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🐷 "Optimizing Windows... PIG STYLE!" 🥓
A cool pig 🐷 with shades, riding a skateboard 🛹, while holding the Windows flag! Now THAT'S how you start an optimizer!
HamTweak is a comprehensive, all-in-one PowerShell script that lets you customize and optimize Windows 10/11 without the bloat. No more rooting around in endless settings menus like a pig hunting for truffles!
Whether you're a privacy-conscious user, a gamer seeking performance, or a sysadmin managing deployments — HamTweak has got the goods. We're not just hamming it up here; this script packs 166 tweaks across 8 categories!
🐽 Privacy Hog Mode: Activated
🥓 Performance: Sizzling
🐖 Bloatware: Sent to the Slaughterhouse
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 🔒 Privacy & Security | 37 tweaks to stop Microsoft from hogging your data |
| 🚀 Performance & Gaming | 36 tweaks to make your PC faster than a pig on roller skates |
| ⚡ Power Management | 20 tweaks for when you need raw, unbridled POWER |
| 🎨 UI Customization | 31 tweaks to make Windows look less like a pig's breakfast |
| ⚙️ System Services | 22 services to wrangle into submission |
| 🔄 Windows Updates | 10 tweaks so updates don't hog your bandwidth |
| 🔔 Notifications & Sound | 10 tweaks for peace and quiet (in the pig pen) |
| 🗑️ Bloatware Removal | Evict those unwanted apps hogging your disk space |
- 🛡️ Mutual Exclusion Protection — Can't accidentally select conflicting options (we're not that pig-headed!)
- 💻 Smart OS Detection — Automatically shows only tweaks that work on YOUR Windows version
- �� System Restore Points — Creates a safety net before going whole hog on changes
- 📋 Detailed Logging — Know exactly what happened (no pig in a poke here!)
- 🎯 Risk Indicators — High-risk tweaks are clearly marked so you don't accidentally bring home the wrong bacon
Before you can pig out on these tweaks, you'll need:
- 🖥️ Windows 10 (Build 19041+) or Windows 11 (Build 22000+)
- ⚡ PowerShell 5.0 or higher
- 👑 Administrator privileges (you need to be the top pig!)
# 1. Open PowerShell as Administrator (Right-click → Run as Administrator)
# 2. Navigate to the script location
cd "C:\Path\To\HamTweak"
# 3. Allow script execution (just this once)
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
# 4. Run it and go ham! 🐷
.\HamTweak.ps1- Download the script to a folder of your choice
- Right-click on PowerShell → Run as Administrator
- Navigate to the script directory
- Run
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force - Execute
.\HamTweak.ps1 - Select your tweaks from the interactive menu
- Review your selections
- Apply and let the magic happen! 🪄🐖
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║ HamTweak - Main Menu ║
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║ 1. Privacy & Security (37 tweaks) ║
║ 2. Performance & Gaming (36 tweaks) ║
║ 3. Power Management (20 tweaks) ║
║ 4. UI Customization (31 tweaks) ║
║ 5. System Services (22 tweaks) ║
║ 6. Windows Updates (10 tweaks) ║
║ 7. Notifications & Sound (10 tweaks) ║
║ 8. Bloatware Removal ║
║ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ║
║ 9. Review Selected Tweaks ║
║ A. Apply Tweaks ║
║ C. Clear ALL Selections ║
║ 0. Exit ║
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- Number keys — Enter categories
- Comma-separated numbers — Select multiple tweaks (e.g.,
1,3,5,7) - A — Select all in category
- U — Deselect all in category
- D# — View details for tweak # (e.g.,
D5) - B — Go back
- R — Refresh status indicators
[+]🟢 — Already enabled on your system[-]🟡 — Currently disabled[?]⚪ — Unknown (command-based tweaks)!🔴 — High-risk tweak (proceed with caution, little piggy!)
Stop being a data pig for Microsoft! Disable telemetry, ads, tracking, Cortana, and more.
- Game Mode optimization
- GPU/CPU priority settings
- Network latency reduction (goodbye Nagle!)
- Visual effects management
- SSD optimizations
- Power plan switching (High Performance, Balanced, Ultimate)
- Sleep/hibernation control
- USB power management
- CPU throttling settings
- Dark/Light mode
- Taskbar tweaks (alignment, buttons, search)
- File Explorer improvements
- Classic context menu (Windows 11)
- Start menu cleanup
Disable unnecessary services hogging resources:
- Xbox services
- Telemetry services
- Remote services
- And more!
Take control of when and how Windows updates without going whole hog.
Silence those annoying notification pigs!
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┃ �� THIS PIG COMES WITH NO WARRANTY! 🐷 ┃
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┃ Use at your own risk. While we've tested these ┃
┃ tweaks extensively, we're not responsible if ┃
┃ your PC decides to go to the pig farm in the sky. ┃
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┃ ALWAYS create a restore point before applying ┃
┃ tweaks. Don't be a ham about system safety! ┃
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Found a bug? Got a feature request? Want to add more pig puns?
- 🍴 Fork the repo
- 🌿 Create a branch (
git checkout -b feature/more-bacon) - 💾 Commit your changes (
git commit -m 'Added extra crispy bacon mode') - 📤 Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/more-bacon) - 🐷 Open a Pull Request
All contributions are welcome — don't be shy, this isn't a pig pen of judgment!
This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.
In pig terms: You're free to use, modify, and distribute this script. Just don't blame us if things go sideways. 🐷
- All the Windows tweakers and optimizers who came before
- The PowerShell community
- Coffee ☕ (the real MVP)
- And of course, pigs everywhere 🐷🐖🐽
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|:_/ | Made with 💖 and 🥓
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(| | ) "That's all folks...
/'\_ _/`\ oink oink!"
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If HamTweak helped you, consider giving it a ⭐ — it makes this little piggy very happy!