Windows 10 D-S-T-DEZABLER

You cannot remove ShellExperienceHost without breaking context menu on taskbar + calendar + volume. I don't see how it can work without it.

 

Probably true. But I'd still love to have access to your Final work/ release on Windows 8.1 -
- From that point I can do my own research and study and take Win 8.1 forward.
- Your past work, would give me a starting point and give me insight as to what components you removed and I could choose to do the same and/ or remove some and disable some. E.g. I think default Apps must be removed, maybe store removal is risky.. so disable.

 

By removing stuff you also reduce the attack surface.

 

Much thanks RanCorX2. One thing I noticed is when MMCSS is disabled the system clock never gets set to 0.5 anymore, only 1.0. So I recommend leaving that enabled unless you use a program like timertool.

 

SRV/SRV2 is also needed for SERVER service, which together with TCP/IP NETBIOS HELPER and WORKSTATION services was needed for PSEXEC.EXE to aid SCHTASKS.EXE disable some tasks

 

Which tasks would those be? I guess that it also means that Tasks should be disabled before SRV/SRV2, Workstation/Server services..?

 

I had these unable to disable with "schtasks.exe /change /disable /TN <taskname>"

"\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\Metadata Refresh"
"\Microsoft\Windows\EDP\EDP App Launch Task"
"\Microsoft\Windows\EDP\EDP Auth Task"
"\Microsoft\Windows\SettingSync\BackgroundUploadTask"

Found somewhere that Sysinternal's psexec.exe could help disable them "psexec.exe -i -s schtasks.exe /change /disable /TN <taskname>"

 

You can just use NSudo to launch Autoruns or even CCleaner and disable them that way.

 

At the end its all the same, use external program to enhance existing programs capabilities.

CCleaner - didn't find anything related to tasks, besides just startup things.
Autoruns - asked for internet connection, so didn't bother to look for task specific options.
psexec - was run in virtual machine, networking disabled, can't say anything about its connection interests, although it comes from the same source as autoruns.

 

I know this is an old post, but it's the only place I could find reference to these package names...

Where do you obtain this list of packages from? Get-WindowsPackage doesn't list any of these...

Thanks