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03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

Some recent notes made when cathing up and revising Chris's Windows 10 debloat stuff.

Link to last post on page 42 https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge42#post12693
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page42#post12693

The Ultimate Windows Utility Upgrade 29 09 2021
Winget is now downloaded via the Microsoft store, as a more direct download caused version compatibility problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKM8ZScbic8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKM8ZScbic8&t=411s
Share ‘9.00 The Ultimate Windows Utility Upgrade-dKM8ZScbic8_29 09 2021.wmv’
https://app.box.com/s/9io0pbsjqmmkzfzep8fjqu09jr6lpmtd

9.05 Live - Redesigning the Windows Toolbox 29 10 2021
He is trying to make a compromise between complexity for new user and too customisable.
He talks about the main change being Services, initially copying a script part from somewhere previously at GitHib servicesdisabler.ps1, but so far I can’t see any changes like that, at least not on the GUI. When he tried it he was looking at a drop of 20-50 processes as a result of the services disabling. He looked at the Diensthost / Service Host in processes of Task manager, then expanded one of them and right clicked to open Services, 2which is the same as you get from MS+r then services.msc
He spent some time trying to see what services could be disabled. ????
In the end he decided to do it in a section # Service tweaks to Manual instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvz8-5qReo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zC3...?usp=drive_web

???? A GitHub Pull from July 2021 doing services seems not to have got in ????
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/win10script/pull/139

9.10 Live - Windows 11 Toolbox Update 14 12 2021

He got a bit bogged down initially getting his virtual windows 11 up so was a bit slow starting.
While he was trying to figure that out and wait for something to download (some update or similar), he did a quick demo of making an exe from his script from about minute 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDMmfvwT2w&t=1436s to about minute 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDMmfvwT2w&t=2100s on the live stream video
In middle January 2022 he offered a download for 5$ of an exe, ( https://www.christitus.com/windows-toolbox ) . I bought that and also had a go at making the exe based on his demo in the video. That worked as well after a fashion. Those two exes are compared in the next post
In the end he spent most of the time getting a virtual windows up and running. He didn’t do anything to the toolbox script. He ran it once he has a windows 11 going. It seemed to work but he didn’t really do any thorough testing. I think he was feeling a bit under the weather. ( The exercise he’s doing just now should do him good, if he doesn’t break his neck falling off his skateboard…. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDMmfvwT2w
9.10 Live - Windows 11 Toolbox Update-dyDMmfvwT2w_14 12 2021.wmv https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AKi...?usp=drive_web
https://www.christitus.com/view/down...indows-toolbox Share Chris Toolbox exe download instructions Jan 2022 https://app.box.com/s/4s1vgnkj0jxon5roqdus95p6him7g3bz
Share ‘ctt-toolbox.exe’ https://app.box.com/s/vhhp363ehva09acsli6o4fzym3msa2ev
Share ‘windows-toolbox.zip’ https://app.box.com/s/0ds1ghdm2f95ubra9ydzwj2psweu85zc
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AKi...?usp=drive_web
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

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This thread post URL link is https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge43#post12695
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page43#post12695

The exe thing from Chris’s Tool thing…

A lot of people kept asking Chris for a simple exe. ( He mentioned how to do it from about minute 24 in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDMmfvwT2w&t=1436s
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AKi...?usp=drive_web ) ( Edit much later after viewing the Video again , ( I often pick up something else when review the video again) Chris seems to have done the exe demo again at 1 54 20 , https://youtu.be/dyDMmfvwT2w?t=6841 and it went much smoother that time.
)

A few weeks later he made one that you can download. ( https://www.christitus.com/windows-toolbox )
I got one from both ways. Here are some quick notes of the first attempt. I may add to them in the future

Self made one:
Things went approximately as in the explanation from Chris in the videos. (He did it live while waiting for something else, and , as he says , its more complicated then it needed to be, which ties up with my experience: With the benefit of not having to do it live, I have found it very simple to do.)

