Microsoft Windows 10 upgrades and 'refresh' reinstalls waste a stack of time, although at times neccessary as a result of winrot.
Here's a couple of routine steps to quickly run through afterwards.
- Install Lenovo Vantage from Windows Store. Install the system interface package as requested by the app.
- There's an Intel CPPC driver from the Lenovo website. idk but seems okay to install. Note https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2878342/cpu-frequencies-shown-in-system-property-page-do-not-match
- Remove InstantOn driver manually. Seen some crash dumps from it in the past.
- Sound driver for Dolby Digital already installed. Right click sound props.
- turn off app suggestions in start menu
- turn off Cortana & bing in search (use winaerotweak)
- optional: hide search box
- Hotkeys -> Disable
- Tray Icon -> Disable
- fix the weird color saturation Power -> On Battery -> Display Power Saving Technology -> Disable
Open Devices and Printers by using Run > control printers
.
Maybe make a shortcut so it shows up in start menu search
However, Print Management
already launches from start menu search.
- For old people who still use this. Create a shortcut to shell:recent
- New page -> Disable news feed
- Visit http://google.com, then goto Settings -> Advanced -> Set google as default search engine
Install from ninite.com.
- Everything->Prefs->start Everything on Startup->Disable
or
- Everything->Prefs->run as a service->Enable
- Everything->Prefs->run as administrator->Disable
Open Windows Store first? (Apps will update). Then get rid of all the Gameloft sponsored games...
Run PowerShell as admin and execute:
Get-AppxPackage *solitairecollection* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *bingnews* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *bingsports* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Office.Sway* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *CandyCrushSaga* | Remove-AppxPackage
(Note:) You can reinstall these defaults apps at any time. Just run this:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers| Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
Run the latest x64 installer
It's worth spending some time to customise the install:
- openssh
- vim
- Chere (Adds a 'Open Bash prompt here' context menu in Explorer)
- apt-cyg (Handy 'apt-get' script for Cygwin)
First, lets install Chocolatey from an elevated Command Prompt:
C:\> @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin
(Optional) Make a tweak to C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\config\chocolatey.config
<feature name="allowGlobalConfirmation" enabled="true" setExplicitly="true" description="Prompt for confirmation in scripts or bypass." />
Run from command prompt, e.g.:
choco install f.lux atom brackets classic-shell notepad2-mod reshack autoruns procmon listary prey mp3tag autohotkey synctrayzor simplenote clink
^ Reset ISO file handler from 7zip back to Windows Explorer at this point.
//Web: Ruby (cygwin or windows?), Vagrant
//Android: AndroidStudio
//C++: Qt + Win7.1SDK
manual install required beyond this point
- Stardock Fences ($$$ mostly compatible with Win10)
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14431
- VirtualBox 5
- Install Office ProPlus from edu (or Libreoffice/OpenOffice/etc.)
- OneNote 2016 and/or Evernote
- RAM Disk software: ImDisk Toolkit (Good alternative to DATARAM and Softperfect) Also see https://sourceforge.net/p/imdisk-toolkit/discussion/general/thread/5c01db51/
- HashTab
- RAW Photo Development Software: RawTherapee (or better)
- Windows Essentials Photo Gallery (or better)
- DxO Optics Pro $$$ - find freebies of old versions on ozbargain
Paint.NET plugins (Effects, FileTypes)
filezilla xml
Seriously, this is the best thing ever. http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/ :)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command]
@=hex(2):22,00,63,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,20,\
00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,70,00,61,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,2e,00,\
6e,00,65,00,74,00,5c,00,70,00,61,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,64,00,6f,00,74,00,6e,\
00,65,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,22,00,20,00,22,00,25,00,31,00,22,00,\
00,00
aka "c:\program files\paint.net\paintdotnet.exe" "%1"