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Clean install options for Windows 10

Windows 10 Professional

I begin with a fresh clean install of Windows 10 Professional. Somday I will document the settings I go though but for now I just do the basic.

  • Language: English
  • Keyboard: US inernational
  • Disable most of the diagnositics questions
  • Use my AzureAd account to signin

Then first I install my default software set and then go though some setup.

  • Setup Onedrive for Business
  • Setup some Shareoint folders I like to keep available
  • Start the Windows Mail App (I don't use Outlook) and make sure my email is there
  • Start Word for the first time, assign my account and choose the Microsoft docx format

I like to have my files in the root of C:\data or on a D:\ drive depending on what the computer has.

  • Create a c:\data folder
app
    <folders for portable / xcopy apps >
data
    git
    dev
    nuget
    vsts
    temp
  • git is the default location to put github repo's. I keep my git DevOps repo's under vsts
  • dev a folder for some local test development not under sourcecontrol
  • nuget a folder for my local nuget cache. I configure a .nuget file in a root per dev folder or solution so all nuget packages are downloaded here. I know, but I like to prevent massive amounts of duplicate files
  • vsts my DevOps sourcecontrolled files. The name should change but since MS changes product names soo fast I am sticking with this for now. Previously I would use "visualstudioonline" :-|
  • temp is as the names suggests for temp files, I don't like c:\windows\temp and have resisted c:\temp
  • iso is a folder I sometimes have to store .iso files that I keep longer. Usually the end up in temp of stay in the system Downloads folder
  • vhd or Hyper-V if I have that anabled and use it.
  • wsl is a place to store wsl specific stuff

After having setup my folders I can continue setting up software

Visualstudio 2019

  • Start Visualstudio and configure that to use c:\data\dev as default folder for new solutions

Visualstudio Code

Some usefull extensions I tend to install everytime

  • Live Server (ritwickdey.liveserver)

  • Azure Account (ms-vscode.azure-account)

  • C# (ms-dotnettools.csharp)

  • Paste JSON as Code (quicktype.quicktype)

  • Remote WSL (ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl)

  • Git Graph (mhutchie.git-graph)

  • Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 (coenraads.bracket-pair-colorizer-2)

  • Bootstrap 4, Font awesome 4, Font Awesome 5 Free & Pro snippets (thekalinga.bootstrap4-vscode)

  • Angular 8 Snippets - TypeScript, Html, Angular Material, ngRx, RxJS & Flex Layout (Mikael.Angular-BeastCode)

Edge

I use a few extensions in the browser.

  • Lastpass
  • Json Beautifier and editor

Regedit hacks

Some settings are not simply available and we have to resort to registry hacks. I hate some of the default folders Windows displays so I clean them up.

Remove Music and Videos folders