This commit fixes an issue where removing systems apps could disrupt
Windows Cumulative updates as reported in #287.
The fix involves removing the `EndOfLife` registry key after the app is
removed. Keeping the key at
`HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\EndOfLife`
was identified as the cause for update failures in #287.
This commit also refactors the registry key creation/removal logic to be
owned by separate functions for easier readability and reusability.
This commit improves the readability of the script/category
documentations by refining the vertical and horizontal spacing. The
adjustments aim to create more visually consistent layout.
Styling changes include:
- Add more and consistent spacing between text parts (such as lists,
tables, paragraphs etc.).
- Remove top/bottom spacing at the start and end of the text.
- Add more horizontal spacing (padding on left) for lists.
- Improve blockquote styling with a border and similar spacing as other
parts.
This commit fixes issues #267 and #286 where users reported that
disabling IntelliCode data collection causes Visual Studio 2022 to hang
or become unresponsive.
The script has been updated to remove its recommendation status and
include a warning about these issues. As Microsoft did not respond to
inconsistencies with the official documentation in
MicrosoftDocs/intellicode#510, this commit prevents further disruptions
for privacy.sexy users.
This patch improves the existing functionality for disabling Windows
Updates. It ensures that the disabling of automatic updates is more
persistent, addressing previous shortcomings.
This commit introduces the "Disable Windows Update scheduled tasks"
category, enabling users to persistently turn off automatic background
updates.
Supporting changes include:
- Improve `DisableScheduledTask`:
- Add the ability to elevate privileges.
- Add the ability to disable tasks upon script reversion to match the
correct default operating system state.
- Fix warning output not being correctly formatted upon script
reversion.
- Add the ability to disable tasks upon script reversion in
`DisableScheduledTask` to match the correct default operating system
state.
- Add a comment to clarify the rationale behind not disabling certain
Windows services.
- Ensure consistent casing (all uppercase) for Windows environment
variables in documentation.
- Ensure consistent and right casing of Windows folder names in scripts
and their documentation.
- Remove incorrect categories and flatten their children.
- Simplify user interface by removing "installed" and "provisioned" app
categories, listing the apps directly.
- Indent comments to be easily collapse parent category in IDE.
- Improve some of the existing documentation.
This commit improves the user interface in modal display.
- Prevent layout shifts caused by background scrollbars when modals are
active.
- Fix unintended overflow of modals on small screens, preventing parts
of the modal from being cut off on the right side.
- Refactor DOM manipulation, enhancing modularity, reusability,
extensibility, and separation of concerns.
- Centralize viewport test scenarios for different sizes in a single
definition for E2E tests.
This commit introduces a batched debounce mechanism for managing user
selection state changes. It effectively reduces unnecessary processing
during rapid script checking, preventing multiple triggers for code
compilation and UI rendering.
Key improvements include:
- Enhanced performance, especially noticeable when selecting large
categories. This update resolves minor UI freezes experienced when
selecting categories with numerous scripts.
- Correction of a bug where the code area only highlighted the last
selected script when multiple scripts were chosen.
Other changes include:
- Timing functions:
- Create a `Timing` folder for `throttle` and the new
`batchedDebounce` functions.
- Move these functions to the application layer from the presentation
layer, reflecting their application-wide use.
- Refactor existing code for improved clarity, naming consistency, and
adherence to new naming conventions.
- Add missing unit tests.
- `UserSelection`:
- State modifications in `UserSelection` now utilize a singular object
inspired by the CQRS pattern, enabling batch updates and flexible
change configurations, thereby simplifying change management.
- Remove the `I` prefix from related interfaces to align with new coding
standards.
- Refactor related code for better testability in isolation with
dependency injection.
- Repository:
- Move repository abstractions to the application layer.
- Improve repository abstraction to combine `ReadonlyRepository` and
`MutableRepository` interfaces.
- E2E testing:
- Introduce E2E tests to validate the correct batch selection
behavior.
- Add a specialized data attribute in `TheCodeArea.vue` for improved
testability.
- Reorganize shared Cypress functions for a more idiomatic Cypress
approach.
- Improve test documentation with related information.
- `SelectedScript`:
- Create an abstraction for simplified testability.
- Introduce `SelectedScriptStub` in tests as a substitute for the
actual object.
