The comments here are really reinforcing the stereotypes about Lemmy.
No lie. OP is clearly asking about a factory Windows install.
“LINUX!”
Yeah. We know. That wasn’t the question.
Honestly? Easiest method is to do a fresh install. I use Windows LTSC which essentially skips all the bloat and spyware in consumer versions of Windows.
If a fresh reinstall isn’t viable, there’s a collection of batch scripts someone built a while ago called Tron (it fights for the user!). It does a lot of diagnostics, repair, debloat, and optimization, but takes a long time to run.
I got the laptop less than a week ago was basically asking just to make sure i got at least 90 percent of the stuff but wanted to make sure.
Don’t use a pre-installed OS, ever. You don’t know who’s had their hand in it between the manufacturer and you.
Wipe it and install from scratch; Windows, Linux, whatever.
What’s the best version of Windows, and the best place to get it?
At the moment, Windows 10 IoT LTSC.
That looks like a great tool for activating, but where to get the OS itself?
There are links there right there on the sidebar, 4th option down. You can also get the .iso images directly from Microsoft.
irm christitus.tech/win | iexin admin command prompt
For context because running random commands from the internet with an admin prompt is how you rm -fr /*
https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
It can go through and disabled bloat, install what you wasn’t and hard set config on windows.
Good lord how did I just learn about this? This is amazing it’s like Ninite on steroids.
Simply uninstall everything you don’t want. There’s not a lot, MS told OEMs to stop loading excessive crap a while back else they would make them stop loading anything at all.
You can uninstall any 3rd party antivirus. Defender is good enough these days.
BCUninstaller is pretty good
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I thought those were operating systems and not a program as asked.
Smug nerds gone smug.
Give them what they want, not what they asked for. If you really care about bloat, no proprietary system will save you.
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Yeah, Linux
Added bonus, you can tell everyone you use Arch!
