iammrdom Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Hello everyone. It’s been a bee long time since I’ve been a windows user, and I hear that windows has a fair bit of preinstalled ‘stuff’ that seems to be called as ‘crap’ 😆 from my Windows 7 days I remember using Ccleaner but otherwise unsure what to use to delete annoyances or ‘stuff’ that’s part of windows or likely installed as part of windows that’s just unneeded. anyway, I’d appreciate any tips. corrosive23 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 The majority of junk can be uninstalled under Settings. Xenon, Dick Montage and iammrdom 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accuphase Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Try this tool from CTT. It lets you batch add, remove and tweak various apps and settings. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil iammrdom 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iammrdom Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 On 01/03/2024 at 12:44, Accuphase said: Try this tool from CTT. It lets you batch add, remove and tweak various apps and settings. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil Awesome 🤩 Thank you so much I’ll try it as soon as my new Pc arrives. corrosive23 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliseian Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Also, if you change the "Time and Currency Format" to "English (World)" during the setup, it doesn't install some of the stuff (like TikTok, Whatsapp, etc). You will need to go into Settings and change it back to "English (United States)" after install so you can easily access the Windows Store, however. i_was_here, iammrdom, Skyfrog and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted March 1 Supervisor Share Posted March 1 Hello, I personally am not fond of using third-party applications to change Windows settings, because a lot of the time they make changes that have consequences that may not be immediately apparent, and later end up breaking Windows in weird, difficult to troubleshoot ways, like Microsoft Store apps failing over time because they have dependencies on operating system updates, and those were disabled. I think a better approach is to find out the exact changes you wish to make, and then automate the registry (file, etc.) changes to enable and disable them through scripts, so you can not only apply them, but restore them as well if needed. If there's a preinstalled application that is installed that you don't want, you can right-click on it and select Uninstall from the context menu that pops up. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky xrobwx71, Karlston, aphanic and 5 others 8 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrobwx71 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) I agree with @goretsky and would also suggest: Before doing anything I would implement a sound backup plan. Hasleo is a nice program and it's free. I've been using it for about a year now with success. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) On 01/03/2024 at 05:50, xrobwx71 said: I agree with @goretsky and would also suggest: Before doing anything I would implement a sound backup plan. Hasleo is a nice program and it's free. I've been using it for about a year now with success. I wish Windows had a snapshot feature like snapper. https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper System restore is unreliable and even when it does work, insufficient. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accuphase Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 01/03/2024 at 21:22, adrynalyne said: I wish Windows had a snapshot feature like snapper. https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper System restore is unreliable and even when it does work, insufficient. There's Rollback RX.RollBack Rx Home | Horizon DataSys Corporation Horizon DataSys Corporation Program solutions aside, sometimes a registry backup restore has proven successful for me. adrynalyne 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eternal Tempest MVC Posted March 3 MVC Share Posted March 3 Also agree with @goretsky Targeted approach and proper uninstall each specific app you and proper backup advice above. If your still determined to live dangerous.... O&O App Busterhttps://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster It prompts you to create a system restore point before running This allows you to easily remove Universal Windows Apps, and trigger the proper add/remove function installed apps (I suspect it's running the power shell underneath the GUI) It hides the most critical Windows System UWA apps by default so you don't try to go down a rabbit hole and prevents you from removing them. That's not to say you can't do stuff that will give you errors. To get the apps UWA back, you will have to use the Microsoft Store. You could see things like "Visual Studio C++ 2xxx Redistributor", "Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime", "Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime", and more, they can be dependencies for other software you do use, or hardware drivers that are needed to run things correctly. Edit - Question Would running "Reset This PC" erase everything get rid of a lot of third party add-ons are those now baked in to the windows customization? goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKAngel Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 or just leave windows alone, and slowly just uninstall it once setup is complete ther really isnt a hell of a lot to change corrosive23 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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