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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by CJefferson on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:32PM (#13345721)
I've had a number of friends who have had to do reinstalls after running these kinds of scripts. Easy to break lots of subtle things.
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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by TranquilMarmot on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:37PM (#13346114)
Yeah, my first Windows 10 install I did a lot of the things in this script (disable Cortana, Bing search, P2P updates, etc.) and my machine worked fine... for a time. Things slowly started to go REALLY downhill, to the point where I couldn't search the start menu and had to find the .exe for any application I wanted to open, I couldn't view any images with the default image viewer, the file explorer barely worked, and a whole bunch of other weird things.

Eventually I gave up, reformatted the drive it was installed on, and re-installed. Everything's been pretty much fine since then.

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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by maxt on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:35PM (#13345731)
It's editable. There's a lot of stuff in there I had to remove. I still want Store functionality because I like the look and feel of the apps on there, especially the Twitter client.
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