Sophia Script

A PowerShell module for Windows 10 fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks 🏆

Supported Windows 10 versions

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Core features

• Set up Privacy & Telemetry;
• Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks with pop-up form written in WPF;
• 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 arrows to select a drive
  • "Desktop";
  • "Documents";
  • "Downloads";
  • "Music";
  • "Pictures"
  • "Videos.
• Uninstall UWP apps from all accounts with exception apps list with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Disable Windows features;
• Install and setup WSL
• 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;
• Setup Windows 10 security;
• Many more File Explorer and context menu "deep" tweaks.

Usage

• Download up-to-date version;
• Expand the archive;
• Open folder with the expanded archive;
• Look through the Sophia.ps1 file to configure functions that you want to be run;
  • Comment out function with the # char if you don't want it to be run;
  • Uncomment function by removing the # char if you want it to be run.
• Click "File" in File Explorer, hover over "Open Windows PowerShell", and select "Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator" (how-to with screenshots);
• Set execution policy to be able to run scripts only in the current PowerShell session

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force

• Type .\Sophia.ps1 to run the whole preset file;
• Press Enter.

How to run the specific function(s) (example):

.\Sophia.ps1 -Functions CreateRestorePoint, "ScheduledTasks -Disable", "WindowsCapabilities -Disable", Refresh

• The quotation marks required.