Thanks for the shoutout! PowerShell is one of the few languages I can say I know well, and I enjoy improving scripts I use often where I can. Looking forward to the future of this script
@@dim3nt0 i don't know, I suspect it might actually make a big difference on system memory and hard drive performance.. would be nice if Chris went more in depth about processes, especially the core OS ones and their impact with eg some benchmarks or even latency ones. Out of logic a light process OS should make everything more snappy rather than giving a performance uplift, but it would be nice to go more in depth about this argument. Maybe its is an IPC thing, so less processes leave more IPC space for things you are actually using.
Holy smokes Chris you were right there was about 120 processes now there are about 60!!! I threw you another $5.00 as a way of saying THANK YOU bro you ROCK!!!
Chris, this is really cool. I am a proper Linux mainliner yet your work is going to allow me to at least clean up a bunch of windows machines that others are still tied to. Much respect from our team.
I've used versions of this tool in the past. Thanks for taking the time to upgrade it and keeping it working. Happy to hear about being able to remove defender. I made a windows 10 gaming machine that runs super smooth with that past video on making a custom iso and removing a lot of the components like windows defender. The tool is way easier but either way it's fun to be able to stick your hand into their os and rip out the garbage.
What do you use if not Defender? Or no anti-virus? I've long hated third party anti-viruses for a while now since they seem to always just bog the machine down no matter what, whereas Defender is usually pretty innocuous.
@@larion2336 Same, i don't like anti-virus programs, those are just useless when i have Defender already wich can do a better job without taking huge resources from your system.
Chris this is the best tool on the internet, been using it for businesses in my local area for struggling costs for IT repair and just need a techy guy to help them for cheap. God bless you man!
I'd recommend adding a warning about security when someone tries to completely disable UAC. I get that it's going to be useful in some situations, and a user should have complete control to do whatever they want, but someone who's not tech savvy can unknowingly make their system super insecure. Huge thanks to you and to all the project contributors for making such a useful tool!
@@Rokabur There's a reason it exists, though. If it didn't ask you, then any program could start and get full admin access, easily taking over your Windows install.
@@theodoros_1234 Taking over? Windows already has a firewall. And its the user's job to know what they are installing. I think you should try UAC disabled for about a week and youll find out how it is better.. Let me ask you something, Has UAC ever asked you for confirmation wherein you answered no?
I find this hilarious. The only way to be secure is to never connect your pc to any network connection. Anything beyond that is merely a false sense of security. It is constant battle of balance between how secure you want to feel over the freedom that you have (sounds kind of like what Benjamin Franklin was talking about when it comes to government and safety). Just look at how much Windows has grown in space and processes just so they can track everything you do selling access to that tracking to multiple companies (you would be surprised as to how many companies your base Windows computer sends information too constantly that is not Microsoft. And believe it or not, Android, Linux, and Apple also does this. But if a person is such a novice with Windows that they do not know what UAC is and what it does, then they should NOT be downloading or running any script from the internet regardless where it is from.
Couple hours before this video was released i had reinstalled Windows 10 and first thing i did was run this script. I love it so much, and i am glad that this project is far from over!
Wow! Just ran the suggested desktop tweaks. I started out with 170 processes and now task mgr is showing 96! This is impressive. Thank you to all involved with this project.
@@bighneshbhoi 230 means you probably have a bunch of junk running on start up(game launchers, browsers, rgb software, etc). Literally just disable everything in the task manager start up menu and restart, the processes should be way lower. If not, you should do a clean install.
I really, REALLY appreciate the work you're doing. I wish I could just full time use linux, but its just not possible for me yet. So I really appreciate that you are putting so much work into making windows more bearable.
Chris, I accidently found you a couple of days ago and I'm so glad I did! I have been trying to figure out a way to get rid of all this bloatware on Windows 10-11 and Had to go to diffrent websites to read. Now all I need to do is come here and remove all the crazy apps running on my computer. I went from my CPU running 78% to 32%. I will be watching more. Thank You so much!!!
@@WeirdTippy a clean install still has 200+, run the tool and its only down to 160 or so. He did a LOT more customization than whats available in the tool he released.
@@netronin504 exactly. And people believe this crap. It's all moot unless your machine is shit. A competent cpu with 16GB or better will have zero effect.
@@lostpacket I managed to get mine down to 73 processes with Titus' script and the other scripts on another script called "ThisIsWin11", its similar to Titus' app but only for Win11. That got me to around 85-90. Then you need to disable memory PREFETCH ALONG WITH SYSMAIN, not just sysmain. It woud be lower than 73 but thats with AFTERBURNER and RIVA TUNER, with my Realtek Audio and nVidia Broadcast all loading on startup. Does it make a difference? YES I added at least 15-20 frames to EVERY game.
Hi Chris, Great work as always, long time viewer of your channel and really enjoy your content, its been great to see you grow. I've been using this script for a long time now and ended up donating to support you. I would love to see some work done in the services space, disable and kill off things that just are not needed. I've played around with NTLite in the past and really enjoyed what can be done, but life gets in the way and I just don't have the time. There is a forum post titled 'GamerOS Windows 10 & 11 DIY Preset' It might be worth 5 mins of your time. Those guys are taking windows to the extreme but there is great info in there about stripping windows right down to its core. Keep up the good work!
