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WARNING:

When you run this script it will change A LOT of windows preferences to the liking of autor of this script, Once executing the exe, it does start, it does not ask for anything and there is NO WAY TO ROLLABACK the changes. Proceed with extreme caution. Try in VM. Extract the source and use individual files. Before to open the app, extract with WinRAR or 7-Zip and remove the unwanted tweaks/registry files. There are organized in MelodyScript.Settings folder.

Melody Script

AboutInstallationSourcesCreating own version of MelodyLicense


About

**Melody Tool for Windows ** is a bundled app for Windows 7/8.x/10/11 which consists of several high-quality tweaks that aim to disable telemetry, optimizing windows updates, optimizing for gaming and better input latency, solve some unwanted security vulnerabilities and decreases the number of loaded annoncy elements, thus loading the Windows faster and be for better productivity.

Installation

Installation Steps
  • [Download] the latest version of the settings.
  • After downloading them wait a bit. After settings was applied the PC will reboot.
Re-enable System Restore
  • Melody Script is disabling System Restore due of a Windows bug of creating automatic system points. If you want to add it back just go to registry editor and remove this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore

Components of Melody

Windows Operating System Optimization

In this part i had done a research about Windows Optimization, Tweaking and i read news about Microsoft's tactics to install unwanted software and add some telemetry, keylogger into Windows. The resolvation will be in system configuration: 99.7% Registry and 0.03 % Batch. I had rework some Winaero Tweaker's , O&O Shutup 10, W10 Privacy, WinSpyDisabler and BlackBird Application.

  • Windows Appearence Tweaks
Applied Tweak Description
Windows Appearence Disables animations and transparency. Adds regional configuration from (English (World)) and disable Windows Feeds Update.
DWM Tweaks Disables DWM Input processing for better input latency. Tweaks DWM to be snappier
Dark mode Enable system-wide and app-wide dark mode. Sets wallpaper to black color.
Hiding Scrollbar Disables Hides Scrollbar
Disable Immersive Shell elements (Windows 10 only) Tweaks to revert to legacy
  • Windows Update Tweaks
Applied Tweak Description
Disable MRT Inclusion in Windows Updates Removes Malware Removal Tool from Windows Updates lists.
Pauses Windows Update until 2099 Pause updates (via good-way)
Microsoft Store Apps Auto Updating Disables Store Apps Auto-Updates
Disables FoD Metadata Disables Driver Updates and installation of Driver Software from Windows Update and Microsoft Store
Speech Model Data Update Disablation (Windows 10 with Installed Cortana Only) Speech Model Updating Disabling
Disablation of Delivery Optimization Disables Delivery Optimization (Updates Peer to peer). Replaces BITS and WebClient in 24H2.
  • Windows Search Tweaks
Applied Tweak Description
Disable WebSearch Disables Bing on Windows Search
Cloud Search Disables search in PC with organizational Microsoft Account Connected
Disable SearchBox Highlights Disable icons on searchbox
Disable Search History Disables Search History in Windows Search
Hidding Search in Taskbar
Disablation service Disables Windows search service (maybe you're using Everything). Can be enabled from services.msc.
Applied Tweak Description
App-V Virtualization Disabling
VBS Disablation Disables Virtualization Based Security
  • Telemetry Disablation
Applied Tweak Description
Windows Error Reporting Online Reports and switched to local reports Disabling online error reportings on crash apps and moving dumps to folder dumps created in C:\dumps folder.
Input telemetry Removes Microsoft's keyloggers.
Smart Screen Disables and kills SmartScreen (like Windows Defender Remover)
Disabling Messaging Cloud Sync
Windows EventLog and WMI Logger Optimizations Removing loggers to get maximum disk performance (for HDD and eMMC disks without harming system). Also stops creating of WinEVT files.
Disable Diagnostic Data Disable Windows Diagnostic Data Collection, Windows Feedback Surveys and Dr. Whatson.
Disable Windows Data Collection (Telemetry) Disables Telemetry elements for KMS, Storage Health, SQM CEIP , Experimentation and Account Sycronization
  • Tasks and Services

Removes Services and Tasks to get PC to boot faster and get lower RAM usage. Go to MelodyScript.Settings\Tasks to check what tasks are removed and MelodyScript.Settings\Services for Services.

