I can not stress enough how much you !! SHOULD NOT DO ANYTHING !! in this video. JUST DON'T. (Example: Some Programs like Photoshop use the pagefile, and if you disable it, it could lead to problems). NEVER disable Pagefile. Don't touch Windows - you have no idea what you are doing. Update Drivers and BIOS-Firmware and leave everything else alone: you have been warned. Just because it is easy to use, doesn't mean that you should.
Coming from the person that has no idea what they're doing? Sit down. I've used this quite enough to know that it works okay. And thanks. I know how page file works. That's why I say don't bother adjusting it. Learn to watch a video next time
Also besides me who is using Photoshop on the ally. Please tell me Edit: I pinned your comment not to flatter you, but just to point out how ridiculous you are
I’m a Systems Engineer (IT/OT) and find your comparison of the paging file and photo shop to be quite ridiculous. That’s not exactly how all that works “under the hood”. Also, I doubt many people will be using this for photo shop lol. Keep making videos man, just ignore idiots like these guys who are armchair warriors.
@@stevenyaegerr thanks buddy appreciate the kind words :) appreciate your insights as well. I'm using the Ally currently to do all of my editing gaming etc. (With an xg 6850m) if everyone was using it like this then they would absolutely have a point... But it's a handheld gaming console at the end of the day. Thanks again!
This is one of the best and concise videos I've ever seen. No script, no mumbo jumbo influencery wannabe funny stuff. This is what the community wants from the tech guys.
I really appreciate the graphical comparisons. I'm sure doing that takes a ton of work so I will continue to like videos in hopes that you continue making them! You are my go to ROG ally person now!
Microsoft definitely needs to work on a handheld mode to bypass all these option configurations for better performance. Most people do not want to go through all this just to get the most out of their devices. I doubt that will be released soon even if it was there would still be bugs to iron out.
Absolutely, I think with the push from ASUS as well as others on the handheld space. Microsoft will eventually cave and offer a "handheld" windows experience. Until then we are left to do all of these things on our own unfortunately.
Nice video very easy to follow along, another tweak I'd suggest is turning off windows search and windows indexing for all the Ally's drives. I hardly use windows search myself even on my main pc as I like to know where everything is anyway and it definitely improves performance having it disabled at least from my own personal usage.
I know how to do all this but just can't be arsed lol. Well after watching the video all the way through. That tool does make it quite simple so maybe I will. Thanks. Saved your video into my bookmarks for when I can be arsed to do it. lol.
Gold mate. Still awaiting release here in Aus so ill be hitting these tweaks asap. Guess 1 plus is possible better firmware by then. Much appreciate your effforts 👍.
yes yes the video was great and usefull i did my part (sub and like) i am new to gaming handeheld got my ally one wheek and mysteamdeck three the shit is with the ally all those settings and tweaks i got the learn and do . with the steamdeck it's way more simpel . anyway i got it now and i gonna make it work thx to channels like yours !!!! your content is great you get there
Thanks for the kind words! let me know if you need any help. Fortunately the latest updates from ASUS made the Ally a lot better/easier to use as well!
I appreciate the help, ally runs smooth, i did had to increase the page filing higher tho, diablo and sf6 was crashing. Definitely subbed for more content 👌🏾
That's awesome! Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to message me if you need any help. I am planning on doing a "getting to know" the Ally video today, if not tomorrow at the latest.
Right I didn't think about that haha. You can email me if you like @ windecktech@gmail.com If you go to my TH-cam profile I believe there should be a contact option. That way it'll send through your TH-cam designated email (not through a personal one) Or just mention me in a comment on any video or post! I usually am pretty good about seeing and acknowledging when needed. Edit: I've been thinking about making a discord channel as well. Just as a general tech support group. Not necessarily related to just handhelds or the Ally, but all things tech. Need help resetting your computer or router, shoot a message in there and some nerd will likely help out. That's the plan at least. I'll make mention of it in the intro of a video and see what the reaction to it is like. Even if there's only a dozen who join, it could end up being an invaluable resource for people just getting into PC/PC Gaming
Appreciate the sub, definitely not necessary! Make sure to leave a comment on Friday's video for a chance to win the giveaway! (I will have it marked w/ *Giveaway Entry* alongside the regular title)
Also, I'm a dope. I meant to mention at the end as well. Please throw out games that you'd like to see as regular benchmarks to judge performance etc. Preferably they'd have an in-game benchmark tool without scene changes, like the one RDR2 has. So far I am thinking: Cyberpunk 2077 Borderlands 3 Division 1 (I remember it being a solid benchmark) Tomb Raider (whichever one community thinks is best) Forza Horizon 5 I can do 3dmark as well but I find those to be boring.
I would not set the page file as it will cause games to error and crash if it runs out of memory. When I tried playing Resident Evil 4 on my laptop and I was getting an error on start I couldn't figure out why. I looked for a solution online and it was because I set the page file. So leave it on auto if you want to avoid issues running games.
I just bought a ROG Ally for my wife and damn, I cant believe how luch tweaking needs to be done out of the box. Goes to show that handheld windows consoles are still not there. The video helped a lot tho, thank you
Really good video. Thanks! If I may suggest, could you do one running Ally on dock mode and showing performance in 1080 and 1440p monitors to assess the option of replacing gaming laptop by the Ally?
For sure I can do that. I don't know if I would suggest 1440p for many games, although some with FSR/TSR could be doable. Doom eternal with DRS comes to mind but that's not a true 1440p either. I'll add that to the list though. Very interesting idea. Thanks!