If I understand correctly, the free software thing, "ps2exe", that somehow makes the exe is somehow held directly by, or is integrated in, or in some other way strongly associated with windows power script stuff. Exactly what I mean by that I am not sure yet. But the end result is that a simple short set of powershell commands seem to set it off.

The following steps, which worked to get me a exe, were a combination of following Chris’s explanation along with a bit of experimenting and guess work.
You start by getting powershell with Administrator rights ip, (or the windows 11 terminal equivalent)
The first few code lines you need are like those I would typically do initially when getting the Tool to launch from the ps1 text file.
( This is the test text ( ps1 ) file I am playing around with recently, and it’s a very minor modified version of the script from Chris that has been available over the last couple of months,
win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 https://app.box.com/s/hho3gtdy4cx6284bghe2idfq4mtqmvyd )

When doing this experiment I had that file in a folder at this path ,
G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder

So the usual first powershell code line is / was

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

When I did that, it set some stuff off:

Ausführungsrichtlinie ändern
Die Ausführungsrichtlinie trägt zum Schutz vor nicht vertrauenswürdigen Skripts bei. Wenn Sie die Ausführungsrichtlinie
ändern, sind Sie möglicherweise den im Hilfethema "about_Execution_Policies" unter
"https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170" beschriebenen Sicherheitsrisiken ausgesetzt. Möchten Sie die
Ausführungsrichtlinie ändern?
[J] Ja [A] Ja, alle [N] Nein [K] Nein, keine [H] Anhalten [?] Hilfe (Standard ist "N"):

That is some kind of warning that I don’t think I need to worry about yet, so I usually answer that with either of these

J or j or a or A

The next code line is needed to get us to where we want to be which is where we usually have or want stuff to go. In this worked example I would write

cd 'G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder'

( I could have done that script code line first: I don’t think it matters if I do it before the other one)
Sometimes at this point I might do the command
Dir
just to list out what I have at this place, but that is optional

At this point we start the exe making stuff. The following is the simple code line that in Chris’s explanation was half way there to getting the job done. By me it set off some other steps

install-module ps2exe

This is what was set off when I tried it:

Der NuGet-Anbieter ist erforderlich, um den Vorgang fortzusetzen.
PowerShellGet erfordert die NuGet-Anbieterversion 2.8.5.201 oder höher für die Interaktion mit NuGet-basierten
Repositorys. Der NuGet-Anbieter muss in "C:\Program Files\PackageManagement\ProviderAssemblies" oder
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\PackageManagement\Pro viderAssemblies" verfügbar sein. Sie können den NuGet-Anbieter auch
durch Ausführen von 'Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force' installieren. Möchten Sie
den NuGet-Anbieter jetzt durch PowerShellGet installieren und importieren lassen?
[J] Ja [N] Nein [H] Anhalten [?] Hilfe (Standard ist "J"):

I decided to try a ? to get some more info, which it gave me:

J - Nur mit dem nächsten Schritt des Vorgangs fortfahren.
N - Diesen Vorgang überspringen und mit dem folgenden Vorgang fortfahren.
H - Die aktuelle Pipeline anhalten und zur Eingabeaufforderung zurückkehren. Geben Sie "exit" ein, um die Pipeline
fortzusetzen.
[J] Ja [N] Nein [H] Anhalten [?] Hilfe (Standard ist "J"):

I decided to try a j, which returned me:

Nicht vertrauenswürdiges Repository
Sie installieren die Module aus einem nicht vertrauenswürdigen Repository. Wenn Sie diesem Repository vertrauen, ändern
Sie dessen InstallationPolicy-Wert, indem Sie das Set-PSRepository-Cmdlet ausführen. Möchten Sie die Module von
'PSGallery' wirklich installieren?
[J] Ja [A] Ja, alle [N] Nein [K] Nein, keine [H] Anhalten [?] Hilfe (Standard ist "N"):

