Bypass Process Lifecycle Manager.

README.md

PLMBypass

This gist features a pure PowerShell/C# implementation of AppLifecycleOptOut.

Usage

1. Obtain the names of the packages that shouldn't be affected by the Process Lifecycle Manager.

2. Edit the $Names variable with the names of the desired packages:

   $Names = @("Microsoft.MinecraftUWP", "Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider")

3. Add the script to startup.

PLMBypass.cmd

<# ::
@echo off
powershell -c "iex (gc -Raw '%~f0')"
goto :eof
#>
$Names = @()
Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public static class PackageDebugSettings
{
    [Guid("F27C3930-8029-4AD1-94E3-3DBA417810C1"), InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
    interface IPackageDebugSettings { int EnableDebugging(string packageFullName, string debuggerCommandLine = null, string environment = null); }
    static readonly IPackageDebugSettings packageDebugSettings = (IPackageDebugSettings)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(new Guid("B1AEC16F-2383-4852-B0E9-8F0B1DC66B4D")));
    public static void EnableDebugging(string packageFullName) { Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(packageDebugSettings.EnableDebugging(packageFullName)); }
}
"@
Get-AppxPackage | ForEach-Object { if ($_.Name -in $Names) { [PackageDebugSettings]::EnableDebugging($_.PackageFullName) } }