I'm making a MAME machine for my rather non-technical friend. I went back and forth between a Pi-powered machine and a small Intel Atom machine and finally settled on the Kangaroo mini-PC (Atom with 2gig of RAM, Intel integrated graphics). It comes with Windows 10 Home installed.
I've seen some other guides for making Windows XP and Windows 7 as stripped-down as possible - which services and auto-runs to disable, etc. Does anyone have a similar guide for Windows 10 yet?
I will probably put TeamViewer on it so I can remote in and help him if he gets in a bind. Other than that the only thing this thing will be running is MAME and a front-end.