Windows in 2025 has become a battleground between convenience and control: Paul Thurrott’s year‑in‑review for “My New Apps, Services, and Games of 2025” captures a pragmatic migration toward de‑enshittified Windows 11 — a curated, lean, and privacy‑respecting setup built from community tools...
Tiny11 Builder’s refresh for Windows 11 version 25H2 quietly rewrites one of the community’s most pragmatic responses to Windows bloat: a single PowerShell-driven workflow that rebuilds an official Microsoft ISO into a smaller, more privacy‑minded and user‑controlled installer — but it does so...
The tiny11 project has been updated for Windows 11 version 25H2, delivering a do‑it‑yourself, debloated Windows 11 build that removes many preinstalled Microsoft apps, offers an unattended answer to skip the Microsoft Account requirement during setup, and adds options to disable telemetry — all...
Tiny11’s refreshed builder makes a clear promise: a lean, debloated Windows 11 25H2 image that strips Microsoft’s newest inbox AI and collaboration components and removes the Microsoft Account requirement from OOBE — all while relying on Microsoft’s own servicing tools to rebuild official ISOs...
Windows can be lean, but it rarely is by default — and the difference between a clean, responsive system and one bogged down by invisible cruft often comes down to a handful of targeted tweaks and a readiness to trade a few gigabytes for stability or convenience. The PCWorld checklist of “12...
Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has forced a reckoning for millions of aging PCs—and a surprising cottage-industry of community tooling has stepped forward to offer a practical, if imperfect, bridge: Tiny11 Builder, a PowerShell-driven project that creates...
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NTDEV’s ecosystem of third‑party builders has a new, headline‑grabbing member: nano11, a PowerShell‑driven script that pushes the tiny‑Windows idea to its limits by producing an ultra‑small Windows 11 image — the developer says an ISO a little over 2 GB and runnable installs in the sub‑3 GB...
Tiny11’s refreshed Builder recasts Windows 11 as a lean, privacy-minded alternative for users who don’t want Microsoft’s inbox apps, Copilot, or forced Microsoft Account flows—and it does so at a critical moment, as Windows 10 support winds down and millions of PCs face an awkward upgrade...
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The tiny11builder project has received a significant refresh: the PowerShell-based builder now supports Windows 11 version 25H2 builds, adds explicit removal of Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client, switches to more efficient recovery compression for smaller ISOs, and introduces...
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