Here is the documentation for playbooks right now: docs.ameliorated.io/developers/playbooks.html It's very interesting to see this method of creating a custom windows develop.
What about just running Remove-AppxPackage? In an article written by Gabriel Sieben I read you can just run that 1 (internal) command rather than running anyone's script.
Been using NTLite for about 6 months now to make my own custom iso. Best piece of software I've purchased in a long time. Lots of walk-throughs online of what to remove to turn off and strip out all the Microsoft Spyware and unwanted stuff.
Chris I use ur script "one tool for everything" its probably the best tweak script I found out there and I suggest it would be a lot better if it also have uninstaller section where u can uninstall any bloatware or built in apps that sometimes can't be uninstalled
It's a bit risky to uninstall content from a Windows active installation. It's better to modify your original Windows ISO with tools. Unlike Linux, we all know how easy it is to get a blue screen of death on Windows, if you tweak the wrong part of the system.
Yeah, I'm working on some improvements coming up soon. I am learning C# right now and testing new things on the test branch but should have a new release here in a month or two.
Hopefully, we get the opportunity to make our own playbooks with an easy GUI (check what you want and uncheck what you don't want) That would be very very awesome!!!! allowing us to tailor our windows as we like.
I think we really need a Chris Titus playbook. I know the debloat tool does a lot already. I just think the playbook would add just the one extra layer of convenience. Fingers crossed
He gonna be copying the same ass tweaks as atlas os and any other tweak site or discord server… he acts like everything could have malware and like his shit is the best when he literally uses the same tweaks 🤣
@@smwfreak1647 oh I'm sorry I must have missed the link to your windows debloat tool? Where do you live stream the coding process? What's the link to your GitHub page where people can contribute to your debloat tool to help make it better? Also, how long have you been running windows without any antivirus whatsoever?? How's that been going for you? Would love to know more about all these claims you have.
Been on Windows 10 AME for over 2 years, with gaming in mind and loving it still. It's really not as restrictive or dangerous as I some make it out to be but there's other options for you. Super stable, I don't remember having any crashes on it either. It so good to have a stable modern Windows OS that is there to do what you want it to do, with out interruptions or bloat.
@@krakendeez7415 The whole point of AME is to remove M$'s services and yeah that includes the $tore. I have an XSX so don't care for it but it's a deal breaker for some.
im watching from a distance, im not the most experienced user ever but i know some stuff, if there is ever something like this that is fully open source, and allows for people to create their own settings/presets or "playbooks", will be very awesome, im watching from a distance 0.0
when I saw that it doesn't give you the option to keep the antivirus. It forces you to disable it and then uninstall it. I DO NOT TRUST that mandatory process. Stop the video to look for another type of modification, because it is the same as downloading a modified ISO. I don't trust these
This is something I'm much more open to over the custom ISOs out there. People have been using 3rd party utilities to customize Windows and see where they can take it for decades and there has always been security risks associated with doing this kind of deep level customization of it. That said, while tools for customizing Windows aren't anything new (I remember some letting you change the shell Windows used back in the Windows 3.1 days), I can't help but notice how more people have been talking about them now more than they have in the past. Like has Microsoft made another recent boneheaded decision for their software again that is now pushing people to look more into these things than they have in the past? Or is this just the result of many people getting fed up with the direction Microsoft is taking and alternatives like MacOS and Linux aren't going to cover what they need, but they really can't move forward with Microsoft's direction either? I suspect there's a quite large user base out there that is stuck in the middle like that and they aren't being covered by Linux/MacOS/Microsoft/other.
I believe its a mixture. For one, ads in the file manager seems to have been a breaking point for a lot of people already annoyed with W11’s various problems. Additionally, in the last year Microsoft have been going hard on reducing Windows love, w/ killing W10, restricting hardware (except when it benefits them financially to), the aforementioned ads, advertising Edge when you try to install Chrome, redirecting users to Edge instead of their default browser when using Outlook/Teams, and probably tons more I haven’t heard of/forgotten about. Its a massive mess, and while there won’t be a mass exodus outside of Windows (80% of the population isn’t even capable of that), we may hear a major influx of Windows hate that only continues to grow.
I think users want to have more ownership of the OS and that is customization and modification. Microsoft is abusing its user base. I use Linux more often and indoctrinate younger users to Non Windows computing.
I still prefer windows official iso and then debloat with your tool Chris which is amazing, that's why I got the exe version. When it comes to security, I can't trust those modified isos, they are fine inside a VM, ok, agree, but using as a main os is not a good idea.
I think the same as you. People worry about their privacy, security. This tool seems good but... it has no user control, it doesn't show what it is really doing, there are no details of the program process. The most worrying thing forces you to disable the antivirus and uninstall the antivirus, which is very suspicious, and as you say, it is better to do it ourselves. but well for me it is the same as downloading a modified ISO when applying these third party programs.
Thanks for your videos. Really helpfull. The reason I like your channel, out of the myriad of available content boils down to one thing. For some reason, I trust your skills and judgement the most 😅 You give a really professional posture. Received my new working laptop and entering the customization with your tips (win+ubuntu) dual boot.
