Fido VS Debloat-Windows-10

Compare Fido vs Debloat-Windows-10 and see what are their differences.

Fido

A PowerShell script to download Windows or UEFI Shell ISOs (by pbatard)

Debloat-Windows-10

A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps (by W4RH4WK)
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Fido Debloat-Windows-10
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2,197 5,987
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5.7 1.1
about 2 months ago about 1 year ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only beer-ware license
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Fido

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fido. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • Rufus has stopped supporting Windows 7
    2 projects | /r/windows7 | 18 Mar 2023
    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.
  • Get W10 21h2 iso
    3 projects | /r/sysadmin | 25 Oct 2022
    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.
  • You can no longer download Windows 11, 10 ISOs via Rufus as Microsoft blocks Fido
    6 projects | /r/Windows10 | 14 Aug 2022
  • Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
    Seems the problem has already been fixed by changing some HTTP headers: https://github.com/pbatard/Fido/pull/42
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
  • Receiving windows 11 school pc. How to use it without Microsoft violating my privacy
    5 projects | /r/privacy | 15 Jul 2022
  • I don't want to do anything wrong, need advice
    3 projects | /r/germany | 25 Dec 2021
    If you want to know more, you can have a look at what the FIDO PowerShell script used by Rufus does, knowing that the SKUs we use in our script can be publicly obtained with something like https://github.com/luzeadev/techbench-json-dump.
    3 projects | /r/germany | 25 Dec 2021
    You can actually validate that all Rufus is doing is access the Microsoft website for downloads by looking at the source of the PowerShell script that is being run to obtain the download links, which, just like Rufus, if a 100% Open Source project accessible from https://github.com/pbatard/Fido.
  • I'M THE ONE WHO PIRATES
    4 projects | /r/dankmemes | 10 May 2021
    Use this tool to get he .iso: https://github.com/pbatard/Fido
  • Keeping private
    8 projects | /r/coolguides | 9 May 2021
    If you want to debloat your windows use the tool https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 and download official windows .ISO s (Without the need of licenses so its basically free) with the tool https://github.com/pbatard/Fido If youre even more tech savvy use ameliorated.info.

Debloat-Windows-10

Posts with mentions or reviews of Debloat-Windows-10. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Fido and Debloat-Windows-10 you can also consider the following projects:

Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

privatezilla - 👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10

Windows-10-Sophia-Script - :zap: A powerful PowerShell module for fine-tuning and tweaking Windows 10 & Windows 11 [Moved to: https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows]

linux-cli-community - Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.

WoeUSB-ng - WoeUSB-ng is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. This is a rewrite of original WoeUSB.

awesome-privacy - Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.

BlackViperScript - Sets Win 10 Services based on Black Viper's Service Configurations

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

SteamAchievementNotifier - Steam Achievement Notifier is an Electron application that shows a customisable notification when you unlock any Steam Achievement! It uses the Steam Web API to track achievement stats in real time, and displays an achievement summary within the notification.

basic-attention-token-crowdsale - Basic Attention Token

privacy.sexy - Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy