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• Freeware Spotlight — Win10 Settings Blocker

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 01:01 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

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  By Deanna McElveen

  A computer user who can’t access the Windows settings is a computer user who has less chance of breaking something.

  A few years ago, Sordum.org came out with a handy tool called Win10 Settings Blocker to block access to Windows settings. We’ve used it on scores of computers owned by our clients. We’ve used it on public-access kiosks, nursing-home med carts, computers for the Mennonite communities in our area, and countless others. The program is portable, free, and clean. Perfect!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.19.0 (2021-05-24).

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• Freeware Spotlight — ControlUWP

  Posted on September 27, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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  By Deanna McElveen

  Microsoft is slowly moving tools and controls out of Windows 10’s classic Control Panel and placing them (somewhere) in the Settings menus.

  Eventually, Control Panel will probably disappear altogether. When that will happen even Microsoft probably doesn’t know. Control Panel was never perfect, but in my humble opinion, it’s still far better than the maze that is Win10 Settings.

  So, you can imagine how excited I was to find a Settings alternative that’s more like Control Panel. Builtbybel (formerly Mirinsoft) has recently released ControlUWP for Windows 10. The app checks off all our boxes: it’s free, it has no junkware, it’s portable — and it’s awesome!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.38.0 (2020-09-28).

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