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Registry and privacy
Orphan entry cleanup and Windows data collection controls. Restore point first, always.
Windows Maintenance
Goes deep.
With a net underneath.
System maintenance is where Windows gets broken most often. So everything here creates a restore point first, and the risk model is explicit on every item.
Before anything else
A restore point. Registry, services, privacy and bloatware are never touched without one.
Safety database
120 services classified as safe, caution or unsafe. The manager refuses to alter an unsafe service instead of offering a “force” button.
Windows Maintenance
The areas
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Services and startup
Manager with a three-tier risk model, for permanent change that survives a reboot. Different from Game Mode's temporary suspension, which reverts on its own.
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Bloatware and drivers
Removal of preinstalled apps and detection of outdated drivers. Seeing what is outdated is free; removing and updating in bulk is Pro.
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Firewall and context menu
Firewall rule audit and cleanup of the right-click entries programs accumulate over time.
Suspending is not disabling
Two things with completely different risk, and the app never mixes them up.
- Game Mode suspends temporarily: snapshot, stop, restore. Reverts on close or reopen. It may include services that would be reckless to disable permanently.
- Service manager changes permanently and survives reboot. Which is why it is conservative and refuses anything classified unsafe.
- We never mark as session-safe anything that would break the match: audio, wireless, GPU, Bluetooth or gaming platform services.
- Windows Defender is deliberately left alone: tamper protection blocks it, it is a real security risk, and some anti-cheats check antivirus state.
The inventory
What exactly it touches
Figures taken from the code, verified by the same test that breaks the build if they drift.
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privacy controls
Across 8 categories, and seven of them are Windows 11 AI: Copilot, Recall, Click-to-Do, and the AI layers in Edge, Paint and Notepad. Every tweak has separate check, apply and revert.
109
catalogued pre-installed apps
Split between Microsoft's, the PC maker's, and gaming, media, utility and communication ones. The ones that break Store games are flagged as such, instead of disappearing silently.
120
classified services
On two independent axes: whether it is safe to disable permanently and whether it is safe to pause during a match. An ambiguous service is left out of the catalogue on purpose.
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disk tools
Analyzer by size, large files, duplicates, empty folders, shredder, repair and maintenance. Plus firewall rule auditing, the context menu, and a boot trace with the millisecond cost of each program.
What does not revert
Removing a pre-installed app is a final operation: the app does not reinstall what it removed, and a Windows restore point does not bring packages back — you reinstall from the store. That is why removal creates a restore point first, warns first, and never runs unless you tell it to.
The 57 privacy controls have a page of their own, with the registry key for each of the 7 AI ones.
Start with the diagnosis
Seeing what is wrong is free, including the problem count and the outdated driver readout.