I'm now at the point where I'm installing windows and removing bloat often enough that I might just have to make a playbook. I've been able to get my Windows 10 22H2 installs down to 50 processes without removing Windows Defender, or even the Microsoft Store. Creating a playbook would save me a good hour of work per Windows install. If I do make one I will definitely release it to the public too. A lot of what I've been doing for debloating Windows 10, still works on Windows 11 so with support coming to an end in not too long, it would be worth doing both.
What are you doing that requires an hour? Deleting and setting things manually? I have automated my ISO but even with just scripts it's about 7 minutes with 90% of it being automated.
Thanks for highlighting another up and coming great tool. I don't know how this will all end up with Win10 EOL coming hard. Personally I am moving to Linux. I would like to see an alternative for people that don't know how to or just can't be bothered for what ever reason to switch to a replacement for Microsoft.
Thank You so much for being out there and share with us your expertise on windows. It is just a gold mine for the ordinary PC user like myself. I have learned so much during the the last 3 years inkluding LINUX. Thank You so much Chris.
So it seems to me the best use case for these things is to install Linux as your base system and then run one of these in a VM so you can run some piece of Windows only software that you need that won't run (or won't run well enough) under Wine?
@Auto Immune You can run a large amount of games on Linux, but honestly it's a pain in the ass. I was using linux for a good two months with odd system hangs on suspend. I went back to Windows. Linux is great for servers. But for every day desktop use I just can't get into it. Most of my life was spent growing up on windows, and I will likely perish running windows. Unless you built or purchased a system based on compatibility with Linux, you are going to have a rough time.
I have removed them multiple times and people don't realize how they are used in other parts of the OS. It isn't just an antivirus for better or for worse. I hate it, but anytime I remove it, it causes more problems than having it.
@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah, if you really want to get rid of it without causing some issues here and there, the only way would be disabling it and installing your favorite anti-virus.
Yeah that’s the reason I haven’t tried Atlas despite wanting to. I love the idea of limiting Microsoft’s reach into my system while still using windows but I don’t want to cut all security to do it. I don’t have the know how to modify it all myself unfortunately.
Personally, I use a thing called The Ultimate Windows Utility by a guy named Chris Titus. You may have heard of him. Using his desktop suggestions, I have only 64 processors running. We have 5 computers running his programs and it does everything I need. A big shout out to this guy. You should try it!!!!😉
@@lectricfence1 thanks for the reply. I did check it out, it looks great! I am just confused as to where I should download windows 10 iot ltsc edition from, as I can't find it anywhere, and it has been out sale and torrent piracy remains the only way which I am scared of.
I'm using Win 10 Atlas 22H2 with Bitdefender. I like it how fast it is on an old laptop. The problem are the drivers and some programs refuse to start unfortunately. Would be great if Win 10 or 11 would do it correct from the start. They should listen to what people want and that is SIMPLICITY & SNAP on OS! P.S. Sometimes it crashes, bur rarely! I use this laptop for car diagnose or some light work.
This is something that I'm wanting my workplace to provide ... not using someone else's shady image, though, their own. Obviously the image would be PRE drivers, etc ... but yeah.
If cli tool will be fully featured, then I also agree that their gui can be closed source, BUT let's not forget that you can make source code aviable and still monetize your program AND you do not need to use standard open source license like mit or gpl or other. You can instead make something like unreal engine does (although unreal engine way is not the best way): make source code aviable but restrict redistribution in some way.
Frankly, I think this review is a quite unfairly critical. If you know what you are doing, AME ist likely to improve overall security as it strips out many Windows components that tend to be security risks or even outright "spy" on you, which might not be a thing that matters to "normal" users, but a large part of AME users - at least as far as I can tell - are people who know what they are doing and and are fully able to install one of the many superior alternatives to Windows Defender, e.g. almost anything that says anti-virus on the label. In a big IT meeting at a german university I was working at serious concerns were voiced about the usability of several parts of newer windows versions (especially all parts of the quasi-standard new MS Office Microsoft 365, which you can not stop from uploading data to Microsoft servers outside of Germany, and OneDrive), in the context of applicable data security laws (including BayDSG) for any reasearch or student data falling under protected categories (which is almost all of it). The solution was a lot of somewhat helpful university-specific windows presets for all official university computers, use of a network without acess to the internet for everything critical, mandatory data security training for all employees (that probably did not help much), and a good deal of praying that Microsoft never has a data leak that shows all the data on their servers that should never have been there. This is why I think the AME approch of ripping out all Microsoft executables with spyware-like subroutines should be the standard for any Windows setup that is intended to be used with data that by law may not be stored on servers abroad, which e.g. is basically all customer data unless you have express agreement to the contrary. I would like to see more viable alternatives, but so far you have basically the choice between Ameliorated, doing similar stuff manually, or linux (where some often needed programs simply do not exist) if you want a system you can trust. In short, the Ameliorated approch with playbooks is a powerful tool that enables you to quickly do hard to manually implement sets of changes, including some that strongly improve data security, with ease if you have a basic understanding what you are doing and why. If you have no idea what you are doing you can make your system unsafe or unusable with similar ease. But hey, both is even more true for the command line interface, and I have never heard Titus argue against using good old cmd.exe.
or just making bloat and telemetry optional. A simple checkbox while installing: "Do you want a completely empty OS or do you want the _recommended_ installation?" Everybody would be fine with it. But *surveilance capitalism* is the most profitable business to date. Its the reason why the current times are what they are.
