Windows set-up automatization
Set-up your Windows environment from a fresh installation, with just a line of code!
Setup customization
All the softwares you need with Chocolately
All the freeware software can be installed using Chocolately. The list of softwares to install is located to configs/chocopkg.txt and it is installed using a priority index that ranges from 1 to 3. You can freerly add and remove any package you want.
You can add your favourite softwares using Chocolately search and adding them into chocopkg, or you can update all your softwares launching a choco upgrade all -y.
Enable and disable Windows features
In the main set-up script there is a comprehensive list of the actions performed to disable and enable specific Windows features that you might or might not need.
To get a list of all your currently enabled Windows features, call Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online from PowerShell.
UI, taskbar and multi-monitor enhancements
In the main set-up script there is a comprehensive list of the actions performed to tweak the UI, like hiding People and Cortana buttons, enabling Dark Mode, reducing the size of the taskbar, disable the Administrator security prompt, disabling Aero Shaking and many more.
Uninstall pre-installed Windows Apps
Because we do not need Candy Crush Saga.
Install Ubuntu
Install the latest LTS version of Ubuntu using WSL 1.0, automatically.
Disable telemetry
The script will call a script from another repository (which I admit, it is potentially unsafe) to disable Telemetry. The source code of the script is located to Debloat Windows 10 repository.
Start layout
It is possible to restore a previously back-up start layout. The start layout configuration it is just an XML file that will be read, from the current User folder, the very first time that the specified user logs in, when the start layout database does not exists or is corrupted. Once that the start layout is installed, the user has to log-out and log-in.
Install Visual Studio
By default the script install Visual Studio 2019 Professional. But it is possible to install Community or Enterprise editions by just modifying the set-up script.
The set-up will be silent and it will install the specified component packs in the set-up script. The component packs are located in configs/visualstudio.
Visual Studio Code extensions list
All the extensions specified into configs/vscode-extensions.txt will be automatically installed to Visual Studio Code.
To retrieve the ID of the extension, just go to Visual Studio Marketplace and retrieve, from the url, the value of itemName.
eg. for Python plugin, https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python, the extension ID is ms-python.python.
To export the current start layout, open PowerShell and enter Export-StartLayout start-layout.xml.
foobar2000 components
Just specify the url of the component and it will be installed automatically to foobar2000! All the url are stored in configs/foobar2000plugins.txt, where lines that starts with # are used for commenting and explain what the component does. Most of the components are chiptune input plugins, because they helps coding a lot lol.
Notepad++ settings
All the main settings from Notepad++ (which excludes private data like back-ups, list of last opened files, etc.) are located in configs/notepadplusplus folder.
PowerShell and Command Prompt color scheme
By default, Dracula color theme is installed by the set-up script. The choice is because it is the most similar color scheme to the original, while keeping the text readable on LCD/LED screens. Infact, the old color scheme is fully readable only on CRT screens!
More color schemes can be found on Microsoft’s ColorTool GitHub page.