  • Taskbar

Tweaks for 3rd party Software

In this part i have a research to disable 3rd party Updaters , metrics and telemetry. Some config! urations are policies and be found to [admx.help].

Applied Tweak Description Required Windows Version
Office Tweaks Disables Office Telemetry and data collection Office 2013 or newer
Chrome Tweaks Adds uBlock Origin Extension, Tweaking DNS Client of Browser Chrome 96 or newer
Edge Tweaks Adds uBlock Origin Extension, Tweaking DNS Client of Browser Edge 92 or newer
Chromium Browser Updater Tweaks Optimizes Update Pipeline Chrome/Edge Updater 1.42 or newer
StartAllBack Configurations Revert to Windows 7 UI Explorer and optimize some menus in Start and more zones StartIsBack 3.5 or newer

Optimization and organizing Context Menus

In this part i will a list which elements are added / removed from Windows Context Menu. Always i use Classic Context Menu.

Here is a simple table which it has the name of menu and the type of menu. For understanting , menu type is the location of the menu element.

Defined locations which Melody Script modifies:

  • File (File right-click menu)
  • Folder (Folder right-click menu)
  • Directory (Director right-click menu, including folders + system folders such as This PC, Library Folders, System Folders such Control Panel and custom system created folders)
  • Background (right click menu of desktop or an explorer window)
  • Disk (Drive Context Menu (Disk drives such CD, DVD, HDD, SSD, USB , SD cards etc.))
Context Menu Name Menu Type Description
Run app as... File (.exe) Used by some apps you an run an app as user/admin/trusted installer or as a file type
Configuration app as... File (.exe) Configuration of app running. You can add rules such running priority , allow/block internet access using Windows Firewall
Set GPU Usage to... File (.exe, .pif) Set default GPU Usage per app (integrated or dedicated GPU). Needs Hardware Acceleration Scheduler to be disabled.
MSI Extracting File (.msi) Extract files for .cab and .msi installation files
Register DLL and OCX files File (.dll,.ocx) Register/Unregister files
Restart Menu Component Desktop Advanced Shutdown Menu on Desktop right-click menu
Terminal Background, Folder Run as admin/normal user command prompt and powershell, provided an API which you can add Git, Powershell 7 and even Linux WSL in this menu.
Take onwership Directory, File Take onwership of files as current user.
File Management Menu File Add attributes of hiding , copy file content to clipboard and more
Removing and cleaning context menu All Removes bloatware elements from menus to make context menu faster
Restart and kill component Desktop Refresh processes such explorer.exe and windows stock start menu. also menu which kills all unresponsive apps and background apps (background apps can be added by you own list).

Sources

Some privacy Tweaks (registry Settings) are provided by Microsoft (Policy Tweaks) Check out the website by clicking the link. A smaller part of performance Tweaks are provied by AskVG website, winaero.com Website and reverse engienerring of Winaero Tweaker, O&O ShutUp10, W10 Privacy and Wise Care 365, applied in Windows Telemetry Data Collection Registry File. Latency Tweaks are provided by me. Latency Service is a SFX version by TimerTool, which this tool isn't mine. EarTrumpet Integration is created by me. The application is created by File-New-Project. (I forked the project). Also Clipboard "Integration" is provided by me. The Application is created by Ditto. (provided with GNU GPL-3 License).

Some bcdedit commands

There are some commands of BCDEDIT for Melody Script. There are removed since version 14.9 because in some Windows versions the commands are not running. So i will publish in this list all commands of bcdedit configuration:


bcdedit.exe /set linearaddress57 OptOut >nul
bcdedit.exe /set increaseuserva 268435328 >nul
bcdedit.exe /set firstmegabytepolicy UseAll >nul
bcdedit.exe /set avoidlowmemory 0x8000000 >nul
bcdedit.exe /set nolowmem Yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set isolatedcontext No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set vsmlaunchtype Off >nul
bcdedit.exe /set vm No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set x2apicpolicy Enable >nul
bcdedit.exe /set configaccesspolicy Default >nul
bcdedit.exe /set MSI Default >nul
bcdedit.exe /set usephysicaldestination No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set usefirmwarepcisettings No >nul
bcdedit.exe /timeout 0 >nul
bcdedit.exe /set hypervisorlaunchtype off >nul
bcdedit.exe /set debug No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set sos Yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set ems No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set noumex Yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set onecpu No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOff >nul
bcdedit.exe /set extendedinput Yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set forcefipscrypto No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set halbreakpoint No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set tpmbootentropy ForceDisable >nul
bcdedit.exe /set bootmenupolicy Legacy >nul
bcdedit.exe /set recoveryenabled NO >nul
bcdedit.exe /set graphicsmodedisabled No >nul
bcdedit.exe /set useplatformclock false >nul
bcdedit.exe /set tscsyncpolicy Enhanced >nul
bcdedit.exe /set disabledynamictick yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set useplatformtick Yes >nul
bcdedit.exe /set NOINTEGRITYCHECKS OFF >nul
bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING OFF >nul

