How I Make Windows 11 Actually Usable (Debloat + Remove AI)

Windows 11 is a heaping pile of sh**. However, it's also necessary for some technology, like Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, Linux support with those technologies, they're not very good right now. This is my HTPC, my little mini PC, this is my living room PC that I use for all my homework sessions in the living room, where I do a lot of action. I need to clean this thing. This is a Beelink SCR, I've had this for two years now, I think, maybe even three years, and I've never cleaned it since day one. It has performed magnificently since I bought it, but I figured, you know what, it's time for a reformat. It is time for a refresh. While I do that, I want to show you guys how to debloat Windows 11, because I'm going to be installing Windows 11 Fresh, God help me. And I figured there's no better time than now to show you what to do when you buy any computer now. If it has Windows 11 installed, nuke it, install Linux if you can. If not, you're going to run these scripts. But let's start by taking this bad boy apart and seeing just how terrible it is over the past few years, how much gooch is in here. And judging by the fact I keep getting blasted in the face with a gooch cloud, it's pretty bad. And I promise you, I'm not that tired. It's the lighting. I cannot figure out the lighting here. Yes. I mean, I am tired, but I'm not like, I just watched that footage. It's hard looking at you. I never. Yeah. All right. Now, this video is not sponsored by Beelink. I bought this with my own money a few years ago. I want to address the fact that I know there's going to be a lot of Linux users in the comments right now screaming at me, well, why don't you just install Linux, blah, blah, blah. Dolby Vision, like I said, Dolby Atmos, they're not fully compatible with Linux. And the TV that I'm going to buy eventually, hopefully we'll have Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision. I currently have a receiver that is capable of both of those technologies, but my TV is not. Wow. Look at that. Butterfly tattoo on my back. Oh, that's true. It does. Oh yeah. Look at that. Dude, that thing hurt so much when I got it. Geez. Don't drink and drive, people. Wait, what? And I also want to use this as a full-fledged PC for when I need to do things that require a PC. So I'm using Windows 11. One of the things that you need to learn when you are a computer guy is don't judge other people's OS choices. Whatever works for them best is what they should use. You should always introduce them options, but if they don't take them for whatever reason, it's up to them. So unfortunately, I'm taking Windows 11 on this. Yes. Thank you, Lupe. It looks like this has aged pretty decent. I mean, I'm proud of the lack of gooch here. I thought there would be much more gooch, but we haven't got to the other side of this thing yet. Don't you dare look at my... I can hear him. Now this has 16 gigabytes of RAM. I have to be quiet when I say that because you never know if the RAM burglar is listening. Who? Yes. The NVMe in here I think is a 512 gigabyte. I don't even know. I don't really use the storage, the onboard storage. I have everything hooked up to my Ugreen NAS, which is like a 20 terabyte NAS. So that's where I keep all my important files. I've got to disconnect the Wi-Fi card here. I guess this also... P-Stash, right? P-Stash? P-Stash. E-O? P-Stash-E-O? Is that what you're trying to say? Heck yeah. Yes. That's your safe word? Pistachio? Lupe doesn't have any safe words. We all know this. I really like this thing because it's super easy to freaking work on, dude. These little mini PCs are awesome. Wow. Oh man. I am shocked. I was expecting this to be just completely covered with gooch. This is the main intake right here. Wow. Looks like we need to hit it with Fantic. Put some holes in it. That's a great idea, Lupe. But today's sponsor is not Fantic. It's Incogni. Boom. Roasted. 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And if you have the unlimited plan, you can send any URL to Incogni and they'll make sure your data is removed. Try it out for yourself. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose. If you do end up sticking with them, you can use my code TECHSPIRITS at the link below to get 60% off an annual subscription. So you can just sit back and watch them fight sketchballs to take back your privacy. Now, I'm not going to drill any additional holes. I'm not going to remove this dust filter because this thing hasn't been overheating. The temps have been pretty good, even playing like 4K HDR. The temps are fine. But I am going to replace the thermal paste while I have it apart because why not? You know, why shouldn't I? It's a decent little cooling system, too. You don't have one of these, right? You have an NVIDIA Shield, you said? Mm-hmm. Nice. This is my Lupe, still rocking the 11-year-old NVIDIA Shield. You're watching YouTube TV, baby. Yeah, okay, YouTube. Oh, man. Feds. Get this man. Fan's not coming out. I think it might be attached by this little guy right here. A little piece of, uh... Ass. Wait, what? A little piece of ass? Mm-hmm. Okay, well let's see where his mind is. This guy right here. I'm gonna have to replace that. There we go So it's just a fan. All that does is cool the gooch out of here. Look at that This is the least goochiest thing in my entire apartment. That's saying a lot. Yeah. Yeah. See Lupe's been there. He knows I'm disgusting Cool. So let's take off these four screws and now we're gonna get to the paste All right. It's a moment of truth. Oh wait, I forgot this guy that cools all the little VRMs over there Guys wow, what the heck? I don't know what kind of thermal paste this is It's