I removed a lot of telemetry and if you use WinUtil and O&O ShutUp together with NitroWin, you'll basically have all possible telemetry options turned off.
Another thing that this doesn't come with is bloat. But I still included everything you need for a normal Windows installation. If you're missing something or want something removed you can always do that later.
While I can't guarantee this one, it should definitely be better than a stock Windows install. I didn't make NitroWin for more FPS, but rather for the improved privacy.
I'd still absolutely recommend reinstalling Windows but most of the tweaks work on already existing installations. You can probably apply all tweaks which aren't in the answer file.
This mod doesn't come with any sort of custom branding to keep Windows as clean as possible.
Unlike other custom Windows modifications, I'm not disabling anything security related.
This project is completely open source. Please note that Windows is not open source. (Why would you even think that?)
This is the most obvious one, I don't think I have to say anything about that one.
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Download or clone this repository.
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Open up an elevated PowerShell prompt inside of the downloaded repository.
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Run the following commands inside of that prompt:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process -Force .\NitroWin
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The GUI will open up and is ready for you to use.
If you want to build a minimal ISO, check out my fork of WinUtil. Create an ISO with MicroWin, just as you would with the regular WinUtil. The ISO will automatically contain the answer file and a copy of NitroWin. Note that the automatic user creation doesn't work because I had to remove the answer file from the original repo.
To run my fork of WinUtil, run the following inside an elevated PowerShell prompt:
iex (irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nitro4542/winutil/main/winutil.ps1")
This project is licensed under the Unlicense.
It also uses part of the WinUtil repo by ChrisTitusTech, which is also licensed under the MIT License.
This repository contains files generated by the unattend-generator by Cristoph Schneegans, which is licensed under the MIT License.
For more details, see NOTICE.md.
Almost all tweaks were taken from the AtlasOS project, which is licensed under GPL 3.0. I won't change this project's license to GPL because I don't think you can copyright Windows registry files. Also, I rewrote the tweaks from their YAML format to the REG or PS1 format.
This project is not affiliated with Microsoft or any other third-party project this repository uses.
This project does not distribute modified Windows ISOs.