Hey Chris. I have been using your scripts for a long time. The very first step I perform after any fresh install is use your script. But recently, I found that running the tweaks removes the battery icon in the taskbar. I have tried updating drivers, uninstalling them and every other possible solutions in the internet. The only temporary way to fix this is by disabling and re-enabling the battery drivers, which also resets once windows is restarted, hence the battery icon disappears again.
Yes! i have been having the same problem but i also have problems with other icons such as discord icon not showing on. the way i make the battery icon reappear is i restart the explorer in task manager but the other icons like discord still dont show up.
my battery drivers are okay after running i think thats a windows related problem regarding batttery drivers i had this issue before running this script many times but
Good job! It sucks that Windows requires tools like these to help people regain control over their own computers, but here we are. This is a tool I recommend to people running Windows to use!
hi Chris, your script worked exceptionally well for me! Thank you so much. From 185 processes down to 105 with outlook and numerous tabs on the browser going. Thank you! Clock on CPU reduced 0.5 GHz and 1% utilization. Great work! :)
Been using this for years..... I work at an IT job, and when people complain about slow computers (like, old 3rd gen i5, 8gb ddr3 1600 and an SSD but still acting slow), I run your debloat script, and it immediately removes loads of windows BS and helps their machine run much better, beautiful script
Man, I've been following this tool for. I think it's been over 3 years. Sure has come a long way and I would really would love to remove Windows security crap because I'm always looking for a new tool every few months because I keep changing it. Yours is always up to date. Good job bud
Your work with this is ESSENTIAL for a healthy Windows. Is the first thing I use after updating or in a fresh install. And the difference in speed and response of the system is night and day. A BIG THANK YOU FOR THIS! 🍻💪
Thanks Titus (& Team!) for this awesome utility! There were similar scripts in the past which made the system buggy. No problems with your script on win11 whatsoever.
I followed one of your minimal win 10 installs a couple years ago , my fps in games went from 180 to 220 and runs so much better, I’m getting close to another reset / reinstall unsure if 10 or 11 . Just want to say you are the best tech guy on TH-cam I have ever seen, thank you
I would like one change. When you click update all apps, I would like that script scans the Windows, shows the list of apps detected for an update and gives you an option to uncheck specific app you do not want to update. Once one app updated that should not have (because of extension compability issue) and I needed to downgrade the app. Anyway Chris and all of the people helping developing this script THANK YOU 😁👍
I love that spirit. Keep it up - I love seeing you make it an easier time for people to regain freedom. I know I didn't have a pleasant time ripping out the stuff out of windblows....
Can't believe I missed this video by almost a month!! Thank you so much Chris! I really liked your tool for W10 and I was just waiting for the same tool for W11!
heyy i been using ur tool kits since day 1 and love them i tried to access ur old ones but they aren't active do u plan on bring back dark mode , delete cortana, and delete one drive also for ur app package downloader it works only 50% of the time(it runs loads up then never shows up on system) plus that ear trumpet add is a must have lol also pot player is a must have(its a hardware video player) it actually beats vlc
Thanks for the scripts Titus - Always appreciate your efforts to rein in M$ to something more user friendly. That said, since I switched to Nobara for my occasional gaming I've not even thought of booting into Windows 10 for a few months now.
Have been using this script for a extremely long period, since the early versions... Have ran it on all my company's pc & laptops... Got really good results. 👍🏾
This is awesome, purchased and happy to support. Had to stop using my windows machine for music production because of constant bugs and crashes and use a mac for that but now my gaming machine runs nicely!
If I take an average of the processes from a few days after using the script, then the improvement is not as good as the first measurement suggests. I don’t think I ever reached cutting in half yet, but I guess it varies a lot. A lot of people report a very big improvement. (If I understand correctly, this all comes from just the service tweaks part of the script?)
Most tweak tools never make that big of a difference unless your machine is really old or resource starved. I haven't used this so I can't say. Plus, as I get older, I have less time to put into tweaking. All my machines run fine and I have no issues with UAC, etc.. I just don't get it, but there is definitely a market for it.
@@farmeunit Your point about the performance improvement seems to be echoed by many who have actually tested fully. But there are also claims of great performance improvements. I think I did once notice on a low spec machine a noticeable improvement in general performance using such as tool a coupe of years ago. This thing is definitely a TH-cam success, and on balance I am very glad, because I have learnt so much from Chris. I encourage supporting him, but I am less keen on recommending the final product to people unless they know something about it: what it might or might not do. One other thing to note I guess, is that the utility, as its now called, has moved on to do things outside the classic Debloat/optimise/tweak area, hence Chris spent some time thinking about the title of it for his new version. Using the processes does not really reflect a true measure of the utility performance, but it fits a nice popular TH-cam video, as does the title. (Chris has a better descriptive title for the video at his site where he calls it a utility update. That title at TH-cam would not get so many hits.)
I have reason to believe this is not fully un-doing changes. The biggest tell is during fullscreen gaming. Pre-implementation, alt tab behaved normally and fast with minimal flickering, stuttering, etc when closing or opening. After running the tool they act like I disabled full screen optimizations and have tons of flickering, stuttering, etc and bog the entire machine down and takes much longer to perform the alt tab. I undid the changes and the games are still behaving the same. Also I'm noticing the running process amount is staying low like the changes are still in effect. Please advise
I've been having no end of issues after "upgrading" to Windows 11 about two weeks back. Things were running slow, my browsers were stuttering, and generally my once-snappy machine was a steaming pile of slow-moving sludge. After running a few tweaks and a restart my laptop is running like a champ! Thanks for what you do!
