Sorry if this is against community guidelines, but I couldn’t find any rule that prohibits this. If there is any, please tell me, I’m open to remove the post.


Just randomly came across this one and it looked so good that I formatted my laptop (which runs windows, unfortunately for battery reasons) and did the set-up with this script. It is FOSS and very easy to use.

It can remove edge, cortana and other microsoft junk software, while being able to quickly install stuff, set-up profiles, etc.

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    I know people have mostly gotten over it at this point but it still irks me when I see an installer that’s just “pipe this random script from the internet directly into an admin terminal”. They should at least put a note like “hey this is potentially a dangerous action. you should ideally download this locally and inspect it first before you run it” even if most people aren’t gonna do it.

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      Here’s the GitHub for it. I agree that I’m not one to just run a script blindly. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

      edit: I’m such an idiot. My God. So i ran a different os hardening script. Guess what my dumbass forgot to do? Confirm the local admin username and password. Guess who’s locked out. Me. Woooow lol don’t be dumb like me. Create a checklist before hand. I guess i learned a fucking lesson lol.

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      The developer is quite transparent about all the possible effects of this script. It tweaks to a point that you’ll still receive security updates, and feature updates are a bit delayed.

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      It seems crazy. No updates and no defender, what could go wrong?

      I don’t understand why removing all that stuff for “light” then preinstalling a chromium browser for “privacy”. For privacy choose Firefox. Or money was exchanged for having Brave as default?

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        Yes these kind of distributions of windows are extremely suspicious. I once saw one that added additional stuff to ISO other than stuff from guthub repo.

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          It is smart to inform yourself about the reputation and suspicious actions of something like this before installing it, maybe also try it on a vm first if you are in doubt

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        No updates

        Agreed, that’s rather questionable.

        no defender

        Eh, it’s a nice performance boost, and if you know what you are doing (and are updated), you’ll only get caught by the kind of 0-days that AV doesn’t protect you against anyway. If anything, you should look into enabling all the other security tools that are somewhat hidden for Windows, like the sandboxing feature etc.

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        I don’t understand the brave decision either but other than that i like how it is. Removing windows update is better because it often messes with software it shouldn’t mess with. And you can reactivate Defender which i did

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    I’ve been using ReviOS without a hitch… but if I was to use a debloater, do I need to run it after every windows update? Can I disable updates? What’s the go?

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      It has ability to disable, but actually disabling all of them is not recommended at all. Recommended settings for this script delays security updates by 2 weeks and feature updates by 2 year