How to Debloat Windows 11 Using Microsoft’s Official Tools!

I really appreciate this video in terms of: 1. Teaching everyone how to do this themselves instead of relying on someone else’s work 2. Step by step instructions leaving nothing out 3. Keeping the video free from strong bias/opinions and sticking to the methodology, data, implementation, and results. 🎉

Very helpful vid, this is the only way how I would recommend to use Win however u can’t get rid of one bloat which gets reinstalled with every major update – M$ Edge & Webview!👎 This is M$ way of telling u “we got u covered” evenu don’t want to🤨

I've been using Windows 11 LTSC, breath of fresh air.

The worst thing Windows does is replaces user folders like Desktop with onedrive link folders, and you need to edit the registry to fix that. I think that is completely crazy.

What if I'm using Ventoy?

Wouldn't windows just add some of those things back in upon the next update?

Thanks for this! This is the cleanest method i've come across so far.

will a windows update bring back the bloatware?

Some parts of the "bloat" in Windows 11 unfortunately just can't be removed, and Microsoft's push to get people to upgrade to Windows 11 is really quite anti-user, a lot of my friends and family have "upgraded" to Windows 11 and within a few hours or days they've then contacted me to help them return to Windows 10.

The common complaints seem to be the loss of features that they are used to having in previous versions of Window prior to Windows 11, the insistence on including telemetry in even more parts of the Operating System than what was present in Windows 10, and, the push by Microsoft to get you to buy a new computer to get new features when they just want what they already have + security updates & bug fixes.

They aren't asking for anything extravagant, just the ability to still have access to the features that they had in older versions of Windows. It made some family members angry enough that they have ever already switched to another Operating System that isn't developed by Microsoft, or they are planning to switch to another non-Microsoft Operating System.

Of those that switched to a Linux-based Operating System the main complaint has been that they miss the Windows Sound Effects and that they prefer them over the different sound effects found in those Linux OS's.
Of those that switched to a macOS Operating System the main complaint has been the lack of freedom to install what they want, and, the constant bombardment to buy Applications from the Store when they already have an Application for that task either pre-installed or self-installed, the Operating System is seemingly just a method of trying to sell the user software that they don't need rather than aiding the user to complete the task that they want to complete.

It's been a real eye opening experience, I've never seen so much unity around the hate for or disliking of a piece of software that you interact with on at least a monthly, if not weekly or even daily basis.

Microsoft have really shot themselves in the foot with Windows 11.

And then since switching many people back to Windows 10 or to other Operating Systems those same people have inundated me with their comments around the whole "Windows 11 + Co-Pilot" feature set, many of them are not just angry, they are also scared, they feel like the computer is now taking control of and spying on EVERYTHING that they are doing, they are genuinely concerned about the direction that computers are going in, at least two friends have reached out to their local MP's to raise concerns about how this invasiveness is going to affect wider society in a negative way, making people far more suspicious of each other and less trusting of the software & processes that keep modern society functioning on a day to day basis.

I use Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, &, iOS, I have no one solution fits all Operating System, but if theirs one thing I will say it is that I am losing hope and confidence in Microsoft's Software Products, and I don't currently see a way in which that's going to change.

Interesting. I guess if my system was short of RAM or low on storage or bogged down performance wise, I would take a look. But it's not any of those things yet. I know some folk, especially Linux folk can become a little fanatical about trimming everything down. I don't generally care unless it becomes a problem.

how to debloat the Mac?

This looks like a really useful way to do a minimal install in a VM, where I use Windows just to run a few specialised programs I haven't found a Linux replacement for.

There are ready isos available for download as well