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		<span class="wu-trust-item"><Icon name="github" /> Open source</span>
		<span class="wu-trust-item"><Icon name="download" /> No installer</span>
		<span class="wu-trust-item"><Icon name="padlock" /> No telemetry added</span>
		<span class="wu-trust-item"><Icon name="approve-check-circle" /> Everything reversible</span>
		<span class="wu-trust-item"><Icon name="desktop" /> Windows 11 ready</span>
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			<h2>Windows setup is easy to start and tedious to finish</h2>
			<p>A fresh install works fine out of the box. Getting it configured the way you actually want takes an afternoon of registry edits, forum posts, and forgotten steps.</p>
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		<ul class="wu-problem-list">
			<li><span class="wu-bullet"><Icon name="warning" /></span> Essential apps mean a dozen separate installers, each with its own bundled toolbar to decline.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-bullet"><Icon name="warning" /></span> Privacy and telemetry settings are scattered across half a dozen different settings panels.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-bullet"><Icon name="warning" /></span> The tweaks worth applying live in year-old forum threads, mixed in with outdated or risky advice.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-bullet"><Icon name="warning" /></span> Undoing a tweak means remembering exactly what you changed and how.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-bullet"><Icon name="warning" /></span> Doing it all again on the next machine means starting from zero.</li>
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			<h2>WinUtil puts a real control panel on top of Windows</h2>
			<p>Instead of stitching together installers, registry hacks, and forum wisdom, you manage the whole setup from one window.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
				<div class="wu-solution-icon"><Icon name="download" /></div>
				<h3>Install without the bloat</h3>
				<p>WinGet and Chocolatey install clean builds of your everyday apps, with no bundled toolbars or bundled offers.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
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				<h3>Tweak with a checkbox</h3>
				<p>Essential and advanced tweaks for privacy, performance, and UI behavior are one click away, grouped by what they actually do.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
				<div class="wu-solution-icon"><Icon name="approve-check-circle" /></div>
				<h3>Undo what you don't like</h3>
				<p>Nearly every tweak can be reverted from the same panel, so trying something risky doesn't mean a full reinstall.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
				<div class="wu-solution-icon"><Icon name="server" /></div>
				<h3>Fix what's broken</h3>
				<p>One-click repairs for networking, Windows Update, and WinGet handle the fixes people usually paste from a forum thread.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
				<div class="wu-solution-icon"><Icon name="cloud-download" /></div>
				<h3>Manage updates your way</h3>
				<p>Switch between full updates, security-only updates, or fully paused — and back again — without digging through Group Policy.</p>
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			<div class="wu-solution">
				<div class="wu-solution-icon"><Icon name="desktop" /></div>
				<h3>Build your own ISO</h3>
				<p>Win11 Creator debloats and preconfigures an official Microsoft image, so new installs start from your baseline.</p>
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			<h2>Everything you need to set up a machine, once</h2>
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			<CornerCard icon="padlock" title="Nothing phones home">
				WinUtil doesn't collect or transmit anything. It's a script that runs, makes the changes you selected, and exits.
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			<CornerCard icon="approve-check-circle" title="Reversible by default">
				Tweaks are applied through documented, undoable actions instead of one-way registry edits.
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			<CornerCard icon="setting" title="Grouped presets">
				Minimal, Standard, and Advanced presets give you a sane starting point instead of picking through every tweak individually.
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				Application installs go through package managers you can audit, not opaque bundled installers.
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			<CornerCard icon="server" title="Automation-friendly">
				Drive WinUtil unattended with config files and parameters for repeatable rollouts across machines.
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			<CornerCard icon="desktop" title="Custom Win11 ISOs">
				Debloat and preconfigure a Windows 11 image before it's ever installed.
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			<h2>From a blank terminal to a configured PC</h2>
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				<span class="wu-timeline-number">1</span>
				<h3>Open PowerShell as Administrator</h3>
				<p>Right-click the Start button and choose Terminal (Admin), or launch PowerShell and elevate manually.</p>
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				<h3>Run the launch command</h3>
				<p>Downloads and starts the latest release.</p>
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				<h3>Install, tweak, fix, update</h3>
				<p>Work through the Install, Tweaks, Config, and Updates tabs — everything is undoable.</p>
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				{'Read the Docs'}
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			<h2>Built for the gap between a fresh install and a finished machine</h2>
			<p>Registry edits and PowerShell one-liners work. WinUtil makes them repeatable.</p>
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		<ul class="wu-benefit-list">
			<li><span class="wu-check"><Icon name="approve-check" /></span> You keep full control — every tweak is visible, documented, and reversible.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-check"><Icon name="approve-check" /></span> You gain a single interface for installs, tweaks, fixes, and updates instead of five different tools.</li>
			<li><span class="wu-check"><Icon name="approve-check" /></span> You avoid the bundled toolbars and bloat that come with most software installers.</li>
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		<h2>Stop hunting for the same fixes every time</h2>
		<p>Get a script that installs, tweaks, fixes, and updates Windows from one window.</p>
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			<a class="wu-btn wu-btn-primary" href="/guides/">
				{'Get Started'}
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		<p class="wu-cta-footnote">Free and open source. No installer, no telemetry, no account required.</p>
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