Sacrifice to the AV Gods update is now live! (Removes Disable UAC and Self-Elevation) Live Stream discovering the False Positive: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7ChgaVzuLzNdIk.html Why I Hate Windows Defender (Code-Signing): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7ZmpZp1sbmbZ4U.html

I absolutely lost trust in Windows Defender when or Edge for that matter when it flagged any 7z archives and wont allow people to download them regardless if they're safe or not. All 7z - blacklisted like that.

Thanks for filling us in and keeping us updated on these issues Chris. Thanks for taking care of us Windows users.

"I will remove the edge disable option". Bruh, the place where I work depends on that feature: Edge keeps overriding defaults crucial to our workflow and opening potential security holes. Thank god we're in the EU and I guess in the future it will be a simple uninstall.

The reason why I paid for the offline script from Chris is that he gives this away free for everyone. I used it once and knew that I had to support him. He STILL gives it away!

IMO no user script should auto-elevate. Why just not make it show an error like: "This programs needs to be run in admin mode" ?

The more they Push us The more Users will Shift to Linux. Chris Let them do it. It's good for Linux user % UP.

5:15 - Windows Security - a tent, with a screen door, and a $100 padlock, and, oh, yeah, the camel is already in the tent...

Microsoft blocks open source software and allows viruses and ransomware, this is how Microsoft works, that's why I left Windows 5 years ago.

The funny thing is Linux market share reached a new mile stone early this month

As a developer, signing your executables is so expensive. I don't see why it costs so much. It's even more expensive to sign drivers.

Chris, I'm using computers more or less the way you do (multiple OSes, IT, development, etc) ....every OS has its own pros and cons and of course, its specialty use. Thank you for everything you've done for the community

Hey, even though I don't use Windows anymore, if I did, I would absolutely use your tool. What you've done is impressive and making it opensource AND freely available is awesome. Keep up the good work! 🙏

MS is all in for stealing from open source, or running an extortion racket on software authors, but what's new. Apple, isn't any better. They do everything they can to lock people into the "brand". I have a retired friend, that just got sucked into a $1,700 bill for an issue with his "email". Apple dealer's answer, your computer is old, you need a new computer. I have been a contented LInux user for over 20 years.

I am really wondering about the comments here. To me, it is quite obvious that a tool elevating its privileges AND doing a UAC bypass has to be blocked. Thats not Defender doing a bad job, it's defender doing a great job... Additionally, from my (little) experience in red teaming, Defender is not a bad AV at all. It is often able to detect custom malware implementations while others miss it. However, in a targeted attack it is not particularly hard to bypass tho. Oh and also: think about what is worse in the case of anti viruses. False positives are annoying i agree. But a false negative potentially has much worse impact.

Darn. Did not know such issues would exist there. Thanks for the video!

Chris - I just wanted to give you a shout on all that you do for the community. I work in the same industry and I appreciate the tool. Keep up the good work, and happy Easter!

I’ve been a long time supporter of your toolbox. Following your videos and work, I fully understood that M$ was flagging scripts. No way you would be doing us dirty. Keep up the great work!!!

Powershell literally blocked your tool for a while. Your fix happened pretty quick though. Zorin 17.1 Linux is pretty good.

Thank you for your good work and dealing with this kind of bs. As someone who has to use windows, be it only in vm, your toolbox is a lifesaver. Hopefully I'll be able to keep using old version of the script to remove edge, onedrive and store apps.

Please leave the remove all ms store apps and remove microsoft edge and onedrive, or, please include those in a separate companion app. I use those on every install, I dont have any issues with them either. These are super handy!

I will only use Windows as long as this tool works! It has saved me soo much time managing my family's boxes & installing fresh windows. If they want to stop it and there's no way round I WILL permanently switch away from Windows as much as possible.

I mainly uses Arch (btw) on my laptop but also run windows when I want to hop on and do some multiplayer gaming/editing. I use your script to make using windows and needing to even touch it sometimes more digestible and feel LESS "spied on" (telemetry). I want to thank you for making this free and open for us non/beginner level power users, as a way to make windows as user friendly as it can be, despite everything their antivirus is throwing your way. Keep it up CTT!

