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If it's legal and Microsoft is ok with it, I guess I'm happy it exists!

When I was a kid I remember poring over all kinds of stuff to make my games run well on the family PC. CCleaner, Disk Cleaner, Disk Defragmenter, turning off a bunch of Windows services and processes in Task Manager, and... there was one other questionable program I can't recall, that disabled a bunch of things when you ran it, then re-enabled it when you quit. I had Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware, and tweaked the registry a bit, IIRC.

My point is, it takes a lot of work to understand what can be turned off to squeeze out performance, but it sounds like something that benefits the user.



It's legal because it's a registry file and a few installers plus a desktop background. The performance gains are chiefly found by disabling important stuff like Defender.


The tweaks might be legal, but the modified Windows installation ISOs they're distributing VIA GITHUB probably aren't.[1][2]

[1]: https://atlasos.net/downloads

[2]: The download URLs are GitHub release assets distributed via https://objects.githubusercontent.com/




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