Just use Chris Titus' WinUtil on a fresh install: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
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I've also used Shutup10 - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
and Sophia Scripts - https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows
As far fully testing results/removals, I honestly can't say. I CAN say they didn't break anything though, and the PC kept working fine. So.. that's something.
Windows Debloater worked well for me on 8.1 and 10 but I'm unsure if it's on 11+.
I wondered if I could find a comment on this post not related to Linux. Nope. Classic Lemmy.
There already were comments not related to linux when you posted this.
How do i permanently uninstall edge? Other than just moving to Linux?
So Microsoft was fined a ton of money for making IE not uninstallable, and they're now doing that shit again? Surprised, but not really
Edit: I read about it on Wikipedia to refresh my memory and wow, yeah they got off quite easy, writing their own terms and also having them expire after a few years. As if an established monopoly will behave itself a few years later because.. it learned its lesson or something?
We're they fined? I heard they were penalized with nothing. And boy, did they learn a lesson.
Yikes... I remembered them being forced by the government to do stuff. I just read about the outcome again and it's so fucked up... Yeah you are right:
At the initial trial, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Microsoft's actions constituted unlawful monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890,[2] but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit partially overturned that judgment.[1] The two parties later reached a settlement in which Microsoft agreed to modify some of its business practices.[3]
On November 1, 2001, the DOJ reached an agreement with Microsoft to settle the case. The proposed settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who would have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ensure compliance.[30] However, the DOJ did not require Microsoft to change any of its code nor did it prevent Microsoft from tying other software with Windows in the future.
Microsoft's obligations under the settlement, as originally drafted, expired on November 12, 2007.[33] However, Microsoft later "agreed to consent to a two-year extension of part of the Final Judgments" dealing with communications protocol licensing, and stated that if the government later wished to extend those aspects of the settlement as far as 2012, it would not object. The government made clear that the extension was intended only to give the relevant part of the settlement "the opportunity to succeed for the period of time it was intended to cover", rather than being due to any "pattern of willful and systematic violations".[34]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
So yeah, they agreed to do some stuff temporarily, for the appearance that something was done. They should have been fined a LOT and also forced to allow uninstallation of IE WITHOUT A FUCKING EXPIRATION DATE
Uninstalled it months ago and haven’t seen it since. You can also set updates to only install security updates 4 days after release and feature updates after 2 years of release.
This and StartAllBack are my answers when I hear “just install Linux and ditch windows”
I have some scheduled tasks that make sure it doesn't come back, if you don't go to pretty ridiculous lengths, it'll be back after every update.
My scheduled task largely just nukes the edge directory every time the computer boots and or I log in.
Unfortunately I think Windows re-installs it every major update so you'll need to be running a tool to uninstall it each time
it does, and it sucks. I think i just live with removing the shortcuts/links and trying to forget about it. My personal PC is linux now, but this is what I do on my wife and kids' computers.
See my comment above. May be of help.
Win10Privacy is my go-to to quickly and effectively de-bloat about 80% of Windows 10 or 11.
Downside is that it’s quite powerful, so much so it’s not really meant for non-experts, as you run a very real risk of bricking (or at least crippling) the system with some settings.
Uninstall 11 and install 10. Just did it on my son's laptop because he woke up without any ability to use his PS5 controller when nothing was changed in the middle of the night. Windows 11 sucks.
Reinstall Windows. Always on a new PC.
Ameliorated.io is my go-to