Windows 10 Developer Machine Setup

Fork of Edi Wang's set up script for new dev machines. You can modify the scripts to fit your own requirements. See Edi Wang here.

Prereq's

• A fresh install of Windows 10 and internet

'One Click' Copypasta install

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/albert118/EnvSetup/master/oneclick-install.ps1'))

Manual Install

1. Download this repo as a zip

Optional: Import "Add_PS1_Run_as_administrator.reg" to your registry to enable context menu on the powershell files to run as Administrator.

2. Run Install.ps1.

right click and choose run with Powershell...

Basic Computer Config

• Set a New Computer Name
• Disable Sleep on AC Power
• Throw Cortana out (seriously, it's so annoying to accidentaly trigger her during something important)
• Remove a few pre-installed Win10 apps.
  • Messaging, CandyCrush, Bing News, Solitaire, People, Feedback Hub, Your Phone, My Office, FitbitCoach
• Install the credentials manager
• Install Chocolatey for Windows
• Install the user apps
• Install Power Tools
• Install Windows updates
• Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Terminal Config

• Custom Font: Fira Code font
  • Configures a monospace font (Fira Code Retina) for the system. Feel free to enable this in all your editors (ligatures too!)
• Terminal Preview

Docker + WSL2

• Docker + Docker Desktop
• WSL2 + Ubunutu backend

Git SetUp

• mkdir for git
• configure the credentials manager
• configure some git config defaults (editor, etc.)

.NET Development

• Rider
• Visual Studio 2022 Communit

Python Development

• Upgrade Pip (it never shuts up otherwise)
• Install some common libs I use (numpy of course and few others, see and update requirements.txt)