The comments here are really reinforcing the stereotypes about Lemmy.
No lie. OP is clearly asking about a factory Windows install.
“LINUX!”
Yeah. We know. That wasn’t the question.
Simply uninstall everything you don’t want. There’s not a lot, MS told OEMs to stop loading excessive crap a while back else they would make them stop loading anything at all.
You can uninstall any 3rd party antivirus. Defender is good enough these days.
irm christitus.tech/win | iex
in admin command prompt
For context because running random commands from the internet with an admin prompt is how you rm -fr /*
https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
It can go through and disabled bloat, install what you wasn’t and hard set config on windows.
Added bonus, you can tell everyone you use Arch!
Yeah, Linux
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I thought those were operating systems and not a program as asked.
Smug nerds gone smug.
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Give them what they want, not what they asked for. If you really care about bloat, no proprietary system will save you.