In theory it is simple to install the dotNet 2.0 framework on Windows 10: Just go to "Programs and Features", select "Turn Windows Features on or off", set the checkmark for ".NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)", press OK and let Windows download the necessary files from Windows Update. Unfortunately this only works … Continue reading Installing dotNet 2.0 on Windows 10
Category: Windows 10
Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi
Sometimes your program needs to block the screen saver from automatically kicking in. My use case was that the program was recording data and whenever the screen saver was active, the data was lost (No idea why, it probably had something to do with the way HID is implemented in Windows.) So I was looking … Continue reading Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi
Don’t give the user any information!
... seems to be the motto of Microsoft. How else can you explain that a recent update of Windows 7 and Windows 10, that broke older versions of one of our programs (no idea yet what exactly is the problem, but the error code indicates an out of memory error) has different effects. Windows 7 … Continue reading Don’t give the user any information!
Completely disable Windows 10 telemetry collection
So I don't forget: According to an article in c't magazine, disabling the "DiagTrack" service ("Connected User Experience and Telemetry") will completely disable user tracking in Windows 10. They also say that they did not see any negative effects. Source: Telefonierverbot in c't 01/2019 page 172 (in German)