Hey Chris, I really like the look of your current windows 11 setup (not the vm in this video), I was curious as to what debloating/modifications you had done to it?
you're saying that atlas os is insecure but the only thing that you don't have the option to enable is windows updates. everything else that you want to turn back on if its turned off can be enabled. the option to enable specture and meltdown mitigations is there. the option to turn back on uac is there. and yes defender is gone but you can install any 3rd party antivirus and it works just fine. i odnt use defender anyway. the only thing you cant turn on is windows defender but thats being added later.
Have been thinking about using these custom images on an old laptop for a family member. He needs to use some DJ software and this laptop is easily 10+ years old and struggles just to run windows 10. I personally stay away from custom images, but this laptop will be offline 100% of the time and all it will ever run is DJ software and play the music from the built in 500gb 3200rpm HDD
I am a luddite, if you dont mind could you tell where to download ltsc from? I can't pay for it as its too expensive and also not available legally. Would really appreciate if you could share a safe place to download it from
@@nobodyinparticular83 I know how to do it for normal windows 10, I actually wanted something for ltsc Cohort you tell title of the video, so that I could check it out
@@nobodyinparticular83 I did have a look at it, so basicallyi need to follow his steps and after running the script just run "kms vl all" to permanently activate it? Also which version ltsc do you use? I am leaning towards the iot version. But did see that amd drivers aren't installing in it for some reason. My laptop is from amd.
@@mokisan I don't remember which version, didn't realize there was other versions? It's very simple and my favorite way to setup windows. You install the os, run the script that unlocks full version, run the kms script that activates it, run the optimization script that sets up the os, and then I like to disable uac in registry and use ntlite to remove defender and edge
Correct me if I'm wrong. It sounds like the only thing you claim is wrong is the security, the biggest issue anyway. So why not add your own security. I know that more resources that was stripped away and that may vary depending on your choice of flavor. Overall, it sounds like a promising OS as long as you add your own security.
I dont see a problem with ripping out defender... Security that everyone has is effectively no security. Rip it out, and put something different in place, more variety the better, more moving targets ;) AME just needs to give a curated list of AV options to install, problem solved.
I'm using ARM64 Insider build of Windows 10. None of these playbooks support ARM version of Windows, I guess. If they provide a way to creating playbook, I think it's going to be a great alternative.
Chris, you should do a video on how MS Outlook online ie: hotmail, outlook, etc has deceptively lowered email storage from 15 gb to 5 and accounts say the 15 gb includes attachments but it does not. It is very confusing bc MS says your mail attachments are now in your one-drive account (limit 5gb) but they are not even there. It is insane & they are shutting down accounts ! My Outlook web mail all the sudden was shut down & it said I was 138% over my storage, it's nuts.
Here are my thoughts: Windows Defender should be disabled instead of removed. With a third party AV you can still make sure you are safe. TBH If you are that short on storage(like a device with 32GB of eMMC), come on bro it's time to get a new computer. What does a playbook do to your system should be well documented. I guess 99.99% of people won't read or try to understand it but it's there for checking is way better than 'ok just trust me bro'. Windows Update, well. It restarts computer without permission, so I use Windows Server on my computers that need to run 24/7 and I get free licenses from my university so why not. Not recommended as a daily driver and gaming system ofc, but it works if you spend some time changing all the system settings.
You set WLAN auto config service to manual which led to wifi not working, it wasn't lake this in your older version of Windows untility + the tweak section doesn't pick "desktop" or l"laptop" And I have a question, what does "get install" do?
You are not wrong in a way, the other is ; only if you are online is a risk. If the user is a first shooter do not connect to internet than the play changes regarding security risk when is total absent for our sake, who cares about risk if their is no connection at all. You should add , a risk if you are connected, safe if you aren't connected to WAN.
Did you change your Windows Utility Tool in the past several days? Ran it like I always do on two computers today and destroyed the os on one(wouldnt boot back into windows and couldn't repair) and the other one stopped connecting to internet and wouldnt let me navigate certain settings. It's not a huge deal I know the risk of using the tool and my backups came in handy but was still surprised.
In the older Ameliorated ISO, the user was not an Admin with the reasoning that most malware needs admin privileges. What's your opinion @Chris Titus Tech, does running as a non-admin user add a sufficient level of security?
modified my Iso image by installing the image in a virtual machine, I make the modifications while in audit mode, and sysprep then generalizes the image, after this you capture the system drive to a .wim file and finally mount the file to an ISO. The method is slow but safe and more personalized. I learned a lot studying this method
OK i understand your point about the security updates etc but is there anything wrong with installing things like Avast etc and using it? What's the difference between the built in windows stuff and Avast for example?
One is terrible, the other is less terrible. Don't use an antivirus if your goal is to speed up your system 😂 You only need an AV if you download weird shit and run it as admin.
To be clear, I agree that average users shouldn't use this. I think the AME playbook seems to be trying to take the linux approach. The way you have to elevate with a password is more secure, and stripping out all those services lowers attack surface overall, so you can do security of your own on it, possibly limiting the scope of attacks for experienced users to better manage their security as they see appropriate. Personally, I use it with a firewall whitelist and by default trust nothing on it.
