Windows Ameliorated does not require installing from an ISO. That was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required

Windows Ameliorated does not require installing from an ISO. That was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. There is detailed documentation for performing a manual amelioration, it uses fully open-source scripts, and is legal if you use a license key before running the scripts. (https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1 https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1) I do agree removing Windows Update does pose some security risk, however I don't think said risk is nearly as bad as some make it out to be, and I personally think the benefits of Windows Ameliorated greatly outweigh any security downsides. Also, AME does greatly help to mitigate the attack surface of Windows: Windows Ameliorated ships with a non-administrator user account by default, which mitigates ~70% of Windows vulnerabilities. (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...). Of course you can still do admin actions, it just requires the admin password.