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:zap: The most powerful open source tweaker on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11

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About SophiApp

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Note: SophiApp is a free, open-source app for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11. It offers a modern UI/UX, more than 130 unique tweaks, and shows how Windows can be configured without making any harm to the OS.

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Minimum System Requirements

Version Marketing name Build Arch Editions
Windows 11 Insider Preview 23H2 2023 Update 22509 Home/Pro/Enterprise
Windows 11 21H2 22000.739 Home/Pro/Enterprise
Windows 10 21H2 October 2021 Update 19044.1706 x64 Home/Pro/Enterprise/LTSC

How to download SophiApp via PowerShell/Chocolatey/Scoop

Download the always latest SophiApp archive by invoking (not as administrator too) in PowerShell

irm app.sophi.app -useb | iex

Chocolatey

choco install sophiapp --confirm

Scoop

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install sophiapp

Beta versions

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Check out the Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 11 Insider Preview release history:

  • It's allowed to be logged in one admin user only during application startup.
  • 🔥🔥🔥SophiApp may not work on a homebrew Windows. Especially, if homebrew image was created by OS makers being all thumbs who break Microsoft Defender and disable OS telemetry by uprooting system components on purpose.

Installation

SophiApp is fully portable: it doesn't have any config (yet) and doesn't save any data into registry. Just extract the SophiApp folder with Bin folder and SophiApp.exe.config file, and run SophiApp.exe

Key features

  • Dynamic rendering UI—nothing is hardcoded. 👻
  • 130+ tweaks. ⭐
  • SophiApp uses the MVVM pattern.
  • Multithreading support.
  • SophiApp is checked by the static analyzer, the license for which by courtesy of PVS-Studio.
    • Big thanks to them for providing us the license.
  • All builds are compiled in cloud via GitHub Actions
    • You may compare a zip archive hash sum on the release page with the hash in cloud console in the Compress Files category to be sure that the archive wasn't spoofed (you have to be logged into you GitHub account to be able to view Actions logs);
  • The app shows the actual state of every feature in the UI.
  • High resolutions support.
  • It has a built-in search engine.
    • Functions can be found by searching their headers and descriptions. GIF
  • Dark & light themes support.
    • The app can change its' theme instantly when you change your default Windows theme mode for apps. GIF
  • Set up Privacy & Telemetry.
  • Turn off diagnostics tracking scheduled tasks.
  • Set up UI & Personalization.
  • Install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Packages 2015–2022 x64;
  • Install the latest .NET Desktop Runtime 6 x86/x64;
  • Uninstall OneDrive "correctly".
  • Uninstall UWP apps displaying localized packages names.
    • An UWP apps list is rendered dynamically using local icons
  • Download and install the HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer to be able to open .heic and .heif formats.
  • Create a Windows Cleanup and Windows Cleanup Notification scheduled tasks for Windows cleaning up unused files and updates.
    • A native toast notification will be displayed where you can choose to snooze, run the cleanup task or dismiss
  • Create tasks in the Task Scheduler to clean
    • %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download
    • %TEMP%
  • Configure the Windows security.
  • The ability to copy functions' description or header.
  • Many more File Explorer and context menu "deep" tweaks.

Videos

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Screenshots [Helen]

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Localized UWP packages names

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Searching feature

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Instantly changing theme

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Native interactive toasts for the Windows Cleanup scheduled task

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Addendum

  • Some functions depend on Internet access. If not, they will be hidden in UI until the access appears back.
  • You can enable hidden functions in UI by turning on the Advanced settings in the Settings.
    • The hidden functions will marked with a gear in UI.
  • After closing SophiApp, it creates a log file that you can attach to an open issue (or send to the Telegram group) to help us understand bug. The log file doesn't contain any sensitive personal information. We do not store any data neither in the Windows registry or any other server.

Translating

  • Feel free to translate the UI into your language by taking as a basis one of UIData_xx.json and creating a new .xaml file.

3rd party libraries

Media