More and more of thse tripped down Windows are popping up now, that should tell MS something that people don't want all this bloatware. I thought why not have a barebones version and also supply an extra that contains all this and if for example you want a few things added to take them from the extra and install them, then everyone will get what they want and be happy plus more might come back to Windows that have gone on other OS systems.
They have contracts with these companies to preinstall their shit, so they aren't going anywhere. custom Windows is a very, very niche market. They don't care.
@@sihamhamda47 I did download and instasll LTSC not long ago, I got a little popup on the screen saying it wasn't registered, then I loked up how to register it and got things telling me it wasn't for home use but for businesses and my version could end anytime soon so I uninstalled it.
This is end-game really. Custom ISO's have been around for a decades. Windows 10 in particular blew up in 2018/2019 as newer hardware didn't "natively" support Windows 7 anymore without some workarounds in the ISO file (USB drivers mostly). Several communities have disbanded or were shut down by Microsoft themselves as they got too big. Groups going open-source and post-install has been on the rise for the past year or so, which is good as custom ISO's are shady af.
Is there a way to remove windows home from the original ISO? I don’t want to modify any components just remove the home version, ideally with dism. It’s annoying on laptops, if windows home gets automatically installed without being able to choose on install.
i dont like custom windows 10 iso's but i still use atlas os on my low end laptop it once breaked the windows and i had to downlaod windows and the ame wizard was slow and it got stuck many times.
This tools will continue to growth unless Microsoft listen us and make minimal windows 11 desktop without bloatware, that will break a build in app contract, that normally one like to do it
Hello chris sir, i have a question, I watch your twitch streams, You were using m1 mac mini, why you've ditched that fast ARM processor and switched completely to x86, isnt arm and apple supposed to be better ?
I downloaded something called "Tituspi" from a shady place on the interweb. Should I distrust this? I'm worried that my internet connected refrigerator will become filled with sparkling water and displace the beer.
the reason these things make your computer so fast is because they remove all security. if you keep the security you won't be fast. the virus scans before every exe runs makes everything slow
Here is the documentation for playbooks right now: docs.ameliorated.io/developers/playbooks.html
It's very interesting to see this method of creating a custom windows develop.
What about just running Remove-AppxPackage? In an article written by Gabriel Sieben I read you can just run that 1 (internal) command rather than running anyone's script.
Can you make a video on how to make like atlas os but using your bloatware tool
I am really loving your Custom Windows distros coverage. Please keep on the pulse of this growing scene
Been using NTLite for about 6 months now to make my own custom iso. Best piece of software I've purchased in a long time. Lots of walk-throughs online of what to remove to turn off and strip out all the Microsoft Spyware and unwanted stuff.
A closed-source tool. Hmm.....
Chris I use ur script "one tool for everything" its probably the best tweak script I found out there and I suggest it would be a lot better if it also have uninstaller section where u can uninstall any bloatware or built in apps that sometimes can't be uninstalled
It's a bit risky to uninstall content from a Windows active installation. It's better to modify your original Windows ISO with tools. Unlike Linux, we all know how easy it is to get a blue screen of death on Windows, if you tweak the wrong part of the system.
Yeah, I'm working on some improvements coming up soon. I am learning C# right now and testing new things on the test branch but should have a new release here in a month or two.
@@ChrisTitusTech Of course you are, King.
Use it everywhere home, work and I force my friends to use it. Especially when they have 200 processes running. I shame them into adopting it lol.
@@ChrisTitusTech Thankyou!! I fully support the project its amazing
Hopefully, we get the opportunity to make our own playbooks with an easy GUI (check what you want and uncheck what you don't want) That would be very very awesome!!!! allowing us to tailor our windows as we like.
u mean NTLite?
Nlite can't remove the telemetry, AME can or should I say use to be able too. It seems the new version can't anymore.
I think we really need a Chris Titus playbook. I know the debloat tool does a lot already. I just think the playbook would add just the one extra layer of convenience. Fingers crossed
He gonna be copying the same ass tweaks as atlas os and any other tweak site or discord server… he acts like everything could have malware and like his shit is the best when he literally uses the same tweaks 🤣
@@smwfreak1647 oh I'm sorry I must have missed the link to your windows debloat tool? Where do you live stream the coding process? What's the link to your GitHub page where people can contribute to your debloat tool to help make it better? Also, how long have you been running windows without any antivirus whatsoever?? How's that been going for you? Would love to know more about all these claims you have.
@@thisismelsemail1217 Got em
Been on Windows 10 AME for over 2 years, with gaming in mind and loving it still. It's really not as restrictive or dangerous as I some make it out to be but there's other options for you. Super stable, I don't remember having any crashes on it either. It so good to have a stable modern Windows OS that is there to do what you want it to do, with out interruptions or bloat.
I wonder though what could happen ventually when Microsoft discontinues Windows 10
Does it give you any problem with the updates?
not my favorite since it removes microsoft store and xbox services
@@krakendeez7415 The whole point of AME is to remove M$'s services and yeah that includes the $tore. I have an XSX so don't care for it but it's a deal breaker for some.
