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Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by JudgeWapner »

noir_lord wrote: post #28
kabdib wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest WTF was Cortana . . . running by default on Windows Server. I have no idea what they were thinking. Yes, you can disable it with a policy editing. For a server product, you shouldn't have to.

Wow, that seems like an insane choice as the default. I'm curious what the rationale was behind that choice.

Tinfoil theory incoming: NSA pressures windows to have the largest attack surface possible by default. With the hope that any given targeted system will have at least one piece of default bloatware still running, presumably they have 0-days for most all of them.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by BubRoss »

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…

Sounds great to me.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by eMSF »

pranau wrote: post #44
giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

I tried running this and then I remembered why I stopped tweaking Windows, I wind up running into odd issues. Windows stopped being unstable for me years ago when I stopped fidgeting with features. I'm better off disabling as much as I can through the normal settings they provide. I don't know if it's just I'm doing something wrong but it's been my experience. I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out…

> 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…

For reference, (with a Windows 10 system with 16GB of RAM) after several hours of light use, task manager reports that 2.7GB of RAM is used with 13GB available (other numbers report that 3.3/16.9GB are committed, and 2.8GB cached).

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by cwyers »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #94
floatingatoll wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mac has intrusive anti-malware that is almost a carbon copy of Windows Defender, or used to be anyways (perhaps one or the other have changed in the past few years!). See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233 Linux is a wasteland of terrible security practices that sysadmins excuse as "acceptable" for their own workstations and servers because they think that locking down SSH is sufficient defense agains…

The link you link to is "Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server." It has little to do with the functions of Windows Defender. It was a special purpose function removing one very particular file from a specific location. It was not scanning your whole system, or downloads, for malware signatures. When you say MacOS includes software that is "almost a carbon copy of Windows Defender," are…

macOS has had malware detection since Snow Leopard:

https://www.osnews.com/story/22059/snow-leopard-to-include-a...

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by cwyers »

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...

People have been installing pointless and bad tune-up apps for PCs for decades. People were installing RAM doublers for Windows 95 that just changed the size of the hard disk cache. All of those registry cleaners were awful. And I'm continually shocked at how many people will just run some random Powershell script off the Internet with elevated access rights. You don't trust Microsoft, but you trust some random Github repo? 'Kay.

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by kabdib »

jankotek wrote: post #121
kabdib wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest WTF was Cortana . . . running by default on Windows Server. I have no idea what they were thinking. Yes, you can disable it with a policy editing. For a server product, you shouldn't have to.

Windows 2003 Server had sound system disabled in default installation. How things change...

Server 2012 had touch screen support. I can think of many things I'd rather have than touch screen support.

How about decent support for two-factor domain login?

Priorities, guys. (Please don't get me started about the special circle of hell that is deploying Windows. It truly is a misery).

Re: Windows 10 Debloat Script

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Post by II2II »

Kuraj wrote: post #6
giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

I tried running this and then I remembered why I stopped tweaking Windows, I wind up running into odd issues. Windows stopped being unstable for me years ago when I stopped fidgeting with features. I'm better off disabling as much as I can through the normal settings they provide. I don't know if it's just I'm doing something wrong but it's been my experience. I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out…

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.

I agree to a degree.

I like the approach of Arch. I do a clean install, add the applications that I want, and leave virtually all of the settings at their defaults. In one respect it is a highly customized system since the installed software is tailored to my needs. On the other hand, I am not spending time tweaking settings.

When I use systems where the vendor installs a lot of software by default (it doesn't matter whether it's another Linux distribution or Windows), I am easily annoyed by how much stuff gets in my way visually or in terms of performances. That leaves me with an intense desire to debloat. I try to resist the urge, but am usually unsuccessful.

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