Why does it auto install chocolaty without user confirmation whether they want to install it or not?

Wouldn't it be possible to just kind of replace the UAC check and the edge, microsoft store with a description, or a how-to ? Same goes for disabling windows defender (which I see you have as an open request on github)

Hi, why does your tool deactivate my windows defender whenever i run it? Also when i select disk cleanup it gives me an error (but it still works). Please fix

is disable meant to be "disabled", or do you need to toggle it to green in order to disable it? I'm confused.

Does Linux support HDR playback yet? I use an OLED as a monitor and don't really care to jump across OSes just to play back content in its rightful quality.

Looks like they might have done something else to, before I was using your tool to remove edge, it worked great, but now after the update, when i remove the edge, it still sits there, including the shortcuts.

I just bought your toolbox yesterday and it's awesome thank you.

thanks for the update and the tool! windows sucks but i still need it as a dual boot option on one of my computers for now, and this tool was a godsend. my main computer is Linux now for the first time, the wave of people switching is real

When do we see file converter and thorium in the toolbox?

I use an M$ laptop offline for older game system modding - Window$ 8. The false flags that showed up on every .exe in W11 made me scratch my head (a lot). Moved to Linux on my main because of their actions.

I like your script! My goal is to trim down my mini PC to run good for music production. What is the best, fastest, free way to antivirus your system? Is it Windows defender

I still want to know how i can enable the razor app again, after I used your software to disable it, i can't re-enable it. There is no such function

I seldom touch Windows these days. When I do, the aggravation immediately kicks in, my blood pressure spikes, I see red and want to smash my keyboard against the Windows image on my monitor. Linux is my happy place; calm, serene, functional.

Good afternoon Chris Titus, could you make an iso of Windows 11 24h2 like the Windows 10 you edited in ntlite 77 prossesos How stripped down can we get Windows to just game

Thanks heavily to Valve's work on Proton, I only ever boot a windows PC to run AAA games that need extra FPS, or to take advantage of that system's GPU in Blender. Linux on a low power mini-pc is my go-to these days.

That is why I do not use Windows Operating Systems. My Daily OS is Linux Mint Cinnamon

With edge have you thought about implementing edge deflector.

Please keep going Chris, don't be discouraged, we love your work and trust you more than we trust Microsoft! For my part, I stood and will always stand behind you! Your Windows tool has been an integral part of every Windows installation I do since it was first released, and Microsoft's harassment 🤮of you won't change that in the slightest. On the contrary, I recommend it to everyone in my social network. So keep doing what you're doing and count on us being happy users! 👍👍👍👍 Thank you for your effort! Kind regards from: Hamburg/Germany Victor Martins

I feel like it should still ask: "Would you like to elevate this script? It is needed for the script to work" no matter what, it should not run as admin without consent. Honestly, I've tried to switch the Linux so many times, but I've always had issues doing it. I had Wi-FI issues, Ubuntu had some issue, so I switched to Linux mint and I accidently deleted the wrong partition, because the "install alongside windows" was just missing and when I did it, bam everything was gone and had to reinstall my windows. It so fustrating because I can switch to Linux, all my apps work on it, or I could just dual boot windows if I come across any incompatibilities. And I know how to navagate my way around it, but I just keep on having issues that just don't allow to switch. Honestly if I get a new laptop, I just want it to be more compatible with Linux. I want to run a FOSS OS, where I know nothing bad is happening, where I know no spying is taking place, where I know the government does not screetly use my data to create a detailed profile of me. I really want to, but its just been really difficult.

Don't worry about those few who complain. You always said you use this tool at your own risk. Those kids should not use a tool designed for adults in the first place.

CTTWU: Oh, I see I'm not running with admin permissions - I'm just gonna go ahead and give myself those :)))

Hey chris. i wanna know how u unininstall ur tool it didnt work for me. and i created an restore point,

Hi Chris, Sorry you have to deal with this. Have you considered simply making a folder of the reg tweaks as .reg files, that users can execute? Yes it’s not as elegant but it should get round this.

