This commit implements scripts to disable Windows Copilot (Copilot in
Windows), addressing issues #263 and #266.
Changes include:
- Add category and scripts to disable Windows copilot.
- Incorporate a restart explorer suggestion across all taskbar
modification scripts to ensure consistency in user experience.
- Add disabling bing search suggestions, resolving #117.
- Fix revert codes to align with default OS configurations.
- Implement message for recommended explorer.exe restart.
- Simplify script names for ease of understanding.
- Provide detailed documentation for each script change.
- Correct `BingSearchEnabled` registry path from HKLM to HKCU.
- Improve categorization of search privacy scripts.
This commit adds scripts to secure clipboard by disabling clipboard
synchronization and history. These changes aim to prevent sensitive data
like passwords and credit card details from being inadvertently stored
or shared via the cloud.
- Include the script's directory path #304.
- Exclude Windows-specific instructions on non-Windows OS.
- Standardize language across dialogs for consistency.
Other supporting changes:
- Add script diagnostics data collection from main process.
- Document script file storage and execution tamper protection in
SECURITY.md.
- Remove redundant comment in `NodeReadbackFileWriter`.
- Centralize error display for uniformity and simplicity.
- Simpify `WindowVariablesValidator` to omit checks when not on the
renderer process.
- Improve and centralize Electron environment detection.
- Use more emphatic language (don't worry) in error messages.
This commit addresses issues #264 and #304, where users were not
receiving error messages when script execution failed due to
antivirus intervention, particularly with Microsoft Defender.
Now, desktop app users will see a detailed error message with
guidance on next steps if script saving or execution fails due
to antivirus removal.
Key changes:
- Implement a check to detect failure in file writing,
including reading the written file back. This method effectively
detects antivirus interventions, as the read operation triggers
an antivirus scan, leading to file deletion by the antivirus.
- Introduce a specific error message for scenarios where an
antivirus intervention is detected.
- Add Windows instruction dialog when saving scripts for Windows.
- Fix incorrect macOS download URL given for Linux instructions.
- Refactor UI rendering, eleminating the use of `v-html` and JavaScript
variables to hold HTML code.
This commit introduces system-native error dialogs on desktop
application for code save or execution failures, addressing user confusion
described in issue #264.
This commit adds informative feedback when script execution or saving
fails.
Changes:
- Implement support for system-native error dialogs.
- Refactor `CodeRunner` and `Dialog` interfaces and their
implementations to improve error handling and provide better type
safety.
- Introduce structured error handling, allowing UI to display detailed
error messages.
- Replace error throwing with an error object interface for controlled
handling. This ensures that errors are propagated to the renderer
process without being limited by Electron's error object
serialization limitations as detailed in electron/electron#24427.
- Add logging for dialog actions to aid in troubleshooting.
- Rename `fileName` to `defaultFilename` in `saveFile` functions
to clarify its purpose.
- Centralize message assertion in `LoggerStub` for consistency.
- Introduce `expectTrue` in tests for clearer boolean assertions.
- Standardize `filename` usage across the codebase.
- Enhance existing test names and organization for clarity.
- Update related documentation.
This commit introduces native operating system file dialogs in the
desktop application replacing the existing web-based dialogs.
It lays the foundation for future enhancements such as:
- Providing error messages when saving or executing files, addressing
#264.
- Creating system restore points, addressing #50.
Documentation updates:
- Update `desktop-vs-web-features.md` with added functionality.
- Update `README.md` with security feature highlights.
- Update home page documentation to emphasize security features.
Other supporting changes include:
- Integrate IPC communication channels for secure Electron dialog API
interactions.
- Refactor `IpcRegistration` for more type-safety and simplicity.
- Introduce a Vue hook to encapsulate dialog functionality.
- Improve errors during IPC registration for easier troubleshooting.
- Move `ClientLoggerFactory` for consistency in hooks organization and
remove `LoggerFactory` interface for simplicity.