@@krakendeez7415 Not the latest version, it has the Microsoft store.
im watching from a distance, im not the most experienced user ever but i know some stuff, if there is ever something like this that is fully open source, and allows for people to create their own settings/presets or "playbooks", will be very awesome, im watching from a distance 0.0
when I saw that it doesn't give you the option to keep the antivirus. It forces you to disable it and then uninstall it. I DO NOT TRUST that mandatory process. Stop the video to look for another type of modification, because it is the same as downloading a modified ISO. I don't trust these
This is something I'm much more open to over the custom ISOs out there. People have been using 3rd party utilities to customize Windows and see where they can take it for decades and there has always been security risks associated with doing this kind of deep level customization of it.
That said, while tools for customizing Windows aren't anything new (I remember some letting you change the shell Windows used back in the Windows 3.1 days), I can't help but notice how more people have been talking about them now more than they have in the past. Like has Microsoft made another recent boneheaded decision for their software again that is now pushing people to look more into these things than they have in the past? Or is this just the result of many people getting fed up with the direction Microsoft is taking and alternatives like MacOS and Linux aren't going to cover what they need, but they really can't move forward with Microsoft's direction either? I suspect there's a quite large user base out there that is stuck in the middle like that and they aren't being covered by Linux/MacOS/Microsoft/other.
I believe its a mixture. For one, ads in the file manager seems to have been a breaking point for a lot of people already annoyed with W11’s various problems. Additionally, in the last year Microsoft have been going hard on reducing Windows love, w/ killing W10, restricting hardware (except when it benefits them financially to), the aforementioned ads, advertising Edge when you try to install Chrome, redirecting users to Edge instead of their default browser when using Outlook/Teams, and probably tons more I haven’t heard of/forgotten about.
Its a massive mess, and while there won’t be a mass exodus outside of Windows (80% of the population isn’t even capable of that), we may hear a major influx of Windows hate that only continues to grow.
I think users want to have more ownership of the OS and that is customization and modification. Microsoft is abusing its user base. I use Linux more often and indoctrinate younger users to Non Windows computing.
I like this detailed review; in which, no stone is unturned.
what's the name of the wallpaper at 10:40??
@@derek-ed1zq it's default wallpaper in AME windows
@@arshitvaghasiya7317 how can i download it?
About time something like this comes out hopefully it takes off and they’ll make it customizable like he said.
I still prefer windows official iso and then debloat with your tool Chris which is amazing, that's why I got the exe version. When it comes to security, I can't trust those modified isos, they are fine inside a VM, ok, agree, but using as a main os is not a good idea.
what's the name of the wallpaper at 10:40??
I think the same as you. People worry about their privacy, security. This tool seems good but... it has no user control, it doesn't show what it is really doing, there are no details of the program process. The most worrying thing forces you to disable the antivirus and uninstall the antivirus, which is very suspicious, and as you say, it is better to do it ourselves. but well for me it is the same as downloading a modified ISO when applying these third party programs.
Can we get a new NTLite video about what you would remove and what you would keep for a general use daily driver windows system?
Thanks for your videos. Really helpfull. The reason I like your channel, out of the myriad of available content boils down to one thing. For some reason, I trust your skills and judgement the most 😅 You give a really professional posture. Received my new working laptop and entering the customization with your tips (win+ubuntu) dual boot.
I'm now at the point where I'm installing windows and removing bloat often enough that I might just have to make a playbook. I've been able to get my Windows 10 22H2 installs down to 50 processes without removing Windows Defender, or even the Microsoft Store. Creating a playbook would save me a good hour of work per Windows install. If I do make one I will definitely release it to the public too.
A lot of what I've been doing for debloating Windows 10, still works on Windows 11 so with support coming to an end in not too long, it would be worth doing both.
What are you doing that requires an hour? Deleting and setting things manually?
I have automated my ISO but even with just scripts it's about 7 minutes with 90% of it being automated.
Thanks for highlighting another up and coming great tool. I don't know how this will all end up with Win10 EOL coming hard. Personally I am moving to Linux. I would like to see an alternative for people that don't know how to or just can't be bothered for what ever reason to switch to a replacement for Microsoft.
Thank You so much for being out there
and share with us your expertise on windows.
It is just a gold mine for the ordinary PC user like myself.
I have learned so much during the the last 3 years inkluding LINUX.
Thank You so much Chris.
Love this new tool! Thanks Chris for your video!
I prefer as low number of processes as ~60 I have in my Windows thanks to your Tool.
Thank you for covering this
So it seems to me the best use case for these things is to install Linux as your base system and then run one of these in a VM so you can run some piece of Windows only software that you need that won't run (or won't run well enough) under Wine?
Pretty much.
Good luck doing intensive video editing in VEGAS/Adobe in a VM..
@Auto Immune I don't believe VM software passes your GPU through, you just get a 256mb virtual gpu
probably wrong, its been awhile.
@Auto Immune You can run a large amount of games on Linux, but honestly it's a pain in the ass. I was using linux for a good two months with odd system hangs on suspend. I went back to Windows. Linux is great for servers. But for every day desktop use I just can't get into it. Most of my life was spent growing up on windows, and I will likely perish running windows. Unless you built or purchased a system based on compatibility with Linux, you are going to have a rough time.
Great review. Your script still the best alternative to a lite windows.
Thank you Chris for giving your thought about this new Tool.. i haven't heard about it or even other tools like this :)
You don't want to remove Defender / MRT tbh.
