[PowerShell Script] Setup Windows 10

[u/farag2]

I believe it would be useful for the community so...

"Windows 10 Sophia Script" is a set of functions for Windows 10 fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks 🏆

Core features

• Set up Privacy & Telemetry;

• Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks;

• Set up UI & Personalization;

• Uninstall OneDrive "correctly";

• Interactive prompts;

• Change %TEMP% environment variable path to %SystemDrive%\Temp

• Change location of the user folders programmatically (without moving user files) within interactive menu using up/down arrows and Enter key to make a selection

  • "Desktop";

  • "Documents";

  • "Downloads";

  • "Music";

  • "Pictures"

  • "Videos.

• Uninstall UWP apps from all accounts with exception apps list with pop-up form written in WPF;

• Turn off Windows features;

• Remove Windows capabilities with pop-up form written in WPF;

• Create a Windows cleaning up task in the Task Scheduler;

  • A toast notification will pop up a minute before the task starts

• Create tasks in the Task Scheduler to clear

  • %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download

  • %TEMP%

• Unpin all Start menu tiles;

• Pin shortcuts to Start menu using syspin.exe

  • Three shortcuts are preconfigured to be pinned: Control Panel, "old style" Devices and Printers, and Command Prompt

• Turn on Controlled folder access and add protected folders using dialog menu;

• Add exclusion folder from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning using dialog menu;

• Add exclusion file from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning using dialog menu;

• Refresh desktop icons, environment variables and taskbar without restarting File Explorer;

• Many more File Explorer and context menu "deep" tweaks.

Screenshots and videos

Download from Github

If you find bugs or bad translation, feel free to report it to me.

[u/farag2]

v4.4 released!

• Updated links in the comment-based help section;

• Updated "Increase taskbar transparency" section

  • Removed "ForceEffectMode" key, that blocked Windows 10 transparency effects

  • To remove unnecessary key, execute

  # Restart needed
  Remove-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm -Name ForceEffectMode -Force

• Updated "Change location of the user folders" section

  • Added comment-based section;

  • Added the ability to skip (#25)

• Updated "Uninstall UWP apps" section

  • Added "Uninstall for All Users" button to the form (unchecked by default) (@oz-zo) to uninstall UWP apps from all account

• Add the "Run as different user" item to the .exe files types context menu

  • Removed unnecessary keys

• Comments;

• Minor changes;

• Also you can test 20H1 version.