- Add tests for the save file dialog in the browser context.
- Add `Blob` polyfill in tests to compensate for the missing
`blob.text()` function in `jsdom` (see jsdom/jsdom#2555).
Improve environment detection logic:
- Treat test environment as browser environments to correctly activate
features based on the environment. This resolves issues where the
environment is misidentified as desktop, but Electron preloader APIs
are missing.
- Rename `isDesktop` environment identification variable to
`isRunningAsDesktopApplication` for better clarity and to avoid
confusion with desktop environments in web/browser/test environments.
- Simplify `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` to consistently detect
non-desktop application environments.
- Improve environment detection for Electron main process
(electron/electron#2288).
This commit adds missing extension apps seen since Windows 11 22H2 and
improves documentation scripts and category of extension app removal.
Addition of new extension apps found since Windows 11 22H2:
- HEVC Video Extensions (`Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension`)
- Raw Image Extension (`Microsoft.RawImageExtension`)
Documentation improvements:
- Fix links that are not correctly archived.
- Add cautionary notes for all extension app removal scripts.
- Add security implications associated with these extensions.
This commit addresses an issue in the privacy.sexy desktop application
where scripts executed as administrator on Windows were running in the
background. This was observed in environments like Windows Pro VMs on
Azure, where operations typically run with administrative privileges.
Previously, the application used the `"$path"` shell command to execute
scripts. This mechanism failed to activate the logic for requesting
admin privileges if the app itself was running as an administrator.
To resolve this, the script execution process has been modified to
explicitly ask for administrator privileges using the `VerbAs` method.
This ensures that the script always runs in a new `cmd.exe` window,
enhancing visibility and user interaction.
Other supporting changes:
- Rename the generated script file from `run-{timestamp}-{extension}` er
to `{timestamp}-privacy-script-{extension}` for clearer identification
and better file sorting.
- Refactor `ScriptFileCreator` to parameterize file extension and
script name.
- Rename `OsTimestampedFilenameGenerator` to
`TimestampedFilenameGenerator` to better reflect its new and more
scoped functionality after refactoring mentioned abvoe.
- Remove `setAppName()` due to ineffective behavior in Windows.
- Update `SECURITY.md` to highlight that the app doesn't require admin
rights for standard operations.
- Add `.editorconfig` settings for PowerShell scripts.
- Add a integration test for script execution logic. Improve environment
detection for more reliable test execution.
- Disable application logging during unit/integration tests to keep test
outputs clean and focused.
This commit improves the horizontal slider between the generated code
area and the script list. It enhances interaction, accessibility and
performance. It provides missing touch responsiveness, improves
accessibility by using better HTML semantics, introduces throttling and
refactors cursor handling during drag operations with added tests.
These changes provides smoother user experience, better support for
touch devices, reduce load during interactions and ensure the
component's behavior is intuitive and accessible across different
devices and interactions.
- Fix horizontal slider not responding to touch events.
- Improve slider handle to be a `<button>` for improved accessibility
and native browser support, improving user interaction and keyboard
support.
- Add throttling in the slider for performance optimization, reducing
processing load during actions.
- Fix losing dragging state cursor on hover over page elements such as
input boxes and buttons during dragging.
- Separate dragging logic into its own compositional hook for clearer
separation of concerns.
- Refactor global cursor mutation process.
- Increase robustness in global cursor changes by preserving and
restoring previous cursor style to prevent potential side-effects.
- Use Vue 3.2 feature for defining cursor CSS style in `<style>`
section.
- Expand unit test coverage for horizontal slider, use MouseEvent and
type cast it to PointerEvent as MouseEvent is not yet supported by
`jsdom` (see jsdom/jsdom#2527).
This commit fixes an issue seen on certain Windows environments (Windows
10 22H2 and 11 23H2 Pro Azure VMs) where scripts were being deleted
during execution due to temporary directory usage. To resolve this,
scripts are now stored in a persistent directory, enhancing reliability
for long-running scripts and improving auditability along with
troubleshooting.