Coming on late but blozty jas changed completely and it looks like nothing compared to previous version .and less options and i dont get into that commandpromt at the end.could you check it out or give us another bloatware performance software to try out thanks for the work
Hey dude cool video. Im just looking for info to buy or pass? Are you experiencing any crash or freezes? Does these tips and tricks help? Thanks in advance
@@MrAcidburn5000 honestly it all comes down to how much you're willing to spend. Ally is pretty unbeatable at its price. However if you're looking at devices from aokzoe and ayn you can get better performance however at the cost of support
Add to return my unit, but lucky enough Best Buy had more. Second one seems to be recognizing the memory card. For some reason, having couldn't stay updated the new firmware yes. I've had other hand held, and they go through a matter of dates. Some pretty sure we're going to have to wait. And there's going to be many more updates available. As time goes by, for improvements, stability and party. Getting at 120 Hertz, almost all the games.
I'm not very tech smart, and I'm just looking for apps and things I can just go to and uninstall 😅. This seems like way to much for deleting/ uninstalling. Is there a list of things not needed for gaming/ youtube/websearch? I don't have the patience for all the steps you say is need.
Goodmorning, this is really a great viodeo. I just wanted to ask if you could show us clearly how to set the Fans curve correctly since its not shown in the video. you have some screenshots?
@@WinDeckTech I found out how to change it thanks. Just one question. The suggested example of fan curve is intended for the normal manual mode or the Max manual mode?
The default fan curve has been and should be okay on performance mode. I would suggest avoiding using turbo mode and set your own profile up, with a custom curve. As long as your fans are at 70-80% at 80 degrees, it should be okay.
Great video, thanks! After following your instructions BloatyNosy uninstalled the Xbox app and MyASUS app so I had to reinstall, is that normal? Thinking I might undo BloatyNosy’s changes in case anything important was unintentionally uninstalled/disabled but if what I experienced is normal I might keep the changes
Thanks for another great tutorial video man. This may be a dumb question, but if I make these changes and then upgrade to a 2TB Nvme, will all of this automatically reinstall when I recover the OS? Also, do I need to keep this installed and periodically run it due to windows updates?
If you reinstall 2tb, it will reinstall everything. You shouldn't need to keep it on, but you don't install it. It is a portable file. Maybe once in a blue moon if you notice things come back.
Sorry yes I meant to pin that as well. Mine did come disabled by default, so I figured most devices did as well. All tests were conducted with VMP OFF Edit:spelling
Fantastic video. I did add the 16 gig page file because I was having issues with ram allocation when running certain games and having apps open in the background. It would crash my games because of "not enough memory". Another very useful tool that has come in handy is an app called Intelligent Standby List Cleaner. It clears the cache of your Ram but at your desired setting and it does it automatically. Sometimes that Ram cache gets up to 4 gigs and when you're running 8G for VRAM that's all she wrote. Fantastic video and thank you so much for trying out and confirming a good bloatware removal tool!
Add a steam deck and they went through a lot of updates. I saw my steam deck to get a Windows 11 machine. Because I am a color duty and wars on fan. So that's why and of course, the better screen and the ally. And the 120 Hz makes it really awesome.
so if i create a restore point and then go through this process will that restore point revert every single change made with bloatynosy? really want to go through this process but dont want to have to do a factory restore if things go wrong with this. i know you mentioned you can change everything back within nosey but i want an extra safety net if i can help it.
Questions: is it better to debloat all or customize a list ? the fact that we earn something like one giga of ram after debloating, is it helpfull in game ? Fps or graphical improvement ? Or battery Life ? And if yes, So the video of a Guy saying that hé did not see any différence testing both tiny 11 and original rog Windows 11, is surely false ?
It's been a coincidence for me. The SD cards stopped working and I had no choice but to factory reset my ROG Ally. After the reset, the games ran better.
the only thing that popped up for me that i wasnt sure of was when i went to apply the fix. it had a error message saying something about EXPLORER.exe wasnt installed and couldnt uninstall it. I just clicked ok and it seemed like everything else was fine. But i guess im not 100% sure if all the rest of the fixes applied or not
@@WinDeckTech I’ve already used 6 or 8gb of VRAM but that only consumes your regular RAM so when the game run i still get error messages saying i don’t have enough RAM
Informative video, but I cant get BloatNosey to work correctly. When I go to inspect "High" Bloatware, Windows prevents me from moving forward. So something may have changed(?)
Do you have to run this script just after Asus Cloud Recovery? Or do I first have to do all the Windows and Asus updates and run the script after that?
On the bloat nosy app When I tried to do the last section about configuring Bloatware apps it would not let me it had the pop up window with the Red Cross and said ”unhandled exception occurred in your application……” Any help please
@@WinDeckTech you know there’s the bottom task bar and the upper task bar with the ( _ X , minimize, optimize, close) when I’m playing the game I still can see it and I don’t know how to remove it
@@WinDeckTech 24:30 look at the top of the screen, I don’t see the line with the _X, you are using the full screen, mine still showing it while I’m playing
@@wilkinscalderon6843OH! I understand now thank you. What is happening is your game is running in windowed mode. Go into the game settings and change it to fullscreen. As well, you can bring up the keyboard (back button + up Dpad) and press Alt + Enter to change out of windowed/fullscreen
@@WinDeckTech interesting. I just picked up my ROG today and following the video. Wish I could explain why my experience was different. Appreciate the video for sure, I knew I'd have to debloat but it's nice to have a guide.
