Minimal Windows 10 Install | ISO Creation, Setup, and Config

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Summary

TLDRIn this video, the presenter discusses creating a minimal Windows 10 installation. Emphasizing the risks of downloading custom versions from unauthorized sites, the presenter advocates for downloading the official ISO from Microsoft and modifying it using Wind Toolkit and other tools to remove unnecessary components. The video details downloading essential tools like 7-Zip, official ISO, and Wind Toolkit, followed by a step-by-step customization process to eliminate bloated software and system features. Important tips include avoiding unauthorized downloads, utilizing PowerShell for ESD to WIM conversion, and managing updates and privacy settings effectively. The presenter highlights the significance of tools like "O&O ShutUp10" for privacy adjustments and offers software recommendations for common functionalities. By streamlining system resources and optimizing performance, viewers are guided on how to achieve a leaner Windows 10 installation. The video ends with insights into the growing relevance of Linux in desktop computing and a brief discussion on alternative operating systems.

Takeaways

  • 💡 Downlownload Windows 10 ISOs directly from Microsoft for security.
  • 🛠 Use Wind Toolkit to customize and minimize Windows 10.
  • 🚫 Avoid unauthorized Windows 10 versions due to potential risks.
  • ✔ Essential tools: 7-Zip, Wind Toolkit, official Windows 10 ISO.
  • 📜 Remove bloatware and unnecessary features using debloat scripts.
  • 🔒 Adjust privacy settings using tools like 'O&O ShutUp10'.
  • ⏳ Delay Windows updates to avoid potential issues.
  • 🎮 Alternatives like Linux offer growing opportunities, especially in gaming.
  • ❗ Internet Explorer is still used for legacy sites.
  • 🔍 'Everything' utility is recommended for searching instead of Windows Search.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses a minimal Windows 10 installation, discouraging use of custom versions from unofficial sources due to potential security risks. Instead, they recommend downloading from Microsoft and modifying the image using tools like Wind Toolkit to remove unnecessary features and improve performance.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    To begin minimizing Windows 10 for installation, the speaker demonstrates downloading necessary tools like 7-Zip, an official Windows 10 ISO, and Wind Toolkit. They emphasize extracting certain files and preparing the environment to ensure a smooth customization process.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker walks through using Wind Toolkit to customize Windows 10 by removing bloatware and unnecessary components. They suggest experimenting with what can be safely removed without losing essential functionality, focusing on home user needs instead of enterprise necessities.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Continuing with customization, the speaker discusses tailoring the installation to personal preferences by removing system components that are not needed, highlighting the importance of maintaining certain functionalities while removing resource-heavy features like Windows Defender and Search.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Customization efforts progress as the speaker addresses the complexities and challenges of stripping down Windows 10. They remove components considered bloat, ensuring essential functions like .NET Framework are intact, caution users about potential system impacts

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    The process of rebuilding a minimized Windows 10 image wraps up, with insights into component removal results. They provide guidance on preparing an ISO for installation, emphasizing the importance of proper setup for ease of use and preventing common installation issues.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    The speaker describes the installation process of the modified Windows 10, explaining how specific tools and settings allow for a quicker setup. They highlight the benefits of removing clutter and delays in the setup phase, aiming for a streamlined user experience post-installation.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:42:24

    In conclusion, the speaker reflects on the customization process, noting limitations compared to earlier Windows versions and discussing future trends toward more open-source solutions like Linux. They encourage feedback and highlight the video as a resource for users looking to declutter their Windows 10 setup.

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Video Q&A

  • Why should you not download Windows 10 images from unauthorized sites?

    Downloading from unauthorized sites can cause system infections, spy on the user, and lead to other issues.

  • What tool does the speaker recommend for modifying the Windows 10 image?

    The speaker recommends using Wind Toolkit for modifying the Windows 10 image.

  • What are some components that can be removed to create a minimal Windows 10 installation?

    Components like Windows Defender, Cortana, and other unnecessary networking and system features can be removed.

  • Is Internet Explorer still required for some applications?

    Yes, Internet Explorer is still needed for certain legacy sites and applications.

  • What should be done if the Windows 10 ISO file has an ESD format?

    Run a PowerShell command to extract the install.wim from the ESD file.

  • How can updates be managed effectively in Windows 10?

    Use group policy settings to delay feature and quality updates, and employ tools like 'O&O ShutUp10' to adjust privacy settings.

  • What alternative program is recommended for searching instead of Windows Search?

    The program 'Everything' is recommended as an alternative to Windows Search.

  • Why is it beneficial to use UEFI with NTFS during installation?

    Using UEFI with NTFS speeds up the installation process and handles larger WIM files.

  • What antivirus does the speaker recommend if Windows Defender is removed?

    The speaker recommends Webroot as a paid antivirus alternative.

  • How to make Windows 10 installation truly minimal?

    Remove unnecessary programs post-installation using a de-bloat script and additional settings adjustments.

