Remove DisableFirstRunCustomize related options

* No longer needed, since we are not invoking IE behind the scenes any more.
* Also update "fake" Firefox version range.

Fido.ps1

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Fido v1.18 - Retail Windows ISO Downloader
+# Fido v1.19 - Retail Windows ISO Downloader
 # Copyright © 2019-2021 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>
 # ConvertTo-ImageSource: Copyright © 2016 Chris Carter
 #
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@ param(
 	[string]$Icon,
 	# (Optional) Name of a pipe the download URL should be sent to.
 	# If not provided, a browser window is opened instead.
-	[string]$PipeName,
+	[string]$PipeName
-	# (Optional) Disable IE First Run Customize so that Invoke-WebRequest
-	# doesn't throw an exception if the user has never launched IE.
-	# Note that this requires the script to run elevated.
-	[switch]$DisableFirstRunCustomize
 )
 #endregion
 
@@ -447,14 +443,11 @@ $MaxStage = 4
 $SessionId = [guid]::NewGuid()
 $ExitCode = 100
 $Locale = "en-US"
-$DFRCKey = "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\"
-$DFRCName = "DisableFirstRunCustomize"
-$DFRCAdded = $False
 $RequestData = @{}
 $RequestData["GetLangs"] = @("a8f8f489-4c7f-463a-9ca6-5cff94d8d041", "getskuinformationbyproductedition" )
 $RequestData["GetLinks"] = @("cfa9e580-a81e-4a4b-a846-7b21bf4e2e5b", "GetProductDownloadLinksBySku" )
 # Create a semi-random Linux User-Agent string
-$FirefoxVersion = Get-Random -Minimum 30 -Maximum 60
+$FirefoxVersion = Get-Random -Minimum 50 -Maximum 90
 $FirefoxDate = Get-RandomDate
 $UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:$FirefoxVersion.0) Gecko/$FirefoxDate Firefox/$FirefoxVersion.0"
 #endregion
@@ -485,20 +478,6 @@ if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 3) {
 	exit 102
 }
 
-# If asked, disable IE's first run customize prompt as it interferes with Invoke-WebRequest
-if ($DisableFirstRunCustomize) {
-	try {
-		# Only create the key if it doesn't already exist
-		Get-ItemProperty -Path $DFRCKey -Name $DFRCName
-	} catch {
-		if (-not (Test-Path $DFRCKey)) {
-			New-Item -Path $DFRCKey -Force | Out-Null
-		}
-		Set-ItemProperty -Path $DFRCKey -Name $DFRCName -Value 1
-		$DFRCAdded = $True
-	}
-}
-
 # Form creation
 $XMLForm = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load((New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $XAML))
 $XAML.SelectNodes("//*[@Name]") | ForEach-Object { Set-Variable -Name ($_.Name) -Value $XMLForm.FindName($_.Name) -Scope Script }
@@ -742,7 +721,4 @@ $XMLForm.Add_Loaded( { $XMLForm.Activate() } )
 $XMLForm.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
 
 # Clean up & exit
-if ($DFRCAdded) {
-	Remove-ItemProperty -Path $DFRCKey -Name $DFRCName
-}
 exit $ExitCode

README.md

@@ -58,17 +58,12 @@ for all the architectures available for that specific combination of version + l
 Requirements
 ------------
 
-PowerShell 3.0 or later is required. However the script will detect if you are using an older version and point you to
+PowerShell 3.0 or later is required. However the script should detect if you are using an older version and point you to
 the relevant PowerShell 3.0 download page if needed (which should only ever occur if you are running a vanilla version
 of Windows 7).
 
-Also, because Internet Explorer is being invoked behind the scenes, if you haven't gone through the first time setup for
+Note that the current version of the script does not need Internet Explorer to be installed and should also work with
-Internet Explorer, you may receive an error about this when running the script. If that is the case, then you should
+PowerShell 7.
-make sure that you manually launch IE at least once and complete the setup.
-
-Note however that, if you are running the script elevated, you can work around the above annoyance by using the
-`-DisableFirstRunCustomize` option which basically __temporarily__ creates a key of the same name in the registry __if__
-it doesn't already exist, to bypass the first time setup error.
 
 Additional Notes
 ----------------