Top 4 PowerShell Tweak Projects

Sophia-Script-for-Windows

57 7,149 9.0 PowerShell

:zap: The most powerful PowerShell module on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11

Project mention: Ask HN: Safest open source Win11 privacy tool? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-08

Win-Debloat-Tools

29 4,217 4.3 PowerShell

Re-imagining Windows like a minimal OS install, already debloated with minimal impact for most functionality.

Project mention: WIN11 Appx removal ideas for VDI environment | /r/VMwareHorizon | 2023-11-22

I have used https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools to debloat windows 11 and created Golden images for non persistent pool.

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Win11Debloat

8 2,422 7.8 PowerShell

A simple, easy to use powershell script to remove bloatware apps from windows, disable telemetry, bing in windows search aswell as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your windows experience. This script works for both windows 10 and windows 11.

Project mention: The unreasonable effectiveness of i3, or: ten years of a boring desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-03

Scripts like https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat help, but should not be needed in the first place.
Note that modern Linux is also leaning towards the same trend. But i admit it is still much easier to avoid those for power users. Snap, i'm looking at you also...

Utilities

1 445 8.9 PowerShell

Useful things (by farag2)

Project mention: How do I uninstall Microsoft Edge? | /r/privacy | 2023-06-04

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-03.