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  • 00:00:01
    in this video I'm going over a minimal
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    Windows 10 installation it's been a
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    while since I've actually covered this
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    topic and I've covered it a little bit
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    now this is more making the ISO or the
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    image to put on a whole bunch of
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    different computers that will minimize
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    it so you don't need it as fancy
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    enterprise or a long term service branch
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    and I often actually discourage using a
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    lot of these versions of Windows 10
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    mainly because when it comes to Windows
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    10 and these custom versions that come
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    with viruses you usually acquire them
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    through like torrent sites and those
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    types of things that's no good you don't
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    want to be downloading them from there
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    just because it can cause all kinds of
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    issues with your system it can infect
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    your system it can spy on you it can do
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    a whole lot of different things so
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    downloading them from these sites in
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    unauthorized sites I never recommend for
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    a whole host of reasons I've personally
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    been burned by doing this and that's why
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    I said I don't care who you're
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    downloading from it's not a reputable
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    source I like to get it directly from
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    Microsoft and then modify the image so
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    that's what we're gonna be doing today
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    I'm gonna download the image from
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    Microsoft and then modify it directly
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    using a tool I called wind toolkit I
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    have used in tea light in the past
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    however they now charge like 60 bucks
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    for it and for this I want to cater to
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    the home user that has probably home
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    license or maybe even a pro license but
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    at the same time you need to be
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    customizing because a lot of this stuff
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    that's baked into these windows is just
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    horrible and bloated and it just doesn't
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    feel very good it doesn't feel very fast
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    I feel like when I install windows on my
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    system it slows me down
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    so using these custom images when we
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    have to use Windows that's what I always
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    used on pretty much any of my systems
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    now there's a whole variety of different
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    custom images and feature releases which
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    I'll probably touch on a different video
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    but for this one I'm gonna go ahead and
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    use the latest version out 1903 and it's
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    gonna be based on that so let's go ahead
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    download 1903 and start customizing
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    you
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    [Music]
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    okay so for this video I want to go
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    ahead and download all the tools we need
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    we're gonna be using 7-zip the win
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    official Windows 10 ISO and then
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    something called wind toolkit and I use
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    major geeks to download it so first I'll
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    go to 7-zip gorg download so we'll go
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    ahead and extract the 64 bit exe also
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    all the links will be in the description
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    below so we'll extract this and install
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    that 7-zip is installed let's go ahead
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    and download this now if you were
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    presented with this screen just go ahead
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    and download the Windows 10 installation
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    run it and then select download ISO or
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    download installation media and then
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    select ISO not USB that's a key thing so
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    we'll download that I've actually
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    already downloaded and have it on my
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    network drive so we'll copy it over and
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    then we download and install wind
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    toolkit so we'll go ahead and click that
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    and download it as well so that's
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    sitting on a Downloads folder it looks
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    like 7-zip didn't quite install all the
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    way so if you run into this problem just
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    select to the 7-zip FM or you could
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    right-click and do it as well so there's
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    one way of selecting it the other way is
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    just to go 7-zip open archive so either
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    or sometimes 7-zip has an issue
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    associated file associations I just
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    wanted to show both methods right there
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    so with that we'll go ahead and extract
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    this file to our downloads as well so we
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    have the 7-zip and now we need to go
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    ahead and grab everything else so I'm
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    gonna actually go ahead and delete all
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    this and then we're just gonna pop open
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    our network drive and pull up our images
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    folder with our Windows 7 19:03 as we
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    want so you can see I go ahead and do a
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    lot of different custom images like 1709
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    for my most custom version where I've
