Speed up first login on Windows 10


I work in a place where we have a lot of kiosk pc’s and pc’s that people can borrow. This mean that it is a first logon (almost) every time someone is logging in to Windows. The first logon time is not very fast in Windows 10, in fact it is very slow. There are Read More

Change boot from BIOS to UEFI semi automatic


  Recommended settings for Windows 10 is UEFI with secure boot enabled. But you can’t change the Bios boot to UEFI boot with the build in steps in SCCM. But here is a quick and dirty way to do it semi automatic. You should have an Task sequence Available and not required for your Windows Read More

Remove Windows store App from Windows 10 during OSD


  If you don’t want all the default Windows Store Apps that comes with Windows 10, then you can follow this guide. Removing Windows Store Apps will also make the first logon faster. 1. Download RemoveApps.ps1 2. Run it on your reference machine 3. The first time you run the script it will generate a Read More

IE as default browser in Windows 10


  Microsoft Edge is the default browser in Windows 10. You can change that and apply the setting during OSD. Here is how. 1. Login to a reference machine. 2. Go to All Settings –> System –> Default Apps 3. Click on “Microsoft Edge” under Web browser and click in “Internet Explorer” Note: You can Read More

Manage Windows 10 Taskbar


Follow this guide to manage windows 10 taskbar via OSD. Thanks to Jörgen Nilsson for the inspiration. 1. Download ManageTaskbar-1.0.zip and extract it on your reference machine. 2. Modify the taskbar as you would like to have it 3. Choose “Show hidden files, folder and drives” in File Explorer 4. Copy the folder “C:\Users\%username%\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Read More

“Disable apps to help improve performance” message


You can do the following to get rid of the “Disable apps to help improve performance” message. 1. Create a “Run Command Line” step with the following command: PowerShell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -Command “&{ Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskName ‘\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\StartupAppTask’}” This will disable the scheduled task in Windows.

Add user picture from AD to Windows 10


This PowerShell script will take the users profile picture from AD and add it to the local user profile in Windows 10. The script comes originally from this blog: http://blog.jocha.se/tech/ad-user-pictures-in-windows-10. But I have changes it a little. At some point in time, I will take the better quality photo from Exchange instead of AD. But Read More

GPO to run login/startup script files


Sometimes I need to do things when the computer starts up or when a user logon. A good way to do that is with a GPO startup script or a GPO logon script. Prepare GPO to copy files 1. Create a new GPO 2. Edit the GPO and go to: Computer Configuration –> Preferences –> Read More