privatezilla VS Windows10-Privacy

I recently used Privatezilla to disable automatic updates. Not sure if the same approach works on Windows 11, but you might find the relevant registry keys mentioned in the code helpful: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla/blob/master/src/P...

Privatezilla = Is an open source alternative to ShutUp 10, but be careful what you enable/disable. It has options that will impede functionality.

PrivateZilla will do all of this for you.

For all the things you might indeed want to do there are about a billion open source programs where you at least have the ability to see what they do. (For example.) Arium is a black box, you have no actual idea what they changed and most people just blindly trust that stuff without verifying (which again you don't actually can't do, at least not completely).

https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla is good. There's also ThisIsWin11 by the same dev for Windows 11.

Two that I recall in those lists are https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy and https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

And/or do it the hard but most efficient way, https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy

You can disable it, without having another antivirus. Here: https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy#removing-windows-defender

I did the same thing and now it uses 2gb ram vs 4 at idle and cpu floats between 0-3% and doesn’t randomly spike when windows defender decides it’s scanning time. I followed the instructions Here but left out the stuff I want to keep.