DDDT26 - LB

Windows 11, out of the box, felt less like an operating system and more like a timeshare condo. Every click was a pitch. Widgets wanted his attention. News stories he didn't read. A "backup" nag that felt like a shakedown. OneDrive constantly reconfiguring his Documents folder. His new 2024 laptop performed like a 2014 netbook.

A week later, a Windows Update ran. The debloat held. The settings persisted. Because Chris Titus's script didn't just kill processes; it configured Group Policies and Registry keys that told Windows no at a deep, structural level. It was a vaccine, not a painkiller.