Nothing against Windows 10, but iIf you want to simplify it a bit by giving it the Chromebook treatment – changing the various settings and interface elements to make them easier to handle or simply integrating more useful features of a Chromebook directly into Windows 10 – no one is going to give you any pain. It’s your PC, You can do what you want with her.
Michael Perrigo la Chrome Unboxed has an excellent guide to bring the best Chrome operating system experiences in Windows 10. I won’t steal its thunder, redoing everything, but I wanted to draw your attention to a handful of apps you might want to take considering the installation, regardless of your feelings towards Google operating system. Some of these are Michael’s suggestions, and some are they are the ones I came across.
Chrometana Pro and EdgeDeflector
You’ll want to take this combination of a Chrome extension and a Windows 10 app to redirect your Start menu searches to Google instead of Bing. (Nothing against the Microsoft search engine; I’ve just always had a better experience with Google, despite a great one zero reward for its use.)
Usee the extension to redirect all Bing and Cortana searches to Google (in the browser). You can then install EdgeDeflector to redirect Windows 10 every time it tries to open a website in Edge or Edge Chromium instead of Chrome. Indeed, it diverts these requests to whatever you set as the default browser in Windows 10, so make sure you’ve adjusted this correctly.
Finally, you can be sure to open Windows Searches in EdgeDeflector, rather than a browser. You should see a pop-up the next time you click a web result from a search in the Start menu.
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If you prefer to redirect these searches to the Mozilla Firefox browser, you’ll want to use a similar name Foxtana Pro extension instead of Chrometana Pro.
Glitter Tray
This is easy: Install this small utility from the Windows Store and you’ll be able to control the brightness level of any DDC / CI compatible monitor directly from an icon in your tray. You’ll never have to shake with the annoying buttons on your monitor again.
Activity barX
The second verse, like the first: This app takes you all taskbars aligned to the left and center them and yYou can then make the entire taskbar transparent to give Chrome OS more look. (And if that’s it all you want, without centered icons, to give TranslucentTB a try.)
Windows 10 Auto Dark Mode / Month
Both applications do pretty much the same thing: It gives you the (much-needed) option to plan times for light and dark mode on your Windows 10 system. I assume you could do this with the Task Scheduler as well, but it’s much more.
WinDynamicDesktop
This useful utility borrows a page from macOS, not Chrome OS, to give you the ability to configure dynamic wallpapers that change with the time of day. Maybe you want something a little darker in the morning, followed by a brighter wallpaper around noon. Whatever your preference, having a little extra pizzazz for your Windows wallpaper is never bad.