These updates ensure better adherence to Vue 3 standards and improve
overall code quality and readability.
- Update ESLint configuration from Vue 2.x to Vue 3 rules.
- Switch from "essential" to strictest "recommended" ESLint ruleset.
- Adjust ESLint script to treat warnings as errors by using
`--max-warnings=0` flag. This enforces stricter code quality controls
provided by Vue 3 rules.
This commit fixes layout shifts that occur on card list part of the page
when the page is initially loaded.
- Resolve issue where card list starts with minimal width, leading
to jumps in UI until correct width is calculated on medium and
big screens.
- Dispose of existing `ResizeObserver` properly before creating a new
one. This prevents leaks and incorrect width calculations if
`containerElement` changes.
- Throttle resize events to minimize width/height calculation changes,
enhancing performance and reducing the chances for layout shifts.
Supporting CI/CD improvements:
- Enable artifact upload in CI/CD even if E2E tests fail.
- Distinguish uploaded artifacts by operating system for clarity.
This commit:
- Reduces false-positive error messages when disabling scheduled tasks.
E.g., `ERROR: The specified task name ... does not exist in the system.`
- Centralizes and unifies the logic for disabling scheduled tasks.
- Adds additional documentation, including the existence status of tasks
on default installations.
- Updates and improves the scripts that disable scheduled tasks.
- Improves consistency of headers in documentation text by removing the
top margin introduces by headers.
Introduces `DisableScheduledTask` templating function:
- It provides a unified way of disabling scheduled tasks.
- It displays user-friendly messages if a task cannot be found.
- It can now handle multiple tasks found matching a pattern.
- The script now exits with the correct error code.
- It skips enable/disable actions if it's not necessary.
Improve existing scripts:
- 'Disable Google update services':
- Rename to 'Disable Google background automatic updates'.
- Add missing scheduled tasks observed in newer versions of Chrome.
- Change the recommendation for disabling certain tasks to `Strict`,
as they may interfere with Google Credential Provider as
side-effect.
- Separate into more categories/scripts for better granularity and
documentation.
- 'Disable Adobe Acrobat update services':
- Rename to 'Disable Adobe background automatic updates'.
- Separate into more categories/scripts for enhanced granularity and
documentation.
- Remove end-of-life `Adobe Flash Player Updater` scheduled task and
`adobeflashplayerupdatesvc`.
- 'Disable Dropbox automatic update services':
- Rename to 'Disable Dropbox background automatic updates'.
- Seperate into more categories/scripts.
- 'Disable Webcam Telemetry (`devicecensus.exe`)':
- Rename to 'Disable census data collection'.
- Add the disabling of the "Device User" task under it.
- 'Disable `devicecensus.exe` (telemetry) process':
- Rename to 'Disable device and configuration data collection tool'.
- 'Disable Nvidia telemetry services':
- Rename to 'Disable Nvidia telemetry scheduled tasks'.
- Converted into a category for better granularity.
- Improve documentation.
- 'Disable Defender tasks':
- Rename to 'Disable Defender scheduled tasks'.
- 'Disable "Windows Defender ExploitGuard" task':
- Rename to 'Disable "ExploitGuard MDM policy Refresh" task'.
- 'Remove Nvidia telemetry tasks':
- Rename to 'Remove Nvidia telemetry packages', as "tasks" often
refers to scheduled tasks.
- 'Disable Microsoft Office Subscription Heartbeat'
- Rename to 'Disable "Microsoft Office Subscription Heartbeat" task'.
- Remove disabling of the undocumented `Office 16 Subscription
Heartbeat` task.
- 'Disable OneDrive scheduled tasks':
- Improve documentation.
- Add disabling of 'OneDrive Per-Machine Standalone Update' task.
- 'Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program'
- Rename to 'Disable "Customer Experience Improvement Program"
scheduled tasks' for clarity.
This commit fixes an issue where tooltips create unwanted horizontal
overflow on mobile devices.
An overlay has been added to contain the tooltip within the viewport,
ensuring it doesn't disrupt the page layout.
The changes include adjustments to CSS visibility and pointer event
handling for the tooltip container and its children.
Changes:
- Introduce an overlay that spans the entire viewport for the tooltip
container.
