WinAero - very useful to customize Windows 10 font size, etc

Since the last major Window 10 updates, the old way to customize the icon font size went away. The closest way to make the Windows 10 desktop icon's font size bigger is through using Settings --> Display --> Advanced Custom Scaling. However, this does not yield the desired result, because it could end up increasing the size of fonts as well as icon size and everything else on the screen in proportion.

 I did a quick Google Search and found a utility called WinAero (http://WinAero.com). This tool allows granular customization of specific items, such as icon font and icon font size. On a 14-inch screen laptop with 1366x768 resolution, being able to use 11-point, semi-bold Segoe UI font makes it really nice to use the laptop again.

Make Windows 10 run faster

Below are tips to make Windows 10 run faster. This is useful when using Windows 10 virtual machine on a resource-limited developer PC or laptop.

1. Disable Windows Search service
2. Disable Windows Update service (please perform Windows update manually from time to time)
3. Disable Telemetry and Data Collection service
1. Open Registry Editor
2. Go to
   HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection
3. Create a 32-bit DWORD value named AllowTelemetry and set it to 0.
4. Open Services and disable the following services.
1. Diagnostic Tracking Service or Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
2. dmwappushsvc
4. Disable Windows Defender
1. Open Registry Editor
2. Go to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
3. Create a 32-bit DWORD value named DisableAntiSpyware and set it to 1.
5. Restart Windows 10
6. Run .NET Optimization manually via PowerShell (this could take 10-20 min).

1.  Get-ChildItem $env:SystemRoot\Microsoft.net\NGen.exe -recurse | ForEach-Object { & $_ executeQueuedItems }
   

7. Restart Windows 10