This modifies next options:

  • disables test signing
  • disables HPET for better latency
  • disables annoying disk verification dialog
  • switches boot manager options to old good version (Windows 7-like)
  • disables Hyper-V Hypervisor (This is a workaround to KILL VBS)
  • policies for x86 apps
  • disables usage of UEFI resources

Updating

You can create a own version of Melody by using the provided sources of cmds , registry files ,and apps integration. Also you can download the release version, open with 7-Zip and you can remove the registry files or adding. If you want to add registry/CMDs files you MUST to write the files in commands2.bat (the file will run to current USER) or in PowerRun2.bat (th file will run to the SYSTEM user). Stable version of Melody will launch every 3 months. First 2 weeks after release, the version will be revisioned. (added integration from beta or adding tweaks).

Another Versions of Melody Script

Melody for Android
Melody for Apple Devices
Melody for Linux Distros

License

License: CC0-1.0

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melody_windows's Issues

Cant Reset PC | Restore Point | I dont have USB

Hi, my name is Ares

I have this problem, normally I wouldn't want to reset my PC because I think this optimization is very good for both Performance and Latency, but the problem is that it has problems...

  1. I can't reset my pc | When i click on Reset This PC I Click Delete Everything it ask me

  2. Restore point doesn't work | Even though I turned on all the necessary Services and edited the Registry

  3. Sfc /scannow or DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

  4. Advanced Startup Options Missing System Recovery Options

  5. Video Editors like CapCut don't work as they should, and that's not good for Creator and Editor like me

  6. The animation when you CTRL It's useless, at first it's fun but then it annoys you

  7. You delete Quick Access and then you have to go through the whole Disk to find "Downloads"

This was Translated with Deepl. But not this below.

I recommended this Optimization to my friend, and what happend is crazy, he have 1 GPU Intel 2 GPU AMD (He is on notebook)
After Restart his pc started Randomly Shut Down, when i tell him look to the Task Manager CPU was On 0.38 Ghz
I dont even know how to fix it, this is crazy, cause he cant even Reset Pc from Restore Point cause Now Work and Cant even do shit when hes pc turn off in minute.

Thats all problems, but the optimization is really good, if someone tryna help us comment down be low.

Thanks, Ares
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WARNING: Don't be an idiot likeme and run this

This thing does not ask for anything and runs all registry hacks etc. on start, there are no backups or reversts.

What I encountered in just a few minutes after install:

  • dark theme everywhere
  • most of the 2D HW acelarted stuff on windows is disabled, so laggy windows
  • smooth scrolling disabled
  • no search, nowhere, not in exlporer, not in start, not in settings, just no + windows search service is not possible to start in hopes of fixing this
  • lot of apps loose settings, history is deleted for edge
  • onedrive totally broken, not even possible to edit office documents
  • changes cursor size to the largest (i guess)
  • laggy keyboard
  • touchpad palm rejection disabled, so it is almost impossible to type
  • stuff missing from context menus and other things are added
  • explorer view changed, missing recents, status bar etc.
  • changed power/sleep button behaviour
  • snipping tool does not open on print screen press
  • shows seconds in time section of the taskbar (again, just a things I found in a first few minutes it broke, so I'm including this)

it might make sense to download "source" and look for registry hacks, as that is easirer then searching the web etc.

Basically what the correct description for this is:
one guys repo of windows settings he uses

Note: I'm not mad or angry at the author of this thing, I'm angry at myself. I just wanted to help other people who sumble on this thing. (And myself if I find this in the future)

Can i restore point ?

i got many crash .
restore point : not available
reset PC : not available
maybe i reinstall windows , suggest should be restore point option .

