Chris Titus Tech Windows 11 Debloat [better] May 2026

He hadn't asked for any of them.

He opened Edge. It didn't beg him to make it default. He installed Firefox. It just worked. chris titus tech windows 11 debloat

The script wasn't about gutting Windows until it looked like Windows 95. It was about stripping the commercial layer: the telemetry that phoned home every keystroke, the pre-installed TikTok and Spotify apps, the "suggestions" in Settings. It left Defender intact. It left the Store intact (optional). It even let you reinstall the removed bloat if a game or app needed it. He hadn't asked for any of them

"No. This machine is mine."

He'd tried the manual route. Twenty minutes in Settings, ten minutes in Services.msc, a terrifying registry edit that broke his audio. Two hours later, the bloat was back. A Windows Update had resurrected every ghost he’d painstakingly exorcised. He installed Firefox