Had me nervous here... whew

Tbh i would better have false positives then no detections at all. Then I can test it in sandbox and look if it is really doing something malicious or not .

First of all I want to say I understand your frustrations and thank you for what you do for the community. But here is my criticism/opinion I personally don't think that the program should self elevate. If it needs admin privileges for system access that's perfectly fine. I just think that the program should tell you that it needs to run in admin mode like other programs with a pop up or within the command line where it tells you it needs to do so. In terms of antivirus I still like to keep mine because, even though I am still being careful online, I do play a lot of games. My antivirus actually blocked me from playing black ops 3 due to the game having a vulnerability where other people can RCE. I was not aware of it and never thought that steam would sell a compromised game especially if it has a known vulnerability. I would love to fully switch to Linux but the main problem I currently have it a lot of games only work on windows because of the anti cheat software they use. I would like to just run them in a VM but the anti cheat catches that it's in a VM and does not run and I have heard rumors that some people get banned because of them trying to run the game in a VM. I honestly think we should be able to run games in a VM because of all the vulnerabilities there are and how new ones keep popping up, like the one with Apex. That way people don't have to have two machines and separate them on a vlan or on a separate network, so if one gets compromised the rest don't get compromised. So if anyone knows how to bypass anti cheat software from detecting VM can you please point me to a tutorial. Especially since now I just found out a lot of anti cheat software runs at a kernel based level 🙄

I get a similar problem with Bit Defender, after you install some tweaks it detects some viruses in windows

You're our superhero. Thank you for the tool, plus diligence on AV and Window$.

I’m not computer savvy at all so I might have misunderstood. Early in the video you mentioned if people pay a $300 “bribe” to get code “signed” they can bypass antivirus. That is scary.

Hay thanks for all your effort Chris!! Seriously!! But I do understand and have that same bad after taste trying to fix Windows! But yeah, you go!!! Cheers!

I was curious if your video about "Removing all viruses" with the TronScript is still valid in 2024? Especially with the new Windows 11 was curious.

I think my browsing habits has changed - I don't remember when the last time an antivirus software send me any warning. Maybe that pleasure is reserved to browsing on sketchy Russian websites to look for the latest shows and movies :)

So I was fighting this about a month or so ago with a python program I'm making that shows the system specs via wmi. I would change code around a tiny bit and it wouldn't get flagged. But then building it again and trying it on the same machine. Defender would nuke it. Drove me insane. Still have no idea why. Removing all my code from classes makes it not show up as a false positive. But then my code is a mess.

I feel like Windows needs to be rebuilt from the ground up to correct some major underlying issues. Problem is that in order for the rewrite to be of any actual value, backwards compatibility would most likely be completely broken. Since so many users rely on Windows as currently implemented, including many industries and even thr government, breaking backwards compatibility would prevent a rewrite from even being considered

Let's be clear. I LOVE your script and can't thank you enough.

Could you add a function to remove Windows Copilot and Bing AI references on Windows?

ThanksMuch for posting !

So in theory, someone could write a trojan, pay M$ to "sign" it and let it out in the wild? Crazy!

I'm not sure if it's due to the updated script, but both laptops now run better than ever, even the one with a regular HDD. So thanks, Chris!!

Your right, and unfortunately its pushing out the little man, could it be done on purpose?

I've started getting a ton of false positives for existing scripts I have stored on my server, that I wrote myself! Defender is getting worse.

"Just use Linux." I did that, and woke up to the XZ debacle. (Being sarcastic, of course. But man did I pick an interesting week to finally convert my gaming desktop to Fedora 40.)

Is it possible for you to convert your script into a downloadable exe program?

This is why I use LTSC, it's stripped down enough to work fine as a daily driver for the vast majority of people. Switching to Linux is easy to say but not easy to do when you've only used Windows and especially when you play online games or VR, most of the time you have to still use Windows.

And there is the gray area of false positives when it flags hacking tools like mimikatz or bloodhound. It's not doing what the user says it should and is not protecting the user. It's protecting the Active Directory. But fine, I totally get it :D

same thing happenned to a software manager i built using python for my personal use. it just used winget like your code and it still flagged it and would even delete the app.exe file before i execute.

