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Sophia Script for Windows

The most powerful PowerShell module for fine-tuning Windows on GitHub

Made with of Windows

• Sophia Script for Windows cares about your Windows stability and informs in case of finding a problem
• More than 150 unique functions to configure Windows using Microsoft's officially documented ways without making any harm to it
  • Every tweak has its corresponding function to restore default settings
• Fully open-source project
  • All archives are being built and uploaded using GitHub Actions
• Configure Windows AI
• Configure Windows privacy, security, personalization
• Available via Scoop, Chocolatey, and WinGet
• ARM64 support
• PowerShell 7 support
• Has no conflict with VAC
• Uninstall UWP apps displaying their localized packages names
  • Script generates installed UWP apps list dynamically
• Applied registry policies will be displayed in the Local Group Policy Editor snap-in (gpedit.msc)
• Enable DNS-over-HTTPS using
  • Cloudflare DNS
  • Google Public DNS
  • Quad9 DNS
  • Comss.one DNS
  • AdGuard DNS
  • OpenDNS
  • Wikimedia DNS
• Uninstall OneDrive
• Interactive prompts and popups
• TAB completion for functions and their arguments (using Import-TabCompletion.ps1)
• Change location of the user folders (without moving user files) using an interactive menu
  • Desktop
  • Documents
  • Downloads
  • Music
  • Pictures
  • Videos
• Install free (light and dark) Windows 11 Cursors Concept v2 cursors from Jepri Creations on-the-fly
  • Archive was downloaded to Cursors folder using DeviantArt API
• Set an app as default one for specific extension without How do you want to open this pop-up
• Export and import all Windows associations. You need to install all apps according to exported JSON file to restore all associations
• Install WSL Linux distribution with pop-up using friendly distro names
• Create scheduled tasks with a native toast notification
  • Create Windows Cleanup and Windows Cleanup Notification scheduled tasks for cleaning up Windows of unused files and Windows updates files
  • Create a SoftwareDistribution scheduled task for cleaning up %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download
  • Create a Temp scheduled task for cleaning up temp folders and files
    • %SystemDrive%\$WinREAgent
    • %SystemDrive%\$SysReset
    • %SystemDrive%\$Windows.~WS
    • %SystemDrive%\$GetCurrent
    • %SystemDrive%\ESD
    • %SystemDrive%\Intel
    • %SystemDrive%\PerfLogs
    • %SystemRoot%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp
    • %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps
    • %SystemDrive%\Recovery
    • %SystemRoot%\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\tw-*.tmp
• Install the latest provided Microsoft Visual C++ 2015–2026 x86/x64
• Install the latest provided .NET Desktop Runtime 8, 9, 10 x64
• Many more File Explorer and context menu tweaks

• Key features
• How to download
• How to use
  • How to run the specific function(s)
• System Requirements
• Screenshots
• How to translate
• SophiApp 2.0

Windows 10	Windows 11

Download and expand to Downloads folder the latest Sophia Script for Windows version depending to your Windows and PowerShell versions you use.

iwr script.sophia.team -useb | iex

Download and expand to Downloads folder the latest Sophia Script for Windows version from the last commit depending to your Windows and PowerShell versions you use.

iwr sl.sophia.team -useb | iex

Download and expand to Downloads folder latest Sophia Script for Windows version depending to your Windows version you use.

choco install sophia --force --yes

Download and expand to Downloads folder latest Sophia Script for Windows version for PowerShell 7 depending to your Windows version you use.

choco install sophia --params "/PS7" --force --yes

# Uninstall and then remove downloaded folder manually
choco uninstall sophia --force --yes

Download and expand to Downloads folder latest Sophia Script for Windows version for Windows 11 and PowerShell 5.1 (SFX archive sophiascript.exe).

$DownloadsFolder = Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" -Name "{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}"
winget install --id TeamSophia.SophiaScript --location $DownloadsFolder --accept-source-agreements --force

& "$DownloadsFolder\sophiascript.exe"; Start-Sleep -Seconds 3; Remove-Item -Path "$DownloadsFolder\sophiascript.exe" -Force

# Uninstall Sophia Script for Windows
winget uninstall --id TeamSophia.SophiaScript --force

Download and expand to Downloads folder latest Sophia Script for Windows version for Windows 11 for PowerShell 5.1.

# scoop bucket rm extras
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install sophia-script --no-cache

# Uninstall Sophia Script for Windows
scoop uninstall sophia-script --purge

• Download archive for your system and expand it
• Look through the Sophia.ps1 file to configure functions that you want to be run
  • Place the # char before function if you don't want it to be run
  • Remove the # char before function if you want it to be run
• Copy path of downloaded Sophia Script for Windows folder
• Right click on Windows button, open Terminal (PowerShell) as admin, and paste copied path to folder

  cd path\to\folder

• Set execution policy to be able to run scripts only in the current PowerShell session

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force

• Type .\Sophia.ps1and press Enter

• Do all steps from How to use section and stop at setting execution policy in PowerShell
• Dot source the Import-TabCompletion.ps1 file first:

# With a dot at the beginning
. .\Import-TabCompletion.ps1

• Сall any script function with name autocompletion using TAB

Sophia -Functions<TAB>
Sophia -Functions temp<TAB>
Sophia -Functions unin<TAB>
Sophia -Functions uwp<TAB>
Sophia -Functions "DiagTrackService -Disable", "DiagnosticDataLevel -Minimal", Uninstall-UWPApps

Uninstall-UWPApps, "PinToStart -UnpinAll"

Wrapper is a 3rd party closed-source wrapper for Sophia Script for Windows. It's fully maintained by @BenchTweakGaming.

Read more here

• Run $PSUICulture in PowerShell to determine your UI language
• Create a folder with the UI language name (e.g. en-US)
• Place your localized SophiaScript.psd1 file into this folder

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SophiApp 2.0 is in ongoing development. 🚀