Removing bloatware

[Idkwhattodowithmylife]

I just wanted to know what bloatware should i remove from windows?

[kb5zue]

All of it.

[Idkwhattodowithmylife]

6 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

All of it.

what programs include all of it

[BiotechBen]

41 minutes ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

what programs include all of it

Preinstalled games, if you don't need OneDrive: OneDrive, free trial of McAfee if it's a prebuilt, those kinds of things.

[kb5zue]

16 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

Preinstalled games, if you don't need OneDrive: OneDrive, free trial of McAfee if it's a prebuilt, those kinds of things.

Along with all the things mentioned above, if you are not an XBox player you can get rid of the too.  To make finding the bloatware easier, just scroll down thru the list of APPS and get rid of the things you don't, or won't, use.  After uninstalling all the extra junk don't forget to run something like CCleaner to get  rid of the junk files all that removed stuff leaves behind.  CCleaner also has a function to scan the registry files so you want to use that too in order to get rid of all the stuff left in there that is junk.

 

Good Luck.

 

[GoodBytes]

22 hours ago, Idkwhattodowithmylife said:

I just wanted to know what bloatware should i remove from windows?

There is no bloat in Windows.

People call "bloat" anything that isn't what they want to use.

Some consider Notepad and Calculator as bloat as they use their PC as nothing more than a game launcher. For them, if Windows was nothing more than Steam, and maaaaayyybe a web browser, it would be "the perfectly lean OS". Even though the majority of people don't care about Steam, Game bar, DirectX/OpenGL (beside the core 2D aspect of it), and so on. Windows is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of markets.

 

To remove "bloat", simply go to (assuming you are running Windows 11): Settings > Apps > Installed Apps and go through the list of apps and uninstall what you don't want. (Select the "..." button next to the app, and pick "Uninstall"). You'll get to enjoy a few MB in total of free space out of your 1TB+ of storage. 

 

I do encourage you to go through the Settings panel, setting by setting, and customize the OS to your needs. That is more helpful in getting an experience that better fit you.

 

Anything else you read online that claim to "optimize" or "improve" Windows, is either myths (at best), or affect your experience or affect the system security. There is no magic in all of this. If Windows is slow, then your system is slow for your needs.  Return the system and get something better or save up for longer until you can get something better that fits your needs.

 

Over the years, software, games, and OS, gets fancier in their own way. That means that they consume more and more system resources, as time goes on. So, yes, in a way, you need to get a system that is a bit over your needs if you don't plan to update/replace it often. However, don't future proof, as it never ends well. Example, if your needs require exactly 7.8GB of RAM, don't get 8GB of RAM, get the one step up above that: 16GB of RAM (or 12GB if that is some kind of option in a laptop, and you can't afford or there isn't 16GB). Don't get 256GB of RAM for "future proofing", as by the time you'll actually reach anything that will need that much RAM, your PC will be in the history books, and be unusable due to lack of required modern technologies, and performance.