Fixing Windows 11

Bloat in windows

Following is the list of bloat windows ships with, which can be removed

• Clipchamp
• News
• Weather
• Xbox (although Xbox Identity provider is still here, so it should be possible to be reinstalled with no issues)
• GetHelp
• GetStarted
• Office Hub
• Solitaire
• PeopleApp
• PowerAutomate
• ToDo
• Alarms
• Mail and Calendar
• Feedback Hub
• Maps
• Sound Recorder
• Your Phone
• Media Player
• QuickAssist
• Internet Explorer
• Tablet PC Math
• Edge
• OneDrive

Lets remove these things by using a tool called tiny11builder.

It is a script for creating a bloat-free Windows 11 iso. Utilizing only Microsoft’s DISM utility and oscdimg.exe from the Windows ADK for bootable ISO creation. Features an unattended answer file for OOBE Microsoft Account bypass and /compact flag deployment. This script is open-source and can be found at github/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

Steps

• We need to make sure to set the execution policy to be Unrestricted in PowerShell. To do that use the following command in PowerShell.

  # run this as administrator
  PS C:\Users\Sakshat> Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
  

• Then download Windows 11 from the Microsoft website

• Mount the downloaded ISO image using Windows Explorer.

• Select the drive letter where the image is mounted (only the letter, no colon (:))

• Select the SKU that you want the image to be based.

• When the image is completed, you will see it in the folder where the script was extracted, with the name tiny11.iso

• Connect your USB Flash drive. Please note that you will be erasing all the data on it.

• Download and launch Rufus.

• Select your USB drive if it’s not already selected by default.

• Click Select and choose the tiny11.iso file from your storage drive.

• Click Start at the bottom of the window.

• Create a second partition and format it as NTFS. It should take all the remaining disk space.

• Check remove requirement for TPM, data collection if you want. These are optional.

• Click Ok if warned that the process will destroy all data on your USB Flash drive.

• Rufus will now take a few minutes to drive to your drive. When it is done, you will have a USB Flash drive that can boot to install windows.