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W4RH4WK / Debloat-Windows-10

A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps
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A few questions from a confused newbie.. #218

Closed hosadokha closed 4 years ago

hosadokha commented 4 years ago

I have to say the directions u provided are not newb friendly at all.. 1-While reading your Readme.md number 3 under Usage it says "Run the scripts from Powershell" np at all, except there are three folders in your package "scripts", "lib", "utils". so if i run the files in the scripts folder, what do i do with the other folders? :s 2-your method uses Powershell to remove default windows programs but what about Dism.exe? what is the difference between the two methods? 3-I am also a bit confused whether Windows Update depends on Edge & IE and the Google isnt helping.. can I completely remove Edge & IE without consequences?.. I know this issue may not directly relate to your scripts, but im sure u can help me ;)

W4RH4WK commented 4 years ago

First of all: this is intended, the README stats:

These scripts are intended for tech-savvy administrators, who know what they are doing and just want to automate this phase of their setup.

1: lib contains functionality that is automatically used by the scripts, i.e. the scripts are not self-contained. utils contain additional tweaks that are not the main focus of this project, but you (as a system administrator) may find interesting.

2: dism.exe is much more low-level, while this allows you to remove even more stuff, it's also very likely to break something. Using PowerShell's Remove-AppxPackage is safer.

3: I recommend not removing Edge & IE, unless you have a specific reason to do so.

Please also note that it is only recommended to use these scripts on a fresh install, and that you test your setup thoroughly before using it for production.

hosadokha commented 4 years ago

Thank you.. this is much appreciated @W4RH4WK :) :) :+1: