How To Install DEBLOATED Windows

[@jakoloc]

Greg's wife is forcing him to slowly learn German. Now he has to read through websites in German...aber du schaffst das!

[@JohnCraig-y6f]

Ist das den wirklich so? 😇😇😇

[@mqcapps]

Verstehen...aber seiner frau the real boss ist..ignore his macho demeanor and she's already told him schnell gelearnen...slowly learning ain't gonna cut it. He and deBauer are gonna have a conversation

[@sp00n]

If so, then she should've probably also told him the correct pronunciation for the snow goose 😘

[@JohnCraig-y6f]

@@sp00n Yeah, kinda disappointing when something so simple is totally screwed up!

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

I brought a slow as heck Windows 10 laptop on Ebay. I've been working IT since 1983 and retired a few years ago. I know a really good laptop when I read the specs. I can tell when a computer has been beat up. So I brought a laptop that based on condition and specs should have run like a race horse. The laptop was slow as cold paste. I know how to debloat Windows but it takes a while. I tried the system in this video. I reimaged the laptop without all the bloat and this laptop runs so fast if you blink you missed it. This guy is a good teacher. I understand him soon as he finishes explaining anything computer related. Thank you sir! You are truly a Gentleman, a Scholar and a darn good IT Guru too!!

[@vest816]

My brother is getting his daughter her first desktop PC for Christmas, and since I've been blessed as family IT support, he's offered me an afternoon to "tinker" with it before he wraps it up. Guess I'm gonna be gifting my niece her first Windows Boot USB too.

[@renatocalasicasjr.8267]

I tried that defloated script on my bootable usb and it's working! it's nice to see this tutorial on you greg!!! Good Job!!! I tried this script even in unsupported hardware of windows 11.

[@edimarroca]

WOW! It's impossible not to save this video to my KZbin favorites list and share it with my friends. Thank you very much, Greg!

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful!

[@handyitsupport]

One more day learning with Greg. Saved for future reference.

[@TheSpotify95]

Saved for future reference. This will come in handy when I inevitably have to do Windows 11 installs in the coming months/years...

[@jernigan007]

pretty cool. i just deleted stuff i dont want, but next install i will do this. zero traces and no leftover registry strings, i dig it

[@lboe9232]

YES! I just found this website a couple months ago and it's been AMAZING installing windows ever since then

[@GregSalazar]

A real game changer!

[@keblin86]

Ohhh perfect timing I was getting ready for a fresh install! I will try this, I previously made my own ISO with all the bloat removed using some software but this looks better as I can leave the ISO alone and hopefully get updated ISO with updates in future easier.

[@tradingnichols2255]

I've long appreciated your videos, but this video gets the very rare nod of being added to my favorites list for future reference!

[@GregSalazar]

I appreciate that!

[@michaelthompson9798]

Thank you Greg for uploading this video. I’m about to reinstall my pc after a few years of useless bloat being added and gigabytes of storage being wasted on unused applications or features!

[@bitman32x]

I came across your channel about windows debloat and I really like how you deliver your content and immediately subscribe, I'm a hardcore nerd and this simplifies it all, I miss those NLITE days. I'm not a fan of sponsor ads but the windows key offered here is an added value and looks very legit, I might actually used it in the future

[@christenlanger]

I was always skeptical of debloated Windows ISOs so thank you for letting us know of this method where you just make an XML file and drop it into your installer. I will definitely use this the next time I install Windows.

[@babalonkie]

Used your sponsor Greg (First time i have used a content creators sponsor). I saved a fortune on a genuine key for windows whilst supporting someone who has helped me out 👍

[@GregSalazar]

Glad it helped! Much appreciated.

[@ZnakerFIN]

@@GregSalazar Saved me both time and money after I changed motherboard and the retail key that had been in my maching through Win7 -> Win10 -> Win11 upgrades refused to directly reactivate Win11. I think I would've needed to go through the installation of Win7 and two upgrades to use the old retail key on Win11 again.

[@falldownandgoboom]

This is the way to go! Greg is one of the few KZbin PC content creators in my list of subscriptions to have mentioned this solution. Oh, and if you're a Firefox user like me and if you want to tweak your Via-compatible keyboard using a browser - well, that's a reason you might want to not uninstall Edge after Windows installation. Turns out only Chrome, Edge, and Opera support the WebHID API that Via uses to control your board. USE VIA AT YOUR OWN RISK - I'M A NOOB IN THESE MATTERS! There may be a reason that Firefox doesn't support it but I dunno. Since I only have Firefox installed that's the only time I open Edge on my PC. Glad I finally found a use for it!

[@viewer6808]

Just received my new SSD, this will help a ton 🙏

[@rickysargulesh1053]

I was looking for something like this since forever. Saves so many steps after the setup.Very useful.

[@Zeuhy]

its a good day when greg uploads, its a pleasure always seeing your content.

[@rufiorufioo]

I’ve always just used debloat scripts but this is fantastic. I like all the extra options here

[@jamesbrassfield8409]

This is going to be epic and keep up the good work Greg

[@FawziBreidi]

good video, keep it up with similar type and informative videos. subscriber submitted PCs was not the content I want to spend time to watch and i totally forgot about the channel because of that; if this is something you enjoy doing maybe once or twice a year. looking forward for your future videos. edit: i noticed fixing a viewer's broken PC videos fetch you double the videos on average. you do what you think is best for your channel, i'm just one subscriber.

[@zellar1]

Great video Greg! I don't really trust a lot of streamers. Thanks for this!

[@xinox73]

One of the best video you done. ^^ BIG THUMBS UP!!!

[@paintray98]

Chris Titus Tech has a debloat tool if you already have Windows 10/11 installed that does similar if there are those that do not want to reinstall Windows from scratch. Both Greg and Chris's options are very similar, it's up to the user to decide if they want to reinstall or not

[@UnknownEntity420]

CTT also has MicroWin inside of Winutil (the "debloat" tool) which allows you to easily create debloated .iso's for windows 11

[@AAjax]

The Titus utility is great. I've been aware of the unattended install for a while, but I prefer the Titus utility because I have a ventoy thumbdrive with multiple bootable ISOs on it, instead of dedicated drives for each OS. The utility is also handy to quickly install common apps.

[@wilazn]

Chris Titus debloat is great been using his stuff for years. Also has a great channel with a lot of helpful stuff.

[@xtxo]

i just tried his util, i can't uninstall edge for some reason

[@wilazn]

@@xtxo you shouldn't uninstall edge. A lot of things within windows calls it for some reason and it does weird stuff when you don't have edge.

[@iordachesilviu2371]

sweeet! i knew is a reason why i like your channel so much:D

[@Xpun-oi2zz]

I use Windows 10 ioT. It's highly debloated out of the box. Then I ran Chris Titus' tools on it. It's as clean as you can get with a Microsoft official release. 65 processes, 0 to 2 % cpu usage & a 7 second boot time.

[@paulwarner5395]

Thanx for the easy to understand way of doing this . Have saved it for future refence.

[@SionFrench]

Dear Greg, I like your style. But would be helpful if you said how much de-bloating would save in disk space and time waiting to start work/gaming with your de-bloated PC vs. the bloated control PC.

[@seventeenand0]

Building son's PC this weekend, so this is a BIG thumbs up!

[@PaalKiwi]

Thank you Greg, I had been meaning to reinstall Win 11 too and now this will make it that bit nicer and easier 😊

[@chayden13ch]

Love this kind of content! Simple QOL fixes that let users make things more streamlined😊

[@Bloody_crow]

Appreciate the helpful video! Any tips for debloating an already installed Windows(10)?

[@realitytechnology]

I've used this website/method to install Windows 11 on client machines at my IT job for a few months now and it's been great. My favorite feature is you can have it run commands via powershell or CMD during the setup automatically. So I can have it do things like enable the High Performance Power Plan, disable Fast Startup, export a system info document, or my favorite; run registry edits to remove the new Windows 11 right click menu or even remove the option for end users to "Switch to new Outlook"

[@GregSalazar]

I was, admittedly, reluctant to include bits about powershell because it's still a bit foreign to me, but from what I've seen it comes in SUPER handy when done right.

[@WSS_the_OG]

Ahh, autounattend, the "answer" to our prayers! Great video Greg!

[@jhetajantv3621]

Been using Ghost Spectre builds for years and it's smooth af

[@gilbrowning4695]

Thanks Greg, enjoy your videos!

[@GregSalazar]

Appreciate you watching!

[@Glenn_Wackett]

Thank you Greg for make this video. I'll be choosing to move to Windows 11 in the not so distant future and this will come in very handy.

[@mworld]

Have you used Ventoy ?

[@ifficles9766]

What I used for my Windows 10 redo was BrenTechs custom answer file, for an IOTC like Install.

[@ryanmartie1244]

I knew this existed, but never took the time to research it. Definietly will be saving this video to refernece on my next install. Cheers Greg!

[@GregSalazar]

Glad I could help!

[@taxi666666]

When everything is done do you need to use the “user” or “admin” account? Thanks in advance👍🏼

[@linuxares]

8:50 Incorrect, Linux is getting a lot better thanks to Proton. But certain anti-cheats cause issues. You should try it out to see how Linux would fit you today in 2024. WIth a Distro like PopOS or even Bazzaite

[@jeffreyoldham55]

I have been dreading having to install Windows 11. Your Schneegans answer file will make that transition tolerable, and relatively painless. Danke, Greg!

[@gaspump]

Extremely useful and very timely. Just ordered a Minisforum tiny PC (some pretty amazing Black Friday discounts) and was dreading having to do all this junk manually with Powershell scripts all over again for the umpteenth time. Never thought the answer file route would allow this degree of flex.

[@xP1NB411x]

Great video Greg! Will try this when I get back home up my pc lol, keep up the great videos!!🔥🔥

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks! Will do!

[@andyh.3105]

Every day is a School day. Thanks G.

[@JoshuaG]

About time Greg caught wind of this new technique to debloat windows ❤🤟

[@m-copyright]

Thank you so much for this. I was actually looking at a way to remove all the trash from windows, I was planning to use o&o remover or something like that. I heard it was ok, but I never used it and had no idea other than modifying the windows image file that you can modify the setup so easily. A simple file that can easily put on the stick.

[@_BullsEyeBob]

Out of curiosity, how many process are running in Task Manager after this debloated install under Windows11? Last time I reinstalled W11 and loading required drivers, I spent an hour or two uninstalling programs and turning things off manually and I got my gaming rig down to about 102 processes just idling at desktop with TM up. This looks like it could do the same thing just MUCH faster. Thank you in advance. 🙂

[@wildgg]

On my version after a fresh install it's just under 60, when I play games, have steam/discord open etc i might hit 90-100.

[@_BullsEyeBob]

@@wildgg Thanks. Much appreciated.

[@ShikiYukiro]

Hey Greg, awesome video! Now I'm tempted to upgrade from Win10 to Win11since the former will be EoS soon, and I better upgrade soon than never. Question though... If I let Windows Updates to happen on the "Debloated Windows", will it still bring back the bloatware that was removed? I'm only curious as I only do fresh reinstalls of Windows every year or two, and I don't want to deal with removing bloatware whenever Windows makes an update.

[@iamgats9216]

I don't normally save videos but this one is an exception.

[@gerydblackmore5484]

great video will do this on my older i7 4790k which is still good for an office box.

[@MrWayne6363]

Damn, I'm freaking out. Just followed you suggestions and I'm about to install Win11 on my backup PC. Need I say more?

[@zeroplacestv]

Just curious Greg, could you use this method to do an upgrade from Win10 to Win11?

[@GregSalazar]

This process is for an initial install. A W10-to-11 upgrade is not the same AFAIK - as many of its files and features are migrated by default. I would just copy important files from the boot drive and start fresh with something like this if you were already planning on upgrading.

[@zeroplacestv]

@@GregSalazar Thanks!

[@BlazingsNL]

When the new RTX5000 GPUs come out, I'll be building a new PC and (reluctantly) switch over to W11. I'm definitely saving this video for that moment!

[@kc_zeppelin]

Graet video .. only thing is you might have gone a little fast going though how to set it up. .. keep up the good work ...from NSB !

[@GregSalazar]

What do you mean "how to set it up?" It's pretty easy. Click the link, select the features you want (or don't want), set up a bootable USB like normal, drag the generated answer file to the root of said drive, and install Windows like normal.

[@Sitharii]

Very interesting video Greg ,which made me ask you this : would it be feasible for you to make a video about which steps you have to follow in your motherboard settings in order to enable windows11 like secure boot /TPM ...etc ?? I have a windows10 /Ryzen3700X/GTX1080/nvme SSD PC and it says it's not compatible with Windows11 requirements ,and obviously that's not normal right ? and also ,i never temper with bios default settings ,so i can't understand why the system isn't compatible by default and so i would very much like to see some "guidance" inside bios about what to do..

[@jonathane9403]

Thank you, very helpful option. In my case I have a spare computer set up with windows 11. I've installed quite a few games and programs that I like which do not require an internet connection once they are installed. Once I had it set up I disabled the internet connection. Aggravation over. On my main computer I run linux mint 22 which I use day to day. There are some big games to be enjoyed on linux now as well which satisfy me. My breaking point with microsoft was with the windows 98 OS. I went to apple and when apple became proprietary and overbearing I went with Linux and haven't looked back. I'm an old dude needles to say.

[@ras111m]

Greg, what about if windows 11 is already installed ? Do you have a process to debloat that?

[@bobfranklin2572]

Thanks so much for this! I did it on my laptop and want to do it again on my pc and mini pc

[@doughboyHS]

If only i was smart enough to combine this with the install metod for Asus rog ally z1 handheld, this is awsome.

[@Gero141]

One question. After applying updates post installation, will any of the bloat come back?

[@GregSalazar]

Make sure to check the automatic Windows updates box in the answer file generator. If MS does manage to work around it (which could very well happen at some point), it doesn't mean the entire OS is suddenly bloated again. It may force one or two features through at a time. Some will never come back. But you'll still be much better off than if you'd gone the vanilla route.

[@Gero141]

@@GregSalazar Alright. Thanks a bunch.

[@ehsanmahmoudi3552]

awsome... how can we get DEBLOATEd win11 that already installed?

[@exmortis4404]

Awesome video and helpful almost any or everyone!

[@GregSalazar]

Glad to hear it!

[@Zebra_Paw]

To my knowledge, the best Windows "debloater" is AtlasOS, which is what I use everywhere. Any modified ISO I tried in the past was missing mandatory stuff or even had straight up corrupted system files

[@thrydwulf]

Greg, this is _____ing awesome!!! Thank you!!!

[@TooBokoo]

Well, I wish I had seen this last week when I built a new PC. I ended up going through and manually removing most garbage. LOL!

[@jernigan007]

exactly what i did. took some time to clear out the registry too. doh! this is so much easier

[@Williamsdarren6]

​@@jernigan007 Revo Uninstaller is a time saver

[@robesveldt]

In the unattended generator you have the choice between to use compact OS or not to use compact OS, what is the difference.

[@dktol56]

Just announced 2 days ago by Valve that 17000 games are verified playable on the steam deck, which means that these games are likely playable on a more generic Linux PC using steam and proton. You should really give Linux gaming a try and make a video about it. Just a suggestion.

[@bertro514]

yeah, when Greg said that, I was like "and here I am running Mint as my main OS and gaming on it without an issue"

[@tristanwait4itlegendary]

I really want the steamdeck oled but they dont sell it in South Africa, i have to import it from amazon

[@ring05]

Linux user still coping.

