You also need to go through the settings with an electron microscope and turn off all the data collection stuff. The text prediction, dictionary, pen and tablet stuff, it all collects and sends data to MS. There’s a bunch of services that you need to turn off as well- some of them you can’t.
Optimally you would take a scalpel to the registry and group policy editor.
There’s a bunch of super useful scripts you can find on github, too!
Edit: Oh shit how could I forget, remove all the microsoft bullshit rules in the firewall as well.
Before you make any changes, do a full system backup so that in case things start getting wonky, you can revert it. This often happens because a lot of the crap is deeply hooked into the system (guess why), so when you remove or disable stuff, sometimes you get some unpredictable or annoying behaviors.
It takes years to learn all the ins and outs of properly performing Windows debloating surgery, but the satisfaction is real, and worth it.
You also need to go through the settings with an electron microscope and turn off all the data collection stuff. The text prediction, dictionary, pen and tablet stuff, it all collects and sends data to MS. There’s a bunch of services that you need to turn off as well- some of them you can’t.
Optimally you would take a scalpel to the registry and group policy editor.
There’s a bunch of super useful scripts you can find on github, too!
Edit: Oh shit how could I forget, remove all the microsoft bullshit rules in the firewall as well.
Do those all degrade the speed of copy and paste as well?
I have no clue, but it sure as fuck doesn’t improve any performance metric.
Is there a list somewhere of everything you should turn off?
Here’s a powershell script you can run that takes care of most problems: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
Make sure to read the whole readme before you run it! It works for Win10 too.
And here’s a great tweaking tool from MajorGeeks.com, which can keep you occupied for a few hours:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/majorgeeks_registry_tweaks.html
Before you make any changes, do a full system backup so that in case things start getting wonky, you can revert it. This often happens because a lot of the crap is deeply hooked into the system (guess why), so when you remove or disable stuff, sometimes you get some unpredictable or annoying behaviors.
It takes years to learn all the ins and outs of properly performing Windows debloating surgery, but the satisfaction is real, and worth it.
Happy slicing! :)
Thank you so much!
My pleasure! <3