@@WinDeckTechant to follow up. It removed MyAsus but not armoury crate. The debloater removed the extra unwanted apps but they came back a reboot or two later. Will watch the new video when I get home I saw you uploaded an updated guide. Thanks
When I right-click the High Search and Remove… under Bloatwear, I get a message that says “unhandled exception has occurred in your application…” not allowing me to go to the next step to uninstall all of those extra apps.
I did this and noticed the "My Asus" app is missing. Is this fine? What if Asus releases patches and updates to the bios, etc.? Does this mean we won't be able to get those updates?
You may have accidentally removed the bloat ware which the app determine asus as bloat. You can go back to their site and download all of the drivers. Or do a system restore point to before you made changes. If you want my new guide check hereth-cam.com/video/VhJePpfHXlk/w-d-xo.html
My ROG ally z1 extreme was great for 1 month after that it's been absolute garbage sent it to Asus service center 3 time each time was 2 weeks of shipping time and I just got it back yesterday and still won't run anything tech support is completely un helpful I regret getting this device so much but they won't refund or replace it they just keep telling me to send it for repairs
That's awful! May I ask which country you are located in? I know some countries have their warranty work sent out to third parties. Edit: I've heard similar horror stories from places like India
@@WinDeckTech I live in USA California it's a shame that first month I loved it I'm a carpenter and work 10hr shifts so when I thought I could finally game here and there I was happy made a steam account wanted to play some game I missed out on like Fallout New Vegas but now it just a sad pice of plastic and I treated it with so much care
I ran nosybloaty the other day and totally killed my fingerprint scanner. Not just “reset your print” but rather computer acting like it wasn’t even there. I’ll contemplate following your guide and hope It doesn’t happens again. But none of the fixes i found online worked and i had to factory reset my system so I’d perhaps not risk doing that again
Glad to hear. The fingerprint drivers are available on their site as well. Be weary accessing bios appears to not work (vol- power) however you can still access it through windows advanced restart
@@BigKurzMD I've not had a chance to go through each individual option yet. Currently I am setting up the CTT (Chris Titus) debloat tool. I will be doing another comparison as well as more in-depth testing on if anything is broken. BIOS access, gamepass etc
@@WinDeckTech i appreciate the work. But please when you figure out which setting killed the bios button combo , post a video to ping your feed about it. If you don’t mind
@@WinDeckTech no for the Asus driver loads on the Rog ally it's self standard web browser don't load maybe site is down no idea I'll try it again when I get chance works on my phone though
Absolutely, the debloat is more or less to free up a bit of extra ram/space and to make windows feel more "snappy" the debloat tweaks obviously aren't required but I know a lot of people don't like any sort of bloatware on their devices.
Didn’t help me one bit bios 319 is killing 30w turbo mode. Interesting enough I noticed 25w mode had better performance but still not what I’d like. I believe there’s a bug relating to the eGPUs. Rog ally most likely believes the device to be connected to an external unit and diverts power to the CPU to avoid bottlenecking with a more powerful gpu. Just my theory right now I need to test it more but with red dead 720 mid-high mix I got 50fps average even in Saint Denis which was a beautiful experience. Plugged in turbo tanked performance to around 35-38fps. Gpu seemed to fluctuate in clock speeds and quite dramatically at that. I was bouncing from 1800mhz to 2500mhz standing still. Very weird experience. Again unplugged seem to park the cpu and gpu in optimal ranges so they didn’t hog tdp.
@@mikehatten5738 very interesting, I would love to get my hands on the XGMobile to do some testing as well, unfortunately it is still well over 1,000 dollars in Canada, as well they are not readily available.
@@DONUT-FPV calculated risk. Your computer isn't immediately thrown into a vulnerable state. This is just another layer of device security. However, as long as you are not downloading torrents, or downloading from shady sites or installing custom drivers you should be okay. Obviously with anything there is a risk involved, so it is on the user whether or not they are okay with the risks. For what it's worth I've run it off on all of my devices and my identity hasn't been stolen, yet.
Try running as administrator, make sure to right click the top one not the bottom one. I'll have another debloat tutorial coming Friday hopefully with the CTT debloat
When i get mine i will first just uninstall bloatware until i get used to my rog ally, because i am scared im gonna do something wrong, + im not seeing other people doing the exact same thing, so im a bit scared ngl.
Honestly just go through your programs in settings and uninstall all of the stuff you don't want from there. There isn't too much "bloatware" within windows itself these days and all of the bloat from Asus is light and reasonable imo, as well as necessary if you want the intended experience.
With these custom OS solutions, they are "better" however they have a tendency to break important things. A lot of those break game pass functionality. I would never personally recommend anyone go that route as it's always best to have "official" support. As well, the privacy concerns with the custom OS are too great in my opinion (I'd rather have microsoft with my data than some random Joe Blow)
@@WinDeckTech tiny might be an exception but ghost specter let's you re-enable anything you want which I've not had to do in the ghost toolbox(although I don't use gamepass), and security "specialists" on youtube have checked over specter os with nothing found. But in the end it's no more private than Microsoft having your data for it to be sold off or leaked, Personally I don't care privacy is dead and I only use the ally as a gaming device either way, even removed windows defender as it's purely for games / emulators.
@@radioactivebob1 absolutely re:privacy bring dead. Some people (weirdly) are more comfortable with big tech having their info as opposed to some random person they know nothing about. Obviously, again, this is down to the user comfort level. Another "pro" move is to use the windows 10 LTSC version, however support for that ends in 2025 I believe with extended support lasting until 2027.
