Jeremy's Windows provisioning list of tasks

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Jeremy's Win10 Provisioning

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.

Thinkpad T450s

• 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.

ShutUp10

• turn off app suggestions in start menu
• turn off Cortana & bing in search (use winaerotweak)
• optional: hide search box

Intel HD Graphics

• Hotkeys -> Disable
• Tray Icon -> Disable
• fix the weird color saturation Power -> On Battery -> Display Power Saving Technology -> Disable

Printers

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.

Recent files

• For old people who still use this. Create a shortcut to shell:recent

Microsoft Edge

• New page -> Disable news feed
• Visit http://google.com, then goto Settings -> Advanced -> Set google as default search engine

Applications

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

Install listary

http://www.listary.com/

Windows Store

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”}

Install Cygwin

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)

Development software

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

>> Install Visual Studio 2015u1 Community <<

^ 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

Here begins the rest of the software

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

Productivity software

• Install Office ProPlus from edu (or Libreoffice/OpenOffice/etc.)
• OneNote 2016 and/or Evernote

Utilities

• RAM Disk software: ImDisk Toolkit (Good alternative to DATARAM and Softperfect) Also see https://sourceforge.net/p/imdisk-toolkit/discussion/general/thread/5c01db51/
• HashTab

Photography

• RAW Photo Development Software: RawTherapee (or better)
• Windows Essentials Photo Gallery (or better)
• DxO Optics Pro $$$ - find freebies of old versions on ozbargain

Audio

• Mixxx DJ Software
• ASIO4ALL

Program data\User settings restore from Windows.old

Paint.NET plugins (Effects, FileTypes)
filezilla xml

Fix Win10 DPI scaling on FHD+ notebook screens! (Obsolete in 2017 updates?)

Seriously, this is the best thing ever. http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/ :)

Set PaintDotNet as default

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"