Just did this on my 3 year old install of Windows 10/11. I recently just switched from Intel to AMD as well with a 7950x and while Windows is very snappy I still noticed I was using 10GB of RAM doing nothing and had 260+ processes running. I ran your tool, clicked Desktop and did all the tweaks recommended and it went to 230 processes running (I assume this is mainly because I have iCUE, Precision X1, and other things always running), and saved 3.5GB of RAM just sitting at the desktop. Huge improvement. I will say that BitDefender thought this was an attack on my system but I knew it wasn't haha. Thank you for this.
In Legacy Windows Panel you should make them so you can also make a quick shortcut on desktop for example, so it stays and you don't have to open CTT. Just my two cents.
Chris can you save this video and other similar videos on your website to view in case TH-cam blocks these videos like it has done to other TH-camrs that talk about how to get around windows security and other features?
kinda of off topic but the PC manager recently released by microsoft seems to do a great job at freeing up the memory i was wondering how it does that without basically closing anything and i am wondering if the same thing can be developed into some sort of automatic script to run in a time frame and if it does improve the performance?+
Great tool man. Always helpful especially when setting up a install. My brother and I got upgrades for our PC recently and we both formatted used this tool on both of ours and walked away for some dinner came back and 90% of resetting up windows was done. Which saved hours for me
As someone who is stuck on a Hell Inspiron i5 7300HQ and 1050, this is a godsend. I usually do this manually every time I play Skyrim with 250+mods to keep me sane(I can't use my hands and right arm properly at the mo). One thing I will add to the pool of to-do's, for those that don't FULLY understand the features/workings of the processes and services they might think they want to disable, you should have an overview panel show the benefits and downsides to disabling permanently...and also maybe a saved profile settings file you can load up for certain tasks? Keep up the great work bud and I'll be watching closely.
Great work Chris, I dont know who is running Windows 1.0 *cough* 11 but great work no matter what :P All jokes aside your script found 26 apps needing updating. Again great work to upgrade all apps at once!
excellent tool chris! Recently I had a problem, when I apply the tweaks, in the task manager it shows "not responding" constantly, intermittently... the same thing happens when I unzip an archive with winrar or another decompressor, it shows "not responding" intermittently.
Thanks Chris and all those that contributed to the toolbox! I barely use Windows these days, but like knowing if I need to the toolbox is available, and keeps improving.
Interested in your tweaks / debloat. Any documentation of what unnecessary services / processes are disabled and/or removed from startup? As I sit with 122 chrome tabs open + lots of other apps + 2x VMworkstation servers my Win10 at 469 processes 24.5GB RAM active. And its been optimized some but not likely to what you have done going from 120s to low 70s process.
Microsoft watching and throwing Middle fingers! Meanwhile Chris & the gang throwing Haymakers. Ty for the continued awesome work on this tool. Not even it's final form.
Chris, do you think is possible to create a html interface to control the scripts, instead of the UI you have built? I think it should be easier to maintain it (at UI level).
@@mrkitty777 Yes, but I'm not talking about a published website. I mean a html generated by the same script, opened in localhost. But... you are right that it would be easier to be used for 'bad things"
I've been calling microsofts' operating system "Broken Windows" since XP but Chris you helped turn Windows into something that actually works really well. Thank you so much!!!! Subscribed. 👍👍
Came across your videos just yesterday or the day before and am sooo thankful. I am wondering if the steps in this video are in addition to the ones in your video called "Clean Up Windows 10 | 3 Steps For A Faster Computer", or if these steps basically do all of that by just running your program? I was ready to do all the steps from the other video but noticed it came out in 2019 and things change quickly so wasn't sure what you would recommend with both videos out there. Thank you again so much for taking the time to put this together, I really appreciate it!
Thanks for doing some more updates to it! I have a few old mid-late 00s computers that I've been using this script on and it seems to help them out a lot. Especially when the max RAM cap on some of them have been 4GB.
I'm 61, not a power user and just did retire my 2006 Dell 520 Pentium 4 Windows 7 dinosaur. I have 2 newer machines now that I am installing Windows 10 on but the vast amount of unneeded programs and apps and the amount of Microsoft intrusiveness has blown me away. I'm following your guides to remove and disable some of them and cut the processes down to 128 so far. I found that when installing a fresh install it is best to not have an internet connection and not link to a Microsoft account. It made removing OneDrive much easier. I followed instructions to remove Edge using PS, GP editor and doing some reg edit but Edge is still listed on the apps list. Seems like Microsoft is on the trail to make Edge total removal more difficult, but I thank you guys for these tutorials and helping me to learn how to reduce some resource hogs and snoopiness of Microsoft Windows.
Hey. Please help me. I used your tool for the essential desktop tweaks and to limit processes. But now my computer won’t connect to the internet and I can’t find any network adapters. System restore won’t work
THANK YOU! SO much better than so many other video that come up when looking for optimizing windows (many videos with those weird titles of "200% more performance" or "double fps"...)
from 160+ to 90/97 running processes!... freaking bonkers!! :D only thing I didnt like that I applied was: remove windows animations, after that it looked like windows was throwing stuffs on my face xD haha no biggie, turned those back in. Good Work as always, man. Keep it up! :)
I would like request you for the most important option in app is Security Tab which will include all the necessary/wright security settings which need to be included and secure all the incoming and outgoing ports.
