Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts… anything but a straight install.
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It’s all written by amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
I thought so as well for a time, but that tool in particular is what finally made me lose faith that there might be any good debloat tool out there.
Basically, someone mentioned that it does a weird thing, so I’ve decided to take a look closer, and stumbled about a whole lot of dumb choices. To exemplify, I’ll just repost that part of my comment from back then:
Oh yeah, I’ve just skimmed what else the “Disable Telemetry” script does to the registry, and I honestly can’t classify it as anything other than batshit insane.
And this is only one script out of a few dozen this “tool” has. Not to mention this is listed under “Essential Tweaks” that are, according to the documentation “Essential Tweaks are modifications and optimizations that are generally safe for most users to implement.”
Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts… anything but a straight install.
Lord knows what you could have caught!
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It’s all written by amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
And if you are an amateur yourself, you have no means to validate that the scripts aren’t harmful.
I’d say that the ctt winutil does a pretty good job. I’ve been running installs cleaned by it for a good year now without major issues
I thought so as well for a time, but that tool in particular is what finally made me lose faith that there might be any good debloat tool out there.
Basically, someone mentioned that it does a weird thing, so I’ve decided to take a look closer, and stumbled about a whole lot of dumb choices. To exemplify, I’ll just repost that part of my comment from back then:
Privacy.sexy works great…
Might be down right now ( https://privacy.sexy/ )
Up: https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy
The icks is what I caught!