Windows 10 and Office Excel

**DocAElstein** · 03-20-2018, 04:09 PM

Github Updates and Obsidian Wizardry 22 04 2022

Chris did a live stream of some relevance so,
_ first some notes, part of which might be used in some comments, so they might appear as if I am talking to Chris.
_ based on the changes I will update my Temp11.ps1 to Temp12.ps1

Initially he talks about some software, Obsidian. I have no idea about that. A quick glance looks like it’s a limited less useful platform to do what I do at my well organised forum. But when I check it out, I might change my ideas. Its easy to get used to something, then think it’s the best. You do that frequently, and then change your mind, later. That’s cool

He started looking at GitHub, at minute 36 He is going to close a lot as he is going to re write drastically the win 10 debloater script. That might include your idea to try out WPF.
(1 Hr 10Min 55Secs, https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4255 , check out there: You used 1440, untypical low for you, and you went on further at 1Hr 13Min 30Secs , https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4410 , to bring up again the issue of WPF v WindowsForms , ( https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4425 1hr 13min 45 secs ) )

He started looking at Pull requests, PRs…
PR #305 d4rklynk, add Librewolf
Has some useful stuff, Chris couldn’t be bothered and was confused as everyone is in how things get linked to other peoples stuff in at GitHub, so he just closed it. (Librewolf may have been trying to link to his stuff, but it could partly be that Chris or both of them don’t understand GitHub completely)

PR #304 SimPilotAdamT, Fix issue #299 and #302
Good one – stops the “Task manager extra details bit hanging” – I think I noticed something screwy there myself once so was added that to latest version, and I will

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After this Chris broke off a bit and decided to get a virtual machine up and test before doing more Merge/Commit stuff
He went for a Windows 11 virtual machine up, and as usual got in a muddle,
At min 42 30 https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=2550 he does windows 11 because he thinks most of us have switched.
( I think- Issues will be sorted out by chance I expect, which will take a while, and I don’t have the extra resources to be a Guinea Pig on windows 11
So I am partially beginning to be switched to windows 11, but not as regards using Debloat scripts for a good improved and speeded up versions )
It did not work, so he ended up using a windows 10.

At Minute 50 , 30 secs ( https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=3030 ) , seconds you were not sure about recent windows 10 versions:
21H2 was the latest released in middle November 2021
( From about that date until the current time, I had a few standard earlier versions, mostly connected to the internet permanently and mostly on default update settings. Microsoft never updated them surprisingly. One I forced to update, and it took a very long time, but was finally successful. Perhaps MS were uncharacteristically not in a rush to update on this one)

Back to the PRs
1 16 30 back to pull requests https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4590

PR Mrhaydendp #308 Batch Installer for WinGet
A good one. Chris totally missed the point 1 Hr 19 you did not take the time to do justice to the batch instillation PR
I think you should not get too excited by any particular way about installing winget. I have seen it vary which works from time to time, and most likely will continue to do so. Better would be to concentrate your efforts on some script to try a few ways, and pick the one that might work.
(And betters still either
_ don’t install stuff at all
Or
_ make it more bullet proof as I mentioned and even further perhaps to allow chocolaty install alternative. )

1Hr 19Min 35secs host ( https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4775 ) general comments on etc hosts, then on to the PR that was a major part of the Video, 1Hr 20Min 45Secs #306
PR Brandonbr1 #306 Add a script to block ads and include things from the scripts folder into the actual main file the people download
Chris liked most, ( takes out an anti spyware line
# Disabling Antispyware flags script as virus and also doesn't work with anti-tamper measures introduced in 20H2+
# Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" -Name "DisableAntiSpyware" -Type DWord -Value 00000001 )
Chris loves the stuff at 1 22 22 , https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=4950 - The Guy is doing a NetSH to do a firewall