like shiny almost but it's not liquid metal. Huh? It's like Arctic silver something It had a really good connection, whatever it is. It had a really good connection liquid paste, baby It is liquid paste. Thank you Lupe All right breaking news. This is liquid metal. So this is liquid metal. I didn't put it here This is just my little applicator, but that's liquid metal. But this is thermal paste. No I'm very curious what B-Link did with this thing because that's most certainly not all liquid metal unless the liquid metal like dried I've never seen liquid metal do this. So look at that There's liquid metal on the sides and then liquid metal on the sides there. What's going on? Yes, because that's definitely paste my dude, so I don't think mix the liquid metal with paste or something But regardless we're just gonna put PTM 7950 on this thing. So we'll be fine Maybe we should just dunk the whole thing in 99% alcohol Probably do that and then drink the alcohol We should do that. So I laid out some PTM 7950 on here. Whatever paste they used. It was very good I mean this thing again the temps were good So I probably didn't even have to do that, but I'm keeping the silicone on there because the silicone is in good condition It wasn't that good. It was the best Lupe So now I'm gonna put it back together and then we're gonna get to the crux of the video Which is installing Windows 11 the most disgusting AI filled bloated Eugenic piece of ---- that you've ever seen in your life Why don't we just put Windows 7 on there because I'm connecting this to the Internet Lupe I do not want to connect Windows 7. There's gonna be comments in there too. Oh god, it's gonna be comments. I Love this thing You want your own? LTT precision screwdriver link below. Oh, you got yeah Yes. All right. Lupe's tattoo has been removed. The paste has been added and we are assembled Ouch, I know I'm sorry her laser removal. That's what we just did on Lupe's back. Let's get Windows installed five minutes later Now this isn't how to put Windows 11 on a USB video But if you're gonna put Windows 11 on a USB do it using Rufus So download Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft's website and then download Rufus Select the ISO after you select the USB that you're gonna use it when you click Start Make sure to check create local account automatically log in all that stuff So basically that'll bypass all the create Microsoft account BS that Microsoft forces you to do when you install Windows fresh You don't have to do that here because I already did it now a lot of these mini PCs will have proprietary drivers So if you are doing this with a mini PC like the beelink Just make sure you have the drivers beforehand or at least have like the recovery software. Sometimes a lot of these companies Will have like a zip file or something on their website that you can download that has all the drivers on them Why are you looking at me like that? And this is where the suffering begins. Let's connect you to a network. Okay. All right psych We're not connecting What's it? What's internet Lupe? What exactly we don't connect to networks here, buddy. Did you hear that? No, I heard those knees We need to get you an exoskeleton, yes, they sell those now almost there. Yeah, that's what she said. She was lying Here we go. Here's the good stuff. I'm not gonna show you how to do because this is an AI removal video, right? It just it's an everything video. So I'm not gonna show you how I'm gonna set this up I've downloaded a bunch of drivers and stuff. So I'm gonna skip all that but I am gonna show you afterwards the AI tools, so So when you first open up Microsoft Edge, you're greeted with this bullshit, so this is the bullshit we're talking about, right? It's gonna make you click on 16,000 different things to steal your data So what I like to do, I just leave it on this screen and I right-click on edge down here I do new in private window. So that'll open up a private window that way all the cookies and stuff. They're not gonna be stored So they say and the first thing I do on these new computers I go to night night calm and I start downloading all the software I want. This is a fantastic website We use it for everything. So I'm gonna download what I need to download here and then we're gonna just click next So let's get started on that one one Eternity later beautiful. So night night is finished installing the programs. I want I'm gonna control shift escapes gonna open up task manager And I am gonna kill Microsoft Edge and another quick tip if you know how these all bounce around No, right all crazy depending on what is using the CPU if you hold ctrl it stops it So hold ctrl and task and now Microsoft Edge is no more temporarily until I open it up again, of course Because you can't X out of that screen Microsoft walks you into that screen, which is insane So now that I'm in Firefox, I'm gonna download you block origin and I'm gonna disable because even Firefox now has some BS Yes, yes, it is default. Okay, I am default All right. Now we're finally ready to get to the meat of the video removing Windows AI So first, I'm gonna run Chris Titus tech because this is gonna debloat Windows before the AI is actually removed So Chris Titus has a github, which is Chris Titus tech when you tell a jit hub Lupe you say jif you say gif jif you say jif. Mm-hmm. Well, you're wrong in the comments down below It's gif if you say anything or this guy graphical interface graphical interface G silent my brain the G is not silent lasagna. The G is silent. Lil Wayne taught me that amongst other drugs I mean legs D Django that that's what the D is silent in Django Sure, it is. Well, I just fell with the J so J Okay, we're gonna have to fight the greatest technician