Key changes:
- Move script execution logic to the `main` process from `preloader` to
utilize Electron's `app.getPath`.
- Improve runtime environment detection for non-browser environments to
allow its usage in Electron main process.
- Introduce a secure module to expose IPC channels from the main process
to the renderer via the preloader process.
Supporting refactorings include:
- Simplify `CodeRunner` interface by removing the `tempScriptFolderName`
parameter.
- Rename `NodeSystemOperations` to `NodeElectronSystemOperations` as it
now wraps electron APIs too, and convert it to class for simplicity.
- Rename `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` to `ScriptFileCodeRunner` to reflect
its new functinoality.
- Rename `SystemOperations` folder to `System` for simplicity.
- Rename `HostRuntimeEnvironment` to `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` for
clarity.
- Refactor main Electron process configuration to align with latest
Electron documentation/recommendations.
- Refactor unit tests `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` to simplify singleton
workaround.
- Use alias imports like `electron/main` and `electron/common` for
better clarity.
- Bump all ESLint dependencies related to TypeScript to their latest
version. This was made possible by the resolution of compatibility
issues with `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`.
See vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#58 for details.
- Refactor code to comply with the latest linting configuration.
- Improve documentation in the ESLint configuration file to better
describe the functionality and limitations of
`@vue/typescript/recommended`.
See vuejs/eslint-config-typescript#67 for details.
- Document functionality and limitation of `@vue/typescript/recommended`
more clearly in ESLint configuration file.
This commit addresses an issue where macOS was incorrectly identified as
iPadOS in Chromium-based browsers. The root cause was related to touch
support detection being inaccurately triggered on Chromium browsers,
leading to misidentification.
The bug caused two issues:
1. Desktop version: Script execution on macOS did not work as the
desktop app wrongly assumed that it was running on iPadOS.
2. Web and desktop version: The UI didn't default to macOS, presuming an
iPadOS environment.
This bug was exclusive to Chromium browsers on macOS. Firefox and Safari
didn't exhibit this behavior, as they handle touch event browser API
as differently and initially expected.
Key changes:
- Improve touch support detection to accurately differentiate between
macOS and iPadOS by removing an identification method used that is not
reliable for Chromium-based browsers.
- Update user agent detection to correctly identify Electron-based
applications as macOS even without needing the information from the
preloader context.
This commit improves the handling of paths with spaces or special
characters during script execution in the desktop application.
Key improvements:
- Paths are now quoted for macOS/Linux, addressing issues with
whitespace or single quotes.
- Windows paths are enclosed in double quotes to handle special
characters.
Other supporting changes:
- Add more documentation for terminal execution commands.
- Refactor terminal script file execution into a dedicated file for
improved separation of concerns.
- Refactor naming of `RuntimeEnvironment` to align with naming
conventions (no interface with I prefix) and for clarity.
- Refactor `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` to simplify it by removing the `os`
parameter and handling OS-specific logic within the filename generator
instead.
- Refactor `fileName` to `filename` for consistency.
This commit improves documentation for removal of Windows store apps
along with adding related research.
1. Improve Store app removal documentation:
The documentation for scripts that remove Store apps has been
enhanced. It now includes information on the default preinstallation
status of these apps across various Windows versions. This update
covers Windows 10 (from version 19H2 to 23H2) and Windows 11 (from
version 21H2 to 23H2), enabling users to identify potentially
preinstalled apps that might affect privacy.
2. Add research documentation:
A detailed research documentation on Windows Store apps has been
introduced for Windows 10 (versions 1909 to 22H2) and Windows 11
(versions 21H2 to 23H2). This includes lists of preinstalled Store
apps, complete with package information. This research aids in
understanding which default apps are present in different Windows
versions and their status regarding removal. The documentation also
includes the PowerShell script used for this research, serving as a
resource for future updates and expansion.
