Bloatware Remover Free
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Bloatware, also called crapware and junkware, is useless software that finds its way onto your computer. It generally comes preinstalled on new PCs, or bundled together with other legitimate software you downloaded. Some common types of bloatware come in the form of free trials, toolbars, and apps made by your PC manufacturer and preloaded on your machine, like financial or weather apps. Other bloatware looks and behaves a lot like adware and spyware, which are types of malicious software.
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I would like to know if my subscription (Total Security) includes any kind of utility for removing bloatware. I have a quite new desktop PC from HP and there seems to be a lot of pre-installed bloatware on it. I have already rather brutally removed most of the HP Wolf Security program that, to begin with, prevented me from opening PDF documents (it opened them inside some other HP app, which I found very annoying).
One complaint I often hear about using straight OOBE autopilot is around the bloatware, either manufacturer installed (McAfee trials anyone?) or the Microsoft stuff, after all, who needs Xbox Gaming bar on an enterprise machine?
I, personally, prefer to embrace the future and go all out Autopilot, ship straight to your users and let Intune sort the rest which obviously pushes me down the scripting route. There are plenty of scripts out there, but none quite ticked all of the boxes, I wanted something that would remove all MS apps without me having to mess with the store, manufacturer bloat and anything else which might have crept on.
I know some of you may be looking at the last two options and worrying about the current estate if you deploy site-wide, but I have you covered. The Win32 app removal part will only run if NO apps have been deployed via Intune. If it detects any installations, it will just skip that bit.
and thank you for the awesome script. After running the script, I saw that the ability to search Domain users in Windows Search got removed. I would like to keep it, but I am not certain what modifications I should do to keep this functionality ?
Looking at the comment that drove this change, using a w11 Enterprise 23H2 ISO the clear layout seemed to work perfectly, outside of failing to properly unpin store. I think I will likely just comment out that portion of code.
When the laptop is rebooted and the use signs back in McAfee is no longer in the systray, the service has stopped and has been removed.
All that remains is the program itself in add/remove programs along with McAfee Software Update, McpManagementService and mc-wps-secdashboardservice which are all stopped (set to manual)
Security center no longer shows it as running etc.
Hi Peter,
How are you configuring detection for the app? One option would be to tweak the detection so that the script is nearly finished (the McAfee removal tool is probably far enough along). Then you could deploy a second win32 app with a dependancy on the bloat removal which simply triggers a reboot (maybe add a pause of 1 minute to let the other one finish).
We spoke before when we had some issues. We had been using your original version (got it all working) for a month or so. Noticed today its failing on all our devices. I did one before your latest update and it worked no problems but the 3 I tried today all fail. Checked and the reason for the fail is detection method fails. Notice that there is no log file being created (hence the detection fails). Has anyone else reported issues.
Thank you so much for putting this script together. I tried deploying this in intune using the debloat-intune-script.intunewin. I think it deployed and ran correctly on a newly deployed machine but it didnt actually remove anything. According to the logs it says it did, here are the logs:
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