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    ripped out the most stuff I haven't been
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    able to replicate that kind of
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    minimalism after 1709 because 1803 in
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    past started really integrating a lot of
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    things in the system or would just
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    break a whole host of things when you
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    start ripping out like edge and also
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    defender and some other integrated
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    Microsoft services because they started
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    packaging more and more in there
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    probably the most hideous one that I
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    absolutely despise is onedrive just
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    because of how integrated in with actual
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    file explorer onedrive is in 1903 and
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    1809 are probably the worst offenders
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    and it just keeps getting worse but
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    we're gonna take 1903 since it's the
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    most recent and that's what I wanted to
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    show as it'll be far more relevant to
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    more people than just customizing an
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    older version of Windows that are just
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    kind of hard to get a hold of anymore so
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    let me copy this one and put it on there
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    again you can download this using the
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    windows download tool ok with that in
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    the directory we can go ahead and
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    extract this so we're gonna go ahead and
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    say 7-zip extract files to this version
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    what this does is it creates a folder
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    and extracts the entire CD into here we
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    need to go ahead and modify one of the
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    install files for a really wind toolkit
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    to optimize and create that minimal
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    install so we'll come into here and in
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    the sources directory we're gonna be
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    modifying installed ESD and if we look
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    down here at the bottom you see that
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    this one actually had dot win which is
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    really nice that's actually what we want
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    but if you do download an ISO and it has
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    installed ESD then we do need to do some
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    more stuff ok so we have the windows
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    folder extracted and we do have the
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    install dot wim if you do have the ESD
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    you need to run a PowerShell command
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    which I'll put in the description to
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    extract the installed wim from the ESD
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    file you just have to select the correct
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    version and it can be a little
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    cumbersome to do however the official
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    version I just downloaded all I did was
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    select my language and say 64-bit and it
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    gave me the exact one I needed so what
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    we'll do is go ahead and proceed here
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    we'll open up Windows toolkit select the
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    all-in-one integrator
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    and we're gonna go ahead and browse for
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    a wim file so we'll go into our
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    downloads folder select this and sources
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    and we'll select installed wim and then
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    from here we'll get all these different
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    ones I'm going to use Windows 10 Pro
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    because that's usually what I run on all
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    my systems and we're going to go ahead
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    and customize this one
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    so from this screen we'll just say
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    select
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    so here is the component remover that
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    took about a minute or so minute to two
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    minutes to really populate everything
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    however this is kind of neat how
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    everything pops up there's certain
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    things you always have to do one thing I
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    recommend this is first time customizing
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    Windows 10
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    anything that is read leave in do not
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    remove it so I'm gonna go ahead and walk
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    through a typical customization I do I
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    usually leave accessories in multimedia
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    completely alone and leave it alone now
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    for networking most this I go ahead and
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    select and then hit the check box so
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    it'll check all these and then you just
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    kind of look at what you need now this
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    does remove some stuff that you might
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    need especially in an enterprise
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    environment this is more tailored to the
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    home user most people aren't gonna use
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    TF TTP and offline files and remote
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    assistance
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    almost everybody use this team here
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    anyway so a lot of this stuff is just
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    garbage and not needed so we'll go ahead
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    and leave all these completely off our
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    system as we simply don't need any of
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    them now I is is kind of a funny thing
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    now we'll watch what happens when I
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    select this dotnet framework 3.15 will
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    also be removed this is needed for so
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    many games and so much stuff it's not
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    worth removing this component so we're
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    gonna select no and we are not going to
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    remove that mobile PC obviously if it's
