What is bravecontrol?

BraveControl is a Windows PowerShell tool that gives you a graphical interface for turning off built-in features of the Brave web browser. Brave ships with a number of optional services (an AI assistant, a news feed, a crypto wallet, a built-in VPN, Tor browsing, ad rewards, and several others) that not every user wants. BraveControl lets you disable these one by one without editing the Windows registry by hand. The tool works by writing policy entries to a specific path in the Windows registry that Brave reads on startup. When a policy is set, Brave treats the feature as disabled at the system level rather than just hidden in settings. This approach mirrors what IT administrators use in corporate environments to lock down browser behavior across many machines, BraveControl simply provides a friendlier way to do it on a personal computer. The interface is a dark-themed window built with Windows Forms. Each of the 14 available policies appears as a checkbox. You tick the features you want to disable, click Apply, and then restart Brave. You can also re-enable any feature by unchecking it and clicking Apply again. A refresh button reads the current registry state so the checkboxes always reflect what is actually set. You can run BraveControl directly from the internet by pasting a single PowerShell command as an administrator, or you can clone the repository and run the script locally. The README (written in Spanish) includes troubleshooting steps for cases where Windows blocks script execution by default. The project is licensed under MIT and is written and maintained by a single developer.