When I right click the HIGH in bloat section, it gives me an error message and won’t let me advance to the next screen. Is there a way to make it work? 8:33
The armoury crate stuff? You can download it all back from ASUS support site. Or you can roll back your device. Search restore point in windows search it will show you the last system restore point it made.
I can not stress enough how much you !! SHOULD NOT DO ANYTHING !! in this video. JUST DON'T. (Example: Some Programs like Photoshop use the pagefile, and if you disable it, it could lead to problems). NEVER disable Pagefile. Don't touch Windows - you have no idea what you are doing. Update Drivers and BIOS-Firmware and leave everything else alone: you have been warned. Just because it is easy to use, doesn't mean that you should.
Coming from the person that has no idea what they're doing? Sit down. I've used this quite enough to know that it works okay. And thanks. I know how page file works. That's why I say don't bother adjusting it. Learn to watch a video next time
Also besides me who is using Photoshop on the ally. Please tell me
Edit:
I pinned your comment not to flatter you, but just to point out how ridiculous you are
I’m a Systems Engineer (IT/OT) and find your comparison of the paging file and photo shop to be quite ridiculous. That’s not exactly how all that works “under the hood”. Also, I doubt many people will be using this for photo shop lol.
Keep making videos man, just ignore idiots like these guys who are armchair warriors.
@@stevenyaegerr thanks buddy appreciate the kind words :) appreciate your insights as well. I'm using the Ally currently to do all of my editing gaming etc. (With an xg 6850m) if everyone was using it like this then they would absolutely have a point... But it's a handheld gaming console at the end of the day. Thanks again!
Disabling power Throttling. It might break the procesor. It kicks in when THE PROCERSOR IS NOT COOLED ENOUGH
Just did this and i went from 4.9 to 3.7 ram usage and the menu looks soo clean thx for this
This is one of the best and concise videos I've ever seen. No script, no mumbo jumbo influencery wannabe funny stuff.
This is what the community wants from the tech guys.
This increased my performance drastically. Even on the most recent bios update. Thank you!
I really appreciate the graphical comparisons. I'm sure doing that takes a ton of work so I will continue to like videos in hopes that you continue making them! You are my go to ROG ally person now!
Windows feel so much snappier thank you so much for making this video
Disabling Windows Search service is a classic way to free up ram, is that covered in the Bloaty app
Will this not allow any searching from the task bar?
@@nickjacobsss It should, but it will be slower since there is no Index of your files.
@@NekoSmashso it would still work the same way, just slower?
You almost need it though because the windows 11 start menu is so bad
Another fantastic video! And Im only about half the way through and had to comment 😀
Thanks David, as always you're far too kind!
Microsoft definitely needs to work on a handheld mode to bypass all these option configurations for better performance. Most people do not want to go through all this just to get the most out of their devices. I doubt that will be released soon even if it was there would still be bugs to iron out.
Absolutely, I think with the push from ASUS as well as others on the handheld space. Microsoft will eventually cave and offer a "handheld" windows experience. Until then we are left to do all of these things on our own unfortunately.
Nice video very easy to follow along, another tweak I'd suggest is turning off windows search and windows indexing for all the Ally's drives. I hardly use windows search myself even on my main pc as I like to know where everything is anyway and it definitely improves performance having it disabled at least from my own personal usage.
Good call!!
THANK YEW. Lol Awesome tutorials especially since I'm new to PC gaming. Keep it coming!
Hey brother, just found your channel. I'm going through doing your rog ally debloat right now. Thumbs 👍
Do the new one buddy!
th-cam.com/video/VhJePpfHXlk/w-d-xo.html
Thanks, this helped a lot! I just installed a 2tb ssd and hard to reset everything so this made the performance a lot better and removed the crap.
I know how to do all this but just can't be arsed lol. Well after watching the video all the way through. That tool does make it quite simple so maybe I will. Thanks. Saved your video into my bookmarks for when I can be arsed to do it. lol.
Glad I could help!, if anything you can check out my new vid which includes an even easier program from CTT (chris titus tech)
Great tips video mate, really helped setting up my Ally
Gold mate. Still awaiting release here in Aus so ill be hitting these tweaks asap. Guess 1 plus is possible better firmware by then. Much appreciate your effforts 👍.
It already released in AU, hope you get yours soon!
DO NOT UPDATE TO BIOS 319! It limits performance by 25%
Awesome video. Thanks.! I also subscribed due to wanting to better my ally experience!
yes yes the video was great and usefull i did my part (sub and like) i am new to gaming handeheld got my ally one wheek and mysteamdeck three the shit is with the ally all those settings and tweaks i got the learn and do . with the steamdeck it's way more simpel . anyway i got it now and i gonna make it work thx to channels like yours !!!! your content is great you get there
Thanks for the kind words! let me know if you need any help. Fortunately the latest updates from ASUS made the Ally a lot better/easier to use as well!
I appreciate the help, ally runs smooth, i did had to increase the page filing higher tho, diablo and sf6 was crashing. Definitely subbed for more content 👌🏾
Check out my newest vid with better tweaks
Edit link here:
th-cam.com/video/VhJePpfHXlk/w-d-xo.html
@Windeck Tech thank you for this video, this dramatically improved the performance on my ally. You deserve more subscribers. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for this video! It really improved my Ally's performance 😅
I went ahead and got one of these man. Thanks for the video. Looks like the channel is blowing up!
That's awesome! Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to message me if you need any help. I am planning on doing a "getting to know" the Ally video today, if not tomorrow at the latest.
Yeah I’m definitely going to follow this guide. Mine comes in Friday and I can’t wait. How could I message you?
