Wow, it just took one second for PowerShell to load. Microsoft really has improved that from the 10 to 20 seconds that I remember from Windows 7.

will this remove the bioluminescent government employees access to my computer?

Never seen a GUI for a shell script before; that's pretty kickass.

better title should have been "How to download 0.5GB of RAM" 😂

Thanks for the guide, this lowered my ram usage by 2.1 gigabytes. Not that I didn't have the ram to spare, but it's always good to maximize efficiency.

i really thought this would be a linux mint install or something

yoooo wtf ran this powershell script and I had the fastest start up time I’ve had in years on windows and it was mad responsive when things were starting up. This must be how an average linux user feels 😭

hope you know that, the less ram you gve the VM the less is used, and less processes, now go run a Win10 VM with 1gb ram and 1 core, then look at the ram usage and backround processe ( i got max 50 proceses/500mbRam used, and win is usable) a side note now: write down the processs, then compare them with a bare metal win10, now you know what proceses are not essential for win10 and can get rid of them(if possible)

Mind you, for Windows 10 20H2, Cortana, and OneDrive have become very difficult to remove. They are getting more and more integrated with into the base OS, so please take care. There are still registry edits that you can look up to completely disable Cortana, however, be aware that you will also break Windows Search (which honestly, isn't all that good to begin with).

For those curious, the thumbnail depicts madobe tooko, which is Windows 10's actual official mascot in japan gotta love japan amirite

"Cortana is dead" 2 seconds later: "Hi, I am Cortana!"

The reason you didn't see a whole lot of improvement on the CPU front is because with so little ram windows scales back the amount of running processes. If you notice you only have 44-50 running before and after using the debloater script. If you're using x64 with 8gb+ of ram you're looking at ~150 processes. Debloater lowers that down to somewhere around 100 processes making default 0-1% on idle from ~2%.

De-Spook Windows 10 ...... I find that a very good way to describe what Microsoft is doing inside windows with its users

2:50 I don't think I've ever seen github in light mode in my life

windows has always been getting more bloated but windows 10 brings a whole new meaning to the word

Also consider using enterprise W10 instead of all the various home versions. I use it for gaming, (it's missing some directx stuff) and it idles at about 500Mb less than W10 home. Also, it's likely you'll have to run this debloater after every big update. They'll turn that stuff back on, and they won't even tell you. They'll also detect that it's gone, and send you a mandatory update to reinstall it or to turn it back on. It's really their OS, there's not much you can do. Registry edits don't stick, they detect them and put them back the way they want them. I think the closest thing would be that group has somehow managed to gut windows 10. Use their version, and make sure you get updates from them. Cause iirc they had to rip out the M$ updater cause it would work against them.

As someone who's PC Genuinely has 4gb of Ram this helped, thanks.

Best de-bloat is Windows Server. Windows Server comes bloat free AND you can disable telemetry with one click. Some applications don't run on server ~10%, but it's still the most secure out-of-box Windows image you'll get.

I see cute anime thumbnail, I click Really useful content tho, thanks!

FYI, if you remove Cortana from the installation medium (USB, DVD) updates won't bring it back. For example, use NTLite to achieve that.

Comparing Windows's memory management based on "Unsed RAM is wasted RAM" is just the same as saying "My RAM was used up by stuff I didn't use" Regardless of the argument, having more free RAM is always better rather than it being temporarily use for something unbeneficial to it's user.

Just delete* system32 folder

wtf?!?!? where are the anime girls?!

Notable improvement after using this. I've been using ISLC for ram cleanup as well and it does wonders.

THANK YOU! From 5,6GB to 3,8 of ram usage, crazy!

God, I forgot how bloated Windows is. My Linux pc uses like 300MB of memory at idle, 5x less than win10, it’s pretty crazy when you think about it.

