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Thorium for Windows
Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90
Thorium for Windows is the Windows-focused distribution of the Thorium web browser, a privacy- and feature-enhanced Chromium fork named after the radioactive element and built to support modern web browsing with added controls and tweaks not found in standard Chromium builds. It aims to provide a browsing experience similar to Google Chrome in terms of compatibility with web apps and extensions but injects user-centric changes like privacy controls enabled by default, content filtering, and interface tweaks that appeal to advanced users. ... -
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Debloat Windows 10
A Collection of Scripts Which Disable/Remove Windows 10 Features
“Debloat-Windows-10” is a GitHub repository containing a collection of PowerShell scripts intended to disable or remove unwanted Windows 10 features, built-in apps, services, telemetry components, and tweaks for performance or privacy. The project is archived as of September 23, 2025 and marked as read-only, since Windows 10 will reach end of life. -
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windows_hardening
HardeningKitty and Windows Hardening Settings
This repository, also known as HardeningKitty, is a comprehensive Windows hardening checklist for personal and enterprise environments. It translates security benchmarks (e.g., CIS, Microsoft Security Baselines) into actionable Group Policy and registry recommendations. Though designed primarily for Windows 10, it includes workaround modes such as “HailMary” for Windows Home users lacking the Group Policy Editor. -
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Sophia Script for Windows
The most powerful PowerShell module for fine-tuning Windows
Sophia Script for Windows is a scripting environment or DSL (Domain-Specific Language) designed to provide scripting capabilities on Windows systems in a high-level, expressive way. It abstracts over native APIs and offers constructs that make system automation, file manipulation, registry access, and user scripting easier than raw PowerShell or batch scripts. The repository presumably contains runtime, script engine, and library helpers to simplify common Windows tasks (e.g., service... -
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Windows Super God Mode
Creates shortcuts to virtually every special location or action built
This project packages a set of Windows tweaks, shortcuts, and convenience scripts that surface many of the OS’s hidden settings and advanced controls into a single, easy-to-use place. It automates creation of “God Mode” folders and other control-panel shortcuts, removes the need to manually hunt through layers of Settings or the Registry, and often bundles helper scripts for common maintenance tasks. -
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WinUtil
Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes
WinUtil by Chris Titus Tech is a comprehensive Windows utility script designed to automate system maintenance, streamline software installations, and apply performance tweaks. It focuses on debloating Windows, fixing update issues, and configuring various system optimizations to enhance user experience. The tool requires running PowerShell with administrator privileges to perform system-wide changes safely and effectively. -
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Sparkle – Windows Optimizer
A fast and modern app to optimize, debloat, and clean up your Windows
✨ Sparkle – The Ultimate Windows Optimization Tool Sparkle is a modern, open-source utility that helps you debloat, optimize, and clean your Windows PC in just a few clicks. Whether you’re a power user or just looking to give your system a speed boost, Sparkle offers a sleek and easy-to-use interface for managing system tweaks, removing bloatware, clearing temp files, and more">
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RyTuneX
RyTuneX is a cutting-edge optimizer built with the WinUI 3 framework
RyTuneX is a comprehensive Windows-system optimization tool aimed at users who want to enhance performance, privacy and usability on systems running Windows 10 (20H1 +) and Windows 11. It is built using the WinUI 3 framework and .NET 8 to provide a modern, responsive interface and native Windows look and feel. The application lets users “debloat” their system by removing pre-installed apps and Windows features that may be unnecessary or resource-heavy, helping free up resources and storage. ... -
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CrapFixer
Fixes the crap Windows leaves behind
CrapFixer is a lightweight Windows cleanup and tweaking toolbox aimed at removing or reducing the everyday “junk” Windows accumulates, while keeping changes understandable and reversible. It’s positioned as a fast, no-fluff utility that focuses on practical fixes rather than turning into an overstuffed “optimizer” suite. The workflow is deliberately simple: you analyze your system, review what’s flagged, and then apply recommended changes with a single action. -
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UnattendedWinstall
Personalized Unattended Answer Files that helps debloat Windows 10
UnattendedWinstall is a collection of Microsoft Unattend XML answer files designed for customized, unattended Windows installations. It automates OS deployment, debloating, and configuration changes (like disabling telemetry, removing default apps, registry tweaks) during initial setup. Designed to streamline clean installs of Windows 10/11 with preconfigured preferences and optimizations. -
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MacType
Better font rendering for Windows
Better font rendering for Windows. Win10 compatible. CET compatible. Updated FreeType. Support for color fonts. New installer. Lots of bug fixes. Updates for multi-monitor support. Tray app can intercept explorer in Service Mode now. Tweaks for diacritics. Updates to EasyHook. Lower CPU in Tray Mode. Separate DirectWrite parameter adjustment. Traditional Chinese localization greatly improved thanks to GT Wang. -
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Win Debloat Tools
Re-imagining Windows like a minimal OS install
Win Debloat Tools is an open-source PowerShell-based toolkit designed to strip away unnecessary components, preinstalled apps, and services from modern Windows installations to create a leaner, more responsive operating system. It aims to re-imagine Windows as if it were installed in a minimal state, removing bloatware and optional features with minimal impact on core functionality, though it warns users to proceed with caution since changes can be extensive. The project supports both graphical and CLI execution flows that let users individually select tweaks or apply a broad “Apply Tweaks” preset that automates many optimizations at once. ... -
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IntelliJ Community Edition
IntelliJ IDEA & IntelliJ Platform
