Windows Super God Mode

🟢 1.2.2 → 1.2.3 Minor Update Notes:

• Fix: Better matching of ms-settings link names. Now correctly matches certain links that were cut off before, such as any with capital letters or numbers in them like a9, dateandtime-showClockInNotificationCenter, and personalization-background-promptUserToEnableDesktopSpotlight (#39)
• Fix: Proper quote escaping for icon paths. Also fixes code highlighting in Notepad++ (#38)
• Added note to not close the Powershell Window after the GUI opens along with it
• Improve support for PowerShell ISE, if it's used

Existing Major Release Version Notes:

📈 [1.2] General Improvements

• Updated launcher batch file to warn user if the PowerShell script wasn't found.

📈 [1.2] General Improvements

• Updated launcher batch file to warn user if the PowerShell script wasn't found.
• Added dropdown box to GUI to select logging level: Standard, Verbose, Debug
• Improved error handling and messaging to more appropriately reflect severity of non-critical error/warning messages

🧐 [1.2] Improved hidden app links matching rules

• Efficiency:

  • Added more ignored file extensions such as known archive formats which are compressed and therefore not useful to search
  • Added logic to be able to ignore certain known irrelevant directories for popular programs that can be identified and hard-coded over time.
    • Such as Steam's steamapps/common folder which has a ton of game folders and not relevant to the search but has a huge number of hug

📈 [1.2] General Improvements

• Updated launcher batch file to warn user if the PowerShell script wasn't found.
• Added dropdown box to GUI to select logging level: Standard, Verbose, Debug
• Improved error handling and messaging to more appropriately reflect severity of non-critical error/warning messages

🧐 [1.2] Improved hidden app links matching rules

• Efficiency:

  • Added more ignored file extensions such as known archive formats which are compressed and therefore not useful to search
  • Added logic to be able to ignore certain known irrelevant directories for popular programs that can be identified and hard-coded over time.
    • Such as Steam's steamapps/common folder which has a ton of game folders and not relevant to the search but has a huge number of hu

📈 [1.2] General Improvements

• Updated launcher batch file to warn user if the PowerShell script wasn't found.
• Added dropdown box to GUI to select logging level: Standard, Verbose, Debug
• Improved error handling and messaging to more appropriately reflect severity of non-critical error/warning messages

🧐 [1.2] Improved hidden app links matching rules

• Efficiency:

  • Added more ignored file extensions such as known archive formats which are compressed and therefore not useful to search
  • Added logic to be able to ignore certain known irrelevant directories for popular programs that can be identified and hard-coded over time.
    • Such as Steam's steamapps/common folder which has a ton of game folders and not relevant to the search but has a huge number of hug

📈 [1.1] Improvements

• Added more comprehensive search for hidden links for protocols of Non-Appx apps
• Fixed bug where some hidden links were being matched in files but weren't being added to the results
• Added new option "Deeper Scan for Hidden Links" which will scan all files of non-appx program folders, but is slow
• Replaced hard coded constant paths so the script should work on systems where C:\ is not the main drive