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    a desktop remove that printing most
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    people are gonna just remove all this
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    stuff anyways if you have a printer and
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    you want to use it you can go ahead and
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    leave this one going you know obviously
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    on this machine I don't think I'm gonna
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    need it at all so a system I like to
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    check all this there's one thing that
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    says to leave is the HTML engine I'm
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    gonna go ahead and honor that however
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    I'm gonna leave the dotnet 3.1 or 3.51
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    as well but everything else here
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    defender search TIFF user assistance all
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    this stuff I'm gonna go ahead and rip
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    out as well that's a pretty excessive
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    thing so I'm
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    to search my system neidell hit Windows
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    and then start typing to search program
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    by removing Windows search however that
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    is very resource-intensive in for this
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    video I want a minimal Windows 10 that
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    runs very fast on pretty much any
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    hardware out there it's just you gotta
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    really take care of a lot of this other
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    stuff also Internet Explorer still
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    needed for like old legacy sites so in
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    my day job I work for a law firm and a
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    lot of courts and other things rely on
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    Internet Explorer to file certain legal
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    documents so Internet Explorer still
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    used I don't know why but it is used on
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    the Internet
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    and by removing this you might have some
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    issues with it later on but if that
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    doesn't sound like you will go ahead and
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    remove it hyper-v that's a
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    virtualization obviously if you're
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    watching this and you want to minimize
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    Windows 10 you don't need it Windows
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    Troubleshooters I go ahead and remove
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    and then unknown let's go ahead and
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    select this and just kind of go through
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    all the stuff that comes in here now I
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    am not actually going to select all this
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    just because there's certain things I
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    don't want remove so let's go ahead and
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    take a look here now certain things in
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    here we that might need like Group
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    Policy client tools like this would be
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    GP edit on there's certain things I
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    still like to use GP and on even though
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    my computer's not connected to a machine
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    so I'm gonna leave this on here and not
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    remove it and if you're unsure if it's
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    in white don't remove it unless you have
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    a specific purpose of removing that
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    package as these are typically unknown
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    to win toolkit and can be issued so one
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    thing to note a bunch of hyper-v
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    packages which I probably can go in head
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    and remove these so let's go ahead and
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    do it for this tutorial because we're
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    gonna do an install at the end here so
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    let's highlight the first go to the end
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    and then check them so we just checked
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    everything that said hyper-v we'll see
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    if we get any errors or any issues with
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    that then let's keep going down here
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    print to PDF quick assist Microsoft
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    storage service I'm gonna go ahead and
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    remove
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    there's more hyper hyper be stuff here
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    so I'm gonna go ahead and remove those
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    as well one core containers and stuff
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    I'm not gonna mess with this as that can
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    tie into a lot of system functions and
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    problems can probably arise from
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    removing delete supports a folder and
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    this is actually a Cavey package
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    honestly deleting the update chances are
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    it's just gonna redownload it when you
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    get a go so it's not really worth
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    removing so with all that I think we can
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    go ahead and remove these components and
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    slim this down so we're gonna go ahead
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    and hit continue and we're removing
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    about a hundred and forty-seven packages
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    out of the five hundred and fifty-five
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    hundred and seventy two listed so this
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    would be an equivalent of chopping about
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    1/4 of Windows tin off which is kind of
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    nice you know that's a pretty sizable
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    decrease especially in when it comes to
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    like windows search and Windows Defender
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    these are extremely taxing programs
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    that's were removing now they do have
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    their benefits search allows you to
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    search your computer Windows Defender
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    protection against viruses when you're
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    online and you download shady stuff so
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    they do have their purposes and if it