I have removed them multiple times and people don't realize how they are used in other parts of the OS. It isn't just an antivirus for better or for worse. I hate it, but anytime I remove it, it causes more problems than having it.
@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah, if you really want to get rid of it without causing some issues here and there, the only way would be disabling it and installing your favorite anti-virus.
you have no idea how annoying it is for whoever doing binary analysis job for their livings...
Yeah that’s the reason I haven’t tried Atlas despite wanting to.
I love the idea of limiting Microsoft’s reach into my system while still using windows but I don’t want to cut all security to do it.
I don’t have the know how to modify it all myself unfortunately.
@@wowimoldaf lol
Personally, I use a thing called The Ultimate Windows Utility by a guy named Chris Titus. You may have heard of him. Using his desktop suggestions, I have only 64 processors running. We have 5 computers running his programs and it does everything I need. A big shout out to this guy. You should try it!!!!😉
Lol
Sorry I am new to this channel and new to windows installing, could you tell what this ultimate windows utility does?
@@lectricfence1 thanks for the reply. I did check it out, it looks great!
I am just confused as to where I should download windows 10 iot ltsc edition from, as I can't find it anywhere, and it has been out sale and torrent piracy remains the only way which I am scared of.
@@mokisan I just downloaded windows 10 from Microsoft, (safest way) and then tweaked it with Chris's utility. Good luck.
@@lectricfence1 ah! Thanks.
I'm using Win 10 Atlas 22H2 with Bitdefender. I like it how fast it is on an old laptop. The problem are the drivers and some programs refuse to start unfortunately. Would be great if Win 10 or 11 would do it correct from the start. They should listen to what people want and that is SIMPLICITY & SNAP on OS! P.S. Sometimes it crashes, bur rarely! I use this laptop for car diagnose or some light work.
Using AME11 and I don't regret it
This is something that I'm wanting my workplace to provide ... not using someone else's shady image, though, their own. Obviously the image would be PRE drivers, etc ... but yeah.
obviously not this thing (clearly got to the end of the video! 😅)
If cli tool will be fully featured, then I also agree that their gui can be closed source, BUT let's not forget that you can make source code aviable and still monetize your program AND you do not need to use standard open source license like mit or gpl or other. You can instead make something like unreal engine does (although unreal engine way is not the best way): make source code aviable but restrict redistribution in some way.
I agree im going to still use your tool, but a custom settings for the playbooks
Frankly, I think this review is a quite unfairly critical.
If you know what you are doing, AME ist likely to improve overall security as it strips out many Windows components that tend to be security risks or even outright "spy" on you, which might not be a thing that matters to "normal" users, but a large part of AME users - at least as far as I can tell - are people who know what they are doing and and are fully able to install one of the many superior alternatives to Windows Defender, e.g. almost anything that says anti-virus on the label.
In a big IT meeting at a german university I was working at serious concerns were voiced about the usability of several parts of newer windows versions (especially all parts of the quasi-standard new MS Office Microsoft 365, which you can not stop from uploading data to Microsoft servers outside of Germany, and OneDrive), in the context of applicable data security laws (including BayDSG) for any reasearch or student data falling under protected categories (which is almost all of it). The solution was a lot of somewhat helpful university-specific windows presets for all official university computers, use of a network without acess to the internet for everything critical, mandatory data security training for all employees (that probably did not help much), and a good deal of praying that Microsoft never has a data leak that shows all the data on their servers that should never have been there.
This is why I think the AME approch of ripping out all Microsoft executables with spyware-like subroutines should be the standard for any Windows setup that is intended to be used with data that by law may not be stored on servers abroad, which e.g. is basically all customer data unless you have express agreement to the contrary. I would like to see more viable alternatives, but so far you have basically the choice between Ameliorated, doing similar stuff manually, or linux (where some often needed programs simply do not exist) if you want a system you can trust.
In short, the Ameliorated approch with playbooks is a powerful tool that enables you to quickly do hard to manually implement sets of changes, including some that strongly improve data security, with ease if you have a basic understanding what you are doing and why. If you have no idea what you are doing you can make your system unsafe or unusable with similar ease. But hey, both is even more true for the command line interface, and I have never heard Titus argue against using good old cmd.exe.
Chris Titus video>>>>>>>>>>>
Imagine the sales of Microsoft if they put a performance mode sort of thing in operating system
or just making bloat and telemetry optional. A simple checkbox while installing: "Do you want a completely empty OS or do you want the _recommended_ installation?" Everybody would be fine with it. But *surveilance capitalism* is the most profitable business to date. Its the reason why the current times are what they are.
What about those WindowsPE isos to liveboot and doing some IT's stuff? Sometimes their tools are useful in a system that won't boot
I've used Ghost Spectre Win 10 a real long time now and you can choose with or without defender. It's great in so many ways.
Let's made video about react os
ITS NOT WINDOWS CUSTOM ISO
And not Linux
It's a system that can run windows programs and drivers
Hey Chris, I really like the look of your current windows 11 setup (not the vm in this video), I was curious as to what debloating/modifications you had done to it?