- Add CSS rules to ensure the tooltip and its children maintain correct
pointer events and overflow behavior.
- Add a Cypress end-to-end test that verifies the absence of the
unintended horizontal overflow on small screens.
- Uploads videos/screenshots as artifacts during CI/CD to provide easier
troubleshooting. This change is supported by creating
`cypress-dirs.json` to be able to share directory information with
CI/CD runners and cypress configuration file.
This commit fixes a UI misalignment issue for toolips in the download
instructions modal.
The existing margin on icons caused tooltips to be misaligned upon hover
or touch.
Changes include:
- Introduce wrapper elements to encapsulate the margin, ensuring
tooltips align with the corresponding icons.
- Extract the information incon into a separate Vue component to adhere
to the single-responsibility principle and improve maintainability.
- Remove redundant newline at the end of 'Open terminal' tooltip to
reduce the visual clutter.
This commit applies `strictNullChecks` to the entire codebase to improve
maintainability and type safety. Key changes include:
- Remove some explicit null-checks where unnecessary.
- Add necessary null-checks.
- Refactor static factory functions for a more functional approach.
- Improve some test names and contexts for better debugging.
- Add unit tests for any additional logic introduced.
- Refactor `createPositionFromRegexFullMatch` to its own function as the
logic is reused.
- Prefer `find` prefix on functions that may return `undefined` and
`get` prefix for those that always return a value.
This commit changes `WatchSource` signatures into `Readonly<Ref>`s.
It provides two important benefits:
1. Eliminates the possibility of `undefined` states, that's result of
using `WatchSource`s. This previously required additional null checks.
By using `Readonly<Ref>`, the state handling becomes simpler and less
susceptible to null errors.
2. Optimizes performance by using references:
- Avoids the reactive layer of `computed` references when not needed.
- The `watch` syntax, such as `watch(() => ref.value)`, can introduce
side effects. For example, it does not account for `triggerRef` in
scenarios where the value remains unchanged, preventing the watcher
from running (vuejs/core#9579).
This commit introduces `useUserSelectionState` compositional hook. it
centralizes and allows reusing the logic for tracking and mutation user
selection state across the application.
The change aims to increase code reusability, simplify the code, improve
testability, and adhere to the single responsibility principle. It makes
the code more reliable against race conditions and removes the need for
tracking deep changes.
Other supporting changes:
- Introduce `CardStateIndicator` component for displaying the card state
indicator icon, improving the testability and separation of concerns.
- Refactor `SelectionTypeHandler` to use functional code with more clear
interfaces to simplify the code. It reduces complexity, increases
maintainability and increase readability by explicitly separating
mutating functions.
- Add new unit tests and extend improving ones to cover the new logic
introduced in this commit. Remove the need to mount a wrapper
component to simplify and optimize some tests, using parameter
injection to inject dependencies intead.
This commit improves the dependency injection mechanism by introducing a
custom `injectKey` function.
Key improvements are:
- Enforced type consistency during dependency registration and
instantiation.
- Simplified injection process, abstracting away the complexity with a
uniform API, regardless of the dependency's lifetime.
- Eliminated the possibility of `undefined` returns during dependency
injection, promoting fail-fast behavior.
- Removed the necessity for type casting to `symbol` for injection keys
in unit tests by using existing types.
- Consalidated imports, combining keys and injection functions in one
`import` statement.
This commit removes the redundant `index.html` file from the
`src/presentation/public` directory. This file was initially created
there with Vue CLI before migration to Vite. The existence of this file
is now unnecessary as Vite requires `index.html` to be at the project
root.
The deletion of this duplicate file simplifies the project and
eliminates potential confusion regarding the entry point of the
application.
Changes:
- Update `docs/presentation.md` to clarify the location of `index.html`.
- Remove the `src/presentation/public/index.html` file, which was
duplicate of the project root `index.html`.
These changes ensure compliance with Vite's configuration and project
structure clarity.
This commit fixes a bug where the check states of tree nodes were not
correctly updated upon selecting predefined groups like "Standard",
"Strict", "None" and "All".
It resolves the issue by manually triggering of updates for mutated
array containing selected scripts.
It enhances test coverage to prevent regression and verify the correct
behavior of state updates.
