Solved Win Debloater

ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

I screwed up. If you want to tell me that system restore sucks and i should be imaging please do that here __________

My laptop, in general, is not working right after win debloater 11. I selectively deleted certain things using the app but it’s just not working now.

All my documents / pictures are gone. Painful mentally, but not that big of a deal.
I ‘uninstalled onedrive’ using debloat but I don’t think I even used onedrive. I thought I had it turned off. I mention this because I know that Win wants to store docs/pics ‘in’ onedrive. I’m really not sure how that works but I’ve noticed when saving docs/pics are in onedrive. I always thought I was saving to my C drive.

And yes system restore keeps failing even though the point is 3 days old. malwarebytes is off.

I don’t know what I’m asking here…where are my docs/pics?!

SlicEnDicE · Feb 29, 2024

ChrisPbass said:
I don’t know what I’m asking here…where are my docs/pics?!

Login to Onedrive in a web browser using your Microsoft account. The files may still be there.

FreeBooter · Feb 29, 2024

Open the PowerShell and execute bellow command to reinstall all built-in Windows apps.

Code:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

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FreeBooter · Feb 29, 2024

In this video, i will show you the way to restore data using Windows Shadow Copy.

Ghot · Feb 29, 2024

@ChrisPbass

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ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

SlicEnDicE said:
Login to Onedrive in a web browser using your Microsoft account. The files may still be there.

No they are not there and I don't know why they would be there because I had onedrive turned off.

still reading this thread.

ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

FreeBooter said:
In this video, i will show you the way to restore data using Windows Shadow Copy.

shadowexplorer doesn't want to run. missing some service. running dism restorehealth and SFC scannow
corrupted files fixed but shadow still doesn't run

System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Configuration system failed to initialize ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section system.serviceModel. (C:\Program Files (x86)\ShadowExplorer\ShadowExplorer.exe.Config line 21)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.ThrowIfErrors(Boolean ignoreLocal)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfInitErrors()
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit(String configKey)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit(String configKey)
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.PrepareClientConfigSystem(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.System.Configuration.Internal.IInternalConfigSystem.RefreshConfig(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.ClientSettingsStore.ReadSettings(String sectionName, Boolean isUserScoped)
at System.Configuration.LocalFileSettingsProvider.GetPropertyValues(SettingsContext context, SettingsPropertyCollection properties)
at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.GetPropertiesFromProvider(SettingsProvider provider)
at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.GetPropertyValueByName(String propertyName)
at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.get_Item(String propertyName)
at System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.GetPropertyValue(String propertyName)
at System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.get_Item(String propertyName)
at m.m(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at m.a(EventArgs A_0)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

TairikuOkami · Feb 29, 2024

ChrisPbass said:
I don’t know what I’m asking here…where are my docs/pics?!

ChrisPbass said:
I ‘uninstalled onedrive’ using debloat but I don’t think I even used onedrive. I thought I had it turned off. I mention this because I know that Win wants to store docs/pics ‘in’ onedrive. I’m really not sure how that works but I’ve noticed when saving docs/pics are in onedrive.

If you logged into 11 using MSA, then files are automatically removed from PC and uploaded online.
By uninstalling onedrive, files should be online, but maybe not, if you used 3rd party email to login?
But even if files were not removed, that debloater removes onedrive folders before it is de-synced.
Onedrive can not be uninstalled as simply as they think, so maybe online files were removed too.

Code:

<#uninstallonedrive#>
Write-Output "Running disabling OneDrive..."
Write-Output "Disabling OneDrive..."

If (!(Test-Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive")) {
    New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive" | Out-Null
}
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive" -Name "DisableFileSyncNGSC" -Type DWord -Value 1

Write-Output "Uninstalling OneDrive..."
Stop-Process -Name "OneDrive" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-Sleep -s 2
$onedrive = "$env:SYSTEMROOT\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe"
If (!(Test-Path $onedrive)) {
    $onedrive = "$env:SYSTEMROOT\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe"
}
Start-Process $onedrive "/uninstall" -NoNewWindow -Wait
Start-Sleep -s 2
Stop-Process -Name "explorer" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-Item -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\OneDrive" -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\OneDrive" -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMDATA\Microsoft OneDrive" -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path "$env:SYSTEMDRIVE\OneDriveTemp" -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
If (!(Test-Path "HKCR:")) {
    New-PSDrive -Name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT | Out-Null
}
Remove-Item -Path "HKCR:\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path "HKCR:\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Output "Operation Complete: Disabled and Uninstalled OneDrive"

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ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

TairikuOkami said:
If you logged into 11 using MSA, then files are automatically removed from PC and uploaded online.

I don't know what MSA is. I almost POSITIVE I didn't use onedrive in any way. There are no files in onedrive from this laptop. I feel like those files have been shift-deleted.

The only reason I mention onedrive is because I definitely selected /delete 1D/ and I remember when saving docs and such windows would annoy me by trying to save to 1D and I would always have to redirect it to where I actually wanted it to go. And it seems like 1D would have those folders are as defaults to sync.

Do you know anything about shadowcopy? I can't even get it to run, it's missing some .net file but I don't want to screw with it if it's a waste of time

IF I got system restore to work, would it reinstate the doc/pics folders or just settings?

markw51 · Feb 29, 2024

ChrisPbass said:
I don't know what MSA is. I almost POSITIVE I didn't use onedrive in any way. There are no files in onedrive from this laptop. I feel like those files have been shift-deleted.

The only reason I mention onedrive is because I definitely selected /delete 1D/ and I remember when saving docs and such windows would annoy me by trying to save to 1D and I would always have to redirect it to where I actually wanted it to go. And it seems like 1D would have those folders are as defaults to sync.

Do you know anything about shadowcopy? I can't even get it to run, it's missing some .net file but I don't want to screw with it if it's a waste of time

IF I got system restore to work, would it reinstate the doc/pics folders or just settings?

MSA stands for Microsoft Account.

Fishmill · Feb 29, 2024

Have you rejected the idea of saving your files to D, rather than C:\Users?

ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

Fishmill said:
Have you rejected the idea of saving your files to D, rather than C:\Users?

This is a great idea! let me travel back in time!

ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

I'm screwed. Hopefully my backup is not THAT old. thanks for everyone's help.

Shadowcopy seems like it might help but I can't get it to work.

ChrisPbass · Feb 29, 2024

OK @FreeBooter hooked me up with a utility called shadowcopy that I couldn't get to work...and then tried shadowexplorer. I finally got that to work. Found everything.

I SHALL start imaging again. I image on computers I am responsible for, at work, but mine...no. So I will start imagine and maybe toss in another for /user/ME