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Windows Utility Improved

Having Fun with Technology

https://christitus.com/windows-utility-improved/

[CodingWonders]

I'm glad to have helped fix MicroWin and add improvements to it in these 4 months. More improvements to MicroWin are yet to come!

[Klenxone]

check the "taskbar widgets" switch, it must be enabled to disable taskbar widgets.

[SpazzySpitz]

May I suggest replacing Emulation Station with EmulationStation Desktop Edition (also accessible via winget). It's the more full-featured desktop-ready version of ES. Thanks for this tool, it's always the first thing I launch on every Windows install!

[CytrixCode]

Check out this Method to create window or anything from PowerShell https://github.com/CytrixCode/CDC/

[Leoribeirops]

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the fantastic script. However, I noticed that it disabled my clipboard with the Win + V command. How can I reactivate this functionality?

[nachomannn]

Doing this you can recover the Win + V function https://answers.microsoft.com/es-es/windows/forum/all/windows-10-portapapeles-tu-organizaci%C3%B3n/8867c54d-814b-4aa5-9f42-5ae80fcbf6f1

Anyway, there may be any chance of doing the tweaks without losing this?

[Leoribeirops]

Thank you very much for the tip, this post really solved my problem. I had already tried several things that had no effect at all. Below is the solution.

In the search results, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator

In the administrator console, type each of these commands (there are 11) and press Enter. Do this in the order they appear; if any of them return an error, don't worry, continue with the next one:

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f

Close the CMD console and RESTART the computer.

[iUnseeable]

Thanks for the amazing work!

it has a small issues though, in windows 10, when you apply the tweak "Enable end task with right click" what it does is that its working on half the apps and the other half simply does nothing.

and when i select undo selected tweaks, its not removing the added functionality.

can someone help? thank you very much in advance

[CFBTV]

Just open the "customize OO tweaks", and find the clipboard history related feature sections and uncheck or check (your preference)

[mondocane80]

Hi and thanks for the update!

Would also suggest adding some kind of script that would disable any "wake-on-lan" settings in Windows 10 and 11 that seem to be enabled by default. That would include Power Options (under any of the power plans), and anything in any Network Adapter settings if possible. Or anything else related to "wake-on-lan" that would save users time hunting these settings down and disabling.

It's really a creepy feature many home users have to deal with. Again, thanks!

[CFBTV]

well im sorry my friend.. i am not the creator of this utility.. i just can operate it pretty easily and efficiently.. you may want to post directly on the comment section of the github sorry again!

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Hi and thanks for the update!

Would also suggest adding some kind of script that would disable any "wake-on-lan" settings in Windows 10 and 11 that seem to be enabled by default. That would include Power Options (under any of the power plans), and anything in any Network Adapter settings if possible. Or anything else related to "wake-on-lan" that would save users time hunting these settings down and disabling.

It's really a creepy feature many home users have to deal with. Again, thanks!

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[mondocane80]

"you may want to post directly on the comment section of the github"

Isn't that what this is? The comment section?

[davidaamesjr]

Hey is there anything in the tweaks/permissions tweaks that we might need to re-load after a reboot? shoudl we have something in startup to preserve the plethora of tweaks?

[duythai2108]

Hi I have this error guy when install some software on this, please help me "Failed when searching source: winget An unexpected error occurred while executing the command: 0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing" and No packages were found among the working sources. Attempt with User prompt Skipping installation with specific user credentials.

[D-CODE5]

In MicroWin section there is an option to remove edge or defender, isn't that not recommended? (as in the tweaks section, it is said)

[lpmlpm]

Did anyone figure out how to re-enable Copilot after disabling it through winutil ?

[raymondgp]

Windows 10 is not happy with the download, it flagged the Toolbox with : TrojanDownloader:PowerShell/Ploprolo.gen!A

Has anyone experienced this before? I'm looking around the site to understand if this is a known false positive but I find nothing

[mondocane80]

Windows 10 is not happy with the download, it flagged the Toolbox with : TrojanDownloader:PowerShell/Ploprolo.gen!A

Has anyone experienced this before? I'm looking around the site to understand if this is a known false positive but I find nothing

Yeah, I got that as well. I suspect it's a false positive with Defender but I'm not sure.

[GPTDesign]

I have Titus Win Utility set up on Windows 10 on a Dell Optiplex 9010. In the utility when I select "get installed" I get a message WinGit is not installed. However, WinGit is installed as I get daily pop ups from WinGit saying there are some new updates and I can select to install the updates and it done fine. So currently in the WinUtil I cannot use "get installed" and thus cannot use the "update all" feature within the WinUtil. Chocolatey is installed according to the Power Shell screen data. Just says WinGit is not installed. Any ideas of how to get WinUtil to recognize that WinGit is installed somewhere in my system?