Honess John's Custom Windows Installer. _"Trust us we're honess"_
You could give revios a try, it does have a option for enabling windows defender, and its not that heavilly stripped out as atlasos.
you're saying that atlas os is insecure but the only thing that you don't have the option to enable is windows updates. everything else that you want to turn back on if its turned off can be enabled. the option to enable specture and meltdown mitigations is there. the option to turn back on uac is there. and yes defender is gone but you can install any 3rd party antivirus and it works just fine. i odnt use defender anyway. the only thing you cant turn on is windows defender but thats being added later.
Please, do a Titus playbook!
Have been thinking about using these custom images on an old laptop for a family member.
He needs to use some DJ software and this laptop is easily 10+ years old and struggles just to run windows 10. I personally stay away from custom images, but this laptop will be offline 100% of the time and all it will ever run is DJ software and play the music from the built in 500gb 3200rpm HDD
Thanks Much !.......
I like to use ltsc and then use ntlite to remove a few more things like defender and edge and get the os all set up..
I am a luddite, if you dont mind could you tell where to download ltsc from? I can't pay for it as its too expensive and also not available legally.
Would really appreciate if you could share a safe place to download it from
@@nobodyinparticular83 I know how to do it for normal windows 10, I actually wanted something for ltsc
Cohort you tell title of the video, so that I could check it out
@@mokisan follow video very closely
@@nobodyinparticular83 I did have a look at it, so basicallyi need to follow his steps and after running the script just run "kms vl all" to permanently activate it?
Also which version ltsc do you use? I am leaning towards the iot version. But did see that amd drivers aren't installing in it for some reason. My laptop is from amd.
@@mokisan I don't remember which version, didn't realize there was other versions?
It's very simple and my favorite way to setup windows. You install the os, run the script that unlocks full version, run the kms script that activates it, run the optimization script that sets up the os, and then I like to disable uac in registry and use ntlite to remove defender and edge
Will give it a try, last time I was with AME on windows 10 over a year or 2 ago it was unstable after a while caused more issues than it was worth.
I think Ansible can be a good alternative, as long as you know what to do to disable the unneeded things, it's possible to automate that and such
It could be useful to make a video showing what free/alternative antivirus can be installed after cutting down windows defender
Correct me if I'm wrong. It sounds like the only thing you claim is wrong is the security, the biggest issue anyway. So why not add your own security. I know that more resources that was stripped away and that may vary depending on your choice of flavor. Overall, it sounds like a promising OS as long as you add your own security.
I dont see a problem with ripping out defender... Security that everyone has is effectively no security. Rip it out, and put something different in place, more variety the better, more moving targets ;) AME just needs to give a curated list of AV options to install, problem solved.
This would be neat for an offline retro gaming PC that doesn't need internet access run in like kiosk mode or something.
That thumbnail looked like a podcast lol, which u should do btw.
But can you cover a good way for windows 11 to get dark more? No good options
How did u login?
I'm stuck in the lock screen now
What do you think about the Rufus ISO tool that disables Microsoft account login and TPM?
Is that safe to use?
I'm using ARM64 Insider build of Windows 10. None of these playbooks support ARM version of Windows, I guess. If they provide a way to creating playbook, I think it's going to be a great alternative.
Chris, you should do a video on how MS Outlook online ie: hotmail, outlook, etc has deceptively lowered email storage from 15 gb to 5 and accounts say the 15 gb includes attachments but it does not. It is very confusing bc MS says your mail attachments are now in your one-drive account (limit 5gb) but they are not even there. It is insane & they are shutting down accounts ! My Outlook web mail all the sudden was shut down & it said I was 138% over my storage, it's nuts.
Here are my thoughts:
Windows Defender should be disabled instead of removed. With a third party AV you can still make sure you are safe.
TBH If you are that short on storage(like a device with 32GB of eMMC), come on bro it's time to get a new computer.
What does a playbook do to your system should be well documented. I guess 99.99% of people won't read or try to understand it but it's there for checking is way better than 'ok just trust me bro'.
Windows Update, well. It restarts computer without permission, so I use Windows Server on my computers that need to run 24/7 and I get free licenses from my university so why not. Not recommended as a daily driver and gaming system ofc, but it works if you spend some time changing all the system settings.
Hello Chris, what about the optimization tool from VMware. It is free also and used by company I believe ?
Looks promising
With your script I got 69 processes, 1% cpu, 1.7gb ram with all the updates and drivers installed and with nv clean install Nvidia drivers.
We need to learn how to make a custom iso file. I don't trust custom isos on internet.
I'd love to get a potato PC, strip it to the absolute minimum, and use it for something that requires no internet, so security isn't a question.
You set WLAN auto config service to manual which led to wifi not working, it wasn't lake this in your older version of Windows untility + the tweak section doesn't pick "desktop" or l"laptop"
And I have a question, what does "get install" do?
And thank you for you work, God bless you
You are not wrong in a way, the other is ; only if you are online is a risk. If the user is a first shooter do not connect to internet than the play changes regarding security risk when is total absent for our sake, who cares about risk if their is no connection at all.
You should add , a risk if you are connected, safe if you aren't connected to WAN.
Did you change your Windows Utility Tool in the past several days? Ran it like I always do on two computers today and destroyed the os on one(wouldnt boot back into windows and couldn't repair) and the other one stopped connecting to internet and wouldnt let me navigate certain settings.
