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Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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giancarlostoro wrote: post #11
Kuraj wrote: post #6

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I learned to love the defaults on everything and its liberating. Every time a new major update comes out, I do a clean install, put on Office, Visual Studio and a couple of apps and I'm good to go.

Heh I feel you, when a new Ubuntu comes out sometimes I just fresh install just cause you never know, though I have upgraded in the past. If you install Ubuntu and then want a new Desktop Environment, it doesn't feel quite right, because the original install defined defaults that the new DE isn't setting itself for / against. On Windows I don't reformat anymore like I used to, and I used to reformat a lot because I w…

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Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by ashleyn »

Krasnol wrote: post #37

It's astonishing how many de-bloat scripts, tools or functions of other tools this OS spawned. That should make the developers think...if it wasn't intended and they didn't give a damn because monopoly...

Windows has gone from operating system to value-added-service driver. No wonder they yank shit like Microsoft Store from GPOs and move others into the Enterprise level only.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by floatingatoll »

wsdookadr wrote: post #2

This will disable a number of different apps/services/features that are either useless or slow down the OS considerably. The following script is even nicer as it comes with an UI: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater Both are written in powershell.

This is marginally less terrible, but it's still terrible — for example, it considers Skype "bloat" so hopefully you didn't need that! — and the list goes on as you read through the (thankfully, fewer) scripts.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by floatingatoll »

octosphere wrote: post #15

Hmm, I wonder what happens when I combine this with other popular scripts like Make Windows 10 Great Again https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6... and Reclaim-Windows10 https://github.com/alirobe/Reclaim-Windows10 is there much overlap between all three scripts or do they all work great in tandem?

There is a ton of overlap and they all cargo-cult copy-paste from each other's tools, complete with "fixes" for bugs that one or the other introduces (for example, "whitelist Windows Calculator" is quite hilarious to see in the errata).

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by poizan42 »

voldacar wrote: post #65
pranau wrote: post #44

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> I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box. Let me uninstall Cortana please Microsoft. I'm sure there's other crap I don't want but I fear if I can't just hit 'Uninstall' it wont go well, or an update will bring it back. So much misinformation in this and the replies that address this. Windows needs a minimum of 2GB RAM to run. But it scales its memory footprint according to the available…

Is there any way to tell it to use up less or more RAM? It would be very dumb if this weren't configurable

But why would you want you RAM to sit unused? The OS uses all the RAM available for caching if nothing else wants it for something more important.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by soganess »

sosodev wrote: post #7
mehrdadn wrote: post #5

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> I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box. It... doesn't? I feel like last time I tried it was less than 2? Did you only install Windows or a ton of other things too? This is what it looks like "out of the box" after disabling memory compression and the pagefile: https://imgur.com/a/D5b8bk5

I'd imagine it caches more if you have more ram

I've got 256GB and a fresh install of windows use about 4 with a few things running on startup(mostly just the amd+nvidia drivers). There is indeed some scaling with availability but with diminishing returns after probably 8/16gb of available ram.

What I find more interesting is that windows still compresses and swaps on startup even with that much ram available.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by noodlesUK »

noir_lord wrote: post #33
FluffyKitty wrote: post #8

I have to ask, for anyone that cares this much, why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux? I know the usual argument is that you need Windows to game, but why make your gaming instance your main work instance too? Why not dual boot and use Linux for work and Windows for gaming?

I do dual boot. I have windows for gaming/VR but zero development. I have Fedora for literally everything else including C#/WPF development (I run my dev environment for windows inside a VM as it makes it very simple to backup and I know that the somewhat irritating setup is perfectly replicated). Essentially at this point Win10 is relegated to been a massive console OS. I could likely run a lot of my games on Linux…

I would absolutely love to get iommu VM pass through working for gaming, but it’s never been a good experience for me with nvidia cards (vbios is usually the problem I think). AMD cards seem to be much more successful for that.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by diminoten »

ashleyn wrote: post #67
floatingatoll wrote: post #49

Do your friends a favor and never run this or any like it on their systems "for their benefit". This is a prime example of "expert user footgun problem". The phrase "debloat" is a marketing-hype word that's being used to bait you all into someone's personal view of how computers should be. Expect to be forced to reinstall Windows 10 a few days or weeks after running any such script. Whenever I tech support any of my…

I question why Windows continues to need increasingly demanding and intrusive anti-malware when Mac and Linux get along just fine without it. The architecture of Windows must be aging terribly if the only way one can keep it safe is by humongous and intrusive real time scanning. My experiences with Windows Defender's realtime protection has not been pleasant. Almost one core being used exclusively to check every netw…

Every person you recommend that to is worse of having heard you say that.

Stop telling people to turn off Windows Defender.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by [deleted] »

lame-robot-hoax wrote: post #12

If you’re going go to all this trouble to “debloat” Windows, why not just install Fedora/Ubuntu/PopOS/Debian/Manjaro or something? I just don’t see the point with fiddling around with little hacks trying to disable telemetry and stuff when you can just install a Linux distro and be done with it. I mean sure depending on your use case that may not be possible, but if you don’t have a certain software or hardware limit…

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