Improve script execution in the desktop app by introducing timestamped
filenames and detailed logging. These changes aim to facilitate easier
debugging, auditing and overall better user experience.
Key changes:
- Add timestamps in filenames for temporary files to aid in
troubleshooting and auditing.
- Add application logging throughout the script execution process to
enhance troubleshooting capabilities.
Other supporting changes:
- Refactor `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` with subfunctions for improved
readability, maintenance, reusability and extensibility.
- Refactor unit tests for `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` for improved
granularity and simplicity.
- Create centralized definition of supported operating systems by
privacy.sexy to ensure robust and consistent test case creation.
- Simplify the `runCode` method by removing the file extension
parameter; now handled internally by `FileNameGenerator`.
This commit addresses the language dependency of the `takeown /d y`
command in non-English Windows versions by using the `choice` utility.
This utility dynamically determines the equivalent of 'yes' in the
current system language, resolving issues encountered in the delete
script.
Other solution options such as enumerating language equivalents,
adjusting script culture settings, using side-effects of the `copy`
command, and parsing `takeown` help documentation proved either
impractical or unreliable.
The `choice` command has been successfully tested in both English and
German environments, ensuring reliable execution across various locales.
This change replaces the previous `takeown` usage in the script,
its reliability across diverse Windows locales.
This commit fixes layout shifts experienced in macOS Safari when
hovering over top menu items. Instead of making text bold — which was
causing layout shifts — the hover effect now changes the text color.
This ensures a consistent UI across different browsers and platforms.
Additionally, this commit fixes the styling of the privacy button
located in the bottom right corner. Previously styled as an `<a>`
element, it is now correctly represented as a `<button>`.
Furthermore, the commit enhances HTML conformity and accessibility by
correctly using `<button>` and `<a>` tags instead of relying on click
interactions on `<span>` elements.
This commit introduces `FlatButton` Vue component and a new
`flat-button` mixin. These centralize button usage and link styles,
aligning the hover/touch reactions of buttons across the application,
thereby creating a more consistent user interface.
- Bump Node.js to version 18. This change is necessary as Node.js v16
will reach end-of-life on 2023-09-11. It also ensure compatibility
with dependencies requiring minimum of Node.js v18, such as `vite`,
`@vitejs`plugin-legacy` and `icon-gen`.
- Bump `setup-node` action to v4.
- Recommend using the `nvm` tool for managing Node.js versions in the
documentation.
- Update documentation to point to code reference for required Node.js
version. This removes duplication of information, and keeps the code
as single source of truth for required Node.js version.
- Refactor code to adopt the `node:` protocol for Node API imports as
per Node.js 18 standards. This change addresses ambiguities and aligns
with Node.js best practices (nodejs/node#38343). Currently, there is
no ESLint rule to enforce this protocol, as noted in
import-js/eslint-plugin-import#2717.
- Replace `cross-fetch` dependency with the native Node.js fetch API
introduced in Node.js 18. Adjust type casting for async iterable read
streams to align with the latest Node.js APIs, based on discussions in
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#65542.
This commit fixes a UI bug where the circle icon of the revertbutton was
unresponsive to clicks. The solution involves replacing the
pseudo-element (`:before`) with an actual HTML element, enabling direct
event binding.
Additional improvements include:
- Removal of redundant `z-index` properties to simplify click event
handling and reduce complexity.
- Programmatic toggle of `isChecked` on click, providing more controlled
and explicit behavior and avoiding issues with native checkbox
behavior, especially when overlaid on a pseudo-element.
This commit enhances application security against potential attacks by
isolating dependencies that access the host system (like file
operations) from the renderer process. It narrows the exposed
functionality to script execution only, adding an extra security layer.