Right I didn't think about that haha.
You can email me if you like @ windecktech@gmail.com
If you go to my TH-cam profile I believe there should be a contact option. That way it'll send through your TH-cam designated email (not through a personal one)
Or just mention me in a comment on any video or post! I usually am pretty good about seeing and acknowledging when needed.
Edit: I've been thinking about making a discord channel as well. Just as a general tech support group. Not necessarily related to just handhelds or the Ally, but all things tech.
Need help resetting your computer or router, shoot a message in there and some nerd will likely help out. That's the plan at least.
I'll make mention of it in the intro of a video and see what the reaction to it is like.
Even if there's only a dozen who join, it could end up being an invaluable resource for people just getting into PC/PC Gaming
Under a proper os (win 10 ltsc) the ram consumption is 2.3gb. +4gb for the gpu means you get almost 10gigs to run your stuff.
Subbed, appreciate this video man!
Appreciate the sub, definitely not necessary! Make sure to leave a comment on Friday's video for a chance to win the giveaway! (I will have it marked w/ *Giveaway Entry* alongside the regular title)
Woooo thanks man, been waiting on this one 💯
Also, I'm a dope.
I meant to mention at the end as well. Please throw out games that you'd like to see as regular benchmarks to judge performance etc.
Preferably they'd have an in-game benchmark tool without scene changes, like the one RDR2 has.
So far I am thinking:
Cyberpunk 2077
Borderlands 3
Division 1 (I remember it being a solid benchmark)
Tomb Raider (whichever one community thinks is best)
Forza Horizon 5
I can do 3dmark as well but I find those to be boring.
Diablo 4 pls!
Kingdom come Deliverance
Well Done Mate!!!
Amazing tutorials !! gonna try it
that absolutely what every ROG Ally owner should watch , thanks dude 😍
This was a great Video. Super helpful.
new sub here. thanks for all the info
Thank you for this. Aprreciate you!
Sweeet dude! Great video
Let me know if you need any help!
Thank you for the effort of making this guide. Gonna wonna add a gonna wonna do counter 😅
😂 can turn it into a drinking game if you like.
I rly had that in mind while writing. 😮
I would not set the page file as it will cause games to error and crash if it runs out of memory. When I tried playing Resident Evil 4 on my laptop and I was getting an error on start I couldn't figure out why. I looked for a solution online and it was because I set the page file. So leave it on auto if you want to avoid issues running games.
I just bought a ROG Ally for my wife and damn, I cant believe how luch tweaking needs to be done out of the box. Goes to show that handheld windows consoles are still not there. The video helped a lot tho, thank you
No problem at all! My wife stole.my ally recent any now my Legion Go. She surprisingly likes the go more
@@WinDeckTech it's probably the switch-like joycons. Thanks again man, have a good one
Really good video. Thanks!
If I may suggest, could you do one running Ally on dock mode and showing performance in 1080 and 1440p monitors to assess the option of replacing gaming laptop by the Ally?
For sure I can do that.
I don't know if I would suggest 1440p for many games, although some with FSR/TSR could be doable. Doom eternal with DRS comes to mind but that's not a true 1440p either.
I'll add that to the list though. Very interesting idea. Thanks!
Going to test this out soon, promise.
Coming on late but blozty jas changed completely and it looks like nothing compared to previous version .and less options and i dont get into that commandpromt at the end.could you check it out or give us another bloatware performance software to try out thanks for the work
can you please make an updated debloat guide for the Ally X?
Currently working on one be out by the end of the week
Thanks for the video! I assume we're still avoiding bios updates beyond 317?
Thank you!
Hey dude cool video. Im just looking for info to buy or pass? Are you experiencing any crash or freezes? Does these tips and tricks help? Thanks in advance
I have not been experiencing anything bad with my game.. however it is not the perfect device either
@@WinDeckTech cool thank you! What device do you recommend as closer to more perfect!? Thank you again
@@MrAcidburn5000 honestly it all comes down to how much you're willing to spend. Ally is pretty unbeatable at its price. However if you're looking at devices from aokzoe and ayn you can get better performance however at the cost of support
Great job! I would think emulation would benefit the most from the debloating, did you test any games after doing so?
Not emulation, no but I will test out totk
Add to return my unit, but lucky enough Best Buy had more. Second one seems to be recognizing the memory card. For some reason, having couldn't stay updated the new firmware yes. I've had other hand held, and they go through a matter of dates. Some pretty sure we're going to have to wait. And there's going to be many more updates available. As time goes by, for improvements, stability and party. Getting at 120 Hertz, almost all the games.
Currently finishing* up testing on bios 317/319/322 hopefully have a video up later today. Edit:typo
I'm not very tech smart, and I'm just looking for apps and things I can just go to and uninstall 😅. This seems like way to much for deleting/ uninstalling. Is there a list of things not needed for gaming/ youtube/websearch? I don't have the patience for all the steps you say is need.
Goodmorning, this is really a great viodeo. I just wanted to ask if you could show us clearly how to set the Fans curve correctly since its not shown in the video. you have some screenshots?
Will do!
@@WinDeckTech I found out how to change it thanks. Just one question. The suggested example of fan curve is intended for the normal manual mode or the Max manual mode?
The default fan curve has been and should be okay on performance mode. I would suggest avoiding using turbo mode and set your own profile up, with a custom curve. As long as your fans are at 70-80% at 80 degrees, it should be okay.
Could you do a new video with the updated winpilot please
Currently have all the stats and footage for my new vid just need to vo and edit!
