Top 11 PowerShell windows11 Projects

Win11Debloat

8 2,487 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...

Fido

29 2,205 5.7 PowerShell

A PowerShell script to download Windows or UEFI Shell ISOs

Project mention: Windows 11 Image Officially | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-27

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
Harden-Windows-Security

10 1,130 9.9 PowerShell

Harden Windows Safely, Securely using Official Supported Microsoft methods and proper explanation | Always up-to-date and works with the latest build of Windows | Provides tools and Guides for Personal, Enterprise, Government and Military security levels | Read The Rationale https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/blob/main/Rationale.md

Project mention: BitLocker, TPM and Pluton | What Are They and How Do They Work | /r/cybersecurity | 2023-09-03

We learned how important it is to use BitLocker and protect our data at rest. The Harden Windows Security repository employs BitLocker to encrypt the operation system drive and optionally any other drives that user chooses to. It utilizes the most secure configuration and military grade encryption algorithm, XTS-AES-256, TPM 2.0 and Start-up PIN.

MicrosoftTeams-msinternal

17 469 10.0 PowerShell

This project was created from PowerShell which allows people to download the latest internal build of Microsoft Teams.
WinRice

4 320 5.9 PowerShell

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. ✨
private-secure-windows

7 155 3.5 PowerShell

Privacy and security baseline for personal Windows 10 and Windows 11

Project mention: Private and Secure Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-21

Windows_Optimisation_Pack

1 131 7.2 PowerShell

Debloat & Optimise your Windows
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
debloat-windows11

2 101 5.0 PowerShell

Powershell script to debloat the Windows 11 Installation with GUI.

Project mention: Any reason to keep windows 11? (2023 model) | /r/ZephyrusG14 | 2023-05-07

I use a modified version of this script to install the programs I need but you can find other options on the winget app repo. https://github.com/kdpuvvadi/debloat-windows11

winget

1 59 2.8 PowerShell

A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job (by Kugane)
Windows-Terminal-Guide

2 42 3.2 PowerShell

Windows Terminal Guide
WinSoftwareUpdate

1 14 0.0 PowerShell

With this module you can automatically update your installed Windows softwares trough WinGet

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 windows11 related posts

Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2023
Any reason to keep windows 11? (2023 model)
1 project | /r/ZephyrusG14 | 7 May 2023
What are the draw backs of upgrading to windows 11?
5 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 27 Feb 2023
How to prepare W11 from denied to collect any data from Microsoft?
6 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 30 Sep 2022
I used powershell script named windows toolbox , and people started saying it’s malicious. Do you know how can I remove it ?(it was removed from GitHub but you can find it in web archive with some browsers)
4 projects | /r/antivirus | 12 Apr 2022
Got a new job, how do you all set up your own work laptop?
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 4 Dec 2021
Windows Ansible Playbook
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 27 Oct 2021
A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
workos.com | 24 Apr 2024

The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning. Learn more →

Index

What are some of the best open-source windows11 projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	Win11Debloat	2,487
2	Fido	2,205
3	Harden-Windows-Security	1,130
4	MicrosoftTeams-msinternal	469
5	WinRice	320
6	private-secure-windows	155
7	Windows_Optimisation_Pack	131
8	debloat-windows11	101
9	winget	59
10	Windows-Terminal-Guide	42
11	WinSoftwareUpdate	14