The changes allow secure and scalable API exposure, preparing for future
functionalities such as desktop notifications for script errors (#264),
improved script execution handling (#296), and creating restore points
(#50) in a secure and repeatable way.
Changes include:
- Inject `CodeRunner` into Vue components via dependency injection.
- Move `CodeRunner` to the application layer as an abstraction for
better domain-driven design alignment.
- Refactor `SystemOperations` and related interfaces, removing the `I`
prefix.
- Update architecture documentation for clarity.
- Update return types in `NodeSystemOperations` to match the Node APIs.
- Improve `WindowVariablesProvider` integration tests for better error
context.
- Centralize type checks with common functions like `isArray` and
`isNumber`.
- Change `CodeRunner` to use `os` parameter, ensuring correct window
variable injection.
- Streamline API exposure to the renderer process:
- Automatically bind function contexts to prevent loss of original
context.
- Implement a way to create facades (wrapper/proxy objects) for
increased security.
Relax Content Security Policy (CSP) to ensure essential functionality
of Vue, Ace and Vite legacy along with functioning developer experience
with macOS Safari.
This commit adds Windows update postponement techniques.
This provides users more control over the update process, aiming to
prevent automatic re-enabling of updates without user consent.
These scripts are tested and validated on Windows 10 (22H2 onwards) and
Windows 11 (22H3 onwards), introducing registry modifications for
sustained pause durations.
This commit resolves issues with the touch highlight behavior on tree
nodes in touch-enabled Chromium browsers (such as Google Chrome).
The fix addresses two issues:
1. Dual color transition issue during tapping actions on tree nodes.
2. Not highlighting full visible width of the node on keyboard focus.
Other changes include:
- Create `InteractableNode.vue` to centralize click styling and logic.
- Remove redundant click/hover/touch styling from `LeafTreeNode.vue` and
`HierarchicalTreeNode.vue`.
This commit resolves a rendering bug in the tree view component.
Previously, updating the tree collection prior to node updates led to
rendering errors due to the presence of non-existent nodes in the new
collection.
Changes:
- Implement manual control over the rendering process in tree view. This
includes clearing the rendering queue and currently rendered nodes
before updates, aligning the rendering process with the updated
collection.
- Add Cypress E2E tests to test switching between all operating systems
and script views, ensuring no uncaught errors and preventing
regression.
- Replace hardcoded operating system lists in the download URL list view
with a unified `getSupportedOsList()` method from the application,
reducing duplication and simplifying future updates.
- Rename `initial-nodes` to `nodes` in `TreeView.vue` to reflect their
mutable nature.
- Centralize the function for getting operating system names into
`OperatingSystemNames.ts`, improving reusability in E2E tests.
This commit improves disabling of Application Experience component by
improving the categorization, documentation, existing scripts and adding
new scripts. It renames the scripts to be more user-friendly but still
technically accurate.
- Rename scripts to make them easier for non-technical users to
understand.
- Improve existing documentation and add more documentation.
- Add new scripts for:
- 'Disable "MareBackup" task'
- 'Disable "SdbinstMergeDbTask" task'
- 'Disable "PcaPatchDbTask" task'
- Improve `CompatTelRunner.exe` disabling to soft-delete the file.
This commit addresses issues with the tree view not fully utilizing the
available width (appearing squeezed on the left) on bigger screens, and
inconsistent padding during searches.
The changes centralize padding and script tree rendering logic to
enforce consistency and prevent regression.
Changes:
- Fix tree view width utilization.
- Refactor SCSS variables for better IDE support.
- Unify padding and tree background color logic for consistent padding
and coloring around the tree component.
- Fix no padding around the tree in tree view.
- Centralize color SCSS variable for script background for consistent
application theming.
This commit resolves the issue with the `:active` pseudo-class not
activating in mobile Safari on iOS devices. It introduces a workaround
specifically for mobile Safari on iOS/iPadOS to enable the `:active`
pseudo-class. This ensures a consistent and responsive user interface
in response to touch states on mobile Safari.
