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<a href="https://forum.atlasos.net" target="_blank">💬 Forum</a>
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## 📚 **Table of contents**
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- [Contribution Guidelines](https://docs.atlasos.net/contributions/)
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## 📚 **Important Documentation**
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- [Installation](https://docs.atlasos.net/getting-started/installation/)
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- [Branding](https://docs.atlasos.net/branding/)
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- [FAQ & Common Issues](https://docs.atlasos.net/faq-and-troubleshooting/removed-features/)
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Want to learn more about Atlas? Visit our [🌐 Website](https://atlasos.net/) and [📚 Documentation](https://docs.atlasos.net/).
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- [Contribution Guidelines](https://docs.atlasos.net/contributions/)
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- [Branding](https://docs.atlasos.net/branding/)
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## 🤔 What is Atlas?
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Atlas is an open-source project that enhances Windows by eliminating factors that negatively impact gaming performance. It's the perfect choice for reducing system and network latency, and input lag, while maintaining system privacy and prioritizing performance.
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Atlas is an open-source project that enhances Windows by eliminating factors that negatively impact gaming performance. We are an optimal choice for minimizing stutters and input lag, enhancing privacy and usability, all while prioritizing performance and maintaining system security.
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## 👀 Why Atlas?
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### 🔒 Enhanced Privacy
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Atlas removes all types of tracking embedded within Windows and implements numerous group policies to minimize data collection. However, it cannot ensure the security for things outside the scope of Windows, such as browsers and other third-party applications.
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Atlas removes the majority of tracking embedded within Windows and implements numerous group policies to minimize data collection. However, it cannot ensure the security for things outside the scope of Windows, such as browsers and other third-party applications.
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### 🛡️ Increased Security
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Unlike other custom Windows ISOs, Atlas is safer as it doesn't require downloading a modified Windows ISO from the internet. Atlas also includes optional security features (e.g. Defender, Update) that other custom Windows OSs often strip.
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Unlike custom Windows ISOs, Atlas is safer and easier to audit. It doesn't require a modified ISO download and includes optional security features like Windows Defender, Windows Update, CPU mitigations, and UAC, often stripped in other custom OSs.
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### 🔮 Improved Transparency
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Atlas and AME Wizard offer improved transparency compared to ISOs. With AME Wizard's open-source backend and Atlas scripts mostly being plain text in a zip archive, the process is more accessible and easier to review.
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### ✅ Optimized Performance
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Atlas strikes a balance between performance and compatibility. It implements numerous changes to improve Windows performance without breaking essential features.
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Atlas strikes a balance between performance and compatibility. It implements numerous meaningful changes to improve Windows performance without breaking essential features. Atlas don't do placebo, visual, or extreme marginal gains tweaks, making Atlas more stable.
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### 🔒 Legal Compliance
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Atlas partners with the Ameliorated team to provide users with a safer and legal way to install, using [AME Wizard](https://ameliorated.io). With it, Atlas fully complies with [Microsoft's Terms of Service](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/UseTerms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm).
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### 🌐 Open Source
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All scripts used by Atlas are open-sourced in this repository. Executables included in the playbook are open-sourced in our [utilities](https://github.com/Atlas-OS/utilities) repository.
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The packaged Atlas playbook (`.apbx` - AME Wizard script package) can be viewed as a .7z archive, with the password `malte` (standard for AME Wizard playbooks). This is solely to bypass false flags from antiviruses.
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The packaged Atlas playbook, being an AME Wizard script package (.apbx), can be opened as a .zip archive using the password `malte` without any obfuscation of files, which is the standard for AME Wizard playbooks. This is implemented solely to prevent false positive detections by antivirus software.
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## 🎨 Brand kit
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Want to create your own Atlas wallpaper with some original creative designs? Download our brand kit [here](https://github.com/Atlas-OS/branding/archive/refs/heads/main.zip) and share your creations on our [forum](https://forum.atlasos.net/t/art-showcase).
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## ⚠️ Disclaimer
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Atlas complies with the Windows EULA; activation in Windows is not modified. A valid legitimate license is required to install Atlas.
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Before you buy a Windows license, make sure the seller is trusted and the license is legitimate, no matter where you buy it.
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Atlas complies with the Windows EULA; activation in Windows is not modified, and no Windows ISOs are redistributed. Currently, a valid legitimate license is required to install Atlas.

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