How can I setup WiFi and MS Store from command line without a pre-exiting network profile XML?

Sept. is probably the deadline for all inbox Apps, since 23H2 has to RTM in October.

johnlgalt said:

Finally - I cannot find winget in store apps, only Winget-Autoupdate-Configurator. I've always installed it from GitHub myself, but Store search is also pathetically bad lol.

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App Installer is winget's parent app. App Installer is the UI wizard that installs any APPX or MSIX package file from Explorer, and downloads any missing framework packages on your behalf. The actual GitHub package is also named App Installer.

Lol I suppose I should have figured that part out.

Thanks.

Sure would be nice if winget could use GitHub as a repository.

I can get winget to update like this:

winget install 9NBLGGH4NNS1 --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements

Ironiclly, that requires a Microsoft Store sign on. But, I think that I'm giving up on this part for now. I've discovered that even if I update winget and tell it to install all available updates, it finds like 3 items to update. If I then go in the Store, it finds about 40 items to update.

However, that said, the more important piece to me is being able to uninstall all the bloatware that I don't want and that part is working perfectly for me.

Well, my script is done. All 2,145 lines of it . Granted, much of that is comments, but it's a beast.

Here is what it does:

Installs all system drivers
Installs the Malicious Software Removal Tool and Defender updates
Installs Windows Updates (if you want to do those locally)
Applies regional settings changes (this is needed only if the "trick" us used to install Windows with none of the placeholder apps)
Applies Windows Customizations - oh so many customizations
Uninstalls / Installs programs and apps
Auto detects if you just installed the Win ADK and Win PE add-on in the above section. If so, applies the BlackLotus mitigation update to WinPE
Install Windows Themepacks

Doing testing now on several systems to make sure it all works well. I'll post it for all to tear apart this evening or tomorrow barring discovery of any major.

That's awesome. I'm building a lot of VMs in the next month or so, including testing a small script I wrote for VM creation in Hyper-V as well as evaluating Lability, from GitHub, which seems to be possibly usable for my home lab build situation, but I only started reading about it yesterday.

When you're satisfied with the results, I'll gladly give it a whirl with VMs I'll be creating for all the Windows 11 IP builds. Once I've got it down, I can use it for my own clean installs, too.

Okay, so it turns out that I will need one more day. Sorry . I'm chasing a weird issue. I'm having an intermittent issue with one of the simplest sections. Where I uninstall apps using a winget command, sometimes apps all get uninstalled perfectly, sometimes they do not. For now, when they do not get uninstalled, I simply copy those same commands into another batch file and run them again, and that works. But I have an idea of what it might be so I'm trying that today.

Also, at the moment, in each section of the batch file, I have a line that can be uncommented that simply jumps past that entire section to skip it. But, as I discovered in testing, that is a little bit of pain because you have to scroll through the entire file to find those sections. Instead, I'm going to change that so that you have a bunch of flags all at the top of the batch file that can be set to bypass the various sections if the user wants to do so. That will make it much easier.

Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth it. I'm really happy with how it's turning out.

hsehestedt said:

Okay, so it turns out that I will need one more day. Sorry . I'm chasing a weird issue. I'm having an intermittent issue with one of the simplest sections. Where I uninstall apps using a winget command, sometimes apps all get uninstalled perfectly, sometimes they do not. For now, when they do not get uninstalled, I simply copy those same commands into another batch file and run them again, and that works. But I have an idea of what it might be so I'm trying that today.

Also, at the moment, in each section of the batch file, I have a line that can be uncommented that simply jumps past that entire section to skip it. But, as I discovered in testing, that is a little bit of pain because you have to scroll through the entire file to find those sections. Instead, I'm going to change that so that you have a bunch of flags all at the top of the batch file that can be set to bypass the various sections if the user wants to do so. That will make it much easier.

Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth it. I'm really happy with how it's turning out.

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I'm leaving to go out of state for a funeral, and won't be back until Wednesday anyway. I'm not looking to make use of this the second I get it lol - I'll definitely want to study it and more than likely modify it for my own use. So I am not in any sort of rush whatsoever. This is a 'nice to have' thing versus 'mission critical close deadline' type work lol.

John, so sorry to hear the reason for your absence. However, I think that I am "ready for primetime". I'll go ahead and post it just in case anyone else wants to check it out as well.

The purpose of this batch file is to make customization of Windows much easier after the initial clean install of Windows 11. It can:

Install all your system drivers
Install Antivirus updates for defender
Install Windows updates offline
Apply reginal updates (used if you follow the TIP below)
Apply Windows customizations (oh so many customizations)
Install / uninstall programs and features
* Apply BlackLotus Mitigations for Windows PE
Apply Windows Themepacks

* The BlackLotus mitigations are ONLY for the Windows PE add-on if you have installed that. It does not apply revocations or mess with anything important. This is 100% safe , we even backup the winpe.wim that gets patched.

The idea here is that since this project is a batch file, it is completely customizable.

TIP: Since this is meant to be run after a pristine, clean install of Windows and since I have a feature to specifically compliment this, I would suggest doing your clean install using the trick described here:


To get started, unzip the attached file, read the "Getting Started.txt".

Feedback is encouraged!

It will be a great project to tackle when I am back, that is for sure.