Other supporting changes:
- Introduce new test utility functions such as `createWindowEventSpies`
and `formatAssertionMessage` to improve code reusability and
maintainability.
- Improve browser detection:
- Add detection for iPadOS and Windows 10 Mobile.
- Add touch support detection to correctly determine iPadOS vs macOS.
- Fix misidentification of some Windows 10 Mobile platforms as Windows
Phone.
- Improve test coverage and refactor tests.
This commit addresses three main issues related to tooltips on devices
with smaller screens:
1. Fix tooltip overflow: On mobile devices, tooltips associated with
script selection options (None, Standard, Strict, All) were
overflowing due to inherited `white-space: nowrap` styling. This
styling caused tooltips to render beyond screen limits. The fix
involves applying `white-space: initial` to the tooltip overlay,
preventing this style propagation and resolving the overflow issue.
2. Corrects tooltip arrow placement: Previously, when tooltips shifted
from their default top position to the bottom on smaller screens,
their arrows did not reposition accordingly. This issue was caused by
using an incorrect reference for tooltip placement calculation. By
updating the reference used to the one from `useFloating` function,
the tooltip arrow now correctly aligns with the adjusted position.
3. Uniform margin handling: Enhances the margin settings around tooltips
to maintain a consistent gap between the tooltip and the document
edges, visible particularly on smaller screens.
Additionaly, the `DevToolkit` component has been improved for easier
testing. It is now non-interactable (except for its buttons) to prevent
it from getting in the way when testing on smaller screens. A new close
button has been added, allowing developers/testers to completely hide
the DevToolkit if desired.
This commit strengthens user control over the Windows Update Medic
Service (`WaaSMedicSvc`) and related components. These changes aim to
provide users with more control over Windows updates and telemetry data
shared with Microsoft, addressing privacy concerns.
Updates include:
- Soft deletion of various Windows Update Medic Service files and
remediation files to prevent automatic re-enabling of Windows updates.
- Termination of `upfc.exe` to stop it from reactivating Windows Update
Medic Service, thereby allowing users to maintain their desired update
settings.
- Improving documentation with cautionary notes to guide users through
poential impacts of these changes on system stability and update
integrity.
- Including rationale behind the exclusion of `sedsvc`.
- Better documentation and output messages of `DisableService` function.
Recommending the script that removes "Xbox Identity Provider" app
(`Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider`) at the "Standard" level has led to
unforeseen consequences for Windows users using Xbox sign-in.
This commit introduces additional documentation and reduces the
recommendation level to mitigate these issues.
- Change recommendation level from "Standard" to "Strict".
- Improve documentation to outline the impact of uninstalling the "Xbox
Identity Provider" app.
- Update script title to warn users about the breaking behavior.
- Reduce recommendation level from "Standard" to "Strict" due to its
potential breaking behavior.
- Add detailed documentation.
- Simplify script title for broader accessibility while maintaining
technical accuracy.
- Note potential impact on remote system management in the script title.
- Adjust revert code align with recent Windows OS version.
This commit introduces two meta tags to strengthen the application's
security posture and enhance user privacy, following best practices and
OWASP recommendations.
- Add Content-Security-Policy (CSP) to strictly to strictly control
which resources the application is allowed, mitigating the risk of
code injection attacks such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
- Add `referrer` meta tag to prevent the users' browser from sending the
page's address, or referrer, when navigating to another site, thereby
enhancing user privacy.
This commit fixes the issue of Windows Security app not being removed in
Windows 11. It addresses the problem by extending the app uninstallation
process to cover the new app package specific to Windows 11. It improves
the overall design of templated functions for store app removal to
implement the fix.
- Improve Windows Security removal script:
- Add support for removing `Microsoft.SecHealthUI` in Windows 11.
- Revise script documentation for clarity and correct typos.
