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Useful things

Hi, I am Dmitry from Moscow. Passionate about Microsoft services, Windows & PowerShell. Learning technologies that I found interesting.

• Open-source enthusiast and maintainer 🖥️
• Love to help people 🔌
• I do like automation 🤖
• I work on Sophia Script, the largest PowerShell module for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11 on GitHub, and its' GUI version, SophiApp ⌨️

utilities's Issues

Cursor update error

Hello @farag2
Hope you're doing well.
So after the today's update on cursor dark.zip, when I run the installer script I get error messages as you can see on screenshot.

Thanks in advance.

TaskbarX.ps1 issue.

Hi, @farag2 . I hope you are doing good.
It's me again... sorry.
I'm trying to update my TaskbarX with a new version using your script and this message appears:

I believe it's happening because the program is already running and can't be replaced.
Thank you, friend. I really appreciate your work.

Market value seems to be incorrect for Search-MSStore functions

Utilities/Search_UWP_Package_in_Store.ps1

Line 29 in 3818b80

market = (Get-UICulture).Parent.Name

Utilities/Search_UWP_Package_in_Store.ps1

Line 89 in 3818b80

market = (Get-UICulture).Parent.Name

Here is the error:

Invoke-WebRequest : {"code":"InvalidParameterValue","data":[],"details":[],"innererror":{"code":"InvalidParameterValue","data":[],"details":[] 
,"message":"Parameter market was specified with invalid value: en.","source":"StoreEdgeFD","target":"market"},"message":"Parameter market was  
specified with invalid value: en.","source":"StoreEdgeFD","target":"market"}
At line:38 char:7
+     ((Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri ($Base + $Parameters)). ...
+       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

Fixed the issue by changing the line to this. Probably not the best, but seems to work at the moment.
market = (Get-UICulture).Name.split("-")[1]

Thanks for creating this function, it's a huge help at the moment.

Firefox_Setup.exe.ps1

Hello,
So I'm having a problem trying to install Firefox using your Firefox_Setup.exe.ps1 script as you can see on the picture. It won't be installed.

It's a fresh installation of Win10Pro (original) with all latest updates installed and has your Sophia Script too (default settings).
Thank you so much.

EDIT:
Tried to run script again after running Internet Explorer 11 for the first time and got this error now:

What happens if I decide to remove IE11 using Sophia and then Firefox_Setup.exe.ps1, will it never work? We must have IE11?
Thanks in advance.

Acrobat_Reader_DC_x64.ps1 error.

Hello again, @farag2
Sorry for bothering you.
I'm trying to download the newest Reader DC x64 using the script, and it's giving me this error:

If I'm not wrong, this happened last time when I was trying to download an upgraded version too.
Thank you!

Acrobat_Reader_DC_x64.ps1 error.

Hello @farag2 , I hope you are doing great.
So today I tried to download the new Reader x64 using your "Acrobat_Reader_DC_x64.ps1" script, and it is showing the following error:

That is strange because it was working on the previous Reader version.
Sorry for bothering you so much. I really like your scripts and work you're doing here.
Again, thank you.

Acrobat_Reader_DC.ps1

Hi,
So I'm having a problem trying to install Acrobat Reader using your Acrobat_Reader_DC.ps1 script as you can see on the picture. It won't be installed.

It's a fresh installation of Win10Pro (original) with all latest updates installed and has your Sophia Script too (default settings).
Thank you so much.