Hey Chris, a genuine question. Generally speaking, how much impact does your tool have on the disk usage, RAM usage and CPU usage before and after running it on a relatively fresh Windows install?
Depends on the system. High end systems, not much difference, since they have more room to run. Low End systems will get a considerably bunp since it isn't starting about 50 services that are running with stock settings.
@@ChrisTitusTech thank you for answering! I'd definitely be running it on my machine as it's relatively low-end and I couldn't care less about all the Windows store apps and other bloat in Windows. Thank you for this piece of software.
Hey Chris how are you? I'd done an clean install of Windows 11... I used you script but I found big problems with the global performance of my PC My CPU didn't suffer problems but my nvme dicreased the velocity at least 20% The important thing is that happened 3 times with the same hardware running win 11
Hey, I appreciate all the work that you've put into this tool, i've been using this since the moment you introduced it and always use it in every new windows install but lately i've been having this issue where after i would run the tool any fullscreen exclusive game and alt+tab but going back to the game won't work as it will stay on the taskbar, the only workaround i've found so far is pressing lalt+enter after clicking the game on taskbar, i'd appreciate if there is any idea into fixing this :), edit: i tried running the tool again on another fresh windows install and the issue is gone, tho i haven't found what specifically is causing it.
Thanks for all you do! Just a thought Re: the exe for the toolbox, if you don't WANT or don't see a NEED to update it, I'd look into taking the pool of purchases when you're done supporting it and maybe using it as a "credit" for moving forward for something like a Patreon sort of thing? I know that could be a weird clerical nightmare but food for thought. you're well within your right to stop supporting it either way. Again, thanks for all that you do, you've taught me a lot while injecting some humour and useful insight.
Great job, Chris!! I especially like the new system corruption scan. SFC obviously doesn't like when people use portable tools to turn off the ribbon in File Explorer, but fortunately didn't find anything else wrong. This will come in handy when trying to fix other laptops.
in the essential tweaks tab, is the a site we can go to read what each setting does before running them? Like a description of every feature/setting...
I ran just the general desktop tweaks, and, it didn't do a drastic change like I was expecting, but even on my custom built ROG PC, my Win11 processes have come down from 250-ish to 220's and my system is noticeably snappier. thank you for this tool :)
Thanks for the shoutout! PowerShell is one of the few languages I can say I know well, and I enjoy improving scripts I use often where I can. Looking forward to the future of this script
Thanks for all your contributions!
We appreciate your efforts mate 👌
@Chris I like out cut processes in half , but if You got 16 or more cores does it make any difference at all?
@@AbyNeon probably not
@@dim3nt0 i don't know, I suspect it might actually make a big difference on system memory and hard drive performance.. would be nice if Chris went more in depth about processes, especially the core OS ones and their impact with eg some benchmarks or even latency ones.
Out of logic a light process OS should make everything more snappy rather than giving a performance uplift, but it would be nice to go more in depth about this argument. Maybe its is an IPC thing, so less processes leave more IPC space for things you are actually using.
Holy smokes Chris you were right there was about 120 processes now there are about 60!!! I threw you another $5.00 as a way of saying THANK YOU bro you ROCK!!!
Chris, this is really cool. I am a proper Linux mainliner yet your work is going to allow me to at least clean up a bunch of windows machines that others are still tied to. Much respect from our team.
I've used versions of this tool in the past. Thanks for taking the time to upgrade it and keeping it working. Happy to hear about being able to remove defender. I made a windows 10 gaming machine that runs super smooth with that past video on making a custom iso and removing a lot of the components like windows defender. The tool is way easier but either way it's fun to be able to stick your hand into their os and rip out the garbage.
well said.
What do you use if not Defender? Or no anti-virus? I've long hated third party anti-viruses for a while now since they seem to always just bog the machine down no matter what, whereas Defender is usually pretty innocuous.
@@larion2336 Same, i don't like anti-virus programs, those are just useless when i have Defender already wich can do a better job without taking huge resources from your system.
Chris this is the best tool on the internet, been using it for businesses in my local area for struggling costs for IT repair and just need a techy guy to help them for cheap. God bless you man!
I'd recommend adding a warning about security when someone tries to completely disable UAC. I get that it's going to be useful in some situations, and a user should have complete control to do whatever they want, but someone who's not tech savvy can unknowingly make their system super insecure. Huge thanks to you and to all the project contributors for making such a useful tool!
I HATE UAC. Get asked 5 times if I'm absolutely, positively sure I want to start this program.
@@Rokabur There's a reason it exists, though. If it didn't ask you, then any program could start and get full admin access, easily taking over your Windows install.
@@theodoros_1234 Taking over? Windows already has a firewall. And its the user's job to know what they are installing. I think you should try UAC disabled for about a week and youll find out how it is better..
Let me ask you something, Has UAC ever asked you for confirmation wherein you answered no?
