Bloatynosy

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# Bloatynosy Origin

**Open the app, see what Windows is doing, decide for yourself what stays.**

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## I gave up on this app more than once

The classic Bloatynosy got renamed, then discontinued. Winpilot replaced it and did not last.
Everything I built after that added more and solved less. None of it ever beat version 0.85, which
was one window, a list, and a button.

I kept taking the app in new directions. New names, new interfaces, new ideas. Some of those
experiments were fun, but every one of them moved further away from the thing that made the first
version worth using. Honestly, I should never have let that idea go.

Nobody else was going to bring it back, so I did. That is what **Origin** means. Not a sequel, not a
fork, not version 12. It is me going back to the version that worked and building that one properly.

The king is back. This time, he came home. 👑

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## Install

Grab the latest build from the [Releases page](https://github.com/builtbybel/Bloatynosy/releases),
extract it somewhere you can write to, run `Bloatynosy.exe`. That's it, it's portable.

Needs Windows 10 or 11 and .NET Framework 4.8.

Some machine wide settings can only be written with administrator rights. Bloatynosy does not demand
them up front. It runs as you, and if Windows refuses a change, the report says so and names the
setting. Start it as administrator if you want those included.

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## Using it

Three steps, and the app shows you which one you are on.

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| **1** | **Check your PC.** Bloatynosy reads settings and installed apps. Nothing is changed while it looks |
| **2** | **Review the results.** Tick what should go, untick what you want to keep |
| **3** | **Apply the changes.** A report tells you what worked, what did not, and what needs a restart |

The results are a tree, not 300 flat checkboxes. **Available changes** are the ones that still need
work. **Already applied** holds everything that is set the way the list recommends, so you can pick
from there if you want a setting back. A tick means the opposite in those two, so every category
under **Already applied** says "Restore defaults" next to its name. **Installed apps** is its own
group.

Pick a row and the bottom of the window explains it in plain words. **Show details** adds the
technical side, the actual registry path and value, for when you want to know exactly what happens.

The search box above the tree filters it while you type. Anything you ticked stays ticked, so you
can collect a selection out of several searches.

Right click a row, a category or a whole branch for **Apply now** and **Undo now**. That wri