I answered that with j

So those last bits were a bit extra to what Chris did: He didn’t need to do any of that, he went on directly to what I did next, ( or he would have done had he not got a bit mixed up and forgot his Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted )
So this is the next and final bit: It is a three part code line, consisting of -…
_ calling up the ps2exe thing __ the ps1 powerscript text file ___ and the arbitrary name I can chose to give the finally made exe file

_____ ps2exe ___ .\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 _ .\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.exe

Here is an actual screenshot of the last few bits of all that, as actually typically seen by me in the powershell window, starting from the bit where we start the exe making stuff: https://postimg.cc/KKYm2Wsg

Summary
So really, in a nut shell, the two important things are just the last two script code lines.
If you are starting from scratch then these are the sort of script code lines you need, (changing the path and file name to suit yours)
cd 'G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder'
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
install-module ps2exe
ps2exe .\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 .\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.exe
That is basically what Chris did in the video, ( he just went off in a tangent before he figured out that he had forgot the Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted – ( those sort of code lines irritate him, probably for good reasons that I don’t understand yet) )

The exe file should then be made and put in your folder: https://i.postimg.cc/Rh9YpYDM/exe-fi...our-folder.jpg

Some possible Security problems
Initially the exe file did appear in my folder, My ps1 file Folder , but my windows defender kept chucking up warning pop ups, as it did again when I double clicked on the exe file, or when I right clicked and ran it as administrator,
Also the file seemed to vanish after a while!
I note that at an internet site associated with the development of this coding, https://i.postimg.cc/2SBVSB3s/Git-GH...the-ps2exe.jpg , they mention some problems with the thing being falsely flagged as a virus.
I disabled my Windows Defender temporarily, https://i.postimg.cc/QMGV9xTH/Disabl...s-Defender.jpg , and tried the whole thing again. The first time it did not seem to work, but then after a few attempts it seemed to work and the exe popped up.
I re enabled my windows defender shortly later and I seemed to get some security warning and similar problems again.
I left the defender off for a while and forgot about it. Some time later I switched it back on, and since then I have no longer had any problems launching the things.

GUI size
The size seems very similar to that of the usual script chucked up GUI which itself was a bit too big.
https://i.postimg.cc/Pxdxy3KH/Original-script-GUI.jpg
The original script chucked up GUI did not typically fit on a typical laptop screen, but with a bit of luck you could get the bottom buttons with the scroll bar: It seems that all the GUIs come up occasionally with a vertical scroll bar to the right, and with that you can just about get at the last few buttons at the bottom
Initially the GUIs appear to be close to identical.
On a typical laptop screen the exe GUI is too big:
https://i.postimg.cc/KjH8ZZbc/ps2exe-too-big.jpg

Chris’s exe
You can download the exe that Chris has made for 5$ at this site: https://www.christitus.com/windows-toolbox
Chris has some instructions and stuff to help if you have security problems.
When I tried it out, it downloaded and launched with no problem. It looks almost identical to the one I made. It remains a bit too big on a typical lap top screen.
https://i.postimg.cc/3NSddXXT/Chris-ps2exe-too-big.jpg
I tried extending my desktop onto a second monitor,
https://i.postimg.cc/X7PrWgNK/Extended-Desktop.jpg ( am old large television with 1920 x 1080 resolution ) , and it looks a bit better )

Here is the exe from Chris and the self made exe filling up the screen of a second monitor connected to the laptop using the extended desktop option,
https://i.postimg.cc/WpW3m7ZR/Purcha...lly-Monito.jpg

Here is all three shown together , the purchased exe from Chris, the self made exe and the GUI chucked up by running the ps1 script: ( Note that this is what I see on my extended desktop second monitor: On my normal laptop screen I can barely get one fitted in )
https://i.postimg.cc/0jQNRzLH/Compar...rom-script.jpg Attachment 3800

https://i.postimg.cc/0jQNRzLH/Compar...rom-script.jpg

Edit:
In a live stream on GitHub, at 1 hr, 6and a half minute, Chris is talking crap that the exe would be better with the size scaling…
https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=3990
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

Some other rough notes appendixed to the last post.....

