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Re:Windows 10 Debloat Script by jzzskijj on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:38PM (#20488218)
Hah, indeed. "An all knowing colleague" suggested in Slack to use DisableWinTracking* tool for greater privacy and security. I had already done the most of the usual privacy enhancing stuff manually to Windows 10, but decided to try if the tool would know something more. Some weeks later IT realized there are several desktops in our domain which stopped installing Windows updates on a same day. And some administration tool couldn't reach those computers anymore. Basically we ended up wasting about 20-30 man hours on getting those desktops to function properly again without reinstalling.

*) https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

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Re:Windows 10 Debloat Script by technion on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:48PM (#20489472)
I can echo this. On a security assessment I found an organisation was a long way behind in Windows Updates. I eventually tracked this to the AppReadiness service being disabled, which someone thought was a cool debloat option. The end result is that machines just claim to be up to date despite not being.
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