Welcome to windows-setup👋

This script will make changes in the registry to change settings, add windows features (Hyper-V, WSL and Windows Sandbox (Windows Pro only)) and provide a GUI to remove windows bloatware.

• Things that might break
• Prerequistes
  • Priming windows
  • Install winget
  • Install Git
  • !IGNORE THIS (Additional steps for me)
• Running the script
  • Clone the repository
  • Run
  • Things to look out for
• End of setup
• Export apps
• Configure as required
• Author
• Show your support
• 📝 License

Things that might break

• Windows search -> alternative(powertoys run)

You can revert the changes made by this script by using system restore. Restore using the restore point named "Before windows-setup was run (date and time)"

Prerequistes

Priming windows

• Update windows (select optional updates from view optional updates section)
• Powershell Set-Executionpolicy to 'RemoteSigned'.

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Install winget

Update AppInstaller from Microsoft Store or install winget from github: Latest release.

Test winget

winget -?

Install Git

• Install git for windows.

winget install --id Git.Git -e -i --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements

!IGNORE THIS (Additional steps for me)

• Partition Disks C:(Windows) 150+GB, D:(Dev) 200GB+, P:(Programs) 100GB+, G:(Games) 400GB+.
  
• Install most of the programs in P: drive (except the few listed below).
  
• Load winget and git configurations.
  

cd ~
git clone "https://github.com/Kushal-Chandar/.dotfiles.git"
~\.dotfiles\winget\deploy.ps1
~\.dotfiles\git\deploy.ps1

Running the script

Clone the repository

This script is portable. Clone to any folder in your computer.

git clone https://github.com/Kushal-Chandar/Windows-Setup.git

Run

This script will launch in any powershell terimal but you need to have 'Windows Powershell' for all features

Run windows_setup.ps1 project root directory

# from the project directory
.\launch.ps1

Things to look out for

• Install Git in its default path.
• Install Microsoft powershell in its default path.

End of setup

• Add MSYS2 to path. (if installed)
• Add Neovim to path. (if installed)
• Restart your pc.
• Continue setup from .dotfiles repository (additional step for me)

Export apps

Run export_apps.ps1 project root directory

# from the project directory
.\export_apps.ps1

This will generate winget_install_apps.json in PROJECT_ROOT_DIR/scripts/applications. You can edit the file to configure which checkboxes are checked when these GUI buttons are clicked - Coding(1) or KVM(0)

Configure as required

(Basic powershell and XML can get you far)

Run export_apps.ps1 project root directory to generate your winget_install_apps.json.
(configure all packages to 1, click the Coding button in the GUI to check mark those packages).
(configure all packages to 2, click the KVM button in the GUI to check mark those packages).

# from the project directory
.\export_apps.ps1

• While running the script.

Select apps from appx packages from gui and Click Save to File to generate you apps_packeges_base.json and appx_provisioned_packages_base.json

Fork this repository and clone your fork. Once you make changes and push the code to your forked-repository with your configuration. You can setup your windows to your liking with few clicks.

Author

👤 Kushal Chandar

• Github: @Kushal-Chandar

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!

📝 License

Copyright © 2022 Kushal Chandar.
This project is MIT licensed.