This bug was introduced in commit
4995e49c46, which optimized reactivity by
removing deep state tracking.
This commit fixes the bug where the "Copy" button does not copy when
clicked on download instructions modal (on Linux and macOS).
This commit also introduces several improvements to the UI components
related to copy action and their interaction with the clipboard feature.
It adds more tests to avoid regression of the bugs and improves
maintainability, testability and adherence to Vue's reactive principles.
Changes include:
- Fix non-responsive copy button in the download instructions modal by
triggering a `click` event in `AppIcon.vue`.
- Improve `TheCodeButtons.vue`:
- Remove redundant `getCurrentCode` function.
- Separate components for each button for better separation of
concerns and higher testability.
- Use the `gap` property in the flexbox layout, replacing the less
explicit sibling combinator approach.
- Add `useClipboard` compositional hook for more idiomatic Vue approach
to interacting with the clipboard.
- Add `useCurrentCode` compositional hook to handle current code state
more effectively with unified logic.
- Abstract clipboard operations to an interface to isolate
responsibilities.
- Switch clipboard implementation to the `navigator.clipboard` API,
moving away from the deprecated `document.execCommand`.
- Move clipboard logic to the presentation layer to conform to
separation of concerns and domain-driven design principles.
- Improve `IconButton.vue` component to increase reusability with
consistent sizing.
This commit improves the revert script for store apps to handle
scenarios where `Get-AppxPackage` returns multiple packages. Instead of
relying on a single package result, the script now iterates over all
found packages and attempts installation using the `AppxManifest.xml`
for each. This ensures that even if multiple versions or instances of a
package are found, the script will robustly handle and attempt to install
each one until successful.
Other changes:
- Add better message with suggestion if the revert code fails, as
discussed in #270.
- Improve robustness of finding manifest path by using `Join-Path`
instead of basic string concatenation. This resolves wrong paths being
built due to missing `\` in file path.
- Add check for null or empty `InstallLocation` before accessing
manifest path. It prevents errors when accessing `AppxManifest.xml`,
enhancing script robustness and reliability.
- Improve error handling in manifest file existence check with try-catch
block to catch and log exceptions, ensuring uninterrupted script
execution in edge cases such as when the script lacks access to read
the directory.
- Add verification of package installation before attempting to install
the package for increased robustness.
- Add documentation for revertCode.
This commit unifies some of the logic, documentation and naming for
Firefox clean-up with improvements on both Linux and Windows platforms.
Windows:
- 'Clear browsing history and cache':
- Not recommend.
- Align script name and logic with Linux implementation.
- New documentation and not including the script in recommendation
provides safety against unintended data loss as discussed in #273.
- 'Clear Firefox user profiles, settings, and data':
- Rename to 'Clear all Firefox user information and preferences' for
improved clarity.
- Add more documentation.
Linux:
- Replace `DeleteFromFirefoxProfiles` with
`DeleteFilesFromFirefoxProfiles`.
- Migrate implementation to Python:
- Add more user-friendly outputs.
- Exclude removing directory itself for additional safety.
Both Linux and Windows:
- Improve documentation for:
- 'Clear Firefox user profiles, settings, and data'
- 'Clear Firefox history'
- Migrate from "Vue 2.X" to "Vue 3.X"
- Migrate from "Vue Test Utils v1" to "Vue Test Utils v2"
Changes in detail:
- Change `inserted` to `mounted`.
- Change `::v-deep` to `:deep`.
- Change to Vue 3.0 `v-modal` syntax.
- Remove old Vue 2.0 transition name, keep the ones for Vue 3.0.
- Use new global mounting API `createApp`.
- Change `destroy` to `unmount`.
- Bootstrapping:
- Move `provide`s for global dependencies to a bootsrapper from
`App.vue`.
- Remove `productionTip` setting (not in Vue 3).
- Change `IVueBootstrapper` for simplicity and Vue 3 compatible API.
- Add missing tests.
- Remove `.text` access on `VNode` as it's now internal API of Vue.
- Import `CSSProperties` from `vue` instead of `jsx` package.
- Shims:
- Remove unused `shims-tsx.d.ts`.
- Remove `shims-vue.d.ts` that's missing in quickstart template.
- Unit tests:
- Remove old typing workaround for mounting components.
