I just updated to 25H2 myself, and I’ve never had an update reactivate so many harmful features that I had already removed or turned off with privacy.sexy.
I created a completely new script myself. I’m not sure if it was absolutely necessary, but the script had to do so much work that Microsoft has probably changed things.
How did you check the settings that were modified by the update?
I didn’t specifically compare it to the old version. However, I must have run the old script about 10 times, and running the new one took roughly four times longer. So, while I can’t confirm if anything has changed, I can definitely say it felt exactly like I was running the script for the very first time after an update.
edit. And when I watched the script execute, I really saw a lot of things I hadn’t seen before. But of course, that could simply be because Windows launched a great deal of processes during the update. Even though all the GPO changes have been made according to the PG’s instructions…
If I run any of these scripts for any of these OS if I need to revert back for any reason does simply de-selecting and the re-running the script restores the original settings? I have not attempted to run the script yet so I’m not even sure if provides a to do a backup I’m just asking out of curiosity.
I don’t think so. Although, in a way, yes, but I have certainly struggled for hours at times while learning things the hard way. Nowadays, I generally know what each thing does, but I wouldn’t dare to comment on that if you don’t have much experience.
Alternatively, if you select the “Standard” level, I really don’t believe you’ll encounter any issues, but I would always create a restore point. Personally, I have a clean installation cloned onto a second M.2 drive in case my computer freezes up completely.
Edit: So, I’ve never managed to completely crash my machine with this. It has always been a case of a specific, single component ceasing to function, but this has consistently required at least the Strict setting plus 20 other selections. And usually, the problems were related to when I was learning which network things were necessary for operation. But nowadays, I couldn’t imagine living without this.
I usually make sure everything’s okay once the script is done.
I re-read the message, so just undoing the selections won’t bring anything back. You’ll have to make a Revert script with the same selections for anything to be restored.
I tend to leave my computer on most of the time, so when my computer restarts on its own I created a small powershell script to tell me if was caused by a Windows Update. If so I go through the process of updating my preferences again.
My computer’s always running, so I didn’t even bother checking when the update came through. But yeah, I usually run a script and reboot after an update.
I am overly cautious and like to make sure its a system update that caused the reboot and not some other sort of issue that I need to troubleshoot.
You can pretty easily automate this with a scheduled task that runs on startup and checks if the last reboot was due to an update, and if so runs your settings script, FYI. Or even just always run at startup to keep it simpler. Might help to prevent accidentally forgetting to do this one time.
