Sophia Script for Windows

The largest PowerShell module on GitHub for Windows 10 & Windows 11 fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks 🏆

 

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• Screenshots • Videos • Core features • How to use • How to translate • Supported Windows 10 versions • Changelog

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🔥 Before running 🔥

• Due to the fact that the script includes more than 150 functions with different arguments, you must read the entire Sophia.ps1 carefully and comment out/uncomment those functions that you do/do not want to be executed. Every tweak in the 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.

Supported Windows versions

Windows 11

Version	Marketing name	Build	Arch	Editions	Script version
21H2	October 2021 Update	22000	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	6.0.2

Windows 10

Version	Marketing name	Build	Arch	Editions	Script version
21H2	October 2021 Update	19044	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.12.1
21H1	May 2021 Update	19043	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.12.1
20H2	October 2020 Update	19042	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.12.1
2004	May 2020 Update	19041	x64	Home/Pro/Enterprise	5.12.1
1809	LTSC Enterprise 2019	17763	x64	Enterprise	5.2.12

Screenshots

The TAB autocomplete. Read more here

Change user folders location programmatically using the interactive menu

Localized UWP apps names

Localized Windows features names

Download and install any supported Linux distribution in automatic mode

Native interactive toasts for the scheduled tasks

David's Sophia Script Wrapper

Videos

Core features

• Set up Privacy & Telemetry;
• Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Set up UI & Personalization;
• Uninstall OneDrive "correctly";
• Interactive prompts;
• The TAB completion for functions and their arguments (if using the Functions.ps1 file);
• Change %TEMP% environment variable path to %SystemDrive%\Temp
• Change location of the user folders programmatically (without moving user files) within interactive menu using arrows to select a drive
  • "Desktop";
  • "Documents";
  • "Downloads";
  • "Music";
  • "Pictures"
  • "Videos.
• Uninstall UWP apps displaying packages names;
  • Generate installed UWP apps list dynamically
• Restore the default uninstalled UWP apps for current user displaying localized packages names;
• The TAB autocompletion for function and its' arguments by typing first letters
• Disable Windows features displaying friendly packages names with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Uninstall Windows capabilities displaying friendly packages names with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Download and install the HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer from Microsoft server using https://store.rg-adguard.net parser to be able to open .heic and .heif formats;
• Register app, calculate hash, and set as default for specific extension without the "How do you want to open this" pop-up using special function;
• Install any supported Linux distrobution for WSL displaying friendly distro names with pop-up form written in WPF;
• Create a Windows Cleanup and Windows Cleanup Notification scheduled tasks for Windows cleaning up unused files and updates;
  • A native toast notification will be displayed where you can choose to snooze, run the cleanup task or dismiss
• Create tasks in the Task Scheduler to clear
  • %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download
  • %TEMP%
• Pin shortcuts to Start via pure PowerShell
  • Three shortcuts are pre-configured to be pinned: Control Panel, "old style" Devices and Printers, and Windows PowerShell
• Unpin all Start menu tiles;
• 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.

How to use

• Choose the right script version for your Windows 10;

• Download up-to-date version;

• Expand the archive;

• Open folder with the expanded archive;

• Look through the Sophia.ps1 file to configure functions that you want to be run;

  • Place the "#" char before function if you don't want it to be run;
  • Remove the "#" char before function if you want it to be run.

• 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 Enter to run the whole preset file.

How to use Wrapper

• Download and expand the archive;
• Run SophiaScriptWrapper.exe and import Sophia.ps1;
  • The Wrapper has a real time UI rendering;
• Configure every function;
• Open the Console Output tab and press Run PowerShell.

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How to run the specific function(s)

To run the specific function(s) dot source the Functions.ps1 file first:

# With a dot at the beginning
. .\Functions.ps1

• Now you can do like this (the quotation marks required)

Sophia -Functions <tab>
Sophia -Functions temp<tab>
Sophia -Functions unin<tab>
Sophia -Functions uwp<tab>
Sophia -Functions "DiagTrackService -Disable", "DiagnosticDataLevel -Minimal", UninstallUWPApps

UninstallUWPApps, "PinToStart -UnpinAll"

Or use an old-style format without the TAB functions autocomplete (the quotation marks required)

.\Sophia.ps1 -Functions CreateRestorePoint, "ScheduledTasks -Disable", "WindowsCapabilities -Uninstall"

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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.

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