From 79a05ebf3dcf3a3abef6269eed5e3c7350f0f877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zoicware <118035521+zoicware@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:38:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] additional logic to prevent settingspagevisibility from being
 clobbered

---
 RemoveWindowsAi.ps1 | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1 b/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1
index 2ee85f3..0d9271a 100644
--- a/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1
+++ b/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1
@@ -1477,16 +1477,31 @@ function Remove-AI-Files {
 function Hide-AI-Components {
     #hide ai components in immersive settings
     Write-Status -msg "$(@('Hiding','Unhiding')[$revert]) Ai Components in Settings..."
+
+    $existingSettings = try { Get-ItemPropertyValue 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' -Name 'SettingsPageVisibility' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue }catch {}
+    #early return if the user has already customized this with showonly rather than hide, in this event ill assume the user has knowledge of this key and aicomponents is likely not shown anyway
+    if ($existingSettings -like '*showonly*') {
+        Write-Status 'SettingsPageVisibility contains "showonly"...Skipping!' -errorOutput
+        return 
+    }
+    
     if ($revert) {
-        Reg.exe delete 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' /v 'SettingsPageVisibility' /f >$null
+        #if the key is not just hide ai components then just remove it and retain the rest
+        if ($existingSettings -ne 'hide:aicomponents;') {
+            #in the event that this is just aicomponents but multiple times newkey will just be hide: which is valid
+            $newKey = $existingSettings -replace 'aicomponents;', ''
+            Reg.exe add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' /v 'SettingsPageVisibility' /t REG_SZ /d $newKey /f >$null
+        }
+        else {
+            Reg.exe delete 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' /v 'SettingsPageVisibility' /f >$null
+        }
     }
     else {
-        $existingSettings = try { Get-ItemPropertyValue 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' -Name 'SettingsPageVisibility' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue }catch {}
-        if ($existingSettings) {
+        if ($existingSettings -and $existingSettings -notlike '*aicomponents;*') {
             $newval = $existingSettings + 'aicomponents;'
             Reg.exe add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' /v 'SettingsPageVisibility' /t REG_SZ /d $newval /f >$null
         }
-        else {
+        elseif ($existingSettings -eq $null) {
             Reg.exe add 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' /v 'SettingsPageVisibility' /t REG_SZ /d 'hide:aicomponents;' /f >$null
         }