Oh no, what did I do? Help undoing.

[droidbot]

I hope you can help. I was using the privacy.sexy web interface and before making large changes I decided to run a test so I found and selected "Clear Microsoft Paint recent files history" item. The pane on the right then showed the script for that checked item. I then clicked the green left "Download" button. I located the file and ran it. A command windows opens and to my shock, A LOT of stuff starts flying by! I had thought that the downloaded file was ONLY going to modify the selected item on the web UI, in this case the "Clear Microsoft Paint recent files history" item. However it appears that much more had happened given how much stuff flew by in the command window. I can only guess that I might have checked some other boxes and forgot to uncheck them before doing my MS Paint test. Is there a clean easy way to undo what the script did? By clean I mean, if the service wasn't running before I ran the script, and running the scripted set it to off, I don't want the "undo" or revert to turn it on (when it wasn't before). However, if the service WAS running and the script turned it off, then I DO want the "undo" or revert to turn it back on. Unfortunately I didn't do a system restore before running the script :(

I attached the resulting script as a text file.

[droidbot]

privacy-script_MSPaintHistory.txt

[ProgrammerBruce]

Maybe, your question is: Are there logs generated after running a script, if the script ran without the user (me) explicitly capturing the output (into a log)?

[droidbot]

I read that the Web UI does not save logs.
https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/blob/master/docs/desktop/desktop-vs-web-features.md

[ProgrammerBruce]

When I run a script, I log the output:

privacy.sexy_script.bat 1>> privacy.sexy_script.log 2>>&1

(This does not help the situation that you are in, though.)

[droidbot]

Great idea. It would have been cool to add that to the top of all the scripts generated from the WebUI, giving the option to save to log. In hindsight I should have saved a restore point.

[ItsIgnacioPortal]

Each of the options you enabled on the interface are commented in that file you shared in the format:

:: ----------------------------------------------------------
:: ------Disable WAP push notification routing service-------
:: ----------------------------------------------------------

You just have to look for every single one of those options in the web interface and select its "revert" option, then download the resulting script, and run it.

[ProgrammerBruce]

...to do what I'm looking for would be to have a log file that recorded the setting before making the change, correct?

More or less, I think that you are correct. The prior state of the system does not appear to be saved otherwise, nor is a complete record of what was changed saved anywhere. Depending on what you did, the OS does make logs that could help with some things, e.g., DISM logs (in C:\Windows\Logs -- which might be your best chance for usable info). But, maybe not really worth the time to try to figure it all out, at this point.

This does not help with your recovery situation: I recommend three things:

1. Never have a system setup that cannot be quickly replicated, as much of it with automation (via scripts) as realistic. Yes, reinstalling drivers and adjusting settings is a PITA, which is why we use things like privacy.sexy for what it does, instead of manually making each such change.
2. Log everything.
3. Read all logged messages.

Regarding reading the scripts, I do not have an issue with the scripts lacking formatting, except for parts with embedded script calls. Note that the main scripts are not PowerShell, rather just DOS/NT .bat/.cmd commands. https://ss64.com/nt/ Some of the embedded scripts do look like PowerShell, where a command calls a script, and yes, those are not formatted for legibility. Per #53, when called via a CMD command: "The whole PowerShell string must be a single line".

[droidbot]

Good advice.
Wait, regarding #1, does privacy.sexy uninstall/reinstall drivers or just disable/enable running services?

I'm curious, if I had created a Windows restore point, would restoring have returned everything to previous state? I suspect not because, from my understanding, restore point only saves registry data and that wouldn't necessarily have re-enabled/re-started services that were stopped?

Thanks for the awesome command line reference!

[ProgrammerBruce]

No, I have not seen where privacy.sexy manages drivers. I meant the concept more generally.

[droidbot]

Thanks for clarifying. Would a Windows restore point have returned everything to previous state? I'm not sure that Windows restore saves/restores the states of running services.

[ProgrammerBruce]

Makes sense to me that folks would want to know how changes made by privacy.sexy (or anything) relate to what System Protection and Restore Points do. Maybe create a new Discussion thread titled accordingly, with the goal to create an enhancement issue for documentation.