Stripping Down Windows 10's "Bloat"?

[fyre2k20]

Things like Cortana, Xbox, etc. 

 

 

[Scruffy90]

1 minute ago, fyre2k20 said:

Things like Cortana, Xbox, etc. 

 

 

Get the edu version. Most of that stuff is removed

[SCHISCHKA]

yes you can turn stuff off but windows 10 is already very well optimised you will have to have a very crappy processor to call it bloated

[SCHISCHKA]

yes aas above get the education or pro/enterprise editions if you want more tools

[YedZed]

You can disable these things in services and registry. Look up some youtube videos on it, they are very good at explaining it.

[fisch1l]

Here's a quick guide for what I've done: I followed this video

 

For starters, I'll assume you're fairly comformtable with using Windows.

The first thing to do is check what version of windows you're using. From the start menu, hit Settings, System, About. Under Edition, it should say something like Windows 10 Pro. I recommend Pro. If you don't have that, don't worry.

 

Next, download Spybot Anti-Beacon which turns off telemetry things and makes some registry changes. Set it to run on startup.

Then, go into Settings, Privacy, and turn off every setting you don't like. If it messes with an app's functionality, it will let you know.

Finally, make sure you are NOT signed in to Windows using a Microsoft account. If you log in using your email, or use Outlook or Mail (the applications), then sign out of them!

 

Finally, go through with a program like C-Cleaner or BleachBit. Then, for good measure, run a malware scan with Malwarebytes or similar (but not Windows Defender). 

 

Hopefully that helped