- Rename `propsData` to `props`.
- Remove unneeded `any` cast workarounds.
- Move stubs and `provide`s under `global` object.
Other changes:
- Add `dmg-license` dependency explicitly due to failing electron builds
on macOS (electron-userland/electron-builder#6520,
electron-userland/electron-builder#6489). This was a side-effect of
updating dependencies for this commit.
- Replace `ref`s with `shallowRef` when deep reactivity is not needed.
- Replace `readonly`s with `shallowReadonly` where the goal is to only
prevent `.value` mutation.
- Remove redundant `ref` in `SizeObserver.vue`.
- Remove redundant nested `ref` in `TooltipWrapper.vue`.
- Remove redundant `events` export from `UseCollectionState.ts`.
- Remove redundant `computed` from `UseCollectionState.ts`.
- Remove `timestamp` from `TreeViewFilterEvent` that becomes unnecessary
after using `shallowRef`.
- Add missing unit tests for `UseTreeViewFilterEvent`.
- Add missing stub for `FilterChangeDetails`.
This commit changes the system app removal functionality in privacy.sexy
to perform a hard delete, while preserving the soft-delete logic for
handling residual files.
It improves in-code documentation to facilitate a clearer understanding
of the code execution flow, as the logic for removing system apps has
grown in complexity and length.
Transitioning to a hard-delete approach resolves issues related to
residual links to soft-deleted apps:
- Resolves issue with Edge remaining in the installed apps list (#236).
- Resolves issue with Edge remaining in the programs list (#194).
- Resolves issue with Edge shortcuts persisting in the start menu (#73).
Other changes:
- `RunPowerShell`:
- Introduce `codeComment` and `revertCodeComment` parameters for
improved in-code documentation.
- `CommentCode`:
- Simplify naming to `Comment`.
- Rename `comment` to `codeComment` for clarity.
- Add functionality to comment on revert with the `revertCodeComment`
parameter.
This commit unifies the way the files are being deleted by introducing
the `DeleteFiles` function. It refactors existing scripts that are
deleting files to use the new function, to improve their documentation
and increase their safety.
Script changes:
- 'Clear Software Reporter Tool logs':
- Rename to: 'Clear Google's "Software Reporter Tool" logs'
- 'Clear credentials in Windows Credential Manager':
- Migrate code to PowerShell, removing the need to delete files.
- Improve error messages and robustness of the implementation.
- 'Clear Nvidia residual telemetry files':
- Extract to two scripts for more granularity and better
documentation:
1. 'Disable Nvidia telemetry components'
2. 'Disable Nvidia telemetry drivers'
- Change the logic so instead of clearing directory contents and
deleting drivers, it conducts a soft delete for reversibility to
prioritize user safety.
- 'Remove OneDrive residual files':
- Improve documentation
- 'Clear primary Windows telemetry file':
- Rename to 'Clear diagnostics tracking logs'.
- Add missing file paths seen on modern versions of Windows.
- Add more documentation.
- 'Clear Windows Update History (`WUAgent`) system logs':
- Rename to 'Clear Windows update files'.
- Add more documentation.
- 'Clear Cryptographic Services diagnostic traces':
- Rename to 'Clear "Cryptographic Services" diagnostic traces'.
- Add more documentation.
Other changes:
- Improve `DeleteGlob`:
- Add iteration callbacks for its reusability.
- Improve its documentation.
- Make recursion optional.
- Improve sanity check (verification) logic for given glob when
granting permissions.
- Fix granting permissions using wrong variable to find out parent
directory.
- Improve `IterateGlob`:
- Use `Get-Item` to get results. This fixes `DeleteDirectory` not
being able to delete directory itself but just its contents.
- Introduce and use `recurse` parameter to provide optional recursive
search logic (to search in subdirectories) using `Get-ChildItem`.
- Fix wrong PowerShell syntax for `$revert` variable value for
`revertCode`: replace `true` with `$true`.
- Order iterated paths based on their length to process the deepest
item first.
- Improve handling of missing files with correct/informative outputs
when granting permissions.
- Improve `SoftDeleteFiles`:
- Introduce and use `recurse` parameter for explicitness.
- Fix undefined `$backupFilePath` by replacing it with correct
`$originalFilePath`.
