PowerShell vs WinRice

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WinRice makes setting up a new Windows device a child's play. Lay back and relax while it does some of the most common things that people usually do to setup a brand new device. It's all automatic. ✨ (by pratyakshm)

Windows powershell-script Powershell CLI Privacy Automation Setup windows-11 winrice Windows10 windows11

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PowerShell		WinRice
	Project
1	Mentions	4
279	Stars	320
1.4%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
PowerShell	Language	PowerShell
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PowerShell

Posts with mentions or reviews of PowerShell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Importing PowerShell Packages in a OSD
1 project | /r/SCCM | 7 Apr 2021

WinRice

Posts with mentions or reviews of WinRice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-12.

No means no Microsoft!
10 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 12 Mar 2023

I suggest you to look into this project which is actively updated.
New Laptop, need help setting up.
1 project | /r/PrivacyGuides | 4 Oct 2022

Also use winrice to setup initial OS, that disables what's unnecessary (telemetry and stuff) and installs useful apps like HEVC extensions and Nanazip.
LTSC 2021 Catch-All
2 projects | /r/Windows10LTSC | 20 Nov 2021

WinRice is a great tool, it debloats without breaking any functionality.
CMD/PS/REGEDIT? Uninstalling bloatware quickly
2 projects | /r/windows | 21 Oct 2021

Checkout https://github.com/pratyakshm/WinRice, it's by a friend of mine, it works perfectly on windows 11 and 10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PowerShell and WinRice you can also consider the following projects:

WinPwn - Automation for internal Windows Penetrationtest / AD-Security

CleanWin - WinRice is a tool that uses automation to setup your Windows devices. [Moved to: https://github.com/pratyakshm/WinRice]

Powershell_CICD_repository - This tool greatly simplifies Windows administrator life by automating the whole scripting content lifecycle. So the boring stuff like backuping, syntax checking, code formatting, content distribution or deletion will be automated and only thing left will be the code writing :)

windows-11-debloat - Script to optimize your installation of Windows 11.

Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell

Windows-screenFetch - Powershell port of bash/unix screenfetch.

PSWinReporting - This PowerShell Module has multiple functionalities, but one of the signature features of this module is the ability to parse Security logs on Domain Controllers providing easy to use access to AD Events.

W1nDro1d - A simple tool to manage Windows 11's Subsystem for Android "manually", install APK and XAPK, toggle fullscreen, list installed Android Apps, among other things

PowerShell - 500+ PowerShell scripts (.ps1) for every system!

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

Windows-Optimize-Harden-Debloat - Enhance the security and privacy of your Windows 10 and Windows 11 deployments with our fully optimized, hardened, and debloated script. Adhere to industry best practices and Department of Defense STIG/SRG requirements for optimal performance and security.

HPIA-Repository-Downloader - The script is designed to create and maintain HP Image Assistant offline repositories with a GUI interface, and to update the repository with scripted runtime options