Windows-Shell-Optimizer

GOAL

The script aims at cleaning and optimizing the Windows Start Menu, and the Windows Shell explorer. It is composed of 4 modules:

CleanStartMenuItem: Copy and remove manufacturer folder from the AllUsers Start Menu to the user start menu
CleanApps: Remove (and Reset if enabled) useless OEM Windows 10 Apps
RegistryChanges: Clean explorer contextual menu, namespaces, navigation pane, etc.
RegistryCommandStore: Remove useless buttons from the File Explorer Command store. WARNING: DO NOT ENABLE THIS MODULE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Indeed, no script has been developped to restaure these settings.

All these modules can be disabled/enabled in the Settings file. Each item can be disabled/enabled individually and some new items can be of course added. Since the script will translate everything from english to the targeted machine display language, all settings must be in english language.

FILES

README.md
Main.ps1
Core.psm1
Settings.ps1
hashlnk.exe

LICENSE

hashlnk.exe utility is opensourse. See https://github.com/riverar/hashlnk/blob/master/LICENSE
Otherwise the script is under GNU GPL v3.0 license and can be edited, distributed for commercial/private use. BUT Script is provided without warranty and the author/license owner cannot be held liable for damages. You may not grant a sublicense to modify and distribute the code to third parties not included in the license. See license file or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for more information.

INSTALLATION & USE

Download and unzip (if needed) the files.

Note: Execution Policy must be ENABLED in order to get the PowerShell script running. Please See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.security/set-executionpolicy

Configure the settings by the way of the file Settings.ps1 with powershell_ise

You can run this script:

As current user (not member of the Administrators group): the script will act only for the current user, but the user will be prompted for the UAC credentials
As member of the Administrators group: you have to sepcify the targeted user with the argument "-user <UserName>", where <UserName> is the value of the USERNAME environement variable.

02-12-2016 | Jean-Baptiste DELON Issues

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