[@yt-mull0r]

Linux is all I use nowadays for gaming and everything else. My advice would definitely be: go AMD for graphics. Nvidia is ok, but AMD is just trouble free.

[@jjcoolaus]

Everything in my steam LIbrary is playable in Linux, even very old games, just don't install wine side by side because for me that breaks proton

[@ghostfreckle]

Does any of the settings or apps get changed back when you run windows updates?

[@GregSalazar]

That's why there's a disable updates option in the answer file generator... If MS does manage to work around it (which could very well happen at some point), it doesn't mean the entire OS is suddenly bloated again. It may force one or two features through at a time. Some will never come back. But you'll still be much better off than if you'd gone the vanilla route.

[@un5224]

@@GregSalazarWow! Thanks for answering. I must have missed that part good to know. Thanks for all your vids. 👍

[@psychorabbitt]

My question is, can this be used to upgrade a PC from Windows 10 to 11 and bypass the TPM requirement?

[@brendencellan6576]

Nice vid!

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks for watching!

[@crowdaddy6472]

can you do this through recovery so you dont loose all your stuff on your Pc?

[@KirisatoChannel12]

How about non fresh install? Is there a software/easier way to remove them? Tbh uninstalling one by one is kinda annoying

[@lorduggae]

If you mostly game on Steam, then Linux works great. Been gaming, mostly WoW, on Linux for 6 years now and barely find a Steam game that won't run.

[@GregSalazar]

Nah. I've used several Linux distros and many simple tasks on Windows/MacOS are much more complicated - even just the setup. The average person won't be able to pick it up and just "use" it, and that's been Linux's Achilles' heel pretty much since the start.

[@WheeledHamster]

Gross.

[@saudor]

@@GregSalazaryep. even something simple like installing an app through the software installer will just silently fail because it’s missing dependencies. gotta pop open the terminal and it’s sudo apt get time to figure out which stuff it’s missing. linux distros have come a long way but it’s still not even close to win/mac for the average joe. with WSL2, even DEVs now have the best of both worlds - while still using windows for app compatibility also DX12 runs better on the same hardware.

[@lorduggae]

@@GregSalazar everybody has there own experience with it. I've never had issues, doesn't mean others don't. Linux Mints setup is easy and just a few clicks, so easy my 65+ year old mom did it herself

[@whohan779]

​@@GregSalazar Not calling you incompetent, but you can't approach Linux with a Windows mindset, even more so than you cannot approach unjailbroken iOS from a power-user Android standpoint. macOS is architecturally much closer to Linux, but also backed by a megacorp and thus much more compatible with certain application DRM and frameworks and (important for proprietary software) features minimal fragmentation and streamlined payment. If you choose wisely I'm convinced even Windows XP was much more complicated to use around its EOL than Linux is now. Ever tried retro-gaming on Windows past 7? Might as well flip a coin if the game runs properly without tweaks (assuming it's not DOS-exclusive).

[@Eusebiugh]

Question is someone has any idea. On 7:30 we see the bios, on the tab EC Version we see MBEC-B550-0111. B550 i assume is the chipset and the other numbers i don t really care.. now the question: i have rog strix b650e-e, on this particular tab, i have X670, but the chipset as you can see is b650e. Why? The bios is correct.

[@vincentaguilar7011]

I always wonder if you can slap a portable monitor in this kind of tiny pc cases instead of the usual glass panels, yes it's gonna block the view of the components inside the case but for portability and convenience I think it's a great experiment 😆

[@Tomazack]

I've just ordered everything I need to build a dedicated plex server and for the meantime I'll just transfer plex with all settings to the server and run it as I do now in my main rig. Was just thinking about finding ways to reduce windows 11 to a shell without having to worry about random update reboots so this video couldn't have come at a better time.

[@estried86]

Dang, that's really slick!

[@fallenphoenixfilms]

OneDrive is an absolute nightmare. On my next install I don't think I'll use my MS account specifically for that reason... like, if I delete a file from the OneDrive folder it deletes it from the other place too??!!! WHYYYYYYY?!!

