- Added new d7x feature to show system info on the Windows 10/11 desktop. This is similar to Sysinternals BGInfo.exe (but built-in to d7x) or O&O DeskInfo (but portable!), and with some optional nifty background effects for the wallpaper.
- .\d7x Resources\d7xDesktopInfo.exe is also a portable application which you can use independently of d7x!
- Additional configuration and more information for this feature is available, see the d7xDesktopInfo page in the d7x Manual here.
- CONTACT US to request additional info on the desktop!!!
- Now when a d7x (external resource) exe is updated when checking for updates, d7x will relaunch the updated exe after update (of course with the same command line arguments passed to the exe initially; this wasn’t really necessary until the inclusion of the new d7xDesktopInfo.exe added in this release.)
- Added to the d7x function for Windows Update repair to delete the registry key “Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost” from both HKLM and HKCU, and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo, which I discovered from an open source/3rd party tool by www.wureset.com. Code found at https://github.com/ManuelGil/Reset-Windows-Update-Tool/blob/master/sources/functions.h.
- Despite the additional reg keys to delete, the tool does a lot less than d7x internal functionality already does, so I chose to incorporate the two additions I found in it rather than to add it as a separate custom app.
- I’m not even 100% confident the additional reg key deletions will do anything, as the tool mentions resources it used (from Microsoft) in creating the tool, but those resources don’t mention these registry keys at all. As for what it does, while the “AdvertisingInfo” key seems irrelevant I figured why not add it, no one likes advertising anyway. The “WindowsSelfHost” key appears to contain relevant data, but info around the internet on simply removing it is scarce.
- I have tested to ensure that removing these keys does no damage to otherwise working systems (and the keys only appear on Windows 10 and 11, not any previous versions) so a working Windows Update still works after running the new tweaks in this repair on both Windows 10 and 11.
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