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I've seen disk images of windows on piracy sites that have all this stuff preconfigured

you can get slim builds with chrome ready to go already, builds with all these cleanup scripts configured, and more

sadly, they also know people in a rush are looking for this or prefer it, and they install backdoors or ways to steal your crypto on them and stuff

I wouldn't even trust the scripts itself at this point, so I'm another for just don't run this stuff



> I wouldn't even trust the scripts itself at this point, so I'm another for just don't run this stuff

The scripts (they are mostly forks of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script) are nicely written toggles for registry values or GPO, that you can read and selectively all. Nothing scary.


As good as it sounds, I wouldn’t feel comfortable installing a modded Win10 install from a piracy site…. Maybe it’s just me.


Thats… what I said

as consensus has flipped multiple times since I posted it, it makes me wonder if other people misread my comment




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