Win10-NotInitial-Setup-Script

[fMichaleczek]

I made a POC for daily not initial setup. WindowsTweaks

Features :

• Confirm and WhatIf support
• Manage RunAs to change other than HKCU:
• Manage Completion

Breaking changes (todo) :

• some functions with On/In folder are renamed .
  • Not managing reboot/refresh handler.

I think this code is suffisant for handle HKCU change in desktop without explorer restart

function Refresh-Explorer {
    if ( -not ([System.Management.Automation.PSTypeName]'WindowsDesktopTools.Explorer').Type) {
        $typeParams = @{
            Namespace = 'WindowsDesktopTools'
            Name = 'Explorer'
            Language = 'CSharp'
            MemberDefinition = @'
                private static readonly IntPtr HWND_BROADCAST = new IntPtr(0xffff);
                private const int WM_SETTINGCHANGE = 0x1a;
                private const int SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG = 0x0002;

                [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = false)]
                static extern bool SendNotifyMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, string lParam);

                [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = false)]
                private static extern IntPtr SendMessageTimeout(IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, IntPtr wParam, string lParam, int fuFlags, int uTimeout, IntPtr lpdwResult);

                [DllImport("shell32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = false)]
                private static extern int SHChangeNotify(int eventId, int flags, IntPtr item1, IntPtr item2);

                public static void Refresh()
                {
                    // Update desktop icons
                    SHChangeNotify(0x8000000, 0x1000, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
                    // Update environment variables
                    SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, IntPtr.Zero, null, SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 100, IntPtr.Zero);
                    // Update taskbar
                    SendNotifyMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, IntPtr.Zero, "TraySettings");

                }
'@
        }
        Add-Type @typeParams -IgnoreWarnings -ErrorAction Stop
    }
    Write-Verbose 'Refreshing Shell environment ...'
    [WindowsDesktopTools.Explorer]::Refresh()
}

Let me know, if you are interested by my works .After this version on gist, I will maybe try to rewrite functions (parsing AST scriptblock) and be a fork :/

Thank you so much for this project !

[Disassembler0]

Wow. That's a huge overhaul. I need some time to go through all this (not sure when, I haven't had any since February :/ ).

Right off the bat I see a lot of boilerplate code which could probably be simplified or moved to more appropriate places. I have had similar ideas for the grouping and categorizing and wanted to do it via custom attributes, but as it turns out, PowerShell is still not .NETty enough for that.

I'll probably eventually turn down most of your ideas, but don't be bummed about it and keep up the good work. :)

[fMichaleczek]

@Disassembler0 About your problems with attributes, this is a workaround :

@'
    class SomeAttribute : Attribute {
        [string]$Text
    }

    class OtherAttribute : Attribute {
        [string]$Text
    }
'@ > "$pwd\attributes.ps1"

@'
class MyClass {
    [SomeAttribute(Text="sometext")]
    [OtherAttribute(Text="othertext")]
    MyMethod() {
        # ...
    }
}
[MyClass].GetMethod("MyMethod").GetCustomAttributes($false)
'@ > "$pwd\MyClass.ps1"

. "$pwd\attributes.ps1"
. "$pwd\MyClass.ps1"

[Disassembler0]

The version and features you've got are nice and all, but I'm probably just lying to myself by keeping this issue open. I don't think I'd ever get to merging most of the ideas, as it seems that my use cases are vastly different from yours. TBH, I don't even use my own script anymore, because it deviated from the original intention (short, simple and straight to the point) so much. :/ So with that, thanks for your work, but there's no point in keeping this issue open. Sorry about that.