that's ever lived the Chris Titus also has a website I think it's Chris Titus comm you can also go there to get the utility now These aren't executables you can make an executable if you download it from here if you want to run it offline But it is not natively and executable you run it in Windows PowerShell. So I'm gonna right-click on this command I'm gonna copy it and then right click on your Start menu and Terminal admin, which is essentially PowerShell. Yes. Now, I'm gonna control V this baby And it's gonna do magic magic magic and then boom We're gonna pop up with all the stuff that we need now You should never listen to a youtuber that's telling you to download something off github. Don't you dare say it? Jit hub Graphics you say graphics like graphics Don't ever listen to a youtuber do your own research God, I hate even saying that but literally make sure you fact-check what people ever tell you Especially if they're telling you to download something off the website and run it just fact-check everything Okay, don't believe anything anybody tells you ever unless it's backed up with scientific evidence Okay, because this is how we got in the situation We're in right now a bunch of dumb people didn't trust a bunch of smart people that were right about things and now here We are with the world on fire. So Chris Titus utility gives you a bunch of different things I don't do any of these things. You can install all this stuff, you know, hwinfo hwmonitor cbz super helpful stuff We're just gonna stick to the tweaks because the tweaks are deep loading essentially is what it is We're gonna disable activity history consumer features if you hover over the disabled it'll actually tell you what it's going to do I'm absolutely gonna do consumer features. We don't need disc cleanup right now. We'll do it afterwards and task with right-click I love that file Explorer automatic discovery. I don't like that I like having one type of thing hibernation of disabling location tracking disabling Microsoft Store results I don't want any Microsoft Store stuff I don't want telemetry in PowerShell because why the **** is telemetry in PowerShell? That's insane restore point We are gonna recreate a restore point just in case services set to manual start menu previous layout. I do like the old layout I don't like this new layout, even though actually I think this is the old layout Disable telemetry temporary files. There's no temp files right now. So I'm not even gonna bother removing that. Yes. I don't want that unwanted pre-installed rules and knowing we just move on You know, I'm torn with that one because sometimes I do like that yeah, but yeah, but I don't like this I Mean sake look how long that just took to load. This is such garbage now You have the advanced tweaks which a lot of my don't mess with if you have a pirated version of Adobe you want to? Enable that I pay for Adobe Background apps. I'm gonna disable because I don't want background apps. You can deep load all that stuff I'm gonna keep Microsoft Edge only because I've run into weird issues when I've removed Microsoft Edge Where the system won't open certain links because Microsoft thinks it's insane unfathomable Inconceivable that someone would ever remove Microsoft Edge So they make it like the default link opener browser for Outlook and all this crazy stuff So I am unfortunately gonna keep Microsoft Edge there But I'm gonna deep load it and I'm just gonna let it just chill Microsoft OneDrive completely removed Razer software auto install that garbage Isn't installed on my thing right now Anyways, right-click menu previous layout that is one of my favorite ones because what the **** is this dude? I hate this menu so much. It's a pile of trash. I hate it so much. I can't even express my hatred towards it So we're sense I'm gonna disable. I don't need storage sense. I'm not gonna disable No, you know what? I am gonna disable notifications. Don't need those visual effects. We can keep that Windows AI disable Xbox and gaming components I actually am going to keep that just in case I ever play games on this thing So I'm gonna chill with that right now gonna go over here. These are just like custom preferences. I am gonna enable dark theme Wow, yeah, I know. Oh my god. Look what your eyes are bleeding. I Like file Explorer file extensions. I do like seeing hidden files and you see how quick it does it it does it Quick Microsoft Outlook new version. Absolutely not mouse acceleration I'm gonna keep it on this computer because I use a little logitech thingy with a trackpad until framework releases There's scroll bars always is I hate scroll bars when they're They're missing settings home page start menu Bing search. No, so many recommendations. No, I don't want either of those things I like the centered icons. It's fine task view icon I don't need that either and I'm going to enable ultimate performance because I don't care about power on this thing This is such an efficient ship. I don't care about it. So that's that now I want to apply these tweaks right now and click run tweaks and it's gonna take a while So probably like three minutes or so, which is a very long time Now the other goaded program inside of Chris Titus's utility is owned. Oh, shut up 10 plus Plus so what this does is essentially remove all the bullshit in terms of AI Advertising data leakage all that stuff within Windows and they make it easy so you can go through this huge list as a Dude, just the fact this entire list exists is insane How much bloat is in Windows and how much like it's just insane Anyways, you have two options You can go down the list by yourself individually click off whatever you want or you can apply only recommended settings Which is like the basic stuff or