08.01.2023

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Diff from v6.2.6
6.2.6...6.2.7

• Improved Microsoft Defender startup checks;
• Improved Badge.yml config;
• Minor changes.

26.12.2022

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Diff from v6.2.5
6.2.5...6.2.6

• Improved Defender startup checks;

  • Thanks to @alan-null.

• Improved UninstallPCHealthCheck function to install the "PC Health Check" app (Windows 10 only);

  • Thanks to @alan-null.

• Renamed InstallDotNetRuntime7 into InstallDotNetRuntimes to let users install .NET Desktop Runtime 6 along side with the 7th version;

• Added FolderGroupBy function to let users do not group files and folder in the File Explorer;

• Minor changes.

• With best wishes for a happy New Year from Team Sophia

11.12.2022

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Diff from v6.2.4
6.2.4...6.2.5

• Switched .NET Desktop Runtime 6 to the 7th version;
• Minor changes.

Wrapper

• Removed annoying pop-up notification while importing preset;
• @BenchTweakGaming.

04.12.2022

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Diff from v6.2.3
6.2.3...6.2.4

• Updated the Scheduled tasks notification toasts UI;
  
  • Call Sophia -Functions "CleanupTask -Register", "SoftwareDistributionTask -Register", "TempTask -Register" to update existing Scheduled tasks to have a new toasts UI;
  • Read how to call specific function from Sophia Script for Windows.
• Fixed bug for TempFolder function to make it work without errors on systems with non-latin characters in username;
• Fixed small bug in NetworkAdaptersSavePower;
  • Now it doesn't hang script in rare cases.
• EditWithPhotosContext and CreateANewVideoContext function were removed for Windows 11 only due to they do not work for this Windows;
• Added EditWithClipchampContext for Windows only to let remove Edit with Clipchamp from the media files context menu;
• Fixed typos in UpdateLGPEPolicies function
• #411 merged;
• Fixed #406;
• Minor changes.

Wrapper version bumped to 2.5.8

• Minor changes and added link to Discord channel;
• Wrapper 3.0 is on the way;
• @BenchTweakGaming.

04.11.2022

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Diff from v6.2.2
6.2.2...6.2.3

• Hot fix for HEIF function;
  • Thanks to Ravz59 for bug reporting.
• UnpinAllStartApps re-written. Now there is no need to keep start.bin file to unpin start tiles.

02.11.2022

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Diff from v6.2.1
6.2.1...6.2.2

• HEIF function was re-written;
  • Now it downloads the latest HEVC codec package using the https://store.rg-adguard.net parser again;
  • Now it checks version of installed package before installing;
  • #406 closed.
• Minor changes.

31.10.2022

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Diff from v6.2.0
6.2.0...6.2.1

• Fixed old bug in Meet Now function when it didn't save registry key value;
• Improved all scheduled tasks creation;
  • Unified tasks with SophiApp: they are created now in Sophia folder;
  • When you remove all tasks in the Task Scheduler, folder will be removed too;
• Added missed strings in the Wrapper configs;
• Improved Wrapper German translation;
  • Thanks to @Henry2o1o.
• Minor changes.

23.10.2022

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Diff from v6.1.5
6.1.5...6.2.0

• Moved from PolFileEditor.dll to LGPO.exe from Microsoft;

  • It lets manually created policies keys in registry be visible in gpedit.msc snap-in by re-building policy cache by official way;
  • So all functions that rely on policy will be visible in the snap-in for you;
  • The UpdateLGPEPolicies was edited to be suitable for a new method based on LGPO.exe;
    • Commented out be default now.

• Added a new function Cursors

  

  • Lets you to install free (light and dark) "Windows 11 Cursors Concept v2" cursors from Jepri Creations on-the-fly;
  • Default option is Dark.

• The InstallVCRedist function now installs both x86 and x64 Visual C++ Redistributable 2015–2022 packages;

• Fixed bug in the Windows Cleanup scheduled task for cleaning Windows. If you applied this function in 6.1.5 release, re-apply in again using this release, unless the task won't run at all.

  • How-to call specific function

  Sophia -Functions "CleanupTask -Register"

• Minor changes.

09.10.2022

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Diff from v6.1.4
6.1.4...6.1.5

• Added a temp workaround to check whether PolFileEditor.dll assembly was loaded due to even it was unblocked for SmartScreen before, it's blocked for loading into PowerShell session;
  • Fixes bug when script couldn't load PolFileEditor.dll into session and broke the functionality that relies on it. Now if script detects that PolFileEditor.dll wasn't loaded, offer to restart powershell.exe session.
  • Will be obsolete with the 6.2.0 release.
• Fixed winget not installing Visual C++ Redistributable 2015–2022;
  • Microsoft changed package identifier.
• Minor changes.

Check out SophiApp 1.0.84! 🚀

13.08.2022

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Diff from v6.1.3
6.1.3...6.1.4

• We opened our official Discord channel! Feel free to chat and talk!

• Improved Defender checkings;

  • Now they're skipped for Windows 10 Enteprise G;
  • Closes #379.

• Now all all .ps1, .psm1, .psd1 files are signed in cloud via GitHub Actions by a self-issued certificates;

  • https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows/blob/master/Scripts/Sign.ps1
  • https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows/blob/63de3f5896fba014d7f6bb0493d4934b221fe1ef/.github/workflows/Sophia.yml#L17

• Removed unnecessary BitLockerContext function;

• Improved UpdateLGPEPolicies function;

  • Now it covers more GPOs to find in AMDX templates;
  • Thanks Alex_Piggy for the code snippet.

• Fixed bug when user couldn't launch PowerShell 7 based script if there is no localization for user's system;

  • Closes #377.

• OpenWindowsTerminalAdminContext function was re-written;

  • OpenWindowsTerminalAdminContext -Enable, OpenWindowsTerminalAdminContext -Disable;
  • Now it uses officially documented feature to make Windows Terminal to launch as administrator by default by editing %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json file.
    To remove old context menu item, run

  $Items = @(
    "Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\runas",
    "Registry::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas"
  )
  Remove-Item -Path $Items -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Ignore

  And make Windows Terminal context menu item visible if you hid it before.

  Remove-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked" -Name "{9F156763-7844-4DC4-B2B1-901F640F5155}" -Force -ErrorAction Ignore

• Improved the Ukrainian 🇺🇦: translation.

  • Thanks to @lowl1f3;
  • #378 merged.

• Minor changes.

Check out SophiApp 1.0.77! 🚀