- Redesign uninstallion of Store apps:
- Change `UninstallSystemApp` to `UninstallNonRemovableStoreApp` for
wider usage. This change is due to `Microsoft.SecHealthUI` being
non-removable yet not a system app.
- Refactor app data cleanup into two distinct functions
(`ClearStoreAppDataBeforeUninstallation` and
`ClearStoreAppDataAfterUninstallation`) for better clarity and
maintainability. This also helps in testing by allowing easier
reordering of operations.
- Seperate between simple non-removable app uninstallation and
uninstallation with cleanup in separate functions, highlighting that
the latter is more invasive and should be used cautiously. This
addresses permission issues encountered with `SecHealthUI` app
removal during cleanup on Windows 11.
- Separate uninstalling app and uninstalling app with cleanup to
different functions, document that cleanup should no longer be
prefered as it's invasive and too aggresive. Cleanup logic
introduces permission issues/errors for `SecHealthUI` in Windows 11.
- Extend app soft-deletion to include the default Windows app folder,
this ensures that the cleanup covers any kind of Store apps (not
only system apps).
This commit introduces several improvements to the macOS update process,
primarily focusing on enhancing security and reliability:
- Add data integrity checks to ensure downloaded updates haven't been
tampered with.
- Optimize update progress logging in `streamWithProgress` by limiting
amount of logs during the download process.
- Improve resource management by ensuring proper closure of file
read/write streams.
- Add retry logic with exponential back-off during file access to handle
occassionally seen file system preparation delays on macOS.
- Improve decision-making based on user responses.
- Improve clarity and informativeness of log messages.
- Update error dialogs for better user guidance when updates fail to
download, unexpected errors occur or the installer can't be opened.
- Add handling for unexpected errors during the update process.
- Move to asynchronous functions for more efficient operation.
- Move to scoped imports for better code clarity.
- Update `Readable` stream type to a more modern variant in Node.
- Refactor `ManualUpdater` for improved separation of concerns.
- Document the secure update process, and log directory locations.
- Rename files to more accurately reflect their purpose.
- Add `.DS_Store` in `.gitignore` to avoid unintended files in commits.
- Migrate to `electron-log` v5.X.X, centralizing log files to adhere to
best-practices.
- Add critical event logging in the log file.
- Replace `ElectronLog` type with `LogFunctions` for better abstraction.
- Unify log handling in `desktop-runtime-error` by removing
`renderer.log` due to `electron-log` v5 changes.
- Update and extend logger interfaces, removing 'I' prefix and adding
common log levels to abstract `electron-log` completely.
- Move logger interfaces to the application layer as it's cross-cutting
concern, meanwhile keeping the implementations in the infrastructure
layer.
- Introduce `useLogger` hook for easier logging in Vue components.
- Simplify `WindowVariables` by removing nullable properties.
- Improve documentation to clearly differentiate between desktop and web
versions, outlining specific features of each.
This commit fixes and improves the process termination functionality in
related functions.
`KillProcessWhenItStarts` shared function:
- Fix registry key values configured by removing unnecessary single
quotes.
- Rename to `TerminateExecutableOnLaunch` for clarity.
- Rename parameter `processName` to `executableNameWithExtension` for
clarity.
- Add code comments.
- Document the function.
- Rename `%windir` to `%WINDIR%` for consistency in environment variable
naming across scripts.
- Integrate `KillProcess` for robustness.
- Suppress errors in revert code to prevent false negatives.
`KillProcess` shared function to be able to support the termination:
- Rename to `TerminateRunningProcess` for clarity.
- Rename parameters for clarity and consistency:
- `processName` to `executableNameWithExtension`.
- `processStartPath` to `revertExecutablePath`.
- `processStartArgs` to `revertExecutableArgs`.
- Make revert logic optional.
- Add code comments.
- Improve the service permissions reset logic:
- Implement more intuitive and user-friendly messages.
- Ensure graceful handling when `tccutil` is unavailable.