Integrations not installing

At the last stage of the installation, a powershell window appears and then immediately closes with some red lines as output, I'd suppose those are the integrations trying to download but failing to. After the computer restarts after the powershell window closing, Ditto, EarTrumpet and Start All back were not installed.

Taskbar StartMenu Tweaks still go through even after deleting Script folders.

So i didnt want the taskbar tweaks which greyed out options like "Combine taskbar buttons" or "Show recently opened items in jump lists on start or taskbar in file explorer quick access", so i straight up deleted the taskbar and startmenu folders from melody scripts folder..but after running the melody script it still changes these settings. Sorry if it was a stupid issue because i am not too good at computing and all that. Thanks

file explorer doesnt show my downloads folder

Hi,

When i open file explorer it only shows my drives and not my folders unlike windows 11 where it showed my downloads,photos and videos folder i have to manually press on view then options then press change folder and search options then press view then press show all folders which only shows my user folder but when i click on it shows my downloads and other folders
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Unable to type while using UWP apps

Whenever i use a UWP app such as the Microsoft sign in, Xbox,settings and Microsoft store, i am unable to type at all, it will type fine at any other program that is not a UWP application, however nothing registers when using a UWP app

I want to re-enable some features

The scripts just did everything as soon as I ran it. I expected to have some choices on what I want it to do, This script is awsome, the only issue is that you can't choose what you want,
1- Windows wallpaper and lockcreen settings stars with a huge delay, around 30 seconds. Any ways to fix this?
2- Windows animations are totally borken. Even when I enable them in windows settings it doesnt work, Is there any way to restore them?
3- The Home page in file explorer is useful for pinning most used folders. Any way to re-enable it?
4- Any ways to enable windows clipboard history?

I can't activate Wake On Lan on my Ethernet device after applying the Script

Hello. I have applied the Script and I have two problems. The first is that the option to 'allow this device to wake up the system' on the device manager/ethernet device/energy administration, is greyed out (don't have permissions for change this?). The second is that when I click on the context menu after selecting several files on the windows explorer it takes almost 1 minute to show the menu. Any solutions?

How can I revert all changes

I tried this to solve a problem and it did not work and I want to revert all changes. I was planning to use a restore point but it does not work, OS reset also does not work nor I can use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.

Windows to Router 10Gbit NIC lots of retransmits

Asking for some help here. Regardless of NIC driver settings getting a lot of retransmits on my 10Gbit NIC to OPNsense router. Would love any advice on diagnosing this.

Tried with both Intel and Broadcom NICs and getting about 2Gbit of bandwidth out of them. Anything in TCP parameters can cause this? Testing from a different host in the same VLAN shows 9.90Gbit (as expected), same with testing via LiveCD. So something is going on with Windows/Melody installation. Any pointers welcome!

DWM potential issue with NV GPU

These is a kind of issue that makes me wish the EventViewer was operational.

When switching to full screen playing a video H.265 or H.264 NVidia driver crashes to black screen. Network becomes unresponsive so can't see what actually is happening. The issue seems intermittent and comes after long watching sessions.

Resetting DWM to stock on W11 23H2 seems to fix the issue. So it is likely DWM reg. pending further testing.

Set up is RTX 4090 connected via 48Gbit HDMI to LG C1 TV so Gsync + HDR + 12bit RGB. The crash seems to happen on full screen only so suspect modesetting.

@ionuttbara anything in your experience that I should try to diagnose further?

VPN dont work anymore after runnidng the script

my vpn software doesnt work anymore after running the windows exe file for the scripts,
i use surfshark and keepa vpn unlimited, my network symbol goes to offline any help appreciated as i like the scripts but i need to use vpn software,
i already tried to reset my network adapter without help
thanks for help

Firefox crashing when downloading anything from the internet

Hi,

As the title says Firefox crashes whenever i download anything at all no matter the file type and the file size, also trying to change the location of where files are saved will result in firefox crashing, i am on the latest Windows 10 build 19045.2965 as of now, however this does not happen on any other chromium browser or chrome as a whole

Clash Verge

After turning on TUN mode in Clash Verge, the CPU will be quickly filled up。

snipping tool and shortcut to snipping tool not working

the snipping tool opens but when i press new it doesn't do anything, using the windows + shift + s shortcut doesn't do anything aswell, i am on windows 11 build 22631.3296 with the tweak applied except for windows appearance and windows explorer tweaks

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