Remove bloatware
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- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
- Impact: MinimumSystem Functionality Loss Risk: Low
This action improves privacy with minimal impact when you run the recommended script. - Batch (batchfile)These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.
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- Fully reversible
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Overview
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Remove bloatware on your Windows system to align with higher system data privacy safeguard — This help eases the steps of how. In connection, this system calibration teaches you how to revert the user-specific changes.
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References
- Network security, trust & privacy in a wiredwireless Environments–An Overview
- privacy.sexy's source code for Windows
- CISA Cybersecurity Resources
- Network design and configuration
- Network Security Best Practices
- Securing Network Infrastructure Devices
- Managing Windows capabilities
Technical Details
- To realize managed tracking prevention, this playbook applies Edge browser to help strengthen system data privacy security. To benefit from balanced browser resources, this modification can also help improve overall system responsiveness.
- The tweak here orchestrates system behavior to obtain protected system operations and it aims to help to help minimize personal privacy assurance risks. This helps manage system resources better with support of optimized system resources.
- To enhance information privacy protection, this config manages Windows system directory to gain secure access. This can help optimizing access patterns to be able to minimize resource consumption.
- Alongside applying this service configurations, this configuration implements your system to achieve controlled service scope to be able to maintain stricter important data privacy control. For the purpose of streamlined service updates, this helps make programs work better.
- This customization applies network settings to improve secure privacy integration by controlling network traffic. With aid of simplify system operations, it helps to obtain reducing network latency.
- With help of applying this Windows 11 services, this instruction set modifies your system to reach protected new functions to help optimize privacy safeguard. To benefit from improved modern components, it aims to help improve application responsiveness.
- This action refines privileged operations to maximize privacy protection and this adjustment can also help to accomplish elevated privileges.
- To be able to strengthen personal data privacy handling, this code controls server monitoring to realize hardened security protocols. This would help make daily operations smoother leveraging streamlined server operations.
- The script here changes Windows features to achieve managed capabilities and this executable helps to help maintain cyber data privacy defenses. It can also help cut down on background tasks, to gain streamlined features.
- To benefit from selective content visibility, this config adjusts desktop environment to increase secure privacy management. As result of quick folder access, this adjustment can also help use system resources more efficiently.
- The change here configures applies registry changes to gain robust cryptographic standards and this can help to be able to reinforce cyber data privacy maintenance.
- To help reduce secure data privacy maintenance risks, this executable handles update policies to reach controlled update telemetry collection. This code helps improved system stability to improve multitasking.
- Owing to applying this execution environment integrity, this action configures your system to obtain controlling application behavior to help maximize sensitive privacy assurance. This would help save energy while using the system, to realize balanced CPU utilization.
- This playbook orchestrates intelligent services to be able to enhance sensitive privacy guardrail and it can also help to accomplish controlled AI boundaries. It aims to help optimize your system as part of reduced analysis overhead.
- This tweak controls OS functionality to help minimize online privacy enforcement risks with support of secured system boundaries. Toward improved component efficiency, it helps enhance performance.
- To achieve feature control, this instruction set handles built-in apps to be able to maintain important data privacy handling. This helps reducing system load to maintain better system performance.
- To increase important data privacy protection, this configuration applies app management to gain protected app environments. By make processing faster, this can help to achieve balanced app load.
- The script here modifies component registration to reach managing registrations and it helps to be able to maintain stricter system privacy. To accomplish efficient registration, it aims to help use system resources more efficiently.
- On account of applying this feedback collection, this modification manages your system to obtain filtered telemetry data to help reinforce important privacy security. With improved reporting efficiency, this customization helps make the system more effective.
- This customization implements file handlers to be able to improve digital privacy defenses and this code can also help to realize selective program access. Amid optimize hardware usage, this helps to benefit from improved handler response.
- To gain managing automation, this script adjusts system tasks to reduce system data handling risks. It can also help reducing task overlap to help make sharing work easier.
- This adjustment refines OneDrive settings to help strengthen sensitive data privacy protection in conjunction with cloud filtering. To achieve reducing background activity, this would help optimize system resource usage.
- The modification here changes game telemetry to obtain isolated gaming environment and it aims to help to optimize privacy control. It helps use memory more effectively, to benefit from balanced gaming performance.
- To be able to increase sensitive data privacy, this playbook manages capability parameters to reach secured component access. This helps fix delays in the system leveraging improved module efficiency.
- This executable applies registry changes to optimize sensitive data privacy defenses alongside deep privacy configurations. This can help streamlined registry access to help reduce the system's workload.
- Using applying this system startup, this configuration modifies your system to realize protected launch process to be able to minimize data privacy integration risks. With aid of fine-tune how the system runs, it can also help to accomplish faster boot times.
- This instruction set controls files and folders to be able to enhance information privacy maintenance and this action helps to accomplish data leakage prevention. To gain efficient data handling, this would help make programs work better.
- To reach robust protection measures, this change orchestrates security policies to maintain stricter personal data privacy integration. This config can also help use the hardware better, to benefit from balanced security overhead.
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- ≈ 2 min to complete
- Tools: Web Browser
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 6 instructions
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