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by cosmie 1799 days ago
If you haven't, check out the Windows Admin Center app[1]. It's targeted primarily at managing Windows Server, but works fantastically for managing Windows 10 too (and they even mention that on the doc homepage). This[2] page in particular gives you a good visual and overview of the actual management features.

I originally tinkered with it to see if I could straighten out a Windows 10 dev VM that got mangled over time but I didn't want to wipe. It was a bit of a bear getting it setup and learning as I went, but once I got it going it was shockingly to actually find and cleanup all the little gremlins that had accumulated and started bogging things down and/or causing issues.

That sold me on it, and I've since set up all the Windows machines in the house so I can use WAC for maintaining them. It's been far more pleasant keeping everyone's computers chugging along.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...

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Thanks for the info, that looks promising. I will have a look into it, maybe it helps straighten some problems out.