Hello, I have also been making a windows unattended install and debloat script suite !

[shodanx2]

Hi,

When I had a computer store 25 years ago I was installing rewindows so often that I made many scripts to automate this task.

About 5 years ago I got back into computer and home servers and VMs and such and now I have been working on a fully unattended windows installation that makes windows "just right" and I mean by that, absolutely completly exactly like I want it.

Down to the settings in all installed external application, likes disabling automatic update and update checking for all applications, enabling dark mode, installing my favorite addon in all my favorite firefox forks and approximately a thousand other things.

I TRY to do everything with batch files that are purposedly structured to be easy to read and understand, modular and easy to modify but also easy to agglomerate.

I have not made an application to let the user choose what gets done yet, but I also considered making a .net application to change the settings and create schemes of modification to make it easier and even more automatic, for now I have one "system.bat" that launches all the other .bats and you can comment out the ones you don't like.

To give you an example, one of the most recent thing I made is a script that allows settings values inside the ApplicationConfig.json file of ShareX to enable transparent rectangle selection during the creation of a video screenshot. To give you an idea of how fine-grained my changes are

So far I have only done windows 10 but I made it so that windows 11 should work with my and I want to also make it backwards compatible back to windows 2000, hence the use of batch files.

I'm excited to see multiple persons independantly making their own debloat and config tools like that. Windows has become so bad we need that now. There is also youtube Chris Titus who is also making his own debloat tool.

I have also make a bash generator of the file autounattend.xml, the goal there being to create a command line tool to configure fully an autounattend.xml file and build a bios+efi windows install iso and pre-load drivers in it. I found that application distrobuilder also made something similar to this.

I also want to be able to make a self-hosted Web UI that generates autounattends and creates new VMs in proxmox in one click.

And also, I want to make my windows auto uninstaller netbootable with iPXE.

Ultimately, any computer or VM on my network, could autoboot any windows or linux installer and with a single action end up with a fully installed and properly configured system with all applications installed after only waiting a while, not making a single click, and everything of that done without a single click.

[memstechtips]

Hey there,

Thanks for sharing. Automating the Windows installation process is a must these days, can't go without it.