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    sounds like you need them by all means
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    use them they aren't bad systems
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    it's just they are bloated and I
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    consider them to be a very resource
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    heavy system function so I'm removing
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    these system functions and if I were to
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    continue using this computer after
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    installation and I've removed like
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    Windows Defender I probably would
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    install the different antivirus you've
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    always asked which paid antivirus do you
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    like I like Webroot if you're gonna use
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    a free antivirus just use Windows
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    Defender a lot of the other free
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    antiviruses have nag screens and other
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    crap
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    it's just not worth it so if you want a
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    free antivirus and you want to do that
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    just stick with Windows Defender it's
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    not bad it has a decent detection rate
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    it is not like it was 10 years ago when
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    I would never recommend it and I just
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    want to throw that out there as far as
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    anybody's goes and as far as search
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    ability removing search you can always
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    use a program called
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    which i think is a little less resource
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    a heavy and it does a better job of
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    searching and on top of that it doesn't
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    send a lot of the search results back to
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    Microsoft or default to Microsoft edge
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    sorter you know opening up when you
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    search for something using it so these
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    are all really good things I just wanted
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    to kind of go ahead and showcase them
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    because you know most people would want
  • 00:14:17
    to either remove them and replace it
  • 00:14:19
    with something else or remove them
  • 00:14:21
    altogether there's minimalist out there
  • 00:14:22
    like myself that literally just remove
  • 00:14:24
    these completely because I wanted a bear
  • 00:14:26
    system with about a singular or maybe
  • 00:14:28
    even a two or three purpose system for
  • 00:14:31
    Windows a lot of times when I'm using
  • 00:14:33
    Windows it's for a very specific purpose
  • 00:14:35
    I never use it to browse the web I never
  • 00:14:37
    use it for any of that because I just
  • 00:14:39
    don't find Windows to be very reliable
  • 00:14:41
    or all that secure so I'm gonna go ahead
  • 00:14:44
    and speed this process up probably about
  • 00:14:46
    a thousand percent and get to the end
  • 00:14:48
    here because this is gonna take looking
  • 00:14:52
    about probably about thirty minutes I
  • 00:14:54
    imagine there's also one more thing I
  • 00:14:57
    wanted to point out here looking at
  • 00:14:58
    these packages at the end
  • 00:15:00
    hello faces face recognition for
  • 00:15:02
    unlocking your PC Windows recently
  • 00:15:05
    released they you don't need passwords
  • 00:15:07
    anymore and we can just use your face
  • 00:15:08
    that's a great idea
  • 00:15:11
    and then also if you do remove Windows
  • 00:15:14
    Cortana completely I've stripped this
  • 00:15:17
    out in left search before it breaks
  • 00:15:20
    windows search when you remove cortana
  • 00:15:22
    cortana and windows search are pretty
  • 00:15:24
    much integrated the same on this package
  • 00:15:27
    once it finishes removing i probably
  • 00:15:28
    will go back and remove hello face and
  • 00:15:31
    windows cortana as well as both those
  • 00:15:34
    services are considered a pretty extreme
  • 00:15:37
    bloat in my situation and i don't like
  • 00:15:39
    either one of them mainly because
  • 00:15:41
    Cortana is almost like spyware in my
  • 00:15:43
    opinion and then Hello face obviously is
  • 00:15:47
    recording and using your webcam to
  • 00:15:49
    record your face which is also not a
  • 00:15:51
    very good thing in my opinion I don't
  • 00:15:54
    want either one of those I'm kind of
  • 00:15:56
    old-school in that I like to just type
  • 00:15:58
    my password in log in and use my
  • 00:15:59
    computer
  • 00:16:02
    okay so we finished with the entire
  • 00:16:04
    component removal here and we figured
  • 00:16:07
    out there's a couple things now this
  • 00:16:10
    folder I'm actually leaving me you can
  • 00:16:12
    actually keep modifying and removing and
  • 00:16:15
    fine-tuning just remember when you
  • 00:16:17
    remove something it's removed for good
  • 00:16:19
    so there's no reading something though
  • 00:16:22
    oops just no that's not possible however
  • 00:16:25
    I already kind of went through and said
  • 00:16:27
    hey I want to go ahead and remove like
  • 00:16:29
    Windows Defender Windows Cortana windows
  • 00:16:31
    hello face in these things I just want
  • 00:16:35
    to completely get rid of so let's go
  • 00:16:38
    ahead and remove four extra components
  • 00:16:40
    after we did our initial removal so
  • 00:16:43
    we'll go ahead and remove these as well
  • 00:16:44
    now Windows Cortana is a big component
  • 00:16:48
    so this may take some time but not too
  • 00:16:52
    bad actually it was only about a minute
  • 00:16:53
    or two and then the rest these will go
  • 00:16:56
    ahead and filter out but please note
  • 00:16:59
    when removing system services like this
  • 00:17:01
    it will affect certain system functions
  • 00:17:04
    like Cortana is vital to the screen that
  • 00:17:08
    pops up the welcome screen the login
  • 00:17:10
    screen where it shows like hey this
  • 00:17:13
    video is made in Venice Italy and all
  • 00:17:15
    these things it uses Cortana to filter
  • 00:17:17
    and use that information so it's gonna
  • 00:17:20
    break that when I remove it so just know
  • 00:17:22
    when you remove big system services like
  • 00:17:25
    Cortana there's gonna be some side
  • 00:17:27
    effects and that's just part of it so
  • 00:17:30
    right now we're down to I think about
  • 00:17:33
    400 packages here from the initial 660
  • 00:17:38
    or so I forget how much was but a
  • 00:17:41
    considerable downsize from our original
  • 00:17:43
    actually we're down to 351 packages so
  • 00:17:48
    this is actually a considerable downsize
  • 00:17:50
    from what we had now from here I think
  • 00:17:54
    we are pretty much done we're gonna go
  • 00:17:56
    ahead and close out of our component
  • 00:17:58
    remover and you get this so we're gonna
  • 00:18:01
    go ahead and hit save and rebuild this
  • 00:18:04
    goes ahead and saves all the changes to
  • 00:18:06
    the wim file the install dot wim file
  • 00:18:09
    and we'll be good so let's go ahead and
  • 00:18:11
    save and rebuild and this was going to
  • 00:18:14
    go ahead and save the
  • 00:18:15
    and rebuild it it was roughly four point
  • 00:18:18
    eight gigs when we started this I'm
  • 00:18:20
    curious to see what it is now so let's
  • 00:18:23
    go ahead and wait for this rebuild to
  • 00:18:25
    happen and then we'll pick back up after
  • 00:18:28
    it has finished
  • 00:18:37
    all right so here we go now we're back
  • 00:18:41
    after the rebuild it looks like it's
  • 00:18:43
    shaved off a good bit not too much off
  • 00:18:47
    the install file but still enough at
  • 00:18:50
    least 100 or 200 Meg's
  • 00:18:51
    but that's not really what matters what
  • 00:18:54
    matters is all that crap we uninstalled
  • 00:18:56
    isn't gonna run when we start our
  • 00:18:58
    Windows 10 so we have everything set
  • 00:19:01
    here there's a couple other things I
  • 00:19:04
    like to do before creating the ISO but
  • 00:19:07
    you can just do component removal to
  • 00:19:09
    have that stock setting because this is
  • 00:19:12
