Is there a HN approved way of doing this? I recall there being various solutions that cleaned older versions of Windows, but perhaps did so a bit too aggressiv

Is there a HN approved way of doing this? I recall there being various solutions that cleaned older versions of Windows, but perhaps did so a bit too aggressively (disabling services left and right in the XP era), so experts recommended against using them. I have no idea about the current state of affairs, but may find myself in the same boat soon and need to know.