This commit improves soft deletion of system apps. Before if the package
was missing, it failed to recover or delete system apps. Now, it works
even though if `Get-AppxPackage` returns null (i.e. package is
non-existing), so it can be executed even after a hard delete. This
allows safely introducing hard-delete of system apps (as discussed in
#260) with still keeping a robust soft-delete as complement.
Before, the script was dependent on `Get-AppxPackage.InstallLocation`,
however a system app can only be located in one of these folders:
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\{PackageFamilyName}
- C:\Windows\{ShortAppName}
To ensure resilience, this commit adjust the script to rename the files
within these directories if Get-AppxPackage fails, this provides a
fallback.
- Add documentation about folders.
- Add more user-friendly logging.
- Continue uninstallation if single folder fails (remove throw).
- Continue uninstallation if renaming single file fails.
- Add handling of `Metadata` folder as suggested in #73.
- Use instruction format such as "do this, do that" to provide clear,
direct instructions. This format minimize confusion and is easy to
follow. They are specific and leave no room for interpretation,
stating precisely what needs to be done without ambiguity.
- Fix typos and grammar issues.
- Improve consistency in script and category names.
- Revise sentences for more natural English language flow.
- Change brand name casing to match official branding.
- Change title case (all words start capitalized) to sentence case.
- Prioritize consistency over variations.
- Add minor documentation to explain scripts where the names are not
clear.
- Add naming guidelines.
This commit prepares for #260, aiming for a hard delete of system apps,
and necessitating a more reliable app reversion method.
- Improve documentation:
- Add existence status for latest OS versions.
- Add command for quick future testing.
- Use archive links.
- Document categories.
- Add documentation to list of default apps to give context about why
the package is here.
- Fix wrong store URL for Cortana app.
- Unify documentation of excluded apps.
- Fix categorization:
- Categorize uninstallation of Windows store apps.
- Remove "Zune" category (flatten children apps) to be able to align
with latest branding.
- Categorize uninstallation of Candy Crush apps.
- Categorize uninstallation of OOBE apps.
- Rename:
- "Uninstall Windows store apps" to "Uninstall Windows apps" as these
apps are not necessarily store apps.
- "Xbox Game Bar Plugin appcache" to "Xbox Game Bar Plugin".
- "Groove Music" to "Windows Media Player".
- "Movies and TV" to "Movies & TV".
- "Your Phone" to "Phone Link".
- "Cred Dialog Host" to "Credentials Dialog Host".
- "Windows Voice Recorder" to "Windows Sound Recorder".
- "Remote Desktop" to "Microsoft Remote Desktop"
- "Microsoft To Do" to "Microsoft To Do: Lists, Tasks & Reminders".
- "People Hub app (People Experience Host)" to "People Hub app".
- "My Office" to "Microsoft 365 (Office)".
- "iHeartRadio" to "iHeart: Radio, Music, Podcasts".
- "Duolingo" to "Duolingo - Language Lessons".
- "Photoshop Express" to "Adobe Photoshop Express".
- "Spotify" to "Spotify - Music and Podcasts".
- "Windows Alarms and Clock" to "Windows Clock".
- "OOBE Network Captive Port" to "OOBE Network Captive Portal".
- "Secure Assessment Browser app (breaks Microsoft Intune/Graph)" to
"Take a Test app".
- "Windows 10 Family Safety / Parental Controls" > "Microsoft Family
Safety / Parental control".
- "People / People Bar App on taskbar (People Experience Host)" > "My
People"
- "MSN News" > "Microsoft News"
- "Minecraft for Windows 10" > "Minecraft for Windows"
- "Snip & Sketch" > "Snipping Tool"
- "Bio enrollment" > "Hello setup UI"
- Fix package names for:
- `AdobeSystemIncorporated.AdobePhotoshop` >
`AdobeSystemsIncorporated.AdobePhotoshopExpress`
Fix `Clear (Reset) Network Data Usage` trying to delete other files from
Windows system directory.
Changes:
- Precisely target the deletion of `C:\System32\sru\SRUDB.dat`.
- Improve documentation.
