I know people have mostly gotten over it at this point but it still irks me when I see an installer that's just "pipe this random script from the internet directly into an admin terminal". They should at least put a note like "hey this is potentially a dangerous action. you should ideally download this locally and inspect it first before you run it" even if most people aren't gonna do it.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Here's the GitHub for it. I agree that I'm not one to just run a script blindly. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
edit: I'm such an idiot. My God. So i ran a different os hardening script. Guess what my dumbass forgot to do? Confirm the local admin username and password. Guess who's locked out. Me. Woooow lol don't be dumb like me. Create a checklist before hand. I guess i learned a fucking lesson lol.
The developer is quite transparent about all the possible effects of this script. It tweaks to a point that you'll still receive security updates, and feature updates are a bit delayed.
I'm sure it's not a malicious script, but it's not a good idea to pipe an internet resource into an admin terminal. What if his website gets hacked?
What @Yote.zip said.
Also, here's a much better alternative script that also hardens your system: https://github.com/simeononsecurity/Windows-Optimize-Harden-Debloat
I just use reviOS(btw federation test so please respond if this is visible)
It seems crazy. No updates and no defender, what could go wrong?
I don't understand why removing all that stuff for "light" then preinstalling a chromium browser for "privacy". For privacy choose Firefox. Or money was exchanged for having Brave as default?
Yes these kind of distributions of windows are extremely suspicious. I once saw one that added additional stuff to ISO other than stuff from guthub repo.
It is smart to inform yourself about the reputation and suspicious actions of something like this before installing it, maybe also try it on a vm first if you are in doubt
I don't understand the brave decision either but other than that i like how it is. Removing windows update is better because it often messes with software it shouldn't mess with. And you can reactivate Defender which i did
Removing/disabling Windows Update is never ever a good idea.
You can also reenable it if you prefer, could you please explain why it is bad?
Well I see the comment, if that helps.
Great
‘Tis visible.
Also works on windows 10
There is also O&O ShutUp10+, a free tool which also works for Win11.
I've been using ReviOS without a hitch... but if I was to use a debloater, do I need to run it after every windows update? Can I disable updates? What's the go?
It has ability to disable, but actually disabling all of them is not recommended at all. Recommended settings for this script delays security updates by 2 weeks and feature updates by 2 year