My Windows Mods

* Go through and kill a bunch of tasks in the task scheduler. There is a whole bunch of crap taking up CPU time and other resources.
* Remove them services hnnnng. Many can be stopped without hurting your system.
* Set virtual mem to like 200MB or 400MB (set max==min so that it doesn't get resized). It needs to be like 200MB for error logs at most, but as long as you have adequate RAM at all times, that should be more than enough. I have 4GB RAM which I guess is considered 'small' but I run a light-weight setup and I haven't maxed out my RAM yet.
* Services that I stopped that I kind of worried about but hasn't posed a problem for me (keep in mind some of these are HP specific, which is what my computer is).
**    DNS Client
**    Diagnostic Policy Service
**    HPWMISVC
**    Print Spooler
**    Superfetch
**    Themes
**    Windows Image Acquisition

Some of the registry entries that I edited (I forgot to keep track of all of them). I mostly wanted to get rid of those freaking folders. All I kept were Docs, Downloads, and Desktop:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\
        *** Toggle the Hide/Show value ***
        Documents: {f42ee2d3-909f-4907-8871-4c22fc0bf756}\PropertyBag
        Pictures:  {0ddd015d-b06c-45d5-8c4c-f59713854639}\PropertyBag
        Videos:     {35286a68-3c57-41a1-bbb1-0eae73d76c95}\PropertyBag
        Downloads:{7d83ee9b-2244-4e70-b1f5-5393042af1e4}\PropertyBag
        Music: {a0c69a99-21c8-4671-8703-7934162fcf1d}\PropertyBag
        Desktop: {B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}\PropertyBag
    OneDrive (set DWORD==0)
        HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

Go through and delete all the crapware that you don't need. Want to remove Cortana? Stop all of the associated services, set the file permissions so that your account has all permissions (there are ways to do this recursively, too) and then just delete the contents.