Fido VS Debloat-Windows-10

fido is what it uses, and can be run on its own, to download any 10 or 11 iso.

For reference, the script that Rufus uses to download these ISOs is of course public, and if you have any doubts as to what it might be doing, you can check its source to confirm that it is doing exactly what it says on the tin, which is download unmodified retail Windows ISOs straight from the Microsoft servers.

https://github.com/pbatard/Fido (the script that Rufus uses to download the ISOs)

Just to add a small correction here: it was. But Microsoft's strengthening of who could access their downloads in January this year means that it's become a major headache (i.e. time sink) to try to fix it so that it works on Windows 7. Which means that, no matter what version of Rufus you're using, and because this is actually a remote script that is being downloaded and executed by Rufus, ISO downloads have already been disabled on Windows 7 on account that if you run the script, it will just prompt you that it is not compatible with Windows 7 and exit.

Online, there is a similar script , albeit more complex that provide loads of options ... That one doesn't work on my first try I don't have the heart to dig in at the moment that's why I poke the community. If I don't get the anwsers I need I will fix it myself, but at the moment, maybe someone has what Im looking for

the developer of rufus also releases the powershell script rufus uses to download windows from microsoft separately, so you don't have to run the entire program if you just want to download isos

GitHub - pbatard/Fido: A PowerShell script to download Windows ISOs or the UEFI Shell

The thing is that, even if https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download does not provide you with a link to access old Windows 10 ISOs, theses ISOs are still being provided by Microsoft if you know how to query its servers. And Rufus uses a 100% Open Source script (called Fido) to do just that.

Hmm looking here: https://docs.atlasos.net/troubleshooting/removed-features/

It just seems to remove a lot of security modules, out of all the bloat out there why would I want to just remove the sec modules? Also it now adds an option to include those, so all in all, it then removes:

- Some APPX and UWP applications

- Logging of Network Configuration

- Microsoft Edge and WebView

- Restore Points and System Reset

- Telemetry

- Windows Error Reporting

- Windows Updates

- Hyper-V and VBS

- Background Apps

- Disk Defragmentation

- User Account Control (UAC)

I can use https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 and https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 and https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster to do most of the debloating and telemetry tasks.

I don't see the point of removing

- Disk Defragmentation (how much does this even affect general usage?)

- UAC (?)

- Hyper-V (since this is an optional feature anyway)

I try to uninstall OneDrive completely during the install process, but either a PS Script (https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/blob/master/scripts/remove-onedrive.ps1) works nor does it with an intunewin program (OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall).

All results are just the same guy, and what ultimately helped him didn't help me. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/issues/254

Here's a few of the scripts I use. https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater https://christitus.com/debloat-windows-10-2020/ I also run this program after debloating https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

I've managed to trim a lot of the bloat from our standard non-ltsc image. I can't share what I have unfortunately, but some of what I used was based off stuff I found here: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/tree/master/scripts

Install Win10 and strip it down to what YOU need from it. That way you also learn a lot by tweaking etc. To do this you need tools like this collection of debloating scripts: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10, O&O shut up 10, a guide for stopping unused services, etc..