Debloating Windows 11

I recently watched this video....


......that concluded there were not noticeable gains in the testing that was done to run a debloated Win 11.

The same person did the same testing again on a lower spec PC and noted some benefits....


in the past I used to do similar things, perhaps sometimes going a little too far. Typically I would find certain instabilities or functions not working that would occur some time after the install and configuration. That kinda put me off from bothering again.
Then again, somewhat tangential, I remember with my phone, I followed a guide that helped to remove so many apps using a script and all seemed well. For some considerable time after the phone would fail to receive SMS messages, not all but just a few. That took me ages to figure out that I was not getting certain texts. It was more by chance that resetting the phone, as well as reinstalling the OS, kinda OTT, that happened to restore the text function completely.

Even tho there are aspects of Win 11 I do not use I have continued to run with it and all seems perfectly fine, thankfully learning from what I had previously done.......seemed a good idea at the time.
 
......that concluded there were not noticeable gains in the testing that was done to run a debloated Win 11.

Windows 10/11, generally, halts/suspends a lot of background stuff when gaming so for most benchmarks you won't see a difference, however it can still periodically get busy causing stutter or doesn't understand all foreground use properly i.e. more obscure games you might occasionally get interruptions. I've even sometimes had the blue busy cursor appear and/or had it switch window context mid gaming. I've even seen Windows 10 do driver updates in the background mid gaming... absolute bunch of clowns working on the OS.

I'm going to say it again but in a properly setup Windows 7 not a problem at all.
 
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Windows 10/11, generally, halts/suspends a lot of background stuff when gaming so for most benchmarks you won't see a difference, however it can still periodically get busy causing stutter or doesn't understand all foreground use properly i.e. more obscure games you might occasionally get interruptions. I've even sometimes had the blue busy cursor appear and/or had it switch window context mid gaming. I've even seen Windows 10 do driver updates in the background mid gaming... absolute bunch of clowns working on the OS.

I'm going to say it again but in a properly setup Windows 7 not a problem at all.

That is why I noted no noticeable gains in the "testing" done when using the Tiny 11 build. :)

I look at my rather "full" Windows 11, with a system tray that almost has as many icons within it as I have attached to the taskbar, and note 1% CPU usage as I just brought up task manager. That is merely one snapshot measurement, a rather poor one, and there could be instances as you describe where certain use situation might benefit from another approach.
Point taken about when in full screen gaming mode, even my calendar notifications are not supposed to pop up during "playing a game", but they do.

Windows 7........................so many fond memories there, kinda predates the "online" experience being so integral to the OS.
 
I hate W11 and will continue to use W10 until forced otherwise, however I have installed W11 in the past when bored on very old hardware with a sneaky bit of help via command prompt etc on 2012 macbook pro/mini... Just to see what it was like, then hated it.
But it ran fine with even 8gb and 16gb ram and an ssd, cant see why it would be slower on a newer system?
 
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i only just noticed if you select world option instead of your nation it gets rid of the normal junk, i never knew that until i seen it earlier, far better than uninstalling all the junk for millioneth time:cry:
 
i only just noticed if you select world option instead of your nation it gets rid of the normal junk, i never knew that until i seen it earlier, far better than uninstalling all the junk for millioneth time:cry:

Won't be long before MS fix that :s sadly.
 
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