- Improve documentation.
- Ensure consistent use of instructive language in code comments.
This commit fixes an issue where the tooltip position becomes inaccurate
after resizing the window.
The solution uses `autoUpdate` functionality of `floating-ui` to update
the position automatically on resize events. This function depends on
browser APIs: `IntersectionObserver` and `ResizeObserver`. The official
documentation recommends polyfilling those to support old browsers.
Polyfilling `ResizeObserver` is already part of the codebase, used by
`SizeObserver.vue`. This commit refactors polyfill logic to be reusable
across different components, and reuses it on `TooltipWrapper.vue`.
Polyfilling `IntersectionObserver` is ignored due to this API being
older and more widely supported.
This commit improves soft file delete logic:
- Unify logic for soft deleting single files and system apps.
- Rename `RenameSystemFile` templating function to `SoftDeleteFiles` so
new name gives clarity to:
- It's not necessarily single file being renamed but can be multiple
files.
- It's not necessarily system files being renamed, but can also work
without granting extra permissions.
- Grant permissions for only files that will be backed up, skipping
unnecessarily granting permissions to folders/other files. Both
`SeRestorePrivilege` and `SeTakeownershipPrivileges` are claimed and
revoked as necessary.
- Make granting permissions optional through `grantPermissions`
parameter. Do not take permissions if not needed.
- Restore permissions to system default after file is renamed. Before
both deletion of system apps and renaming system files did not restore
their original permissions. This might leave user computers
vulnerable, which is fixed in this commit. It ensures that the
system's original security posture is preserved.
- Deleting system apps is now independent of `Get-AppxPackage`,
improving its robustness and enabling their execution once system apps
are hard-deleted (#260)
- Introduce common way to share glob iteration logic of how the
directories are being cleaned up. It reuses most of the logic from
former `DeleteGlob` with some improvements:
- Simplify call to `Get-ChildItem` by avoiding `-Filter` parameter.
- Improve reliability of getting parent directory in `DeleteGlob`
sanity check to use .NET's `[System.IO.Path]` methods.
The previous implementation of `WithParser` used regex, which struggles
with parsing nested structures correctly. This commit improves
`WithParser` to track and parse all nested `with` expressions.
Other improvements:
- Throw meaningful errors when syntax is wrong. Replacing the prior
behavior of silently ignoring such issues.
- Remove `I` prefix from related interfaces to align with newer code
conventions.
- Add more unit tests for `with` expression.
- Improve documentation for templating.
- `ExpressionRegexBuilder`:
- Use words `capture` and `match` correctly.
- Fix minor issues revealed by new and improved tests:
- Change regex for matching anything except surrounding
whitespaces. The new regex ensures that it works even without
having any preceeding text.
- Change regex for capturing pipelines. The old regex was only
matching (non-greedy) first character of the pipeline in tests,
new regex matches the full pipeline.
- `ExpressionRegexBuilder.spec.ts`:
- Ensure consistent way to define `describe` and `it` blocks.
- Replace `expectRegex` tests, regex expectations test internal
behavior of the class, not the external.
- Simplified tests by eliminating the need for UUID suffixes/prefixes.
This commit ensures the script functions as expected, even when invoked
from unexpected environments.
Using `setlocal` initializes a distinct environment for privacy.sexy.
It's strategically placed after the admin privilege check to avoid
unnecessary setup in case of a relaunch. The script concludes with
`endlocal` right before the exit, maintaining a clean environment
throughout its execution and ensuring no unintentional global
environment modifications.
Changes:
- Enhance script's environment robustness.
- Add descriptive comments for script start/end sequences.
This commit addresses the issue of unwanted applications being
reinstalled during a Windows update. By adding a specific registry
entry, this commit ensures that Windows apps, once removed, do not
return with subsequent updates.
This change ensures more control over the applications present on a
Windows system, particularly after an update, enhancing user experience
and systeam cleanliness.
This commit refactors configuration to use centrally defined Electron
entry file path to improve maintainability and reduce duplication.
- Replace the hardcoded file path in the `main` field of `package.json`
with a reference to the `ELECTRON_ENTRY` environment variable, managed
by `electron-vite`.