Great video, thanks! After following your instructions BloatyNosy uninstalled the Xbox app and MyASUS app so I had to reinstall, is that normal? Thinking I might undo BloatyNosy’s changes in case anything important was unintentionally uninstalled/disabled but if what I experienced is normal I might keep the changes
That shouldn't have happened. If you leave the bloatware checked off it will take out what it deems bloatware.
Edit:had it delete my asus once
Thanks for another great tutorial video man. This may be a dumb question, but if I make these changes and then upgrade to a 2TB Nvme, will all of this automatically reinstall when I recover the OS? Also, do I need to keep this installed and periodically run it due to windows updates?
If you reinstall 2tb, it will reinstall everything.
You shouldn't need to keep it on, but you don't install it. It is a portable file. Maybe once in a blue moon if you notice things come back.
@@WinDeckTech Perfect thanks again!
Should we disable virtual machine alongside with the core isolation? Have seen a post claiming it would further improve performance
Sorry yes I meant to pin that as well. Mine did come disabled by default, so I figured most devices did as well. All tests were conducted with VMP OFF
Edit:spelling
Thank you
Fantastic video. I did add the 16 gig page file because I was having issues with ram allocation when running certain games and having apps open in the background. It would crash my games because of "not enough memory".
Another very useful tool that has come in handy is an app called Intelligent Standby List Cleaner. It clears the cache of your Ram but at your desired setting and it does it automatically. Sometimes that Ram cache gets up to 4 gigs and when you're running 8G for VRAM that's all she wrote. Fantastic video and thank you so much for trying out and confirming a good bloatware removal tool!
Add a steam deck and they went through a lot of updates. I saw my steam deck to get a Windows 11 machine. Because I am a color duty and wars on fan. So that's why and of course, the better screen and the ally. And the 120 Hz makes it really awesome.
so if i create a restore point and then go through this process will that restore point revert every single change made with bloatynosy? really want to go through this process but dont want to have to do a factory restore if things go wrong with this. i know you mentioned you can change everything back within nosey but i want an extra safety net if i can help it.
Questions: is it better to debloat all or customize a list ?
the fact that we earn something like one giga of ram after debloating, is it helpfull in game ? Fps or graphical improvement ? Or battery Life ?
And if yes, So the video of a Guy saying that hé did not see any différence testing both tiny 11 and original rog Windows 11, is surely false ?
Very good video! In what BIOS version are you doing it?
319, I recommend going to 319 (or latest)
It's been a coincidence for me. The SD cards stopped working and I had no choice but to factory reset my ROG Ally. After the reset, the games ran better.
Interesting. One of my SD cards is not working, all others are
Is Asus Ally a different device with the mediatek tech some other device? When can we expect it to launch globally?
Asus ROG ally is available now, most everywhere. I know there are a few countries it Is not available in unfortunately
Can you do a update on bloatynosy with the ai version or what would you recommend to still go with the old version?
I didn't actually know about the AI features I'm still using the old version when I use it. I'll check it out and see. Thanks!** Edit
Awesome! How does this compare to Chris Titus debloat for Windows?
I've not compared the two head to head but I will make a video with his program as well. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
@@WinDeckTechdid you do one?
In my latest “updated” version of the vid
@@WinDeckTech for some reason TH-cam won’t let me find it lol
@@WinDeckTech could you link the update video please? TH-cam is having a senior moment. I cannot find it
2:43 it's under System if you're using Chrome.
Thanks!
the only thing that popped up for me that i wasnt sure of was when i went to apply the fix. it had a error message saying something about EXPLORER.exe wasnt installed and couldnt uninstall it. I just clicked ok and it seemed like everything else was fine. But i guess im not 100% sure if all the rest of the fixes applied or not
So it did work. but it uninstalled a couple things i wasnt expecting it to. like the my asus app and the xbox app. but everything else is fine
You can grab myasus from their site and I show how to reinstall Xbox and gaming services in my newest vid.
Would changing my page file help me with games like Warzone or Forza 5 which tend to use a lot of ram?
I wouldn't recommend it, I would up the vram in bios
@@WinDeckTech I’ve already used 6 or 8gb of VRAM but that only consumes your regular RAM so when the game run i still get error messages saying i don’t have enough RAM
BloatyNoisy app has changed and i've just got my Rog Ally years after, any chance we get and updated version of the bloaty app?
Working on one currently for the ROG ally x (but will be the same for other handhelds)
after doing so, my MyAsus app was uninstalled and i am unable to reinstall it through Microsoft store.. any help?
Open BloatyNosy klick "Fix" and restore. Minute 12 in the Video...
@mst-mb5lt I did, nothing happen except some system settings.. no apps was restored..
This enables the microsoft store again. U'll find the app in there.
Also, since we have access to the asus drivers etc, what about wiping and installing ghost spectre or tiny11 for less bloat?
I've not tried custom windows installs yet. I will look into that in the future.
After clean win11 install from asus cloud should I install firmware and bios from asus downloads ?
Found my answer. Updates are under the my Asus thing
I would yes. You can either grab them manually from the site, or myasus
Informative video, but I cant get BloatNosey to work correctly. When I go to inspect "High" Bloatware, Windows prevents me from moving forward. So something may have changed(?)
Are you running it as administrator?
Do you have to run this script just after Asus Cloud Recovery? Or do I first have to do all the Windows and Asus updates and run the script after that?
I would do all of the updates (myasus + windows) then run this
@@WinDeckTechWill do, thanks!
i never use armory crate, XTU for my i9.
Wink 😜 AMD wink wink
Ae thanks for the heart
Could put its for Windows 11 in the title...