Here is the text of that blue powershell window shown above in the last image in the last post.

Code:

Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Lernen Sie das neue plattformübergreifende PowerShell kennen – https://aka.ms/pscore6 PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Ausführungsrichtlinie ändern Die Ausführungsrichtlinie trägt zum Schutz vor nicht vertrauenswürdigen Skripts bei. Wenn Sie die Ausführungsrichtlinie ändern, sind Sie möglicherweise den im Hilfethema "about_Execution_Policies" unter "https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170" beschriebenen Sicherheitsrisiken ausgesetzt. Möchten Sie die Ausführungsrichtlinie ändern? [J] Ja [A] Ja, alle [N] Nein [K] Nein, keine [H] Anhalten [?] Hilfe (Standard ist "N"): j PS C:\Windows\system32> cd 'G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder' PS G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder> dir Verzeichnis: G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a---- 17.01.2022 22:35 374784 ctt-toolbox.exe -a---- 11.01.2022 11:27 15137 Notes for running ps1 files.txt -a---- 11.01.2022 10:34 2089 ooshutup10.cfg -a---- 02.11.2021 11:09 1740144 OOSU10.exe -a---- 17.01.2022 16:10 378880 win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.exe -a---- 10.01.2022 13:46 130702 win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 PS G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder> .\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 Checking winget... Winget Already Installed

So to get the GUI up and running from a ps1 text file, these were the 4 lines I actually typed in:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
cd 'G:\Temp Opt\GitHub\win10script-master\My ps1 file Folder'
dir
.\win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1

( the dir was optional, I did not need to do that. I just did that as it was helpful to see what I had at the place I was doing stuff. It helped me check for example that the file win10debloat6Dec-31Dec.ps1 was there – if it had not been there then the final line would not have worked to set off the script and bring up the GUI )
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

This is post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge43#post12697
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page43#post12697
Bitlylink: https://bit.ly/3P792Jk https://bit.ly/3PbdpD1 Tinylink: https://tinyurl.com/43nehmna

GUI Too Fucking big still
( The sizing is big and broken https://i.postimg.cc/T1pLpvdj/Big-Un-Broken.jpg )

Chris isn’t taking any notice of everyone telling him his GUI is too big, good for him !! ( or he goes off talking some bollox about auto resizing and or Windows Forms shit). I could be wrong. Maybe he knows what he is talking about, but no one else does.
( Here are some current ( Open as of Feb. 2022 ) Issues over at GitHub
260 The User Interface is cut off on smaller screens https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...ipt/issues/260
1920x1080 screen with 125% display scaling

223 Can't resize window https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...ipt/issues/223
Maximize workaround

212 Make Window Resizable https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...ipt/issues/212 I was able to go into my display settings and scale my display down to 100%, which allows me to fit the entire window on my screen, but just barely.
After doing this, I think I actually prefer this scaling over the " 125%, but I still wanted to mention this here because other users may have the same issue, or may simply find it to their liking to be able to resize the window

196 window size bug https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...ipt/issues/196 In the meantime, what you might try doing is going into your display settings and change your display scaling. Windows had my display scaled to 125% by default. I scaled it down to 100% and I'm now able to see the whole window. It did make everything else on my screen much smaller, which I personally don't mind. I think I may actually keep it this way.

)
( I solved them all and dozens, if not hundreds more at YouTube more before the dopey Bot deleted everything )

A quick word to the PoshGUI issue...
Chris's Posh GUI appears to have bloated the script with a lot of bollox. It bloats with repeated, and unnecessary coding. But that is an academic point, and, in any case, that is a bit off the point of the too big GUI issue, - that bloating is not directly the cause of the too big GUI issue here, (even though Chris seems to think so sometimes!!)
Looping to reduce the bloat of repeated stuff with functions, as suggested in some Pull requests, is perhaps better programming practice. But that is Chris's choice: It does no harm to use the code spewed out by PoshGUI for the general layout. It won't have any effect on the too big fucked up non working scroll bar, non working resize issue.
I suspect more likely that this too big and fucked up scrolling, fucked up resizing, GUI issue, is some combination of a copy and paste not done properly, along with some furkin forked pushed pull crap at GitHub that messed it up a but further.
But never mind all that...

