Chris Titus — Tech Windows 11 Debloat

He hadn't asked for any of them.

Marcus logged back in. The login was instantaneous. He clicked the Start Menu. It exploded open. No delay. No "Recommended" section showing him news from MSN. No "Recent files" he didn't care about. Just his pinned apps and an alphabetized list.

He'd tried the manual route. Twenty minutes in Settings, ten minutes in Services.msc, a terrifying registry edit that broke his audio. Two hours later, the bloat was back. A Windows Update had resurrected every ghost he’d painstakingly exorcised.

He opened Task Manager. 52 processes. 2.1GB RAM usage. 0% disk, 0% CPU.

The Ghost in the Machine