Windows 10 Refresh Tool Will Sweep Away Bloatware on Your PC
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 9:58AM One of the things that we are constantly doing on machines coming in to us from distribution before we send them out to our customers is prep them. Besides loading them up with the applications that the client needs we also strip out the Bloatware that manufactures install on these machines. The Bloatware on these systems can seriously degrade the performance of a system. So why do you ask, do manufacturers add this to their systems? The reason is simple, they get paid a subsidy by the software manufacturers to install it. In most cases it is benign but in other cases it can open series holes in your security and compromise the speed of your system.
So Microsoft is planning on releasing a tool that will roll back the software bloat that hardware manufacturers put on their systems and give you a clean install of their Windows 10 operating system.
The Windows 10 Refresh Tool, which has just entered public testing as part of Windows 10 Build 14367 which was recently released to Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring, will perform a clean installation of Windows 10 and remove apps that came pre-installed on your device including support apps and drivers. As part of the clean install process it will also remove any apps and desktop programs you may have installed as well.
While Windows Insiders have several caveats relating to the testing of the new Refresh Tool for consumers it will be more straight forward once the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is released in July.
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