Urftilities 1.1

Optimization, Security
15 July 2024, 08:08

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Urftilities — a set of Windows optimizations oriented to improve security and performance, at the same time that it enhances privacy.

Important

This proyect is modifiable and you can remove or add scripts as you want. For example: by default, Urftilities removes Microsoft Edge. You can browse the script file that does that inside the .\badWindows folder.
For compatibility reasons, all the scripts provided by the original package of Urftilities are meant to be run with administrator privileges.
Remember having your execution policy capable of executing non-signed scripts!!

About the program

Operating systems are constantly evolving, and Windows is not an exception. But with the development of new technologies, the ones that we know and the ones that we don't, our systems are getting much more inflated with charasteristics and applications that we actually never use. That bloating is like a double-edged weapon, because it promisses lots of new features as it slowly worsens our computers' performance.
This proyect is oriented to improve the performance of any Windows system at the same time as disabling the 99.9% of telemetry and enhancing privacy.
Note: you don't need to neccessarily remove the scripts that you don't want to apply. You can simply rename their extensions to any other that doesn't contain .ps1 on it.

Full features

This mode aims to solve different problems within Windows, which are divided in four categories:

Removing unneccessary packages
Removing telemetry
Removing residual files all over the system and optimize its performance.

A more detailed list of the features that Urftilities has are shown below:

Remove preinstalled Windows apps, such as Windows maps, New York Times app, Candy Crush… and prevents all those from reinstalling automatically (the user can install them whenever manually).
Remove Microsoft Edge: as you probably don't use it as you main browser, just for opening PDFs, and its associated telemetry (that is a lot).
Remove OneDrive: as many people don't actually use it actively and prevents from installing automatically (still, the user can install it manually if wanted).
Remove Microsoft Teams: as the majority of users never communicate with others through this, this app is always loading at startup, consuming unneccessary resources and collecting data.
Applies Windows UI optimizations: Disables some anoying features that Windows Explorer has and tweaks some aspects from the mouse.
Optimize network: Optimize how the system sends and receives packages from the internet and optimizes cache management.
Optimize services: Changes the startup mode for all non-essential services in Windows to prevent the system loading them everytime. Instead, the services only load when they need. Also disables some expendable services such as the fax service.
Apply tweaks on the system: Optimizes the
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svchost.exe
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file usage of memory and reduces timings when killing apps. Also disables power throttling, so be aware of that if you are using a laptop!!
Optimizes timer resolution: This is an advanced configuration that let games and high-demanding applications to run with much better performance.
Optimize updates: Creates some rules on the Windows Update policies that prevents it to download anything that aren't actual updates (drivers, 3rd-party software) and delays some days the arrival of updates for security and stability reasons.
Repair system: Seeks in the filesystem for any corrupted system file and repairs it.
Disables scheduled tasks: Disables tasks related to telemetry and data sharing.
Optimize privacy: Disables 99.9% of Windows telemetry and not also from the actual system, but from Microsoft Office and from apps like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox (if installed).
Disables Microsoft Copilot: Disables the well-known copilot and its new features like Copilot+PC, which is only present on Windows 11 machines.