terminal VS tiny11builder

- windows terminal (link / link) - .net framework (link) - visual studio (link) - vscode (link) - Edge browser, which is also worth mentioning that when you harden it, its often prompt you to restore the default security instead. - Microsoft office (no need for link 🤦‍♂️)

Maybe, maybe not:

1. It looks like ETW is enabled by default since Vista.

2. The code deletes the username due to "PII issues," suggesting that something is being sent back (line 295)

3. An oblique reference to a 5% sampling rate (line 284) suggests you may not be able to tell what it's sending based on network monitoring.

Hard to say. They should probably document what they collect. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139

Customizing the prompt in cmd is painful, but not impossible. I wrote up a bit of a guide over here. I use that to get something like: 

Windows Terminal Documentation (Repo: Contribute to the docs)

Tiny10 and Tiny11 were debloated stand-alone ISO's by a developer who chose some of the most despised default features & apps, and removed them in advance from the install media. Based on media from recent years these are still available, but appear to have been surpassed by the more versatile "Builder" approach where you can do more of a personal selection of extraneous features to retain or eliminate.

So now it's "Tiny11 Builder" which is like a template script you select your features from, and you have to supply your own Windows ISO which you download from Microsoft:

https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

After the process is complete you end up with your own custom Tiny11 ISO, debloated according to the Powershell builder script.

Using your Tiny11 ISO no differently than the original ISO from Microsoft, you can then clean-install that same debloated version on target PC's instead.

Once installed, it does have a smaller resource footprint, but this is Windows 11 so it's never going to be exactly "tiny".

Alternatively, Ameliorated seems to have taken a similar path to Tiny11, also for Windows 10 as well:

https://ameliorated.io/

It's on Github, but you have to provide your own Windows ISO for legal reasons.

I used this project which removes a lot of the junk apps as well as bypassing requirements. https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

Hi! I having problem with running TronScipt in Windows 11 created by Tiny11Builder script (https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder)

Something like Tiny11 (or its builder tool, which is easier to audit than a pre-built ISO) should do?