Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)

Re:Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware... by andai on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:22AM (#32436516)

Yeah, I tried that, and also the one from ReactOS. ReactOS's one at least launches (including the taskbar!) but crashes almost instantly. The XP one seems to heavily depend on various DLL files which no longer work the same way. I tried copying a bunch of them over, solving the error popups one by one but gave up after hitting a brick wall after the 10th DLL or so.

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Re:Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware... by e12e on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:09AM (#32436784)

> and also the one from ReactOS

Interesting idea, I hadn't thought about ReactOS as a possible source of FOSS programs for windows - but why not? We run Gnu user land various places after all.

Curious about why it crashes. Did you build from source?

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Re:Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware... by andai on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:21PM (#32442164)

No, I just copy pasted it from a ReactOS install. Binary compatibility is their goal (WinDbg thinks it's debugging Windows Server 2003, so they did a good job!), but last I heard they have to do some funky stuff in some places to be able to make use of WINE.

Or it could be because of the compatibility: XP's explorer doesn't run on 10, so we shouldn't expect its clone to run either! But I had to try :)

Still, considering it's open source and the closest thing what I do want, starting with this and stripping out the taskbar might get me a good result.

Same with MSPaint: just spent several days trying to get the leaked XP MSPaint to compile, to no avail. Looks like I'd have better luck starting with ReactOS's paint clone and modifying it so it's feature complete and has the original icons :)

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