I find this hilarious. The only way to be secure is to never connect your pc to any network connection. Anything beyond that is merely a false sense of security. It is constant battle of balance between how secure you want to feel over the freedom that you have (sounds kind of like what Benjamin Franklin was talking about when it comes to government and safety). Just look at how much Windows has grown in space and processes just so they can track everything you do selling access to that tracking to multiple companies (you would be surprised as to how many companies your base Windows computer sends information too constantly that is not Microsoft. And believe it or not, Android, Linux, and Apple also does this. But if a person is such a novice with Windows that they do not know what UAC is and what it does, then they should NOT be downloading or running any script from the internet regardless where it is from.
@@theodoros_1234 but how many times does anyone click NO when that pop-up appears? right. 0
Couple hours before this video was released i had reinstalled Windows 10 and first thing i did was run this script. I love it so much, and i am glad that this project is far from over!
Wow! Just ran the suggested desktop tweaks. I started out with 170 processes and now task mgr is showing 96! This is impressive. Thank you to all involved with this project.
Is this safe ?
Mine runs 230 processes right after startup
@@bighneshbhoi I've been running with around 96 processes for several weeks now and I've had no issues.
@@bighneshbhoi 230 means you probably have a bunch of junk running on start up(game launchers, browsers, rgb software, etc). Literally just disable everything in the task manager start up menu and restart, the processes should be way lower. If not, you should do a clean install.
I really, REALLY appreciate the work you're doing. I wish I could just full time use linux, but its just not possible for me yet. So I really appreciate that you are putting so much work into making windows more bearable.
I feel you! Linux, please! 🐧
what win11. windows10 works. linux and macos work on virtual machine
@@JarppaGuru WSL, works, too. Though I haven't done much with it, myself.
Man you are doing an excellent job, best in town recommendations, script and comments. I follow you everywhere and learning every day. Thanks again.
This is awesome Chris! Thank you for the time you put into it!
Chris, I accidently found you a couple of days ago and I'm so glad I did! I have been trying to figure out a way to get rid of all this bloatware on Windows 10-11 and Had to go to diffrent websites to read. Now all I need to do is come here and remove all the crazy apps running on my computer. I went from my CPU running 78% to 32%. I will be watching more. Thank You so much!!!
Went from 200 down to 140 processes. Chris, you make the best scripts, I swear
Same here, but what I wanna know is how he gets it down to around 80....
@@netronin504 probably a clean install
@@WeirdTippy a clean install still has 200+, run the tool and its only down to 160 or so. He did a LOT more customization than whats available in the tool he released.
@@netronin504 exactly. And people believe this crap. It's all moot unless your machine is shit. A competent cpu with 16GB or better will have zero effect.
@@lostpacket I managed to get mine down to 73 processes with Titus' script and the other scripts on another script called "ThisIsWin11", its similar to Titus' app but only for Win11. That got me to around 85-90. Then you need to disable memory PREFETCH ALONG WITH SYSMAIN, not just sysmain.
It woud be lower than 73 but thats with AFTERBURNER and RIVA TUNER, with my Realtek Audio and nVidia Broadcast all loading on startup.
Does it make a difference? YES
I added at least 15-20 frames to EVERY game.
Used this about an hour before the video. Bought it After. Thank you for all the work you put in for this project. It saves me so much time.
You are the ONE.......thanks for sharing all your knowledge and expertise. Processes went down from 185 to 81. Best $5 spent on software.
This is so great projects like this that can just "fix" all the BS with windows, kept up to date by the community.
Great work, Chris, this script is hands-down the most important tool for all my Windows installs. Keep it up!
Hi Chris, Great work as always, long time viewer of your channel and really enjoy your content, its been great to see you grow. I've been using this script for a long time now and ended up donating to support you. I would love to see some work done in the services space, disable and kill off things that just are not needed. I've played around with NTLite in the past and really enjoyed what can be done, but life gets in the way and I just don't have the time. There is a forum post titled 'GamerOS Windows 10 & 11 DIY Preset' It might be worth 5 mins of your time. Those guys are taking windows to the extreme but there is great info in there about stripping windows right down to its core. Keep up the good work!
I literally went from 260 processes down to 120, absolutely incredible! Thank you!!
Is this safe ?
Mine runs 230 processes right after startup
@@bighneshbhoiyes it is it just performes better
Hey Chris. I have been using your scripts for a long time. The very first step I perform after any fresh install is use your script. But recently, I found that running the tweaks removes the battery icon in the taskbar. I have tried updating drivers, uninstalling them and every other possible solutions in the internet. The only temporary way to fix this is by disabling and re-enabling the battery drivers, which also resets once windows is restarted, hence the battery icon disappears again.
Shoot, you should add that to the github issues so he has a greater chance of seeing it!
Yes! i have been having the same problem but i also have problems with other icons such as discord icon not showing on. the way i make the battery icon reappear is i restart the explorer in task manager but the other icons like discord still dont show up.
Had no idea this was an issue. I'll grab a laptop and toss windows on it to troubleshoot this. I'm sure it will be a quick fix.
@@ChrisTitusTech i'll grab it when updated
my battery drivers are okay after running i think thats a windows related problem regarding batttery drivers i had this issue before running this script many times but
Good job! It sucks that Windows requires tools like these to help people regain control over their own computers, but here we are. This is a tool I recommend to people running Windows to use!
