The pastebin contained a single line of PowerShell.
Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection" -Recurse -Force chris titus windows 10 debloater
Chris Titus wasn’t a hacker. He wasn’t a vigilante, a corporate spy, or a disgruntled Microsoft employee. By day, he was a senior systems architect for a mid-sized logistics firm in Michigan, the kind of guy who wore flannel to video calls and kept a half-empty mug of coffee on his desk for three days at a time. The pastebin contained a single line of PowerShell
So he refined it. He added conditionals. Exceptions. A menu. Option 1: Standard Debloat (safe for normals). Option 2: Full Debloat (for lunatics like him). Option 3: Custom. He added a "Black List" for the truly evil processes—the telemetry services that respawned like zombies. DiagTrack. dmwappushservice. He learned their names, their hiding spots in the registry, their scheduled tasks that reactivated at 2 AM. By day, he was a senior systems architect
Chris nodded, mouth full.
"I liberated our machine from the tyranny of bloatware," he said.
Chris laughed. Then he got angry. He posted the takedown notice on Twitter with a single line: "Looks like I hit a nerve."