Windows 10 and Office Excel

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

I hit a problem later
I hit a problem later…. The full main file actually looked like this in a text editor:

and it got me an 9 line array, where I was expecting one of 2102

I don’t know how that came about since the four lines file was made and saved in the same ISE environment in which the Main file was and was saved in. But it looks like unfortunately there may be a few, 9 , vbCr & vbLfs.
So, I took a look at a shortened vision of that file, as saved in a text editor, trying to capture some of the problem areas.
This is what I looked at

Here is the results:

Code:

 
"Function BlochIPhosts " & Chr(123) & "param" & "(" & Chr(91) & "int" & Chr(93) & "$" & "Testie" & ")" & vbCr & vbLf & " " & "$" & "Check " & "=" & " " & "$" & "Testie" & vbCr & vbLf & "Write" & "-" & "Host " & """" & "Adding telemetry domains to hosts file" & """" & " " & "#" & " Write" & "-" & "Output " & """" & "Adding telemetry domains to hosts file" & """" & vbCr & vbLf & "$" & "hosts" & "_" & "file " & "=" & " " & """" & "$" & "env" & ":" & "systemroot" & "\" & "System32" & "\" & "drivers" & "\" & "etc" & "\" & "hosts" & """"

"Add" & "-" & "Type " & "-" & "AssemblyName System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "Forms" & vbLf & Chr(91) & "System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "Forms" & "." & "Application" & Chr(93) & ":" & ":" & "EnableVisualStyles" & "(" & ")" & " " & "#" & vbLf & "Remove" & "-" & "Variable " & Chr(42) & " " & "-" & "ErrorAction SilentlyContinue " & "#" & " is needed or else a removed variable is still there when fucking about with variables" & "." & " by default variables are persistant" & "." & vbLf & "$" & "ErrorActionPreference " & "=" & " " & "'" & "SilentlyContinue" & "'"

"Add" & "-" & "Type " & "-" & "AssemblyName System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "Forms " & "#" & " For ps1 in PowerShell running code lines in PowerShell with Admin rights of the following form are what you need to set this off Set" & "-" & "ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted cd " & "'" & "G" & ":" & "\" & "Temp Opt" & "\" & "GitHub" & "\" & "win10script" & "-" & "master" & "\" & "My ps1 file Folder" & "'" & " " & "." & "\" & "win10debloat6Dec" & "-" & "31Dec" & "." & "ps1 " & vbLf & Chr(91) & "System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "Forms" & "." & "Application" & Chr(93) & ":" & ":" & "EnableVisualStyles" & "(" & ")" & " " & "#" & vbLf & "Remove" & "-" & "Variable " & Chr(42) & " " & "-" & "ErrorAction SilentlyContinue " & "#" & " is needed or else a removed variable is still there when fucking about with variables" & "." & " by default variables are persistant" & "." & vbLf & "$" & "ErrorActionPreference " & "=" & " " & "'" & "SilentlyContinue" & "'" & vbLf
 & "$" & "wshell " & "=" & " New" & "-" & "Object " & "-" & "ComObject Wscript" & "." & "Shell" & vbLf & "$" & "Button " & "=" & " " & Chr(91) & "System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "MessageBoxButton" & Chr(93) & ":" & ":" & "YesNoCancel" & vbLf & "$" & "ErrorIco " & "=" & " " & Chr(91) & "System" & "." & "Windows" & "." & "MessageBoxImage" & Chr(93) & ":" & ":" & "Error" & vbLf & "If " & "(" & "!" & "(" & Chr(91) & "Security" & "." & "Principal" & "." & "WindowsPrincipal" & Chr(93) & Chr(91) & "Security" & "." & "Principal" & "." & "WindowsIdentity" & Chr(93) & ":" & ":" & "GetCurrent" & "(" & ")" & ")" & "." & "IsInRole" & "(" & Chr(91) & "Security" & "." & "Principal" & "." & "WindowsBuiltInRolpl" & vbLf & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & "$" & "oldcontrolpanel" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbLf & " cmd " & "/" & "c control" & vbLf & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & "$" & "oldsystempanel" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbLf & " cmd " & "/" & "c sysdm" & "." & "cpl" & vbLf & Chr(125
) & ")" & vbLf & "#" & " " & "$" & "oldpower" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & "#" & " " & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & "#" & " " & "$" & "restorepower" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & vbCr & vbLf & "#" & " " & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & "#" & " " & "$" & "NFS" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & "#" & " " & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & vbLf & "#" & " " & "$" & "Virtualization" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & vbLf & "#" & " " & Chr(125) & ")" & vbLf & vbLf & "$" & "windowsupdatefix" & "." & "Add" & "_" & "Click" & "(" & Chr(123) & vbLf & " Write" & "-" & "Host " & """" & "1" & "." & " Stopping Windows Update Services" & "." & "." & "." & """" & " " & vbLf & " Stop" & "-" & "Service "
 & "-" & "Name BITS " & vbLf & " " & " "

From that above output we can see 11, so that’s 10 lines rather than 9. This inconsistency by 1 is somewhat worrying.
I looked at the array produced from that shortened text file, and it is as before, 9
One possibility is that some length restriction is long some of the line feed pairs, or a line slipped in at my making of the shortened file

For the masochistic pleasure I tried the full main file in the first simple macro. To my surprise, it worked, after a few hours, the result came out.
Temp7BeforeIPhostsInsertFirst4Lines_ps1WtchaGot https://app.box.com/s/12zw9id42xrwc7qy70ul87bg0wfpb4uh
Temp7BeforeIPhostsInsertFirst4Lines_ps1WtchaGot https://app.box.com/s/771q1gzpycle7ccveu235j256n4l4xyb
It returned 8, making 9 lines.

So that discrepancy is perhaps sorted.
My initial conclusions may have based on slightly careless manipulations that brought some invisible characters in.

One possibility is that the original main coding came from GitHub: This for example talks about the line feed issue at GitHub
http://vcloud-lab.com/entries/devops...pos=0&at_tot=1

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

Another post for later use

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

Another post for later use

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

Another post for later use

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

Another post for later use

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

Another post for later use

**DocAElstein** · 02-08-2022, 09:32 PM

In support of this post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge53#post12804
A similar requirement to the last post, but for purposes of comparing a change in script by having the two versions side by side
I will do the whole thing again, just to see if I still experience similar effects on a different day.

I am interested in what seems to be a change by Chris Titus to his recent “WPF” windows utility
This change was somehow in between others, ( (ii) inbetween (i) and (iii) ), so may have slipped past most people.
I am taking my data from this red and green stuff , middle in Commit thing,
Mistery Red and Green stuff https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/wi...d6f8ac9bee5a64
or maybe not… This is what I have
The previous XML from god knows where and when, ( the red stuff from that last link )
Share ‘May10-17XML.txt’ https://app.box.com/s/ykynprd9a3ra4w7kcif4h5ziubwktw2t
The “new” green stuff from that last link
Share ‘May17XML.txt’ https://app.box.com/s/gsqjpfmmqwpadmu8wchjrlfrqxwrrg6e

_ (iii) This is now from the next change the next change called up XML thing

The big mystery seems to be for now where and what that red stuff comes from or is.
It seems that the full script from 10 May, the full script from just before the last change (ii) on 17May, and the stand alone XLM in change (iii) all have the same XML stuff

I think I will leave it for now… It’s all a total mess. It looks like he changed something he was never using to update it to what he was using.

….. later