recommended and somewhat recommended settings or you can just apply everything So what I like to do, this is my personal preference. I do recommended and Somewhat recommended and I am gonna create a system restore point just in case because I can just go right back to it So once we do that Where are we? So I've done that. That's it. It's been done You can also go into the AI section Which as you see has already been disabled because I ran it through the the tweaks right there So copilot gone copilot application gone and locally store data for all that stuff I mean, I'm not gonna read all this stuff to you. I'm just showing you the matrix You can take the pill or not if you want. That's that you know what you should donate to these guys I do have to restart Windows now Now I love Mozilla, however, man, I'm so disappointed like what the heck has Mozilla become I know you got to make money as a nonprofit organization, but yeah, I don't want this. I don't want this So thankfully I can just disable everything which is exactly what I wanted to do Wow, so now this is it I like this, you know why cuz Mozilla is very kind with it They know listen, some people don't like it. Here you go. Here's just the screen So shout out to Mozilla on that one Now a lot of the stuff I'm gonna show you is going to be repetitive because we've already removed it with Oh No, shut up 10 plus plus plus plus AI Pro Max So we're on Zoic where's github remove Windows AI is the tool again? A lot of this stuff is gonna be repetitive So it's probably already disabled. You know, I'm attacking a fly with a bazooka. So that's what I'm doing right now We're gonna launch with UI. So I'm gonna just copy that gonna go to terminal right now and Once we're in terminal, we are going to ctrl V and it will open up our Windows AI GUI Julie see now. Yeah, I don't hmm. Hmm Zoic where has some pretty decent options So I'm gonna save all the AI registry keys prevent AI package reinstall This is a little tricky because it might actually break Windows update. So I don't click that I leave it as it is because I'm happy with how it is right now So actually I do like Windows classic photo viewer all these I will keep I like photos legacy as well And we're gonna apply this one. This one's the easiest one. It's very quick. But that's it That's how I set up a brand new Windows 11 computer for myself personally Of course, you can load up Steam and all that good stuff Your options will vary depending on your preferences But so many people friggin ask me how to debloat and all this stuff like here it is for the rest of the video I'm gonna tell you why I don't hate Microsoft to my core. I Would not be in the position I am in today if Microsoft never made Windows right and a lot of us can say that I can acknowledge that Microsoft paved the way for me to be where I am right now because of Windows while also Acknowledging Windows 11 is a heaping pile of ---- and is the most embarrassing piece of software that Microsoft has ever made Clippy would cry if he saw how Windows 11 was right now and after going to Computex Let me tell you everybody is telling Microsoft that Windows 11 is just too bloated everybody when I say everybody I mean like companies companies are telling Microsoft. It's not Microsoft's just not hearing it from you You're not just screaming into a void. A lot of companies are telling Microsoft like yo We can't do this anymore with the RAM crisis 8 gigabytes of RAM is expensive for them and that's all they can ship with a lot of these products We can't afford all the negativity because you're being operating system It's taking up so much like resources in the background that it makes us look bad we can only afford to give people 8 gigabytes of RAM and still maintain like a $50 profit on our devices and When 7 gigabytes of that is taken up by your ---- Well, we're gonna get the blame for it for those of you at Microsoft. I know you guys are in on this too I know you guys believe AI is just destroying your operating system the years and years that you've spent coding you're probably gonna get laid off next week because that's the whole idea of AI right as much as I ******* hate the state the Current state of Windows 11. It is what I'm used to once it's set up properly It's nice. It's a good operating system. Once it's set up properly out of the box It's an embarrassment and no one should ever be able to use it and it's predatory and it's disgusting and is a shameful experience That anybody has to endure if they spent hundreds of dollars on the machine Especially the elderly and people that aren't tech savvy. Lube's shaking his head because Lube knows. Lube's dealt with it so many times Yo Andy, is this AI? With that said I do appreciate Windows I appreciate Windows. I appreciate Microsoft Making Windows not Windows 11 and not how they've crafted it but the software itself and the fact that it exists has laid the foundation for what we Collectively as a society have been able to enjoy and what started our passions and stuff So with that said if you know Linux and if you're just doing basic stuff use Linux if you don't need Proprietary software like I do Adobe Premiere and all that stuff just use Linux man use Linux. Oh, yeah. Let me show the results I mean, okay. I really wish it would remove LinkedIn. Why is LinkedIn installed? What's that unemployed soon, baby? Exactly Yeah, that's what they're telling you Lupe good stuff Lupe They put LinkedIn on the computer because they know AI is gonna take your job and you're gonna be looking for it Yeah, this is it this is how it's gonna come home with me I'm gonna set it up with my NAS and I have media player classic That's my preferred video player. And other than that, I think that's it. I think that's it