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That is also an option for Chrome.

I've heard this argument many times. I have some games I want to play. I don't want to replace them with other games. In other words, it's not that I can't play games, but that I can't play the games I want to play.

I need Win32 and DirectX.

I could do without Win32 but I'm a freelance, work from home, and sometimes I like to open a game to unwind for a couple minutes. That makes dual boot unfeasible.

The Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) contains most of the important settings to disable (Cortana, having your searches uploaded to Bing, Windows Update, Defender...) and it's perfectly safe to use, unlike these scripts.