    pretty much a stock install at this
  • 00:19:13
    point just with a couple tweaks and some
  • 00:19:15
    components removed however if you go to
  • 00:19:18
    the intermediate tab you can actually go
  • 00:19:20
    ahead and make an unattended creator
  • 00:19:22
    willow create accounts which is really
  • 00:19:24
    nice and we're gonna do a Auto login as
  • 00:19:28
    administrator I like to create
  • 00:19:30
    everything after doing it I don't like
  • 00:19:32
    doing that initial setup that just kind
  • 00:19:34
    of stinks as far as that goes you can
  • 00:19:37
    set an admin password as well right here
  • 00:19:40
    I'm not going to for this because as a
  • 00:19:42
    default I want to go ahead and just do
  • 00:19:44
    it computer name if you leave this blank
  • 00:19:46
    it's usually like win and then a whole
  • 00:19:48
    bunch of like hexadecimal digits
  • 00:19:51
    afterwards hide wireless set up network
  • 00:19:54
    location let's see if we can't set that
  • 00:19:56
    now we can't set that times um some of
  • 00:20:00
    this we need to actually do in the
  • 00:20:03
    actual setup but we're gonna set up as
  • 00:20:05
    much as we can in this one I'm Central
  • 00:20:07
    Time us updates we're gonna go ahead and
  • 00:20:11
    say don't download or install most times
  • 00:20:13
    this gets overwritten anyways this is a
  • 00:20:15
    registry setting that it's doing so
  • 00:20:17
    especially on Windows home it almost
  • 00:20:20
    always ignores the registry setting and
  • 00:20:22
    you don't have any group policy to fall
  • 00:20:24
    back on to it's kind of sucks but hey
  • 00:20:27
    that's the rule we live in with
  • 00:20:29
    Microsoft and let's go to users here you
  • 00:20:33
    could actually create a user if you
  • 00:20:34
    don't want to do the default as
  • 00:20:36
    administrator which you probably don't
  • 00:20:37
    actually wouldn't recommend it use your
  • 00:20:40
    name I like to have caps that's just
  • 00:20:42
    something in me just says that's no good
  • 00:20:45
    so let's go ahead and do Titus is that
  • 00:20:48
    you
  • 00:20:48
    and then Chris Titus as the display name
  • 00:20:51
    light password everything else is the
  • 00:20:53
    same we're going to come back here and
  • 00:20:55
    then set this to Titus with a cab and
  • 00:20:59
    from here we have pretty much everything
  • 00:21:02
    that we can set here in the editor you
  • 00:21:05
    can do even more stuff if you're
  • 00:21:06
    familiar with XML editing and an
  • 00:21:08
    unattended file you can also do that all
  • 00:21:12
    right we're gonna hit save we're gonna
  • 00:21:13
    go on Auto unattended XML let's go ahead
  • 00:21:17
    and save this to our downloads
  • 00:21:20
    so you need to place this on the DVD or
  • 00:21:23
    USB route in order for it to work so
  • 00:21:26
    we'll create the CD or USB Drive
  • 00:21:29
    probably USB Drive for most folks out
  • 00:21:32
    there and then when it's creating or
  • 00:21:35
    before it's burning if it's a DVD
  • 00:21:36
    obviously you need to drag this onto the
  • 00:21:39
    route after importing the ISO but on
  • 00:21:42
    USBs which is just going to be probably
  • 00:21:44
    90% of the audience you just need to
  • 00:21:46
    copy this auto attendant to the USB and
  • 00:21:49
    we'll go ahead and do that afterwards as
  • 00:21:51
    well okay to make the ISO file we
  • 00:21:53
    actually need to select the folder and
  • 00:21:55
    then from the folder we select the ISO
  • 00:21:58
    output just make sure before in the
  • 00:22:01
    video I actually selected downloads
  • 00:22:02
    that's why we got this giant ISO we're
  • 00:22:06
    gonna go ahead and overwrite that
  • 00:22:07
    existing one that's like fourteen seven
  • 00:22:09
    gigs I thought something was up when
  • 00:22:12
    that was the case much better
  • 00:22:16
    projected to be 4.9 gigs which the
  • 00:22:20
    official version is actually 4.8 so
  • 00:22:24
    there was probably a lot of
  • 00:22:25
    uncompressing happening and when it went
  • 00:22:27
    to compress it back for the ISO it just
  • 00:22:30
    missed some of that compression it's
  • 00:22:32
    just not quite as tight as from
  • 00:22:35
    Microsoft um and that's to be expected
  • 00:22:37
    because they had to extract so many
  • 00:22:39
    archives and then say I want to rip this
  • 00:22:41
    out this out this out and it can't
  • 00:22:42
    compress that archive back to be exactly
  • 00:22:45
    the same so that's why you see a little
  • 00:22:48
    bit of a size increase on the actual
  • 00:22:51
    installation media when using this tool
  • 00:22:53
    but now we actually have the ISO created
  • 00:22:55
    let's go ahead and burn it we're gonna
  • 00:22:57
    use Rufus for that so let's go ahead and
  • 00:22:59
    close out of this we're going to open up
  • 00:23:02
    our Rufus and that's you can go to Rufus
  • 00:23:04
    dot ie
  • 00:23:05
    link will be in the description let's
  • 00:23:07
    select our ISO file here the custom and
  • 00:23:11
    the custom file did actually end up
  • 00:23:13
    coming in almost the same size as the
  • 00:23:16
    original so that's cool alright we're
  • 00:23:19
    going to label this win 10 and then go
  • 00:23:22
    ahead and hit start now I do see fat you
  • 00:23:27
    probably should switch this to NTFS if
  • 00:23:30
    you have issues usually if the wim file
  • 00:23:32
    is bigger than
  • 00:23:33
    for gigs you need to switch it from
  • 00:23:35
    fat32 to NTFS some people miss that
  • 00:23:38
    especially as you add drivers and other
  • 00:23:41
    things to it the wim file kind of bloats
  • 00:23:44
    up in fat32 can deal with such a large
  • 00:23:47
    wim file so I'm gonna go ahead and
  • 00:23:49
    switch this to NTFS okay so whenever
  • 00:23:53
    using in tf2 to boot you got to remember
  • 00:23:56
    you got to disable secure boot because
  • 00:23:58
    it's not compatible with in DFS so
  • 00:24:00
    that's only if you have a really large
  • 00:24:03
    installed dot wim file especially the
  • 00:24:06
    newer versions of Windows it just is
  • 00:24:09
    gotten so bloated that a lot of times
  • 00:24:11
    you have to do this if you run into
  • 00:24:13
    issues you can go ahead and try fat32
  • 00:24:16
    just know if you run into issues it's
  • 00:24:17
    probably when burning the actual install
  • 00:24:21
    dot wim onto USB a lot of times it deals
  • 00:24:25
    with the wim file being larger than four
  • 00:24:27
    gigs so we're gonna go ahead and close
  • 00:24:29
    here
  • 00:24:30
    I'm not running the secure boot so no
  • 00:24:32
    problem so we're gonna go ahead and
  • 00:24:34
    close this as well now you think we're
  • 00:24:36
    done ready to install let's go ahead and
  • 00:24:39
    get that Auto unattended we need to take
  • 00:24:42
    that take it over to our Drive which is
  • 00:24:46
    this guy and we're gonna paste that
  • 00:24:48
    right in there so this is where you put
  • 00:24:51
    it in the route and from here we should
  • 00:24:56
    be pretty good to go so let's go ahead
  • 00:24:58
    and restart this computer see if we can
  • 00:25:01
    actually install a fresh version of
  • 00:25:04
    Windows 10 on this box now this is
  • 00:25:06
    pretty much my throwaway main PC for my
  • 00:25:09
    studio I use this for doing pretty much
  • 00:25:13
    anything so let's go ahead and this is
  • 00:25:15
    gonna be bare metal no virtual machine
  • 00:25:18
    or anything here no trickery we're just
  • 00:25:20
    gonna boot directly from this on startup
  • 00:25:23
    so
  • 00:25:25
    we're gonna go ahead and select our boot
  • 00:25:27
    menu f11 and from here I'm just gonna go
  • 00:25:32
    the USB SanDisk oh actually that was
  • 00:25:35
    legacy boot let's control delete this so
  • 00:25:38
    we'll go ahead and restart since it's in
  • 00:25:41
    DFS it has to be UEFI
  • 00:25:44
    so we're gonna go you fel partition one
  • 00:25:47
    see what we get it looks like it liked
  • 00:25:50
    that one
  • 00:25:52
    so set up the starting this is where a
  • 00:25:55
    lot of the auto attendant should take
  • 00:25:57
    care of most of like account creation
  • 00:26:00
    and those things that really slow us
  • 00:26:02
    down when doing it so let's see what
  • 00:26:05
    happens it didn't do the EULA didn't do
  • 00:26:08
    the product key let's just go ahead and
  • 00:26:10
    say I don't have it select our version
  • 00:26:13
    hit next and then let's just go ahead
  • 00:26:16
    and wipe out this computer
  • 00:26:19
    and necks so it looks like with 1903 the
  • 00:26:24
    auto attendant did not work when I
  • 00:26:27
    dragged that XML file back on the route
  • 00:26:30
    he normally does work when you do that
  • 00:26:33
    just know hey I bet the work on it look
  • 00:26:38
    for an update about 1903 on it
  • 00:26:40
    unattended not working I'm sure there's
  • 00:26:43
    something we can do to go ahead and do
  • 00:26:45
    that but we'll go ahead and see what
  • 00:26:47
    happens here
  • 00:26:47
    I still have hope for the auto account
  • 00:26:50
    creation that's the thing that really
