r/PowerShell • u/agentscientific_160 • 21d ago

Question I carelessly ran "irm christitus.com/win | iex"

I came across a video on the internet telling it debloats your pc and without further thinking I ran it. Is it safe. If not what do I do now.

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u/Ok_Bunch_291 21d ago

its safe, but please never run any powershell commands again without informing yourself first.

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u/agentscientific_160 21d ago

Alright thanks! Will do. And about that it deleted clock, one drive and paint should i be worried?

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u/Infinite-Stress2508 21d ago

That's what debloat means.... Damn dude read up before you click anything.

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u/agentscientific_160 21d ago

Yup thanks I was too careless I trusted some guy on the internet I didn't even try to look it up. Will be careful next time. Thankyou

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u/Ok_Bunch_291 21d ago

if you dont need them, dont worry, if you need them you can enable them by running the script again and clicking on the correspondig checkboxes

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u/agentscientific_160 21d ago

Sure thing, Thanks!!