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"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.

If done correctly, it'll look like this.

While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.

Integrated search will have you going to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!

To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings

And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!

Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.

If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)

In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.

Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.

This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.

If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.

One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)

and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.

It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.

Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.

There's well over a hundred settings, here's just a few of them:

(sorry the classic taskbar option no longer works with current windows 11 version)

Fair warning: This is a powerful tool which means it can also do some damage if you don't know what you're doing, but every setting comes with an extensive explanation, as you can see in the Ads and unwanted apps screenshot.

Written up on March 31, 2026.

OK, getting a whole lotta new reblogs/notes/tags on my post about debloating the AI malware and various other slop microsoft is desperately trying to make profitable, and most of them are along the lines of "I don't know how to do this, so I guess I'll just die" or "I will put this post aside until i have a whole day to devote to it" and guys, babes, darlings. It takes 5 minutes. 10 if you're choosy - and I swear on every god you CAN do it. You are so much smarter than the lazy, thoughtless bullshit programming that went into this. Here we go. Take my hand. I love you.

I'm real sorry I didn't include the basic steps in that original post, because honestly, I forget sometimes that there are a lot of people who are not familiar with github, and that's on me (insert 'enthusiasts always overestimate the average person's familiarity with their subject' comic here). So here it is, the 5 minute "get all that shit off my windows machine" explanation:

Go to Raphire's github page (https://github.com/raphire/win11debloat) to read the details, look at source code, comfort yourself that this is not a huge fucking scam or malware (and be proud of yourself for trying, because corporations don't want you to learn how to protect yourself in this digital age). Never just trust a random person on the internet telling you to put things on your computer, you're too smart and sexy for that.

Now that we have done a little browsing, a little reading, maybe a little looking things up, scroll down to "Quick Method" to see these instructions (or, uh, just do them from here, if you feel like it?). All of the changes made by Win11Debloat can easily be reverted and almost all of the apps can be reinstalled for free through the Microsoft Store. There's a step by step guide to do that if you feel like it on the Raphire page near the bottom.

Open PowerShell or Terminal. (go to the search bar at the bottom of your screen and type in "powershell," guarantee your windows machine WILL have it, probably multiple versions of it, and no, it doesn't really matter which one you pick).

Copy and paste the command below into PowerShell or terminal:

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm "https://debloat.raphi.re/")))

Wait for the script to automatically download Win11Debloat. (It will probably do a "are you sure"/"let this program alter windows" popup. Click yes, it's okay. 30-ish seconds of "unpacking" or whatever and then you have 2 options: Default and Custom.

If you click Default, you can select your options (your user name, whether this affects just you or all users (if no one else uses your computer, leave it at "all users"), and I recommend checking "create a restore point" but that's up to you). And then it just runs. Cleans up everything, you're good to go, takes about 1-2 minutes. Close powershell and go about your business, breathing free in the knowledge that copilot isn't scanning through your fucking files without even telling you.

For Custom: it brings up a list of every single thing you can delete. I had roughly 90 things, including Copilot, the NYT Crossword, Fitbit (I don't even have one), Facebook (foul beloathed cursed amulet of a website btw), and various other info-tracking malware bullshit. Check everything you want to get rid of. Look up the stuff you don't recognize. Hit Next, this is the settings page. You do not need any of this, it's all aesthetic or bloat, and getting rid of it will *significantly* improve your performance. Like, astonishingly better performance. Hit Next. Apply changes.

DONE. You are the master of the devices that you paid money to own. You are the captain of your life. Fuck AI slop, fuck corporate greed, and fuck having to buy a new computer or learn how to adapt every program you want to use to another operating system because whatever microsoft throws at you, someone out here is working to throw it right the hell back! You are not the problem, you are the goddamn solution, you beautiful creature.

Bonus videos: Github Basics For Beginners (youtube, Oct 2023, general understanding of how the whole system works, in plain english for non programmers).

❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞

For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.

While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.