Observed arrival · 2026-08-28
The Windows Debloating Notebook That Leaves the Mistakes In
Clean Boot Lab documents reversible Windows 10 and 11 debloating, privacy, performance, and interface experiments across several personal machines.
Field notes
Clean Boot Lab divides Windows housekeeping into apps and packages, privacy and telemetry, performance and power, and the everyday interface layer of Taskbar, Start, and Explorer. Its stated method is deliberately incremental: create restore points and registry backups, change one category at a time, restart, inspect the registry path, and export the result. The homepage reports three machines, 90 days of notes, and five-run benchmarks in which only three tweaks moved 1% lows.
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