- Handle explicitly and better if `DPS` service is missing.
- Rename script from `Clear (Reset) Network Data Usage` to `Clear System
Resource Usage Monitor (SRUM) data` for clearer representation.
- Migrate script from batchfile to PowerShell for better
maintainability and readability.
- Add user-friendly output messages.
- Improve script logic to avoid unnecessary service start/stop when the
file doesn't exist.
- Move removal of `SecHealthUI` app to "Privacy over security" category.
- Emphasize disruptive behavior in the script name.
- Add comprehensive documentation
- Add script to remove Edge shortcuts upon uninstallation.
- Unify OneDrive shortcut removal logic with Edge's, introducing revert
feature to the OneDrive removal script.
- Add more extensive documentation.
- Rename "Delete OneDrive shortcuts" to "Remove OneDrive shortcuts" to
have consistent naming.
This commit introduces scripts for cleaning up file and URL associations
related to Microsoft Edge, enhancing the uninstallation process. The
changes adress the issues detailed in #64, improving system reliability,
integrity and security by preventing lingering associations.
Changes include:
- Introduce scripts to clear Edge browser file and URL associations.
- Provide extensive documentation for related scripts.
- Ensure thorough cleanup of URL, file, OpenWith menu, and toast
associations.
- Recommend removing Microsoft Edge (Legacy) Dev Tools Client app on
Strict to align with other Edge legacy removal recommendations.
- Replace obsolete "Firefox First party isolation" with "Firefox state
partitioning".
- Add comprehensive documentation for the new scripts.
- Introduce enabling dynamic First-Party Isolation (dFPI)
- Disable deprecated First-Party Isolation (FPI) to avoid conflicts with
dFPI.
- Add script to enable Firefox network partitioning to cover
functionality of older FPI script.
This commit enhances the robustness of setting VSCode configurations,
ensuring consistent and reliable operation even in edge cases, such as
when the settings file is empty. This commit also uniforms behavior of
Linux and Windows modification of VSCode settings.
On Windows:
- Move parameters to on top of scripts to be able to easily test the
scripts using PowerShell without compiling.
- Add a check to exit the script with an error message if the attempt to
parse the JSON content fails.
- Omit the `OutString` cmdlet from the pipeline in the script for
converting JSON file content to a PowerShell object. `Out-String` is
unnecessary in this context because `Get-Content` already outputs the
file content as a string array, which `ConvertFrom-Json` effectively.
Additionally, using `Out-String` could potentially introduce issues by
concatenating file content into a single string, causing
`ConvertFrom-Json` to fail when processing pretty-printed JSON. By
removing `Out-String`, the script is streamlined and potential errors
are avoided.
- Add logic to handle empty settings file. Add an additional check for
empty settings file, if the file is empty, the script writes a default
empty JSON object (`{}`) to the file. The operation is logged to
ensure transparency, notifying the user of the action taken. This
change removes fails due to empty setting files.
- When reverting, do not fail if the setting file is missing because it
means that default settings are already in-place.
- When reverting, show informative message if the key does not exist or
does not have the value set by privacy.sexy and do not take any
further action.
- If the desired value is already set, show a message for it and skip
updating the setting file.
On Linux:
- Handles empty `settings.json` similarly to Windows.
- Add more user friendly error if JSON file cannot be parsed.
This commit improve cleanup of temporary directories on Windows,
addressing issues #176 and #89.
Changes include:
- Fix side-effects caused by this script by clearing the contents of
directories rather than deleting the directories themselves.
- Add the removal of Prefetch directory contents, which stores temporary
files and can enhance privacy and free up disk space when cleared.
- Remove the command `del /f /q %localappdata%\Temp\*` due to its
redundancy.
- Improve the granularity and documentation of cleanup scripts, and
moving the `Clear temporary Windows files` category up in the hierarchy
for better structure and clarity.
Co-authored-by: iam-py-test <84232764+iam-py-test@users.noreply.github.com>
- Modify script to run as `TrustedInstaller`, resolving access right
problems discussed in #246.
- Change script name for better alignment with its functionality.
- Improve script description for clarity and detailed documentation.
