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Raphire / Win11Debloat

A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your Windows experience. This script works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Crash #12

Closed Rubberkitten closed 10 months ago

Rubberkitten commented 10 months ago

Ran the Windows 11 debloat and it crashed my desktop and my bitdefender said it was a virus and made my screen black but my youtube video is still up playing. I cant access my desktop so i have to force restart the computer. Instead of debloating, it fucked windows os. Need to fix your exe file bruh.

Raphire commented 10 months ago

Heya,

Sorry to hear you ran into issues. Luckily from your description it seems like it was a simple case of Windows Explorer not recovering properly.

Win11Debloat automatically restarts Windows Explorer process to apply changes. The desktop is a part of that process and will restart too. Normally this should just take a second, but I'm guessing Bitdefender intervened and stopped Windows Explorer from starting back up properly.

To be clear: This doesn't do any damage or break any part of the OS. The desktop simply remained black because the windows explorer process that's responsible for it wasn't running anymore.

Have you encountered any issues after the Windows restart?

Rubberkitten commented 10 months ago

I logged out from ctrl, alt, del and back in and it was fine. Im trying to get rid of ms edge. I am unable to run the debloat anymore. Just like the other debloats, they just pop up like a blip and close.

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 5:49 AM Jeffrey @.***> wrote:

Heya,

Sorry to hear you ran into issues. Luckily from your description it seems like it was a simple case of Windows Explorer not recovering properly.

Win11Debloat automatically restarts Windows Explorer process to apply changes. The desktop is a part of that process and will restart too. Normally this should just take a second, but I'm guessing Bitdefender intervened and stopped Windows Explorer from starting back up properly.

To be clear: This doesn't do any damage or break any part of the OS. The desktop simply remained black because the windows explorer process that's responsible for it wasn't running anymore.

Did you run into any issues after restarting Windows?

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Raphire commented 10 months ago

I'm guessing bitdefender is blocking the script from executing, that would explain why it immediately close.

Win11Debloat cannot remove microsoft edge, Microsoft makes it hard to do and, in my opinion, it's more trouble than it's worth. Especially for the average user.

I would suggest looking up a guide to do it manually if you really want it gone.

For now I will close the issue, as it's caused by another program.