Windows 10 Debloat Script
Do your friends a favor and <i>never</i> run this or any like it on their systems &quot;for their benefit&quot;.<p>This is a prime example of &quot;expert user footgun problem&quot;.<p>The phrase &quot;debloat&quot; is a marketing-hype word that&#x27;s being used to bait you all into someone&#x27;s personal view of how computers should be. Expect to be forced to reinstall Windows 10 a few days or weeks after running any such script.<p>Whenever I tech support any of my friends, the first question I ask is &quot;did you do expert-user things to your system?&quot; and they say &quot;well, I mean, I edited some Registry settings&quot; and I just stop and tell them to reinstall Windows because it&#x27;s time to amputate. I&#x27;ll have to add &quot;Have you ever opened Windows PowerShell?&quot; to my list, because that&#x27;ll catch all of these right out of the gate.<p>In case that&#x27;s not reason enough to be afraid — check out this random sampling of changes this makes!<p>* &quot;This script disables Windows Defender&quot; — Because anti-malware protection is &quot;bloat&quot;<p>* &quot;Disable &#x27;Updates are available&#x27; message&quot; — Because you shouldn&#x27;t have to be notified when security updates are available for your system, for example to address zero-day RCEs<p>* &quot;Windows Biometric Service&quot; — And suddenly you can&#x27;t face-login to your Windows 10 computer any longer, but hey, it&#x27;s &quot;bloat&quot;<p>* &quot;Disable easy access keyboard stuff&quot; — Because no one would ever use keyboard accessibility, that&#x27;s just &quot;bloat&quot;<p>* &quot;Restoring old volume slider&quot; — I would get that this was &quot;debloat&quot; if it <i>removed</i> the volume slider, but simply restoring an older one?<p>* &quot;PandoraMediaInc.29680B314EFC2&quot;, &quot;SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic&quot; — Hope you don&#x27;t like streaming music, that&#x27;s just &quot;bloat&quot; anyways<p>And, consider how easily this repo could be compromised to result in you self-infecting your computer with malware by running all of these scripts without a close review of the steps they take. First step in any persistent Windows infection is to disable Windows Defender and Windows Update notifications so the user doesn&#x27;t take steps that might uninstall the persistent infection. Repo does that <i>already</i>, so it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;d be difficult.