IntelliJ Community is the open source upstream of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA, forming the core of a powerful, extensible, and intelligent development environment. It provides foundational features like a robust editor with code completion, syntax highlighting, refactoring tools, version control integrations, terminal, debugger, and plugin architecture. Since it’s open, community developers can contribute to language supports, UI tweaks, and platform enhancements. From this base, JetBrains... -
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Betterfox
Firefox user.js for optimal privacy and security
Betterfox is an opinionated configuration profile for Mozilla Firefox designed to improve everyday web browsing by making the browser faster, more private, and more secure without relying on external add-ons or third-party code. Rather than being a separate browser, it consists of a curated set of preference tweaks (user.js settings) that users apply to their Firefox profile to optimize performance and harden privacy settings. The project focuses on a minimal-impact, maximum-effect approach,... -
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SpotX
SpotX patcher used for patching the desktop version of Spotify
SpotX is a community-built Spotify desktop client patcher that blocks audio, video, and banner ads and unlocks premium-like features—such as unlimited skips and custom themes—on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It injects tweaks client-side to redefine the Spotify experience. -
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ArkOS
Another rockchip Operating System
...This OS came about from an initial fork of The Retro Arena to support a roms folder on a NTFS partition so that the management of roms could be done by simply putting you SD card into an appropriate card reader on a Windows 10 computer. Through various upgrades and tweaks overtime, it has diverged significantly from TheRA and it's time to rebrand this distro. With suggestions provided by community members, ArkOS was chosen. -
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Hellzerg Optimizer
The finest Windows Optimizer
Advanced configuration utility that helps you restore your privacy and increase your security. Optimizer is recommended after a fresh, clean installation of Windows to achieve maximum privacy and security. Depending on your version of Windows, Optimizer will also allow you to perform some specific tweaks. -
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Xenia Canary
Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
Xenia Canary is an experimental fork of the Xenia Xbox 360 emulator that moves faster than the mainline project to trial bleeding-edge improvements. It focuses on game compatibility and performance by iterating quickly on GPU and CPU emulation paths, shader translation, and timing correctness. Canary builds are where risky optimizations, new backends, and rewrites land first so they can be tested by a wider community before stabilizing. The project emphasizes pragmatism: make more titles... -
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yt-dlp-gui
A cross-platform GUI wrapper for yt-dlp written in PySide6
...Written in PySide6 (Python with Qt bindings), it wraps the powerful yt-dlp engine in a visual application that lets users paste video URLs, choose formats, apply presets, and start downloads with a click, while still exposing options for advanced tweaks via configuration files. The project supports preset definitions and global arguments through a config file, so users can customize their most common download workflows—like audio extraction, quality ranking, or embedding thumbnails—without retyping arguments each time. Downloads can be initiated from a portable app bundle or run manually with Python, making it flexible across platforms including Windows and Linux. -
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ThoriumOS
ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs
ThoriumOS is an experimental Chromium OS fork maintained by the creator of the Thorium web browser. It is focused on optimizing Chrome OS for performance, developer control, and flexibility, especially on legacy or non-Google hardware. ThoriumOS provides a fast and lightweight desktop environment centered around the Chromium browser, aiming to give users a secure, privacy-respecting, and efficient alternative operating system. The project builds on Chromium OS's open-source base while... -
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DWMBlurGlass
Add custom effect to global system title bar, support win10 and win11
...Because its scope is narrowly defined — focusing on window rendering / UI effect — it is probably lightweight, easy to integrate in projects needing custom window decorations. This kind of project appeals to developers interested in customized UI, modded Windows applications, or aesthetic tweaks rather than full-blown applications or games. As with many small open-source utilities, using DWMBlurGlass involves incorporating its code or build into your own application so that windows render with blur/ glass-style background, giving a modern or stylized look. -
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privacy.sexy
Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices
Enforce privacy & security best practices on Windows, macOS, and Linux, because privacy is sexy. Regularly applying your configuration with privacy.sexy is recommended, especially after each new release and major operating system updates. Each version updates scripts to enhance stability, privacy, and security. -
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Ungoogled Chromium
A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency
In descending order of significance (i.e. most important objective first), ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services, ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium. ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency. However, almost all of these... -
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Winetricks
Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
Winetricks is a helper script for the Wine compatibility layer that simplifies the process of configuring Wine environments, installing needed Windows components, and applying tweaks to make applications run better or at all under Wine. Wine itself provides a runtime for Windows applications on Unix-like systems, but when programs require specific DLLs, components like .NET frameworks, fonts, or special settings, users would traditionally have to manually fetch and configure them; Winetricks automates these tasks with an easy interface. ... -
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Proton-GE-Custom
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine
Proton-GE-Custom is an unofficial compatibility tool for Steam Play that builds on Valve’s Proton and Wine codebases to provide additional patches, fixes, and enhancements for running Windows games on Linux systems through Steam, particularly on Steam Deck and other Linux gaming platforms. Unlike the official Proton builds, this custom fork includes community-developed patches such as media foundation support, raw input improvements, AMD and Nvidia optimizations, and broader compatibility tweaks that help certain games launch and run more reliably or with better performance. ...