards all changes since last boot, optimizations intended for physical computers are not helpful.
You can get all the current scheduled tasks, including descriptions, with the following PowerShell code:. There are several tasks that can't be disabled via script, even if you're running elevated. We recommend that you don't disable tasks that can't be disabled using a script. Whether from Microsoft Update, or from your internal resources, apply the available updates including Windows Defender signatures.
This is a good time to apply other available updates including Microsoft Office if installed, and other software updates. If PowerShell will remain in the image you can download the latest available help for PowerShell by running the command Update-Help. At some point during the image optimization process available Windows updates should be applied. There is a setting in Windows 10 Update Settings that can provide additional updates:.
This would be a good setting in case you are going to install Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Office to the base image. That way Office is up to date when the image is put in service.
There are also. NET updates and certain third-party components such as Adobe that have updates available through Windows Update. One very important consideration for non-persistent VDI VMs are security updates, including security software definition files. These updates might be released once or more than once per day.
There might be a way to retain these updates, including Windows Defender and third-party components. The updates are going to apply nearly every logon session, but the updates are small and should not be a problem. Additionally, the VM won't be behind on updates because only the latest available updates will apply. The same might be true for third-party definition files. Modern versions of Office such as Microsoft update through their own mechanisms when directly connected to the Internet, or via management technologies when not.
Windows is configured, by default, to collect and save limited diagnostic data. The purpose is to enable diagnostics, or to record data if further troubleshooting is necessary. Automatic system traces can be found at the location shown in the following illustration:. Others, such as the 'WiFiSession' trace can be stopped. To stop a running trace under Event Trace Sessions right-click the trace and then click 'Stop'.
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