v1.8.5-beta

Release Notes – v1.8.5-beta

Release Date: 05-03-2025

🔹 Quick Update

This update is a small but useful enhancement following the previous release. It primarily focuses on improving the Winget updater/upgrader and optimizing system information printing for better performance.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Winget Updater/Upgrader: Now automatically accepts source and package agreements, eliminating extra prompts.
• Performance Enhancements: Optimized system information printing for improved speed and efficiency.

While this is a minor update, the previous release (v1.8.4-beta) introduced significant changes and improvements. For reference, we’ve included its release notes below.

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Previous Release – v1.8.4-beta

Release Date: 04-03-2025

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Downloader Fixes: Fixed broken downloader links.
• Username Handling: Updated variable logic to read the full username.
• Program Updater: Now provides verbose logging, indicating progress and success/failure status.
• Ninite Downloader: Now downloads and runs the installer directly, preventing a flashing browser window.
• General Improvements: Various string/name changes.
• Winget Migration: More components migrated to Winget to ensure reliable download links.
• Hardware Details Update:
  • Replaced WMIC with PowerShell commands for retrieving CPU, GPU, and RAM details.
  • Ensures compatibility with future Windows versions as WMIC is being deprecated. More info
• KeyGrabber Update: Refactored logic to retrieve data from new registry values, ensuring functionality on newer Windows versions.
• Bug Fix: Fixed crashing issue (#167).

✨ New Features & Changes

• CrystalDiskMark Rename: Renamed CrystalDiskMark.
• HP Image Assistant (HPIA) Integration:
  • Added support for HP devices.
  • Currently opens the HPIA tool; automation for download and installation is being considered.

🎉 Special Thanks

A huge thank you to @Stensel8 for his valuable contributions to the repository! Your help is greatly appreciated. 🙌

For a full overview of changes between v1.8.3-stable and v1.8.4-beta, check out the Full Changelog.
For more details about Microsoft's WMIC deprecation.

Release Notes - v1.8.4-beta

Release Notes - v1.8.4-beta

Fixes & Improvements

• Downloader Fixes: Fixed broken downloader links.
• Username Handling: Updated variable logic to read the full username.
• Program Updater: Now provides verbose logging, indicating progress and success/failure status.
• Ninite Downloader: Now downloads and runs the installer directly, avoiding a flashing browser window.
• General Improvements: Various string/name changes.
• Winget Migration: More components migrated to Winget to ensure reliable download links.
• Hardware Details Update:
  • Replaced WMIC with PowerShell commands for retrieving CPU, GPU, and RAM details.
  • Ensures compatibility with future Windows versions as WMIC is being deprecated (More info).
• KeyGrabber Update: Refactored logic to retrieve data from new registry values, ensuring functionality on newer Windows versions.
• Bug Fix: Fixed crashing issue (#167).

New Features & Changes

• CrystalDiskMark Rename: Renamed CrystalDiskmark.
• HP Image Assistant (HPIA) Integration:
  • Added support for HP devices.
  • Currently opens the HPIA tool; automation for download and installation is being considered.

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Special Thanks 🎉

A huge thank you to @Stensel8 for his valuable contributions to the repository! Your help is greatly appreciated. 🙌

Full overview of the made changes between v1.8.3-stable and v1.8.4-beta

Full Changelog: v1.8.3...v1.8.4-beta
For more details about Microsoft's WMIC deprecation.

Full Release - v1.8.3

Full Release - v1.8.3

This release contains a small amount of QoL updates and some minor changes in how the code is written. Since this project is depricated and since I am working on a GUI version of this script I postponed a new re-release version but here it is.

Beneath this text you can find yourself a small changelog and for those who are curious to read about the changes you have the possibility to read them down here below.

What's Changed

• Update: Documentation by @REALSDEALS in #158
• Tweak: Updated Download Links by @REALSDEALS in #162
• Tweak: Colours by @REALSDEALS in #161
• Add: Windows PowerToys Installation by @REALSDEALS in #163
• Tweak: PowerToys by @REALSDEALS in #164
• Tweak: Environmental Variables by @REALSDEALS in #165
• Tweak: Reformat 'Hello' by @REALSDEALS in #166
• Tweak: Discord User Tag by @REALSDEALS in #168
• Release Update: pcHealth - v1.8.3 by @REALSDEALS in #169

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.3

Full Release - v1.7.0

Full Release - v1.7.0

This release is a big hop in changes and additions... From 1.5.9 to 1.7.0.
Normally we would jump to 1.6.x, but because there has been a 'function' remove besides the normal commits we jumped another 'version.'

