Win10_ZB_UX360UAK-UserConfig

The following is my own Windows10 UserConfig on a ASUS ZenBook UX360UAK

Hardware:

ASUS ZenBook UX360UAK

• CPU: Core i7-7500U
• iGP: Intel HD620
• RAM: SK Hynix LPDDR3-1866 16GB, H9CCNNNCLTMLAR-NUD (wmic memorychip list full)
• SSD: 500GB M.2 SATA3 SanDisk SD8SN8U512G1002
• OS: Windows 10 x64 Home

Installed Software

To get similar informations I had when using Conky on my GNU-Linux laptop, I installed the following:

• Rainmeter (see Rainmeter config part)
• Coretemp

To address the loud fan issue I used:

• NoteBookFanControl (see dedicated part)

Misc software installed:

• NotePad++ (with plugin installed like Compare and XML Tools)
• Process Explorer
• 7-Zip
• Image Resizer
• LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 (x64)
• Office 365
• VirtualBox
• [...]
• WSL (with ZSH used as main Shell)

Loud fan issue workaround

This laptop fan being extremely loud and whistling (even when idle, the fan simply never stops at the factory settings), it is needed to use a third party software to adress this issue:
NoteBookFanControl (NBFC) by @hirschmann
Note that the UX360UAK is natively supported by the software

DPI Scaling

Some apps don't render well on the 13.3" 1080p screen, for those, it is needed to disable scaling in compatibility settings
More info on technet

Disabling Cortana

Who really needs Cortana? I don't.
run regedit, and find (or create) the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search.

create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, name it Allow Cortana, set its value to 0, exit regedit; reboot

Z-Shell config

see ZSH folder and its dedicated README

Office config

see Office folder and its dedicated README

Rainmeter config

See Rainmeter dedicated folders for modified .ini files

Battery reports

in cmd, enter the following:

powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\Users\[username]\battery-report.html"

VirtualBox HDD inflating

For some reason I had choosen a far too small size for my Bunsenlabs virtual machine HDD, if it ever happens again, here is how to expand the .vdi size and reallocate the partition:

cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox"
VBoxManage modifyhd “C:\Users\mathi\Documents\VirtualBox VMs\BunsenTest\BunsenTest.vdi” --resize 16384

Then boot up the virtual machine on a gparted live iso (or any GNU-Linux distro that ships with it) and move/resize the partitions to fit the new virtual HDD size.
Reboot, Enjoy.