Thank you and Thanks to everyone who works on this utility 👏👍
hi Chris, your script worked exceptionally well for me! Thank you so much. From 185 processes down to 105 with outlook and numerous tabs on the browser going. Thank you! Clock on CPU reduced 0.5 GHz and 1% utilization. Great work! :)
Thanks all for everyone’s hard work. Makes debloating windows so much easier.
Been using this for years..... I work at an IT job, and when people complain about slow computers (like, old 3rd gen i5, 8gb ddr3 1600 and an SSD but still acting slow), I run your debloat script, and it immediately removes loads of windows BS and helps their machine run much better, beautiful script
thank you, for 5-6 years i try to lower those procceses every time i reinstall windows... this makes everything easier
Man, I've been following this tool for. I think it's been over 3 years. Sure has come a long way and I would really would love to remove Windows security crap because I'm always looking for a new tool every few months because I keep changing it. Yours is always up to date. Good job bud
Your work with this is ESSENTIAL for a healthy Windows. Is the first thing I use after updating or in a fresh install. And the difference in speed and response of the system is night and day. A BIG THANK YOU FOR THIS! 🍻💪
Neat, not even expensive. I appreciate this tool.
3:00 as a fix you could make the script check for the package or force reinstalling it before executing the requested command.
Wow! Went from over 300 services downto 140+ and it even managed to fix my problems with the monitor not going into sleep. Worth every penny!
Thanks Titus (& Team!) for this awesome utility! There were similar scripts in the past which made the system buggy. No problems with your script on win11 whatsoever.
Thanks Chris!!
Really appreciate the efforts you are putting into this exciting project !
Just bought and ran the tool, went from 200 processes down to 110 on my 6 month old windows 10 install. Worked pretty flawlessly so thank you so much!
9:00 Would you really want to remove windows defender? What would you replace it with?
I followed one of your minimal win 10 installs a couple years ago , my fps in games went from 180 to 220 and runs so much better, I’m getting close to another reset / reinstall unsure if 10 or 11 . Just want to say you are the best tech guy on TH-cam I have ever seen, thank you
For me Windows 11 stops Throttlestop from undervolting. The only solution was to go back to Windows 10
I would like one change. When you click update all apps, I would like that script scans the Windows, shows the list of apps detected for an update and gives you an option to uncheck specific app you do not want to update. Once one app updated that should not have (because of extension compability issue) and I needed to downgrade the app.
Anyway Chris and all of the people helping developing this script THANK YOU 😁👍
Absolutely lovely, I was thinking about reformatting my current system today. Time to take that script for a spin, thanks Chris!
How do i Reset this tweaks ?
I love that spirit. Keep it up - I love seeing you make it an easier time for people to regain freedom. I know I didn't have a pleasant time ripping out the stuff out of windblows....
Thanks!
Can't believe I missed this video by almost a month!! Thank you so much Chris! I really liked your tool for W10 and I was just waiting for the same tool for W11!
heyy i been using ur tool kits since day 1 and love them
i tried to access ur old ones but they aren't active
do u plan on bring back dark mode , delete cortana, and delete one drive
also for ur app package downloader it works only 50% of the time(it runs loads up then never shows up on system)
plus that ear trumpet add is a must have lol
also pot player is a must have(its a hardware video player) it actually beats vlc
Thanks for the scripts Titus - Always appreciate your efforts to rein in M$ to something more user friendly. That said, since I switched to Nobara for my occasional gaming I've not even thought of booting into Windows 10 for a few months now.
Have been using this script for a extremely long period, since the early versions... Have ran it on all my company's pc & laptops... Got really good results. 👍🏾
This is awesome, purchased and happy to support. Had to stop using my windows machine for music production because of constant bugs and crashes and use a mac for that but now my gaming machine runs nicely!
I tell everyone that's having trouble with their computer being slow to run your toolbox. it's amazing.
If I take an average of the processes from a few days after using the script, then the improvement is not as good as the first measurement suggests. I don’t think I ever reached cutting in half yet, but I guess it varies a lot. A lot of people report a very big improvement.
(If I understand correctly, this all comes from just the service tweaks part of the script?)
Most tweak tools never make that big of a difference unless your machine is really old or resource starved. I haven't used this so I can't say. Plus, as I get older, I have less time to put into tweaking. All my machines run fine and I have no issues with UAC, etc.. I just don't get it, but there is definitely a market for it.
@@farmeunit Your point about the performance improvement seems to be echoed by many who have actually tested fully. But there are also claims of great performance improvements. I think I did once notice on a low spec machine a noticeable improvement in general performance using such as tool a coupe of years ago.
This thing is definitely a TH-cam success, and on balance I am very glad, because I have learnt so much from Chris. I encourage supporting him, but I am less keen on recommending the final product to people unless they know something about it: what it might or might not do.
One other thing to note I guess, is that the utility, as its now called, has moved on to do things outside the classic Debloat/optimise/tweak area, hence Chris spent some time thinking about the title of it for his new version.
Using the processes does not really reflect a true measure of the utility performance, but it fits a nice popular TH-cam video, as does the title. (Chris has a better descriptive title for the video at his site where he calls it a utility update. That title at TH-cam would not get so many hits.)