[ahlstart]

Thanks for all your hard work contributors and Chris!

I may have encountered a snag with the chain of "Get Installed", leaving all checkboxes as they became, and "Install/Upgrade Selected". The process encountered some points where I did not know what to respond (about specific user. I am the sole user of this box so "Current user" should be a clear and default option but maybe the question is about some other account like an account connected to a service, which only the current installation of the program remembers but will not easily divulge, as per best security practices) but mostly it was smooth sailing.

The problem occurred after this, when VS 2019 had a notice to me, to update some installations. OK fine.

Beef: Visual studio Installer itself wanted to apply an update. Nothing remarkable or unusual here. But it failed, with no clear indication of why. Retry - same result. On to the provided troubleshooting link. Nothing specific to VS Installer there. On to Copilot. It gave similar instructions to the linked article; to get rid of Installer folder. Except VSIX auto update process had files open there. Kill, delete, disable VSIX auto update task and re-install VS 2022. After all this, Update All in VS Installer finally worked. I wrapped up with re-enabling VSIX auto update task.

This is not a complaint but just a data point; if someone else encounters this, it may actually be real.

[SchooiCodes]

a m a z i n g

[morval]

Great utility!

I think I've found a small bug that won't normally come up with most users.

Problem happens when you have a computer setup with static IP. I've encountered this twice now when remotely connected to computer and running the reset windows updates from your utility. After computer reboots I can't connect anymore. I have to go to the actual comptuer and the problem is the static IP doesn't get changed to dynamic, the IP address info gets removed, but the DNS entries are still there and the computer loses internet connection after reboot. Not a bi problem now that I know, just thought I'd mention it.

The reset updates does fix the problem looks like, just have to remember to fist set it as dynamic IP and then set back afterwords.

Thanks again!

[ham1tcagdas]

i really wonder why my computer no more freezing after using Default Tweaks. And to thanks i purchased exe version.

[Coldmetal3000]

hey chris, love the app, its fantastic! i have a problem tho, since running the services to manual settings , my signalrgb app can no longer read my cpu temp sensor, any ideas as to what i should reenable to fix this? thankyou in advance

[ThePooBurner]

So i tried to roll back the disable cloud tweaks because it removed Windows Spotlight entirely from Personalization in the Settings app. I actually quite liked the daily wallpaper changes on the login/lock screens. I've been trying to undue whatever the tweak did for months and i have been entirely unsuccessful. I've looked at every registry key I could find having to do with Spotlight and nothing i change brings it back. I tried doing a rollback within the utility and it didn't restore any of the settings to defaults or what they were before I applied the tweak. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get Spotlight available in Settings and working again?

[Donald98942]

Can you add a section to remove the “extra” programs that get installed with Windows? You manually uninstall them from one user and when a new user signs in, they get installed for that user. I don’t want to reinstall Windows to choose the “world” region to get these unnecessary problems uninstalled for all users.

[SupernovaNSP]

Anytime i restart my computer i always lose dark mode on windows utility. (My computer is always dark mode). So when i open windows utility i have to put it in dark mode then restart the windows utility and then it works. I have to do this everytime to get it in dark mode trying to see if there was a way i don't have to do this?

[WiNiFiX]

I would love this to be a part of the tool, 1 button click it happens.

https://windowsloop.com/show-all-taskbar-icons-on-windows-11/#always-show-all-icons-on-taskbar

[eneffseetee]

Any time.i try to download anything from the utility it just tells me winget isn't installed then tries to install it but fails. I have installed winget manually but it still doesn't work.

[Nigelkdx200]

I tried this on 2 different pc's today from Powershell (Admin). Firstly there was the already mentioned Winget is missing issue. However another issue I've come across when I choose standard in the tweaks section and run tweaks the only message it displays are tweaks are finished. Nothing else is displayed in the powershell at all and disk cleanup doesn't start which tends to show that possibly nothing is happening?

[GnuNemo]

Hi, I used the "MicroWin" portion of this great tool to create a customized version of Windows 11. It succeded to create an ISO file, but during the process it gave some errors on some steps stating that "[INFO] In Your local takeown expects 'S' as a Yes answer." . The language set on the Windows machine I ran the Utility on is italian, so I suppose it mean it extecpted "S" for "Sì" ("Yes") on some steps. What I'm curious about is, do You think it managed to complete the steps anyway, simply letting us know it suggests to use "Y", or did it probably not succeed performing those steps?

Many thanks.