What is pitcrew?

PitCrew is a Windows 11 tool built for gamers who want to quickly clean up and tune a new gaming PC, and later fix problems that show up on it. It aims to replace the usual hour or two of manually removing preinstalled junk apps, turning off telemetry and background nagging, disabling services that cause stutter, tuning network settings, switching on a high performance power plan, and checking whether the RAM's fast memory profile is enabled. Beyond initial setup, PitCrew doubles as a diagnostic tool. It can read crash logs, translate blue screen errors into plain language, check drive health, and fix a stuck Windows Update, all through its own interface rather than the command line. There are two starting profiles, one aggressive for dedicated gamers and one lighter for everyday users, and every individual change can be checked or unchecked before running. Safety is a central theme of the project. It opens in a dry run mode by default that only simulates and logs what would change, so nothing happens until the user explicitly turns dry run off. Before making any real change, it creates a Windows System Restore point and backs up the relevant registry areas, and every change it makes can be reversed with a single undo action. Certain critical system components, like Windows Defender, the Store, and core drivers, are hard-coded as protected and cannot be disabled through the tool. The entire program is plain-text PowerShell with no compiled executable or bundled third-party software, so anyone can inspect exactly what it does. The README is upfront that some toggles do change real behavior, such as turning off the print spooler stopping printing until reversed, or the high performance power plan draining a laptop's battery faster. To get started, users download a release ZIP, unblock it in Windows, run an install or launch script, accept an administrator prompt, and then review the dry run results before deciding whether to apply changes for real. It runs on the PowerShell already built into Windows 11, so no separate installation is required. The project is open source under the MIT license.