- Add non-intrusive way to disable delivery optimization. This new
script do not introduce side-effects caused by disabling Delivery
Optimization service.
- Recomend delivery optimization service (`DoSvc`) only on Strict
mode, removing it from Standard recommendation.
- Categorize delivery optimization disabling under one category.
- Move disabling delivery optimization to "Disable OS collection" >
"Disable Windows Update data collection".
- Add more documentation.
- Fix script failing when multiple installations of Edge is found.
- Fix Edge not being able to be uninstalled due in newer Edge versions.
- Add documentation
- Add missing revert script
- Add script to disable `WaaSMedicSvc` service (#252)
- Refine script granularity for more precise control.
- Introduce detailed documentation for the category and associated
scripts.
- Fix `ScheduledInstallTime` being set to `3` which schedules updates to
install at 3 AM.
- Fix `ScheduledInstallDay` is being set to `0` which schedules daily
update installation.
- Fix `NoAutoUpdate` being set to `0` (enable) instead of `1` (disable).
- Add disabling of missing `wuauserv` service.
- Add parent category for disabling Windows update services for better
organization.
- Move disabling Windows Spotlight from Standard to Strict
recommendation due to unexpected behavior for some users (#65).
- Enhance documentation.
- Correct revert code to ensure return to the default OS state.
Manage Firefox preferences through `user.js` instead of `prefs.js`.
Because of Mozilla's recommendation against direct `prefs.js` edits to
avoid potential profile corruption. Instead, the `user.js` file, if
present, overrides the settings in `prefs.js` at application startup.
Change AddFirefoxPrefs function to update `user.js` and manage
creation/deletion of this file:
1. Handle file creation if `user.js` does not exist.
2. Deletes file if `user.js` becomes empty after reverting settings.
Other changes:
- Improve log messages
- Minimal refactorings
Reliably disable Defender services (by always using `reg` with
TrustedInstaller`), and put Firewall services in Windows Firewall
section, so that people do not accidently disable Windows Firewall
services and break Microsoft Store.
Co-authored-by: undergroundwires <git@undergroundwires.dev>
- Add new scripts under "Disable Windows telemetry and data collection".
- Update script names and documentations to align with Microsoft's
latest branding for telemetry.
- Introduce broader configurability to minimize data collection.
- Add missing revert code to allow the reversion of changes, increasing
flexibility and safety.
- Include comprehensive documentation to provide more context and
understanding for users.
Key features of Linux support:
- It supports python 3 scripts execution.
- It supports Flatpak and Snap installation for software
clean-up/configurations.
- Extensive documentation.
- Improve documentation for OneDrive removal scripts.
- Add support for deleting OneDrive icon from the navigation pane.
- Do not revert OneDrive install code on Windows 11 as it does not exist
by default.
- Remove "Prevent automatic OneDrive install for new users" script as
HKU scripts are not really supported elsewhere and makes the code
harder to maintain.
- Do not print errors when the behavior is as expected. Surpress errors
on registry key deletion, ensure re-running script does not cause any
errors with proper checks.
- Change revert logic to match default Windows state.
- Hardcode service names for OneDrive to avoid side-effects.
- Rerruning OneDrive now runs it in background.
- Add Windows 11 support for running the installer/uninstaller.
- Rename scripts to simpler and easier-to-understand names
Improve documentation for Visual Studio scripts.
Add different keys reported by community for deleting Visual Studio 2022
licenses, see beatcracker/VSCELicense#14 for the key reports.
Add cleanup for SQM files that Visual Studio generates when it is unable
to connect to internet, to send the data when online. Improve cleanup
for Visual Studio logs.
Change revert behavior of the scripts to match default state of clean
Visual Studio installation.
Rework documentation URLs as inline markdown.
Redesign documentations with markdown text.
Redesign way to document scripts/categories and present the
documentation.
Documentation is showed in an expandable box instead of tooltip. This is
to allow writing longer documentation (tooltips are meant to be used for
short text) and have better experience on mobile.
If a node (script/category) has documentation it's now shown with single
information icon (ℹ) aligned to right.
