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Windows gives you a delicious amount of control over your apps’ behavior,

as you can see from these six tabs:

Apps & Features

Here’s what this screen offers:

Installing apps. Viruses and other malware have dogged Windows
for decades. By creating the Microsoft Store (“Microsoft Store
Apps”), Microsoft has come up with one way to shut that stuff

down for good. Any app from the Store is guaranteed to be virus-
free. If you really want to be safe, choose “Allow apps from the

Store only.”

Of course, thousands of desktop apps aren’t available from the
Microsoft Store. So this drop-down menu also offers “Allow apps

from anywhere” and “Warn me before installing apps from outside
the Store,” so you can choose a setting that fits your degree of
conservatism.

Optional features. “Optional features” includes big globs of
Windows code that Microsoft considers too specialized to include
in the standard Windows 10 installation: Handwriting, Internet

Explorer, and a lot of foreign-language fonts. Here’s where you can
turn them on or off, providing you’ve got the disk space.

App execution aliases. If you’re techie enough that you routinely
open apps by typing their names at the Run prompt, you probably
know all about aliases: alternate names for your apps—in this case,

Microsoft Store apps. Some of them come pre-equipped with
aliases (like spotify.exe) that resemble normal desktop apps (like
winword.exe). But in the unlikely event that two of your apps have

adopted the same alias, here’s where you can turn off aliases one at
a time.

[List of apps.] Here’s a list of all the programs on your PC. Using
the drop-down menus, you can change how they’re sorted, or limit