That windows bug has definitely been a PITA. Takes nearly 24 hours to reindex with the CPU fan screaming in my ear since I usually sleep with my laptop next to my head.
lol you must be very dedicated to Windows and Bitcoin. I often wonder if it'll take Windows 365 before people switch to something else.
Windows 7 or 8.1 max here, will never be switching to 10 and have the spyware updates blacklisted in my WSUS server, as well as blackholeing the IPs in my router.
Yeah, I heard about that. No use resisting, you will be assimilated!
If you have a need to run a current Windows O/S consider running Windows Server. I have been running Windows Server 2012R2 instead of 8.1 and I will soon upgrade to Windows Server 2016 (Windows 10 equivalent). They are meant to be run in air-gapped environments and spyware is disabled by default or easy to turn off. The default server install is also way more hardened than the default desktop Windows install.