Windows-10-Setup-Script/README.md

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  <h1>Windows 10 Setup Script</h1>

Windows 10 Setup Script is a set of tweaks for OS fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks.
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## Core features
- Set up Privacy & Telemetry;
- Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks;
- Set up UI & Personalization;
- Uninstall OneDrive "correctly";
- Interactive prompts;
- Unpin Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Store from taskbar programmatically;
- Change %TEMP% environment variable path to %SystemDrive%\Temp
- Set location of the user folders to %SystemDrive% programmatically
  - "Desktop";
  - "Documents";
  - "Downloads";
  - "Music";
  - "Pictures"
  - "Videos.
- Uninstall all UWP apps from all accounts with exception apps list;
- Turn off Windows features;
- Create a task in the Task Scheduler to start Windows cleaning up;
- Create a task in the Task Scheduler to clear the $env:SystemRoot\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder;
- Unpin all Start menu tiles;
- Pin shortcuts to Start menu using syspin.exe
  - [Download](https://github.com/farag2/Windows-10-Setup-Script/raw/master/Start%20menu%20layout/syspin.exe) syspin.exe 
  - App [site](http://www.technosys.net/products/utils/pintotaskbar)
  - Hash (SHA256): 6967E7A3C2251812DD6B3FA0265FB7B61AADC568F562A98C50C345908C6E827
  - [Screenshot](#intro)
- Add exclusion folder from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning;
- Refresh desktop icons, environment variables and taskbar without restarting File Explorer;
- Many more File Explorer and context menu "deep" tweaks.

## Usage
To run the script:
- Download [up-to-date version](https://github.com/farag2/Setup-Windows-10/releases);
- Check whether file is encoded in **UTF-8 with BOM** and run it through powershell.exe;
- PowerShell must be run with elevated privileges;
- Set PowerShell execution policy <code>Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Force</code> to be able to run .ps1 files.
  - Read more about [execution policy](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_execution_policies)

## Supported Windows versions
|Version|Code name|   Marketing name   |Build|  Arch  |   Editions   |
|:-----:|:-------:|:------------------:|:---:|:------:|:------------:|
| 1909  |  19H2   |November 2019 Update|18363|x64 only|Pro/Enterprise|
| 1903  |  19H1   |   May 2019 Update  |18362|x64 only|Pro/Enterprise|

## FAQ
Read the code you run carefully. Some functions are presented as an example only. You must be aware of the meaning of the functions in the code. **If you're not sure what the script does, do not run it**.
**Strongly recommended to run the script after fresh installation**. Some of functions can be run also on LTSB/LTSC and on older versions of Windows and PowerShell (not recommended to run on the x86 systems).

## Intro
  ![intro](https://github.com/farag2/Windows-10-Setup-Script/raw/master/intro.gif)

## Microsoft Docs
 - [Release information](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information)
 - [Known issues](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-1909)

## Ask a question on
 - [Habr](https://habr.com/en/post/465365/)
 - [Ru-Board](http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=62&topic=30617#15)
 - [4PDA](https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=523489&st=42980#entry95909388)
 - [My Digital Life](https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/powershell-script-setup-windows-10.80139/)
 - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/ctg8jw/powershell_script_setup_windows_10/)

## PS
Collection of useful [scripts](https://github.com/farag2/Utilities)