W10 - remove bloat

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I've resurrected an old laptop and want to use it predominantly as a TeamViewer interface to a better equipped desktop. Are there any decent guides for stripping the OS down to remove all the bloat?

I've googled, but results are mixed with 3rd party software that I don't trust.
 
Remove the bloat? Can you be specific? If it's a vanilla W10 build, there won't be any bloat other than built in UWP Apps, which you can remove using powershell (some are required though). I strip them out of the wim before install rather than using dism to unmount and remount the live OS, which has mixed results as the UWP apps reappear with a new logged in user.

I can drop you a few lines of script if you like
 
Not quite what you asked for but https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10/update will boost performance a little it's surprising how much resources the spying parts of w10 steals on startup.. Only down side of the software is you need to run it every few months as Ms turn the spying back on every so often and if you enable all the options it turns off apps ability to use your webcam and mic (you just need to remember and turn it back on if you need it)

If you Google powershell remove w10 bloat there are numerous scripts to remove the crap
 
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