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Top 3 PowerShell Bloatware Projects
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Win11Debloat
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Project mention: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-15I recently set up a new gaming PC, made from cannibalised parts of other machines. I installed Windows 11 as there was no point starting on an older OS (and Bazzite etc really struggled with the nvidia GPU so Linux was a non-starter even though I love my Steam Deck and Proton).
The one saving grace for all of this was Win11Debloat[0]. I cannot recommend this set of configuration changes etc more highly. It kills _almost_ everything that irked me about 11. Use at your own risk, but it's now part of my standard install practice.
[0] https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
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Copilot and MS365 have some API areas that no one actually knows what they do.
Day 2 task was cleaning our Win11 Steam game install drive:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI (when it works)
Day 1 task installing Win11 Pro in offline-mode without TPM/Bitlocker speeds up the benchmarks a bit for a game system a bit:
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases
Fun times, but most of the Win experience has always been removing garbage code/adware/shovel-ware. =3
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BRU
Bloatware Removal Utility, for automating removal of pre-installed, factory bloatware from devices running Windows 7-11 and newer. Silently removes items selected if possible. Preselects common bloatware. Can remove Win10/11+ UWP/Metro/Modern/Windows Store apps and provisioned apps.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
PowerShell Bloatware discussion
PowerShell Bloatware related posts
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Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
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Desktop PC running pretty badly
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Windows 11 will just randomly freeze at times for a few seconds, go blank and come back
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Kako vi radite Windows debloat?
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Aero Peek not working in W10
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Aero Peek stopped working in W10
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Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Bloatware projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Win11Debloat | 50,330 |
| 2 | RemoveWindowsAI | 12,262 |
| 3 | BRU | 548 |
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