  • 00:26:51
    slows me down on these installs is after
  • 00:26:55
    about 1803 a lot of times they want you
  • 00:26:58
    to use a Microsoft account instead of a
  • 00:27:00
    local account
  • 00:27:03
    so let's go ahead and restart here it
  • 00:27:05
    looks like we're installed already that
  • 00:27:07
    was a pretty darn quick install I didn't
  • 00:27:10
    even have to speed anything up I think I
  • 00:27:12
    was about a four-minute install of
  • 00:27:14
    Windows 10 let's see what it looks like
  • 00:27:16
    on boot though that's really the the key
  • 00:27:19
    here now I am using USB 3 I am using
  • 00:27:23
    UEFI and I am using all of the things to
  • 00:27:28
    basically speed this up it's not using
  • 00:27:30
    fat32 it's using NTFS all of those
  • 00:27:34
    things speed up the install considerably
  • 00:27:36
    and remember we have been doing a lot of
  • 00:27:39
    component removal now on top of all
  • 00:27:44
    those factors that also speed up the
  • 00:27:46
    install we also had unencrypted a lot of
  • 00:27:51
    that installed WM wim when we actually
  • 00:27:54
    did the component removal that means
  • 00:27:57
    that since it sits in an uncompressed
  • 00:27:59
    State for some of those archives it can
  • 00:28:02
    read and install it even faster so we're
  • 00:28:06
    at a four minute install during that
  • 00:28:08
    install screen which most people I bet
  • 00:28:10
    as you watch this we're going holy crap
  • 00:28:11
    that's fast and like I said this is bare
  • 00:28:14
    metal so it's not sitting in a VM or not
  • 00:28:17
    sitting on a hypervisor I mean this is a
  • 00:28:19
    physical box that I'm setting up here
  • 00:28:22
    this is pretty fast so let's see how
  • 00:28:25
    long this takes it's at 6 minutes right
  • 00:28:27
    now on the install
  • 00:28:30
    all right so here's our welcome screen
  • 00:28:32
    we are officially seven minutes in let's
  • 00:28:36
    go ahead and see how fast I can get
  • 00:28:38
    through this now as you noticed anybody
  • 00:28:41
    that's done a Windows 10 install usually
  • 00:28:42
    Cortana screaming at you right now and
  • 00:28:45
    we don't have that so pretty nice we are
  • 00:28:51
    now eight minutes in
  • 00:28:53
    all right and we are in right at nine
  • 00:28:56
    minutes so actually a little bit less
  • 00:28:59
    than nine minutes here there we go so we
  • 00:29:02
    do have a John here of course there's
  • 00:29:04
    just no getting around getting edge off
  • 00:29:06
    of the install anymore 1709 was the last
  • 00:29:09
    time you could actually remove edge by
  • 00:29:11
    default let's see what our install looks
  • 00:29:14
    like and now they're still installing
  • 00:29:16
    crap on here which to be expected I
  • 00:29:18
    guess but not nearly as much crap as you
  • 00:29:22
    usually get from the stock install so I
  • 00:29:24
    would usually at this point unpin
  • 00:29:27
    everything go ahead
  • 00:29:30
    go to night-night download my normal
  • 00:29:33
    utilities why it's also loading my
  • 00:29:35
    install up when you first get Windows 10
  • 00:29:37
    installed it's usually downloading a
  • 00:29:40
    bunch of apps normally you'd come in
  • 00:29:42
    here pick Chrome or Firefox you know
  • 00:29:45
    notepad plus plus and then you can pick
  • 00:29:49
    anything else you'd want TeamViewer if
  • 00:29:51
    you have a burner PLC's also a good one
  • 00:29:54
    I'll go ahead and just pick a couple
  • 00:29:57
    things just to install and have but most
  • 00:30:01
    of these I think we can just leave off
  • 00:30:03
    and do this so
  • 00:30:09
    here we go
  • 00:30:12
    downloading and running this and this
  • 00:30:16
    will install our programs in the
  • 00:30:18
    background so you can see it kind of
  • 00:30:20
    loaded some bloatware we got a bubble
  • 00:30:24
    which three Sokka on here
  • 00:30:26
    thanks Microsoft and stickies Adobe
  • 00:30:31
    Photoshop Spotify and that's about it
  • 00:30:36
    so we're gonna go ahead and start
  • 00:30:39
    uninstalling any of these that are on
  • 00:30:42
    here I just like to flip through get rid
  • 00:30:45
    of as much stuff as I can
  • 00:30:49
    they'll probably other scrap that goes
  • 00:30:52
    ahead and pops up but what we can do
  • 00:30:55
    here now is go into the full deep blue
  • 00:30:58
    script if you hadn't seen my deployed
  • 00:30:59
    script it's one of the very first videos
  • 00:31:01
    I had on my channel that really blew up
  • 00:31:03
    so it's still good today
  • 00:31:06
    the maker of that on github is still
  • 00:31:09
    updating it almost on a weekly basis
  • 00:31:11
    still and it is a go-to so go ahead and
  • 00:31:15
    strip out some of this stuff after doing
  • 00:31:17
    the deployed script I'll do oh and oh
  • 00:31:19
    shut up so I can actually show that real
  • 00:31:21
    fast let's go ahead and launch Chrome
  • 00:31:25
    and we'll just put D bloat windows 10
  • 00:31:30
    and we'll go ahead and click the first
  • 00:31:33
    article which happens to me my meme
  • 00:31:35
    right here we'll go to the github and
  • 00:31:38
    we'll go ahead and download the deep
  • 00:31:41
    load script so we're go ahead and just
  • 00:31:43
    do a sample run of this just so you guys
  • 00:31:46
    can see it and we're gonna extract that
  • 00:31:48
    to our downloads so we've got that done
  • 00:31:51
    so let's go ahead and launch our
  • 00:31:53
    PowerShell and we're gonna go ahead and
  • 00:31:56
    change this let's go ahead and make our
  • 00:31:58
    system unsecure by hitting never notify
  • 00:32:01
    because I hate you AC but if you are a
  • 00:32:05
    person that likes to click a bunch of
  • 00:32:06
    ads and browse the internet on Windows
  • 00:32:07
    10 don't do what I just did and we'll go
  • 00:32:11
    ahead and set our execution policy to
  • 00:32:14
    unrestricted now a lot of people give me
  • 00:32:20
    crap for saying unrestricted but you can
  • 00:32:22
    easily come back and change this back to
  • 00:32:24
    restricted just from unrestricted if you
  • 00:32:27
    after it runs just said set execution
  • 00:32:29
    poly so you've restricted it'll just go
  • 00:32:31
    right back so not a big deal at all I
  • 00:32:34
    don't know why so many people made a
  • 00:32:35
    fuss about that actually we need to
  • 00:32:38
    downloads from downloads we'll go into
  • 00:32:42
    the deep bloat do an LS and we're gonna
  • 00:32:45
    go ahead and run Windows 10 deep loader
  • 00:32:48
    ps1 and we're just gonna go ahead and
  • 00:32:51
    say yes to the bloat now yes to remove
  • 00:32:53
    everything this unpinned all our stuff
  • 00:32:55
    from our Start menu gives us that fresh
  • 00:32:57
    install it'll go through and clean up
  • 00:33:00
    even more stuff now you're probably
  • 00:33:02
    thinking why
  • 00:33:03
    is done on the component removal the
  • 00:33:05
    component removals only a small portion
  • 00:33:07
    of it Microsoft's always-on connection
  • 00:33:10
    it's always there it's always snoop and
  • 00:33:13
    it's always downloading and uploading
  • 00:33:15
    it's constantly bloating up your system
  • 00:33:18
    so you will run this you'll need to
  • 00:33:21
    redownload it and run it again probably
  • 00:33:23
    here in 6 months to keep a clean system
  • 00:33:25
    on Windows 10 but here is the sample
  • 00:33:28
    deep blow to really have a minimal
  • 00:33:31
    install and this will go ahead and get
  • 00:33:35
    rid of a lot of Xbox games and and those
  • 00:33:38
    types of things that are in here that
  • 00:33:39
    are integrated into Windows 10 because
  • 00:33:42
    again this is about minimizing as much
  • 00:33:45
    crap as we can and getting it off so you
  • 00:33:47
    might get a couple errors here and that
  • 00:33:49
    is totally okay not a big deal so
  • 00:33:51
    alright go ahead yes to this yes -
  • 00:33:55
    stopping edge from taking over as the
  • 00:33:58
    PDF viewer yest uninstalling onedrive
  • 00:34:00
    yes - unpinning everything from the
  • 00:34:03
    Start menu
  • 00:34:04
    and yes to install 3.55 there 3.5 a lot
  • 00:34:09
    of games and a lot of actual
  • 00:34:11
    applications use 3.5 so pretty much
  • 00:34:14
    every new system build I install net 3
  • 00:34:16
    3.5 because so many things rely on it
  • 00:34:21
    we're not going to reboot the machine
  • 00:34:23
    just yet we still have some more stuff
  • 00:34:26
    to do so we've devoted it using the
  • 00:34:28
    script let's go ahead and look at our
  • 00:34:30
    settings real fast I like to go to
  • 00:34:32
    updates and then Advanced Options and
  • 00:34:36
    from here we're gonna go ahead and
  • 00:34:38
    choose feature update and delay one year
  • 00:34:43
    quality updates I usually like to do 30
  • 00:34:47
    days delaying is nice because the update
  • 00:34:50
    comes out you don't immediately get it
  • 00:34:52
    it has time to work its through all
  • 00:34:55
    those other people it didn't do these
  • 00:34:57
    settings and screw up their computers
  • 00:34:58
    because most the stuff doesn't have the
