Stupid Things

Installation

Minimal Installation

• ThisIsWin11 .

  • "The real PowerToys for Windows 11"

• Install Only Security Updates on Windows 10

Uninstallation / Cleaning

Drivers

• Uninstall Driver via Recovery Environment

Cleaners

• Bulk Crap Uninstaller .

  • Uninstaller.

  • Install via GitHub Releases.

• Revo Uninstaller.

  • Trash compared to the one above.

  • Closed-source, paid.

• CCleaner

  • DON'T use it. It's terrible.

Disk

• BleachBit .

  • "BleachBit cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy."

• MiniTool Partition Wizard .

  • Closed-source, paid.

  • "As best partition manager for Windows, MiniTool Partition Wizard aims to maximize disk performance. It helps create/resize/format partition flexibly, convert disk between MBR and GPT disks, convert partition between NTFS and FAT32, and convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss in a few clicks."

Privacy

• ChrisTitusWindowsUtil

  • ChrisTitus makes videos criticizing Windows, etc., so he created this app to remove stupid stuff from it.

• ~ WinAeroTweaker

  • Disables many things, etc.

  • Probably ChrisTitusWindowsUtil is better.

Metadata

• ExifCleaner - Clean Photo Metadata

Telemetry

• Disable Telemetry | Services, Registry, Tasks & Group Policy

• Disable UAC User Account Control Win10

Security

Require permission to delete a folder

• Can't delete a folder

• Require permissions from administrators to make changes .

• (2025-10-07)

  • Restarting the PC solved it. Kinda.

  • I tested billions of things before, didn’t work, so whatever.

• (2025-11-02)

  • Using rm <folder_name>  worked.

Viruses

• TRON Script - How to Remove Viruses From Your Computer

Windows Update

Disable

• Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) on Win10

• 15 Windows Settings You Should Change Now!

SSD

• What Is Superfetch on Windows 10? And How to Disable It .

• Windows 10 Disable And Enable Prefetch And Superfetch .

• Windows Search and Indexing .

Environment variables

• It’s not possible to find a file inside a folder that starts with .  (dot).

  • Ex:

    • .config/ .

Etc

Things to disable

• Things You Need to Disable in Win10

• Disable disk check .

  • https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/run-or-stop-chkdsk-on-startup.html