I have to completely disable Bitdefender every time I run the script for anything. It's been like that for months

I believed you chris. Your my motivation to learn phyton. Keep up the content for education.

Having to go through the experience of code signing, its absolutely horrific. How can i go to McDonald's, spend less than $5 and get great customer service, yet in order to be able to run my software without windows Defender popups, i have to spend $500 and receive very questionable customer support? FU I'm going to linux. Windows Telemetry isnt even code signed properly, btw.

Yeah man, you're right.

I would just say that if you are charging $10 for an EXE wrapper. You might want to just sign it. I know $10 is nothing, but it's the principle. If you charge for something, provide something of quality. I am also a 20+ year windows vet and I am tired of it as well. Finally moved to Mint Linux.

Half the time I just turn off antivirus completely, everything. Than turn it back on and half the time it fixes it.

I use the utility/app 'Fan Control', which is now blocked when I first start my PC...wtf!

Thanks you and all the contributors, removing edge and M$store apps are definitely what I will miss. Although I rarely use Windows these days, it still a handy tool if I want a better Windows experience.

In the IT Industry its VERY common to Disable AV in order to run operations like Installs, Upgrades, Updates and SCRIPTS. Anytime you have a script doing admin-system level changes they will be flagged. Rightfully so... Just issue a notice, that AV must be disabled. Its common practice.

Only have Windows Defender installed (by default) as I don't want to run multiple AVs, but every few months I run Malwarebytes Free Edition. Thsnks for another great video!

What are the recommended linux distros these days?

That's the issue with any closed source software and centralized database. Whoever is in charge can easily blacklist you because he/she/they do(es)n't like you. Maybe Microsoft doesn't like those awesome scripts made in order to make their OS even better because they make them look bad and incompetent, so they decided to punish you instead of loosing face lol

If you've ever had to step through the detailed Defender timeline of a machine managed by Intune in a corporate environment, you'd disable Defender on your personal machines. If you must run antivirus, install something else.

Everything it unknow marked as unsafe!

Windows is designed by a crack head... best quote of all time

you could think about making similiar tool like that for linux, for many people it would be great

I'm planning out my switch to linux currently. I have a lenovo thinkcentre I'll run it on. Just got a usb switch for my kb/mouse. Probably use manjaro xfce, use it on my laptops. Kinda wanted to go arch and awesomewm but I was kinda there in my testing vm. Maybe arch and xfce. Not sure yet.

Waiting for xz library backdoor video :)

I've been thinking of switching to linux, as I'm sure most the games I play can be played on linux except the ones that have anti-cheats, might do a dual boot system since I seen running anti-cheat games in VM isn't good.

What is the best linux should I use?

Tnx for your work and transparency dear titus... Copyleft song to celebrate this moment: "nothing to hide" from ardour enthusiast unfatarian

Not surprised. Spend my time between Nobara and debloated Windows.

I'm afraid it won't take that long and Microsoft will tweak Windows tamper protection to flag anything that alters system (including settings, not just components)

Recently i runned Medicat on laptop i was working on and defender gone into full panic mode removing or blocking everything

remove edge is my favourite tweak. I only use windows to test and use utilities like this to help all my friends still on the windows scam

I don't have these issues with eset. Rarely, eset has flagged a false positive but we are talking maybe 3 times in the past 15 years. Still using Linux as my main but the times I need M$, got eset for the added piece of mind.

Just turned off security temporarily and used your awsome tool as usual

Im using windows only because you make this winutils tools its cool safe to use and make every user to make powerful and have control over every aspect and settings up, but big companies not like foss thing and that point of view.

Hi @ChrisTitusTech hi everyone, i have done a windows update on my laptop and for some reason my audio quality become so bad my headsets sound so bad like a cheap with no bass I have done all solutions that can come to ur mind such as reinstall audio drivers and my headphones work properly on all other devices except my laptop. Is there anything i can do to fix this ? Thank You

"What a nice little program you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.." -Microsoft

Make your own version of windows ghost spectra compact Without defender. Or superlite with or without defender.