Windows-On-Reins VS EdgeDeflector

https://github.com/gordonbay/Windows-On-Reins WoR is more robust and focuses on privacy/security, but it may break or remove some features you'd prefer to keep.

Hey so i saw someone post about this script - https://github.com/gordonbay/Windows-On-Reins

Not the OP of the comment to which you replied, there’s several but maybe he’s talking about Windows On Reigns. Just be careful that the default settings are very extreme. They disable windows appx support, so no Microsoft store, or similar things. Also it disables the event scheduler, so certain apps will cause errors when trying to add themselves to startup and stuff like that (which is the point) but if it’s something you want it won’t work, like let’s say MSI afterburner starting with windows and applying your pc settings. My suggestion is going through the config part of the script and adapting it to your needs.

I downloaded a powershell script from https://github.com/gordonbay/Windows-On-Reins/blob/master/wor.ps1 to harden my windows installation, and I ran it accidentally without changing the default configurations. Now my WiFi not being detected or shown in the taskbar. it's not a driver issue as i can see the wifi settings in the network adaptor section of control panel.

Or Windows amelriorated.

I used to use Bing to DuckDuckGo in conjunction with EdgeDeflector to ensure all links that open Edge and Bing redirect to Firefox and DDG instead, but EdgeDeflector no longer works now, so I guess I don't need that extension anymore. Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't realized till now that the extension wasn't necessary anymore.

There's also the dark bit where changing your default browser in Windows doesn't apply globally.

That is, some UI widgets will still open Edge even if you change the default.

There used to be an awesome open source project called EdgeDeflector that would fix that. Microsoft got wise to it and found a way to neutralize it, which killed the project. https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector

1) Install EdgeDeflector. (Note: Edge deflector is deprecated without the next fix. You no longer need to browse into Default Apps to select EdgeDeflector).

It’s a very intentional thing that Microsoft ignores the default browser in many cases. They’ve already killed one workaround tool that fixes this: https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector

Idk if Edgeeflector can actually overcome this but it worth a try yk

*cough* edgedeflector *cough*

It probably opens Edge anyway, so you could use EdgeDeflector to handle the browser opening.