Does not seem to work at all.

[incryptx]

I am adept at powewscript scripts on Windows 10 and ran the script repeatedly but it seems not to remove anything.

Either Microsoft is on to this and prevents it from running or something on the OS is preventing it from completing successfully.

I have tried disabling SVM (Virtualization) in the bios as some system protection relies on virtualising parts of the OS to prevent tampering.

As well, most of the threads here seem to be complaining about how the script hosed their systems. All I can say is the author of the script warned you when you downloaded it, that he is not responsible for what occurs.

Any suggestions as to why the script seems to do nothing for me, while it seems to do undesirable things for everyone else.

And Yes, I did run as administrator in powershell.

[pawan-xd]

Same, the powershell lines all seem to working without errors, but nothing actually changes. tried multiple times. after completely updating windows, several restarts but nothing

[DrSaad77]

for me it has always worked fine, I just tried for you to revert all the changed, and of course re-DEBLOATED and everything is working as it should!

[Feky]

Can confirm for some reason its not working at all. Nothing gets removed I still have store and all store apps on Windows.

[grydian]

It appears that windows is rapidly reinstalling all the bloat ware after using the tool. I caught it doing it. I am using the latest build of windows 10 using a media creation tool. I followed ever step saw them being removed and then it all got redownloaded in a flash. I wonder if there is a way to prevent that? Somethings are still disabled like the one drive. Anyways somethings gone are better than nothing but it seems windows is fighting back.

[DrSaad77]

It appears that windows is rapidly reinstalling all the bloat ware after using the tool. I caught it doing it. I am using the latest build of windows 10 using a media creation tool. I followed ever step saw them being removed and then it all got redownloaded in a flash. I wonder if there is a way to prevent that? Somethings are still disabled like the one drive. Anyways somethings gone are better than nothing but it seems windows is fighting back.

Maybe your are doing something wrong!! for me everything is deleted and stay deleted!! why u bother with Media Creator?? just download ISO of Win10, burn it on USB with Rufus, and install it!!

[grydian]

I know what I am doing and have been building computers running dos and linux for 30 years. I doubt i did something wrong. I know how to use the powershell in admin mode. I use the media creation tool because its easy and I pay for my windows. I was able to remove most of the bloatware manually. So I will worry about this when I need to install windows again but just a heads up it does reinstall things with the august 8th iso image.

[DrSaad77]

No need to get on your high hills... if you write a comments it means you wanted help, and since you have 30 years of backgrounds.... And what August 8th iso are you talking about?? last Win10 ISO is May 2004.....

[grydian]

How is you did it wrong help? Second Its what downloaded with the tool. I didn't use an iso image dude. If you don't want to help just don't respond.

[Feky]

Apparently when selecting nvidia in custom it doesn't delete anything you must unselect nvidia in customs then it will work.

[Suphax]

Apparently when selecting nvidia in custom it doesn't delete anything you must unselect nvidia in customs then it will work.

Are you referring to the GUI script? As I have had this issue with both the normal script and the SysPrep script (run in sysprep of course) and, albeit rare, it does sometimes just NOT do anything, no errors, no negative feedback. This has happened across various machines and on multiple versions of Windows 10.

I don't see why this caused beef in a GitHub issue though..?

It does seem inconsistent and non-reproducible from my experience. This has not happened in a long time to me, though to note - I now install Windows with no internet connection to the machine, do everything I need to do, run this script etc. before I reconnect.

My guess is Windows is updating the apps as they are being removed and so appears like they are being reinstalled as soon as they are removed. This is not Windows "fighting back", just a matter of timing. Even on the most up-to-date ISOs, the apps will rarely be the current version.

[Sycnex]

@grydian - my apologies for not responding for a very long time. I will look into a way to see if the apps can be prevented from being reinstalled.