I honestly have used this for awhile, always on new machines and this is honestly a better solution compared to me manually typing commands in before! Nice video, always love your content Mental

I love how his disk is just at >80% over the whole video

thanks this helped my situation a little bit, my computer only has 6 gigs of ram, and a fresh install of windows uses 3.2gb with nothing open

you are my saviour, i run an amd athlon 3050e which means im constantly at 70 to 100 percent cpu usage with windows, now i use linux mint but for some things i need windows, this should help with ram and cpu efficency

You are one of the only you tubers who I disable add block for

I love how as I ran thism, even before Powershell finished doing the work windows modules installer suddenly started using MASSIVE amounts of resources alongside various other processes.

My Man. You got us Windows bois covered.

This is very helpful. I am probably always going to rely on windows for a lot of things sadly, but atleast when I have to use it over a distro it won't be dogshit on anything but the most state of art computers

I use (Chromium) Edge for pdfs because it has excellent pen support which is something I use a LOT. Several of those bloatware apps are also great for pen users. Fresh paint is such a cool app! Arguably nobody would know about it, if they didn't bundle it with Windows.

Very awesome. I might try it out! I'm kinda cautious tho. I used a bloatware remover years ago, and I wasn't very satisfied. It broke a couple of things. But this looks really solid.

>de-spook Smashes that X to doubt button

I think trying to simplify win7 control panel windows made a mess eventually ending up with 2 places to edit configs.

Nice!, im going to save this because i never know when or if i will need to boot in to win.

Not gonna lie, I subscribed to you just because I think you are funny, but this time I really learn something, Thank you.

Just so y'all know Cortana has been made mandatory. I removed it from my ISO and it bricked my install. This may have been accounted for in this tool but use at your own risk

Cant figure out if this is a genuine "how-to" or not because no dislikes... Thanks KZfaq 🙏

Chris Titus’ windows debloat tool is the best I’ve found. V useful

Yes please. Where has this been all my life. Had to do it manually all this time.

Says "Cortana is dead", opens the search bar again and theres cortana, then opens the task manager and Cortana is clearly there. Good job bud!!!!!

Outlaw: Debloat with this one simple trick! Me: Wipe the partition and install gnu/linux

This script brought my CPU utilization down 40% and RAM usage while idle down 50%. Incredible!

Nice one of the best tools I've ever tried to make Win at least to an extend usable. Never had so many fps in GTA :D

"Billy the virtual machine" is some deep mutahar lore right there

Why are you using Windows 10 Build 1507? This script was designed with the latest build in mind. Also, the CPU usage is not a “windows thing”, if you had done this in the latest build, then you wouldn’t have this issue. Check out Chris Titus Tech’s video on how to do it. Now this isn’t to defend Windows, I’m a Fedora Linux user, this is just a thought I wanted lo lay out there.

My crappy 2017 Lenovo ideapad 110-15ACL 4GB DDR3 ram quadcore runs even better now. I debloated manually before, but i didn't touched the registry keys and stuff like that, kinda scary to me. Well, thanls for the script and thanks for the performances increase !

Oh man, you have no idea how cathartic it is to hear someone else go through half the things I hate about windows. It's not just my imagination and there are other people out there who have to deal with this shit!

Right click windows button (or windows+X iirc) for a context menu with admin powershell and a few other goodies

Nice, I've used this script tons of times. After de-bloating my ISO, installing chocolaty, and using NVClean install, my guest system should be great for running those windows only programs. Ok, so my new file isn't working under my KVM. Time to try bare metal, I guess. Probably destroyed the os in more than one way :/

thanks for uploading this, just got installed windows on a free computer I just fixed

Thanks for showing us this!

My secret to disable windows update is finding all related services in registry and denying all access from "system". That way nothing will be able to bring them back unless you allow system to access them. Keep in mind Windows Defender is an exception unless you find a way to execute regedit as System (it is a CMD command I think)

My fucking ram usage went from 8gbs used out of 16gbs to 2gbs. My startup time went from 10 mins to one and a half. I fucking love that you shared this

I appreciate this highly, good show

The only hangup I encountered was having to reinstall Net Framework, but this thing was highly effective.

Windows 10 is very bloated

Well there go the files on my desktop. Real cool script. Really nice, realizing several hours of photo editing are down the drain, and that the script doesn't even have the decency to send the files to the Recycle Bin first. Amazing.

