You can easily find an overwhelming number of projects similar to what you describe on Github and across the web. The problem is that Microsoft is constantly a

You can easily find an overwhelming number of projects similar to what you describe on Github and across the web. The problem is that Microsoft is constantly adding and/or changing the options, settings, registry keys, etc., and they don't exactly publish a nicely compiled, authoritative list of all of them. The folks writing these scripts (or even just documenting the settings) are working by trial and error, reverse engineering, and so on, to find the relevant knobs to tweak and switches to flip to get rid of these "features". If they do manage to get lucky and come up with a working solution, it's out-of-date as soon as the next update drops. Like you, this advertising isn't a problem for me. I was introduced to Linux in 1995 and it's been my primary operating system (along with a few OS X "phases") since then. I have friends and family, however, who can't switch (for various reasons), and so it still annoys me to no end that Microsoft does this kind of stuff.