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Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Post by Zekio »

Step 1: Disable sticky keys (especially if it is for gaming)

Step 2: install https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop via a powershell script I wrote which will then spend the next while installing all I need for my development environment

and then it is mostly steam, browsers and drivers that are left to do

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Post by qohen »

Ninite[0] (YC W08) is a useful site for setting up a Windows PC. It allows you to install (or update) your choice of around 100 apps and tools in 13 categories (including Compression, where you can select WinRAR) for Windows 10 (also 7 and 8) in one shot, like so:

- You first check off the apps/tools you want from a checklist on the site -- they are grouped by category

- You then download a custom installer which will install the apps/tools you selected from the checklist.

This custom installer will install the apps/tools you chose, using the latest version, skipping installing toolbars, skipping reboots, doing all the work in the background, etc. -- there's a description of all this on the page.

(There's also a pro version for managing multiple PCs)

[0] https://ninite.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Post by rorycrispin »

qohen wrote: post #4

Ninite[0] (YC W08) is a useful site for setting up a Windows PC. It allows you to install (or update) your choice of around 100 apps and tools in 13 categories (including Compression, where you can select WinRAR) for Windows 10 (also 7 and 8) in one shot, like so: - You first check off the apps/tools you want from a checklist on the site -- they are grouped by category - You then download a custom installer which wil…

Ive written a tool which does all of the but instead uses the Chocolatey package manager. Useful for centralising software updates, uninstallers ect

Chocolatey Quickstart: https://github.com/RoryCrispin/Chocolatey-Quickstart

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Post by akulbe »

Enable as many options as I can with PowerShell. (so I don't have to do any more point-n-click than I absolutely need to)

Set up WSL. (by running an Ansible playbook I wrote)

Install chocolatey.

Get my standard set of packages from the chocolatey mirrors.

Install Synology Drive client, sign in and let things sync.

(I recently switched off of most public cloud services onto my own on-prem cloud setup)

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do on a new Windows 10 PC? Any checklists?

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Post by majkinetor » 

    iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 | iex
    cinst -y totalcommander copyq neovim vscode firefox everything sysinternals nirlauncher smplayer vlc git tortoisegit conemu 7zip paint.net dngrep dbeaver 
    Update-SessionEnvironment

    git clone https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
    ls Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/*.ps1 | % { . $_ } # YMVV

    git clone https://github.com/majkinetor/powershell_profile.d
    gc powershell_profile.d/setup -raw | iex

    code --install-extension ms-vscode.PowerShell ...

    Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate    
    # repeat this as long as needs restart
    Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll 
    Restart-Computer
Then I go ad-hoc from there... That is for my daily machine. For specialized machines such as media center etc, the list is different...
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