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The documentation page of that website is pretty interesting. Can disabling all those things break Windows in some way, like making updates not work or somethin
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
The documentation page of that website is pretty interesting. Can disabling all those things break Windows in some way, like making updates not work or something like that?
- 1970-01-01 2y agoOf course, that's the entire point of having 'admin' power over the OS.. blackbird -d = Enable/Disable Windows Defender. blackbird -u = Enable/Disable auto-installation of Windows updates / Sets to manual download and install only. blackbird -m = Enable/Disable auto-installation of Malicious Removal Tool updates.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWell what I mean is, if you disable Cortana or the gaming services or whatever, can it cause functionality like windows update to stop working properly?
- 1970-01-01 2y agono
- out-of-ideas 2y agowhat an awesome handle; also caught this as it reads: 1970-01-01 10 hours ago
- hnuser123456 2y agoNo, there are thousands of pieces of random cruft in Windows that can removed without breaking updates or core functionality. There's only 12 or so processes that are actually critical to keeping Windows running.
- Krssst 2y agoWindows Server exists and must not include any of Cortana/OneDrive/online accounts/... So as long as the base for Server is the same it should at least be theoretically possible to remove unwanted components without breaking things too badly. (of course non-Server editions could hardcode something that breaks when some component is not present but I assume this is not how Windows editions work?) Not sure how Windows Update behaves if some expected component is removed; not having it working would be pretty bad.