I have reason to believe this is not fully un-doing changes. The biggest tell is during fullscreen gaming. Pre-implementation, alt tab behaved normally and fast with minimal flickering, stuttering, etc when closing or opening. After running the tool they act like I disabled full screen optimizations and have tons of flickering, stuttering, etc and bog the entire machine down and takes much longer to perform the alt tab. I undid the changes and the games are still behaving the same. Also I'm noticing the running process amount is staying low like the changes are still in effect. Please advise
I've been having no end of issues after "upgrading" to Windows 11 about two weeks back. Things were running slow, my browsers were stuttering, and generally my once-snappy machine was a steaming pile of slow-moving sludge. After running a few tweaks and a restart my laptop is running like a champ! Thanks for what you do!
Just did this on my 3 year old install of Windows 10/11. I recently just switched from Intel to AMD as well with a 7950x and while Windows is very snappy I still noticed I was using 10GB of RAM doing nothing and had 260+ processes running. I ran your tool, clicked Desktop and did all the tweaks recommended and it went to 230 processes running (I assume this is mainly because I have iCUE, Precision X1, and other things always running), and saved 3.5GB of RAM just sitting at the desktop. Huge improvement. I will say that BitDefender thought this was an attack on my system but I knew it wasn't haha. Thank you for this.
Bro you re the best man, no other tech youtuber can come to your level.
In Legacy Windows Panel you should make them so you can also make a quick shortcut on desktop for example, so it stays and you don't have to open CTT. Just my two cents.
Yea!! When you click the mini icon next to the clock on the bottom right
Thanks Chris! Love that you will continue this.
Chris can you save this video and other similar videos on your website to view in case TH-cam blocks these videos like it has done to other TH-camrs that talk about how to get around windows security and other features?
kinda of off topic
but the PC manager recently released by microsoft seems to do a great job at freeing up the memory
i was wondering how it does that without basically closing anything and i am wondering if the same thing can be developed into some sort of automatic script to run in a time frame and if it does improve the performance?+
Great tool man. Always helpful especially when setting up a install. My brother and I got upgrades for our PC recently and we both formatted used this tool on both of ours and walked away for some dinner came back and 90% of resetting up windows was done. Which saved hours for me
you are the best windows related channel on youtube, you are criminally undersubbed and viewed
As someone who is stuck on a Hell Inspiron i5 7300HQ and 1050, this is a godsend. I usually do this manually every time I play Skyrim with 250+mods to keep me sane(I can't use my hands and right arm properly at the mo). One thing I will add to the pool of to-do's, for those that don't FULLY understand the features/workings of the processes and services they might think they want to disable, you should have an overview panel show the benefits and downsides to disabling permanently...and also maybe a saved profile settings file you can load up for certain tasks?
Keep up the great work bud and I'll be watching closely.
Your utility is a must-run after every Windows update.
> Titus Kill UAC ! Thanks for the excellent work, am back in your support/subscription loop - Titus is amazin!
Great work Chris, I dont know who is running Windows 1.0 *cough* 11 but great work no matter what :P All jokes aside your script found 26 apps needing updating. Again great work to upgrade all apps at once!
Thank you for making this utility it is extremely helpful!
excellent tool chris! Recently I had a problem, when I apply the tweaks, in the task manager it shows "not responding" constantly, intermittently... the same thing happens when I unzip an archive with winrar or another decompressor, it shows "not responding" intermittently.
Just this, thank you Chris for your devotion and passion long live Chris Titus Tech.
Thanks Chris and all those that contributed to the toolbox! I barely use Windows these days, but like knowing if I need to the toolbox is available, and keeps improving.
from 250 processes to 150 when freshly booting up , that's a welcoming change , thank you!
Interested in your tweaks / debloat. Any documentation of what unnecessary services / processes are disabled and/or removed from startup?
As I sit with 122 chrome tabs open + lots of other apps + 2x VMworkstation servers my Win10 at 469 processes 24.5GB RAM active. And its been optimized some but not likely to what you have done going from 120s to low 70s process.
Microsoft watching and throwing Middle fingers! Meanwhile Chris & the gang throwing Haymakers.
Ty for the continued awesome work on this tool. Not even it's final form.
Chris, do you think is possible to create a html interface to control the scripts, instead of the UI you have built? I think it should be easier to maintain it (at UI level).
Unwise, Microsoft once allowed this in the past and it caused bizarre worl wide worm viruses like Melissa and I love you Virus outbreaks.
@@mrkitty777 Yes, but I'm not talking about a published website. I mean a html generated by the same script, opened in localhost.
But... you are right that it would be easier to be used for 'bad things"
@@ucielsola the html output and opening the browser with ShellExecute works, but the browser will not return anything
@@mrkitty777 right. Thaks for your responses!
How much additional reduction in threads/processes/ram usage would you say there is to be gained by removing UAC and Defender?
I've been calling microsofts' operating system "Broken Windows" since XP but Chris you helped turn Windows into something that actually works really well. Thank you so much!!!! Subscribed. 👍👍
this really did work pretty well, great video Chris, very detailed information
Truly EPIC utility CTT, well done. Essential imo, bravo.
Will it be compatible with upcoming 22H2 update for win11?
I‘m sure it is. If something doesn‘t work, you will see it in red font. But Titus uses powershell and this works on both win10 and 11.
Came across your videos just yesterday or the day before and am sooo thankful. I am wondering if the steps in this video are in addition to the ones in your video called "Clean Up Windows 10 | 3 Steps For A Faster Computer", or if these steps basically do all of that by just running your program? I was ready to do all the steps from the other video but noticed it came out in 2019 and things change quickly so wasn't sure what you would recommend with both videos out there. Thank you again so much for taking the time to put this together, I really appreciate it!