  • 00:35:00
    quality assurance it messes up a lot of
  • 00:35:03
    computers every business out there sets
  • 00:35:07
    this I don't know any system admin that
  • 00:35:10
    doesn't delay updates no system person
  • 00:35:13
    out there installs updates right out of
  • 00:35:15
    the gate unless they're just completely
  • 00:35:17
    crazy or stupid or both so here I go
  • 00:35:21
    ahead and just turn this off and then
  • 00:35:25
    privacy settings we're gonna adjust all
  • 00:35:27
    the privacy settings use an oh no shut
  • 00:35:29
    up so it's not that big a deal I just
  • 00:35:31
    like to delay the updates first and then
  • 00:35:35
    let's go back in and do oh and oh shut
  • 00:35:37
    up real fast so we'll go download oh and
  • 00:35:40
    oh shut up
  • 00:35:44
    so what most people do is once in here
  • 00:35:47
    they go ahead and apply all of the
  • 00:35:50
    recommended updates and that that would
  • 00:35:53
    be my de facto if you're unsure apply
  • 00:35:56
    all the recommended I like to go a
  • 00:35:59
    little bit above and be gone and go
  • 00:36:01
    apply all and somewhat recommended so
  • 00:36:04
    there's only a couple things that are
  • 00:36:06
    left on this prohibit apps from running
  • 00:36:09
    on the background I actually like to
  • 00:36:11
    leave this enable because I don't want
  • 00:36:12
    any Windows Store apps running without
  • 00:36:14
    it being in the forefront that'll mess
  • 00:36:17
    up a lot of things such as like the Xbox
  • 00:36:19
    Store or any other things you download
  • 00:36:22
    through the Microsoft Store so please
  • 00:36:24
    note on that just say Apple smart screen
  • 00:36:26
    filter I don't really use edge so I also
  • 00:36:28
    disabled that Windows updates it's still
  • 00:36:33
    enabled but you notice we've already
  • 00:36:35
    delayed them we will disable Microsoft
  • 00:36:38
    onedrive because we uninstalled it using
  • 00:36:40
    the dip loader and then we'll also
  • 00:36:42
    disable Windows Defender which actually
  • 00:36:45
    is not installed as you see here there's
  • 00:36:48
    only three icons that we have but let's
  • 00:36:50
    go ahead and put that in anyways so from
  • 00:36:53
    here we can just go ahead and hit exit
  • 00:36:56
    and we'll hit close and then we'll hit
  • 00:36:59
    restart from here are we now have a very
  • 00:37:02
    very clean minimal de bloated Windows 10
  • 00:37:06
    so we did a hardware bloat to really
  • 00:37:09
    remove Windows Defender all of the other
  • 00:37:13
    applications that are built into Windows
  • 00:37:15
    10 we delayed our updates this ensures
  • 00:37:18
    that we don't have a bunch of feature
  • 00:37:20
    updates happening all the time we
  • 00:37:22
    delayed our security updates so we're
  • 00:37:23
    not constantly getting bleeding-edge
  • 00:37:27
    updates these bleeding-edge updates a
  • 00:37:29
    lot of times are really bad they mess up
  • 00:37:32
    your computer you can have all kinds of
  • 00:37:34
    bugs and issues like that so I like to
  • 00:37:36
    delay 30 days on those if you really
  • 00:37:39
    want them sooner you can set this to
  • 00:37:41
    probably seven days or even five days
  • 00:37:43
    probably as the lowest I'd go but from
  • 00:37:46
    here this is all we have in our Start
  • 00:37:48
    menu it's a bit more bloated than I
  • 00:37:52
    would personally like but it's not bad
  • 00:37:55
    it is very
  • 00:37:57
    functional we have a pretty fast
  • 00:38:01
    computer here it is working pretty darn
  • 00:38:03
    good it's on the latest feature update
  • 00:38:06
    that is not horrible
  • 00:38:09
    so the unintended actually to follow
  • 00:38:12
    back up on that it missed a lot of
  • 00:38:13
    options but it did go ahead and skip
  • 00:38:16
    like the network settings it did create
  • 00:38:18
    our local account which was nice
  • 00:38:21
    it didn't get our product key and some
  • 00:38:22
    other things we threw in there to just
  • 00:38:24
    go ahead and skip through all of that
  • 00:38:26
    so wasn't completely unattended however
  • 00:38:28
    I might come back and revisit the actual
  • 00:38:31
    full unattended so you wouldn't actually
  • 00:38:33
    have any prompts but as you saw not very
  • 00:38:35
    many prompts we had less than a nine
  • 00:38:37
    minute to desktop after inserting the
  • 00:38:41
    USB Drive in our computer back there
  • 00:38:42
    that's pretty good overall we're about
  • 00:38:45
    20 minutes in after running the de bloat
  • 00:38:47
    script and do an oh no shut up and then
  • 00:38:49
    also doing a lot of the sets of that so
  • 00:38:52
    there's still a couple things to do as
  • 00:38:54
    far as setting everything to default
  • 00:38:57
    these types of things still need to be
  • 00:39:00
    fixed but if you look at privacy
  • 00:39:03
    settings it is far better than where it
  • 00:39:05
    was but we disabled telemetry our CPU
  • 00:39:09
    usage if we look here is pretty good not
  • 00:39:12
    bad we have one percent utilization most
  • 00:39:16
    windows boxes out of the gate is around
  • 00:39:19
    20 percent utilization or 10 percent
  • 00:39:21
    utilization so this is actually pretty
  • 00:39:24
    decent as far as a deep bloated windows
  • 00:39:28
    can we still have some activity so not
  • 00:39:30
    great but if you don't want activity on
  • 00:39:33
    startup like that you're not going to be
  • 00:39:35
    using Windows 10 you'd use like a
  • 00:39:37
    minimal install of a Linux build or
  • 00:39:39
    something like that however this is
  • 00:39:42
    light-years better then probably 99% of
  • 00:39:45
    the Windows users out there I can't tell
  • 00:39:48
    you how many people don't be bloated
  • 00:39:50
    don't bother
  • 00:39:51
    delaying updates don't bother with the
  • 00:39:54
    privacy settings letting telemetry run
  • 00:39:56
    wild
  • 00:39:57
    letting Microsoft choose everything from
  • 00:39:59
    the antivirus to everything and this
  • 00:40:01
    could just turn into a 30 minute rant
  • 00:40:03
    which I've already done probably five
  • 00:40:05
    different times on this channel about
  • 00:40:07
    Windows 10 but this is about
  • 00:40:08
    minimal Windows 10 and we have achieved
  • 00:40:11
    it we have done pretty much the
  • 00:40:14
    impossible in made Windows 10 somewhat
  • 00:40:17
    efficient somewhat not a resource hog
  • 00:40:20
    well there you have it that is the full
  • 00:40:23
    customization of Windows 10 I really
  • 00:40:26
    really dig this custom version just
  • 00:40:28
    because I'm able to strip out a lot of
  • 00:40:30
    stuff now in 1903 there's still some
  • 00:40:33
    stuff that gets left in there which I am
  • 00:40:35
    NOT a fan of back in 1709 which is about
  • 00:40:39
    two years prior I could really really
  • 00:40:42
    customize Windows 10 if you've seen some
  • 00:40:44
    old videos where it didn't have anything
  • 00:40:46
    like edge defender a lot of the other
  • 00:40:49
    stuff I was actually able to rip out
  • 00:40:51
    more from the older versions of Windows
  • 00:40:53
    10 because it wasn't as integrated but
  • 00:40:56
    as time has gone on Windows 10 has kind
  • 00:40:58
    of gotten worse and into more of an
  • 00:41:00
    integrated bloated mess that were able
  • 00:41:02
    to customize less and less and why I
  • 00:41:05
    recommend Linux and why I think that's
  • 00:41:08
    where the future of desktop computing is
  • 00:41:11
    I think Windows will be considerably
  • 00:41:14
    less as time goes on but time will tell
  • 00:41:17
    on that I know Linux has seen a lot of
  • 00:41:20
    growth this past year and that's mainly
  • 00:41:23
    due to its gaming section really
  • 00:41:25
    catching up with valve releasing steam
  • 00:41:27
    play last year and then expanding on it
  • 00:41:30
    just recently I'm about to make a video
  • 00:41:32
    over this then releasing a new compiler
  • 00:41:34
    that actually outperforms Windows in a
  • 00:41:37
    lot of gaming so that's where the future
  • 00:41:40
    of the actual desktop lies and those
  • 00:41:43
    that are stuck on Windows and just kind
  • 00:41:46
    of sit there saying no you can't use
  • 00:41:48
    anything else are the ones that are
  • 00:41:50
    gonna be lost and left in the past but
  • 00:41:53
    with all that said let me know your
  • 00:41:54
    thoughts down in the comments section
  • 00:41:56
    below
  • 00:41:57
    how'd I do on this was there anything I
  • 00:41:58
    missed during the customization I know
  • 00:42:00
    in tealight had a little more features
  • 00:42:02
    there's a little more user-friendly
  • 00:42:03
    however it does cost a lot of money to
  • 00:42:06
    fully use it so that's why I didn't use
  • 00:42:09
    it for this video and why it shows when
  • 00:42:10
    toolkit because it's accessible to
  • 00:42:12
    everyone but other than that a big
  • 00:42:15
    shout-out to my patrons without you I
  • 00:42:16
    couldn't make videos like this one and
  • 00:42:18
    I'll see you in the next one
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