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I will be honest since im with parent here, it took me literally 15m to figure everything out when I reinstalled this week. I just do all the nos on oob, once I

I will be honest since im with parent here, it took me literally 15m to figure everything out when I reinstalled this week. I just do all the nos on oob, once I get to desktop I uninstall OneDrive (via control panel, etc..), go to settings, activate windows -> disable stuff that I dont want -> customize start menu to my liking (settings button near power button, left-aligned, etc..) -> open start menu and right click uninstall all the apps (whatsapp, netflix, outlook, etc..) -> then go to explorer and change the defaults to my preferences and lastly open gpedit and disable all the AI and cloud search stuff under administrative templates (they are all there and have clean descriptions!!).

troupo 1y ago
> they are all there and have clean descriptions Key word: all there. There ate hundreds of templates in several categories. It's good when you know all the places you have to turn shit off, as it's spread all over the place. It took me over a week and furious googling
- Henchman21 1y ago
  So you documented that work and made it public for the rest of us, right? Were we collectively using the same setup that turned all this stuff off — and I’m talking a real project to cleanup Windows installations — we’d be in a better spot. Unfortunately people want to profit from doing so, so nah we don’t really do that. O&O shutup seems to take on a lot of this AND its free! This is what I usually recommend.
  - defrost 1y ago
    People have made exactly such a project .. and one that has open annotated power shell scripts with hyper links to detailed explanations, forums, and rolling release. It's front ended by a powershell "Text" UI with broad function tab groupings of clickable installs, tweaks, update behavior options, and Build Your Own install disk / ISO image for VM's or reset. ( Includes install and run O&O Shutup and O&O AppBuster with other similar third party tools ) From a powershell admin prompt it's: irm "https://christitus.com/win" | iex (stable) OR irm "https://christitus.com/windev" | iex (bleeding edge dev version) https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil More information and video about and howto guides via a search for "Chris Titus Win Util"
    - Henchman21 1y ago
      Oh, thank the maker. I appreciate this immensely!
  - troupo 1y ago
    There also https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat and a few others People do document all this, and people do create comprehensive projects to remove all this shit.

troupo 1y ago

> they are all there and have clean descriptions Key word: all there. There ate hundreds of templates in several categories. It's good when you know all the places you have to turn shit off, as it's spread all over the place. It took me over a week and furious googling

Henchman21 1y ago
So you documented that work and made it public for the rest of us, right? Were we collectively using the same setup that turned all this stuff off — and I’m talking a real project to cleanup Windows installations — we’d be in a better spot. Unfortunately people want to profit from doing so, so nah we don’t really do that. O&O shutup seems to take on a lot of this AND its free! This is what I usually recommend.
- defrost 1y ago
  People have made exactly such a project .. and one that has open annotated power shell scripts with hyper links to detailed explanations, forums, and rolling release. It's front ended by a powershell "Text" UI with broad function tab groupings of clickable installs, tweaks, update behavior options, and Build Your Own install disk / ISO image for VM's or reset. ( Includes install and run O&O Shutup and O&O AppBuster with other similar third party tools ) From a powershell admin prompt it's: irm "https://christitus.com/win" | iex (stable) OR irm "https://christitus.com/windev" | iex (bleeding edge dev version) https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil More information and video about and howto guides via a search for "Chris Titus Win Util"
  - Henchman21 1y ago
    Oh, thank the maker. I appreciate this immensely!
- troupo 1y ago
  There also https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat and a few others People do document all this, and people do create comprehensive projects to remove all this shit.