- Avoid treating unsupported service IDs as errors.
- Introduce atemplated shared function.
- Rename 'Clear all privacy permissions for applications' to
'Clear application privacy permissions' to enhance clarity.
- Add additional documentation.
- Introduce support for missing service permissions.
- Fix a bug where clearing "contacts" permissions inadvertently affected
"full disk access" permissions.
- Move the option to clear all application permissions to top for
improved accessibility.
- Standardize naming across scripts to maintain consistency and clarity.
- Add more documentation and improve existing documetation.
- Rename 'Clear most recently used (MRU) lists' to 'Clear recent
activity logs' for simplicity.
- Move 'clearing recent activity logs' outside of 'Clear
third-application data' to directy under 'Privacy cleanup' as these
recent activities are not always necessarily from third-party
applications.
- Fix dead link.
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This commit addresses incorrect URL rendering within documentation text
by improving auto-linkified URL labels, handling `+` symbols as spaces,
enhancing readability of encoded path segments and manually updating
some of the documetation.
Key improvements:
- Parse `+` as whitespace in URLs for accurate script labeling.
- Interpret multiple whitespaces as single for robustness.
- Decode path segments for clearer links.
- Refactor markdown renderer.
- Expand unit tests for comprehensive coverage.
Documentation has been updated to fix inline URL references and improve
linkification across several scripts, ensuring more readable and
user-friendly content.
Affected files and documentation sections have been adjusted
accordingly, including script and category names for consistency and
clarity.
Some of the script/category documentation changing fixing URL rendering
includes:
- 'Disable sending information to Customer Experience Improvement
Program':
- Fix reference URLs being inlined.
- 'Disable "Secure boot" button in "Windows Security"':
- Fix rendering issue due to auto-linkification of `markdown-it`.
- 'Clear Internet Explorer DOMStore':
- Fix rendering issue due to auto-linkification of `markdown-it`.
- 'Disable "Windows Defender Firewall" service':
- Fix rendering issue due to auto-linkification of `markdown-it`.
- Convert YAML comments to markdown comments visible by users.
- Add breaking behavior to script name, changing script name to.
- 'Disable Microsoft Defender Firewall services and drivers':
- Remove information about breaking behavior to avoid duplication and
be consistent with the documentation of the rest of the collections.
- Use consistent styling for warning texts starting with `Caution:`.
- Rename 'Remove extensions' category to 'Remove extension apps' for
consistency with names of its sibling categories.
Improve the revert process for Firefox settings by extending
modifications to also include `prefs.js`.
- Validate profile directories similarly to execution script.
- Check and warn if Firefox is running during revert to prevent
`prefs.js` from being overriden.
- Clarify output messages for execution and revert scripts.
- Add flowchart diagram for visual documentation.
- Improve documentation for consistency and precision.
- Update `.gitignore` to account for temporary draw.io files.
Styling of codeblocks:
- Uniform margins as other documentation elements.
- Add small margin for inline code-blocks.
- Use different background color for inline code-blocks.
- Introduce `inline-code` and `code-block` mixins for clarity in
styling.
Overflowing of codeblocks:
- Improve flex layout of the tree component to be handle overflowing
content and providing maximum available width. To be able to correctly
provide maximum available width in card content, card expansion layout
is changed so both close button and the content gets their full width.
- Other refactorings to support this:
- Introduce separate Vue component for checkboxes of nodes for better
separation of concerns and improved maintainability.
- Refactor `LeafTreeNode` to make it simpler, separating layout concerns
from other styling.
- `ScriptsTree.vue`: Prefer `<div>`s instead of `<span>`s as they
represent large content.
- Remove unnecessary `<div>`s and use `<template>`s to reduce HTML
complexity.
- Update script documentation to not include unnecessary left padding
on script code blocks.
- Refactor SCSS variable names in `DocumentationText.vue` for clarity.
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.
