Aetherinox/pause-windows-updates 1.5.0

v1.5.0

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Release Info

What's New

This release contains the following changes:

WPU Batch Utility

• feat:added new apps:
  • Windows Calculator
• feat: add new feature Manage Users
  • Allows you to delete Windows user defaultuser0, (see notes)
    • https://superuser.com/a/1152800
    • https://windowsreport.com/anniversary-update-defaultuser0/
  • Can enable / disable windows accounts:
    • administrator
    • guest
    • DefaultAccount
• feat: add new feature Manage Services to debloat submenu
  • allows you to enable and disable certain Windows services known to be classified as bloat
  • ability to enable / disable all with single button
  • ability to enable / disable each one individually
• feat: added new telemetry blocking rules for registry entries:
  • Microsoft\Office\OfficeTelemetryAgentFallBack
  • Microsoft\Office\OfficeTelemetryAgentLogOn
• feat: added new telemetry blocking for Windows Error Reporting
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LoggingDisabled
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Disabled
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\ChangeDumpTypeByTelemetryLevel
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\DontSendAdditionalData
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Consent\DefaultConsent
  • HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Consent\DefaultOverrideBehavior
  • HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Disabled
  • HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\DoReport
• feat: added abort option to Remove Crapware wizard so that it can be exited at any time
• feat: Manage Apps now has ability to manage both Get-AppxPackage and winget packages
• feat: Menu item Advanced re-named to Debloat (Advanced)
  • Hotkey for menu changed from A to D
• refactor: Menu item Disable Windows Telemetry moved to Debloat (Advanced) menu
• refactor: Menu item Backup Registry moved to position 3 on main menu
• refactor: Sub menu item Install / Uninstall Apps re-named to Manage Apps
• style: internal code housekeeping to enforce conformity

Registry Scripts

• No new changes in this release

Statistics

How the files have changed:

• Changed files : 2
• Changes : 949
• Commits : 33
• Additions : 766
• Deletions : 183
• PRs (categorized) : 33
• PRs (uncategorized) : 0
• PRs (open) : 0
  

Pull Requests

This release is associated with the following pull requests:

🚀 Features

• disable telemetry now returns to advanced menu on completion : a7c9f2e @Aetherinox
• new func taskUserGetStatus : d1ec75a @Aetherinox
• new func taskUserEnableDisable : f8a664d @Aetherinox
• new menu menuServicesDebloat : f61550d @Aetherinox
• new menu menuDeleteUser : c682346 @Aetherinox
• add telemetry step windows ink / typing personalization : afd34bf @Aetherinox
• add telemetry step windows error reporting : 9090b67 @Aetherinox
• add telemetry step to disable automatic cloud configuration downloads : 328df04 @Aetherinox
• new menu menuUsersManage : 98bbbb6 @Aetherinox
• new menu menuDebloatServices : 90df556 @Aetherinox
• new func taskDebloatServices : 00a7d41 @Aetherinox
• add ability to enable / disable windows services known as bloatware : 1e398eb @Aetherinox
• add ability delete and disable default windows users : 608f1d0 @Aetherinox
• add new tasks to disable list belonging to OfficeTelemetryAgent : 11f9167 @Aetherinox
• add new menu & feature Debloat - Manage Services : be08863 @Aetherinox
• add new menu & feature Manage Users : 4c5d7d8 @Aetherinox
• add abort / a option to tool remove crapware : d2df6a4 @Aetherinox
• add both powershell and winget support for manage apps : f915aac @Aetherinox
• add new managable package windows calculator : b35b8ec @Aetherinox

🐛 Bugfixes

• typing an invalid option in services menu took the user back to app installs : eca2ccd @Aetherinox

🔧 Changes

• update comments : e1ec72c @Aetherinox

🧹 Housekeeping

• backup registry moved from slot 6 to 3 : 4d87bab @Aetherinox
• moved disable microsoft telemetry to advanced (debloat) menu : 901d4b3 @Aetherinox
• re-name menu advanced to debloat (advanced : 8603b61 @Aetherinox
• rename menu item Add / Remove Apps to Manage Apps : 42eb3a3 @Aetherinox
• move disable telemetry to advanced menu : 1bc47b3 @Aetherinox
• edit function names for conformity : 19198fa @Aetherinox
• remove old function menuServicesDebloat in favor of new method : ffa9449 @Aetherinox
• re-word remove crapware menu to be more simple with options : a1438a3 @Aetherinox
• aborting crapware interface now takes user back to advanced menu : 0c0a354 @Aetherinox
• remove unrelated functionality from user management : 286ce6f @Aetherinox
• clean up disable updates exit route : e48a30b @Aetherinox

📦 Build & Dependencies

• bump version : 1cb0be3 @Aetherinox