- Update `electron-vite` to version 1.0.28, enabling the use of
`ELECTRON_ENTRY` environment variable feature (details in
alex8088/electron-vite#270).
This commit improves the security, reliability, and robustness of
directory cleanup operations on Windows.
The focus is shifted from deleting entire directories to purging their
contents, addressing potential unintended side effects. Previously,
numerous directories were removed, which could destabilize system
behavior.
This improvement has crucial security implications. The prior approach
involved changing ownership and assigning permissions to the directory
itself, leading to an altered and potentially less secure OS security
posture.
Directory removal improvements include:
- Output user-friendly messages.
- Improved ownership and permission handling for file deletion.
- Explicit shared functions for enhanced reliability/security.
- Centralized way to delete glob (wildcard) patterns in Windows.
Notable script improvements:
- 'Clear Steam dumps, logs, and traces':
- Convert the script to a category to provide more granularity.
- Improve cache cleaning, ensuring the entire cache directory is
cleared, not just the log files.
- 'Clear "Temporary Internet Files" (browser cache)':
- Add more documentation.
- Grant necessary permissions to folders, fixing errors due to
lack of permissions before.
- 'Clear Windows Update Medic Service logs':
- Remove redundant permission grants, as they are unnecessary in
recent Windows versions.
- 'Clear Server-initiated Healing Events system logs',
'Clear Windows Update events logs':
- Merge due to identical functionalities.
- Add more documentation.
- 'Clear Defender scan (protection) history':
- Remove the execution with `TrustedInstallerPrivileges`, uniformly
using `grantPermissions` as with other scripts. This addresses the
false-positive alerts from Microsoft Defender, as discussed in #264.
- 'Clear "Temporary Internet Files" (browser cache)':
- Retain `INetCache` and `Temporary Internet Files` directories,
purging only their contents. This approach aims to resolve the issue
mentioned in #145, where the absence of these folders could prevent
Microsoft Office applications from launching.
This commit fixes the issue where the Microsoft Advertising app fails to
be removed using the standard script. The problem is due to Microsoft
Advertising SDK (`Microsoft.Advertising.Xaml`) acting as a framework
package. Such packages are automatically installed when a specific
application requires them, and they cannot be individually removed if
there are applications that depend on them. The only way to effectively
remove this library is by uninstalling the dependent applications.
Key findings:
- On Windows 11 22H2, the issue does not arise as the package does not
exist.
- On Windows 10 22H2, the user is prompted to delete dependent
applications, like MSN Weather and Mail And Calendar apps. Once these
apps are removed, the Microsoft Advertising app is automatically
removed.
Given the nuances and potential for confusion, this script is removed.
This means that the app will no longer be removed directly but will be
handled as part of the removal of its dependencies.
Fix the syntax error in the GitHub action script that was caused by
improper multi-line YAML notation. This correction ensures the action
can successfully parse and execute.
Optimize the tree view rendering during searches by enhancing the render
queue ordering. This update changes the rendering order to prioritize
visible nodes, leading to faster appearance of these nodes during
searches. The ordering logic now ignores the depth in the hierarchy and
instead focused on the node order. The collapsed check for the node
itself is removed, ensuring that visible collapsed parents are first
while their invisible children are rendered later.
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.
This commit updates various dependencies to their latest versions.
Other changes include:
- Moved the following from `devDependencies` to `dependencies`:
- `electron-log`
- `electron-updater`
- Remove `npm` dependency.
- Code changes:
- Add type casting in several places to align with the latest
`typescript` version.
- Adopt to new return type of `setTimeout`.
- Dependencies not upgraded due to
`@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript` not supporting
`@eslint-typescript` V6 (see vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#58):
- `vue/eslint-config-typescript`
- `@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin`
- `@typescript-eslint/parser`
- Enable video recording for cypress as it's disabled by default since
13.X.X.
- 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 fixes the CI/CD website release process which was failing
due to an incorrect working directory setting. The `working-directory`
is now correctly set within the action workflow, ensuring the `npm run
install-deps` command runs in project root directory where
`package.json` exists.
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.
The commit adds a new a UI component that's enabled in development mode.
This component, initially, provides a button that wen clicked, logs all
the script and category names to the console. It helps revising names
used throughout the application.
By having this component in a conditionally rendered component, it's
excluded from the production builds.
