Windows 10 Setup Script

"Windows 10 Setup Script" is a set of tweaks for OS fine-tuning and automating the routine tasks.

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;

• Turn off Windows features;

• Remove Windows capabilities with pop-up form written in WPF;

• Create a Windows cleaning up task in the Task Scheduler;

• 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

• Turn on Controlled folder access and add protected folders;

• Add exclusion folder from Microsoft Defender Antivirus scanning;

• Add exclusion file 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.

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Usage

To run the script:

• Download up-to-date version;

• Expand the archive;

• Check whether .ps1 is encoded in UTF-8 with BOM;

• Run Start.cmd as Administrator;

• The script will start immediately.

Supported Windows versions

Version	Code name	Marketing name	Build	Arch	Editions
1909	19H2	November 2019 Update	18363	x64 only	Home/Pro/Enterprise
1903	19H1	May 2019 Update	18362	x64 only	Home/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).

GUI version (C#)

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