From 81d742591af6c6379a4988b0bac38ab7d8e5a3c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kent Ickler <kent@relkci.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 09:31:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Speedup IWR

Disable ProgressBar to increase webrequest throughput
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28682642/powershell-why-is-using-invoke-webrequest-much-slower-than-a-browser-download
$ProgressPreference = 'Continue'
---
 PowerMeta.ps1 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PowerMeta.ps1 b/PowerMeta.ps1
index 65b14fb..5a6efc1 100644
--- a/PowerMeta.ps1
+++ b/PowerMeta.ps1
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# Disable cert checks
 add-type @"
 using System.Net;
 using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
@@ -229,6 +228,8 @@ Function Invoke-PowerMeta{
          
                     }
                     }
+                #Quiet ProgressBar to increase webrequest throughput
+                $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
 
                 #Performing a Bing search second
 
@@ -525,8 +526,6 @@ Function ExtractMetadata{
                 {
                 Write-Output "[*] Exiftool.exe was not found in the current directory! Exiting."
                 }
-                
-
             }
         }
         else{
@@ -570,4 +569,6 @@ Function ExtractMetadata{
 
                 }
             }
+       #Return ProgressBar to default
+       $ProgressPreference = 'Continue'
 }