Microsoft is testing a Windows 10 setup screen with 'gaming' as an option

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Many of what goes into a new Windows 10 installing is fluff, like certain Take off menu tiles and programs you might non have any interest in using. In an crusade to tailor Windows 10 to your actual interests, Microsoft is toying with the idea of an initial setup test that lets you select how you plan to use your PC, with several different categories to choose from. One of them is Gaming.

There six categories in all, the others being Family, Creativity, Schoolwork, Amusement, and Business. Each one offers a broad description. For example, the Gaming category states, "Trifle and hear games, go along up with unprecedented releases," while School assignment reads, "Take notes, write essays, and collaborate on projects."

Microsoft is not 100 per centum engaged to adding the facultative frame-up screen to the Windows 10 installation routine, and is as an alternative "exploring" the possibility, first inside the Windows Insider program via preview build 20231 in the Dev channel.

"Founded on feedback, we'Re exploring adding a page to Windows setup (OOBE) to help better understand how you project to use your device and attention in customizing your device given your intended usage," Microsoft says.

At this early stage, selecting one or Sir Thomas More customization categories does not do a whole lot. Microsoft says Insiders may see different options during Windows frame-up, depending on which boxes they ticktock, only information technology will non upshot in whatsoever actual configuration differences after exiting Windows setup. Which is kind of weird.

To that remnant, it is too not entirely clear how the divergent category designations will affect Windows 10. Specifically as IT relates to the Gaming selection, I questionable IT would to the lowest degree enable hardware-fast GPU scheduling by default, and turn Game Mode on. Beyond those things, though, who actually knows.

Looking at this broadly, Microsoft seems to understand that a one-size-fits-altogether come near to Windows 10 is perhaps not the best way to go. Outside of launching a edition of Windows 10 specifically for gaming (Windows 10 Gaming Edition), this could be the future superfine thing.

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