---
title: "Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub – OSnews"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-maintains-its-own-windows-debloat-scripts-on-github-osnews-shw3a43di
source_url: https://www.osnews.com/story/140955/microsoft-maintains-its-own-windows-debloat-scripts-on-github/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-10-22T02:53:07.634Z
updated: 2024-12-09T10:55:41.095Z
tags: ["open-source", "github", "windows", "powershell"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 18
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub – OSnews

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 2 min read · 18 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Microsoft maintains a GitHub repository of Windows debloat scripts to help simplify setting up Windows as a development environment by removing unnecessary preinstalled applications. The scripts use Chocolatey wrapped in Boxstarter to manage installations and reboots. Despite being a few years old and somewhat defunct, the existence of these scripts underscores the ongoing issues with Windows bloatware and system requirements.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.osnews.com/story/140955/microsoft-maintains-its-own-windows-debloat-scripts-on-github/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@rodlaycock** · 2 upvotes

> Or just use a non bloated OS to begin with. If MS know these things can be removed, why not put them as options on the install?

**@k33k00** · 1 upvotes

> https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/tree/master

**@pamblo** · 0 upvotes

> Thank you for this post!

**@lefty\_joe** · 0 upvotes

> LOL'd at "Silly me, expecting Microsoft’s Windows developers to address these shortcomings internally instead of using third-party tools."

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