Chris Titus Tech Windows Utility
Ranked 3 of 3 Windows utilities by recommenders
Free tool that strips down and tweaks Windows, favored by power users and developers. Main caveat: it changes many low-level settings, making later troubleshooting harder.
Free tool that strips down and tweaks Windows, favored by power users and developers. Main caveat: it changes many low-level settings, making later troubleshooting harder.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strips down and tweaks Windows
“I stripped down Windows 11 using Chris Titus's utility”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too” “Run Christitustech utlity for tweaks.”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March” Highly regarded and works well
“serious windows power users, current and former windows developers and engineers, swear by Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers” “The Chris Titus utility has worked very well for me.”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Hard-to-use interface
“I find the UX to be pretty bad and not easy to reason with”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “The Windows Utility”
Other Windows utilities people recommend
The two most recommended other Windows utilities, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft PowerToys | 49 | 15 | 77% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Chris Titus WinUtil | 17 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Chris Titus Tech Windows UtilityThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Run Christitustech utlity for tweaks.”
“I stripped down Windows 11 using Chris Titus's utility”
“The Chris Titus utility has worked very well for me.”
“I find the UX to be pretty bad and not easy to reason with”
“With this approach in mind it makes the Titus offerings show a remarkable amount of superiority.”
“The other nice thing about going the PowerShell automation route is the ability to see what was done and reverse particular changes”
“they tend to change a lot of low-level settings and make troubleshooting harder later on”
“serious windows power users, current and former windows developers and engineers, swear by Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.