Windows 10 Sophia Script

A PowerShell module for Windows 10 fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks 🏆

⚠️ Before running ⚠️

• Due to the fact that the script includes more than 270 functions, you must read the entire preset file carefully and comment out/uncomment those functions that you do/do not want to be executed. Every tweak in a preset file has its' corresponding function to restore the default settings.
• Running the script is best done on a fresh install because running it on wrong tweaked system may result in errors occurring.
• Some third-party antiviruses flag this script or its' part as malicious one. This is a false positive due to $EncodedScript variable. You can read more about in "CreateCleanUpTask" function. You might need to disable tamper protection from your antivirus settings, re-enable it after running the script, and reboot.

Screenshots

Screenshots

Sophia Script in Action

Core features

• Set up Privacy & Telemetry;
• Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks;
• Set up UI & Personalization;
• Uninstall OneDrive "correctly";
• Interactive prompts;
• Change %TEMP% environment variable path to %SystemDrive%\Temp
• Change location of the user folders programmatically (without moving user files) within interactive menu using up/down arrows and Enter key to make a selection
  • "Desktop";
  • "Documents";
  • "Downloads";
  • "Music";
  • "Pictures"
  • "Videos.
• Uninstall UWP apps from all accounts with exception apps list with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Disable Windows features;
• Install and setup WSL
• Remove Windows capabilities with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Create a Windows cleaning up task in the Task Scheduler;
  • A toast notification will pop up a minute before the task starts
• Create tasks in the Task Scheduler to clear
  • %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download
  • %TEMP%
• Unpin all Start menu tiles;
• Pin shortcuts to Start menu using syspin.exe
  • Three shortcuts are preconfigured to be pinned: Control Panel, "old style" Devices and Printers, and Command Prompt
• Turn on Controlled folder access and add protected folders using dialog menu;
• Add exclusion folder from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning using dialog menu;
• Add exclusion file from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning using dialog menu;
• Refresh desktop icons, environment variables and taskbar without restarting File Explorer;
• Setup Windows 10 security;
• Many more File Explorer and context menu "deep" tweaks.

Usage

To run the script:

• Download up-to-date version;

• Expand the archive;

• Open folder with the expanded archive;

• Look through the preset file to configure functions that you want to be ran;

  • Comment out function with the # char if you don't want it to be ran;
  • Uncomment function by removing the # char if you want it to be ran.

• Click "File" in File Explorer, hover over "Open Windows PowerShell", and select "Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator" (how-to with screenshots);

• Set execution policy to be able to run scripts only in the current PowerShell session

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
  

• Type

.\Sophia.ps1

• Press Enter

How to translate

• Get your OS UI culture by

  $PSUICulture
  

• Create a folder with the UI culture name;

• Place your localized Sophia.psd1 file into this folder

Supported Windows 10 versions

Version	Code name	Marketing name	Build	Arch	Editions	Script version
2009	20H2	October 2020 Update	19042	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.1.1
2004	20H1	May 2020 Update	19041	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.1.1
1909	19H2	November 2019 Update	18363	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	4.5
1903	19H1	May 2019 Update	18362	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	4.5
1809		LTSC Enterprise 2019	17763	x64	Enterprise	4.5

GUI version (C#)

oz-zo still cooking (moved to the private repository)

21H1 test version

https://gist.github.com/farag2/5a6d9952247aefe42ba81a9d95507765

Microsoft Docs

• Release information
• Known issues for 2004

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