universal windows debloater
personal project
every fresh windows install comes with the same 40-odd apps nobody asked for, telemetry pinging in the background, and bing baked into search. i was doing the same manual cleanup on every machine i touched, so i scripted it once instead of doing it by hand forever.
it’s a powershell tool with two modes: a one-shot preset for “just clean it up” and a granular mode for picking exactly what to remove — bloatware apps, cortana, telemetry services, bing search, taskbar clutter, explorer defaults. every change that touches the registry gets backed up to a rollback file first, so a bad call is a re-import away from being undone rather than a reinstall.
the part that took the most care wasn’t the removal logic, it was the rollback — registry edits are easy to write and very easy to regret, so making every single change reversible mattered more than making the tool aggressive.