Anyways.... - onward
The following may not be the full answer, but it seems to come close. It mainly only requires only removing 9 unnecessary lines that fuck everything up!

To explain
This is the current bit of GUI related script
Share ‘BloatedGUI.ps1’ https://app.box.com/s/1db6h5j765wc4jyjfqdn0mu9mdesb2ye

Code:

$Form = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form $Form.ClientSize = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(1050,1000) $Form.text = "Windows Toolbox By Chris Titus" $Form.StartPosition = "CenterScreen" $Form.TopMost = $false $Form.BackColor = [System.Drawing.ColorTranslator]::FromHtml("#e9e9e9") $Form.AutoScaleDimensions = '192, 192' $Form.AutoScaleMode = "Dpi" $Form.AutoSize = $True $Form.AutoScroll = $True $Form.ClientSize = '1050, 1000' $Form.FormBorderStyle = 'FixedSingle' # GUI Icon $iconBase64 = 'AAABAAMAMDAAAAEAIACoJQAANgAAACAgAAABACAAqBAAAN4lAAAQEAAAAQAgAGgEAACGNgAAKAAAADAAAABgAAAAAQAgAAAAAAAAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA //8AAP//AAD//wAA//8AAP//AAA=' $iconBytes = [Convert]::FromBase64String($iconBase64) $stream = New-Object IO.MemoryStream($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length) $stream.Write($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length) $Form.Icon = [System.Drawing.Icon]::FromHandle((New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap -Argument $stream).GetHIcon()) $Form.Width = $objImage.Width $Form.Height = $objImage.Height

( Full current Chris script: Share ‘win10debloatChrisFeb2022.ps1’ https://app.box.com/s/btt9pu8ri9z44dfv6a08o6fqwm8jhuh9 ) )
That script causes typically this ( screen resolutions: 1366x768 1440x900 1920x1080 2560x1440 ) :
https://i.postimg.cc/rzdjb4L0/Before...on-1366x68.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sMnnxTm5/1440x9...GUIFeb2022.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/RWmTNbJK/Before...n-19201080.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2V0Pzcn2/Probab...-2560x1440.jpg
So as you see, there is a slight dependency of size appearing on the screen to the resolution.
A higher resolution and it comes up a little smaller
1920x1080 is just about OK, and the over average used high of 2560x1440 is not too bad. I expect this latter is often what Chris uses.

The scroll bar usually doesn’t work, and usually is not there. If it is s there initially it soon vanishes making it usually impossible to get at the lower buttons
https://i.postimg.cc/1fwHRZXy/Before...om-buttons.jpg

It is not resizable,
_.________________________________________________ _________

Solution1
This script comes close to solving all problems: The main change is simply removing 9 lines of bloat

Code:

$Form = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form #$Form.ClientSize = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(1050,1000) $Form.text = "Windows Toolbox By Chris Titus" $Form.StartPosition = "CenterScreen" #$Form.TopMost = $false #$Form.BackColor = [System.Drawing.ColorTranslator]::FromHtml("#e9e9e9") #$Form.AutoScaleDimensions = '192, 192' #$Form.AutoScaleMode = "Dpi" #$Form.AutoSize = $True $Form.AutoScroll = $True $Form.ClientSize = '900, 900' # '1050, 1000' #$Form.FormBorderStyle = 'FixedSingle' # GUI Icon $iconBase64 = 'AAABAAMAMDAAAAEAIACoJQAANgAAACAgAAABACAAqBAAAN4lAAAQEAAAAQAgAGgEAACGNgAAKAAAADAAAABgAAAAAQAgAAAAAAAAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA //8AAP//AAD//wAA//8AAP//AAA=' $iconBytes = [Convert]::FromBase64String($iconBase64) $stream = New-Object IO.MemoryStream($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length) $stream.Write($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length) $Form.Icon = [System.Drawing.Icon]::FromHandle((New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap -Argument $stream).GetHIcon()) #$Form.Width = $objImage.Width #$Form.Height = $objImage.Height

