getting-startedprivacy
The first ten minutes with Winhance
What I install, what I check and which six toggles I flip before I touch anything else on a fresh Windows machine.
The journal
Eight write-ups, in the order they happened
Long-form notes on debloating, tuning and rebuilding Windows with Winhance. Filter by what you are trying to do.
debloatgetting-started
Debloating Windows 11 without breaking it
Removable, reinstallable, or gone forever — a three-tier approach to stripping a Windows install that still has to work on Monday.
privacyregistry
Reading the registry behind the privacy toggles
Turning on Technical Details and following each privacy switch down to the key it writes — what the values mean, and how to audit them yourself.
performancebenchmarks
What debloating actually did to my frame times
One bench machine, three games, before and after. The honest numbers, including the ones that show almost no change.
advanceddeployment
Building a zero-touch Windows ISO with WIMUtil
Driver injection, an autounattend file generated from your own toggles, and a bootable image that installs a configured machine while you make coffee.
deploymentworkflow
One config file, twelve machines
How I turned a one-off tuning session into three reusable profiles, and what I learned about versioning settings that outlive the machine.
debloatworkflow
The day I removed too much
A machine that booted fine and worked wrong, what the restore point did and did not recover, and the rule I have followed ever since.
performancegetting-started
Reviving a 2015 laptop for my mother
An eleven-year-old machine, a new SSD, and a deliberately boring set of tweaks aimed at legibility rather than benchmarks.