Script seems to stop indefinitely at "Opening Photos App once to apply changes"

[daggar]

Describe the bug
When running the script with the UI through Admin Powershell, the script executes until it gets to the step "Opening Photos App once to apply changes" and then hangs indefinitely. It does in fact open the photos app, but it stops there. I've tried it with leaving the Photos App open for 10 minutes, then closing it, or closing it directly after the app opens. Both produce the same result, the script is hanged at that step.

To Reproduce
Run the powershell app
"& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI/main/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1")))" and click "Apply"

Screenshots

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Desktop (open winver to see build):

• Windows Build: 25h2 26.200.8655

[zoicware]

essentially the script attempts to disable ai features in photos app but if the app has never been opened before the settings.dat structure wont be created yet so the script opens it once and waits for the settings.dat file to be updated then tries again

which doesnt make a lot of sense to me cause ur settings.dat should be created and the script wouldnt even have to open it

i actually got this bug randomly the other day while testing something else... so hopefully i can reproduce it again

[daggar]

That makes sense, this was the first time it opened. However subsequent attempts to run the script (after the settings file was presumably created) had the same problem. Would rebooting the OS fix it?

[Damokless]

Hello,
I had the same problem, and I couldn't find a viable solution other than uninstalling "Photos" to let the script do its job, at least on the remaining components.