[antisthenes]

You didn't have to use to do this to your OS when Windows was still good.

It's only the absolute shitfest that Win 10/11 ended up being that you have to conjure 300 arcane powershell commands just to get the OS to resemble a productive environment.

[broast]

I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version

[antisthenes]

Yes, but more and more every version.

Especially true since they ended the service pack model. Continuous updates and hostile feature pushing is absolute cancer.