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Disassembler0
Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
PowerShell2017–2024
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Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

PowerShell script for automation of routine tasks done after fresh installations of Windows 10 / Server 2016 / Server 2019

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What it is

PowerShell script for automation of routine tasks done after fresh installations of Windows 10 / Server 2016 / Server 2019

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

As a long time Windows user, I highly recommend using this to turn off the useless crap. https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year23 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-02-09 07:21:45 UTC to 2024-04-26 03:19:21 UTC.

0369122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

23 sources
Night_Thastus·Apr 26, 2024
This is just what I could find in a few minutes. Some are more privacy-focused, some are more de-bloat focused. Some add new features or enable new tweaks. Some are flexible, some are one-and-done. They're everywhere since Win 10 released. https://www.ntlite.com/ https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/ https://github.com/builtbybel/debotnet https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://www.revi.cc/revios/download/?method=playbook
In Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
black3r·Jun 1, 2021
The thing is this script is not only about telemetry, but also about disabling some annoyances that are especially annoying in server or workstation environment. I don't think there's an up to date resource describing all these tweaks. My recommendations: - Use the original script, it's slightly more up to date, last update was in november 2020: https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script - Read it's library of tweaks, especially the notes about potential unwanted side effects in comments. If you don't understand what each feature does, google it. The tweaks are grouped. - Don't enable any tweak where you don't understand what it does, especially in the security and network tweaks categories.
In Reclaim Windows10
brianpgordon·Dec 31, 2019
5. I police my startup items so that's correct, I've never had this issue. But yeah I know about Autoruns; that's an option too. Are you saying that since it's not built into Windows then it shouldn't count? I don't really agree. It's not like other popular OSes have such tools built in either. And Autoruns is even first-party since Sysinternals was acquired by Microsoft. 6. Yes it can. My current Windows 10 system has been installed since March. I disabled the store immediately and no update since then has restored Windows Store or any Store app. You can uninstall the Store (https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/...) or just disable access/updates through group policy (https://i.imgur.com/ZRxbwNt.png).
In Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
brianpgordon·Dec 31, 2019
I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA: 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion. I assume that's what they mean by "keyboard scanning and voice recording" because I don't think there's anything else like that in the OS. It is possible to disable telemetry. In general Windows 10 does come with a ton of cruft but it can be disabled with e.g. https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script 2. Disk fragmentation hasn't been an issue for awhile. Defrag runs as a scheduled task in all versions of Windows 10. 3. I like UAC. The article claims that giving users a dialog box to permit admin access is good for malware, but the alternative is taking admin
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away from users altogether on their own computers. I don't think this is an acceptable tradeoff. 4. Windows has arguably the best plug-and-play driver support of any operating system. It's not hard to find drivers as the article claims. 5. The article claims that it's difficult to figure out why your startup is so slow, but task manager has a "Startup" tab now which tells you which startup items are consuming a lot of CPU at login. 6. The article claims that you can't disable Windows Store apps, Windows tips, and ads in the start menu. That's untrue. I don't even have Windows Store installed as a Windows component, I have no idea what "Windows tips" even is, and my start menu is devoid of ads https://i.imgur.com/xy69BWe.png I think Windows is pretty bad and most users would probably be better off running Lubuntu or something, but there's no need to resort to exaggeration to make that case.
In Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
Zeetah·Aug 8, 2019
On Windows 10, I didn't use Mixed Reality or 3D printing or Xbox stuff or … So, I really wanted an image with non-essential items removed. I also don't like unnecessary items in my Start menu. Summary of steps are: A) Create Windows image with stuff I don't want removed B) Create Windows settings and clean up script C) Clean install using step A but do it with a local account [1] D) Clean up Windows using script from step B E) Rename PC F) Connect to Microsoft account - this will bring over settings from your other Windows PC(s) F) Install software using Chocolatey Over time, as I make further changes to my setup, I usually apply them manually and then incorporate them into either step A or step B. Steps for A: A1) Download ISO from Microsoft. For an example on how to do this, see instructions at: https://pureinfotech.com/download-windo
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ws-10-iso-without-media-creation-tool/ A2) Create script for removing unnecessary items and then apply them to the Windows ISO image from step A1. I use: https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline to modify the Windows ISO image. A3) Use Rufus or similar tool to create bootable USB drive from image from step A2. A4) Clean install Windows. A5) When creating the image in step A2, you can add scripts that end up in c:\windows\setup\scripts. Run these scripts Steps for B: B1) Use script from https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script and customize it to your liking [1]: If you install with a Microsoft account, your user directory is the first five letters/numbers of your Microsoft account. When installing using a local account, the local account name, in its entirety is used. edit1: fixed formatting.
In Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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