Should still apply for Windows 10, if you're on it.
I like onedrive and will keep it
For some reason after doing this, I started getting screen tearing in Elden ring vs before i never did. Any reason why possibly?
Strange.
Set your vsync on if you're going over 60 or 120fps. There shouldn't be anything causing that
@@WinDeckTech Elden ring caps out at 60fps, and is forced enabled. Docked or handheld mode still causes the issue weirdly enough.
@@Leon-ny8ul right my bad, I forgot that I had to patch it to get it over 60
@@Leon-ny8ul that's is super strange. Full screen exclusive as well as windowed?
Hello my finger print scanner doesn’t work after doing these steps what can I do to revert it back?
You can install the drivers from the Asus site!
Under biometric authentication
rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds/rog-ally/rog-ally-2023/helpdesk_download/
On the bloat nosy app When I tried to do the last section about configuring Bloatware apps it would not let me it had the pop up window with the Red Cross and said ”unhandled exception occurred in your application……”
Any help please
Run as administratator. Edit:sp
Also check out my newest vid.
th-cam.com/video/VhJePpfHXlk/w-d-xo.html
I need to do this
Can you help me ?
How can I remove the upper task bar when gaming ?
What do you mean by upper task bar, sorry. Do you mean the Xbox game bar?
@@WinDeckTech you know there’s the bottom task bar and the upper task bar with the ( _ X , minimize, optimize, close) when I’m playing the game I still can see it and I don’t know how to remove it
@@WinDeckTech 24:30 look at the top of the screen, I don’t see the line with the _X, you are using the full screen, mine still showing it while I’m playing
@@wilkinscalderon6843OH! I understand now thank you.
What is happening is your game is running in windowed mode. Go into the game settings and change it to fullscreen. As well, you can bring up the keyboard (back button + up Dpad) and press Alt + Enter to change out of windowed/fullscreen
@@WinDeckTech bro thaaaannnkkk youuuuuu I been trying to fix this for days 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Accidentally left that one check box for the "apps" and it did not uninstall the asus armory crate. Just fyi
Thanks for that, interesting. When I did this it completely fubar'd everything.
@@WinDeckTech interesting. I just picked up my ROG today and following the video. Wish I could explain why my experience was different. Appreciate the video for sure, I knew I'd have to debloat but it's nice to have a guide.
@@WinDeckTechant to follow up. It removed MyAsus but not armoury crate. The debloater removed the extra unwanted apps but they came back a reboot or two later. Will watch the new video when I get home I saw you uploaded an updated guide. Thanks
@@shredwerd009 shouldn't have issues with the new one
is it the same with the AI version? do i install the classic ot the AI?
I had heard someone used the AI version with no issues. Although I've not checked it out at all
When I right-click the High Search and Remove… under Bloatwear, I get a message that says “unhandled exception has occurred in your application…” not allowing me to go to the next step to uninstall all of those extra apps.
Try running it as administrator
@@WinDeckTech will do. Thanks for the reply!
Core isolation was off by default in my case.
I did this and noticed the "My Asus" app is missing. Is this fine? What if Asus releases patches and updates to the bios, etc.? Does this mean we won't be able to get those updates?
It shouldn't have removed myasus. However if you go to their driver download site you can grab MYASUS from there.
Error prompt out when i wanted to configure the bloatware section . What do I do now ?
Run it as admin if you haven't
I assume Bloatynosy will just skip over any of the things you have selected but have already deleted manually yourself?
Yeah, sometimes it will give an error (which you can check at the top above the fix box) if it doesn't detect the software
My Power button dosent work anymore for closing and opening the screen, and the app my Asus vanish
You may have accidentally removed the bloat ware which the app determine asus as bloat.
You can go back to their site and download all of the drivers. Or do a system restore point to before you made changes.
If you want my new guide check hereth-cam.com/video/VhJePpfHXlk/w-d-xo.html
I did the NosyBloaty and now can't use my external display after reboot. What the
Roll it back, I did not have any issues with display out on either of my docks.
My ROG ally z1 extreme was great for 1 month after that it's been absolute garbage sent it to Asus service center 3 time each time was 2 weeks of shipping time and I just got it back yesterday and still won't run anything tech support is completely un helpful I regret getting this device so much but they won't refund or replace it they just keep telling me to send it for repairs
I've never dropped it and only once did I ever played it for over 3 hours
That's awful! May I ask which country you are located in? I know some countries have their warranty work sent out to third parties.
Edit:
I've heard similar horror stories from places like India
@@WinDeckTech I live in USA California it's a shame that first month I loved it I'm a carpenter and work 10hr shifts so when I thought I could finally game here and there I was happy made a steam account wanted to play some game I missed out on like Fallout New Vegas but now it just a sad pice of plastic and I treated it with so much care
I am in India no issues so far@@WinDeckTech
I used debloat but now the buttons for armory crate and command center don’t work anymore. Please help me
Redownload armoury crate here
rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds/rog-ally/rog-ally-2023/helpdesk_download/
@@WinDeckTech I already did that and nothing worked even after I restarted
@@WinDeckTech never mind, I just had to update the Bios to 319
I ran nosybloaty the other day and totally killed my fingerprint scanner. Not just “reset your print” but rather computer acting like it wasn’t even there. I’ll contemplate following your guide and hope
It doesn’t happens again. But none of the fixes i found online worked and i had to factory reset my system so I’d perhaps not risk doing that again
Just decided to run it following your instructions and it worked just fine. Thanks!
Glad to hear.
The fingerprint drivers are available on their site as well.