[@paulwarner5395]

That's the way online storage works. Google Drive and Dropbox works.

[@djnes2k7]

Yea it’s horrible, like something from 20 years ago.

[@ACE112ACE112]

@@paulwarner5395I think he meant that deleting file from one drive deletes the file off of his hdd/ssd

[@paulwarner5395]

@@ACE112ACE112 One Drive is usually on you HDD so when you delete them there it deletes them everywhere except a plugged in drive

[@LoknKey]

I would love to see a followup video that "Drag races" PCs for a debloated comparison. I haven't seen any channel do that yet thus far. I dunno, could be interesting.

[@aliensounddigital8729]

I use rufus now to bypass that stupid account creation. This would be the better option though.

[@outa7192]

Doesn't Shift+F10 typing OOBE\BYPASSNRO work?

[@FreshTonix-w2j]

Yes, it does​@@outa7192

[@aliensounddigital8729]

@@outa7192 the resolution seems to get messed up and have to restart. The process starts over and seems broken now. I have done that before. Didn't work this time.

[@paulwarner5395]

@@outa7192 You don't have to with the latest Rufus

[@tradingnichols2255]

@@outa7192 IF you have 22H2 you have a bit, but there's tons of things entirely removed from any newer windows without the use of this to do things like having local user's without a windows login.

[@kyse2]

i might need this if i ever build a new pc again

[@mysticeggshell4009]

Can you do this after windows is installed somehow?

[@Gero141]

Thank u for making this easy tutorial.

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks for watching!

[@JohnWilliams-wr3pc]

I have used Rofus for setting up USB flash drive but I have seen that when a new version of Windows comes out it reinstalls all the changes you have made! Any suggestions?

[@kikar92]

You can choose when installing windows English world wide version it comes without any additional programs easy and secure

[@GregSalazar]

AFAIK this method does NOT actually debloat. Many useless programs and features are still baked-in, just not shown in the start menu and other obvious places.

[@dropment5408]

If i own a copy of w10 can i reinstall it while doing this process?

[@taimooralibukhari]

Cant wait to reinstall after so long that i actually forgot how to install windows

[@Valfaun]

ooh, i haven't reinstalled Windows in quite a few years and didn't know such websites to customize the installation existed now. i do already have utilities to decrapify Windows after the install, but doing some of that in advance should be useful

[@CrunkyOMan83]

What if you already dl the windows update n it added all the bloatware which ones can I remove as of now?

[@Cillic12]

thank you so very much, you are a life saver :)

[@Z-add]

Can you debloat an existing installation

[@JagdSeelen]

chris titus tech windows utility has a MicroWin Windows ISO creation tool. It does not install the tool on your system but runs it from a powershell

[@tradingnichols2255]

I've used this on windows already in existence and have seriously saved myself some older hardware to being snappier than new hardware! Have they built it out for Windows 11 too? I've only used it on Windows 10. The most exciting part was seeing something from Windows 95 that's still in Windows 10 under some bloat! No pardon, that was the yellow light out of a flashlight looking for files when you do a file search when I used something I found on github which was way more powerful than chris titus tech, but NEVER found again, with endless copies of the process which were inferior for what I could find on github since.

[@tradingnichols2255]

Windows updates have readded bloat since - the curse of wanting to not have a computer open to attack...

[@YoungStoney-bf7fx]

can you debloat it after it already installed

[@c00lc321]

been using this for awhile now. I have noticed that it does fail with some newer Dell computers.

[@cestlavie1899]

Ahhh damn you now i have to reinstall windows and all the games again hahaha. Thx for the video. This is gonna get saved for future reference

[@GregSalazar]

Hahah! Definitely worth splitting to two or more drives specifically for this reason! Games on one, OS on the other :-D

[@cestlavie1899]

@GregSalazar yep i have it like that. Maybe i benchmark and see if it made any diffrence ;)

[@CatEarDad]

Ive got dual boot lmde6 and windows 10 just the way you showed us XD

[@RenatoG1848]

Greg had schnitzel for Thanksgiving instead of turkey