It's not a huge deal I know the risk of using the tool and my backups came in handy but was still surprised.
why u chose 2 have a look at atlas but not revios? really interested in the latter. awesome content though keep it up
been using AtlasOS playbook for almost a month and I just loved it! Security part is on me, keeping that in mind.
In the older Ameliorated ISO, the user was not an Admin with the reasoning that most malware needs admin privileges.
What's your opinion @Chris Titus Tech, does running as a non-admin user add a sufficient level of security?
it definitely does improve security to have to enter passwords, especially for bad usb attacks
i want to make my own iso but i don't trust the tools that are available for editing the iso, since they are not open source.
modified my Iso image by installing the image in a virtual machine, I make the modifications while in audit mode, and sysprep then generalizes the image, after this you capture the system drive to a .wim file and finally mount the file to an ISO. The method is slow but safe and more personalized. I learned a lot studying this method
It has a good-looking UI, but your own Windows 10/11 de-bloater is still better.
It basically installs the default linux desktop apps if you need windows but like linux privacy and freedom……
1:22 yes, TikTok is from Windows 11
OK i understand your point about the security updates etc but is there anything wrong with installing things like Avast etc and using it? What's the difference between the built in windows stuff and Avast for example?
One is terrible, the other is less terrible.
Don't use an antivirus if your goal is to speed up your system 😂
You only need an AV if you download weird shit and run it as admin.
There is documentation to create playbooks
Yup it's on their website
To be clear, I agree that average users shouldn't use this. I think the AME playbook seems to be trying to take the linux approach. The way you have to elevate with a password is more secure, and stripping out all those services lowers attack surface overall, so you can do security of your own on it, possibly limiting the scope of attacks for experienced users to better manage their security as they see appropriate. Personally, I use it with a firewall whitelist and by default trust nothing on it.
I use Windows Ameliorated. It's called Windows 7...
How about just downloading the Atlas OS batch scripts and selectively disabling the stuff you don’t need?
@Chris Titus Tech could you make an automated script for the tweaks (from the one tool for everything) so i could integrate it using ntlite
5:07 There actually is documentation on how to create Playbooks, it's just very hidden in the website.
More and more of thse tripped down Windows are popping up now, that should tell MS something that people don't want all this bloatware. I thought why not have a barebones version and also supply an extra that contains all this and if for example you want a few things added to take them from the extra and install them, then everyone will get what they want and be happy plus more might come back to Windows that have gone on other OS systems.
They have contracts with these companies to preinstall their shit, so they aren't going anywhere. custom Windows is a very, very niche market. They don't care.
@@sihamhamda47 KMS...
@@sihamhamda47 I did download and instasll LTSC not long ago, I got a little popup on the screen saying it wasn't registered, then I loked up how to register it and got things telling me it wasn't for home use but for businesses and my version could end anytime soon so I uninstalled it.
This is end-game really. Custom ISO's have been around for a decades. Windows 10 in particular blew up in 2018/2019 as newer hardware didn't "natively" support Windows 7 anymore without some workarounds in the ISO file (USB drivers mostly). Several communities have disbanded or were shut down by Microsoft themselves as they got too big. Groups going open-source and post-install has been on the rise for the past year or so, which is good as custom ISO's are shady af.
Hahahaha, a German writing here ... Topic: Windows Images ... Ok, Images = Pictures = Wallpapers = What??? ... Ok, I work on it 🙂
will u b doing an update vid on this ??
Hi Chris, Just a quick question. What ever happend to your BASH script to beautify the Terminator terminal program for Linux....Thanks
Is there a way to remove windows home from the original ISO? I don’t want to modify any components just remove the home version, ideally with dism. It’s annoying on laptops, if windows home gets automatically installed without being able to choose on install.
GhostSpectre is a good one
It's about the same as this one
Atlas Os has a lot's of bug. I saw your review and went for Atlas Os. But I am regrating my decision.
i dont like custom windows 10 iso's but i still use atlas os on my low end laptop it once breaked the windows and i had to downlaod windows and the ame wizard was slow and it got stuck many times.
I’m still using Windows 11 because all my games (Game Pass, Steam, and EA) all work well.
There is an AME 11 playbook if you're interested.
This tools will continue to growth unless Microsoft listen us and make minimal windows 11 desktop without bloatware, that will break a build in app contract, that normally one like to do it
wallpaper name 10:40 ??
Central AME Script is missing after uninstalling power shell. where to find it?
Hello chris sir, i have a question, I watch your twitch streams, You were using m1 mac mini, why you've ditched that fast ARM processor and switched completely to x86, isnt arm and apple supposed to be better ?
No? It's ARM lmao.
Deployment iumkit, the best
Hello, do you know how to create our self Playbook ?
winaero is the way to go
What is that pop down bar along the top of your desktop?
I downloaded something called "Tituspi" from a shady place on the interweb. Should I distrust this? I'm worried that my internet connected refrigerator will become filled with sparkling water and displace the beer.
Which collection is better: Revi, Atlas, Ame 11?
AME 10
AME 10
@ChrisTitusTech : What happens when there's a Windows 10 update and you have the custom version of Windows? Would it break it??
Feature Update: Yes -- Security Update: No
the reason these things make your computer so fast is because they remove all security.
if you keep the security you won't be fast. the virus scans before every exe runs makes everything slow
Does atlasos uninstall your stuff ?