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• @simon@procrastodon.net 2026-06-30 16:29

  @lerven@tweesecake.social A lot of this won't be original and you may have heard of it, but here goes. ExplorerPatcher, OpenShell, and Win11Debloat are my go-to tools. Open-Shell gives you a very snappy start menu reminiscent of Windows 7, including the ability to hit tab and junk to your home folder. 0 web components, uses the Windows search index. ExplorerPatcher gives you a quick way to change some Explorer settings, some of which can't be done as simple registry tweaks. Mine brings back the menu bar, takes a lot of junk out of the desktop/taskbar shell, and gives me old XP-style listviews. Keyboard navigation in the properties dialog is 100% fudged and a little weird; left/right arrow switches tabs and the space bar interacts with lists/comboboxes. Win11Debloat uninstalls a whole bunch of apps, gets rid of many AI/telemetry/etc. and also gives you a quick way to turn on some common settings like file extensions in Explorer. Two of these are in WinGet: winget install open-shell valinet.explorerpatcher For win11debloat, type this in a powershell. Note that this downloads a script off the internet and runs it without confirmation, so the usual "don't run things you don't trust" applies. You can presumably just access this URL and feed it to Claude. irm "https://debloat.raphi.re/" | iex I need to give the Windows 11 task manager a chance, but in case you do give it a chance and hate it, there's a version of the Windows 7 task manager floating around with an installer that replaces the built-in one. Lastly, I turn off the lock screen, which makes Windows go straight to the logon screen instead: https://slj.io/software/lockscreen_off.reg

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