• Powershell has been removed from the script and is not a thing from 1.7 and up anymore.

New features:

• It is now possible to use tracert to check for hops etc. + user can input their own desired destination.
• It is possible to disk clean from the script; it opens a Windows standard utility menu from were you can go further.
• It is possible to optimize the disk from unneccesary files; as an extension to the disk clean option.
• IPConfig has been added; user can check their own ip (and more of course.)

Known bugs:

• On Windows 11 not all functions are working; sadly enough.
• Disk Clean and Disk optimalization functions causes the script to hard crash.

To read more of the changes and see the commits directly:

Overview of what is changed

• Add: New Functions by @BigoStream in #136
• Tweak: Solved Problems by @BigoStream in #139
• Update: Added new functions by @BigoStream in #142
• Fix: Buggs Demolished by @BigoStream in #144
• Add: Menu Title by @BigoStream in #145
• Tweak: Menu Title Centered by @BigoStream in #146
• Add: DiskCheck, DISM and SFC by @REALSDEALS in #147
• Update: Version Control by @REALSDEALS in #148
• Add: User defined Trace and Ping by @REALSDEALS in #150
• Fixed a bug. by @Stensel8 in #152
• Review: Checked Script by @REALSDEALS in #153
• Add: IPCONFIG & TRACERT DESIGNATED by @REALSDEALS in #154
• Add: Auto Run VBS by @REALSDEALS in #155
• Remove: Removed Powershell by @REALSDEALS in #156

New Contributors

• @Stensel8 made their first contribution in #152

Full Changelog: v1.5.9...v1.7.0

Beta Build - v1.6.11-beta

Beta Build - v1.6.11-beta

Some small QoL updates have been added in this release.

Besides the QoL updates there are some new features or revision of features added to the script:

• Tracert fuctionality has been changed; the user can now trace a user specific URL.
• From the Programs menu it is possible to run/kick off the KeyGrabber.vbs script.
• IPConfig has been added as a feature to the script, inside the Tools menu.

If you have any questions, or see/notice any buggs?
Please let me know!

As always thanks for using the script!

~ REALSDEALS

Beta Build - v1.6.7-beta

Beta Build - v1.6.7-beta

The functionality of the script has had some changes lately.

In this beta update the Tracer Log File function has been created, added and fixed. [Tools menu, function 13.]

If you have any questions, or see/notice any buggs?
Please let me know!

As always thanks for using the script!

~ REALSDEALS

Alpha Release - v0.3.0-alpha

Alpha Release - v0.3.0-alpha (PowerShell)

Alpha Release of the PowerShell script from pcHealth.ps1

New functions have been added:

• DISM, CheckDisk and SFC --> (function number 5)
• Opening the .log generated from function 5 --> (function number 6)

If there are any problems, please let me know.

Keep in mind that you have to run the script as administrator in PowerShell.

~ REALSDEALS

Beta Release - v1.6.1-beta

Beta Release - v1.6.1-beta

Re-release of the previous Beta release...

New functions have been added:

• Tracert
• Clean Disk Management
• Optimize Disk Management

Again thanks to @Stensel8 for thinking with me and thanks to @BigoStream for doing the 'heavy' lifting.

If there are any problems, buggs and/or glitches, please let me know.

~ REALSDEALS

Beta Release - v1.6.0-beta

Beta Release - v1.6.0-beta

In this beta release there are a few new functions that have been added.
If there is a problem or a bug, please let me know.

Functions were requested/thought about by @Stensel8 and made by @BigoStream -- Thanks too both!

~ REALSDEALS

Full Release - v1.5.9

In this release the script has seen a little bit of a refreshment in colors.

If there is a problem, glitch or if you have a suggestion... feel free to contact me!

Thanks @BigoStream for adding such small changes ;)

~ REALSDEALS