Share ‘win10debloatChrisFeb2022UnFuckedGUI.ps1’ https://app.box.com/s/9uc5bl5w4l3kap4stt9alknswab1ogth
Share ‘UnBloatedGUI.ps1’ https://app.box.com/s/x84dbsw28ugyp5u9ga5msrq2c4nc9j82
https://i.postimg.cc/V53gcNY7/Unfucked-GUI-size.jpg
It has a scroll bar that works to some extent**
It is resizable ( by dragging bottom right corner or by dragging bottom border or by dragging right border )
( https://i.postimg.cc/jjcLcSCQ/Can-Re...-Bars-Work.jpg )

( **The only issue I have is that the vertical scroll bar on the right is a bit quirky sometimes. But I have seen similar to that on other GUIs intermittently. So that may be some bug in PowerShell. (.. Or a problem with Windows: It only happens sporadically in some extended monitor set ups- After Vista, Microsoft seem to have screwed up something related to multiple monitor use )

The better fuller Solution2 would be to reduce all button sizes to something more sensible, example:
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12773
https://i.postimg.cc/Q9zbC8cd/Better-Solution.jpg

_._________________________________________
See also here
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page50#post12771
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12771
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge52#post12786

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...ent-1041595552
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

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03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

This is post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge43#post12701
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page43#post12701

9.21 Making Windows Faster without Tools 21 12 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOz_foQcPcY
https://app.box.com/s/x9r2adh4jdray2e1z49vunt6nvh9ccy1
This is a repeat of part 2 of this 3 part video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWHiP9K8fQ0&t=371s
He mentions his tool at the end
So its mostly a copy of something he did before and the Title is actually misleading…._ so…_
_.. so …This is a very curious offering from Chris. But it has had a very unusually high number of Clicks. Either he was very lucky or he has / is playing around with / or has sussed out the YouTube algorithm or serch bot algorithms , or by some other devious means he has posted some crap to trick the system and get lots of View clicks

9.08 How to use GitHub 04 12 2021
This is a bit of a knee jerk reaction to that LTT guy making a reasonable quick reaction to how complicated and confusing GitHub is.
Chris then gave the 3 ( 4 ) ways to copy stuff. – He wasn’t that sure himself.
We have
_ (i) Double click on a file and then you get a Raw Button, ( then maybe a Ctrl+S )
_ (ii) Download GitHub Desktop, then do a Clone Repository?
_ (iii) PowerShell (or windows 11 Terminal) wget with the Raw URL ( from (i) )
( _ (iv) ) downloaded the zip File shown somewhere if you know your way around GitHub )
Good grief, looks like he proved the point the LTT guy was saying.He says people don’t understand the idea behind it. I think they do. But its just Poo, at doing that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1iqtOnUMg
Share ‘9.08 How to Use GitHub-v_1iqtOnUMg_04 12 2021.wmv’ https://app.box.com/s/5p548kte9chf7jsbm5apmc4pn4jzfppk

9.23 Live - Updating all my GitHub Projects - The Power of FOSS-ZEW5f7F94FY_31 12 2021

at 1 hr, 6and a half minute, Chris is talking crap that the exe would be better with the size scaling…
https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=3990

See also issue Pull it Plonker #3
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12767

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEW5f7F94FY
9.23 Live - Updating all my GitHub Projects - The Power of FOSS-ZEW5f7F94FY_31 12 2021
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A29...?usp=drive_web

Live - Toolbox Update - New Features (Disable_Enable Updates)-WRg5nItpghA_11 02 2022
See also Here: This is post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12774
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page50#post12774

Chris’s says he is mainly interested in this Live stream in adding a button to totally disable and then re enable updates. He stresses he is doing this only because of a lot of requests and that he really does not think it’s a good idea.
As it came out he spent a large amount of the time doing a very nice clear run through explanation of Essential Tweaks. The rest of the time was split into shorter bits doing those two buttons and going some way to fixing a few mistakes he noticed as he went along.

