Notes tests, string, manipulation of text files and string manipulations

**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 & " " & " "