Windows 10 and Office Excel

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Pull it Plonker #3

Chris Fucked up a simple change because he was poxing about in GitHub Crap, ( or I am just a jerk for not understanding GitHub yet.. )

#3a Seems to work
Disclaimer: I might be talking crap here, because I don’t understand GitHub. On the other hand GitHub could be a complicated waste of time, worse than useless, and it can cause you to mess up a simple change like adding a couple of lines to a script and trying it out.
Simplified shortened story:
Someone called nikilson suggested way back in early December a change, basically comprising two code lines to stop the web search being suggested when you search in that small search bar bottom left, https://github.com/nikilson/win10scr...e09a7125868e92

So before using those code lines you might have this
https://i.postimg.cc/VNqwtH0M/bollox...web-search.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rynk54sh/Bollox-to-Web-Search.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2SvNpXwJ/Bollox-to-Web-Search.jpg

But if you run a couple of lines like this, either alone or in the full Debloat script, .._

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Type DWord -Value 0  
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "AllowSearchToUseLocation" -Type DWord -Value 0

_.. , and then the web search bollox is gone
https://i.postimg.cc/sxXCtj69/No-bollox.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sDMRm2Z3/Gone-B...Web-Search.jpg
I have tested that on several computers on a few different Windows 10 versions, including the latest windows 10 version, 21H2. It seems to work, as does the corresponding undo code lines to put it back

 Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Type DWord -Value 1   
 Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "AllowSearchToUseLocation" -Type DWord -Value 1 

Pullock #3b
In this live stream video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEW5f7F94FY
9.23 Live - Updating all my GitHub Projects - The Power of FOSS 31 12 2021 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A29...?usp=drive_web
, Chris had an attempt at testing the “Pull”:
At about minute 11, 37 seconds, https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=697 , he started looking at it, at about minute 23 , https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=1380 , he put it in some abstract branch twig test GitHub crap, and forgot about it and closed the “Pull request”
At about minute 57 , https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=3430 , to fill up time while waiting for something, he tried to test the thing. He ran a Windows 10 virtual machine, and called up the script from the one command thing. As I understand it that runs the current ps1 script somehow across the internet. But Chris never changed that script, ( other than adding a simple single Debloat line HotspotShieldFreeVPN )
Instead, after adding that simple single Debloat line he …. Before we grab any more requests we will make another branch - ( minute 7 and 30 seconds https://youtu.be/ZEW5f7F94FY?t=450 )
I think the problem is when pissing about with virtual machines and catastrophic GitHub, you easily loose track of reality. It might look pretty on a video, but to get the job done quickly and efficiently it is very simple:
_ you can pick up older machines with the older software versions very cheaply. I think anyone working on developing things in windows 10 should have a few computers.
_ simply test the code lines directly in PowerShell or Windows PowerShell ISE or in a copy of the script.

The code lines do what they should. Chris was a Branch Test Pullock when he thought he tried them out, ( or I am the slow to get the point idiot, again..)