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W4RH4WK / Debloat-Windows-10

A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps
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Describe how to Run as Admin on ReadMe #42

Closed FossPrime closed 8 years ago

FossPrime commented 8 years ago

That would sure be helpful in the read me... I'm not familiar with Powershell... only use windows for games and the 10 tons of hidden bloat is disturbing. I'm sure I'll figure it out, but it's something that should really be on the ReadMe.

Thank you!

EDIT: Turns out it's quite involved to run them all as administrator... I trust your sensible defaults and really don't care much about... fire away. It would be nice to have a run all button/command. http://superuser.com/questions/108207/how-to-run-a-powershell-script-as-administrator

EDIT #2: Wow, Tip http://superuser.com/a/108405 works fantastically, all your scripts should have it... with an include of course.

tumpio commented 8 years ago

You can try my run helper script too https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/pull/1

W4RH4WK commented 8 years ago

No offense @Reyncor, but if you are not familiar with Powershell and would rely on my defaults, this is probably not for you. You may have a better experience using DisableWinTracking.

FossPrime commented 8 years ago

@W4RH4WK alright then. I'm just desperately looking for an easy way remove all the bloatware preinstalled on Windows 10. Disable WinTracking is more focused on privacy and leaves a lot behind... such as the OneDrive file explorer shortcut, Windows 8 style apps, the Windows Store, Windows Defender, bing, cortana etc.

These scripts are a great starting point though... perhaps I should make an opinionated fork / layer on top.

W4RH4WK commented 8 years ago

Sounds like a good idea for a fork. I already have dedicated scripts for OneDrive and Defender, it should be straight forward to build upon them. remove-default-apps.ps1 uninstalls most of the app already. If you want to go even further take a look at dism.exe. At 27ae62d you will find some directives for dism.exe in the remove-default-apps.ps1 script (direct link). But be aware that the removal of certain packages may break your system. (For example, removing all xbox related packages yields a boot loop.)

Also checkout Classic Shell for an improved start menu. This allows you to maintain a usable start menu (+ search) while removing Cortana related packages.

If you want to analyse which settings are set by the control panel and settings manager, I recommend using procmon.exe from the Sysinternals Suit. It allows you to capture all calls done by a process.

W4RH4WK commented 8 years ago

@Reyncor I just found a set of needles for dism.exe they might be useful to you. Here is the gist.