Chris said he was tired at the start, but he seemed well in form in this one. He started with something to do with Games in his windows. I don’t know what that was about but then he went bang at about from 6-7 minutes into a
very nice clear run through explanation of Essential Tweaks

Num Lock chaos issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRg5...P1d2B994AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRg5nItpghA&t=2210s
At minute 36:50 noticed by chance when doing something else, that some time previously he had missed a Disable NumLock after startup button and coding, so he made one , $laptopnumlock

Code:

629 $laptopnumlock = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Button 630 $laptopnumlock.text = "Laptop Numlock Fix" 631 $laptopnumlock.width = 211 632 $laptopnumlock.height = 30 633 $laptopnumlock.location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(4,267) 643 $laptopnumlock.Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font('Microsoft Sans Serif',12) 1164 $laptopnumlock.Add_Click({ 1165 Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKU:\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard" -Name "InitialKeyboardIndicators" -Type DWord -Value 0 1166 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms 1167 If (([System.Windows.Forms.Control]::IsKeyLocked('NumLock'))) { 1168 $wsh = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell 1169 $wsh.SendKeys('{NUMLOCK}') 1170 } 1171 })

In fact he had only forgotten the GUI button, the Add Click coding was there

Code:

1751 $DisableNumLock.Add_Click({ 1752 Write-Host "Disable NumLock after startup..." 1753 Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKU:\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard" -Name "InitialKeyboardIndicators" -Type DWord -Value 0 1754 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms 1755 If (([System.Windows.Forms.Control]::IsKeyLocked('NumLock'))) { 1756 $wsh = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell 1757 $wsh.SendKeys('{NUMLOCK}') 1758 } 1759 $ResultText.text = "`r`n" +"`r`n" + "NUMLOCK Disabled" 1760 })

At min 51 he justifies putting services to manual – he says don’t need disable or auto start.
After doing most of the mods necessary to the GUI, and a few of the mistakes he noticed, he copied most of the GUI made code, then pasted into a “clone” copy of his main current code, but he bypassed copying the first bit, so bypassed and keeps the fucked up mess at the start

At 1:52 he has another rage on Edge and once again stresses that whilst he does not intentionally try to break it, it is likely that his script will damage a lot of stuff needed for Edge.

9.30 Live - Toolbox Update - New Features (Disable_Enable Updates)-WRg5nItpghA_11 02 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRg5nItpghA
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNQ...?usp=drive_web
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1khe...?usp=drive_web
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

Post #429
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge43#post12702
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page43#post12702

Install Drivers in Windows-5ckOWXGDL34_05 03 2022.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckOWXGDL34
https://app.box.com/s/g2wfkd5fzisz9vy994h44jcqdfyamg5i
At minute approx 2, 40 seconds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckOWXGDL34&t=155s , Chris mentions that at Device instillation settings, we should set to no to automatic instillations:
Microsoft + r , then in cmd bar sysdm.cpl then OK
old System Properties : https://i.postimg.cc/xjR4NB92/old-System-Properties.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/J0PYwHpn/old-System-Properties.jpg
Hardware _ Device Instillation Settings https://i.postimg.cc/MTJF1ScW/Hardwa...n-Settings.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/jj71W5Sg/Hardwa...n-Settings.jpg
Select No https://i.postimg.cc/sxVH049q/No-to-...ufacturers.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bJ0FTBb1/No-to-...ufacturers.jpg
He says his Essential Tweaks does this