Thanks for doing some more updates to it! I have a few old mid-late 00s computers that I've been using this script on and it seems to help them out a lot. Especially when the max RAM cap on some of them have been 4GB.
I'm 61, not a power user and just did retire my 2006 Dell 520 Pentium 4 Windows 7 dinosaur. I have 2 newer machines now that I am installing Windows 10 on but the vast amount of unneeded programs and apps and the amount of Microsoft intrusiveness has blown me away. I'm following your guides to remove and disable some of them and cut the processes down to 128 so far. I found that when installing a fresh install it is best to not have an internet connection and not link to a Microsoft account. It made removing OneDrive much easier. I followed instructions to remove Edge using PS, GP editor and doing some reg edit but Edge is still listed on the apps list. Seems like Microsoft is on the trail to make Edge total removal more difficult, but I thank you guys for
these tutorials and helping me to learn how to reduce some resource hogs and snoopiness of Microsoft Windows.
This cleans up the LTSC version of Win 10 to a tiny footprint - Thank you Chris & the team behind this project
Hey. Please help me. I used your tool for the essential desktop tweaks and to limit processes. But now my computer won’t connect to the internet and I can’t find any network adapters. System restore won’t work
THANK YOU!
SO much better than so many other video that come up when looking for optimizing windows (many videos with those weird titles of "200% more performance" or "double fps"...)
from 160+ to 90/97 running processes!... freaking bonkers!! :D
only thing I didnt like that I applied was: remove windows animations, after that it looked like windows was throwing stuffs on my face xD haha
no biggie, turned those back in.
Good Work as always, man.
Keep it up! :)
I would like request you for the most important option in app is Security Tab which will include all the necessary/wright security settings which need to be included and secure all the incoming and outgoing ports.
THANKS CHRIS, THE TOOL WORKED GREAT FOR MY LAPTOP. PROCESSES DROPPED FROM 184 TO 110. I AM CSGO PLAYER, GAME RUNS SMOOTHLY NOW. GOD BLESS 👍
Wow this is fantastic! Love the tool. I appreciate everyone involved in making this what it is.
You are the Windows Master Optimizer.
Thank you always for this script.
Amazing work Chris!
Really appreciate what you're doing, save me a lot of times
My Clevo laptop feel much better now. The .exe files is cheap and made the job quickly. Thank you guys for your work.
Thank you chris for this utility update.
FYI, if you're using winget to upgrade installations, note that it has a tendency to delete your settings for the apps it upgrades.
Hey Chris, a genuine question. Generally speaking, how much impact does your tool have on the disk usage, RAM usage and CPU usage before and after running it on a relatively fresh Windows install?
Depends on the system. High end systems, not much difference, since they have more room to run. Low End systems will get a considerably bunp since it isn't starting about 50 services that are running with stock settings.
@@ChrisTitusTech thanks good sir
@@ChrisTitusTech thank you for answering!
I'd definitely be running it on my machine as it's relatively low-end and I couldn't care less about all the Windows store apps and other bloat in Windows. Thank you for this piece of software.
Hey Chris how are you? I'd done an clean install of Windows 11... I used you script but I found big problems with the global performance of my PC
My CPU didn't suffer problems but my nvme dicreased the velocity at least 20%
The important thing is that happened 3 times with the same hardware running win 11
Hey, I appreciate all the work that you've put into this tool, i've been using this since the moment you introduced it and always use it in every new windows install but lately i've been having this issue where after i would run the tool any fullscreen exclusive game and alt+tab but going back to the game won't work as it will stay on the taskbar, the only workaround i've found so far is pressing lalt+enter after clicking the game on taskbar, i'd appreciate if there is any idea into fixing this :), edit: i tried running the tool again on another fresh windows install and the issue is gone, tho i haven't found what specifically is causing it.
Yep, I have the same issue, and i've found another issue, some Window begin to flashing
Thanks for all you do!
Just a thought Re: the exe for the toolbox, if you don't WANT or don't see a NEED to update it, I'd look into taking the pool of purchases when you're done supporting it and maybe using it as a "credit" for moving forward for something like a Patreon sort of thing?
I know that could be a weird clerical nightmare but food for thought. you're well within your right to stop supporting it either way.
Again, thanks for all that you do, you've taught me a lot while injecting some humour and useful insight.
Great job, Chris!! I especially like the new system corruption scan. SFC obviously doesn't like when people use portable tools to turn off the ribbon in File Explorer, but fortunately didn't find anything else wrong. This will come in handy when trying to fix other laptops.
Amazing I have been waiting for something like this for years, and after that statement you made at 9:23 I instantly subbed haha, thank you
Can’t wait for you to completely gut out UAC and windows defender!!!! Being a sole gamer I love your stuff
in the essential tweaks tab, is the a site we can go to read what each setting does before running them? Like a description of every feature/setting...
Your toolbox doesn't mention it will disable the clipboard history (which I use A LOT) and make my browser "managed by an organization".
I ran just the general desktop tweaks, and, it didn't do a drastic change like I was expecting, but even on my custom built ROG PC, my Win11 processes have come down from 250-ish to 220's and my system is noticeably snappier. thank you for this tool :)