{"id":13958,"date":"2026-02-27T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:25:41","slug":"decluttering-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/decluttering-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Decluttering Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of stuff claiming that W11 is bloated and the bloat impacts performance. I decided to experiment and here are my notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On the systems I have chosen to slim down, I use <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Raphire\/Win11Debloat\/wiki\">https:\/\/github.com\/Raphire\/Win11Debloat\/wiki<\/a> to uninstall those programs, applications and services I no longer require. (I have used another, but it was less transparent and quite rough with the registry. Gemini <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/90ff6b78926e\">describes <\/a>the process and points at alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This leaves the so-called Telemetry, which involves un-setting some switches and stopping\/disabling a service i.e. Connected User Experience and Telemetry. For Google Gemini <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/bc85ad270803\">https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/bc85ad270803<\/a> on the Settings switches. For the service, use services.msc. Unfortunately, these may be &#8220;rectified&#8221;  by some windows updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Service Management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked at programming this, with help from Chatgpt, here are some code offerings, developed in the opposite order.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Connected User Experience and Telemetry with TCL <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16aad-86f4-800d-91a7-0bc11068b156\">https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16aad-86f4-800d-91a7-0bc11068b156<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connected User Experience and Telemetry with GUI in Powershell <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16b1b-7824-800d-b25e-1c7c7e54d813\">https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16b1b-7824-800d-b25e-1c7c7e54d813<\/a>; what? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My first attempt without a GUI in Powershell <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16b32-5408-800d-b4c8-9c1c7568ef7d\">https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/69a16b32-5408-800d-b4c8-9c1c7568ef7d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to workout which of HP&#8217;s programs I can de-install. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/tag\/w11\/\">https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/tag\/w11\/<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/my-newest-w10-build\/\">https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/my-newest-w10-build\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of stuff claiming that W11 is bloated and the bloat impacts performance. I decided to experiment and here are my notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[911,1785,107],"class_list":["post-13958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology","tag-w11","tag-windows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/116142108763955387","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}