Thanks for the video, didn't know about that

thanks it lowered my ram usage from 2.6 gb to 26624 mb.

@Mental Outlaw - Would you consider doing an update on this? Do you still use it or have you seen the newer version, etc? Thanks for all you do!

I have a lot of stuff installed and my CPU usage is still lower (taking into account CPU perf). This is probably due to the fact you are maxing out hard driver for some reason

Thank you friend very easy to follow

Ty this video was amazingly helpful and fix some crashing/chugging issues I was having with windows: )

i'm incredibly unknowledgeable about these types of things, but it looks incredibly beneficial to a person like me who can only get by with 8 gigs. I like to play my fair share of games on my machine and I was wondering if this would help with memory-hungry games. The little risk at the start of the github kind of scares me. If i use the debloater, would it break any functionality of running applications and games?

Will this work well on windows 11? Are there any other notable apps to blacklist before debloating?

This will be invaluable when I get around to a new gaming build

Thanks. Sometimes i need to optimize w10 for tiny pc with limeted resources and it is a pain. so i'll try this one solution

Get the newer versions of Windows, they also reduce ram usage by about 10% probably cause Cortana isnt hard bundled in anymore.

me back here after downgrading from windows 11

Man, big thanks.

Thank you so much for this. it has helped a ton. i hated windows 10 mostly because of all that extra forced junk it has.problem solved

Definitively need this but i'll tune it to make sure i dont delette stuff i actually use as well

Classic Shell is a great app for the classic XP look and feel :P

numbers go up when mental outlaw adds an anime girl into the thumbnail

Tools like this are a godsend for those of us who just can't daily drive linux.

And that why I won't stop running Windows 7. Consistent and beautiful UI, basically no bloatware on some editions, no mandatory updates I have no idea why people want to upgrade other than security

Have you bought windows for the virtual machine?

Dude I use an old HP notebook and I dont realy have the cash for an upgrade, with only 4gb of ram avaliable, after trying the method sudently the cpu usage got lowered and the disc stoped with the random 100% usage. I've got more 500mb ram avaliable (doesnt sound like much but it shows it self realy significant when gaming) and the OS it self just loads faster, my most sincere thank you

Just a few steps and I now have an extra 4gb memory freed up Damn dude thanks

Windows 10 is so bloated I can’t even run it on any mechanical hard drives I own

It doesn’t look like it successfully disabled Cortana. When you opened the search menu the second time it gave the Cortana welcome page. I’ve found the only way to reliably disable it is through the local group policy editor on Pro versions of Win10

Thank you!

Legendary video.

Linux lite idle at an amazing 5%, after a few usage it was another amazing 7%, I couldn’t believe it.

I thought he was gonna install linux

Give this guy a noble prize for debloating

"Testing VM" being the highlight here for everyone!

Ive used this. Its really nice. And also pretty small in data for all that id does. Its like 350kb or something. less than half a meg. It works and turns off most to all of the stupid stuff that runs at default at a fresh install. It takes like 20-30 seconds. It comes with a premade script that does it all all at once, for you. OR you can use the UI (like he shows in the video) and specifically choose what you want changed. What takes time is looking at what you want to run because it has a thing for the auto, or a thing for the UI. This is a tiny hurdle though. **As a headsup, You may still have to right click on the taskbar and manually turn off other things you dont want running, by hand. Some of these things wont be affected by the debloater, out of courtesy of the debloat programmer, in case you like these goofy things like weather on your taskbar, or cortana search bar, or "people", etc.

went from 6.6GB being used to 3.2 with this, wow

7:10 "Cortana is dead, she's not there."

Thank You~!

Is there any risk within doing this? Or something you should be aware of before doing it?

Madobe Touko on the thumbnail 🥰

this script is great thanks

I just did this and I think I can feel the speed increase already. Task manager opening up instantly for example. Sadly I missed some important apps to exclude from the purge (mail app), so I had to reinstall it and re-add stuff.