Can you expand on this? For example details on any tools to do this. I've been trying to disable features I know use resources and aren't needed but the native UIs to do it are hella confusing and feel purposely useless.

Google "windows 11 debloat reddit". There are several tools:

- https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat (recommended elsewhere in this thread)

- https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ (I used this one a couple weeks ago, seems to work well)

But seriously though, learn to fish. The answers aren't hard to find if you look, know what to search for, and are at least somewhat discriminating in your investigation.

I say go one step further and learn to fish harder and don't use any of these scripts. I can't even imagine trying to debug an issue on my machine after running one of these "makes arbitrary changes" scripts.

Do it all manually if for no other reason than you know all the changes you made and know where all the different settings actually are.

Indeed... I've made all the changes I want manually, and a lot of them aren't even things any of these scripts do anyway.

The Chris Titus utility has worked very well for me. I used it to de-bloat Win 11 after I upgraded the OS last year.

I run Win 11 on an old tiny NUC PC that has Windows 10 before - now it does seem faster, is very stable and is not so annoying.

One thing: AFAIK you need to have the Windows 11 Pro version for the best de-bloating results.

Having fished I have found the fish hard to catch so thought I would ask from another fisher.

Sure thing. Probably the highest-RoI changes performance-wise (there may be negative implications for security or functionality, obviously proceed at your own risk) are to disable the various services and drivers that belong to either Windows Defender or the various filesystem filter drivers on your system. You can't disable everything (expect a freeze/crash if you disable the wrong ones) but you can disable most.

That, and switch back to the classic GUIs (like with OpenShell) so you don't have to deal with the laggy new UIs.

Also friendlies for the record the person I was responding to mentioned millions of settings, which while hyperbolic, you and I know means just hard to find so please share all fishing tips and other notes.

For the record I am also with you that using WinDebloat is not the best way for the simplest reason that it all seems arbitrary.

> disable a million things on it

I simply stayed on Windows 10 and I don’t seem to miss any feature thus far lol

What's the point when they will be all silently re-enabled by the update application?

I mean, the point is to make it usable. You can set up scheduled tasks where needed. I haven't had to re-disable stuff after that, but I've jumped through a lot more initial hoops than most people are willing to.

I tried this when Win 7 was new, and it worked great. Then I tried it when Win 10 was new, and it was a complete useless waste of time. In a week it was too slow to use again.

I still haven't used Windows since Win 10 support ended, and have no idea how bad Windows 11 is for people to declare Win 10 "super fast" all over the internet. But I don't have any hope it will accept any setup I want. Win 10 already didn't.

Win 10 IOT LTSC is supported for 6 more years, so support didn't really "end".

That being said, W10 (or W11 for that matter) will never be as fast a Win 7 was on an SSD in the 2010-2020 era, even with all the hacks and debloat scripts available in many places on the Internet.