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The 10 Commandments for Windows™ 10 (plus an 11th for Windows™ 11)

Purpose
Reason
First Commandment
Second Commandment
Third Commandment
Fourth Commandment
Fifth Commandment
Sixth Commandment
Seventh Commandment
Eighth Commandment
Ninth Commandment
Tenth Commandment
Eleventh Commandment
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Purpose

Fix or mitigate some of the worst annoyances, shortcomings, vulnerabilities and weaknesses of Windows 10 as well as Windows 11.

Reason

As shipped by Microsoft®, all versions of Windows™ NT are insecure and unsafe – it is still setup without strict privilege separation, i.e. without separate accounts for (unprivileged) user(s) and (privileged) administrator(s), it even fails to isolate processes running in different sessions, thereby allowing unprivileged (standard) users to elevate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM alias LocalSystem, it violates the minimum requirements of the almost 30 (in words: thirty) years old Designed for Windows specification, and it doesn’t follow best practices as well as many security recommendations.

First Commandment: no Short 8.3 Filenames, but Long Pathnames

Second Commandment: Strict Privilege Separation

Third Commandment: Security

Fourth Commandment: …

Fifth Commandment: …

Sixth Commandment: Safety

Seventh Commandment: Privacy

Eighth Commandment: Annoyances

Ninth Commandment: …

Tenth Commandment: …

Eleventh Commandment: Prevent Installation of Outlook for Windows etc.

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Use the X.509 certificate to send S/MIME encrypted mail.

Note: email in weird format and without a proper sender name is likely to be discarded!

I dislike HTML (and even weirder formats too) in email, I prefer to receive plain text.
I also expect to see your full (real) name as sender, not your nickname.
I abhor top posts and expect inline quotes in replies.

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