9.32 Live - Optimizing Windows for Gaming-z3DNobuvkL8_11 03 2022
On this Friday Live Stream the Theme was Optimizing Windows for Gaming, but he touched on his Tool a lot, as he did generally on Windows optimising things.
He mentioned again that windows has not changed much and that he used ms config 1998 First Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DNobuvkL8&t=250s its an old system

At about minute 13 he is recommending his tool, especially the Essential tweaks, to reduce the 133 processes he has at that time on a windows 11. He talks about expecting it going down to 70 – 80, but he never checked.

Those Visual or Performance FXs ( Outline or full window moving ion dragging )
Using MS button +r , then sysdm.cpl will get you the things being discussed
https://i.postimg.cc/8c5GckMB/sysdm-cpl.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bNZ8jJzq/system...ual-Effect.jpg
He says visual or performance makes hardly any difference https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=837
( In previous video, The Ultimate Windows Utility Upgrade , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKM8ZScbic8&t=190s , Performance effects are explained as being the stripped down for max performance )
I think the following screenshot may be showing what the Performance Visual FX button does: https://i.postimg.cc/PqJ5VkS7/Performanc-Options.jpg , but don’t quote me on it, lol!

At 15 minutes 20 seconds, https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=920 , he discusses some advanced power settings found by navigating around the old Control Panel.
The minimum CPU, 5 – 20% , is typically done for battery on Laptop , and for games its not so good .

Chris explains “his windows return” as by his games and his related time off - its easier to make windows videos that he knows best.
After about 20 minutes, until the middle it’s all games stuff I am not interested in. The second half is general chat including some Windows stuff again

Chris mentions the No to ISOs , https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=3505 As always he says he wants always show us how, Again later https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=6263

There was a chat asking about the browser Hijack and a Tong Yabgu asked to show useless services for a gamer/engineer programs user ?
msmg not work on 11

At 1Hr 07min 06Seconds. Chris is back to partial explanation Tool https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=4026 , updates initially, and once again says he don’t advise do disable all

Chris says, says he thinking of going says he thinking of going WPF in place of WinForms to get over the Toll beong suspected as a virus??

At 1 13 https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=4378 Chris is made aware that there is no option for removing background apps - he feels like it was there, so he is surprised - he could not find it in seetings Apps

At 1 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DNobuvkL8&t=4565s Chris looks at group policy for Home also – looks at GitHub projects
He goes on to see that Group policy is a bit different in windows 11, so thinks he may have to look at that.

At 1.23 https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=4973 talks about WPF again for dynamic things like dark mode

https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=5450 Firewall Stuff

https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=6130 Edge problem again

https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=6175 Remote access so bad that Microsoft wont use it, shows how via system properties to get it.

https://youtu.be/z3DNobuvkL8?t=7327 Defender - best leave,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DNobuvkL8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcT...?usp=drive_web
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The next video is a direct follow on to the last…

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9.34 Optimize Windows for Gaming-KjHfCDPfLdI_12 03 2022
The video is mainly about gaming again which I am not interested in, but here are some useful things I picked up in passing which are relevant to thee Tool Utility

It is interesting to see here, https://youtu.be/KjHfCDPfLdI?t=784 , that Chris seems to have 2560x1440 which he often referees to as 14 40 or 14 40 P
When he talks about going down he is talking of 10 80 meaning 1920x1080

At https://youtu.be/KjHfCDPfLdI?t=153 , - Chris thinks he may have duplicate something on a new Power Restore button that seems to have crept in around ?? - No idea - GitHub Chaos again, or it might be a duplication of a Win7 Power Button. He is in a mess as usual, going around in circles.

Here is the C drive Properties index off trick again,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjHfCDPfLdI&t=260s , goes on to mention that you can disable the search as well, but not really necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjHfCDPfLdI
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7h...?usp=drive_web
03-20-2018, 04:09 PM
DocAElstein

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