An interesting comment from someone else on the PR Windows Defender (and most other antiviruses) has a history of blocking files that modify the hosts file due to it being a common technique used by viruses to create a backdoor in people's systems. This might be why there isn't a hosts file blocking implementation in the script yet. Also might be because hosts file blocking can introduce problems for people who use sites like Microsoft and Google services. Having it as a separate script might be best .
Chris at 1 22 30 :
, - “This is why I love G__H__ - go through PRs before you get a great one , like this one…”
( some time earlier Chris said he should test stuff before committing/Merging. But he forgot that, and committed/Merged this one, because he loved it so much )

Chris a few minute later, still on the same PR –
, - The TLDR: He was very, very, very upset by that PR – “Sometimes I hate PRs and wish I just code it all myself”

_.. Another G__H__ fuck up
But is good to see the development, ( or not ), on a Live stream. And entertaining

( Maybe you were a bit hard on the guy, Brandonbr1.
OK, it broke stuff for you. You easily fixed it. Sometimes your script brakes stuff for others. Often they can’t fix it.

( 1Hr 27Min 50secs:- Chris you like Terminal. I don’t know much about these things myself, but some people smarter than me tell me that Terminal will probably go under when the open source PowerShell 7 becomes widely used )

So.. the fuck up_
On testing he was concerned that the write-host did not appear?
There seemed to be some other errors
I think he did some repair to fix the bad PR – after changing some things, ( mostly deleting stuff, he somehow did a GitHub PR repair Push/Commit/Merge or whatever, called Fix bad PR.
Fix bad PR. Fuck up

A re run in terminal seemed to error similarly, or maybe not after a refresh / wait. .. It then seemed to work .. got as far as ..”blocking Ip telemetry”.
Then a bit after Chris was very, very, very upset… He vanished behind the scenes with a cable, …
The repair details are summarised here : 1Hr 49min summarised fix https://youtu.be/mXrmy8T74lM?t=6558
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Back to other Pull requests
PR THEBOSSMAGNUS #298, Add microsoft visual c++ runtime
Chris left it open

Sparker-99 #291 ,Added waterfox install
Chris don’t like that browser so closed it

Sighi-04 #286 Fixed dead package name for adobe reader installer
Simple one line change, Chris accepted
684 winget install -e Adobe.AdobeAcrobatReaderDC | Out-Host
684 winget install -e --id Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit | Out-Host

Carterpersall #285 Tweaked a Few Things and Resolved Several Issues
Looks like GitHub made it messy, and Chris was too tired and fed up to look at it, or he may hve hidden it in a branch. God knows. I doubt anyone else does
Hit Files changed to take a look ( https://i.postimg.cc/Cdp50XVH/Hit-Fi...ske-a-look.jpg ) These may be individual files

Myxxmikeyxx #282 Added Git For Windows Button Option
This was to add a button, but Chris liked the idea, and said he will put it into Github Desktop button instead of another installer, and he may have done it.. I will need to check the $githubdsktop.Add_Click{(

I liked your comments towards the end, of you wanting your own place, in parallel to anything or anywhere else that you do stuff, so as to keep some sort of longevity. That is exactly what I think about my forum. For a year or two I am mostly in the background trying to understand how to maintain it, reliably.
Although I don’t always approve of some of the addicts, some of whom I think are psychos, spending all of their life at forums, some do have it as the most important part of their life.
A few are nice people, just a bit lonely and sad, in their old age, with nothing better that they are able to do. They do provide a service from which others benefit. In recent years, some forums have vanished without warning, or some places been changed to read only. That has been very unkind to some of these people.

Update Temp11.ps1 to Temp12.ps1 from Chris23April2022.ps1

As usual, I would like to keep up to date with Chris’s development, so I add lines to my latest, Temp11.ps1 , using the latest from Chris, , to know where the lines are needed.
Either the linnes are
_ left empty
or
_ include all or part of what Chris has there: the purpose of that is.
The purpose of that is to either use, and/ or make it easier to compare future versions of Chris’s script with mine.

To do this I typically put the two files side by side in their own window ( ISE or Notepad++) , , and scroll down making a changes as I go along to keep similar code lines at the same place, as much as possible…