BRbrianpgordon·Dec 31, 2019
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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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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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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
11 sources5. 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 WindowsI'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.
This project is excellent for configuring a lean Windows 10 instance: https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
In Replace Windows 7 with LinuxI recently had to install Windows 10 and ended up installing "Windows 10 LTSC". Right after install i used "O&O shutup" and "Win10-Initial-Setup-Script" to get some sane defaults/strip all the crap.
It's sad that Windows itself has become bloatware...
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
In Microsoft Advertisement Inc.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.
Been using this https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script script for over a year and it's been my goto to fix Windows 10 after a fresh install.
It's purely Powershell based unlike some other binary based tools out there, clean, in a single file. I'd say it doesn't use any hacks either to stop telemetry.
Keep in mind Windows will revert some settings occasionally after a Windows update.
In Windows 10 Debloat Scripti'm just gonna leave this here
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
In Windows 10 Debloat ScriptThis is one of the best configuration scripts to make your Windows snappy, it's fully customizable and easy to use: https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
In Windows gets a new terminalThis project is well-maintained (and extensively forked). It helps you turn all of that crap off.
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
I actually bought a Windows 10 Pro for Workstations license because I thought it would let me cleanly install Windows with just a power user set of functionality and none of that XBox / Candy Crush rubbish. Turns out that used to be true, but no longer. Unless you can find a very particular range of old build images on the dark recesses of the Internet you have to do a standard Windows 10 Pro install and then "upgrade" it to Workstations.
In Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new previewAsk HD: Tools for setting up new installation of Windows 10
I would like to get rid of all the cruft:
* Cortana, Store, Weather, Xbox, Mixed Reality Portal, etc.
* Turn off telemetry
* Configure privacy settings
* Configure User Interface elements
* Install Software
After much searching, I found this script:
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/
I was wondering if there are other tools people are using.
Chocolatey and Ninite seem to be good ways to install software but not clean up / configure Windows.
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