Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?

• Windows10Debloater

  459 17,293 0.0 PowerShell

  Discontinued Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

I've used this script for every new install of Windows and it makes the experience quite a bit better: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater .

17k stars on GitHub so lots of people agree.

• BeachedWhale

  3 66 10.0 PowerShell

  BeachedWhale removes Windows 10 bloatware

I always liked this for Win 10

https://github.com/southpaw5271/BeachedWhale

• 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.

  

• Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

  210 9,489 6.5 C#

  Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

It's not exactly a debloater, but https://www.bcuninstaller.com/ will help you to get rid of majority of bloatware. It's not automatic unfortunately, you need to know what you're doing.

• Open-Shell-Menu

  255 6,212 6.6 C++

  Classic Shell Reborn.

  

I use Open Shell (fork of Classic Shell) as a replacement to original Start Menu. This gives me full control over what appears in start menu - no results from internet, animated tiles, etc (I am on Win 10 though, from what I read the Win 11 is supported, but not yet officially [1]). It could be a solution to the ads appearing in start menu.

[1] https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/issues/1564

• Atlas

  118 11,718 9.9 Batchfile

  🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and security.

  

• 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.

  

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