[denfry]

v6.5.0 — drivers, apps, smart memory, insights

One free tool instead of separate driver updaters, uninstallers and "RAM boosters". It uses official sources only: Microsoft Update, winget, and the GPU vendor's site.

New modules

• Drivers (WinSenior.Drivers.ps1)
  • Driver updates from Microsoft Update via the Windows Update Agent, with a timeout so a stuck scan cannot hang.
  • The GPU is detected (NVIDIA / AMD / Intel) and pointed at the vendor's own driver. GPU updates from Windows Update are held back and can be hidden.
  • Problem devices are listed, and pnputil can back up and restore drivers.
  • A policy that silently blocks all driver updates (ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate) is detected, and the Troubleshoot fix removes it.
• Apps (WinSenior.Apps.ps1)
  • The inventory covers Win32 and Store apps.
  • Uninstall runs silently where the installer allows it (MSI, quiet string, Inno Setup, NSIS). Leftovers get a confidence score, and only confident matches are removed.
  • winget handles updates and installs. Its output is parsed by column position, so it works on any locale.
  • A catalog of 53 apps, each winget ID verified.
• Smart memory (WinSenior.Memory.ps1)
  • Stops processes that outlived their job:
    • Gradle, Kotlin and Maven daemons
    • MSBuild nodes
    • Roslyn and Razor servers
    • orphaned language servers and Jupyter kernels
    • a windowless Minecraft JVM
    • the WSL VM
  • A process is stopped only when it is idle, has no window and has no working child. A graceful stop is tried first.
  • Memory pressure is judged against Microsoft's thresholds, and the biggest consumers are listed.
  • Prevention settings and an optional 10-minute background check. Standby purge is manual only.
• Insights (WinSenior.Insights.ps1)
  • Boot time before and after the last optimization: Mann–Whitney U test plus a Hodges–Lehmann shift and a 5 % equivalence margin.
  • Boot degraders from events 101–110.
  • A Theil–Sen forecast of when each disk fills up.
  • An exact min-cost "free N GB" planner.
• Stats library (WinSenior.Stats.ps1): pure functions, pinned by tests.

Cleanup 106 → 110

• hiber-reduced: hiberfil cut to 20 % of RAM; Fast Startup still works.
• compactos: state is read from the WOF API.
• msi-orphans: orphaned installer packages are quarantined for 30 days, never deleted outright.
• vhdx-compact: compacts WSL2 and Docker virtual disks.

Desktop app

A new Tools section with Drivers, Apps, Smart memory and Insights pages, with Russian strings included. The console menu has the same four screens.

Verification

• Pester: 385/385 on Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.
• PSScriptAnalyzer: no error-level findings.
• The GUI smoke run rendered all four pages on both hosts.