I’ve read some criticism towards this script and/or these kind of scripts in the comments. The criticism should instead be directed towards Microsoft, which decided to treat their customers (even alleged „Pro“ customers!) like babies and force useless bloatware, ads, telemetry and the absolute worst update system of any OS ever upon their users, thus making these kind of scripts necessary to begin with.
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Re: Reclaim Windows10
#12Nearly all of these "clean up" scripts are a horrendous idea to run on your machine, I see right at the top that this script disables SmartScreen, a service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned. It then proceeds to set your current network as Private (aka "open all the ports") regardless of which network you're connected to - hope you're at home! Other changes are completel…
Just not this stuff, any stuff without review. A lot of Windows advice has sadly always been the equivalent of curl | sudo bash - and the culture proliferates this practice. But it also highlights that Windows 10 is unusable without Group Policy, which is an almost sane interface for Windows "tweaks". Windows editions without full group policy support are essentially garbage.
Re: Reclaim Windows10
#13You can keep windows on a VM for tools or services that only work on windows. For higher performance, just keep a separate partition and dual boot it for the cases you need.
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#14I’ve read some criticism towards this script and/or these kind of scripts in the comments. The criticism should instead be directed towards Microsoft, which decided to treat their customers (even alleged „Pro“ customers!) like babies and force useless bloatware, ads, telemetry and the absolute worst update system of any OS ever upon their users, thus making these kind of scripts necessary to begin with.
Oh yes completely.
But even if the house is made of poo, shooting holes in the wall is not the way to fix it.
There really aren’t any winning moves other than not to play at all. Which may be an insane self sacrificing position.
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#15I started using Windows in the 3.x days, and the amount of crap I have to "fix" every time I make a new install increases with each successive version... and to think I used to be mildly annoyed at having to enable file extensions and showing full paths back in the 9x/2k days.
To be fair, you sometimes had to open the machines and fiddle with irq's and other things I already forgot about.
I remember one machine, where I couldn't get sound blaster mouse, printer and modem to work at the same time.
I do agree that nowadays software companies expect to just own you if you use their products. The sad part is that what Microsoft is doing is "normal" or even minimal compared to what Apple or Google are doing. And it's getting worse all the time.
Fortunately Linux desktop is good enough this days for most tasks.
Re: Reclaim Windows10
#16Nearly all of these "clean up" scripts are a horrendous idea to run on your machine, I see right at the top that this script disables SmartScreen, a service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned. It then proceeds to set your current network as Private (aka "open all the ports") regardless of which network you're connected to - hope you're at home! Other changes are completel…
Thanks for the info; I've been concerned enough about Windows 10 telemetry (etc.) to avoid it, and when I saw this script I thought "ohhh maybe I can just do this?"--so you saved me.
Do you have a rec or a resource? I haven't looked seriously at this so if it's just like "google it" mea culpa, but it seems like there's a lot of misinformation and what not out there. I saw "O&O ShutUp10" in a sibling thread?
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#17One alternative is O&O ShutUp10 (free) that does the same things using a GUI: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
This is a great tool, but remember to re-run it periodically (especially after updates) as Windows 10 will "helpfully" re-enable stuff you have disabled.
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#18I’ve read some criticism towards this script and/or these kind of scripts in the comments. The criticism should instead be directed towards Microsoft, which decided to treat their customers (even alleged „Pro“ customers!) like babies and force useless bloatware, ads, telemetry and the absolute worst update system of any OS ever upon their users, thus making these kind of scripts necessary to begin with.
> The criticism should instead be directed towards Microsoft,
Totally agree that MS deserves criticism as you correctly point out. However, criticism towards the script and similar is equally valid (and important).
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#19I don't think anyone has the time to audit every line to ensure there's nothing malicious in there. On a side note, this also made me realize my desktop barely has any non-mainstream "low-trust" applications anymore. Back in the early 2000s, I remember my computer is filled with random win32 apps. The most fringe app I have now is "Bulk Rename Utility".
There is a Bulk Rename Utility included in Windows 10 Power Toys that you might want to check out.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/powerrena...
Re: Reclaim Windows10
#20Nearly all of these "clean up" scripts are a horrendous idea to run on your machine, I see right at the top that this script disables SmartScreen, a service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned. It then proceeds to set your current network as Private (aka "open all the ports") regardless of which network you're connected to - hope you're at home! Other changes are completel…
I've seen disk images of windows on piracy sites that have all this stuff preconfigured
you can get slim builds with chrome ready to go already, builds with all these cleanup scripts configured, and more
sadly, they also know people in a rush are looking for this or prefer it, and they install backdoors or ways to steal your crypto on them and stuff
I wouldn't even trust the scripts itself at this point, so I'm another for just don't run this stuff