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Sycnex / Windows10Debloater

Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.
MIT License
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Tool removes whitelisted apps as well from new profiles #135

Open tejpartapg opened 5 years ago

tejpartapg commented 5 years ago

Hello Guys,

First of all hats off to you guys for devoting so much time for this tool. I have been creating my own scripts to make the Windows junk apps go away, but never got it to work like this tool. Anyway, after following the howto and going through the documentation, I am able to get the script to work for the initial profile that I run the script on, but for the new profile/s it just removes everything, like windows store, calculator, sticky notes and it also didn't uninstall one drive or disabled Cortana. Could you please suggest if there's anything that I could be missing? I ran the Windows10DebloaterGUIOLD.ps1 because it gave me the option to Debloat only blacklisted apps. Unfortunately that got stuck after removing a few apps and the program crashed. After that I chose "Remove All Bloatware" which I am assuming removed everything to the point that even reverting is not bringing anything back. So I am at fresh install waiting to try something different.

Thanks in advance

Sycnex commented 5 years ago

Can you try the new version of the Windows10DebloaterGUIOLD.ps1 and see if it presents the same issue? It doesn't seem to have the same issue for myself.

tejpartapg commented 5 years ago

@Sycnex I was able to get it to work after a few tries and running a combination of 2 scripts to get the desired results. I also had to modify couple lines of code in Windows10SysPrepDebloater.ps1. Please see the attached link to the screenshot https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/49837731/58053822-8359c300-7b0d-11e9-9c32-6047f4daa766.PNG. That took care of the Windows Store app disappearing on new profiles. Another thing I noticed after trying to remove OneDrive that it would get uninstalled on the current profile but does reappear on new profiles. The same goes for the people icon on taskbar. It's not a huge issue in our environment and we can easily survive by it being there. I couldn't dig into the code anymore to find out why it might not be working due to time constraints, but when I do I will post my findings.

Thanks once again for your hard work