Add support for rendering documentation as markdown. It automatically
converts plain URLs to URLs with display names (e.g.
https://docs.microsoft.com/..) will be rendered automatically like
"docs.microsoft.com - Windows 11 Privacy...".
The logic was expecting major version in Windows 11 to be 11. However,
in Windows 11, major version is not changed and it is till 10. This
commit corrects logic to check build number that's guaranteed to be
higher in Windows 11.
Remove using Webpack import syntax such as: `js-yaml-loader!@/..`. It's
a non-standard syntax that couples the code to Webpack.
Configure instead by specifying Webpack loader in Vue configuration
file.
Enable related ESLint rules.
Remove unused dependency `raw-loader` and refactor
`NoUnintendedInlining` test to load files using file system (dropping
webpack dependency).
Refactor to use `import type` for type imports to show the indent
clearly and satisfy failing ESLint rules.
- Fix revert logic deleting the service instead of enabling it.
- Use unified "DisableService" function to improve enable/disable logic.
- Separate disabling of service from opting out.
- Add documentation reference.
Rename service to its newer name. Mention breaking behavior in its name
and add more documentation.
Unrecommended from "Standard" pool because it breaks a lot of
functionality, but still recomended in "Stricts" because it's used to
identify personal information that leads to less privacy.
Major refactoring using ESLint with rules from AirBnb and Vue.
Enable most of the ESLint rules and do necessary linting in the code.
Also add more information for rules that are disabled to describe what
they are and why they are disabled.
Allow logging (`console.log`) in test files, and in development mode
(e.g. when working with `npm run serve`), but disable it when
environment is production (as pre-configured by Vue). Also add flag
(`--mode production`) in `lint:eslint` command so production linting is
executed earlier in lifecycle.
Disable rules that requires a separate work. Such as ESLint rules that
are broken in TypeScript: no-useless-constructor (eslint/eslint#14118)
and no-shadow (eslint/eslint#13014).
Removing Cloud Experience Host has caused many unexpected issues
for users (see #99, #64, #67). It's now excluded from "Strict"
recommendation pool until a better warning mechanism is implemented.
- Add more script documentation in code and reference URLs.
- Unrecommend as "Standard" recommend as "Strict" due to lack of
documentation for its privacy intrusive behavior.
- Add mising WpnUserService for disabling it completely.
- Improve error messages with cause of the problem and suggested solution.
- Document:
* Disabling `WinDefend` breaks `Set-MpPreference` and Microsoft Store
(as reported in #104).
* Document services that `netsh advfirewall` depends on.
- Fix some bad whitespace character in documentation.
Refactor, unify and improve the logic to to start/stop and
enable/disable services, and also add more documentation.
Rework functions:
- Unify way of disabling Windows services using templating.
- Capitalize as `startupMode` (where startup is single word) everywhere.
- Use also text parameters (automatic, manual..) instead of numeric
values (2,3...) when providing parameters to any service disable
function.
Improve documentation:
- Add reference URLs about disabled services.
- Add more code documentation for querying status and allowed values.
Logic improvements include:
- Check if service is running before stopping/starting the service.
- Do not start the service it's not an Automatic service.
- Check whether service is already disabled.
- When reverting, start the service if it has Automatic startup. But
do not start the service it has different startup (e.g. manual).
Also starts the service even though start up is configured as
desired (before it quit before doing service start).
Improve outputs (logs):
- Remove false-positive error messages.
- When a service cannot be stopped/start; mention in output that the
service will be started/stopped after reboot.
- Show success message once service is enabled/disabled.
- Fix reboot messages when enabling/disabling services,
- Do not write stderr if service cannot be stopped/started as it's not
not the main goal of the function.
Add missing revert code for the ones missing them:
- Disable diagnostics telemetry
- Disable Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
> Function: DisableServiceInRegistry
- Fix not exitting if service does not exist when reverting
- Show success message once service is enabled/disabled
- Fix double "Enabled.." messages
- Fix unintended registry addition
> Function: DisablePerUserService
- Change implementation to call DisableServiceInRegistry.
- Fix both services are skipped if one of them fails.
- Fix reverting a service sets wrong startup mode.