Be weary accessing bios appears to not work (vol- power) however you can still access it through windows advanced restart
@@WinDeckTech which part of this affected the bios button combo not working?
@@BigKurzMD I've not had a chance to go through each individual option yet. Currently I am setting up the CTT (Chris Titus) debloat tool. I will be doing another comparison as well as more in-depth testing on if anything is broken.
BIOS access, gamepass etc
@@WinDeckTech i appreciate the work. But please when you figure out which setting killed the bios button combo , post a video to ping your feed about it. If you don’t mind
iam having trouble with every sd card they start formatting after 2 minutes i get a error then a message saying sd card corrupted and unusable
Unfortunately it sounds like your SD reader is fried. You'll have to rma it
I cant open "BloatyNosy" Windows tell me i need a app install for that, but not wich one i need ... man it sucks .. :/ maybe you can help
That's strange it should inject everything needed. Were you running it as an administrator?
I can't access the web page to get the downloads ays error is the site down as can't access on ally but can on phone ?? Is that a known bug ?
You mean for nosy bloaty?
@@WinDeckTech no for the Asus driver loads on the Rog ally it's self standard web browser don't load maybe site is down no idea I'll try it again when I get chance works on my phone though
@@alansanders6949 strange, try to get to it from the main site instead of a Google search if that's what you were doing.
Core Isolation seems to make the biggest difference.
Absolutely, the debloat is more or less to free up a bit of extra ram/space and to make windows feel more "snappy" the debloat tweaks obviously aren't required but I know a lot of people don't like any sort of bloatware on their devices.
Didn’t help me one bit bios 319 is killing 30w turbo mode. Interesting enough I noticed 25w mode had better performance but still not what I’d like. I believe there’s a bug relating to the eGPUs. Rog ally most likely believes the device to be connected to an external unit and diverts power to the CPU to avoid bottlenecking with a more powerful gpu. Just my theory right now I need to test it more but with red dead 720 mid-high mix I got 50fps average even in Saint Denis which was a beautiful experience. Plugged in turbo tanked performance to around 35-38fps. Gpu seemed to fluctuate in clock speeds and quite dramatically at that. I was bouncing from 1800mhz to 2500mhz standing still. Very weird experience. Again unplugged seem to park the cpu and gpu in optimal ranges so they didn’t hog tdp.
Isn't core isolation being off putting the Ally at risk of viruses/hackers ?
@@mikehatten5738 very interesting, I would love to get my hands on the XGMobile to do some testing as well, unfortunately it is still well over 1,000 dollars in Canada, as well they are not readily available.
@@DONUT-FPV calculated risk.
Your computer isn't immediately thrown into a vulnerable state. This is just another layer of device security.
However, as long as you are not downloading torrents, or downloading from shady sites or installing custom drivers you should be okay.
Obviously with anything there is a risk involved, so it is on the user whether or not they are okay with the risks.
For what it's worth I've run it off on all of my devices and my identity hasn't been stolen, yet.
after i went back to 317 from 319 bios, i cant acess the core isolation option.
You can revert bios on the Ally?
When I right click the bloat ware and press configure this app I get an error message
Try running as administrator, make sure to right click the top one not the bottom one.
I'll have another debloat tutorial coming Friday hopefully with the CTT debloat
@@WinDeckTech I got it. When I extracted the zip file instead of running it directly it worked.
We need to update for this video, please
When i get mine i will first just uninstall bloatware until i get used to my rog ally, because i am scared im gonna do something wrong, + im not seeing other people doing the exact same thing, so im a bit scared ngl.
Honestly just go through your programs in settings and uninstall all of the stuff you don't want from there. There isn't too much "bloatware" within windows itself these days and all of the bloat from Asus is light and reasonable imo, as well as necessary if you want the intended experience.
Just wipe the OS and install something like tinyOS / ghost specter os, personally on ghost specter myself without issues.
With these custom OS solutions, they are "better" however they have a tendency to break important things. A lot of those break game pass functionality.
I would never personally recommend anyone go that route as it's always best to have "official" support.
As well, the privacy concerns with the custom OS are too great in my opinion (I'd rather have microsoft with my data than some random Joe Blow)
@@WinDeckTech tiny might be an exception but ghost specter let's you re-enable anything you want which I've not had to do in the ghost toolbox(although I don't use gamepass), and security "specialists" on youtube have checked over specter os with nothing found.
But in the end it's no more private than Microsoft having your data for it to be sold off or leaked, Personally I don't care privacy is dead and I only use the ally as a gaming device either way, even removed windows defender as it's purely for games / emulators.
This was my question/thought too… did you get all the drivers needed from the asus site then for controller support, etc?
@@radioactivebob1 absolutely re:privacy bring dead.
Some people (weirdly) are more comfortable with big tech having their info as opposed to some random person they know nothing about. Obviously, again, this is down to the user comfort level.
Another "pro" move is to use the windows 10 LTSC version, however support for that ends in 2025 I believe with extended support lasting until 2027.
When I right click the HIGH in bloat section, it gives me an error message and won’t let me advance to the next screen. Is there a way to make it work? 8:33
Try opening the program as admi
Worked. Thanks for replying.
Hey quick question, it says you usable ram amount is 7.7. What did I do lol
Did you change your VRAM to 8gb? You can set it though bios and through Armoury Crate from auto-8gb
I think I removed the asus app from ROG… need help locating…
The armoury crate stuff? You can download it all back from ASUS support site.
Or you can roll back your device.
Search restore point in windows search it will show you the last system restore point it made.